My First Love

Novels That Feel Very Real and Reflect Real Society

I’m sick of stories that are too brainless and idealistic. I want something more realistic.

Looking for High-Quality Farming Novels, From a Veteran Reader With Picky Taste

Recommendations, please!

Books That Feel Close to Real Life

Any recommendations for good books that feel especially close to real life?

Looking for Good Rural Fiction

Raising some fish, growing a little food, maybe renting a mountain. Just don't let it turn into a cultivation story halfway through.

Stories Set in the 1950S, 60S, or 70S. Good Writing, Please. No Transmigration-and-Raising-Kids Plots

Looking for Rural Novels

Rural life.

Any Novels Suitable for Middle-Aged and Older Readers? Recommend a Few

For example, stories about real life, a particular historical era, history, or rural life. Nothing mindless

Pure Country Life Novels, Feel-Good Reads!

Farming! Farming! Bring Me All the Good Farming Novels

A peaceful, carefree life in the countryside.

Any Realistic Romance Novels With a Calm, Everyday Feel?

I don't want wealthy-family stories or some kind of golden finger. I want something grounded in real life, unforgettable, and well written. The plot shouldn't move too fast, but it should be vivid and engaging, with an original storyline. Could some lovely fairy please grace me with a recommendation? I'm seriously out of things to read.

Romance Novels You Can't Put Down

Those Things in the Mountain Village, Completed Edition

Any Novels About Rural Life? I'm Out of Books to Read

Something with a natural, rural-life feel, like *After Leaving the Army, I Livestream Raising Kids in the Countryside*.

Rural Fiction

A Seventies-Era Period Novel for Male Readers

Rural Novels Set in the 1960S and 1970S

Inside and Outside Marriage: The Secrets Couples Keep from Each Other...

Marriage! Divorce! Remarriage! Stories about the male and female leads and their married lives... Preferably sweet and indulgent romance!

Looking for Literary Fiction

I urgently need a book with excellent writing and something meaningful to say, the kind that can help improve your essay writing.

Any More Realistic Stories Set in a Particular Era? Looking for Recs

A lot of period dramas these days have living conditions better than ours now. It feels a bit fake.

Stories Set in a Bygone Era, With a Rugged Man and His Delicate Wife

Novels Set in Rural Northeast China in the 1980S and ’90S

Novels about rural Northeast China in the last century.

Are There Any Novels About Real Rural Life?

Looking for Realist Fiction Recommendations

Realistic Farming Stories, Pure Farming Fiction

Nothing exaggerated or lacking common sense! For example, characters casually growing ten thousand mu of farmland themselves: just how many square meters would that be?