Novel difficulty list

This is a list of novels, both light novels and traditional novels, ranked by their difficulty, on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is very easy and 10 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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Cover of Hoshi no Kirby: Nazo to Jiken no Pupupu Train!?
Novel
Hoshi no Kirby: Nazo to Jiken no Pupupu Train!?
Length (in words)16566
Unique words2598
Unique words (used once)1278
Unique words (used once %)49%
Unique kanji671
Unique kanji (used once)178
Unique kanji readings947
Difficulty2/10
Average sentence length15.7
Characters44202
Volumes1
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Cover of Hoshi no Kirby: Kurayami Mori de Dai Sawagi!
Novel
Hoshi no Kirby: Kurayami Mori de Dai Sawagi!
Length (in words)19430
Unique words2998
Unique words (used once)1488
Unique words (used once %)49%
Unique kanji756
Unique kanji (used once)201
Unique kanji readings1120
Difficulty3/10
Average sentence length16.3
Characters50736
Volumes1
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Cover of Hoshi no Kirby: Abunai Gourmet Yashiki!?
Novel
Hoshi no Kirby: Abunai Gourmet Yashiki!?
Length (in words)18730
Unique words3127
Unique words (used once)1578
Unique words (used once %)50%
Unique kanji784
Unique kanji (used once)193
Unique kanji readings1160
Difficulty3/10
Average sentence length16.2
Characters50599
Volumes1
Amazon
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