Good Books I’ve Read and New Recommendations from Friends, Including Hidden Gems
Looking to quench your thirst for new reads? Check out these recommendations from fellow book enthusiasts, featuring both new and classic novels. With nearly a decade of reading experience, you can trust my taste! I welcome suggestions for both new and old books that deserve attention. I’ll regularly clean out any unfinished series or unsuitable picks. The books listed are those I've enjoyed on QQ Reading. While I might not remember some of the older titles well enough to provide comments, nothing beats experiencing a great story firsthand. Happy reading!
Novels on this list
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- In the zombie-ravaged apocalypse, Xin Banyue, the youngest of nine sworn siblings bound by a blood oath, is scratched by a Level 6 zombie during a mission. Her elder brother and captain, Si Yuchuan, coldly declares her beyond saving, abandoning her to prevent mutation. This marks the second time she has been cast aside since turning eighteen; the first was when her family pushed her ou...
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- Lu Qing'an transmigrated into a cultivation world and gained the ability to increase his lifespan by destroying life forces. After over ten thousand years of cultivation, he reached the Great Ascension Tenth Layer in the Mortal Realm, accumulated a lifespan of two hundred and fifty thousand years through burning grass, killing beasts, and other means, and chose to live in seclusion in...
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- Lin Yi Nan, a thirty-two-year-old special operations soldier hardened by twelve years of survival in a zombie apocalypse, dies when a bomb collapses a building during a mission. She transmigrates into the body of a fifteen-year-old girl with the same name in the Great Yan Kingdom, year three of Jianxing. She wakes on a blood-soaked street in Ping Cheng, the city under brutal assault by...
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- Lu Xi'an transmigrated into a desolate world where human civilization had collapsed, and most people had vanished. He kept a diary from the first day, recording his struggles in an abandoned village named Wan Shi Village. He found a backpack containing a notebook and a pen, and later discovered a mechanical dog in a basement, which became his only companion. The dog's abilities include...
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- Ji Haoyuan transmigrated into a cultivation world and was found to have a Two Spirit Root, making him the hope of the Ji family. All cultivation resources were supplied to him preferentially. At ten he drew qi into his body, by thirty he reached the peak of Qi Refining. At forty he used the Foundation Establishment Pill acquired by the family at great cost to attempt Foundation Establi...
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- In West Capital City, a brutal serial murderer targets single women living alone. The killer binds the victims, stuffs their mouths, and causes death through countless needle punctures. The police investigation team led by Captain He Wenhui is under immense pressure to solve the case within a month. After exhausting conventional methods with no leads, He Wenhui recalls advice from his...
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- Qin Feng, a transmigrator from Blue Star who has spent eighteen years in this world, is a low-level follower of Qin Yanran, the Young Sect Master of the Azure Profound Sect. He accompanies her to the Ye family mansion in East Rock Town on a single mission: break off her engagement with Ye Chen, a former genius who lost all his cultivation three years ago and became a cripple. Recognizi...
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- Wen Hao, the mute second miss of Wen Manor, is stabbed to death on a snowy street after seeking the truth about her elder sister's suicide from a former maid. A masked man dies with her, leaving her with only a glimpse of his eyes. She wakes from the darkness to find herself three years in the past, falling from a wall and landing in the arms of Prince Jing's son, Qi Shuo. The shock of...
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- Zeng Anmin, a modern man who had retired early with over a hundred million yuan, transmigrated into the Great Saint Dynasty. He woke up as the dissolute only son of Zeng Shilin, a Confucian Cultivator in the Embracing the Kindling Realm and a Regional Governor overseeing three prefectures. The dynasty had stood for six hundred years, populated by body cultivators, dao cultivators, Conf...
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- In a remote old castle, a withered vampire who once reigned as the feared king of his kind now lives as a complete hikikomori. Centuries of isolation have drained his motivation; he no longer craves blood or conflict, surviving on occasional chicken blood provided by his silent, one-eyed familiar—a young girl in a maid outfit who obeys him without words. All other vampires have gone ex...
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- Meng Tingyue, daughter of the Meng family, lost her mother at age six and was raised by her stepmother Madam Meng and stepsister Meng Qingjiao. In her previous life, Madam Meng and Meng Qingjiao conspired to switch marriage partners on the wedding day, forcing Meng Tingyue to marry the ailing Fifth Prince while Meng Qingjiao wed the Crown Prince. Believing the Fifth Prince’s promises,...
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- Shu Yue died after being poisoned by her daughter, Cheng Hui. On her deathbed, Cheng Hui revealed that she was not her biological child but the daughter of Cheng Jing’en and Huang Fang. The babies had been swapped at birth. Shu Yue’s own son had drowned at three or four years old, and the entire Shu family, including her aging relatives, was poisoned together. Overcome with hatred and...
