Every story that I've already read will be deleted from this list and moved to either the 'just okay/dropped' or 'so good' list

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Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (このライトノベルがすごい! Kono Raito Noberu ga Sugoi!, lit. This Light Novel is Amazing!) is an annual light novel guide book published by Takarajimasha. The guide book publishes a list of the top ten most popular light novels according to readers polled on the Internet. An introduction to each of the works comes with each listing, along with an interview of the light novel's author or authors for first place. Many of the light novels that have been listed in this guide book were later adapted into anime series. Most of the light novels listed contain a series of volumes, but some single-volume light novels also get listed. The first release of... more>> the guide book was on November 26, 2004 and is the 2005 listing.

Top 10 bunkobon

1. The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!

2. 86 -Eighty-Six-

3. Infinite Dendrogram

4. Tsuki to Raika to Nosferatu

5. Sword Art Online

6. Bokutachi no Remake

7. Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun

8. Gamers!

9. Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatte Iru Darou ka

10. A Sister's All You Need

Top 10 tankoubon

1. Honzuki no Gekokujō: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan o Erandeiraremasen

2. Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?

3. Saga of Tanya the Evil

4. Overlord

5. Monogatari series

6. Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken

7. Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu

8. Yokohama Eki SF

9. Majo no Tabitabi

10. If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord <<less

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Novels employing bait-and-switch tactics. They get your hopes up for one thing, but deliver something else.

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Mostly Isekai with some fantasy. So far I have liked most of what I read and didn’t start LN until global pandemic. My intro to LN were No game no life and death march. ... more>>

***  “lesbian elf and the cursed princess” is first LN I disliked 

Also, I have been reading English translations on several other places as not all volumes are posted here. For example, Death march has 15 chapters here while English translation is already at vol 14  (with web novel completed). This place just makes it easy to keep track of what I have read.  <<less

I am really really picky reader and I hate young masters and the usual cliche stuff in novels. Plus I dislike the cliche isekai novels that are made out of a cookie cutter.... more>>

Generic novels are my nemesis, so here are the not so generic novels. <<less

Light Novels that I'm reading that are available at thatnovelcorner.com... more>>

Password:thatnovelcorner.com <<less

Tropes are not inherently bad, tropes are merely tools to write a good story, but using tropes doesn't mean your story will be good... more>>

This is a list of novels that are excellent, not just good, despite using standard tropes <<less

Backlog / Add new novel here / 

Have a good read~♥

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My selection of novels which ive seen as both anime and manga. My collection grows as i search for more fun novels. 

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Yes I read these in the order that I have put them in, I am not including the web novels that I have already read the light novel of, but I am including light novels that I have already read the web novel of if I hear it is better.

Q:"Why are 90% of them reincarnation?" 

A: "Yes" <<less

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Bloom Into You (Regarding Saeki Sayaka)
- The OG novel that got me into the Yuri rabbit hole

No specific order to the list.... more>>

Those are light novels that won best-seller award, Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi, and the ones that have translation only.

(Except for Utsuro no Hako, Kara no Kyoukai and Violet Evergarden.) <<less

Father and daughter reconnecting and learning to love family. Just some stories to make you smile and warm your heart.

Thick and heavy plot with some sweet and fluffy side. But my first priority is their stunning art.

It's in the title. ... more>>

No particular order. 

No BL here.

Part 2 is in my profile.

Edit: Part 3 is in my profile. <<less

Novels that caught my interest—pure guilt-pleasure reads... more>>

Orders are irrelevant

For a list of masterpiece novels, refer to this list:

https://www.novelupdates.com/viewlist/83118/ <<less