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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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Length (in words) 81140 Unique words 8004 Unique words (used once) 3531 Unique words (used once %) 44% Unique kanji 1629 Unique kanji (used once) 283 Unique kanji readings 2708 Average difficulty 43/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 51/100 Average sentence length 21.2 Characters 198814 Volumes 1
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Length (in words) 94654 Unique words 9056 Unique words (used once) 4038 Unique words (used once %) 44% Unique kanji 1790 Unique kanji (used once) 280 Unique kanji readings 3027 Average difficulty 44/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 52/100 Average sentence length 23.5 Characters 232356 Volumes 1
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Length (in words) 116027 Unique words 9767 Unique words (used once) 4230 Unique words (used once %) 43% Unique kanji 1825 Unique kanji (used once) 245 Unique kanji readings 3207 Average difficulty 45/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 53/100 Average sentence length 21.9 Characters 287549 Volumes 1
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Length (in words) 199934 Unique words 12661 Unique words (used once) 4986 Unique words (used once %) 39% Unique kanji 2085 Unique kanji (used once) 254 Unique kanji readings 3776 Average difficulty 47/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 57/100 Average sentence length 22.8 Characters 494712 Volumes 1
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Length (in words) 263995 Unique words 14161 Unique words (used once) 5249 Unique words (used once %) 37% Unique kanji 2183 Unique kanji (used once) 249 Unique kanji readings 4067 Average difficulty 48/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 56/100 Average sentence length 23.4 Characters 649456 Volumes 1
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Length (in words) 175994 Unique words 12063 Unique words (used once) 4855 Unique words (used once %) 40% Unique kanji 2085 Unique kanji (used once) 254 Unique kanji readings 3793 Average difficulty 49/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 57/100 Average sentence length 23.5 Characters 437093 Volumes 1
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Length (in words) 209429 Unique words 12415 Unique words (used once) 4856 Unique words (used once %) 39% Unique kanji 2104 Unique kanji (used once) 236 Unique kanji readings 3888 Average difficulty 50/100 Peak difficulty (90th percentile) 59/100 Average sentence length 23.5 Characters 511289 Volumes 1
