A Mother's Tragedy

I've Recently Gotten into Stories Set in a Bygone Era. I Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Can't Get Out

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Absolutely Stunning, High-Quality Stories Set in a Bygone Era!!

Quality Period Dramas for a Male Audience

Era fiction that sticks close to history and has intelligent characters. Do not recommend simplistic wish-fulfillment stories, I cannot read them.

Period-Era Stories About a Capable Female Lead Who Knows How to Keep a Low Profile

Looking for books like *Smiling at the Locust Blossoms, I Ask About the Past*. A golden finger is fine, but it shouldn't drive the plot, and I especially don't want the protagonist sneaking off to the black market every day to sell things from it.

Republic-Era Novels

I never recommend books I haven't read. These are my favorite period novels, and I'm sharing them with everyone. There are also a few quick transmigration stories, so check them out if you're interested.

The Best of the Best in Historical-Era Fiction: You’ll Regret Missing These!!!

Something like Xia Xiaolan's story. I couldn't stop thinking about it long after I finished.

Looking for Down-to-Earth Stories Set in a Past Era, Nothing Too Over-the-Top

I'm in a reading slump.

Rural Novels Set in the 1960S and 1970S

Crying from Beginning to End, So Heartbreaking It Hurts

You won't be disappointed if you click in. Leave your reading lists so we can recommend books to each other.

Military Marriage Stories Where the Couple Moves to the Husband’s Posting After the Wedding: Completed Only

The hero is a soldier, and the heroine is no pushover either.

Looking for a Period-Era Military Wife Story! She Joins Her Husband’s Unit Right from the Start!

Please don't recommend stories that drag on and spend half the book on military life before the couple joins the army! No stories where the female lead is reborn, missed out on the male lead in her previous life, and comes back to supposedly make it up to him! The male lead has the worst luck in the world to end up with a woman like that! And no clingy, helpless women who lose their minds whenever they see a man!

I’ve Been Browsing for Two Days and Haven’t Found a Single Book That Impressed Me

I’ve been browsing for two days and haven’t found a single book that really caught my eye. I drop almost all of them right away. I’ve been reading novels for 78 years, I guess, and feel like I’ve hit a wall. I’ve read so many that after starting a novel, I can already imagine the rest myself 😂

Any Novels That Keep You Reading to the End?

Anything except female-oriented fiction is fine; I’m not picky. The homepage recommendations are so painful: I can barely get through a few chapters before dropping them. I have nothing to read.

I've Read Nearly 4,000 Books. Surely There Are No More Hidden Gems?