Unless people have interest in doing a repeat repeat club, you’re about two years too late. 
(Seriously though, typically the read alouds are done weekly with an active book club.)
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(The Flying Witch read-aloud is a notable exception - we’re not actually the Flying Witch book club, but rather the Yotsuba book club trying to fill in time until the next volume of Yotsuba is released. 
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I typically find manga a bit harder to read than novels since you can’t select unknown words or kanji and search for it, at least on kindle
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There anki dekcs out there for this, fyi. I used it and it saves time, not to mention Yomiwa to take a pic in phone then look up the word really helps
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I bought this book because I have heard many people say it’s the first book they’ve read. This is my fourth book and I thought it would be very easy to read but I actually find it too hard for me…
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What were the other ones?
Maybe you are interested in having a look at the Absolute Beginners Book Club // Now reading: Hunter × Hunter ? They will start a new book soon.
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キノの旅 (Kino no tabi) 1 &2 and Harry Potter 1. I can read these with no dictionnary relatively easily. I don’t know what’s holding me back with this one. Might be the grammar in the dialogues or the lack of Kanji. My version is 80% hiragana which makes it difficult to read.
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Besides the lack of kanji, the sentences are also a bit flowery, so that can make it harder too. When sentences are overly long and descriptive it can be hard to keep all the pieces in your head, especially if you have to look up a lot of words. That’s been my experience at least.
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I’m sorry…I struggle a LOT with hiragana-rich children’s books! I used to recommend Kiki’s as an early book, because it was my first book, and I was clueless!
As an adult who learned Japanese by studying with kanji on Duolingo and Wanikani, I get a LOT of information from kanji (easily seeing where verbs and subjects are, hints about the meaning). I’m finding that studying this way, it was actually more advanced to not “need” the kanji! (contrary to how people teach kids who can speak but not read; I could read but not speak)
I’ve seen several places that did analyses that allow more rational selections. I’m blanking right now, except for Christopher Fritz’ Study Log (he developed some awesome tools) and … I’m wondering whether it was KoohiCafe as another place that keeps book rankings? They did analyses like “If I know half of RTK, what percentage of the kanji in this book do I already know?”
I’m actually still working my way through Harry Potter 1. I got distracted leveling up Wanikani (I’m on level 32) and finishing DuoLingo (I just started Unit 6) and trying to do more output.
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