“Bicycle Trip 1982-83” ranked high in the tategaki-bunko library of Japan

“Bicycle Trip 1982-83” ranked high in the April ranking among the Tategaki-bunko* readers. It is rare, though, for recent submitted works to rank among the monthly top 10 in the overall ranking of the bunko, which houses not only novels written in and after the Meiji period or translated works but recent works submitted by authors not well-known to the world.

The table below shows the rankings of the bunko in April 2022. Click on the title of a work to read it as if it were an e-book. Clicking on an author’s name will display all works by that author included in the bunko, which allows you to read most works in Japanese by well-known authors as well as western literatures and others translated into Japanese.

*Tategaki-bunko is a cyber library and literally means vertical writing library.

–	book title	author	pp**
1	大菩薩峠	中里介山	1291
2	坊っちゃん	夏目漱石	1019
3	80日間世界一周	J. ヴェルヌ	915
4	人間失格	太宰治	834
5	君主論	マキャヴェリ	820
6	方法序説	R. デカルト	524
7	吾輩は猫である	夏目漱石	267
8	ダブリンの人たち	J. ジョイス	228
9	自転車たび1982-83北米欧 北アフリカ香港台湾	園内そのうち一佳	225
10	こころ	夏目漱石	213
11	三太郎の日記 第三	阿部次郎	204