The Antisocial Socialist

I think Kafka on the Shore is the best I read, as it has a man who talks to cats in it. It also has an evil baddie who tortures cats, so maybe best avoided, come to think of it.

I haven't read Norwegian Wood, which is meant to be good.

I find him odd in that his books seem so Western and his characters eat sandwiches instead of sushi or whatever. But having been to Japan I can imagine that there must be a lot of people there wandering about in existential lone-ness eating sandwiches and talking to cats.