This is a typical story of love and betrayal between a mafia boss and an undercover cop.

For Tohko Amano, a third-year high-school student and self-styled “book girl,” being the head of the literary club is more than just an extracurricular activity. It’s her bread and butter…literally! Tohko is actually a literature-gobbling demon, who can be found at all hours of the day munching on torn out pages from all kinds of books. But for Tohko, the real delicacies are hand-written stories. To satisfy her gourmet tastes, she’s employed (rather, browbeaten) one Konoha Inoue, who scribbles away each day after school to satisfy Tohko’s appetite. But when another student comes knocking on the literary club door for advice on writing love letters, will Tohko discover a new kind of delicacy?... more>>

Bungaku Shoujo won Kadokawa Shoten’s 2007 light novel award for light novels under the mystery category.

Placed 7th (2007) and 3rd (2008) on “このライトノベルがすごい!” (This Light Novel is Amazing!) without an anime nor manga associate.

Novels:

– Main story:

1. Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime

2. Book Girl and the Famished Spirit

3. Book Girl and the Captive Fool

4. Book Girl and the Corrupted Angel

5. Book Girl and the Wayfarer’s Lamentation

6. Book Girl and the Undine Who Bore a Moonflower

7-8 Book Girl and the Scribe Who Faced God

– Short stories:

1-4. Bungaku Shoujo to Koisuru Souwashuu (Episode)

– Gaiden:

1. Bungaku Shoujo Minarai no, Hatsukoi

2. Bungaku Shoujo Minarai no, Shoushin

3. Bungaku Shoujo Minarai no, Sotsugyou

– Last Volume:

Hanjuku Sakka to Bungaku Shoujo na Henshuusha (Muse) <<less

On her wedding day, she is betrayed by her sister and her fiancé. ... more>>

But she has to choke down this insult for the family’s face.

Shen Jiayi, who has been a well-behaved girl for over twenty years, chooses to indulge herself one night.

Originally thought it is merely physical, while she is spoiled by him so much! <<less

Between the two sides of that other shore, upon the Bridge of Helplessness.... more>>

“Little miss, drink a mouthful of soup. Forget everything. Your next life is a new beginning, without any earthly desires or pain.”

Looking at the soup in Old Lady Meng’s hands, depression rose within me, “But what about that person in my heart?”

Old Lady Meng smiled faintly and said, “Do you see the waters below this bridge?”

“I see them.”

“Do you see the stones in the water?”

I was stunned for a moment, “Stones?”

Old Lady Meng nodded, “Go down there and become a stone. Watch the great changes in the world for seven lifetimes. After seven hundred years, you’ll be able to bring your longing with you as you reincarnate into a new life to look for him…” <<less

A tale of two people, Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari, who were close friends but gradually grow farther and farther apart as time moves on.... more>> They become separated because of their families yet continue to exchange contact in the form of letters. Yet as time continues to trudge on, their contact with one another begins to cease. Years pass and the rift between them grows ever larger. However, Takaki remembers the times they have shared together, but as life continues to unfold for him, he wonders if he would be given the chance to meet Akari again as the tale embarks on Takaki's realization of the world and people around him. <<less

Three Short Stories:... more>>

Calling You
A girl creates an imaginary cell phone...which one day rings. The boy on the other end claims to be calling from his own imaginary cell phone...

Kiz/Kids
Two damaged children bond over one's ability to heal wounds.

Singing Flower
A patient at a hospital finds a flower with the face of a girl, that hums a beautiful melody. <<less

The devil in a white lab coat – Amano Yuuji is a handsome guy and a genius. But his personality is the shittiest, even going... more>> so far as to call himself “The Genius a**hole.” He is by no means a righteous protagonist, but don’t miss out on the teachings, garbage, and others. It’s a little pretentious but kind (?) story. <<less

Li Wei became a widow at the early age of 20 and ascended the throne to become the Empress Dowager.... more>>

However, she had yet to fully settle on her throne before the prince regent sought to usurp the throne, and overthrow her.

The coup works and she dies. However, she is able to open her eyes again, but this time, the empress finds herself in a strange time. Empress Li, welcome to the year 1990! <<less

At a unspecified point in the future, the Earth dies. Then, a genius engineer only known as “Y” manages to revive the Earth using only... more>> gears and clockwork. Thus the world is renamed “Clockwork Planet”, with cities being build inside the planet’s gears. A thousand years later Naoto Miura, a student and lover of machines living in the Kyoto gear, finds a crate has crashed through the roof of his apartment. Inside the crate is a coffin containing the broken body of an automaton. Using his superior sense of hearing, Naoto fixes the automaton, who is named RyuZU Yours*ave, who reveals she has been broken for over 200 years. RyuZU promises complete loyalty to Naoto and the two become close. Later they meet two people trying to find RyuZU: Dr. Marie Bell Breguet, the youngest person to become a “meister”, a group of master engineers; and her bodyguard Vainney Halter. A month after their encounter, all four appear in Akihabara, Tokyo, having now become the world’s most infamous terrorists <<less

When he finished taking a bath and got out of the bathroom. He saw a woman lying in his bed, and he frowned displeasantly. No,... more>> he doesn't need a woman. But she's so tantalizing... <<less

