In a really bad reading rut rn. Recommend some of your favorites? I'm open to everything. ...

Nerium August 19, 2025 10:13 pm

In a really bad reading rut rn. Recommend some of your favorites? I'm open to everything. I'll even take book/web/light novel or fanfic recs!

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    Mrs. Kimchi August 19, 2025 10:55 pm

    Who Can Define Popularity?
    Star x Fanboy
    Murderer Llewellyn's enchanting dinner invitation (Peak)
    The magic soup (my comfort read, very underrated)
    Taming the tiger
    Tale of the Yellow dragon

    bollallob August 19, 2025 11:18 pm

    If you’re into AO3 fics I’d recommend the following straight from my bookmarks list:

    1) counterpart by cerasium
    Fandoms:Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
    Enemy, apprentice, friend. Associate is too clinical, lover sounds too personal, partner too enduring. Confidante? Comrade? Companion?

    There is no word for what Levi is, to him. What do you call an equal other than an equal?

    A counterpart, Erwin thinks.

    -

    from ACWNR to fall of Wall Maria

    2) Homesick at Space Camp by K0bot
    Fandoms:Voltron: Legendary Defender
    Lance realizes he's been an asshole to Keith, and on a diplomatic mission to a key planet for the Voltron alliance he... overcompensates.

    3) Let Me Assist You Personally by Seeress
    Fandoms:僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
    Izuku is long-suffering Personal Assistant to #1 Pro Hero Dynamight.

    Dynamight can't keep a PA to save his career. They all quit crying after a few days weeks. Enter: Izuku—with enough money problems to brave the jaws of the cranky beast. Childhood friend turned glorified paid slave. Somehow it all works out.

    ‘Kill them with kindness’, his mom had told him once. If that were true, Bakugou Katsuki would be stone-cold dead by now.

    4) In Good Company by weialala
    Fandoms:Naruto
    This will sound a little ridiculous, no matter how Sasuke phrases it. I see dead people is embarrassingly tacky, and I'm half-spirit seems like something Sakura might say when she's stoned sky high. So he settles for a shrug.

    5) Metamorphosis by Metalomagnetic
    Fandoms:Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
    Voldemort has traveled a long way to kill Dumbledore.

    6) Bookbinding by Asenora
    Fandoms:Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
    Which will win: sixteen years of planning for brutal world domination, or one (1) teenage girl?

    7) The Last Pureblood Malfoy by TheLoud
    Fandoms:Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
    Here’s my contribution to the ridiculously contrived, trashy, marriage law trope. This one involves Lucius Malfoy and a muggle stripper, with snarky commentary by Percy Weasley. Rated M for some sex scenes.

    8) Alley Cat by papermonkey
    Fandoms:Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
    In which Draco attends Hogwarts with Tom Riddle and inadvertently saves the world.

    And if you’re into mangas and webtoons more, I’ll make a separate reply with those soon (●'◡'●)ノ

    bollallob August 19, 2025 11:31 pm

    Webtoons—any genre but mostly thriller, M/M or Slice of Life:

    1) Mysterious Village (thriller can be found by that name right here but I’d recommend reading it on Webtoon since the translation is better and since it isn’t even complete)

    2) The boy next door - Bae Chol Wan (slice of life bromance and it even has a miniseries on Yt. It’s here and the translation is fine and even though it’s not tagged BL you didn’t even have to squint to see the implications the creator put in)

    3) Reiri (SOL and historical. Based on real events and has an unresolved romance IMO. Ends on good terms however the ending is so fucking sad—no deaths or anything actually bad I guess—that I still kinda cry about it on occasion)

    4)Emperor and the female knight (romance and historical. She’s like a tomboy but not?? I mean, she wouldn’t dub herself that but in layman’s and modern terms that’s what she is and she’s amazing. The emperor falls first and hard and she’s a breath of fresh fucking air in terms of female leads)

    5)angel densetsu (SOL and school life he’s misunderstood because he has a scary ass face but he’s the sweetest thing out. It’s an old manage but translate well and scanned well too.)

    6) Hinamatsuri (SOL supernatural I guess? Daddy daughter but the daddy is a gangster and the daughter is fucking powerful and has a blunt demeanor and is obsessed with caviar. It has an anime and I love it. I read it when I’m bored or mellow)

    7) Life Completely ruined (I’d recommend reading this on Webtoon. It’s here though. It’s made by the same creator of Lookism and it’s complete and funny asf.)

    8) 7 seeds. (It’s unique and probably not to most people’s taste but it’s really good. Slim not good at explaining it but there’s an incomplete series on Netflix and the translation are great here too.

    9) I will die soon. (Has a kdrama. Dude KHS but meets the grim reaper that makes him live the lives of a bunch of people bound to die soon. It’s good.

    10) The Affairs of the Other World Depend on the Corporate Slave (REALLY FUCKING GOOD M/M. Historical buffet world type thing. Younger top and realistic thirty something year old bottom. Has a light novel too.