Finished Pinball, 1973. It's the second novel in Murakami Haruki's so-called "Rat trilogy" --

Hear the Wind Sing (Kaze no Uta o Kiku) (1979)
Pinball, 1973 (1973-nen no Pinboru) (1980)
A Wild Sheep Chase (Hitsuji o meguru booken) (1982)

Now I feel like rereading the the first and third titles...

And also Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no Mori) (1987) -- there's a reference at the beginning of Pinball, 1973 to a Naoko who's dead and she never reappears for the rest of the book. I looked at the dates and locations in Norwegian Wood and it's plausible that they could appear before the events in Pinball... Or maybe not. Don't recall any mention of the Rat or J's Bar in Norwegian Wood...

Perhaps I'm reading too much into this. After all, Murakami's novels are all semi-autobiographical so it's not surprising that the same locations, characters and motifs often come up. This is not to say that his writing gets boring and repetitive -- far from it! :)