I wanted to start reading some of Haruki Murakami's books but after reading much more about him, I realized he has more than a couple of well-known books. Would you mind recommending where I should start?

Truth be told, it’s a few years since I last cracked Murakami. I need to be in a particular headspace for his books; unhurried, open to digression. The last one I read wasAfter Dark, which I thought was lovely, very readable, subtly moving in the way that most of his book are. But not terribly characteristic of his work, I think. More direct, less whimsical/bizarre. That would be the shallow end of the Murikami pool. A comfortable place to start, but it won’t necessarily prepare you for what’...