Volume List
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| 01 | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱) |
June 6, 2003 ISBN 978-4-0442-9201-0 |
May 7, 2009 ISBN 978-0-316-03901-7 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-316-03902-4 (paperback) |
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| Kyon is an ordinary first-year high school student who has given up his fantasies of espers, time travelers, and aliens as he left middle school. However, sitting behind him is the beautiful, intelligent, and eccentric girl Haruhi Suzumiya, who in her class introduction blatantly states her singular desire to meet aliens, time travelers, or espers. Interested, Kyon starts trying to make small talk with her before class, eventually leading to normal conversations with Haruhi. One day, after making a comment about Haruhi's displeasure with the available school clubs, he finds himself dragged into membership of the newly formed Save the World by Overloading it with Fun Haruhi Suzumiya (or SOS) Brigade. Haruhi quickly claims the Literature Club's room and its sole member, the silent bibliophile Yuki Nagato as property of the SOS Brigade and "voluntary arrests" the timid but cute Mikuru Asahina and the polite, smiling Itsuki Koizumi as the club's other two members. As the story progresses, however, Kyon finds that each of these supposedly "helpless victims" are actually agents of fantastic organizations who have been sent to monitor Haruhi, who they explain as having superhuman abilities of manipulating the universe. Haruhi's unawareness of her powers means that she unconsciously creates a new universe—one more to her liking—and attempts to switch over whenever she becomes bored or otherwise dissatisfied with reality. To prevent this, the members of Haruhi's club spend their time trying to keep their god-like leader entertained, hold her powers in check, and maintain the illusion of a normal life. | ||||
| 02 | The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Tameiki (涼宮ハルヒの溜息) |
September 30, 2003 ISBN 978-4-0442-9202-7 |
October 1, 2009 ISBN 978-0-316-03881-2 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-316-03879-9 (paperback) |
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| In this novel, the story follows the SOS Brigade's first movie making project, starring Mikuru Asahina as the main protagonist. Additionally, Nagato is made the antagonist in the movie and Koizumi is the conflict hero, who is supposed to end happily ever after with Mikuru, but faces competing interests from Nagato. Haruhi comes up with the idea that the SOS Brigade needs to do something for the upcoming cultural festival. Her class is doing a questionnaire, which is boring in her mind. She decides to make a movie, starring Mikuru. However, Haruhi begins to confuse the movie world with the real world, and the real world begins to become more like her movie. The pigeons in front of the shrine turn white, then into Passenger Pigeons, cherry trees blossom in autumn, Mikuru begins to shoot lasers out of her eyes, and the cat Shamisen begins to talk. By the efforts of Itsuki and Yuki, Kyon eventually convinces Haruhi to add a disclaimer at the end that the movie is a work of fiction. Overnight, the movie apparently edits itself, and is shown. With the disclaimer, Haruhi herself realizes it is a work of fiction, and the world reverts to normal. | ||||
| 03 | The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Taikutsu (涼宮ハルヒの退屈) |
December 27, 2003 ISBN 978-4-0442-9203-4 |
July 1, 2010 ISBN 978-0-316-03886-7 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-316-03887-4 (paperback) |
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| While published as the third volume in the series, this volume collects short stories originally serialized in The Sneaker, and chronologically takes place before The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya. The SOS Brigade enters a baseball tournament in chapter one. The second chapter starts on July 7. Haruhi, during the SOS Brigade's standard after-school meeting, tells everyone to write down wishes for the Tanabata festival. After the meeting concludes, Mikuru takes Kyon back in time, to the Tanabata festival three years ago. He meets Haruhi in seventh grade, and is coerced into helping her. She orders him to draw strange signs on the field of her middle school with a chalk line marker. After this, Haruhi asks Kyon's name. He replies, "John Smith". The computer club president disappears in the third chapter. In chapter four, a relative of Itsuki's invites them to stay at his island villa, but they get mixed up in a murder mystery. | ||||
| 04 | The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Shōshitsu (涼宮ハルヒの消失) |
July 31, 2004 ISBN 978-4-0442-9204-1 |
November 2, 2010 ISBN 978-0-316-03890-4 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-316-03889-8 (paperback) |
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| In this novel, the story takes place from December 17 until December 24 a month after the cultural festival. On December 17, everything is normal—the SOS Brigade plans to have a nabe party for Christmas. However on December 18, Kyon arrives at school to find everything has changed—Haruhi Suzumiya is missing, and Ryoko Asakura is a normal student. Kyon is the only one who notices anything different. Nagato is an ordinary human, and Mikuru does not recognize him. The only clue is a bookmark left by the alien version of Nagato, which leads Kyon on a quest back in time, where he interacts with the storyline from "Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody", trying to sort out the mystery and return to his own time line. | ||||
