So we’re here. We’ll have a poll for which book to do and start date. Schedule and whether to use our own threads or not will wait until we have a book picked, which will be a week from when I post this, so I’ll close the polls sometime on Sunday, May 14th.
But first let me go through the picks, and mention info, advantages, and disadvantages. Please feel free to check out the ratings on Natively, and book club threads and such. In the club threads, you can often find a link to the nomination post that will include a description of what the book is about.
I’m not including books that are too long (unless they are short story collections were stories can be skipped), and I also cut おいしいごはんが食べられますように because we have a recommendation that it wouldn’t be a good place to start (stream of consciousness writing can even be hard to read in a native language).
コンビニ人間
Natively, WK book club (repeat club), well populated vocabulary sheet (and vocabulary list can be found at Koohi)
168 pages, recommended as a good starter by multiple people (just check this thread for those, not to mention many other places on the forum)
キッチン
Natively, WK book club, no vocabulary sheet (but vocabulary lists can be found at Koohi and jpdb)
200 pages, contains an unrelated short story at the end which we can skip if we want, recommended but with the warning that it can be pretty heavy theme-wise
夜市
Natively, WK book club, no vocabulary sheet (but vocabulary lists can be found at Koohi and jpdb)
179 pages, consists of two short stories (the titular story is 90 pages long)
コーヒーが冷めないうちに
Natively, WK book club, vocabulary sheet (and vocabulary lists can be found at Koohi and jpdb)
348 pages, consists of four short stories/chapters with an overarching story so we could skip 1-2 stories but realize we wouldn’t be getting the whole overarching story
世界から猫が消えたなら
Natively, WK book club, no vocabulary sheet (but vocabulary list can be found at jpdb)
229 pages, the wk club was an unscheduled one, so there is no schedule nor separate threads, just one main one
はたらく魔王さま！１
Natively, WK book club, no vocabulary sheet (but vocabulary list can be found at Koohi)
312 pages, a little long, part of a series that is currently 22 books long so reading only the first one might not come with a satisfying end, the wk club has no weekly threads but it does have a schedule
キノの旅１
Natively, WK book club, no vocabulary sheet (but vocabulary lists can be found at Koohi and jpdb)
248 pages, while this is part of a series, each chapter seems to be only loosely connected to each other, so only reading the first volume should still provide a full story (well multiple ones, but you get my drift)
おばちゃんたちのいろところ
Natively, WK book club, vocabulary sheet but only for the first week and with no page numbers
261 pages, collection of 17 linked short stories with different view points each time (meaning a new style to get used to for each story, raising the difficulty), the first story (especially) has a lot of kansai-ben
あん
Natively, no WK book club, no vocabulary sheet (nor vocabulary lists)
239 pages, has no resources
カラフル
Natively, no WK book club, no vocabulary sheet (but vocabulary list can be found at jpdb)
259 pages, comes with trigger warnings (see reviews on Natively), no resources except a vocabulary list on jpdb
Now that I’ve finished the info list above (it took a while…), let’s get to our two polls!
If I may be so bold as make a recommendation: since we’re doing this as a first harder/IBC level book, the more resources and helpful stuff we have available, the easier the transition will be. Please keep that in mind.
- コンビニ人間
- キッチン
- 夜市
- コーヒーが冷めないうちに
- 世界から猫が消えたなら
- はたらく魔王さま！１
- キノの旅１
- おばちゃんたちのいろところ
- あん
- カラフル
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