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What light novel(s) have you read this week, and what do you think about it?

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Date Title Volume Publisher Format
Dec 04 Making Magic: The Sweet Life of a Witch Who Knows an Infinite MP Loophole 5 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Dec 04 The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects 1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Dec 05 Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 7 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Dec 05 Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear 16 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Dec 05 The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior 5 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Dec 05 There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… 3 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Dec 07 The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows 1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Dec 07 The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent 9 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️
Dec 08 Butareba -The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig- First Bite 1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Dec 08 You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story 1st Date 1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
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Date Title Volume Publisher Format
Nov 28 Agents of the Four Seasons 1 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 28 Goblin Slayer 16 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 28 How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom 17 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Nov 28 Liar, Liar 2 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 28 Moon Blossom Asura: The Ruthless Reincarnated Mercenary Forms... 2 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 28 Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement 3 Kodansha 🖥️📖
Nov 28 Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō 3 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Nov 28 Wolf & Parchment: New Theory Spice & Wolf 7 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 29 How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom 18 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 30 A Young Lady Finds Her True Calling Living with the Enemy 1 Cross Infinite World 🖥️
Nov 30 Fluffy Paradise 2 Cross Infinite World 🖥️
Nov 30 Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter 10 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 30 So You Want to Live the Slow Life? A Guide to Life in the Bea... 3 Cross Infinite World 🖥️
Nov 30 The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash 5 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️
Dec 01 Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf ... 4 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Dec 01 Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me Th... 3 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Dec 01 You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! 3 J-Novel Club 🖥️
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What light novel(s) have you read this week, and what do you think about it? [November 20. - November 26.]

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What light novel(s) have you read this week, and what do you think about it? [November 13. - November 19.]

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Date Title Volume Publisher Format
Nov 20 Haibara’s Teenage New Game+ 5 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 21 86–EIGHTY-SIX 12 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 Am I Actually the Strongest? 4 Kodansha 🖥️📖
Nov 21 Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle 5 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway 5 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 High School DxD 12 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 Horror Collector 1 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World 12 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 Phantom Thief Red 1 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 Rascal Does Not Dream of His Student 12 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 Sabikui Bisco 6 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online 13 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt (Hey, How About Treason?) 11 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 The Misfit of Demon King Academy 2 Yen Press 📖
Nov 21 Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina 12 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 21 You Can Have My Back 2 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Nov 22 From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone 1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 22 I’m Not the Hero! 2 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 22 I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons 2 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 22 Reincarnated Mage with Inferior Eyes: Breezing through the Future as an Oppressed Ex-Hero 4.5 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 23 DUNGEON DIVE: Aim for the Deepest Level 5 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 23 Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City 1 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️
Nov 23 The Ideal Sponger Life 14 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 24 Fake It to Break It! I Faked Amnesia to Break Off My Engagement and Now He’s All Lovey-Dovey?! 1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 24 The Retired Demon of the Maxed-Out Village 2 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 24 Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I’m Not the Demon Lord 3 J-Novel Club 🖥️
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Date Title Volume Publisher Format
Nov 13 An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride 15 J-Novel Club 📖
Nov 13 Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 9 J-Novel Club 📖
Nov 13 I Shall Survive Using Potions! 8 J-Novel Club 📖
Nov 13 To Another World… with Land Mines! 8 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 14 Adachi and Shimamura 11 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Nov 14 I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness 2 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 14 Reincarnated as a Sword 13 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Nov 15 Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 7 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 15 Housekeeping Mage from Another World: Making Your Adventures Feel Like Home! 7 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 16 Free Life Fantasy Online: Immortal Princess 5 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️
Nov 16 I Swear I Won’t Bother You Again! 4 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️
Nov 16 Jeanette the Genius: Defying My Evil Stepmother by Starting a Business with My Ride-or-Die Fiancé! 1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
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What light novel(s) have you read this week, and what do you think about it? [November 06. - November 12.]

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What light novel(s) have you read this week, and what do you think about it? [October 30. - November 05.]

