カフネ as my next novel to read

I recently finished reading 謎の香りはパン屋から with help from a dictionary and was looking for my next novel to try to read. I landed on カフネ as it was one of the best selling books in Japan last year.

Has anyone read it? What's the difficulty level? If I was able to read the bakery novel, would I be able to read カフネ well enough?

Also, what's some of your recommended novels? I want to stay away from light novels because I don't want to buy multiple volumes (I already do that with manga).

Thanks in advance!