Here are some recommended books that I personally think are great:
I hope the books I recommend bring you joy or provoke thought, even if just for a moment. May the yesterday version of me and the today version of you find delight, emotion, and nostalgia in the same words, sharing in the experience together.
Novels on this list
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- Lin Xiaoxiao, a modern office worker who died after being hit by a car while working overtime, awakens in an unfamiliar antique bed. Initially believing she has been rescued by a wealthy tycoon, she soon realizes from the words of an elderly woman called Granny Gui that she is the Empress Dowager of an ancient palace, rendered disoriented by a recent high fever. Panic sets in when she...
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- Wu Ming, a formally trained chef working as a second-stove cook, fails to be promoted to head chef and resigns in anger. He returns to his grandfather Wu Zhenhua’s long-closed “Chuan Flavor Restaurant,” a small shop that has been shuttered for a year after his grandfather fell ill. Against his parents’ wishes, he makes a six-month agreement to revive the business on his own. While clea...
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- Ye Qing endured a half hour of dazed disbelief after waking from the apocalypse’s fifth year back to April 9, 2029—half a year before the world collapsed. In her previous life, she had been unprepared when the extreme cold struck, freezing the planet for six months, and she developed rotting frostbite while scavenging food for Leng Huaishu and his group. When the Extreme Heat suddenly...
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- Si Shuo, originally a modern human, wakes from a coma after a heart transplant to find herself in the Beast World continent, where a cold mechanical voice announces the binding of the Peanut System. The system modifies her body into a special-grade “easy to conceive” physique and presents her with a main quest. She is in a stone cave belonging to her half-sister Yu Jiao, an orange cat...
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- In the boundless Land of Chaos, Great God Pangu annihilated the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods and condensed the Great Dao to perform the feat of Heaven and Earth Creation. His Sky-Opening Axe shattered into the Chaos Bell, Taiji Diagram, and Pangu Banner. As the Profound Yellow Qi from Chaos enveloped the newborn Primordial World, two extra streams of Primordial Qi condensed into the...
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- Lin Yi, a Star Vortex Level expert, was killed like an ant by a Star Domain elder of the Zilies family for merely witnessing their hunt. His consciousness, on the verge of annihilation, was forcibly seized by an overwhelming force and crammed back into his younger body on Blue Star seven thousand years in the past. He awoke to a cramped room with a worn ceiling and the shrill summer ch...
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- At Tai Zhen Temple, three-year-old Yan Luo and her senior sister Chu Yue receive magical artifacts from Master Ziyang Daoist Master: a red Jade Plate bearing Koi Luck and a black one holding Yin-Yang Eyes. Both girls have been reborn. In the previous life, Chu Yue chose the black plate, but the Yin-Yang Eyes attracted fierce ghosts that drained her spiritual energy and lifespan, causin...
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- Qiu Yi is a man from 2025 who suddenly arrived on Earth in 2176, a world transformed by the appearance of mysterious Light Streams in 2100 that unleashed a devastating black mist and endless weird events. The global population plummeted, and exploratory Suicide Squads were formed to investigate the Light Streams, which led to a terrifying parallel world with its own laws, ecosystem, an...
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- Xu Zhou’s consciousness emerged from endless darkness into a strange, old room devoid of any modern appliances. He had been fighting a crucial battle at his computer when a relapse of an old ailment struck from prolonged all-night gaming, causing him to collapse and lose consciousness. Instead of waking in his home or a hospital, he found himself in this unknown place. After accepting...
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- Qin Feng, originally an ordinary worker from Blue Star who collapsed from overwork, transmigrates into the body of a servant disciple in the Yongkang Medicine Estate of the Great Wei Dynasty. This world is infested with supernatural beings. The Drummer appears each night at the hour of Hai, demanding a dish of fragrant oil at every doorway or else killing the inhabitants. His predecess...
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- Su Ninglong is a cultivator reincarnated into an interstellar era where spiritual energy is scarce. She is raised by her godmother Zou Shuyi, a fierce bar owner. At four years old, Zou Shuyi drags her to a kindergarten distribution center for a Star Alliance test. Su Ninglong hates school and prefers self-study to fix robots, but Zou Shuyi insists she attend kindergarten to make friend...
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- Su Nuannuan lived only twenty-three years as a devoted foodie, spending her life savoring delicacies and cooking across China until she died on a bus to a fishing village. She transmigrated into the Great Yin Dynasty as Su Mengnuan, the legitimate daughter of Duke Ping’s residence, who three years ago married Duan Tingxuan, the young marquis of Anping Marquis residence. Their marriage...
