Nowadays the use of English novel is not only to tell about a story but also can be the learning media on the learning process, so that the researcher interested to find out the students perception about reading English novel. The aim of this research is to find out the students perception about reading English novel as the learning media. To achieve the aim of this research, the researcher used qualitative method as the design of the research. To gather the data for the research was used interview guideline. Participants of this study were two participants. The participants are the students from one of private Islamic University in Yogyakarta. The findings of this research showed that the researcher found the different perception about reading English Novel. The first perception is the researcher found that participants feel challenged by reading English Novel and also the other side the researcher found that participant get advantages by reading English Novel. The challenges of reading English Novel took a place in a size of words, so many words and no picture on English Novel. The advantages of reading English Novel took a place in increasing their grammar and vocabulary and also made them more imaginative.