The Best Books of 2026

1 带 I Brought My Yellow-Haired Younger Brother to a Flash Marriage and Married into a Rich Family, and I Became a Group Favorite. Li LiangliangModern Romance524k WordsCompleted 10kReads7.9Score1.1kShelves

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It's really good-looking and funny. Come on guys!

2 灵 Five Strokes of Spirit Chapter 18Eastern Fantasy465k WordsOngoing 2.7kReads5.8Score199Shelves

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A good book that will never let you down once you click on it, please trust me

3 暗 Stealing Kisses in the Dead of Night Young Master XimenModern Romance839k WordsCompleted 33.3kReads9.0Score3kShelves

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The male protagonist loves the female protagonist very much. The love is engraved in his bones. He is willing to risk his life for the female protagonist. The author is Ximen Longting. You are welcome to read it. I have already read it twice. I will wait for some time to read it again. Every character in it is very well-drawn and they are all kind and righteous people [Blow kiss]

11 醋 Jealous Marriage Abundance of Gold and JadeModern Romance930k WordsOngoing 14Reads—Score—Shelves

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Be optimistic about it, Senior Hero Arena

12 星 Star Tours Shopping. User2618281118k WordsCompleted —Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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Four stories, a journey of interstellar absurdity - for everyone who is looking for good stories. Dear readers: Hello. I'm the tour guide, examiner, clerk, and trashman writing stories at the edge of the galaxy. If you have followed me on the previous four interstellar journeys, you must know what I am talking about. If you haven't started yet, then I want to congratulate you - you are about to open a door to a universe that is absurd, humorous, and will leave you silent for a long time after you finish laughing. Four stories, four workplaces, four kinds of absurdity, the same core: using the eyes of aliens to illuminate the absurdity and tenderness of earthlings. 1. "Alien Takes the Earth Driver's License Test" - When a four-eyed alien sat in Santana, he failed subject three. Highlight recommendation: This is the "appetizer" of the entire series. Znik, an interstellar tour guide from the Alpha Centauri system, decided to come to Earth to take a driving license test in order to travel by car in the solar system. Do you think aliens must drive in seconds? No. He was forced to write forty-seven pages of "objections" by the imprecise questions in subject one. He was made to smoke when the subject's second hand brake was not fully released. On subject three, he was so frightened that a bald driver overtaking illegally pushed his car to the curb - and he failed the exam. He used alien technology to transform the test vehicle and used his quantum brain to analyze traffic regulations. Finally, he discovered that the most difficult thing about driving on earth has never been technology, but human uncertainty. This story will make you laugh to tears, and then the next time you meet a dog while driving, you will think of Znik's words: "The essence of driving is not to conquer the road, but to respect life." 2. "Interstellar Tour Group Shopping" - aliens buy plastic flowers in Yiwu, chop at Pinduoduo, and search for fake antiques at Panjiayuan Recommended highlights: Thirty aliens organized a shopping group on Earth, bought tens of thousands of eight-cent plastic flowers at Yiwu Commodity City, experienced "cutting with a knife" at Pinduoduo headquarters until the server crashed, and treated the porcelain burned last week as a family heirloom at Panjiayuan. The machine race RX-7800 put a mobile phone case on the quantum communication core, the gaseous creature erratic swallowed a clothes drying rack into a force field ball as a work of art, and Znik spent ninety-nine dollars to buy a globe that drew Antarctica to the North Pole, saying, "This is the price of the entire world." Absurd? Absurd. But behind the absurdity is the most naked truth of consumerism: authenticity is not important, happiness is the most important; price is not important, experience is the most important. This story will make you suddenly stop and ask yourself when you are browsing the shopping app: Do I really need this thing when I buy it, or do I just want to send the link to "cut it off" to my mother? 3. "Cosmic Civilization Level Examination" - Earth Civilization, 61 points, barely passed. Highlight recommendation: The Milky Way sent a jellyfish-like evaluator No. 7 To rate the earth. Five subjects: scientific and technological level (eighteen points), social system (eight points), environmental sustainability (three points), cultural diversity (twenty points), and interstellar citizenship (negative points). The total score is thirty-nine, plus the cultural bonus points and the potential for progress bonus points, the final score is sixty-one - one point more than the passing line. The people on earth cheered, but evaluator No. 7 Said: "Sixty-one points means passing. But passing is not the end, but the starting point." This story will make your back shiver after laughing out loud. Three points for environment and negative points for interstellar citizen consciousness - do we really think we are worthy of the word "civilization"? But the perfect score for cultural diversity tells you that the earth can still be saved because we have the richest languages, arts, philosophies and emotions. We suck, but we're also gorgeous. 4. "Black Hole Garbage Disposal Plant" - throw the entire galaxy's garbage into a black hole, and then the black hole spits it out. Highlight recommendation: An environmental engineering master's degree who couldn't find a job on earth accidentally became the engineer of the 38472th black hole garbage disposal station in the Milky Way. His colleagues are a ball of luminous gel (Gulu), an octopus machine (Xiaojiu), a four-eyed classifier (Znik's brother), a senior student who graduated from Tsinghua University, and an old webmaster who has been working for thirty-eight years. Their daily job is to collect garbage from the entire galaxy and then throw it into the black hole with a robotic arm. Until one day, the black hole "vomited" - the special garbage that was thrown in, including the Sirian's confession device, the boy's confession record, and the family's holographic photos, were all spit out, and they were all "read" by the black hole into empty shells. This story is the most absurd and profound among the four. It uses a vomiting black hole to tell you: there is no real "disappearance", only the transfer of problems. Every piece of trash you throw out will come back to you in some way. The landfills, ocean plastics, and smog on the earth are the "vomit" of the earth. This story will make you stop for a moment when throwing takeout boxes. Why are these four stories worth reading? Because you are not "looking at aliens", you are looking at magnified earthlings. Znik's driver's license test tests your and my awareness of rules. When aliens shop, they buy your and my consumer desires. The Civilization Level Examination tests your and my shame and pride. Black hole garbage disposal deals with your and my evasion and responsibility. I used the shell of absurd humor in the workplace to install a core of warning and education. Laughter is the entrance, thinking is the aftertaste. These four stories have been published on Tomato Books. Please be sure to look for the author ID - 26182811. Behind that ID is a living author who will reply to you one by one in the comment area. I will read every "haha", every "tears" and every "I understand" you leave behind, and then like Lao Zhao drinking tea from a thermos cup, slowly sip and reply slowly. Final words: I am not a great writer. I'm just a regular guy who enjoys typing away late at night. I have submitted more than 300 resumes and experienced the despair of "not being able to find a job." I wrote the anxiety, absurdity, unwillingness and hope into these stories. If you enjoyed reading it, please let me know. If you feel pricked after reading this, please tell me. Because to me, reader feedback isn't data, it's a handshake across the screen. Thank you for taking the time to read my story. Thank you for not crossing this recommendation out. Thank you for still believing in the power of words in this impetuous era. Tomato Bookstore, search for "26182811" or book titles: "Aliens Test for Earth Driver's License", "Interstellar Tour Group Shopping", "Cosmic Civilization Level Test", "Black Hole Garbage Treatment Plant". After reading this, remember to hit the comment section. I'll wait for you there. ——Your interstellar tour guide, examiner, clerk, garbage man, and forever friend. Sincerely, April 2026

