Tatta Hitotsu no Saeta Yarikata (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• Vol: 11
• 2003 - 2012

9S is set in an age of science, but in a too distant future. The Mad Scientist, Mineshima Yujiro, dissapeared several years previous to where the story begins. The inheritance he left behind, the technology and objects he had created, were given the codename 'Legacy', and are highly sought after by government agencies and terrorists, for reasons both good, and...not so pleasant. One of these 'objects' he left behind was his daughter, imparted with a mental calculating capacity that dwarfs supercomputers, combined with her physical body, which makes for a devastating combination.

• Vol: 2
• 2017

• Vol: 2+
• 2023 - ?

 The story follows the women of the "dark side" of Academy City.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2007

The novel shows the events following a mysterious death in Morioh, alternating between the perspectives of Koichi Hirose, Chiho Futaba and Takuma Hasumi, two original characters and the protagonists of the novel. Hasumi's Stand is called The Book and possesses the power to record everything he sees or feels into a small, leather-bound book.

• Vol: 5
• 2014 - 2019

Minoru Utsugi, a teenager who lives a peaceful (if boring) life with his sister-in-law, finds his life changed when extraterrestrial contact grants his dearest wish, leaving him with the power of The Solitude. But the ability to realize absolute isolation only plunges Minoru into a battle he never wanted to fight. As his old life comes to an end, he steps into a new role…as the Isolator!

• Vol: 2; Ch: 15
• 2015 - 2016

• Vol: 3
• 2013 - 2014

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 2012

• Vol: 2
• 2015

• Vol: 12
• 2000 - 2016

In an alternate history world where the British Empire has remained a major superpower, the Empire's continued existence is guaranteed by the British Library. An external intelligence agency working within the actual British Library and its Special Operations Division, the British Secret Intelligence Service, more widely known as MI6. Follow Yomiko Readman, also known as "The Paper", a superhuman agent of the Library's Special Operations possessing a "double 0" certification that denotes a "license to kill". Her adventures alternate between doing missions for the British Library and helping young novelist Nenene Sumiregawa.