Recommendations Your Favorite Novel

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  1. mikola7946

    mikola7946 Well-Known Member

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    Write your favorite novel, which you liked the most, and write how many novels you have read approximately.
    Since I think that if you have read 20 novels and recommend only 1 of them, then this novel will be really top-notch, and you can safely read it.
    For example, I have read about 50 novels, my favorite is Lord of the Mysteries.
    Sorry for my bad english.
     
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    Tbh, I don't know, I feel like that, there are lots of stuff I forget including animes, mangas, manhwas, manhuas, novels, movies, etc... so I can't give an approximate number, but yes, Lord of the Mysteries is a good novel XD
     
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    ishaan I Eat Potatoes

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    The one that I enjoyed the most was Martial World
     
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    mikola7946 Well-Known Member

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    I agree, this was my first big novel, and it was quite interesting.
     
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    ishaan I Eat Potatoes

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    It was my first one too!
     
  7. The Hamster Overlord

    The Hamster Overlord Mad scientist/Revered wizard/Alleged antichrist

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    That's too hard to choose. I have read probably >100 novels (my reading lists contain 226, excluding the ones I never bookmarked or threw out of the reading lists, but most of the ones in my reading lists are either incomplete or I haven't read them entirely. Still, volume-wise, that'd be probably around 100+ novels anyway)
    A lot of them I forgot, and a lot of them just can't possibly be fairly compared against one another (vastly different genres, lengths, how long ago I read them, etc).
    I will sift out the genres I don't like first, regardless of the novels themselves: no harem, no xianxia.
    I will next sift out genres that are for an "acquired taste" (in my opinion): no tragedy, no yuri, no crime mystery, no yandere, no mc's acting in very morally questionable ways.
    I will next only choose "long enough stories".
    ... I guess I will go with devil is a part-timer. There are many like it, and of similar quality as well, but it is still an incredibly well-written novel with complex motivations and plots, awesome characters, awesome world-building, interesting premises and good prose.
     
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    Haevrus No.1 Incognito Webuser

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    Lol, I have lost count by now how many novels I have read. It's pretty complicated to pinpoint one exact novel that I will like. Often, they aren't completely translated or get ruined in the end. And even then when I have completed, there is a void that gets filled with other books and next time when I read it doesn't have the same feeling. Well,.... Er Gens Pursuit of the Truth, A Will Eternal, Renegade Immortal are good. The Gate of God is similar to A Will Eternal. ED was good too.. (at least where I stopped)

    They are all packed with emotions.

    Coiling Dragon was my first completed novel. At that time, it was amazing but now it feels... Dunno, bland.
     
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    I read the reviews for this novel, judging by the reviews, if I read it, I will get much less pleasure from other novels. So I won't read it yet.
     
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    Darkcrow. Foul Tarnished

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    Dresden Files
     
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    natsume142 だが、断る

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    Hokuou Kizoku to Moukinzuma no Yukiguni Karigurashi - My fav novel coz they are chill and calming to read.

    Overlord - My other fav as well but the author kinda ruined it in the end. Still great read imo

    I have read more than hundred novels (from online to real books) I enjoyed various genre except for mindless harem haha
     
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    kfahad 『The Lurker Beast』『Beast fallen』

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    I actually don't know my fave..hehe after reading lots of novels seems like I don't have favorite novel now..
    But once upon a time I really liked "The legendary moonlight sculpture" that I keep rereading it that time even read the mtl read the translated again but then I dropped it now.
     
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    I read The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, but dropped it because I just didn't like the character of the protagonist. But otherwise the book is really good.
     
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    I've read over 300 light/web novels.
    these three are my favourite:
    Dungeon Defense
    Even a Cicada Becomes a Dragon If Reborn
    Spice and Wolf

    If I include regular novels - over 1000 : (which I read at my local library)
    'Song of Fire and Ice' or 'Young samurai' (I really like Animorphs when I was a kid, but I don't remember much of it now, so I'm not sure how it compares)
     
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    Ddraig Frostfire Dragon|Retired lurker|FFF|Loved by RNG

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    I do not have a count of how many I have read. As for favourite well, kind of hard to select just 1... That being said if we go a step down to arcs, my favourite arc ever is definitely Sisters from Railgun (which is a manga/anime but meh).
     
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    Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou~

    I have more than 300(half of these are copied and save in my PC for personal reading collection) favorite novels and read almost a thousand novels~
     
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    I hate to say I’ve read thousands. So I’ll go with hundreds.
    As to my favorite. Lol. Tough.
    I guess…
    Royal Road:
    https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/3972/the-defective-hermit
    NovelUpdate:
    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/release-that-witch/
    Kindle:
    https://www.goodreads.com/series/144936-daniel-black
     
  19. NoLongerTheSame

    NoLongerTheSame Well-Known Member

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    Hmm..if I was to count the JP, KR, or CN light or web novels I've read since I picked up my first one 7 years ago...I don't know man, few hundreds maybe?
    I recommend for JP:
    Mushoku Tensei(Nostalgia Factor)
    Log Horizon
    Altina the Sword Princess
    Grimgal of Ashes and Illusions
    Youjo Senki
    Tsukumodo Antique Shop

    KR:
    Legendary Moonlight Sculptor(Nostalgia Factor)
    Second Coming of Gluttony
    The Great Storyteller
    God of Cooking

    CN:
    The King's Avatar
    Martial World
    Doulou Dalu
    I Shall Seal the Heavens
    Lord of the Mysteries

    Others:
    Chrysalis (RoyalRoad)

    I just spouted whatever popped off my head first.
     
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    Neigh "Lich-King" "Harem-Fan" "Tragedy-Hater"

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    The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time - One of my most Loved Novel, with a rather Dark theme and rather Dark/Crazy MC who wants to be Good, but doesn't restrict any of his Crazy Acts and Abilities and use them as he deems them necessary.