Novels that have no lasting romance or love interests. There will be no smut, harem (if MC attracts some people, I don't mind until it becomes a major part of the story or MC becomes interested in them), or ecchi, and BL/GL also count as romance. The list includes a personal rating and (often rambling) review/description.... more>>

Of course, it's also about my tastes, so this list will be mostly fantasy and action novels (op mc will be a common feature). I am a wordy person so I also don’t mind wordier books, too... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The list is in no particular order, but novels with <100 chapters and on hiatus/slow updating (less/around as often as 1 chap/month) will go in the back, starting at #33. This is because I assume people are looking for binge reads like me.

DISCLAIMER: The list is subject to change and revision - my impression changes as I think about them/read more. I cannot guarantee a novel has no romance later. I'll try to update this rec list as I read. No promises though, so my descriptions may be outdated.

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Primarily Career/Shop/Kingdom Development, but there also could be some novels that I like. Most of these novels do not have romance or harem tag as I am not a big fan of these in novels that aren't primarily written as romance.... more>>

I now have a part 2! <<less

Some novel list:
* My Dungeons Are Popular... more>>

*The Strong Man from the mental hospital [novel/manga]

*I Let You Manage the Beast Taming Arena, Now Everyone Became Divine Beasts?

*Thirty Years of Demon Slaying at the Demon-Slaying Department

*I Can Farm Attributes From Ghosts!

*都市：我的地摊专卖限制级商品！[My Stall Sells Only Restricted-Level Items! ] Note: the translation version may change some parts that make it look like a racist so try the raw. 

*I Have a Miniature World

*Why are All My Disciples Demon Lords!

*I’m Really Scared 

*After Transmigrating as a Demon, I've Been Adopted by Angels!

*Since The Red Moon Appeared

*I Have a Time and Space Garden

*I, the Creator of Demon!

*Killer: I can shapeshift infinitely

*Death Inquisitor

*I Can Create Perfect Accidents.

*Five Frozen Centuries

*Deity Hero: Me! Gaining Disciples Makes Me Stronger!

*80 Years Of Signing-In At The Cold Palace, I Am Unrivalled

*Turn out I'm a Great Cultivator

*I Turn Out to Be a Grand Master 

*Hide in the Banished Palace and Level Up To A Big Boss

*A Man Living in the Countryside Would Fly Up to Heaven at Daytime

*As A Cardinal, I Don't Do Overtime

*Xianxia: I Can Download Fully Levelled Abilities

*Becoming God with Spirits

*Pleasure Helping Spirits System

*Self-cultivation of the Exorcist [horror/fanfiction/Parallel worlds]

*Full-time Artist

*Creation Notebook

*The system invites me to be a teacher

*The Fat God System <<less

Novels with little to no romance because sometimes you just don't want to read romance.... more>>

MCs are more interested in their career, making their life better and only have platonic relationships with other characters. <<less

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Novels Where MC Create/Guides a world from the perspective of a god... more>>

(Not all Novels may be real world some consist of Virtual Worlds aswell) <<less

Stories where the protagonist plays God, creating worlds, setting the laws of the universe and all that jazz.... more>>

Not on NU:

The Breath of Creation - RR - Probably the best example of the genre. Beware that it's been dropped so there won't be any new updates.

Overseer - RR - MC is God of only one species, can only interact through them. <<less

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i got so bored cause i couldn't find any more well known wuxia novels that interests me anymore so i'm making this list to sort... more>> out some of the lesser known novels that interests me to read. keep in mind i haven't read any of these novels yet and i might never read some of them i'm only throwing them on this list because something piques my curiosity. if i read any of these i will leave a comment on it and maybe write a review. (and fyi i did sort out these with a certain criteria, which were novels were martial arts genre had cultivation and excluded harems)  <<less

Making this 3 years after beginning to use this site, so I am missing a lot of things. (Especially the Cultivation ones…) Despite that everything... more>> here will be things I enjoyed reading! <<less

List of novels I've come across, as far as I could remember, in no particular order(Wish I did this when I first started reading novels so I could list everything I've dropped/loved)... more>>

Note: This isn't really a recommendation list. As mentioned in the title, I'll only mention if it's good or bad with no particular explanation because this list is mostly for me... and that I most probably forgot the details on the novels listed here lmfao. 

Most of the "On hold" are novels that has something I don't like(petty or not... well, mostly petty since I'm petty) which makes me stop reading, but put on hold in case I want to read it again(is what I had in mind). It just accumulated because whenever I try to continue to read some it just makes me remember why I put it on hold in the first place and stop reading it entirely, but still have enough hope to not drop it.

Not on NU:

Teaching Heroes Might and Magic (Wanna read) (Hiatus)

I Don't Want To Court Death (Ch. 72) (Good) (Hiatus)

Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse (Ch. 255) (On hold) (Good) 

Abyssal Lord of the Magi World (Ch 105) (Dropped, prophecy bs)

Unnamed god (Ch. 168) (On hold)

Immortal's wine store (Vol. 1 Ch. 131) (On hold)

Inexorable chaos (Ch. 100) (On hold)

Dual cultivation (Ch. 725) (On hold)

Supreme magus (Ch. 32) (On hold) <<less

(Contains CN and JP Novels)
(Update schedule will be once a month usually) 
Hey there! I’m currently just adding novels and series from Scribblehub here from time to time as I read more of anything to be honest with you, BUT I’m not too keen on school stuff or romance with a few exception. ... more>>

I will probably be adding more on the way, some of them might have slow uploads so if you’re not that patient with stories, this might not be the best list for you

I also may add some that are from Scribblehub from time to time in the description.

Scribblehub Series

The Stained Tower

The Sword Saint’s Second Life as a Foxgirl
Royal Princess of Blood

Reincarnated as a Sheep (39 ch)

Kodomajo (74 ch)

I reincarnated as an elf in a broken world (101 ch) <<less

Only gut things here... more>>

Novels not on Novel Updates:

- If i were a Creator (webnovel)

- Universe Engine

- Origin and End : The life of a God

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