Easygoing, Satisfying Plot-Driven Reads: Urban, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi

Books: 16
Follows: 15
Updated: 7y ago

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A reading list from someone who's been reading for ten years. Plot comes first, with little fighting (I've read too much of it and don't want more). The writing is excellent and the logic holds together, often giving readers that satisfying feeling of being surprised while realizing it makes perfect sense. Most importantly, the female lead needs to feel like a real person, with a rich inner life. Whether there's one heroine or several, the romance has to be convincing! Mainly urban fiction, fantasy, and sci-fi. I lean toward power fantasies that are lighthearted and funny without being stupid. No useless-protagonist stories, simplistic newbie novels, or padded-out books. I'll gradually add good books I've read in the past.

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1 I Own an Adventure House I Can Fix Air ConditionersMystery & Supernatural3.1M WordsCompleted 755Votes7MRecs5MFans
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[The simplified physical book of this work is published by Dimension Library] Chen Ge inherited the adventure house left by his missing parents, but his business was sluggish until he accidentally discovered a mobile phone while cleaning up the adventure house and changed everything. As long as you complete the tasks of different difficulties set by your mobile phone every day, the adventure house can be repaired or even expanded! So Chen Ge began to explore and collect materials in various forbidden areas, and incorporated the scene elements into his own adventure house. With the screams of the tourists who came to visit, the adventure house became famous in one fell swoop! However, although the mission brings more and more benefits, the hidden dangers are slowly emerging, and even clues to the disappearance of the parents seem to be hidden in it...
2 The Ninth Under Heaven I'm Old Five, the GooseCultivation3.6M WordsCompleted 8Votes16.7MRecs954.3kFans
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There are eight Hongmeng Dao Principles in the endless universe, and each of these eight Dao Principles is fused by a supremely powerful person. No one knows that there is a ninth Tao in the universe, and this Tao breaks through the grand mist, and no one can touch it.
3 Battle Frenzy Skeleton ElfCultivation4.1M WordsCompleted 0Votes30.3MRecs1.4MFans
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Double moons in the sky, a world of heroic souls with infinite possibilities Loneliness and darkness, a mysterious and weird life-playing clown A federation of hundreds of cities, three empires, alien races running rampant, and soul beasts dominating the ghosts This is an era of heroes, where humans are working hard to regain control of the earth, and are nurturing the ambition to enter high latitudes! The focus is... How the second-year loser Wang, a good-for-nothing senior, uses the roulette wheel to move the whole world! ! ! Fighting group one: 21222419 (two thousand people fighting group) Fighting group two: 12962047
4 The Demonic Immortal Emperor in the City Proud TalentUrban3.8M WordsCompleted 0Votes17.2kRecs47kFans
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(Invincible Text) Xiao Chen, the only Immortal Emperor in the Ziwei Immortal Domain who stands at the top of the Immortal Way, returned to the city and discovered many interesting things. The rubbish techniques he once left behind were regarded as the holy scriptures of martial arts by a bunch of people. The man who once cried and begged to call him master has become a powerful man in the divine realm that everyone respects. Xiao Chen: Are there any slightly stronger opponents?
5 Superb Urban Immortal Doctor Cup of Flowing Water and WineCultivation2.1M WordsCompleted 0Votes2.9kRecs15.6kFans
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Possessing heaven-defying magical powers and miraculous medical skills, Su Ling rose up powerfully in the flowery city filled with beauties, defeating everything and becoming a fairy doctor legend.
6 Return from the Immortal Realm Quiet Night Sends ThoughtsUrban4.4M WordsCompleted 0Votes753.9kRecs565.2kFans
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The soul of a great giant in the immortal world was scattered, and a ray of soul returned to its original body on the earth. Tang Xiu was surprised to find that ten thousand years had passed in the immortal world, and only one year had passed on the earth.
