Murakami’s Hard boiled Wonderland and the end of the world is my favorite of his.(& one of my favorite books I’ve read) I remember reading it & thinking that it was the kind of work that I would like to get close to someday in my own work.

But some other good books. Anything by Raymond Chandler-
Ursula K. Le Guin, I really like Heinlein’s Moon is a harsh mistress, Charles Stross Laundry files and Glasshouse are both great. Anything by William Gibson ,
Joe Haldeman
‘s The forever war , hemingway true at first light or his Movable feast– p.g wodehouse is fun.
I need to dig up some new books soon myself.