13 must-read light novel books like 5 Centimeters per Second + Children Who Chase Lost Voices by Makoto Shinkai

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5 Centimeters per Second + Children Who Chase Lost Voices

By: Makoto Shinkai

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

5 Centimeters per Second When Takaki meets Akari in elementary school, they are as thick as thieves…

If you liked the light novel plot in 5 Centimeters per Second + Children Who Chase Lost Voices by Makoto Shinkai , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Bakemonogatari, Part 1: Monster Tale (Bakemonogatari, #1, Part 1) by NisiOisiN

1. Bakemonogatari, Part 1: Monster Tale (Bakemonogatari, #1, Part 1)

By: NisiOisiN

4.12

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or does… read more

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  • manga
  • light novel
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
"It smells like another woman here..."

-NisiOisiN, Bakemonogatari, Part 1: Monster Tale (Bakemonogatari, #1, Part 1)

"My inappropriate remarks are an alloy of 40 grams copper, 25 grams zinc, 15 grams nickel, 5 grams bashfulness, and 97 kilograms malice."

-NisiOisiN, Bakemonogatari, Part 1: Monster Tale (Bakemonogatari, #1, Part 1)

"It's not necessarily bad, you know," Oshino argued, "Confronting a painful experience isn't a must. It's not like you're great just 'cause you do. If you dont feel like it, it's totally fine to run a…"

-NisiOisiN, Bakemonogatari, Part 1: Monster Tale (Bakemonogatari, #1, Part 1)

Cover of Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 1 by Tomo Kimura, Karuho Shiina

2. Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 1

By: Tomo Kimura , Karuho Shiina

4.30

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Sawako Kuronuma is the perfect heroine...for a horror movie. With striking similarities to a haunti… read more

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  • manga
  • fiction
  • anime
  • young adult
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3. Bakemonogatari, Part 2: Monster Tale (Bakemonogatari, #1, Part 2)

By: NisiOisiN

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bakemono, literally "altered thing," which translates as "monster." Monogatari, literally "thing na… read more

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  • light novel
  • manga
  • fiction
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4. Dark Disciple

By: Christie Golden

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

Based on unproduced scripts from the blockbuster TV show Star Wars: The Clone Wars! The only way to… read more

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  • fiction
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5. One Piece, Volume 03: Don't Get Fooled Again (One Piece, #3)

By: Eiichiro Oda

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Sure, lots of people say they want to be the King of the Pirates, but how many have the guts to do … read more

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  • manga
  • fiction
Cover of One Piece, Volume 04: The Black Cat Pirates (One Piece, #4) by Eiichiro Oda

6. One Piece, Volume 04: The Black Cat Pirates (One Piece, #4)

By: Eiichiro Oda

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Captain Kuro of the Black Cat Pirates was the most feared evil genius on the high seas...until he v… read more

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  • manga
  • fiction
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7. One Piece, Volume 05: For Whom the Bell Tolls (One Piece, #5)

By: Eiichiro Oda

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Once upon a time, Usopp was just a local boy with a talent for tall tales. Everyone in his little s… read more

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  • manga
  • fiction
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8. 日々蝶々 1 (Hibi Chouchou, #1)

By: None , Suu Morishita , 森下suu

3.61

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

Xue Xiao Yi noMei Shao Nu suirengaQi ninarunohaYing Pai naKong Shou Nan Zi Chuan Cheng . oHu iQi ni… read more

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  • manga
  • young adult

9. One Piece, Volume 06: The Oath (One Piece, #6)

By: Eiichiro Oda

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Luffy's pirates thought they were just stopping in for a quick bite...but now Luffy's been made a b… read more

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10. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The Complete Series

By: Hayao Miyazaki , Toren Smith , David R. Lewis

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is an epic fantasy tale written and illustrated by legendary Stu… read more

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11. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

By: Khairun Nisak , None

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Aku menemukan sebuah buku di rumah sakit. Judulnya Cerita Teman si Sakit. Pemiliknya adalah Yamauch… read more

