What are SH writers reading?

[SouthernMaiden]

NO SELF PROMOTION
NO SELF PROMOTION
NO SELF PROMOTION

*Cough cough*

I want to hear what the SH writers are reading. Novels, stories(SH or other sites), fan fictions, smut, the backs of shampoo bottles.

I am reading three things actively at the moment.

1. Forge of God|Novel
Sci Fi book about aliens destroying Earth and the end of the world. Almost done with this one. Well written, but kinda depressing
2. This Is How I Lived [A Post-Apocalyptic Diary] |SH
Journal of a a girl living through a zombie event. But she has a lot of personality, its a more "slice of life" style. Also, there seems to be a slowly unraveling mystery about the protag. Dont wanna spoil.
3. If You Can Hear This, Stop Listening|SH
Not many chapters of this yet. But its shaping up to be a really well written supernatural queer romance. I really like the radio supernatural theming too

Now, what are you reading? Remember...

NO SELF PROMOTION
NO SELF PROMOTION
NO SELF PROMOTION

Oh and I finished a book called Eternity Road. Takes place hundreds of years after the end of civilization. A group travels to retrieve lost knowledge at an ancient mythical library.

All the tech of our world(now dead) is like magic to them.

 

[Kurayami]

I have been reading a story by @AstreiaNyx : https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1076830/royal-reboot-level-up-your-majesty/

I highly recommend it. It's been a nice break from my usual fantasy read. Before this, I never really read much urban fantasy, but after this, I think I will read even more. She did a really nice trick to get me to read by baiting me with tags like isekai and GL. I came for the isekai and GL, and then I stayed for the subversion and the angst.

 

[ElijahRyne]

NO SELF PROMOTION
NO SELF PROMOTION
NO SELF PROMOTION

*Cough cough*

I want to hear what the SH writers are reading. Novels, stories(SH or other sites), fan fictions, smut, the backs of shampoo bottles.

I am reading three things actively at the moment.

1. Forge of God|Novel
Sci Fi book about aliens destroying Earth and the end of the world. Almost done with this one. Well written, but kinda depressing
2. This Is How I Lived [A Post-Apocalyptic Diary] |SH
Journal of a a girl living through a zombie event. But she has a lot of personality, its a more "slice of life" style. Also, there seems to be a slowly unraveling mystery about the protag. Dont wanna spoil.
3. If You Can Hear This, Stop Listening|SH
Not many chapters of this yet. But its shaping up to be a really well written supernatural queer romance. I really like the radio supernatural theming too

Now, what are you reading? Remember...

NO SELF PROMOTION
NO SELF PROMOTION
NO SELF PROMOTION

Oh and I finished a book called Eternity Road. Takes place hundreds of years after the end of civilization. A group travels to retrieve lost knowledge at an ancient mythical library.

All the tech of our world(now dead) is like magic to them.

Rereading Higurashi: When they Cry’s VN. <- Highly recommended reading, however you should use the 07 mod.
Also reading this Chinese Webnovel, however am considering dropping it: https://twkan.com/book/73004/index.html

 

[SouthernMaiden]

Rereading Higurashi: When they Cry’s VN. <- Highly recommended reading, however you should use the 07 mod.
Also reading this Chinese Webnovel, however am considering dropping it: https://twkan.com/book/73004/index.html

Ive always been afraid of Higurashi, I don't want to see innocent looking characters die or get hurt

 

[AstreiaNyx]

I have been reading a story by @AstreiaNyx : https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1076830/royal-reboot-level-up-your-majesty/

I highly recommend it. It's been a nice break from my usual fantasy read. Before this, I never really read much urban fantasy, but after this, I think I will read even more. She did a really nice trick to get me to read by baiting me with tags like isekai and GL. I came for the isekai and GL, and then I stayed for the subversion and the angst.

What a coincidence. I also want to recommend Kurayami’s story that I’m actively reading, especially for new writers who wonder how to make it to trending. All of her works, from my really super good memory, made it to trending. Why, you ask? I was also curious so I decided to read it, even though LitRPG isn’t what I would usually read.


1. She knows what she wants and what the audience wants, and she marries them.
2. Don’t be fooled by what looks like simple prose. There are many unexpected, charming moments in her story that make you smile and realise it takes real effort and grind to be able to write that way.
3. It’s an entertaining and cute, cosy story with a pink-haired, delusional witch who is also, ah… ahem, a useless lesbian. Why not?

I Became My Vampire Witch Character

Ella was a delusional woman. She spent her days grinding in her favorite MMO, on the off chance she got isekaid. She would play for hours every day while chugging energy drinks and hoping to make the strongest character possible. Well, maybe she wasn't so delusional after all? One fateful...

www.scribblehub.com

 

[JayMark]

My reading habits are so bad right now between work and writing. The one writer who captured me might be using AI and keeps deleting their works so I'm not going to bring them up, but they wrote several really hooking starts and one banger short story just to delete them all after several chapters. So now I'm afraid to read their stuff.