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Date Title Volume Publisher Format
Nov 06 Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want! 5 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 07 Loner Life in Another World 7 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️📖
Nov 07 Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! 7 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Nov 09 Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World 5 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 09 Disciple of the Lich: Or How I Was Cursed by the Gods and Dropped Into the Abyss! 6 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️
Nov 09 Magic Stone Gourmet: Eating Magical Power Made Me The Strongest 3 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 09 Marriage, Divorce, and Beyond: The White Mage and Black Knight’s Romance Reignited 1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 09 The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior 5 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️
Nov 10 A Royal Rebound: Forget My Ex-Fiancé, I’m Being Pampered by the Prince! 3 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 10 The Greatest Magician’s Ultimate Quest: I Woke from a 300 Year Slumber to a World of Disappointment 2 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 10 The Misfit of Demon King Academy 5 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Nov 11 Back to the Battlefield: The Veteran Heroes Return to the Fray! 2 J-Novel Club 🖥️
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I did my best making a magic brain 1 pumpkin.

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Hi guys do you know any good places to rent/borrow light novels?

In the case of borrowing:

  • My local library via libby doesn't seem to have any.

In the case of renting:

  • With J-novel I've found three ways of renting. 1) Using scribid (aprox 7 book limit per month) 2) Using jnc membership for prepub 3) Rent via jnc (can be more or less expensive than scribid depending on number of parts).

My problem however is with other publishers their aren't really any options to rent/borrow books (reading spice and wolf via yenpress).

I hope this post doesn't sound stingy in general just curious on general options.

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Date Title Volume Publisher Format
Oct 30 Another World Survival 6 Hanashi Media 🖥️
Oct 30 Record of Wortenia War 21 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 31 A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans 1 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 31 As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I’ll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World 3 Kodansha 🖥️📖
Oct 31 I Guess This Dragon Who Lost Her Egg to Disaster Is My Mom Now 1 Cross Infinite World 🖥️
Oct 31 Making Jam in the Woods: My Relaxing Life Starts in Another World 1 Cross Infinite World 🖥️
Oct 31 Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling 5 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Oct 31 Third Loop: The Nameless Princess and the Cruel Emperor 1 Cross Infinite World 🖥️
Nov 02 Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear 16 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️
Nov 02 The Troubles of Miss Nicola the Exorcist 2 J-Novel Club 🖥️
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What light novel(s) have you read this week, and what do you think about it? [October 23. - October 29.]

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What light novel(s) have you read this week, and what do you think about it? [October 16. - October 22.]

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Date Title Volume Publisher Formats
Oct 23 In Another World With My Smartphone 28 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 24 Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest 13 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Oct 24 Combatants Will Be Dispatched! 7 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 24 Date A Live 10 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 24 Days with My Stepsister 1 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 24 Free Life Fantasy Online: Immortal Princess 4 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Oct 24 I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top 6 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 24 Only I Know the Ghoul Saved the World 1 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 24 Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire 1 Yen Press 📖
Oct 24 Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- 23 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 24 The Ephemeral Scenes of Setsuna’s Journey 2 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 24 The Holy Grail of Eris 4 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 25 My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer 10 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 25 Only the Villainous Lord Wields the Power to Level Up 3 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 25 The Invincible Little Lady 4 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 26 Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Tale of the Butterfly-Rat Body Swap in the Maiden Court 5 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️
Oct 27 Seventh 5 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 27 Stuck in a Time Loop: When All Else Fails, Be a Villainess 2 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 27 The Game Master Has Logged In to Another World 4 J-Novel Club 🖥️
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Seven Seas announced on Wednesday that it has licensed the Chasing Spica, I'll Never Be Your Crown Princess! - Betrothed manga, The Evil Queen's Beautiful Principles light novels, the manga and two more light novel volumes for Yes, No, or Maybe?, as well as the Noss and Zakuro and Gravitation: Collector's Edition manga.

Seven Seas will publish Reia and Haduki Futaba's The Evil Queen's Beautiful Principles light novels in April 2024 as part of Seven Seas' Airship imprint physically, with digital editions available earlier. It describes the story:

In a world of royalty and magic, a young Japanese woman is reincarnated as Princess Luxeria. But the princess is born with magical abilities so strong and terrible that she agrees to live her life locked away in a tower. When her family is betrayed and her royal parents are murdered, she's forced to step out of her self-imposed exile and into a treacherous world. Princess Luxeria must pretend to be the perfect puppet ruler…all while concealing her burning desire for vengeance.

Reia published the web novel on the ncode syosetsu website in 2019. Kadokawa published the series in light novels, shipping volume 2 in March 2021.