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12. 나 혼자만 레벨업 5

By: Chugong

4.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

전 세계 독자가 열광한 레이드 액션의 진수! 다수 글로벌 플랫폼에서 웹툰 연재, 미국, 독일, 브라질, 우크라이나, 이탈리아, 일본, 프랑스 등지에 단행본 수출! 프랑스 아… read more

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  • manga
  • fiction
  • young adult
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13. Snowglobe

By: Soyoung Park

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can es… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
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14. I Had That Same Dream Again

By: Yoru Sumino

4.28

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A layered coming-of-age story from the author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and At Night, I Become… read more

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  • manga
  • young adult
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • light novel
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15. Solo Leveling 4

By: Chugong

4.59

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Seitdem Portale die reale Welt mit Dungeons voller Monster verbinden, sind Menschen mit speziellen … read more

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  • manga
  • fiction
  • young adult
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16. Three Days of Happiness

By: Sugaru Miaki

4.35

Format: 223 pages, ebook

HOW MUCH IS LIFE TRULY WORTH? Kusunoki used to believe he was destined for great things. Ostraci… read more

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  • manga
  • young adult
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • light novel
"Nothing good will happen in my life, and I could see it as a blessing"

-Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

"What had kept me bound to life thus for had been the shallow hope that something good might happen someday."

-Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

"Dan kupikir, hidup yang pendek tapi berharga mungkin akan lebih baik daripada hidup yang panjang tapi kurang berharga"

-Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

"I believe those three days, compared to the tragic thirty years I would have lived, compared to the worthwhile thirty days I would have lived, were of much, much more value."

-Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

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17. 나 혼자만 레벨업 7

By: Chugong

4.63

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

모두가 제주도 레이드의 승리를 확신한 순간, 단 한 마리의 개미 마수가 S급 헌터들을 처참히 도륙한다. 절망하던 헌터들 앞에 홀연히 나타난 성진우와 그림자 군단!! 그의 등장으로… read more

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  • manga
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Solo Leveling, Vol. 6 by Chugong

18. Solo Leveling, Vol. 6

By: Chugong

4.59

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Jinwoo continues to progress rapidly through the Demon’s 6 Castle, climbing toward the top floor wi… read more

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  • manga
  • fiction
  • young adult
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19. 나 혼자만 레벨업 8 (Solo Leveling Manhwa, #8)

By: Chugong

4.64

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

드디어 발족한 성진우의 ‘아진 길드’!! 하마터면 ‘솔플 길드’라고 불릴 뻔한 위기를 무사히 벗어난 아진 길드에, 이제 필요한 인원은 직원 1명뿐. 마침 그때 놀라운 인물이 길드… read more

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  • manga
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of your name. Another Side:Earthbound, Vol. 2 (manga) (your name. Another Side:Earthbound (manga), 2) by Junya Nakamura

20. your name. Another Side:Earthbound, Vol. 2 (manga) (your name. Another Side:Earthbound (manga), 2)

By: Junya Nakamura

4.21

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Mitsuha Miyamizu may be experiencing a mysterious bond with an unfamiliar Tokyo boy, but she's not … read more

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  • manga
  • fiction
  • young adult
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21. You Shine in the Moonlight

By: Tetsuya Sano

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Takuya besucht seine Klassenkameradin im Krankenhaus. Mamizu leidet an der mysteriösen "Luminescens… read more

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  • manga
  • light novel
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
Cover of The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes by Mei Hachimoku

22. The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

By: Mei Hachimoku

4.16

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Tono Kaoru heard a rumor: The laws of space and time mean nothing to the Urashima Tunnel. If you fi… read more

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  • manga
  • young adult
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • light novel
"I had to hurry. The world wasn't going to wait for me any longer."

-Mei Hachimoku, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

"The worlds we lived in were just too different to ever intertwine. Simple as that."

-Mei Hachimoku, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

"Why bother putting in all the effort to live if only to suffer and die and be forgotten?"

-Mei Hachimoku, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

"Sometimes just being alone with someone feels nice, even if there isn't anything to say."

