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

“Are you my knight?” The silver-haired youth looked at the blonde girl before him and asked, his cheeks flushed red. This was their first encounter when he was only ten years of age.... more>>

“Are you my bride?” He held her in his arms, embraced the girl who had accompanied him for ten years straight. He was sixteen years of age.

“Are you my king?” He knelt before the throne, smiling foolishly as he looked at the girl holding the sword victoriously. At this moment, he looked like the boy he was when they first met.

“I’m fine without having eyes for you. The entirety of Camelot is for your taking.” Smiling soft and gently, he gave his eyes to the girl who lost her eyes due to the curse of the red dragon. He doesn’t regret it, he thinks. He was twenty years of age.

“So… Arthur… Artoria Pendragon, are you willing… are you willing to spend the rest of your life with me?” His voice was soft and clear as he reached out to touch her hand.

This was their legend. <<less

Welcome to Freia. A continent perpetually torn by war. Hundreds of years ago it was ruled by Magi, people capable of magic who viewed themselves as superior to those who could not. For thousands of years they ruled over common people… but times change.... more>>

Magic is a finite resource, and with its steady depletion, the magi grew weak. Eventually they were overthrown in a great war that saw them made all but extinct. Magic fell with them, becoming taboo in every way, the object of villainy in the novels of romance and heroism.

War is a human condition, however, and it has continued to wage unerringly between the successor kingdoms and empires as the common man fights to become master of the world left behind by the magi.

Magic has gone, but power remains, now wielded in the form of firearms and manpower. Muskets echo on the fields and cannons thunder on the ocean, even more so now that the greatest kingdoms on the continent have pushed out to colonise the far-away land known as Nubissia.

Born into this world of chaos is a young man, reincarnated from a salaryman in 21st century China. Lacking the prejudice against magic, and possessing a hobbyist’s knowledge of firearms and tactics, our young protagonist forges his path in a world where magic and musket war. <<less

Milfia, the daughter of the Marquis, loves books more than anything else.
She loved books to the point that she doesn't need to eat or sleep if she has them.
The story of the engagement came up to her.
The other person is the younger prince from a neighboring country.... more>>

It is the love relationship between these two people. <<less

A spin-off of Lillia and Treize, Meg and Seron is a high school adventure/mystery/romance/comedy of sorts taking place in the rough equivalent of the 1950s. The story follows Seron, a stoic and handsome bookworm who is in love with his classmate--a sweet, oblivious transfer student named Meg.... more>>

Meg and Seron takes place at around the same time as Lillia and Treize, but knowledge of the main series is not necessary to read Meg and Seron. <<less

There exist in this world a set of six daggers that carry a terrible curse: the ability to inflict a death beyond time. Those under the daggers' curse shall reincarnate without end, never able to know happiness and always drawn to die once more by the dagger. This is the story of "Raine" and "Marie", two souls bound by the daggers' curse to kill one another, over and over again.... more>>

France, 1243. Lapis Lazuli Castle is the name of an insignificant relay fort nestled away in a forest east of Carcassonne. Its ruler, Count Geoffroy, and his only daughter, Marie, are both believed to be insane. The root cause of their shared madness is the mysterious disappearance of Geoffroy's wife three years ago, which caused Geoffroy to grow detached from humanity and cast Marie into a deep depression. After three years of wandering in a state halfway to nonexistence, Marie works up the nerve to ask her chief bodyguard, Sir Raine, to investigate her mother's death, confiding that on the night of her mother's disappearance, she had witnessed something impossible. However, her investigation only prompts a new tragedy.

The French-German border, 1916. As World War I rages on, Raine and Marie's latest reincarnations live the life of a sub-lieutenant in the French army and a medic with the Red Cross, respectively. The two lovers are reunited at the site of the Battle of Verdun, but no sooner have they met then Raine finds himself faced with a barrage of impossible circumstances. An enemy soldier's head suddenly vanishes, right before his eyes. One of his subordinates reports the same thing happening to an ally. Four more headless bodies vanish from a flooded bunker in the minute he looks away. These baffling events are a prelude to the return of their old tragedy.

Northern Hokkaido, 1989. Kimiyo, age eighteen, is already dying, an inoperable tumor in her hypothalamus leaving her with less than a year to live. Refusing to despair in the face of her tragic circumstances, she spends her remaining days with her friends at "The Library at the End of the World", a private library so called due to its isolated nature. One day, a man named Kito approaches her out of the blue, regaling her with a story about a set of cursed daggers, knights in the 13th century, and the two of them being cursed, fated lovers. Naturally, Kimiyo is intensely skeptical, but the events that come next don't require her to believe in them.