Seven Seas will publish Michi Ichiho and Yukimura's Yes, No, or Maybe? manga in November 2024 physically and digitally, as well as the two more novel volumes (Center of the World and Where Home Is) by Michi Ichiho and Lala Takemiya in March and June. Digital editions will be available (earlier than print for the novel volumes). It describes the story:

Kunieda Kei is the up-and-coming prince of the evening news. Inside, he's the opposite: brash, hot-tempered, and prickly as can be. For years, Kei has successfully juggled his private and professional personas—until a chance meeting with stop-motion animator Tsuzuki Ushio threatens to bring it all crashing down. But is that really as frightening as the possibility that someone might love and accept both sides of who he is?

Michi Ichio and Yukimura launched the light novel series in Shinshokan's Shōsetsu Dear!+ magazine in 2013. Seven Seas licensed the novels in English in 2020. The series inspired the manga adaptation in 2022. Shinshokan shipped the compiled book volume in November 2022.The series was adapted into an anime series in 2019.

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Date Title Volume Publisher Format
Oct 16 Death’s Daughter and the Ebony Blade 6 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 16 Now I’m a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon 6 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 16 VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream 6 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 17 Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian 4 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 17 Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells 8 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Oct 17 High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World! 9 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 17 If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love 1 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 17 Monster Girl Doctor 10 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Oct 17 Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation 24 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Oct 17 My Happy Marriage 5 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 17 Sasaki and Peeps 5 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 17 The Dawn of the Witch 4 Kodansha 🖥️📖
Oct 17 The Lawyer in Shizukuishi Sleeps with a Wolf 1 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 19 A Tale of the Secret Saint 5 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️
Oct 19 When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace 8 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 20 Fiancée No More: The Forsaken Lady, the Prince, and Their Make-Believe Love 1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 20 Formerly, the Fallen Daughter of the Duke 4 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 20 I Surrendered My Sword for a New Life as a Mage 4 J-Novel Club 🖥️
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Post what light novels you have read this past week [October 9. - October 15]

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Yen Press announced at its panel at the New York Comic Con that it has licensed the following light novels:

Sword Art Online: Progressive Canon of the Golden Rule
Reki Kawahara (story), Mugetsu (art), abec (character design)
The SAO: Progressive series continues, following Asuna and Kirito to the sixth floor of Aincrad, where puzzles and brainteasers galore await them! Will our sword swinging pair burn out on a mental challenge, or will the frightening gang of player-killers catch up with them first…?

Trinity Seven -Revision-
Yōichi Nishio (art), Kenji Saitō (story), Akinari Nao (character design)
From the world of Trinity Seven comes a sizzling new spinoff! High schooler Mitsunari Miyazawa had aspirations of becoming a writer until a run-in with a demonic creature turns deadly. Now, Mitsunari has been reborn with the power of the Magus of Envy, fighting with the help of the living grimoire Lydia!

The Tiger Hasn't Eaten the Dragon Yet
Hachi Inaba
“Make me think it's okay if you're the one who eats me...”
In the mountains somewhere, a tiger catches its prey: a lone dragon, the kind that is hardly ever seen. Eating the dragon's meat extracts the ultimate flavor, drinking its blood heals all injuries, and devouring its heart grants immortality...And yet, upon seeing the dragon's undeveloped stature, the tiger refuses to eat it. Dragon and tiger, predator and prey—is what ties them together simply natural hunting instincts or something more...?

Amalgam Hound
Midori Komai (story), Domino Ozaki (illustration)
Theo, a young investigator, crosses paths with Eleven, an amalgam perfectly mimicking the form of a girl. In a strange twist of fate, the two become partners on a special mission to track down other amalgams on the run after the war.
However, Eleven only looks like a young girl. She's a living weapon who doesn't understand what it means to be human. Theo has no love for amalgams, but he'll have to deal with it, because a terrorist attack has rocked the nation to its core…and someone needs to get to the bottom of it!

Classroom For Heroes
Shin Araki (story), Haruyuki (illustration)
When the hero Blade defeated the demon king, he lost all his powers. For him, this should have been a dream come true—finally, life as a normal student without fighting or adventuring. That is, until he discovers his school is a school for heroes. He just wants to get by with a solid average, but as a hero with real experience, it turns out his idea of average is a little off...!

My Gemini
Yuu Morikawa
Plain, redheaded, and freckled John has nothing going for him, except his two friends who are incredibly popular at school—twins Jekyll and Hyde. The twins, indistinguishable, have always enjoyed taking each other's places for fun. But when the pair is fragmented by an untimely death, it's up to John to find out…which twin is left? 

