First Person Singular (Japanese: 一人称単数, Hepburn: Ichininshō Tansū) is a collection of eight stories by Haruki Murakami.

Retiring to a small park nearby, he later meets an old man who implores him to visualize a circle that has many centers but no circumference.

He recalls a vivid memory from 1964 of a girl walking down a school hallway, clutching an LP copy of With the Beatles to her chest.

[8] The narrator reminisces on five years earlier, when he met an elderly monkey living in a Japanese-style inn in a hot springs town in Gunma Prefecture.

A man named Haruki Murakami details his affection for Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team.

[2][11] The stories in the collection are all told by middle-aged male narrators who are reflecting and reminisicing on a memory from their past.

[15] The older male narrators, with their affinity for jazz music and baseball, have also been noted for having a striking similarity to Murakami himself.

[14][10][17][16][18] The eight stories are linked by a sustained sense of existential nostalgia[19][20] and the recurring theme of music, including classical, jazz and The Beatles.

[24] Murakami also exercises his signature magic realism, such as in "Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova" and "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey".

[29] An English translation by Philip Gabriel was published on 6 April 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf (US)[2] and Harvill Secker (UK).

[30] It is Murakami's first collection of short stories since Men Without Women (2014) and his first published book since the novel Killing Commendatore (2017).

[32][33] In its starred review, Publishers Weekly called the collection a "testament to Murakami's talent and enduring creativity" and wrote that "Murakami's gift for evocative, opaque magical realism" stood out in the stories "Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova" and "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey".

[34] The English translation debuted at number eleven on The New York Times fiction best-seller list for the week ending April 10, 2021.