Arriving at the scene of these three tragedies is Snowy, an enigmatic figure of indeterminate gender who claims to be "a detective charged with managing the world's chaos". <<less

When book-loving Lady Elianna spots Prince Christopher— her betrothed in name only— consorting with another noble lady, she realizes the recent rumors must be true. The prince has someone he truly loves, which means the annulment of their engagement is both inevitable and fast-approaching. ... more>>

What she doesn’t realize is that this is merely a surface ripple— one of many where the truth runs deep, in a conspiracy surpassing her imagination! <<less

“I mustn’t die before I finish this book!!”... more>>

One day, I unexpectedly died in the hands of these robbers and somehow I, the bookworm, ended up being resurrected… as a dog. Why a dog! How am I supposed to read like this! In the midst of my troubled thoughts, I saw this girl who believes that scissors are weapons——Natsuno Kirihime. She seemed pretty dangerous to me, but at least she understands my dog-talk. Apparently she’s secretly my favourite author, Akiyama Shinobu!? What should I do? And where are the robbers who killed me——!? <<less

Xu Qichen, who has made a habit of receiving blades from his readers, dies suddenly.... more>>

Ding! Your survival system has appeared out of the blue: transmigrate into all your bad ending novels and be the main character.

It wants him to change the ending? And it’s even asking him, an emotional defect, to personally date?

System: The deeper the emotional plot line between the gong and shou, the higher the probability of successful task completion!

Xu Qichen: It’s impossible to write a sweet novel, it’s impossible in all of this life

System: Very well, the host has decided to maintain the state of sudden death and not…

Xu Qichen: I’ll transmigrate! I’ll personally make a sweet biscuit [kneel]

#it’s my survival instinct that made the move#

Xu Qichen: You’re really like a certain person…

Old Gong: Open your mouth, eat this candy.

Xu Qichen: You’re really not…

Old Gong: Even a candy can’t stop your mouth!

Xu Qichen: You bit me <<less

My past life: Ordinary. Mediocre.... more>>

What I want in this life: Riches. Power. Influence.

My goal: To be a prodigal son. A waste youth with riches and power. Maybe even sidekicks.

My name is Ye Lang, I’m an alchemist, and I’m also here to squander as much money as I can. <<less

Kim Jeongjin, an editor of a publishing company on the brink of closing due to bankruptcy, ends up transmigrating inside a fantasy novel as the incompetent youngest son of a wealthy family.... more>>

And here he thought that he should live a rich life in this life...

"Why was I given a high-level skill? Don't even bother!" <<less

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” — Albert Einstein.... more>>

The First World War, rifles and machine guns were the most commonly used tactical weapons used in the height of the first global war, an effective weapon changing the traditional arts of war and military tactics completely.

The Second World War, military warfare would be brought over to the air and seas, an average of 27,000 people would lose their life each day.

The Third World War… not much is recorded on the ancient compendium.

The Fourth World War took place on a newly formed calendar on the 26th year. The main weapons used were spears and stones.

Ten thousand years later, when civilization is lost, fallen between the annals of history, when technology is lost in ruins, awaiting to be discovered, when the world dreamed of reviving the time of the ancient past, Li Zhen met a woman originating from the 21st century.

She taught Li Zhen mathematics, physics, chemistry, and the likes at a time when man was the most proud, the most glorious, when science reigned the earth, and when technology was at its prime.

Li Zhen: “She is my wife.”

Watch as Li Zhen reigns the world with brains! <<less

To pick is to choose. This is a story about choices. Three thousand worlds full of gods and demons, with a daoist scroll in your hand, you are able to control the entire universe…... more>>

At the beginning of time, a mystical meteor came crashing down from outer space and scattered all over the world. A piece of it landed in the Eastern Continent. There were mysterious totems carved upon the meteor. Through viewing these totems, mankind comprehended the Dao and established the Orthodoxy.

Several thousand years later, the fourteen years old orphan Chen Changsheng left his master to cure his illness and change his fate. He brought a part of a marriage vow with him to the capital, thus beginning the journey of a rising hero… <<less

I, Hanabelle Cantar, am the fiance of this country’s second prince, Remnass-sama.... more>>

That is until today.

Just now, I just had my engagement earnestly broken off by the Prince.

Yes, yes, today is the day that I have been eagerly awaiting all this time.

My wish was to become a Librarian in the “Tower of Books,” Biblio Tower.

Since I’ve had my engagement broken off, I should be free now right?

……So why, is Prince Remnass coming to the tower to see me?

He’s a hindrance to my reading, so I will give it my all to have him allow me to humbly push him out! <<less

Shion and Sakura. The two of them met at the university library.
Senpai who likes reading books more than anything, and kouhai who loves watching such senpai.
It’s the details of the first love of the two people whose feelings passed by each other.... more>>

※ It’s hard to call the ending happy. Those not good with that, please refrain from reading. <<less

The young man Huey took over the old mansion of his deceased bibliomanic grand father as well as the book collection that's stored in there. But there was a condition: he also had to inherit the "Bibliotheca".... more>>

When he inspects the mansion, Huey discovers a cellar filled with piled up books. In the midst of them he comes across a black-dressed girl who's silently reading a book. She's called Dalian and has a big lock hanging in front of her. She herself is the entrance to the "Bibliotheca of Dantalian" which contains the prohibited "Phantom Books". <<less

A man is a very small and ephemeral being, whose life would be summarized into a fifty-to-sixty page long short story. But I want more people to appreciate how fantastic their lives as short stories are. Short stories are indeed short, but they are full of interesting things once you read them. Even if your life is not an epic saga, it is still enough to touch others."... more>>

Shinonome Yuuko is a book-loving librarian girl who has a secret identity... <<less

On a lucky day, Jiaxin met her old classmate that she never forgot, but the old classmate did not recognize her.... more>>

That’s just right, familiar people are not easy to speak to. The first step in the relationship is to stimulate hormones~~

【Doctor of Physics, Social Disordered, Beautiful Face-lifted Girl x Truck Driver’s Mouth and Body Warming Attack】

Xingjia caught a cold and immediately called Tan You.

