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First 10-15 novels are placed as actual ranking, everything lower is placed based on adding date so you can ignore actual rank.
Novels which cannot be found in NU are in one of my comments to this list.
Would be nice if you have any suggestions.
Novels which cannot be found in NU are in one of my comments to this list.
Would be nice if you have any suggestions.
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Created: May 8th, 2024, Updated: Jul 21st, 2025
Created May 8th, 2024
Updated Jul 21st, 2025

44 Chapters Every 670.7 Day(s) 8377 Readers 123 Reviews 01-29-2017
Average at first, but further we go the more interesting it gets... more>>

113 Chapters Every 561.9 Day(s) 17398 Readers 380 Reviews 02-06-2019
Classic. Incredible world building. Interesting characters. Terrifying antagonists.... more>>

24 Chapters Every 58.1 Day(s) 2077 Readers 19 Reviews 06-05-2023
Completed Action Adventure Fantasy Gender Bender Harem Horror Mature Mystery Psychological Supernatural Tragedy Xuanhuan
Continuation of Lord Of The Mysteries. If I can I would put them both at second place. I would say it more darker than first one for the MC.... more>>

101 Chapters Every 440.7 Day(s) 7172 Readers 140 Reviews 09-29-2023
One of my favorites. I have a weird love to novels that I call "Family-Friendly Horror" its kind of novel with horror elements(gore e.t.c) but somehow they give positive and friendly vibes, this one is top one in this type for me(if not the one)... more>>

112 Chapters Every 432 Day(s) 2882 Readers 39 Reviews 12-27-2017
First part of the novel (200 chapters) is pretty bland I would say, but when character actually goes on one of his first "missions" it became much more interesting. Really like the world building here and the connections between the arcs. Has nice chemistry between characters here, also liked that MC does not stagnate through novel and we see him become more "dependent" I would say.... more>>

867 Chapters Every 19.9 Day(s) 4727 Readers 38 Reviews 12-02-2024
Pretty similar in some ways with different author works (The record of unusual creatures and Sword of Daybreaker). Interesting world building and its horror'ish atmosphere. Good cast of main characters with their own quirks. ... more>>

39 Chapters Every 216.1 Day(s) 2091 Readers 63 Reviews 12-21-2020
Not the level of Lord of The Mysteries, but has interesting main characters. Pretty interesting world. As a LotM has well written fights;... more>>

95 Chapters Every 74 Day(s) 1194 Readers 16 Reviews 04-17-2025
My favourite Kingdom building novel. The author is good with characters with quirks. I like the POV's of different characters. Also this author is one of the guys when writing other races at least give them some different cultural difference and not every race is human but with cat ears\horns e.t.c., its not superly but good enough to at least be memorable enough.... more>>

#9I am God
329 Chapters Every 5.3 Day(s) 644 Readers 4 Reviews 07-15-2025
Its a World (not Kingdom) building novel. Main character is the god itself but not so present in story. Mostly written in different characters POV's. Story more about world and habitats in it and not MC journey somewhere. Really liked how world developing and old characters reappearing and changing over time.... more>>

148 Chapters Every 38.9 Day(s) 2827 Readers 68 Reviews 07-09-2024
Well read a long time ago, but I remember it was dark as hell for MC. I would say its a very slow novel but has strong plot and schemes in it. Also remember that it has interesting political drama and debate here.... more>>

40 Chapters Every 99.3 Day(s) 1303 Readers 46 Reviews 06-29-2021
"Cultivating in Secret Beside a Demoness" author first novel. A lot shorter, MC is pretty chill here. FMC a little bit tomboyish. Romance is generic but has a good execution here and enjoyable to read.... more>>

1 Chapters Every 3008 Day(s) 577 Readers 2 Reviews 05-01-2017
Interesting and funny novel with 2 characters adventures. I would say first 60% of novel are funny and chill but other 40% can be pretty heavy at drama so be ready.... more>>

434 Chapters Every 67.4 Day(s) 12340 Readers 182 Reviews 11-23-2022

648 Chapters Every 3.4 Day(s) 1978 Readers 14 Reviews 06-19-2025

605 Chapters Every 2 Day(s) 2558 Readers 36 Reviews 07-23-2025

869 Chapters Every 6 Day(s) 4515 Readers 55 Reviews 06-22-2025
On chapter 740 out of 825. Really like how author creates characters arcs and closing them. Story knows when it finishes at the start (not an adventure or xianxia like constant moving somewhere with goal like "getting stronger"). MC with a nice character.... more>>

