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Stuck inside with nothing to do? Want to look for some new light novel series to get into or catch up on some of the series that you’ve missed out on? Never fear! J-Novel Club is happy to present our “I Couldn’t Go Outside, So I Just Stayed In and Read Light Novels All Day!” campaign!

What is this campaign exactly? In partnership with eBookstore BOOK☆WALKER and publishers Earthstar Entertainment, Frontier Works, Futabasha, Hayakawa, Hobby Japan, and TO Books, we’re making 24 light novel series and 55 volumes available to read for free for a limited time on J-Novel Club and BOOK☆WALKER as a special promotion from April 3rd to April 30th. Please note that downloaded eBooks from this promotion will only be readable until April 30th, 2020!

These titles will be available to read for free on this site for everyone (both members and non-members) during this promotional period. You can find out more about the titles featured in this campaign down below!

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Limited Time Availability!

Available for a limited time only from April 3, 2020 to April 30, 2020! Don’t delay in reading!

A Plethora of Titles to Read!

24 different series to read with 55 volumes total!

Limited-Time Novels

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Ascendance of a Bookworm

Author: Miya Kazuki
Illustrator: You Shiina
A young woman who loves books dies and is reborn in another world as Myne, a sickly child from a poor family. Worst of all, there are almost no books in this world! So Myne decides that she'll just have to make her own and become a librarian.

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Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga)

Author: Miya Kazuki
Artist: Suzuka
A young woman who loves books dies and is reborn in another world as Myne, a sickly child from a poor family. Worst of all, there are almost no books in this world! So Myne decides that she'll just have to make her own and become a librarian.

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Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: The Wayward Journey

Author: Yoshinobu Akita
Illustrator: Yuuya Kusaka
Orphen is a Sorcerer drop-out who has journeyed to the city of Totokanta to save Azalie, a childhood friend. They are reunited for the first time in five years, but what is the truth behind her monstrous transformation...?

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Der Werwolf: The Annals of Veight

Author: Hyougetsu
Illustrator: Nishi(E)da
The reborn werewolf known as Veight serves as the Vice-Commander of Demon Lord's third regiment. Having conquered the trading hub known as Ryunheit, he soon learns the struggles of governing a city of mixed human/demon population.

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Walking My Second Path in Life

Author: Otaku de Neet
Illustrator: Kurodeko
Fie finds herself stranded in the foreign kingdom, having been wed off as a dowry gift along with her sister's marriage. So she takes the squire test for the Royal Knights, beginning a new life of friendship, hard work, and masquerading as a boy!

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Can Someone Please Explain What's Going On?!

Author: Tsuredurebana
Illustrator: Rin Hagiwara
Viola had almost resigned herself to dying not only as the daughter of a penniless earl but as a spinster too when her family received a letter from a wealthy duke asking for her hand in marriage! What will his fiendish proposal mean for her family?

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Demon Lord, Retry!

Author: Kurone Kanzaki
Illustrator: Makoto Iino
An MMO admin is trapped inside his own game as the Demon Lord. With an outcast child at his side, he tries to survive a cruel fantasy world of his own creation, prosecution from the good guys, and of course, the final boss.

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An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride

Author: Fuminori Teshima
Illustrator: COMTA
Zagan is a socially awkward, "evil" sorcerer. One day, he falls in love with an elven slave girl and purchases her. But being a poor conversationalist, he has no idea how to properly interact with her. Thus, their awkward cohabitation begins!

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Bluesteel Blasphemer

Author: Ichirou Sakaki
Illustrator: Tera Akai
Yukinari Amano loves guns. After reincarnating into another world, Yukinari uses his knowledge of guns to do the impossible, and becomes worshipped as the area's new god himself!
Get ready for a gun-and-sword-filled, action-packed adventure!

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Cooking with Wild Game

Author: EDA
Illustrator: Kochimo
Chef Trainee Asuta dies while trying to save his father's knife, and finds himself in a whole new world! Can our rookie chef parlay his skills in this utterly unfamiliar world? Come learn a thing or two about Cooking with Wild Game!

