Haruki Murakami has sublime musical taste. Many of his favorite works are prominently featured throughout his fiction. It isn't treated as background music, but instead his selections are the emotional underucrrent that shapes his characters and narratives. Here we organize them by book (and the AI will remix them per your desired schema- artist, composer, and theme). Each entry explores the scene in which the music appears, its literary significance, and why that piece matters to the emotional world of the novel.