@edieshortlist
the BBC's Big Read, top 21
21 items
- 01The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- 02Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- 03His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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📖The books Murakami named as his own, Paris Review 2004
From the Art of Fiction interview, plus the novels he later translated himself. Start here if you want to read what shaped him instead of just his own books.
01
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
he's said flat out that without this book he wouldn't be writing the fiction he writes. translated it into Japanese himself decades later
02
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
03
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
one of three teenage favorites he ended up translating as an adult, even though established Japanese versions already existed
04
The Castle - Franz Kafka
the first Kafka he read, at fifteen. still calls it a great book
05
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
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