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A Quote by Haruki Murakami
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
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Featured Article: 10 Great Contemporary Fiction Authors
If you like well-written novels that prioritize compelling timely storylines with artful prose and structure, then this is the genre for you. So, why is it called "contemporary"? Because it’s fiction set in the real world, in times contemporary to the date it was published, and the stories deal with real-world issues. Representing a diversity of backgrounds and nationalities, here are our picks for the best writers of contemporary fiction over the last 50 years.
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Kafka on the Shore
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
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A tour de force of metaphysical reality, Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters....
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What's better than Murakami? More Murakami
- By Dr. Curmudgeon on 04-11-14
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Kafka on the Shore
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-06-13
- Language: English
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
- A Novel
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
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From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.
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outstanding, his best
- By Dakini on 11-26-24
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-19-24
- Language: English
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- A Novel
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface....
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Wonderful book, flawed narration.
- By REBECCA on 02-08-14
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 09-03-13
- Language: English
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1Q84
- By: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her....
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WOW, WOW, WOW.
- By Amanda on 11-06-11
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1Q84
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-25-11
- Language: English
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What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
- A Memoir
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers Murakami's four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon....
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It is what it says it is
- By Rick on 03-10-09
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What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-29-08
- Language: English
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect....
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Highly recommend
- By Amazon Customer on 07-23-18
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-12-18
- Language: English
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Norwegian Wood
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before....
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Sorry, but I didn't like the narrator.
- By Kelly McCarty on 10-30-15
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Norwegian Wood
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-03-13
- Language: English
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世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド(下)
- Narrated by: 大森 南朋
- Series: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, Book 下
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 02-01-23
- Language: Japanese
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Dance Dance Dance
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Combine an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose, and the result is the remarkable story Dance Dance Dance....
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The ending - are they going to live happely ever efter or did Yumiyoshi die?’
- By Amazon Customer on 07-27-24
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Dance Dance Dance
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Series: Rat, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-07-16
- Language: English
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1Q84 - Livre 2, Juillet-Septembre
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Maia Baran, Emmanuel Dekoninck
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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Les choses qui restent enfermées dans notre cœur n'existent pas en ce monde. Mais c'est dans notre cœur, ce monde à part, qu'elles se construisent pour y vivre...
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Beautiful
- By federico on 03-24-22
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1Q84 - Livre 2, Juillet-Septembre
- Narrated by: Maia Baran, Emmanuel Dekoninck
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-29-12
- Language: French
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La ciudad y sus muros inciertos
- By: Haruki Murakami, Juan Francisco González Sánchez - traductor
- Narrated by: Mario Fuentes Bajo
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
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Cuando nos rodean los muros, la aventura de toda una vida quizá consista en franquearlos. El regreso de Murakami a la novela después de La muerte del...
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Interesante
- By Mariela on 04-06-25
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La ciudad y sus muros inciertos
- Narrated by: Mario Fuentes Bajo
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-18-24
- Language: Spanish
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Killing Commendatore
- A Novel
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In Killing Commendatore, a 30-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he opens a circle of mysterious circumstances....
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A Masterpiece and A Good Novel To Start
- By Elif Kaya on 10-18-18
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Killing Commendatore
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-09-18
- Language: English
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Novelist as a Vocation
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Haruki Murakami’s myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with listeners what he thinks about being a novelist....
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Love Murakami - Struggled with this Narrator
- By Harry Bartle on 11-30-22
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Novelist as a Vocation
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
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Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic
- By: Andrew Lam, Ray Bradbury, Haruki Murakami, and others
- Narrated by: James Naughton, Stephen Colbert, John Lithgow, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element....
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Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic
- Narrated by: James Naughton, Stephen Colbert, John Lithgow, Daniel Gerroll, Maria Tucci, Anthony Rapp, Jerry Zaks
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-24-10
- Language: English
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騎士団長殺し ―第1部 顕れるイデア編(上)―
- Narrated by: 高橋 一生
- Series: 騎士団長殺し, Book 第1部 上
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 12-28-22
- Language: Japanese
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Men Without Women
- Stories
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Ted Goossen - translator
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone....
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That's how we become Men Without Women
- By Darwin8u on 07-27-17
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Men Without Women
- Stories
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-09-17
- Language: English
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世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド(上)
- Narrated by: 大森 南朋
- Series: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, Book 上
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-28-22
- Language: Japanese
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1Q84―BOOK2〈7月-9月〉後編
- Narrated by: 杏, 柄本 時生
- Series: 1Q84, Book 1Q84―BOOK2〈7月-9月〉後編
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-01-23
- Language: Japanese
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Sputnik Sweetheart
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn....
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Satellites of Love
- By Darwin8u on 05-28-15
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Sputnik Sweetheart
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-15-13
- Language: English
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