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Group Gender-Bender Stories: Multiple Transformations, Gender-Bender Yuri, and More, with Two or More Characters
This list collects stories featuring group transformation. I won't include abandoned ones. I really want more group-transformation stories, so please recommend some! Group transformation, multiple transformations, and dual transformations are all welcome. Gender-swapped characters are welcome too. If I've missed any group-transformation stories, please send me a private message and I'll add them. Thanks!
Bawangbao's Top Traditional Gender-Bender and Gender-Bender Romance Novels, Plus a Few Other Genres
I've been reading less lately, so most of these are older books. Good for passing the time during a holiday. (I try to favor pure romance.)
Some Gender-Swap Romance Recommendations I Think Are Good
I'm noticing fewer and fewer transformation-and-romance reading lists these days. As a fan of transformation stories, I think romance can bring out what makes the genre appealing. The order and rankings don't mean anything. I'll include my personal impressions.
A Veteran Transformation-Novel Reader’s Picks
Gender-bender novel recommendations.
Maybe Obscure (New) and Old Stories
On this list, 'old books' means novels that began serialization before 2026; anything after that counts as new. Pinecone Bun's tags are so poorly done that old books are incredibly hard to find. I made this list mainly to recommend good older books you can't find on the completed list, as well as distinctive stories and some new ones I'm reading. It includes gender-bender GL, gender-bender romance, and male-lead stories. The order only reflects the sequence in which I remembered the books while
Just for Fun
Most are TS. These stories take their writing seriously and rarely rely on tired internet memes.
Mostly Gender-Bender Romance!
They might not be the best, but they're definitely good! It's hard to describe a book in just a few words, so it's best to open one and see for yourself. (I've added ratings, with 5 stars as the maximum.)
Is Life Always So Hard?
I'm pretty picky about what I read, so this list is a collection of gems I found after browsing the library over and over. Includes both gender-bender and non-gender-bender stories. The styles vary, but there are no brainless wish-fulfillment stories with cute girls just for the sake of it. Comfortable writing style. Updated whenever!
Quality Female-Protagonist Stories (Half for My Own Use)
This is basically a personal reading list, but I've added brief descriptions, so feel free to save it if you're interested. List rules: 1. Includes books I've fully subscribed to, along with free works I think are excellent. 2. Only one work per author. If an author has a newer, more interesting early work, I'll try to include that one instead. 3. Mostly complete works, or exceptionally long works still in progress, provided they meet rule 2. 4. This is a personal record, so it only includes sto
Books I Personally Enjoyed
Pinecone has way too much samey content these days.
Boluobao Featured Novels
The best works I've found since I started reading on Pineapple Bun
Transformation to Female
Books I like.
Commemorating Six Years of Reading Gender-Bender Romance (Dropped Stories Removed)
I can't believe I've been on Pinecone for six years. This little rat is almost done with college. I'll make a list to commemorate it. This only includes books I've finished or am currently following, not abandoned ones or books I've stopped following. The time span is pretty wide, and I don't remember the finer details of many stories, so my reviews are quite subjective. Please understand. Ongoing books are listed first, and completed ones come afterward.
Plot-Driven Gender-Bender Romance Recommendations
People read novels for great stories, and gender-bender romance is no exception. This list recommends currently updating gender-bender novels with strong plots and compelling stories. (Ongoing list.)
High-Quality Gender-Bender Novels with Female Leads
A Decade-Long Gender-Bender Romance Veteran's Picks: Guaranteed Good Reads!!!!
1. Pineapple Bun has all sorts of gender-bender romance, with quality all over the place. I'll pick out the best ones here, so newcomers can find the gender-bender stories that suit them best. 2. (All of these are pure gender-bender romance, with zero yuri. Absolutely, positively no yuri.) 3. A blessing for readers with strong purity preferences: These are all pretty traditional, not erotica, so the protagonists don't get together until very late in the story. Some don't get together until the e
Amazing Gender-Bender-to-Female Novels (Plot and Prose)
I recently noticed that the gender-bender romance list I had bookmarked wasn't being updated anymore, so I picked out some gender-bender romance novels with particularly good plots or prose. Some are well written, some have questionable mental states ???, and some are cozy slice-of-life... Update-status categories may overlap. Furiously writing (daily updates): 14 books Elbowed the boss to victory (revived): 1 book Swimming in the fishpond (not daily updates): 1 book Eastern Palace power broker
Gender-Bender Stories for Personal Use
Personal collection. They're all gender-bender stories, and the writing is pretty good across the board~
Gender-Bender-to-Female Romance with a Little Spice
Mostly Gender-Bender Romance
Scored out of ten. Every book here is one I think is worth reading, but the ratings are very subjective. I'll update the descriptions when I have time.
