Board Thread:Naruto Novel Discussons/@comment-26037879-20160303221616/@comment-1926479-20160304003747

Personally, I believe they're canon. However unless they were specifically said to be canon by Kishimoto himself, such as The Last and Boruto, they are not... no matter how perfectly they follow the manga. I wish everything under the Naruto Project was canon, but then we have stuff like the stage play for people to argue about.