What’s the last totally original novel you read recently?

Are their any original novels out there or has everything under the sun already been written and modified. I can’t help but wonder. I read reviews over and over complaining about how played out a genre is. Than I ask myself when was the last time you actually read a totally original novel. I came up with a blank. I just couldn’t think of one off the top my head.
So I’m asking the readers out there. Do you have a recommendation for a totally original novel out there?

 

I would say the bible, but even that book has various versions. >_>

 

I have to admit their are many original works out there. One great example is the Bible, but I was hoping for something more I don’t know maybe more recent.

 

In my list of novels I'm currently reading, there is only one very original novel.
"Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka?"
I will not try to describe it here, because it's too damn original.

I can also recommend you "Mimizuku to Yoru no Ou". But it might actually be just a typical shoujo, I don't know about that.

 

Devourer of Destiny
But it's Gone Now

 

An entirely original concept? I'm too stupid to remember everything I've read and far too lazy to go through my lists. Unless you look for reviews or chatter about a novel then anything could be an original. Someone could read Sword Art Online as the progenitor of a 'trapped in a game' story, or it could be .hack, or Tron. Or you could say it's a bastardization of Isekai.

You probably need to go fairly far back to read the origin of most concepts.

 

What's funny is that I can think of an origin novel. Terror Infinity was the start of the "infinite" genre. But here's the catch: infinite genre novels take elements from other novels. So nah, no totally original novels that I've seen

 

Total originality not only doesn't exist, it cannot exist

 

fairly original ones I remember: (I don't remember the order i read them)
kino no tabi
spice and wolf
even a cicada becomes a dragon if reborn

 

I'm going to judge originality by writing style because most concepts have some outside influence. These all have relatively unique story settings. I have no idea what kinds of novels you prefer so these stories have pretty diverse plots.

Chronicles of Primordial Wars
The Legend of Sun Knight
The Great Storyteller
Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich
~Doomsday Wonderland
~The King's Avatar
~Doulou Dalu

~ = Maybe

Most classics were original when they were created.

 

Martial God Asura

 

You're going to have to go way back, to the near beginnings of writing that still exist as books. Books such as:
Epic of Gilgamesh
Classic of Poetry, Classic of Documents, Classic of Changes
Illiad, Odyssey
The Art of War
Aesop's Fables
The Histories of Herodotus
Argonautica
(Disclaimer: I have not read most of them.)

There are modern books that take from concepts and combine them into new ideas, but I'll leave that to someone else to do.

 

Dunno about all of you, but right now i'm reading a story called A Tristan Tale by IncomingPornDuck on literotica right now. The series got an absurdly high amount of rating there, about someone that got a power similar to mind control... Coming for snu snu, stay for the story.

 

Wow, those updates are so infrequent. The last update was in 2018.

 

Well, a lot of people only write a series there whenever they have a time lmao, otherwise the website exist just for a quick fap hahaha!

 

There are no completely original novels. They are all based off of outside influences. Even the basics of having magic or whatnot have to be something we know, otherwise the reader can't become immersed in the story. There is just a slowly evolving archetype of every genre, and maybe some branching off of it, only to later wind back in.

For some more unique novels I recommend the Wheel of Time series, legend of sun knight, Savage Divinity (RRL) and the stormlight archives.

 

Pfffft. Original? Those are just based off of spoken stories.

 

These were the first and earliest forms of writings that still exist, so the stories may not be original, but the texts that contain them were original, though the originals of the originals are probably dust by now.

 

"Coeus" by Andur. Basically mages in space. And as magic defy science, somehow they are stronger then the peaceful and harmful alien races that appear later in the story.

Spoiler: Heck, they even

destroyed a whole planet thx to some teleport satellites

 

Yukkuri's "Summoned Earth" Stellaris AAR.