Gender-Bender Stories with Great Worldbuilding
This list mainly features novels with interesting worldbuilding. More will be added later.
My Little Collection
I've been on Boba Bun for quite a while, so my taste is probably trustworthy. Yep, they're all gender-bender stories. (I've kicked out the abandoned ones.) Unfinished means older books that are still updating; ongoing means new books.
Best Gender-Bender Stories
A selection of high-quality genderbender-to-marriage stories that suit my tastes, mostly newer pure romance titles. No fluff-only stories. I only include works that showcase what makes this genre special and focus on the romance. 24/5/29 Added one book 24/6/26 Added one book
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"The Blood Queen" has officially ended. Thank you for your support, everyone. All good things must come to an end. Looking forward to meeting again next time.
The supplementary side stories for the main characters are now complete. I'll have time to write some follow-up theatrical episodes later. However, my main focus and time will still be on my family and the outline for my new story.
On Friday, August 1st, which is today, I'll be uploading a new episode of "Marriage Change," titled "If You Don't Study Well Since Childhood, You'll Be Someone's Girlfriend Sooner or Later." It's a lighthearted urban comedy about marriage change, challenging itself with an absurd and humorous urban story.
Internet Xiaodeng's Reflections
It felt like discovering a significant artifact in internet archaeology, or like stepping back into the days when I first started reading online novels. My fondness for transmigration novels stemmed from the gender-swap plot in *The Dark End*, which awakened a strange sense of wonder within me. Then, by chance, I discovered *The Legend of the Goddess*, marking my entry into the transmigration novel genre. After reading it, I was utterly captivated. Unfortunately, when I read *The Legend of the Goddess*, the genre was already in decline. At that time, I vaguely remember only *Sleeping Beauty* still being serialized on major platforms, so I could only finish *The Legend of the Goddess* on TXT (later I found a cyberpunk hardcover epub version). Following the ending of *The Legend of the Goddess*, I read *The Night Pearl*, and was once again awestruck. These two books were later additions to my reading list...
There aren't many chapters left, but the total word count has actually exceeded expectations by 100,000 to 150,000 words. This is mainly because the outlines for the later chapters contain too much content; if we were to actually write them out, they would probably be tens of thousands of words long, so we had to split them up.
The illusion of time going backwards
Berenhill! When I first saw this name, I thought it was just a fake account, since it was missing a single character. The possibility of it truly being the legend of seventeen years ago was something I couldn't even imagine. Berenhill, who established his reputation with just two works, yet immediately retired from writing, gave me a rare and complete memory back then. The beautiful *Three Thousand Years*, which froze time into the Venus de Milo, also forever left a part of me in the past; *The Last Judgment*, a rebellion against fate, ended with fate mocking him, a feeling that lingers with me to this day. Only Berenhill, two completely different stories, one striving in a transcendent world, the other in reality...
The ending felt strange; so much was prepared, yet so many people still left. Judging from this plot, it seems there's absolutely no need for Songren to go in. The location is known, the contents are known, the poison is prepared, and the nuclear bomb can wipe them out. Why not just kill the Progenitor with a single missile? A bunch of enemies and their own people are going to die anyway, so one missile can solve everything and maybe even reduce the number of deaths. It's a bit abstract.
I've finished yet another book! My bookshelf inventory has decreased by one.
New book release on July 1st: "The Light at the End of the Night and Her"
Why did this ending turn out like this? It lacked the feel of a heroic sacrifice. Why send an ordinary person like Han to jail? It would have been better if they had just left Yao Yao and Meng Hui to go in for half an hour and then bombarded them from the air if they couldn't rescue Yan and Jing. At least a count would have been sent to jail. I haven't even seen Yao and Yan's wedding yet, and at least Yan and Meng's love scene wasn't shown.