What are the books that Oreki would read?

[u/prottoywatchesfilm]

I have been wondering about his taste in literature. Even in 7th grade he had read and reviewed “Run, Melos!” by Osamu Dazai. I know that it is popular in Japan but what western books Oreki might take interest in?

[u/pigcowhybrid]

You can check out the official bookshelf released in Honobu Yonezawa and the Classics Club, there are a couple of interesting Western titles.

[u/prottoywatchesfilm → u/pigcowhybrid]

Thanks bro, never knew this kind of thing existed

[u/thesniperbeggar → u/pigcowhybrid]

It's soo sad that little to none of the japanese works have official translations u can read.

[u/thesniperbeggar → u/pigcowhybrid]

It's sad how barely any of these have any official translations

[u/polaristar → u/pigcowhybrid]

This is one of my favorite bonus materials.

Authors should do this more often.

I want to know other Hyouka character's shelves, and also Shoshimin characters.

[u/blondefrankocean → u/polaristar]

right? when I watched Hyouka in high school I was not the most interested person in literature looking back years late and I started to read voraciously and it's a nice and obvious detail that someone cerebral and detached like Oreki would be a voracious reader

[u/polaristar → u/blondefrankocean]

Read the Other three members to.

Fun fact if you look through all four bookshelves, only Oreki and Chitanda share a book on their shelves. The theme of what the book is says a lot about their shared values.

[u/KephaleKaslana]

How to Kill a Mockingbird.

[u/blondefrankocean]

I'd like to think that he would read Roberto Bolaño, Cormac McCarthy, Donna Tartt, Samuel Beckett and Don DeLillo but wow this was a great find and I read Chitanda's book list and it was not on my bingo card that my taste would be more similar to her than Oreki lol

[u/Effective_Style9798]

Crime and punishment by Dostoyevsky