I have been consuming Japanese media since I was a child (manga, animé), and in my adulthood, Light Novels.Except for LNs, I have only read two normal novels :
[No Longer Human](https://static.fnac-static.com/multimedia/Images/FR/NR/92/3a/02/146066/1507-1/tsp20230907075520/La-decheance-d-un-homme.jpg) by Osamu Dazai
[The Miracles of the Namiya General Store](https://static.fnac-static.com/multimedia/Images/FR/NR/ef/31/cf/13578735/1507-1/tsp20230615071637/Les-Miracles-du-bazar-Namiya.jpg) by Keigo Higashino
I would like for you to recommend me only the best, the cream of the crop Japanese literature (I have a preference for modern literature, but classic is fine). I do not mind any genre, as long as it’s good.
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From Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Kafka on the Shore.
The end of the world and a hard boiled Wonderland.
Koji Suzuki: The Ring Trilogy.
Murasaki Shikibu (classic) The tale of Genji.
Junichiro Tanizaki: The Makioka Sisters.
Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Yoshimoto Banana was the first Japanese lit I ever read in the native Japanese and really enjoyed it. If you like stuff that is in the vein of JG Ballard or the beats, try Ryu Murakami. I’ve read In the Miso Soup and Almost Transparent Blue, and he has another novel, Coin Lockers Babies that is also pretty famous.
Both Yoshimoto and Murakami are modern.