I read the novel また同じ夢を見ていた and it was a fantastic read! I was actually surprised there doesn’t seem to be a WK club since it seems to be a popular “first” real novel, and even if I struggled with several things I managed to understand maybe 80% of the content and I got the high level plot points.
I kind of got “hooked” into reading “real” novels and was wondering what people have read as a next book of similar difficulty? I’ll finally hit WK60 in a couple of weeks and my N3 grammar is solid but haven’t done much N2 grammar yet.
I read 夜カフェbefore and didn’t quite enjoy the story, then I read the first volume of 駄菓子屋銭天堂 and I thought that the stories were cute but it was very annoying that, in it being a children’s book, many kanji were instead written in hiragana so parsing long hiragana sentences made things unnecessarily hard! I also tried reading コンビニ人間 a few months ago and thought that was a bit too hard right now, and the only way I could get through it was reading along the vocab list from the old WK book club.
There is a Natively club going through it at the moment actually, funnily enough. I’m not sure about next steps yet but I’m eager to hear! (Though I think また夢 is a bit above where I feel comfortable right now, which is why I’m quite glad for the club)
I made a list a while back on Natively of my suggestions for people around your level based on what I read back then, or books I’ve read since then which seem around the same level of difficulty while still being interesting: https://learnnatively.com/list/8c5f0797cf/
They’re all a step up from また though, there aren’t many books at level 25 which really fit the category of “adult books I’d recommend”, so might be worth just browsing Natively a bit too.
Edit: actually there is this one: パパの愛した悪女 | L25 but I don’t know if it’s really an adult novel…
I am currently reading Influence as a first novel, which, according to Natively, should be a little easier than the book you read. I quite enjoyed the tv show and, to my surprise, I don’t find the book particularly difficult. In my opinion, the sentence structures are not too complex, I just do need a dictionary every so often because I’m not a kanji/vocab master…
In case you’re interested:
In case you start reading and want a vocab list, I kept one for the 1st chapter and intend to continue expanding it as I;m reading. I’m “only” level 29, so I suspect not all words/readings are new to you.