Tan You: “See a doctor if you have a cold, I will only see the car.”

The lucky Jiaxin: “I don’t need you to look at my illness. I am hungry, and I don’t want to eat takeaway.”

Tan You made a porridge and delivered it to her door: “Satisfying one’s physical needs is the basic requirement of adults.”

Jiaxin took a sip of the porridge slowly, and glanced at Tan You’s calloused fingers: “I can’t satisfy myself, so I’ll give myself to you.” <<less

Prequel to the first song in the Vocaloid series, “,” and follows the events between the schoolgirl detective who loves mystery novels, Hanamoto Hibari, and the extremely sadistic mystery novel writer, Kudou Renma.... more>>

As the high school is busy with preparations for the Culture Festival, a female student is found on the roof, collapsed and bleeding.
Written in blood is a single “X.” Is this an accident? Or a case? Hibari sets out to uncover the truth. <<less

While trying to enroll in college and having fallen into a desperate situation, the book-loving high school student Kazami Ayame was, while coming across an eerie book, suddenly flung into a different world.... more>>

With no combat ability, and without even any knowledge on how to live properly in the first place, what was granted to him by a single copy of a magical grimoire, was the ability to draw out the magical energy from objects.

With the knowledge on how to freely use the power granted by the magic grimiore, Ayame struggles to survive in the harsh other world.

Surrounded by books and beautiful women. In order to obtain his ideal lifestyle. Although there are battles with demons, this is fundamentally a heartwarming fantasy story. <<less

Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou is a mystery series in which Shinokawa Shioriko, a young owner of a bookstore in Kamakura, unravels the mysteries of the ancient books that are taken there. ... more>>

The story begins with a young man named Daisuke, who practically grew up without reading books due to his phobia, who brings the complete (and autographed) collection of works by Natsume Soseki, (Japanese writer of the Meiji era) that he inherited from his grandmother, to the mysterious bookstore. Will the shy and introverted Shioriko solve the mystery of the books? <<less

This is an alternate history. Decades after the fall of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the world is still in chaos, although there is hope for reunification.... more>>

Of poor background, Jiang Zhe, styled Suiyun, has finally, after ten years of hard work, passed the imperial examinations and become a scholar within Hanlin Academy. Unwittingly, he becomes involved in the succession dispute of the Great Yong Dynasty. He faces conspiracies and machinations and countless battles of strength and wits. Intending to avoid court politics, he ultimately has no choice but to become involved. With no alternative, Jiang Zhe can only follow the crowd, joining the chaotic political turmoil. In this conniving world, he uses his intelligence and knowledge to provide for himself and his companions a stable environment to survive.

Watch nations fall, great men rise, and supreme martial artists kneel before the quiet whispers of a frail, unassuming scholar. <<less

Two entirely opposite people bridge the distance between their souls through “books”.... more>>

Souta Shimizu is publicly acknowledged as an extrovert after his high school debut.

His topics with his friends are mostly learned on his phone. The content in there is interesting and exciting. There is so much you can enjoy without lifting an arm.

In contrast, reading is exhausting and time-consuming in today’s information-overloaded world.

Its cost-efficiency is incredibly low as entertainment.

Souta just doesn’t understand the mindset of those bookworms.

Until he met her during the autumn of his first year in high school- <<less

Haruka, a loner in High School was suddenly summoned to a different world. When Haruka realized it, God was standing before him with a catalog of Skills for him to choose to help him survive in the Different World. However, they were selected on a first come first serve basis, and the Cheat skills had all been picked by his classmates!?... more>>

Haruka only got the awkward left over skills, and couldn't form a party because of his Loner skill. Even in this Different World, he has to adventure by himself. And then, he learned that his classmates were in danger and decided to save them, heading down the path of becoming strongest without relying on Cheat skills── the debut of the attack on the Different World by the strongest loner begins! <<less

‘Sophia, the daughter of a Marquess, is a villainess who seduced the Crown Prince, despite having a fiance already, and his close aide during her time in the academy. She did whatever she pleased and was banished by her half-sister, to be the bride of a Madman who lives in a remote region.’... more>>

While that kind of rumor spread throughout the capital, Sophia isolated herself in the library inside the mansion of the man whose nickname was ‘Lord Hart, the Math Freak’.

However, the real Sophia was actually a History geek who rarely expressed herself but a well-spoken lady. Thus, she received the nickname ‘eccentric shut-in’ from the Lord himself.

Lord Hart only demanded her to bear his heir but aside from that, Sophia was free to do anything and immersed herself in books all day long. Yet, she was required to attend a ball together with Lord Hart due to some circumstances.

As Sophia stayed with that detestable man, she was slowly getting to know him more. <<less