Appreciation of the Self: A Journey in the Small World
Here are some books that I truly admire, ones I'd love to reread, consider adding to my collection as physical copies, and others that I find really impressive.
Novels on this list
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- Bai Ze is a transmigrator born as a white bone spirit to the White Bone Lady in White Tiger Ridge after she drank from the Mother-Child River. He is only three days old but has the appearance of a five or six-year-old child. White Tiger Ridge is a desolate place filled with burial grounds and yin evil energy. Bai Ze practices the Corpse Raising technique, a skill innate to his demon ra...
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- Yu Bai’s story begins with her brutal death at the hands of her ex-boyfriend Zhao Jia and her enemy Zhou Anan. After being gang-raped and left to die in a cold factory, she learns that her entire family has been destroyed: her mother was forced to drink pesticide, her five brothers all met tragic ends—one disabled and killed, one suicide, one car accident, one wrongful death in prison,...
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- Vig Hakanson time-travels into the body of a fifteen-year-old boy in ninth-century Scandinavia. His sister, who raised him, moves to Britain with her second husband, leaving him a farm north of Gothenburg. A storm destroyed his crops the previous year, forcing him to sell his livestock. This year’s harvest yields only four hundred kilograms of barley; after setting aside ten kilograms...
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- In Rota City's Lower City, a Strange Dream Out of Control event destroys a warehouse, leaving behind a sealed coffin box. Smugglers dealing in Strange Dream-related items trigger the incident, though the official report cites a fire and explosion. The gangs on Ster Street are swept away, and homeless persons begin to gather in the area. Among them, a man named Bai Mu appears, disorient...
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- Long Yang stood on Dragon Cascade Peak, captured by two enemies: the Soul Shifter Lin Yangming and the sturdy masked man Zhu Yan. They demanded the secret he uncovered months earlier in the West Land Country’s Holy Light Temple, where with Prince Eric he decoded the language of a strange upright ape from Double Moon Star. The ape revealed that three hundred years ago its kind underwent...
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- In the torrential rain, the Zhao Family Village villagers caught a rapist, but the rapist was beaten to death in the chaos. The dead man was Liu Cheng, the young master of the Liu Family Corporation, a notorious playboy who had tried to rape Zhao Yining, a young girl from the village. When the police arrived, led by detective Li Gang, they found the village united and ready to fight. Z...
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- Ji Chuan awakens from death only to find himself transformed into a zombie. His last memory before losing consciousness is being thrown over the high wall of his own suburban villa by Liu Hao, the man his girlfriend Su Wanwan had secretly been with, after he had risked everything to rescue her family from the zombie-infested city. They abandoned him because he failed to awaken any spec...