Toru lost his most of his memory in an accident. He can’t remember anything that happened from the past six years. But with time, yet... more>> he struggles, he slowly recovers his memory. He feels as if he is a different person now, and he hates “the other guy” – the “himself” from six years ago… And thinking, Fujishima was his friend, felt like he was being watched over like a guardian angel but in the end he’s betrayed. Miserable and emotionally drained, Toru is trying not to relive in the shadow of his past. He is trying to move on with his new life… but harder he tries, he finds himself being pulled in by Fujishima. <<less

Fujishima’s wound he suffered from protecting Tooru has healed and he’s finally been released from the hospital. Their life together starts again once more. Tooru... more>> wants them to live together as lovers, but Fujishima refuses, saying “I have no intentions of loving you.” Is Fujishima afraid of Tooru remembering something in particular if he regains his memories? The bonds of the past are finally becoming clearer... <<less

After losing his memory in a serious car accident, Tohru Takahisa is taken in by Fujishima, an older man who claims to be his friend. But the taciturn Fujishima refuses to reveal anything about Tohru’s past! Despite the gulf between them, a strange and awkward tenderness grows, even as they are held apart by the tragic events of Tohru’s forgotten past! Dramatic, heart-wrenching romance and tragedy combine in a gripping story where the past and present are intricately entwined.... more>>

Reading order of the series:
Cold Sleep
Cold Light
Cold Fever <<less

He was nine-years-old that year and she was just an infant. He firmly selected her the first time they met, pampered her, and cherished her... more>> without any reason. "Brother..." her ruddy mouth pouted slightly, and her watery eyes were full of grievance. "I don't want you to go..." A pair of short arms hugged the man's thin legs tightly. That year he was fourteen years old and she was six years old... "Whoever harms her will die!" The cold tone was like Asura from hell. In one sentence, he decided the fate of one-hundred-and-thirty-six people in the Yan Family Palace. That year he was twenty-one years old and she was thirteen years old...On the top of Yun Mountain, she looked down upon the heroes, and in order to save him, her white coat was dyed red berries. She is resolute, even if the bloodstains half of the sky, she would rather lose the world than him! He was twenty-three years old that year, and she came to the age of marriage... Compared to having the world, I prefer to hold hands with you. <<less

Main protagonist is Tsurumi Asuta. 17 yrs old, 2nd year high schooler.... more>>

He was working as an apprentice cook at [Tsurumi-ya], managed by his father.

One day a fire broke out in [Tsurumi-ya], for the sake of his father’s cherished knife [Santoku Houchou – the japanese kind] he ran back inside to retrieve it and thus met his end. Before he knew it he awoke to an unknown environment. He was then attacked by a beast resembling a boar but a girl named ‘Ai Fa’ from the [People of Morihen] saved him. It was then that he realized he was really in a different world… <<less

A concubine’s daughter, who was mentally handicapped, inadvertently witnessed her sister's adultery, which resulted in her miserable death. The moment she stopped breathing, a secret... more>> agent, who traveled through time from the modern society, reincarnated in her body. When she opened her eyes again, she was no longer the coward whom everyone could trample on at will. On her following journey of avenging her own misfortune, fighting against the powerful as well as protecting her mother whose life was tantamount to a living hell in the Mu’s Mansion, a bossy, handsome man accidentally intruded on her life... <<less

I’m the Crown Prince? The Crown Prince that died young of terminal illness?... more>>

It just so happens, I’m a doctor of Korean medicine (oriental medicine).

There is no other choice.

I will change my fate and take care of myself.

Constitution, strength, health tonics, and vitality boosters.

I can improve them all. <<less

The Herhardt household’s masterpiece.... more>>

The young owner of a heaven-like place called Arvis.

The beautiful bird slaughterer.

Matthias von Herhardt.

His perfect life- completely swallowed, crushed, and shaken-

by his lovely bird.

Leyla Lewellin.

–

Cut, locked, and tamed her wings.

In order to keep Leyla Lewellin in custody, Matthias did not hesitate in his actions.

Because he did not hesitate, he did not regret.

Because he did not regret, he did not reflect.

Because he did not reflect, he did not apologize.

When his beautiful bird, Leyla Lewellin, opened her cage and flew away, Matthias decided.

“If I am to lose her forever and can’t get her back, I’d rather kill her.” <<less

Ichika Yagami, 15 years old. An ordinary high school student, a NEET. ... more>>

He vaguely wishes on the bed in his room.

――Reincarnate into a different world

And although not a muttered reincarnation, he is summoned to another world.

He was invited to the different world he wanted, where humanity and the Demon King continued to fight.

But fate is ruthless.

He is judged to be an incompetent person with no skills.

He couldn’t understand the language of another world, and he couldn’t talk to the ones who summoned him.

As a result, he would’ve been disposed of on the spot.

However, it was one that saved him…. The Devil <<less

A young man wasn’t popular at all for the three years of junior high school because of his stern face and huge physique. And after failing his entrance exams at the school he wanted to enroll in, it was decided that he would go to a boys' school.... more>>

A Goddess came before him, saying that Her favorite handsome man was too popular and in trouble, so She was looking for a man who wasn’t popular to exchange life with Her favorite.