7 The Legend of the Little Soldier Xuan YuSci-Fi2.1M WordsCompleted 0Votes344.6kRecs572.7kFans
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He has been ambitious since he was a child and hopes to be a marshal who can command the world's troops. He believed that to be a marshal, one must first become a general, and to be a general, one must start as a soldier. Please support the new book "Erha and I share the system"
8 The Strongest Abandoned Son I'm Old Five, the GooseCultivation7.0M WordsCompleted 39Votes1.5MRecs1.3MFans
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When Ye Mo suddenly woke up, he realized that everything around him seemed to have changed, and the beautiful master was also missing. He also discovered that he had become an abandoned son abandoned by a wealthy family, a bitter force whose engagement was broken off by others, or an object of humiliation by a woman standing on the podium holding his love letter... But these were not important. The most important thing was that he also remembered another terrible thing that did not belong to him in the first place.
9 Star Wars Storm Skeleton ElfSci-Fi3.9M WordsOngoing 10Votes3.5MRecs1.1MFans
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The military academy exam was approaching, and those with a genetic number of twenty-eight were directly disqualified from the exam. I sent a love letter to a friend, but ended up falling into the lake, and the reputation of dying for love spread like wildfire. When classmate Wang Zheng received a gift for the first time, it felt like he had entered purgatory... However, when everything ended, classmate Wang started a happy college life! Eternal blood, this is the march of the storm, this is the most ferocious and passionate mecha craze!
10 The Path of Awakening Butterfly BlueEastern Fantasy2.5M WordsOngoing 50Votes6.7MRecs675.8kFans
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Chong, Ming, Qi, Shu, Li, Jing, Ying. The Seven Powers of Soul! Perception of the seven souls creates countless strong men. However, in a humble college, a young man is facing the crisis of being expelled...
11 Super Gene Armor Nine Light-Years per SecondSci-Fi743k WordsCompleted 0Votes13.5kRecs32.6kFans
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In the future, almost everything in the world can be encapsulated. Cars can be transformed into peanut-sized capsules that can be carried in pockets, mansions can be carried in pockets, and even genetic armor can also be lightweight capsules. When Ye Chuan got this genetic armor capsule called [Aurora], he had no idea that it was not himself that was changed, but the world...
12 The Galactic Empire Deep Blue Coconut JuiceEastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted 0Votes219.6kRecs220.7kFans
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Sixteen years after time travel, Ronan finally escaped from prison! … This is a manic world. Steel and witchcraft are colliding, and faith and freedom are facing a choice. There are only two kinds of people who can change the world, geniuses or madmen. Ronan never thought he was a genius. However, he inadvertently composed the most magnificent legend in the era of stars and magic. … Following "Night Ranger", Dark Blue Coconut Juice's new book. The same fast pace and plot flow as always; brand new settings and more prominent visual descriptions! Please feel free to collect, click and recommend!
13 The Divine Gate Xin YiEastern Fantasy4.2M WordsCompleted 0Votes263.4kRecs707.2kFans
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[Super popular fantasy] This is a weird and inexplicable world... Mountains, water, stones, flowers, grass, trees, trees, sun, moon, stars... Everything in the world is the source of power. There are all the classics from the previous life here, but there is a new name "Tao Canon"! So you can gain strength by reading books? Fang Zhengzheng was very confused. Should I read "Tao Te Ching", "Qi Men Dun Jia" and "The Analects of Confucius" first or... "A Dream of Red Mansions"? Based on the "Tao Canon", master the way of all things and open the door to becoming a god! PS: VIP group: 450416188 (all subscriptions are available) Ordinary group: 392767347 (no fans are allowed)

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I’ve been reading novels for years, so I’m keeping a record of what I’ve read as a keepsake. I’ve read every book on this list at least once. I lean toward fantasy, transmigration, no heroine or a single heroine, System stories, extreme-path cultivation, and so on. (Just adding the blurbs for now. I’ll fill in the comments when I have time.)