The book he's reading seems to be a combo of the Russian classics War and Peace (戦争と平和) and Crime and Punishment (罪と罰). The titles appear quite clearly, but for some reason the authors' names—Dostoevsky (ドストエフスキー) and Tolstoy (トルストイ)—are sort of muddled up and crossed together. If you had a volume containing both novels, it'd be quite the tome!