Please help me create a reading list. I want to get comfortable reading various types of literature in Japanese. So far I’ve read some manga but for pure reading practice I prefer stuff that doesn’t have supporting visuals.
I’m around N2 grammar-wise and my wk level is representative of my kanji knowledge but my vocabulary is shaky (I hope reading will help with it).
Nowadays when reading for fun I usually read nonfiction, such as interesting life stories, stories about discoveries, inventions and so on. But I like my fiction too, just don’t read much of it.
However, if it’s in Japanese I feel like I’d read almost anything, as long as it’s interesting and not too difficult.
So far I have a few titles on my list:
Hyouka
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Monogatari series
Boogiepop series
But I don’t know many options. I’d greatly appreciate your recommendations. If you can please give your opinion of the reading difficulty too.
And if you can share how you’re looking for things to read I’d love to hear that!
I found another title to read. Might be kind of random but I was curious about KonMari, so why not read her original book 人生がときめく片づけの魔法
Doesn’t seem too difficult from the preview on Amazon.
Ah, that’s fine, you shouldn’t be
I appreciate your recommendations but I’m the only one responsible for actually getting and reading the books Besides, I haven’t read enough books in any language to have a good taste. But now I am motivated to read because I enjoy being able to understand more and more Japanese and because I want to know more about the Japanese culture, art and literature.
I think I’m going to read コンビニ人間 first. It sounds super interesting now.
Also, I thought it was meh overall, but it you want a challenging VN, then Dies Irae has a reputation for being a particularly difficult read. It has 13818 unique words, and IIRC over 2000 kanji.