This is my most recent full reading of anything and it's an underappreciated masterpiece.

Hermes Trismegistus Goes Fishing

Hermes Trismegistus—alchemist, seeker of truths, and ageless multitasker burdened with far too many cosmic errands—decided to go fishing in the Nexus Waters.

www.scribblehub.com

 

[ElijahRyne]

Ive always been afraid of Higurashi, I don't want to see innocent looking characters die or get hurt

In the visual novel there are no graphic images only graphic descriptions. With the 07 mod brings all versions of the sprites, backgrounds, and OSTs for you to choose, while also having nearly all lines of dialogue being voice acted. Only lines censored or not in the console release are not acted. You can buy the first chapter, and every chapter, for quite cheap on steam.
Also there are quite a few blind lets reads on YouTube.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Currently on this site bouncing between Cameron To Candy | Scribble Hub and I Blinked and now I’m Famous | Scribble Hub

Also have a "listening rotation" of audionovels (whenever I hear the "caching" sound of coins being spent I move on to the next in the rotation rather than running out of stored coins) of Solo Leveling, My Vampire System, The Ghostbuster Scam and The Mech Touch.
The latter is the best-written of the four, despite a very slow start and having to sit through Fez Larkinson's full character sheet at least once every two chapters (it gets pretty long, thanks to "The Mech Designer System").
The Ghostbuster Scam is interesting in three ways: 1) it is a truly pointless isekai - the character jumps into his own life, from a world where he was a failing high school student trying unsuccessfully to be a scam artist to one where his parents ran a ghostbusting business which he inherited as they died instead of him in this world and he quickly discovered that, to them, fighting ghosts was not a scam. And he gets a system - but one he has to log into an actual computer to access. But it also feels like the author writes about 500 words and then turns each chapter over to AI to pad out to 2000.
My Vampire System was probably the "final straw" in getting me to go back to writing when I was unemployed - just thinking of where an editor could have fixed some of the dumber parts led me to the "I can do this, but better..." idea and that led to, well, no self promotion here but it is also on Pocket FM.
Solo Leveling is a full cast audio. Unfortunately, it was almost directly converted to a shooting script and not a radio script, so a lot of the action you have to make up entirely, and several scenes are entirely up to the listener to detail, which is annoying at times.

 

[pangmida]

2. This Is How I Lived [A Post-Apocalyptic Diary] |SH
Journal of a a girl living through a zombie event. But she has a lot of personality, its a more "slice of life" style. Also, there seems to be a slowly unraveling mystery about the protag. Dont wanna spoil.

Highly recommend! The story's an easy read and really fun as well. Love it. If you like an addicting storyline with a fast pacing and an interesting protagonist, as well as a diary-style narrative, this is the story for you!

I'm currently reading this. Hands down my fav SH novel. Amazing worldbuilding, lovely characters, and adorable romance. I've made so much fan art of it. It's a historical fantasy reverse harem. Reverse gender role, matriarchal society. You follow the protagonist's journey to grow from a naive princess to the Queen of the nation.

Consorts of the Court

(A REVERSE WORLD STORY) In a world where women rule and men serve, Princess Moriya was born to conquer—not just lands, but hearts. Raised in the grandeur of Dyss, the most powerful Queendom on the continent, Moriya is destined to become Queen. But power in a matriarchal empire doesn't...

www.scribblehub.com

 

[Wenlock]

I have been reading The Dinner by Herman Koch. It's a good novel if you want an unreliable narrator. It borders on classism and mental disorders and questions the readers on how they will rationalize the horrible actions of the characters. I decided not too. They are unforgivable. But overall a very good light and impressionable read. 8.5/10
Also has anyone read Reverend Insanity over here? I wanted to start it but not it's dropped and people say it is extremely repetitive while others glaze it to hell.

 

[SouthernMaiden]

I have been reading The Dinner by Herman Koch. It's a good novel if you want an unreliable narrator. It borders on classism and mental disorders and questions the readers on how they will rationalize the horrible actions of the characters. I decided not too. They are unforgivable. But overall a very good light and impressionable read. 8.5/10
Also has anyone read Reverend Insanity over here? I wanted to start it but not it's dropped and people say it is extremely repetitive while others glaze it to hell.

Wow, The Dinner sounds pretty good. Surprised you described it as light, the synopsis sounded heavy af!

