Novel difficulty list This is a list of novels, both light novels and traditional novels, ranked by their difficulty, on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very easy and 100 is very hard. You can use it to find the most appropriate novel to read based on how good your Japanese is.
If you already have a novel in mind which is around your level you can also search for it, and then click on "Show details ..." to see other novels of similar difficulty.
The difficulty ratings were generated automatically by a machine learning model. If you're interested in how we calculated them take a look here . We do not distribute any copyrighted materials from any of these works; we only provide aggregate statistics.
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Koguma no Kuuku Monogatari: Sora no Picnic Length (in words) 7102 Unique words 1402 Unique words (used once) 708 Unique words (used once %) 50% Unique kanji 261 Unique kanji (used once) 79 Unique kanji readings 371 Average difficulty 3/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 7/100 Average sentence length 11.9 Characters 17793 Volumes 1
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Hoshi no Kirby: Abunai Gourmet Yashiki!? Length (in words) 18730 Unique words 3126 Unique words (used once) 1578 Unique words (used once %) 50% Unique kanji 784 Unique kanji (used once) 193 Unique kanji readings 1160 Average difficulty 3/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 12/100 Average sentence length 16.2 Characters 50599 Volumes 1
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Kuuku no Mori no Gakkou: Tomodachi tte, Naani? Length (in words) 8183 Unique words 1397 Unique words (used once) 666 Unique words (used once %) 47% Unique kanji 257 Unique kanji (used once) 77 Unique kanji readings 354 Average difficulty 4/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 12/100 Average sentence length 13.3 Characters 21071 Volumes 1
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Koguma no Kuuku Monogatari: Kasou Party Length (in words) 6205 Unique words 1350 Unique words (used once) 661 Unique words (used once %) 48% Unique kanji 253 Unique kanji (used once) 62 Unique kanji readings 337 Average difficulty 4/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 11/100 Average sentence length 11.0 Characters 15885 Volumes 1
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Koguma no Kuuku Monogatari: Mori no Restaurant Length (in words) 7848 Unique words 1412 Unique words (used once) 682 Unique words (used once %) 48% Unique kanji 191 Unique kanji (used once) 37 Unique kanji readings 266 Average difficulty 4/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 14/100 Average sentence length 13.0 Characters 19616 Volumes 1
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Hoshi no Kirby: Kurayami Mori de Dai Sawagi! Length (in words) 19430 Unique words 2997 Unique words (used once) 1487 Unique words (used once %) 49% Unique kanji 756 Unique kanji (used once) 201 Unique kanji readings 1121 Average difficulty 4/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 15/100 Average sentence length 16.3 Characters 50736 Volumes 1
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Koguma no Kuuku Monogatari: Christmas no Otomarikai Length (in words) 6890 Unique words 1365 Unique words (used once) 681 Unique words (used once %) 49% Unique kanji 259 Unique kanji (used once) 66 Unique kanji readings 358 Average difficulty 4/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 18/100 Average sentence length 12.4 Characters 17454 Volumes 1
