4.11 avg rating — 974,582 ratings

"LT-Anna -> Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina."

4.46 avg rating — 762,701 ratings

"JS-Edem-> John Steinbeck East of Eden"

4.15 avg rating — 44,878 ratings

"IG-Sybarite -> Ivan Goncharov Oblomov"

3.95 avg rating — 43,641 ratings

"YM-Mask -> Yukio Mishima Confessions of a Mask"

4.40 avg rating — 420,713 ratings

"FD-Brother -> Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov"

3.83 avg rating — 38,014 ratings

"SA-Ohio -> Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio. The main themes of isolation, loneliness and that inexpressable ennui and insatisfaction with life and how we relate to others is key to the themes of Ringo Ishikawa. The girl from school who accompanies ringo at a certain point remarks on her desire not to marry someone who's as dumb as her, amongst other conversations which are reminiscent of certain stories of Winesburg Ohio. Arguably also Ringo's refusal to share his essay with the class despite his talent and passion for literature"

3.81 avg rating — 28,126 ratings

"SE-Fish -> S.E Hinton Rumble Fish. Ringo Ishikawa is a game about a group of teen gangsters who are slowly drifting apart as they realize that their rituals and fights are not what they want from life and/or they are unable to escape from their other circumstances to continue. There is a scene in Ringo where Goro looks out to the other side of the river and sees a lit up part of a city and wonders if there is anything more out there, there must be. This hopeless ennui and urge to escape the circumstances of his life reminded me both of winesburg ohio but also of the part of Rumble Fish where Rusty is seemingly only comfortable when drunk and surrounded by people and lights from the city, shortly before being mugged and almost killed"

3.76 avg rating — 142,352 ratings

"JJ-Odysseus -> James Joyce Ulysses. Bookshop seller says that the print must be defective because "there's no punctuation for like the first 50 pages" or something along those lines"