In the past months, I always read short stories whenever I head to the pool for my daily swim. I read one story after doing my laps, before I head back. Reading Murakami, there is always a character (mostly the main character) who likes to swim.
There are wonderful book moments in some of Haruki Murakami’s short stories like the woman reading Anna Karenina when she was unable to sleep; and the little brother reading Charles Dickens in a café on Tuesday morning and found out that the woman beside him is reading the same book.
Here are the book titles mentioned in Haruki Murakami’s short stories:
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Birthday Girl
- Little Dorit – Charles Dickens (Amazon, Bookdepository)
Hunting Knife
- Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell (Amazon, Bookdepository)
Chance Traveler
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens (Amazon, Bookdepository)
The Elephant Vanishes
Sleep
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (Amazon, Bookdepository)
After the Quake
- To Build A Fire – Jack London (Amazon, Bookdepository)
- John le Carre novel – (Amazon, Bookdepository)
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (Amazon, Bookdepository)
- White Nights – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Amazon, Bookdepository)
Men Without Women
Drive My Car
- Uncle Vanya – Anton Chekhov (Amazon, Bookdepository)
Yesterday
- Where Did the Universe Come From? (Amazon)
- Sanshiro – Natsume Soseki (Amazon, Bookdepository)
- Franny & Zooey – J.D. Salinger (Amazon, Bookdepository)
Scheherazade
- A Thousand and One Nights (Amazon, Bookdepository)
- Kokoro – Natsume Soseki (Amazon, Bookdepository)
First Person Singular
With the Beatles
- Spinning Gears – Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Amazon, Bookdepository)
Carnaval
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (Amazon, Bookdepository)
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