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Demon King Daimaou

Author: Shoutarou Mizuki
Illustrator: Souichi Itou
Akuto Sai arrives at Constant Magical Academy—the most prestigious magic school in the world—for his first year of high school. However, when he arrives at the Academy, his future occupation is prophesied to be… The Demon King?!

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I Saved Too Many Girls and Caused the Apocalypse

Author: Namekojirushi
Illustrator: Nao Watanuki
Rekka Namidare was a normal boy until his sixteenth birthday. Then a girl suddenly appears and tells him he will have saved so many girls that their jealous love for him will cause the apocalypse!

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If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord

Author: CHIROLU
Illustrator: Truffle, Kei
One day on a job deep in the forest, the skilled adventurer Dale comes across a little devil girl who’s almost wasted away. Unable to just leave her there to die, Dale takes her home and becomes her adoptive father...

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In Another World With My Smartphone

Author: Patora Fuyuhara
Illustrator: Eiji Usatsuka
Mochizuki Touya is dead. God killed him. “I have made a bit of a blunder...” laments the old coot. But all is not lost! God says that he can reincarnate Touya into a world of fantasy, and as a bonus, he gets to bring his smartphone along with him!

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Infinite Dendrogram

Author: Sakon Kaidou
Illustrator: Taiki
After the release of the world's first successful full-dive VRMMO, soon-to-be college freshman, Reiji Mukudori, is finally able to buy a copy of the game and embarks on an adventure into the world of Infinite Dendrogram.

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Invaders of the Rokujouma!?

Author: Takehaya
Illustrator: Poco
Koutarou has just moved in to room 106 of Corona House. It’s everything he could have hoped for on his budget... except for the strange girls that keep appearing to try and take it from him!

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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World

Author: Tsuyoshi Fujitaka
Illustrator: An2A
Yuichi Sakaki suddenly awakens the power of “Soul Reader” within him... With just a glance at the people around him, he sees crazy things like “Zombie”, “Witch”, and “Vampire”. Only his... different... older sister Mutsuko can handle this!

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My Little Sister Can Read Kanji

Author: Takashi Kajii
Illustrator: Halki Minamura
The year is 2202, and Japan has become the land of moe. It’s hard to even imagine a Japan where everyone could read kanji and the Prime Minister was a 3D human being...

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Paying to Win in a VRMMO

Author: Blitz Kiva
Illustrator: Kuwashima Rein
The fabulously wealthy heir to the Tsuwabuki Concern, Ichiro Tsuwabuki, has arrived inside the next generation virtual reality MMO, Narrow Fantasy Online. His cousin Asuha has asked for his help in finding someone inside the game...

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Record of Wortenia War

Author: Ryota Hori
Illustrator: bob
Ryoma, an ordinary high-schooler adept at martial arts, one day finds himself summoned to another world.
Slaying his vile captors, he is on the run when he encounters two girls who will change both his fate and the fate of the continent.

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Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles

Author: Yuri Kitayama
Illustrator: Riv
Rio is an orphan living in the slums. He’s also the reincarnation of Haruto Amakawa, a Japanese university student with a tragic past! With new memories and magical abilities, Rio’s destiny is changed forever in this otherworldly fantasy tale.

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The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress

Author: SOW
Illustrator: Zaza
After fighting in the war, Lud Langart now runs a bakery, but thanks to his scowl, he can't sell any bread. He hires a beautiful young girl as a waitress to help save his business, not knowing that she was the AI of his old weapon.

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The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan

Author: Izushiro
Illustrator: Ruria Miyuki
Alus Reigin, the No. 1 Magicmaster, wants to retire at age 16 from fighting the Fiends threatening humanity, but instead is pressed into service training his successors, two beautiful Magicmaster girls! An epic fantasy saga begins.

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The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar

Author: Seiichi Takayama
Illustrator: Yukisan
Yuuto Suoh gets more than he bargained for when he tests out an urban legend, and is whisked off into another world – one heavily steeped in the lore of Norse myths. Now he has to earn the adoration of the Einherjar, a group of warrior maidens!

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Otherside Picnic

Author: Iori Miyazawa
Illustrator: shirakaba
Sorawo Kamikoshi's first encounter with Toriko Nishina was on in dangerous Otherside – the exhausted university student’s life is changed forever. The two set forth: for research, for profit, and to find an important someone…

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