Recs if you like Botchan...

Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that I think matches at least one of these cover prompts: craft, food, motion, biomes/landscapes, animals, weather.

These books are mentioned in the book The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop (plus I added the book itself)

I can’t read Japanese fiction in their original language, only translated so I guess aim at the mercy of translators and their interpretation of these works.