All or Nothing
Shikke
When Kadoi and Hasumoto reveal that they've been dating for a whole month, Oka and Sawada are more jealous that their friends have lovers than anything else. So when the change in their friends' relationship causes them to be more conscious of each other, they can't help but wonder what it'd be like to be together—in more ways than one...

Fox-Colored Jealousy
Machi Suehiro
They first met on the train. While Akiha Konno was on his way to his first day of school in Tokyo, some creep just had to touch his butt... Thankfully, the nice college guy saved him, but—uhhh...Akiha really didn't mean to just glomp him like that! Worse, he called the fox ears that appear when he's all worked up “cute”! Welp, it's not like he'll ever see him again...

I Want a Gal Gamer to Praise Me
Geshumaro
When high school shut-in Raito Sasaki hires a pro gamer coach to help hone his FPS skills, he never expected that the one knocking on his door would be Rion Suzuki—a cute and fashionable beauty the same age as him! With such a charming and supportive gamer gal cheering him on, can Raito take his game to the next level, or will the pressure of being up close and personal with a bombshell like Rion lead him to throw?

Riviere and the Land of Prayer
Jougi Shiraishi (story), Azure (illustration)
Return to the world of the Wandering Witch in a brand-new spin-off!
The stage is set for two girls in a land where prayers have become curses. In a small island nation, there is a mysterious town where people's prayers are answered by a mysterious force. I, Makmilia, assist the enigmatic Riviere in our shop, where we deal with the dangerous items borne of those prayers. We've got a fate-changing perfume, a talking vase, and a bag containing strange creatures, just to name a few. Yes, indeed, the deeds of the marvelous duo, Makmilia and Riviere, will overshadow even the Ashen Witch Elaina!

Once Upon a Witch's Death: The Tale of the One Thousand Tears of Joy
Saka (story), Chorefuji (illustration),
On her seventeenth birthday, the apprentice witch Meg learns that she only has one year left to live. Her teacher, the long-lived witch Faust, explains that the only way to undo the death curse is to collect tears of joy and grow the seed of life. To find them, Meg will have to leave the sheltered life she's always known and head out into the world. There will be meetings, partings, and friendships aplenty, and of course many tears. Meg will learn that the most important lessons for a witch are bright, sweet, and somewhat heart-wrenching.

Adults' Picture Book
Kei Itoi
Erotic manga author Kudou's friend Haruki passes away, leaving behind his young daughter, Kiki, and a note bequeathing her to Kudou. Strange as the situation is, Kudou commits to making a real family with the girl—so when he meets a woman who reminds him of his late friend, he fires off a marriage proposal on the spot! By blood, friendship, love, or circumstance, family is family...

You Can't See the Snow
Rokudo Ningen
College freshman Natsuki and sophomore Yuki meet and fall in love one summer night—the first of many they spend together. But as autumn approaches, Yuki suddenly tells Natsuki she wants him to be happy and find a cute girlfriend, then disappears from campus. Hoping to see Yuki one final time, Natsuki visits her home and learns she suffers from an unknown illness that forces her to sleep through the winter. This modern-day version of Sleeping Beauty explores the miracle of love.

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Post what light novels you have read this past week (October 2. - October 8)

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Date Title Volume(s) Publisher Format
Oct 09 Ascendance of a Bookworm: Fanbook 3 J-Novel Club 📖
Oct 09 Knight’s & Magic 1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 09 Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World 7 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 09 Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles 19-20 J-Novel Club 📖
Oct 09 The Apothecary Diaries 9 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 09 The Unwanted Undead Adventurer 10 J-Novel Club 📖
Oct 09 Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster 3 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 10 Infinite Dendrogram 20 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 10 The Sorcerer’s Receptionist 4 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 12 By the Grace of the Gods 13 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 12 The Mythical Hero’s Otherworld Chronicles 5 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 13 Full Metal Panic! Short Stories 8 J-Novel Club 🖥️
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Date Title Volume Publisher Format
Oct 02 Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters! 2 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 03 Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 6 Seven Seas Entertainment 📖
Oct 03 The Deer King 1 Yen Press 🖥️📖
Oct 04 8th Loop for the Win! With Seven Lives’ Worth of XP and the Third Princess’s Appraisal Skill, My Behemoth and I Are Unstoppable! 1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 05 Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling 5 Seven Seas Entertainment 🖥️
Oct 05 Tearmoon Empire 10 J-Novel Club 🖥️
Oct 06 Rebuild World 3.1 J-Novel Club 🖥️
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Post what light novels you have read this past week (September 25. - October 1.)

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