Dorothy's Forbidden Grimoire

Best Female-Led Novels

(That damn CWM swallowed my original list, so I'm posting it again.) I only include female-led novels that I personally think are well-written and worth reading. No early-stage novels. They're all over 500,000 characters, and I've read at least half of each one. If you have any female-led novels to recommend, please leave a comment. Don't leave me recommending books to myself. I've rescored them all according to my new, stricter standards.

Books with Female Leads That Suit My Taste

There may be a tiny bit of orange, but most of them are about single characters. Cat readers are running out of books to read.

A Mixed Bag of Good Female-Led Stories

Most are complete, and most of the plots are original.

Quality Female Protagonist Stories

Hedgehog 🐱, look out the window! Your 🐴 is flying through the sky!

The Old Ones Are Dead

Huh, quite a few books seem to have vanished from my bookshelf. Weird. Just the stuff I've read. Well, I checked my own collection: 711 books. There really aren't many I might want to read again. So many get abandoned unfinished. Huh, the old reading lists I looked at earlier had all disappeared, but now they've come back. Nothing surprises me with Ciweimao anymore.

Formerly on Maozhan: Yuri-to-Straight Romance Novels

The old Cat Station got its start with fanfiction and gender-bender stories, but sadly, most of that has been cut away by now. The gender-bender tag became “orange,” then turned into female protagonists. Many of the old gender-bender yuri and gender-bender-to-single-romance novels are hard to find now. So I made this list to commemorate the “orange” gender-bender yuri stories with female protagonists that I’ve read over the years, and to show everyone some of the gender-bender novels that used t

10th Anniversary Reading List

The top nine books from each year in the 10th Anniversary “Books Through Time” event.

👴: I've Cleared Out the Evil MiHoYo Games!

I'm sick of the homepage being all about MiHoYo games! I'm sweeping them all aside and being myself again!

Books That Speak to Me

Saving these here. Based on what little I remember, I'll give each one or two sentences. My impressions may not be very accurate.

Books Worth Revisiting

My tastes are pretty varied.

A Reading List for When You're Out of Books

Books I've read over the years that I thought were pretty decent

Books for My Personal Taste

Good Reads

Books I've Finished

My tastes are all over the place, but I can guarantee these aren't garbage.

Great Novels I'm Reading or Have Read

Updated October 28, 2026

Personal Collection

Some books I've read that I thought were pretty good.

My Favorites

My personal book list.

Water, Water, Water, Water

Filler, filler, filler, filler.

Interesting Books

The style leans goofy and absurd.