Novels With No Love Interest(s) / No Romance
Novels With No Love Interest(s) / No Romance
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.
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 No promises though, so my descriptions may be outdated.
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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 No promises though, so my descriptions may be outdated.
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Similar lists (insert after the "viewlist/" in the URL): 68396, 3797, 46727, 20556, 7097, 25820, 47958, 19335, 48107, 50847, 29345, 44031
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Created: Sep 5th, 2020, Updated: Feb 7th, 2024
Created Sep 5th, 2020
Updated Feb 7th, 2024
144 Chapters Every 28.3 Day(s) 3462 Readers 54 Reviews 10-17-2017
3.5/5: In which the MC, in typical power fantasy fashion, has cheats and levels up a lot. However, he also runs around being a refugee and government rebel a lot as well. It's a decent read but gets sort of old after a few arcs. ... more>>
1034 Chapters Every 2.3 Day(s) 8403 Readers 56 Reviews 04-24-2024
4/5: Somewhat generic light KR reincarnation into game stuff in many ways. The MC is quite good at figuring things out (except for that one thing that pretty much all transmigrators have), gets a cheat, and he proceeds to go around helping people with it, mostly anonymously but also a bit openly.... more>>
355 Chapters Every 3.2 Day(s) 9877 Readers 46 Reviews 03-25-2024
4.2/5: In which the MC, a prince, is transmigrated back in time as the youngest prince of the opposing country, who died in his past life. Political intrigue ensues as MC makes efforts to avoid the original's death.... more>>
373 Chapters Every 1.5 Day(s) 1415 Readers 30 Reviews 04-25-2024
4.5/5: Has the "God managing players/believers in fantasy world" aspect of I Am the God of Games, and the "summoning players to their world to help them out while saying it's VR" and kingdom building like in Shepherding Humanity, as well as the game dev elements. ... more>>
223 Chapters Every 31.8 Day(s) 7018 Readers 69 Reviews 02-20-2024
3.3/5: Why does it remind me so much of Crossing to the Future, It's Not Easy to be a Man? Anyway, a bit of a Gary Stu child soldier MC who eventually grows into an adult in a not awfully realistic magical military setting sums it up pretty well. Also, his naming sense is...not great. Maybe it comes off better in Korean?... more>>
37 Chapters Every 87.3 Day(s) 1417 Readers 49 Reviews 03-09-2020
3.5/5: Has a calm, relatively straightforward MC who one day finds out that, at midnight, he gets 24 hours of time freeze where he's the only one that can move. On top of that, he joins a 'game' and his time cheat carries over, allowing him to spend years in the game scenarios that are supposed to last months at most.... more>>
#32Elqueeness
75 Chapters Every 5.4 Day(s) 3934 Readers 22 Reviews 04-22-2024
3.8/5: Cinnamon roll MC's adventures in a medieval fantasy with his friends. BTW: there's a cute manhwa adaptation which is already ahead of the novel. Also, there is more angst later on than one might expect (although not in the translated novel, it's not there yet).... more>>
68 Chapters Every 86.8 Day(s) 1596 Readers 30 Reviews 06-27-2023
3/5: A fun little worldbuilding story about a guy building a civilization in his backyard. MC is a very flawed character personality-wise (or ability-wise. As the synopsis says, he's not very competent), and the in-backyard sandbox storyline borrows heavily from mythology. Not particularly compelling in terms of characters, but interesting premise and a good light read; later on, the story focuses much less on the main character and more on the stories of his backyard civilization inhabitants. It's a little weird.... more>>
95 Chapters Every 78.4 Day(s) 2747 Readers 15 Reviews 02-21-2022
4.5/5: A light-ish novel that's mostly about the MC defeating, dissecting, and evolving as they live and develop in a fictional prehistoric sea. Very few characters, and there isn't really a society that the MC interacts with.... more>>
200 Chapters Every 6 Day(s) 1725 Readers 27 Reviews 03-16-2024
3.8/5: A rare non-romance QT with a male protagonist. Know that he is a bit of a psycho, and the story has plot holes. But it's nonetheless a pretty good light read.... more>>
#36Youjo Senki
9 Chapters Every 344 Day(s) 6598 Readers 27 Reviews 04-04-2017
5/5: It's a pretty famous piece that I'm sure you can find better reviews for. To sum it up, it's the story of a rather extreme salaryman with twisted morals, who is reincarnated by "Being X" into a little orphan girl in what is basically WWI with magic. She proceeds to become an ace of aces and the trump card of the in-world Imperial Germany equivalent. While still being younger than any teen. ... more>>
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3.6/5: Similar to Shepherding Humanity, it's an accelerated-time world-/kingdom-building story, but the sci-fi is less fake, and the MC is also more rational. Although there aren't a lot of chapters out right now, it looks very promising, albeit bland.... more>>
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Off-site recs dump in case anyone needs more reading material (Have not yet read all of these, more TBA hopefully):
- Mother of Learning by Nobody123 | [RRL] {Complete} | male mc, fantasy, time loop
- Queen in the Mud by Maari | [Kindle; RRL] {2nd Book on Hiatus} | fmc, fantasy
Nice list
Although I ended up reading worlds tree without realising it was dropped
@aShinyVaporeon ahh that's good to know. If they do update again, I'll be sure to give it a read :D
Sorry for the late reply, I didn't notice this before. Luckily it was saved
Lovely list! They all look interesting (i only read TCF and King's avatar haha)
Also, I would like to suggest "Omniscient Reader's viewpoint" it's action, survival novel/manhwa and it doesn't have romance in it :3
Oh, yeah, I did read up to like chapter 300 a while ago. It's one of those novels I'm not up to date with so I'm hesitant to add it to the list, thank you for the recommend!
I'll try to catch up on it and add it in. :D
love this list, thank you so much!
(early spoiler for ppl who didn’t read word)
i actually drop the story when he went to the new city and was trying to save her so do you know what happens after that