Interesting and Plausible Story-Driven Novels
At least it’s not a cookie-cutter novel.
Novels on this list
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- In 2012, Wu An, a university dropout expelled for fighting, returns to his small fishing village and becomes a delinquent. He smokes, drinks, steals, and fights, bringing shame to his father, a village cadre. One day, he steals a sea bass from two fishermen, Lin Bin and Lin Hu. While running away on a rocky beach, he slips and falls, hitting his head. The fishermen think he is dead and...
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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...
