Japanese Light Novel Book Club discussion

Nomination thread for the May 2025 LN group read.
I started with the LNs from the April 2025 Nomination that received votes.
Add others in the comments below and I will put up a poll in about a week.
The LN must be available in English although members read in any language that works for them.

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I will likely add a nomination from this season's anime from LN source after the first episodes are all out. I am commenting on them in the Anime Spring series thread. I will more info on the ones below soon. I just wanted to get this up asap to give folks time. r/Jack

I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss (Light Novel), Vol. 1 by Sarasa Nagase
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (light novel) by Kyohei Ishiguro
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Vol. 1 by Sunsunsun
The Ideal Sponger Life: Volume 1 by Tsunehiko Watanabe

I will add two LNs from this season’s anime series:
The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom (Light Novel) Vol. 1
and
The Beginning after the End: Publisher's Pack #1-2 (just volume 1)

Both of these are interesting stories and it is fun to read a light novel and then see how it is visualized in an anime series.

Are there any others that members would like to nominate?

The May 2025 poll is up at https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

I sent out the notice to all forum members and in the header text but forgot to put the link here also.
The nominations for June will be open shortly.