TBH I don’t really know what the true limit of the Intermediate book club should be as I have posts in mind like this:
but I guess the current consensus is more like
Apart from that, I would probably not nominate Spice and Wolf in the Intermediate club because of its difficulty - I tried to read it about a year ago (I guess around the time when or shortly after we read Kino in the club) but I found it way too hard. So I still think it’s a better nomination for a fast read here than for a struggle there…