999 Chapters Every 22.9 Day(s) 2508 Readers 20 Reviews 08-20-2024

488 Chapters Every 1.3 Day(s) 2469 Readers 11 Reviews 07-24-2025
I am on 429 chapters. Has interesting conflict for MC to resolve through novel. Not bad world building.... more>>

228 Chapters Every 5.9 Day(s) 2654 Readers 21 Reviews 06-16-2025
Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Gender Bender Horror Mystery Psychological Sci-fi Slice of Life Supernatural Tragedy
on 100chapter now. Story of SCP like creature (former human). Intersting that character behave like an actual SCP and not just strong human (at least for now). Interesting atmosphere in novel, when MC is present its pretty cute, but overall dark. Also atmosphere reminds me Deep sea embers.... more>>

306 Chapters Every 1 Day(s) 344 Readers 4 Reviews 07-25-2025
Ongoing. ch.54. Sequel of deep sea embers, starting pretty good but overall feeling are similar to all his previous works (which was excepted), its not bad, but some people may feel tired of common tropes between all his works.... more>>

372 Chapters Every 2.1 Day(s) 3753 Readers 36 Reviews 07-24-2025
Ongoing! I am on chapter 216. Story is interesting but you need to get used to the novel structure. It has nice characters, comedy, references to other works. In some ways I feel like this is the novel that takes many cliches\tropes from novels published in last ~5y and incorporate them in novel plot itself. In some ways I can see that this novel may be closure for the trend on stories with regression and similar themes. Overall a solid story.... more>>


1 Chapters Every 4971 Day(s) 11596 Readers 94 Reviews 10-10-2015
Completed. Interesting plot, partially dnd world, nice world building. Still was a struggle to go through because of amount of info dumps event if I am someone who most of the time enjoy them. I feel It would be much better if info dumps were presented in other form, for example through some character view. Sometimes novel feels like an history book. Even with that novel is good.... more>>

0 Chapters Every 1120 Day(s) 1298 Readers 12 Reviews N/A
Very good character development. Presented tropes are well executed. Overall a above average novel. (Has no romance)

