Shiba's collection of good stories
Good stories above all: this automatically excludes harems, shounens, games, isekais. Everybody says "but there's this harem/isekai/..." but there isn't*. Changing love interests is not a harem.
No yuri/yaoi and their milder versions. Smut or gore - if I have to. Usually these dominate stories and turn the novel into Xfest, and this really isn't what life is about.
Good dialogues and or characters are definitely for a plus. Good writing is as well. So is good translation quality.
Overall, a novel needs to have a story to tell. I value my time and have troubles finding it. I'm cooking something
new every chapter is not a story that will enrich me. So is monster of the week. Or face slapping. Face slapping creates enemies and is less refreshing than sneezing or equally short-lasting. If the action scenes or fights aren't written on a Sapkowski's level, it's usually best to forego them.
* yeah, there definitely will be some 1 in a gazillion exception. But I don't want to read gazillion mediocre attempts at inflating one's ego to find it. I know there are exceptions. The Kingdom's Bloodline uses reincarnation and has traces of cultivation and is overall fascinating. But the weak writers reach for weak tropes and don't even squeeze them, so overall I'm using this as elimination criteria. Aside from reading professional books, historical books and real novels, aside from work and side-jobs, I also live. So - as I said - I value my time.
No yuri/yaoi and their milder versions. Smut or gore - if I have to. Usually these dominate stories and turn the novel into Xfest, and this really isn't what life is about.
Good dialogues and or characters are definitely for a plus. Good writing is as well. So is good translation quality.
Overall, a novel needs to have a story to tell. I value my time and have troubles finding it. I'm cooking something
new every chapter is not a story that will enrich me. So is monster of the week. Or face slapping. Face slapping creates enemies and is less refreshing than sneezing or equally short-lasting. If the action scenes or fights aren't written on a Sapkowski's level, it's usually best to forego them.
* yeah, there definitely will be some 1 in a gazillion exception. But I don't want to read gazillion mediocre attempts at inflating one's ego to find it. I know there are exceptions. The Kingdom's Bloodline uses reincarnation and has traces of cultivation and is overall fascinating. But the weak writers reach for weak tropes and don't even squeeze them, so overall I'm using this as elimination criteria. Aside from reading professional books, historical books and real novels, aside from work and side-jobs, I also live. So - as I said - I value my time.
Novels on this list
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- ‘s*upid b*tch.’After a hasty choice, I sold the most precious thing with my own hands.In exchange for this betrayal, the only price given was the position of a noble’s second wife and such cruel ab*se.Tessa did not die and instead lived.And seven years had passed.“Long time no see, Tessa.”Hert, who she thought had died, returned.He became a decent man.*“Do you long for your husband?”He...
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- Adel Raidrich was the weakest noble living on the outskirts. Neither the protagonist nor the antagonist. Not even a side character. The story progressed with the announcement, The outskirts have fallen under the hands of the villain, and he was a character who would inevitably meet destruction without even having his name mentioned.And I, unfortunately, ended up being reincarnated as A...
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- Chiba, a traveler from the real world, found himself mysteriously transported to the ninja world of Naruto. In this new realm, he stumbled upon a peculiar fruit known as the Dung Fruit, granting him the extraordinary ability to mimic any attribute of ninjutsu.It was during the midst of the Second Ninja World War that Chiba decided to join the battle. Encountering a vast army of Sand Sh...
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- From a very young age, An XuMo thought that Zhou JinChen was good looking. He went through so many hardships to sign into the company that Zhou JinChen was working for. He thought that their relationship would be the same as usual: detachment. Never would he thought that he will embark on the other’s peach blossom path.A cutie would shield the peach blossoms for his favorite person. In...
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- November 1, Meiji 36 / Foreign Residents’ Quarter, KobeKaina, a prodigious exorcist, suffers a fatal wound when his heart is pierced during a mission. As his life slowly fades away, a soothing voice echoes from somewhere.“Child of humanity, I shall grant you a second heart. In exchange—come with me on the path to supremacy through the realm of purgatory.”The one who appears is Lilith, ...
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- I really feel like having one of those special macarons from the cafeteria today. You think you could get me one?I sit diagonally behind the heroine in class. Im basically her errand boy. We are [friends], after all. And Im happy to do it....
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- Tong Yao woke up and found herself in an unfortunate situation.Not only did she transmigrate into a fantasy-romance novel that had been dropped by the author, but she also found herself in the body of a throwaway character that was fighting against the protagonist for a man!For the sake of her survival, Tong Yao immediately reached forward to grab the protagonist’s leg.“Mistress, I was...
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- All women in the near future were managed by men. Women are regarded as possessions of male individuals, national enterprises, and corporations, and are used for various things as well as domestic animals. Men are relieved from various risks of having wives and children so far, but women are turned into animals, and are always naked because they do not have the right to own clothin...
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- Every night I wake up in a stranger’s bed, and then I am f*cked by all kinds of people.“Quick! f*ck me!” What the hell am I talking about! No! My body is so hot…f*ck, did I take an aphrodisiac? ! !”The story of a man who accidentally opened up a magical physique and was r*ped front and back by all kinds of high-quality men....
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- Kazuki, whos hobby is dungeon diving, is a low-level adventurer who could only climb to the 10th floor of a 50 floor dungeon. The average floor a normal adventurer could reach was the 30th floor. While adventurers in his level were easily going past the 20th floor, Kazuki was ridiculed for not having any talent as an adventurer. However, Kazuki was actually the only one diving into the...
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- Iona, the knight who was the loyal dog of the tyrant Emperor, gave her life for him. But her lord, whom she trusted, abandoned her in the end, and the person who stood by her side in her death was no other than her husband.“I want to kiss you one last time.” Iona demanded on the verge of death.“I’m telling you in advance… Just in case… You won’t die and this won’t be our last kiss.”Sat...
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- Four days ago, the evil god left the 《Unlimited Ghost Game》 and became the first player to ever leave the system.Four days later, Su Li woke up in the real world, from an evil god feared by all ghosts, to a miserable social animal with a crippling debt.Su Li, whose goal in life is to be a rich salted fish who can eat and sleep like a fool: “…”*Su Li began working at the Supernatural Se...