| 05 | The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Bōsō (涼宮ハルヒの暴走) |
October 1, 2004 ISBN 978-4-0442-9205-8 |
June 7, 2011 ISBN 978-0-316-03882-9 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-316-03884-3 (paperback) |
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| In chapter one, the SOS Brigade is having a great time during the last two weeks of summer. However, there is still something Haruhi wants to do, as the members of the SOS Brigade find that their summer has looped back 15,498 times. In chapter two, the computer club challenges the SOS Brigade to a video game tournament. In chapter three, while skiing, the SOS Brigade are trapped by a mysterious blizzard, and take refuge in a deserted mansion. Yuki is cut off from the Integrated Data Entity, but Itsuki swears that Haruhi is not behind this. | ||||
| 06 | The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Dōyō (涼宮ハルヒの動揺) |
March 21, 2005 ISBN 978-4-0442-9206-5 |
November 7, 2011 ISBN 978-0-316-03891-1 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-316-03892-8 (paperback) |
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| In chapter one, the day of the cultural festival has arrived, and Kyon visits the day's events. These include a fried noodle stall run by Mikuru and a live performance by a surprising band. The movie created in The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya is shown for the first time in chapter two. An old friend of Kyon's calls in chapter three to ask him about a girl he saw Kyon walking with months before. He is actually referring to Yuki, and tries to pursue her. In chapter four, the SOS Brigade finally begins the main event for the Snow Mountain retreat, a murder mystery. In chapter five, Mikuru asks Kyon to accompany her to buy tea leaves, but a secret motive may be involved. | ||||
| 07 | The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Inbō (涼宮ハルヒの陰謀) |
August 31, 2005 ISBN 978-4-0442-9207-2 |
June 19, 2012 ISBN 978-0-316-03895-9 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-316-03896-6 (paperback) |
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| After closing the time loop from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon believes he is starting the new year with a blank slate and perhaps free of the confusions of time travel. However, one day, the Mikuru from eight days in the future appears in the SOS Brigade's broom closet, saying she was sent back in time by Kyon himself. This is further complicated by obscure messages from Adult Mikuru, as well as the appearance of another time traveller. | ||||
| 08 | The Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Fungai (涼宮ハルヒの憤慨) |
May 1, 2006 ISBN 978-4-0442-9208-9 |
November 20, 2012 ISBN 978-0-316-03900-0 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-316-03899-7 (paperback) |
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| In chapter one, after the newly-elected student council president threatens to terminate the Literature Club and, in effect, the SOS Brigade, the club must become a group of writers and publish a collection of literature, with Haruhi as editor-in-chief. In chapter two, a fellow classmate, Sakanaka, goes to the SOS Brigade for help in solving a mystery: a seemingly-haunted stretch of park pathway and the strange effect it seems to have on the neighborhood dogs. | ||||
| 09 | The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi no Bunretsu (涼宮ハルヒの分裂) |
April 1, 2007 ISBN 978-4-0442-9209-6 |
June 18, 2013 ISBN 978-0-316-03893-5 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-316-03894-2 (paperback) |
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| As the second year of high school begins, Kyon finds himself meeting an old friend from his days in junior high. However, Kyon is unaware that this meeting of his past could affect his future, the future of the SOS Brigade, and the world forever. Without explanation, the story is split into two parallel timelines, with subtle changes that eventually snowball into wildly deviant plots. | ||||
| 10 | The Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya (First Half) Suzumiya Haruhi no Kyōgaku (Zen) (涼宮ハルヒの驚愕 (前)) |
May 25, 2011 (limited ed.) June 15, 2011 (regular ed.) ISBN 978-4-04-429210-2 (limited ed.) ISBN 978-4-04-429211-9 (regular ed.) |
November 19, 2013 ISBN 978-0-316-03898-0 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-316-03897-3 (paperback) |
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| This is the continuation of the previous novel The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya. The first chapter ("Chapter 4") was originally published in the June 2010 issue of The Sneaker. | ||||
| 11 | The Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya (Second Half) Suzumiya Haruhi no Kyōgaku (Go) (涼宮ハルヒの驚愕 (後)) |
May 25, 2011 (limited ed.) June 15, 2011 (regular ed.) ISBN 978-4-04-429210-2 (limited ed.) ISBN 978-4-04-429212-6 (regular ed.) |
November 19, 2013 ISBN 978-0-316-03898-0 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-316-03897-3 (paperback) |
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| This is the continuation of the previous novel The Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya (First Half). The English release combines both into a single volume. | ||||
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