"Exchange life with a popular man’s life? There must be something behind it!"
『”Even if that’s the case, it's better than being unpopular for your lifetime.”』
“Well, even if there's inconvenient, I'll get through it with my spirit and guts!"

The young man told the Goddess so and exchanged his life with a handsome man’s life...

"Goddess! This isn’t Japan, isn't it?!”
『“So rude. This is Japan. Of a parallel world."』

However, the young man then knew that the Parallel World had some problem, that was, an unbalanced gender ratio.
In a way, the heart of a woman who wasn’t popular couldn’t be understood in the true sense by a normal man there.

"Am I the only man who understands the feelings of being unpopular?"

This was a story of a man in a harem-like environment, trying his best to make the girls in his surroundings happy. <<less

One day, what was typically seen on a Ropan as a possession suddenly became a reality.... more>>

“Li, Li Li is… daddy’s favorite person in the world.”

“Daddy likes you too.”

There was only one way I could get through this.

By pretending to be a difficult character and using a parenting technique commonly mentioned in parenting books to tame the Dark-hearted Dad.

But, this situation was far from the original.

“Oh, Daddy…… I’m coming back! Now, wait a minute…… hehe.”

“I’m sorry, but I keep getting aroused when I see you.”

I’m having s*x with a black-hearted dad to make my daughter s*upid.

What kind of parenting is this?

***

“Daughter, I hate lying.”

Despite my awareness, despite my awareness that all the kindness he displayed was deceitful, my hands trembled in surprise when I saw his true face.

“Show me your worth, and maybe I’ll let you live.”

“I can do… anything, truly.”

“Anything, such as?” he asked hesitantly, resting his chin.

“Oh, I can get stabbed with a knife instead of my dad…”, I can administer poison, I can endure, and I can…”

“You’re not the only one who can do that.” It was a disheartening response. Aria looked at him like she was going to cry at any moment.

“Why don’t you just come over and s*ck my c*ck?”

“You mean ……?”

Caelius responded sweetly as if he knew she would.

“I asked you if you’d rather come and s*ck your daddy’s d*ck.” he seemed extremely calm despite his indecent behavior toward his daughter. <<less

Tomoki Naruse has just started his freshman year in high school. And as with all healthy, young men at his age, he's been dreaming of... more>> s*x. But Tomoki isn’t having normal wet dreams like his classmates! In his nightmares, err… dreams his partner is a man and to make things worse, Tomoki is on the bottom! Aside from Tomoki’s unsettling dreams, high school life is fun – especially with his new, handsome, best friend Yugo Oda. But Yugo is no ordinary freshman; he is involved in mysterious activities that Tomoki can’t even begin to imagine… <<less

Watching on helplessly as her beloved husband carried on a whirlwind affair with a beautiful commoner, then dying tragically only to be replaced right away... more>> by that same mistress, Duchess DeLov was a pitiful figure... in the book I didn't even bother finishing! Okay, well, I'm not going to live that way. Step one: Ruin his reputation. Step two: Secure a divorce. Step three: Enjoy my happy, rich, single life! ...Step four: Fake a relationship with a handsome stranger to shake off our stalkers. <<less

April 10th. Yesterday was the last day of spring vacation, so starting this morning it was a school day. After being woken up by his cute little sister, Itsuka Shidou believed that it would be the start of another normal day. As for predicting the chance meeting with the girl who called herself a spirit......... more>>

Along with a sudden shockwave, the townscape vanished without a trace. In a corner of the street which had now become a crater, the girl was there.

"?You, have you come to kill me too?"

She is the disaster that will destroy humanity, a monster of unknown origin, and a being rejected by the world. There are only two ways to stop this girl: annihilation, and conversation. His little sister Kotori, wrapped in a military uniform, thus said to Shidou: "Since it's like this, just go date her, and make the spirit fall for you!" "Wh.. whaaaaaaaat!?" Enter a new age of boy meets girl!! <<less

An age where science was at the height of its rapid development.
The smooth lines of railroad tracks had divided Ingram’s large landmass cardinally by the time people had really noticed,
And large airships were being developed in their factories by the day in hopes for future commercial use.
The fruits of science were being shared amongst everyone.... more>>

Yet, there still existed almighty beings who could create fire in their bare hands or summon the rain on demand.
It was a supreme talent that no enlightened reasoning could explain and not even the most developed sciences could dare encroach upon.
People had revered them and regarded them with fear and awe since long ago.

They, who were sometimes called gods and sometimes called demons —the witches.

Diana was an unfortunate witch who was born the daughter of a great witch but had inherited none of her mother’s talent.
“You must be the most worthless witch in existence."
Diana had been taken in by her teacher at the tender age of seven, and the only thing she had wished for ever since
Was only to gain her independence as quickly as possible and to live together happily with Hester, her beloved older sister.

But dark clouds hang over even the path she took to finally meet her sister after having gained her independence…….

“Your trip might be a little long.”

The stars had set down an ominous prophecy —what kind of future did they point to? <<less