 

[Makimaam]

This Is How I Lived [A Post-Apocalyptic Diary
By @AliceMoonvale


I consider myself a representative of the low-attention-span, brainrot Gen Alpha kids, so a story that has me hammering the Next button without forcing it earns a grade A in my book. It’s very different from what you usually see here.

It’s written in a diary format that trusts the reader, sometimes too much, to pick up on what’s left unsaid. But I found it fun and trying to figure out what the MC will do next has always been a treat: what she’ll do, why she hides, what she accidentally reveals.

It’s a brainteaser of a story, no pun intended.

 

[EdwinLovato]

Is it ok if I share manga/manwha? my reading list right now is Gantz and Bad Born Blood.

 

[SouthernMaiden]

Highly recommend! The story's an easy read and really fun as well. Love it. If you like an addicting storyline with a fast pacing and an interesting protagonist, as well as a diary-style narrative, this is the story for you!

I'm currently reading this. Hands down my fav SH novel. Amazing worldbuilding, lovely characters, and adorable romance. I've made so much fan art of it. It's a historical fantasy reverse harem. Reverse gender role, matriarchal society. You follow the protagonist's journey to grow from a naive princess to the Queen of the nation.

Consorts of the Court

(A REVERSE WORLD STORY) In a world where women rule and men serve, Princess Moriya was born to conquer—not just lands, but hearts. Raised in the grandeur of Dyss, the most powerful Queendom on the continent, Moriya is destined to become Queen. But power in a matriarchal empire doesn't...

www.scribblehub.com

My partner loves those chinese imperial harem/court drama stories and manga.

I think we'll both check this out!

 

[great_sloth]

Currently, catching up with Mirror Legacy. While pausing from The Divine Diary.

 

[SouthernMaiden]

Is it ok if I share manga/manwha? my reading list right now is Gantz and Bad Born Blood.

Go ahead, as long as you didnt write/draw it yourself :3

 

[AliceMoonvale]

2. This Is How I Lived [A Post-Apocalyptic Diary] |SH
Journal of a a girl living through a zombie event. But she has a lot of personality, its a more "slice of life" style. Also, there seems to be a slowly unraveling mystery about the protag. Dont wanna spoil.

I wonder whose story that is. Sounds neat.

I'm a very picky, slow, critical reader due to AuDHD, but:

Bloodsworn Eternity Vow Across Lifetimes
Kind of a dark/gothic, slow-burn fantasy romance in a victorian period, with vampires.
Might be slightly biased in why I like it, and I won't be sorry.

This Is How You Died
Project Zomboid fanfiction.
Unfortunately the author hasn't posted in months, but I still like it. Again, due to a lot of bias.
And I also credit them for inspiring me to write my own original story.

On Retard Road, I'm slowly reading:

Reign of the Blood Witch
A slow-burn gothic horror, with a fairly realistic and disturbing portrayal of prison life and mob mentality.
Bias in why I like and read it.

There's a theme here, isn't there?

Cold Relics
Creepypasta horror web series about millennials
You just have to read it.

 

[Jerynboe]

I listen to more than I read these days, because any time I have enough quiet space to read I have enough quiet space to write. In contrast, I have a 45 minute commute and my job includes a lot of driving around so I can listen to a lot of audiobooks.

With that said, I’m listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl and Re listening to Harry Potter for the first time since before my kindergarten aged daughter was born. The former is absolutely magnificent, easily my favorite thing I’ve ever read in the litrpg genre

I’m consistently surprised by how well the latter holds up when I go back to it from time to time, but I don’t think it needs further explanation.

I’m also considering going back and Re listening to some of the random smattering of classics I’ve gotten my hands on. Carmilla is one of my favorite books in terms of ones that I go back to regularly and I have absolutely no idea why because modern lesbian vampires have literally zero appeal to me, but apparently 1870s lesbian vampires were just built different.

My wife also just finished her first fanfiction since high school and has been posting it here so I’ve been listening to it through text to speech. I will refrain from sharing the title because I’m sufficiently intertwined with her for it to feel iffy on the self promotion front, but I’m very proud of her for finally posting it. I had to push her hard to get her to actually release it; she was 100% cool with sitting on a completed novel length Harry Potter fanfiction that she wrote for fun because she assumed nobody would like it/care, and Ao3 seemed pretty into it.

 

[SouthernMaiden]

Reign of the Blood Witch
A slow-burn gothic horror, with a fairly realistic and disturbing portrayal of prison life and mob mentality.
Bias in why I like and read

Thanks for reminding me of this!
Also, who hurt you on Royal Road lol

 

[Bimbanana]

Currently reading this one

https://www.scribblehub.com/series/...-is-bored-so-i-was-summoned-to-another-world/
Not mine, its Hans.

And also reading some recap of several historical figures like David, Miltiades, Solon etc for my novel research