-Mei Hachimoku, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

Cover of Even If This Love Disappears Tonight by Misaki Ichijo

23. Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

By: Misaki Ichijo

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When Toru Kamiya is pushed into falsely confessing his love to Maori Hino, she tells him she’ll dat… read more

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  • manga
  • young adult
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • light novel
"No wound vanishes completely, because wounds are also memories. But the pain won’t last forever."

-Misaki Ichijo, Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

Cover of The Place Promised in Our Early Days by Arata Kanoh

24. The Place Promised in Our Early Days

By: Arata Kanoh

3.67

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

In the Cold War era of an alternate history, the Soviet Union has taken control of the northern isl… read more

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  • manga
  • light novel
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
"I used to be like that, too, long ago-- cheerful and unreserved. My treasures were dumb little things and deliriously fun."

-Arata Kanoh, The Place Promised in Our Early Days

"Something huge had happened in the world and in history, right in our backyard. But (at least at the time) the only world I could grasp was small and limited, a modest, palm-sized thing."

-Arata Kanoh, The Place Promised in Our Early Days

"She'd told me that, once-- that she had always felt loss approaching. I was still in middle school, and there was no way I could really have understood what she meant, but those words had sent shiver…"

-Arata Kanoh, The Place Promised in Our Early Days

"It was a terminal station during the commuter rush. The backs of the crowd formed a sort of current, surging through the automatic ticket gate one after another, and the sight didn't surprise me or t…"

-Arata Kanoh, The Place Promised in Our Early Days

Cover of At Night, I Become a Monster by Yoru Sumino

25. At Night, I Become a Monster

By: Yoru Sumino

3.78

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A haunting new novel by the creator of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. By day, Adachi is a normal s… read more

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  • manga
  • young adult
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • light novel
Cover of I am Blue, in Pain, and Fragile (Light Novel) by Yoru Sumino

26. I am Blue, in Pain, and Fragile (Light Novel)

By: Yoru Sumino

3.26

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This heart-wrenching drama about two university students and their growing disillusionment--from Yo… read more

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  • manga
  • young adult
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • light novel
Cover of I Will Forget This Feeling Someday (Light Novel) by Yoru Sumino

27. I Will Forget This Feeling Someday (Light Novel)

By: Yoru Sumino

3.25

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Two parallel dimensions and brief meetings in the dead of night give rise to a passionate love stor… read more

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  • manga
  • young adult
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • light novel
Cover of When Haru Was Here by Dustin Thao

28. When Haru Was Here

By: Dustin Thao

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We Are Okay meets Wandavision in this novel about loss, and learning to let go. After the death … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Voices of a Distant Star: Words of Love/ Across the Stars by Makoto Shinkai

29. Voices of a Distant Star: Words of Love/ Across the Stars

By: Makoto Shinkai

3.95

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Voices of a Distant Star novel is based on the original story by Makoto Shinkai and was adapted by … read more

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  • manga
  • fiction
Cover of Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring by Mei Hachimoku

30. Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring

By: Mei Hachimoku

4.20

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Childhood friends use time travel to try to avert tragedy in this bittersweet book about growing up… read more

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  • manga
  • young adult
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • light novel
Cover of 5 Centimeters per Second + Children Who Chase Lost Voices by Makoto Shinkai

31. 5 Centimeters per Second + Children Who Chase Lost Voices

By: Makoto Shinkai

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

5 Centimeters per Second When Takaki meets Akari in elementary school, they are as thick as thieves… read more

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  • manga
  • young adult
  • anime
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • light novel

27 Top fiction books like 5 Centimeters per Second + Children Who Chase Lost Voices by Makoto Shinkai

Transform Your Habits

Bakemonogatari, Part 1: Monster Tale (Bakemonogatari, #1, Part 1)

NisiOisiN

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 1

Tomo Kimura , Karuho Shiina

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Bakemonogatari, Part 2: Monster Tale (Bakemonogatari, #1, Part 2)

NisiOisiN

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Dark Disciple

Christie Golden

4.81

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19 Top fiction books like Even If This Love Disappears Tonight by Misaki Ichijo

Transform Your Habits

The Ice Palace

Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Icefields

Thomas Wharton

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Ember and the Ice Dragons

Heather Fawcett

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

Satoshi Yagisawa

3.65

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