If you’d like a comprehensive answer to your question, please check out this thread:
[Reading]
This thread brings together resources and advice for helping people to get started with reading.
If you know of any great tips or resources, please share them! You can also let me know if anything needs updating, like if any of the links go out of date for example.
Where to Start Reading native Japanese content is simply hard, and you’re gonna have to prepare yourself to look up a lot of stuff if you plunge straight in - sorry!
Two things…
Also, our book clubs might be interesting for you! It’s fun to read books and manga together and to help each other understand them, and even after the club is over, you can still read the threads and ask questions.
Specifically geared towards your question is this thread:
Hello!
I thought it might be fun / helpful / interesting to write a little comparison of all the books the Beginners’ Club has read so far @Naphthalene has also written a comparison of the Intermediate Club ’s picks which you can see further down!
It has reviews and recommendations of (most of? all of?) the book club picks.
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