What is J-Novel Club?
Your #1 Source for Light Novels and More and More!
J-Novel Club is a digital-first publisher of Japanese light novels and manga, started and staffed by light novel lovers like you! We scour the internet to find the coolest, most exciting series, and work with top Japanese publishers to bring them to the English-language audience!
There are three ways to read our titles:
- Subscribe! We have an all-you-can-read library of series as well as a subscription that lets you read the latest chapters!
- Buy or rent digitally!
- Buy Print!
Become a Member!
- Readers Membership: For only $3.50/month, you can read a large library of hundreds of books and many complete series of light novels!
- Club Membership: For $4.95/month, you can read all our newest volumes of novels and manga as they’re being translated in weekly installments—and before they go on sale! We publish a lot of books every month, and you can read them all with this one subscription!
- Readers Club Membership: Get both at the same time for a discount, only $7.95/month!
- Discuss your favorite series with other subscribers and the staff on our forums and Discord server!
- Want to read on the go? Our app is available for iOS and Android!
- Can’t get enough? Go Premium and get discounted coins every month for buying ebooks from our site—they’re compatible with any e-reader device and often come with special bonus content!
Readers Membership
| ✔️ Read a large library of light novels, including many complete series and the first 3 volumes of many of our ongoing series! |
| ✔️ Combine with Club Membership to buy Coins at a 5% discount! |
Club Membership
| ✔️ Read volumes being translated with new parts each week! |
| ✔️ Combine with Readers Membership to buy Coins at a 5% discount! |
Premium Club Membership
| ✔️ Includes everything from Club Membership! |
| ✔️ Get 799 J-Novel Coins each month on the 15th! |
| ✔️ Buy Coins at a 10% discount! |
| ✔️ Combine with Readers Membership to get a 15% discount! |
I’m Not Sure…
No sweat! Even with a free account you can still:
- Read free previews! We put up the first part of each book as a permanent sample. Check them out before you buy!
- Sign up for our newsletters so you know when all your favorites have new volumes coming out in stores!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, and YouTube for updates, contests, reviews, and more!
Why not preview these titles for a little taste of what we have to offer?
Give Me All the Ebooks!
- You can buy our books on BookWalker, Google Play, Apple Books, Kobo, Nook, Amazon, and more!
- Premium Members get 799 Coins every month to download a Premium light novel directly from J-Novel Club, plus 799 bonus Coins for signing up!
- Anyone can buy J-Novel Coins to redeem for Premium ebooks! Readers Club Members get 5% off, while Premium Club Members get 10% off, and Premium Readers Club Members get a whopping 15% off! Coins do not expire and can be redeemed even without an active subscription!
- On our site, most Premium light novels cost 799 coins, while most Premium manga cost 899 coins.
- Premium Editions of our novels can be read using any EPUB device and usually contain bonus content like additional short stories and textless full-color illustrations!
- Buying or preordering a Premium ebook lets you read all translated parts on both our website and our app, even if the parts are expired or you are no longer a member!
- You can also rent a light novel part or manga chapter if you're not sure about owning or have a long series you want to read!
It’s Not Mine If It’s Not in Print!
We’ve got you covered! As of 2018, we’ve been printing a selection of our books as well! You can get them from Crunchyroll, Barnes & Noble, Kinokuniya, Powell’s, Amazon, and your local booksellers of choice. If a book’s not on the shelf, just ask! They’ll be happy to order it in for you.
For our non-US based readers, check with your local book seller — all our books have international distribution and are available via special order if not stocked by default.
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Let’s Get to Reading!
We hope that you enjoy browsing our library of titles and look forward to seeing you around! Happy Reading! 📘