16 末 Apocalypse Waterworld: From the Start, All I Had Was a Junk Boat Wings of the Blue MistSci-Fi & Apocalypse776k WordsCompleted 570Reads6.2Score104Shelves

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The beginning of this book is very attractive, with a shabby garbage ship, patches upon patches, and a system that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work. The subject matter is novel and it's worth reading before going to bed.

17 一 A Pair of Red Hands The Fifteenth Day of the Tenth Lunar MonthUrban2.1M WordsCompleted 13.3kReads9.0Score928Shelves

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When rebirth meets reincarnation [Adoration]

18 他 He Went to the Widow's House Northern IglooAncient Romance531k WordsCompleted 1.8kReads5.8Score113Shelves

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Very nice book

19 当 Become the Richest Man in the World Zhou Jun Who Likes Red BeautyHistorical107k WordsCompleted —Reads—Score—Shelves

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This book is very good

20 到 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse Ling Ling Qi XuanModern Romance913k WordsCompleted 1kReads5.8Score—Shelves

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Horror and cool articles of the era

21 三 I Am the Queen of the Three Kingdoms User30610912Historical1.1M WordsOngoing 398Reads5.8Score110Shelves

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The most exciting books of 2026

22 逃 After Escaping Her Adoptive Parents, Her Life Goes into Easy Mode Xi WenjinModern Romance4.6M WordsCompleted 6.5kReads8.3Score796Shelves

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A masterpiece. You will regret not reading this book. I am very lucky to have encountered it. I recommend it to you. Read it carefully. The anime has both seasons one and two.

23 史 The Poorest County Magistrate's Wife in History Leads the Whole County to Prosperity Ling Ling Qi XuanAncient Romance993k WordsCompleted 655Reads7.0Score—Shelves

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A must-have novel, catching ghosts, fighting zombies, and exorcising evil spirits, farming, raising children, and doing business