Authors mentioned by Murakami in Norwegian Wood:
Osamu Dazai
Balzac
Dante
Conrad
Dickens
Truman Capote
John Updike (Centaurs in particular)
Raymond Chandler
Kazumi Takahashi
Kenzaburo Oe
Yukio Mishima
“Contemporary French novelists”
Thomas Mann, Magic Mountain
Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel
Tennessee Williams
Georges Bataille
Boris Vian