You don’t always need a plane ticket to travel; sometimes, all you need is a book. Often, fiction books can help us explore worlds outside our own, take us out of life’s everyday tangles, and allow us to widen our perspective. Seventh stop, Asia!  We hope you enjoy this discussion about.

This was our biggest disagreement yet and the widest split in rankings. Murakami’s most ambitious work is a love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, and a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s 1984. The book was an instant best seller in his native Japan and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of the most revered contemporary writers.