264 Chapters Every 1.5 Day(s) 3115 Readers 31 Reviews 07-13-2025
Comments (31)
Good collection.
If you have time, try
1. The Legend of the Northern Blade
2. The Regressor and the Blind Saint
3. I Want to Die One Day Before You.
I have read the first two, they are good, For 3rd I'hv read till vol 3,so far so good.
Thanks!
Will try "The Legend of the Northern Blade", and already added 2,3 somehow forget about them after I've read them.
@iwannalongnicknamethx If you are free try,
I Hold Your Voice Alone, Under The Starry Sky.
Empty Box and Zeroth Maria
@TrueAn012 Thanks for suggestions, just in time because have nothing to read rn.
But I remember that I read "Empty Box and Zeroth Maria" many many years ago (8 maybe?). In my memory I feel like don't really liked it because of all the tragedy there.
I've recently added some novels to the list (in the end) you may check them.
@iwannalongnicknamethx It has tragedy and trauma, but the theme is good, the protog till 4ish volume is somewhat say, not much likable, but it is a good read.
I read most of the novel in your collections, not a fan of gender blend, can't feel like immersing into a few, rest I finished all. Keep the good work.
For more, Try reading Martial Arts Master, no harem, good novel. Romance (though I like good romance) exist but pretty average.
I have tried many novels in recent times, that starts off good but got killed by bad development, most of the time the bad development is in the form for Harem or even romance when it is not needed.
@TrueAn012 Read Martial Arts Master years ago, but not finished (maybe read half), became pretty bored in the plot and romance at that time as I feel that novel became predictable.
This list don't really have all novels I read I've called it "Good"(No harem) because don't really wanted to add every piece I read because I feel like list will be bloated with too big difference in quality.
But I fell like I need to make list where I can just add really everything that I completed or Reading now regardless of quality.
Also most gender bender in this list are mostly feels like Author made that just because he wanted to do so, in all novels here its actually feels nonexistent and you can just read novel as MC always was female(or male). (Gospel of blood and Game of the World Tree from the same author and if you start reading as MC is always was female literally nothing changes in this novels. Seoul Object Story same as well)
Have same feelings about novels last month, most are cliche or extremely predictable, feeling like most characters are had copy-paste personalities from novel to novel, plot is dragged out too much, any romance also feels following same formula in each novel without any real chemistry between characters. But last month I mostly read korean romance novels so maybe I just burnt out on them.
@iwannalongnicknamethx Tried this?
Immortal devil transformation, good start, romance mid, I dropped it midway, due to sometimes slow, and somtimes crazy plot development.
Reincarniated as villan of romance fantasy, good start read till 50 ish ch, but forget the reason why I dropped it.
Vermillion novel is good to, but dropped due to some reasons.
The Heaven-Slaying Sword - same author as regressor and blind saint, I read it when it only has 10 chapters, whis was good, but yet to pick it up.
Also, heard 'manuscript screening boy and manuscript submitting girl' is good too.
yes, this is the list for 'good' novels you read, which is the purpose of creating list, if not it will be just your readind list.
It will be good if you update your list if you find new good novels, I will be waiting for that, as my stacks are dried up too.
@TrueAn012
"Immortal devil transformation" - dropped at middle too, don't even remember why
"Reincarniated as villan of romance fantasy" - dropped too, but maybe in 70 chapters if I remember it was became too boring for me
"Vermillion" - not seen but NU says its hiatus, so not sure wanna read it in that state
"The Heaven-Slaying Sword" - Read through mtl 3/4 or 4/5 of novel, but somehow would not force myself to finish, don't even remember why, maybe I will add this here as my memory tells me it wasn't bad even if I don't recall why I dropped it
"manuscript screening boy and manuscript submitting girl" - will add to to-read list, japanese ranobes for me mostly were hard to find so many of them were ignore by me, so thanks for suggestions
if you don't mid reading MTL I may suggest:
"Investing in the Rebirth Empress, She Called Me Husband" - pretty chill xianxia with mid romance but good for time passing.
"My girlfriend is a cello player" - A good novel with a good romance, one of those were Male lead is not really annoying and too dense, also has nice chemistry
But both are ongoing and don't have NU pages (will add them when they appear), but pretty sure that "My girlfriend is a cello player" is will not be harem, but has low(like really low, something around 5%) chance for "Investing in the Rebirth Empress, She Called Me Husband" to became one with 2 wives
@iwannalongnicknamethx I got a suggestion for you for reading MTL, chat GPT become better than a standard MTL, with keywords everrywhere extension, you can pretty much get a good quality TL but, its still a MTL.
If you don't mind slow placed and a chill novels, few has little plot, and some you have to tune down your brain a bit to enjoy it, I got a few suggestions.
But I had an inherent hate towards novels theats starts with my wife, my girlfriend, my husband etc. as it always starts as exclusive relationship but soon turn into generic harem, plot wil fly everywhere.
Will try "My girlfriend is a cello player""Investing in the Rebirth Empress, She Called Me Husband".
@TrueAn012 Would like to see a few suggestions you mentioned.
About novels that starts with my wife, my girlfriend e.t.c, I myself was baited into this trap many times enough so now I am extremely cautious with novels like this.
@TrueAn012 Answering simply, novel knows what is is and executing it well enough without making me mad by plot, yes maybe a bit boring and predictable, but for someone what may not read too much novels it will be good enough. But yes I agree that it is pretty low overall in my "Good" rankings.
Writing this small answer literally took at least 30m. Was thinking how to determine if novel is "Good" for me. For now will have this novel still here, maybe when I've come close to 75-100 novels in list will start splitting in different lists like "Masterpiece", "Good", "Normal" to reduce the gap in quality between novels in list.
@iwannalongnicknamethx I got a doubt regarding, Martial cultivator, the romance with FMC is only at kissing level but the page have first time intercouse tag (I didn't mind those things if it only between our MCs), is there anything happened, or the author ruining another good series.
