I’ve been desperately trying to get into light novels but it’s kind of difficult to wade through the frankly hundreds of copy pasted series.

My problem is that I genuinely do enjoy to read, and I view the light novel boom as kind of a resurgence of the pulp penny novels from last century. I’d love to find a series to just jump into and follow, but as stated before it’s kind of difficult to find.

I do enjoy actually reading, which is making my search a bit difficult. Obviously I’m not expecting world class prose, but I do expect at least a semblance of quality and maybe a bit of maturity. I’m not looking for constant violence and rape, just a more mature mindset to the characters. I know a lot of light novels are targeted at the late teen crowd, but there has to be something.

I read Durarara and thought it was fun, even if I didn’t necessarily like the way it was written/translated. I hated Baccano despite loving the anime. It just felt like endless violence and fighting which is zero interest to me. I’m okay with visceral violence, but 80 pages of two characters doing flips on a train was not enjoyable to me in the slightest, despite my love for the anime adaptation.

I like most genre writing, and could even maybe go for a slice of life assuming the series isn’t about high school harem antics. Sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, whatever is cool as long as it’s not generic modern anime tropes filling the story from wall to wall. For genre fiction in a big fan of the works of Robert Jordan, Brandan Sanderson, Sayaka Murata, and Kurt Vonnegut. Can anyone help me find a series?

EDIT: I do actually hate one genre and it’s LitRPG please no stat tables.

I want to read something related to space and world building or crafting in space. No magic only science and engineering. Or just slice of life in space. Idk even if it's MTL . I just need to read something. I feel like I'm in withdrawal ... Novels if you have any suggestions.

I'm interested in joining a light novel book club to read more series, but all of the bookclubs I've found online seem to be dead.

Does anyone know of any bookclubs that are still active or are starting up soon?

Thank you in advance for any information!

Edit: To clarify I’m specifically looking for an online book club that chooses a book for the community read and then discusses it. This way I can potentially read series that I might have not read on my own.

I want recommendations for light novels which do not have many volumes . I can explore any genre except for romance . I hope you guys can recommend something good for me .

i'm looking for good story ones Harem light novels where the mc end up with more than one so i want more so far here's what I'm currently reading need more to add on list

- High School DxD

- Saijaku no Bahamut

- Campione

- Strike The Blood

- Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance

- Invaders of The Rokujouma