Japanese Literature

Just got my book list for a Japanese Lit class.

Riichi Yokomitsu - Shanghai
Natsume Soseki - Kusamakura
Haruki Murakami - Hard Boiled Wonderland & End of the World Chushingura (Donald Keene translation)
Fumiko Enchi - Masks
Tatsuzo Ishikawa - Soldiers Alive

anyone read these? any i should be excited for / worried about?

Murakami is probably the most boring author in the history of the world. I read 2/3rds of Wind Up Bird. The entire book is just one boring, plain, uninteresting unemployed man spending his entire day answering boring phone calls and looking for his cat in the backyard. Completely uninspired and not worth the time.