How is Legend of the Cultivation God, Have you given it a try.
For, recommendation,
The new Gate, I didn't tries it but I like to hera your opinion on that matter.
Gimai Seikatsu, a decent SOL novel. There is a initial insist bait with the tag (not insist), but It is one of the realistic take on that trope.
Shut Up, Malevolent Dragon! I Don’t Want to Have Any More Children With You, one such novel I told previously, you have to turn off your logic but its enjoyable.
Oregairu romance is my favourite, if its not for the haremish element(Though the MC is never viewed it as harem), the author for VN and milking the Merchs, made into a dumpster fire.
86 LN is very good.
Will add more if comes to my mind.
@TrueAn012 Regarding martial cultivator, I stopped when mtl had 900~ chapters, in that chapters here was still 1v1 romance and I don't see flags that may lead to harem at all.
Legend of the Cultivation God - Long time ago read 50-100 chapters then there was no translation and my brain wasn't rotted enough to read mtl at that time, as I remember it was pretty ok? but very slow. Now hesitating because of amount of chapters.
New gate - tried very long time ago, don't really remember anything, now looking at reviews e.t.c looks pretty meh at least for me
Gimai Seikatsu - Read to vol3 (maybe) was bored of it may continue someday.
Shut Up, Malevolent Dragon! I Don’t Want to Have Any More Children With You - just last week read manga, not sure now I wanna read novel, but its on my "maybe" list because manga was not so bad.
Oregairu, watched anime maybe 5-6 years ago, maybe will read novel one day
86 - on my list, just wanna wait for its to be completed, as the amount of time Japanese authors take to finish their novels is enormous sometimes, and there a chance if I read it now and like it I will be forced to wait years for it to be finished. And when it finally finishes I already may forgot all plot and hesitate to start reading again.
Oregairu adaptation is one of the bad adaptation over there.
Regarding 86, I stopped at vol 7 I think. The anime stopped at vol 6, for the same reason as yours.
Gimai Seikatsu will be good from 4/5 to till vol 7.
recent novels didn't evoke the same feelings as the ones that are not already on the list, If you have time try reading a western novel 'The Martian' by Andi Wier my first ever novel.
Spice and Wolf. Try it, You might like it, I just watched the anime though.
@iwannalongnicknamethx
What About Kept man of Princess Knight, I just heard about it but never read it.
Then, I Became the Fiancé of a Dragon in Romance Fantasy. is good too, but the ending is not so grate, and at the end it started to going inthe path of erotica, I don't know if everyone like that.
Spice and Wolf.
@TrueAn012
"Kept man of Princess Knight" - Seen it too, but will wait more time, when there will be more to read (which will be long time as japanese authors are very slow on writing). Also it give me some vibes that can potentially become harem, so also waiting more to see will genres change
"I Became the Fiancé of a Dragon in Romance Fantasy" - year or two ago tried, didn't remember why but dropped pretty early (maybe was oversaturated by this type of stories), haven't returned to it
"Spice and Wolf" - Watched anime long time ago, not really interested in reading its novel
@iwannalongnicknamethx Dao of the Bizarre Immortal
what about this, I like to know your opiniion about this.
@TrueAn012 Maybe you encounter some new interesting novels? In last month can't find really anything interesting, everything just goes into drop after ~200chapters
And after reading "Shut Up, Malevolent Dragon! I Don’t Want to Have Any More Children With You" most romance novels start to feel dry and simple.
@iwannalongnicknamethx
Hakai no Miko Its a different novel, I just dropped it as to wait for more to come,
Angel next door, is decent but after they started dating, it become slow and bland.
I will say more, If I remember some best ones.
Will use this comment for novels which cannot be found in NU:
1. The lich needs more money - Completed DnD world based story about lich. Slow start, the further you read the better novel became which is rare.
2. End of ten days - ongoing I am on chapter 1129. Dark story, MC is calm madman (still to answer if he will be villain or hero for story), many horror elements. Has some good fleshed characters. For romance I can't say for sure it exist because of plot reasons but if it is I have 90% chance its 1v1.
3. I create the my of the old ruler - completed. Readed some time ago so some detail may be wrong. Flow similar to My House of Horror. MC goes into sort of adventure with system in another world -> After returning making film about it and we have audience reactions e.t.c, this is for the most time formula in this book, but there's change in formula like there may be a game not a film, actual connection between worlds he go with reality. Also if I remember correctly MC mostly enters 3? same world so every one of them building through novel and won't forgetted after arc. Romance not exist (but if you're weird one you may see it)
4. The Author's POV - completed. good novel, readed all chapters in 3 days, but I think it has problems in pacing and holding interest in some parts of the novel. Romance exist.1. The lich needs more money - Completed DnD world based story about lich. Slow start, the further you read the better novel became which is rare.
5. Advent of the Three Calamities - ongoing. Same author as The Author's POV. Overall at least for its better than his previous work. Has interest concept for MC power. Romance exist.
6. "Investing in the Rebirth Empress, She Called Me Husband" - pretty chill xianxia with mid romance but good for time passing. has low chance for harem, will update this comment if that will be the case
7. "My girlfriend is a cello player" - A good novel with a good romance, one of those were Male lead is not really annoying and too dense, also has nice chemistry between leads.
Shortly, plot and characters are good, weakest point is writing itself (structurally, actual emotions conveyed good)
Cultivation Chat Group - was reading when it had only 500c, then paused to stockpile a little bit, still not returned to it, maybe someday re-read it.
Mother of Learning - can still find it in my bookmarks... from 10 years ago I stopped at some chapter and still not returned to it
The Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich - read when had 400 chapters, had fun, but hesitating to read or add here because of harem tag on NU.
ty for suggestions still.