Best Ken Follett

Peter has lived in suffering and solitude all this time. However, after discovering an ancient book, he gained wealth and an extraordinary ability. Now, Peter is no longer a poor man to be looked down upon, but someone capable of uncovering all secrets and the past with just a touch.

Doran died a meaningless death, a weak-halo soldier impaled on a demon's blade. He died protecting his commander during the fall of Wall Iros. His last thought: Did my life matter? Then he woke up. Reincarnated as Soren Vail, the useless third son of a wealthy merchant, he's been thrown seven years into the past. The wall still stands. Commander Varris is alive. The demon hasn't attacked. And Soren's halo—still as stone when he was tested as a child is starting to grow. It shouldn't be possible. Now he has seven years. Seven years to train. Seven years to build a body that can fight. Would he fall a second time—or change the future?

"Sign the divorce papers and crawl back to the gutter, vermin." For two years, Ren was known as the disposable, weak son-in-law of the ruthless Rossi Mafia family. They mocked him, calling him a coward who hid behind their empire. They didn't know the marriage was a calculated blind spot. It was a high-security sanctuary Ren chose perfectly to hide in while his cybernetic Death-Prediction System underwent a mandatory two-year dormancy. On the night his mafia queen of a wife coldly hands him the divorce papers to secure a syndicate merger, the countdown reaches zero. [System Update 100% Complete. Death-Prediction Matrix: ONLINE.] The leash is snapped. The Supreme Commander of the world's most lethal assassin vanguard has awakened. He doesn't need armies or guns. With eyes that calculate the exact time, cause, and probability of death for anyone he observes, Ren turns the city into his personal weapon. A failing chandelier, a ruptured gas valve, a mathematically flawless chain reaction... The Rossi family thought they were discarding a parasite. Instead, they unleashed the Reaper. Now, they will watch their criminal empire burn, one flawless "accident" at a time.

Ethan Cole was an ordinary young man until the night his world ended. On his way home, a strange blue screen appeared before his eyes and gave him an impossible mission. Survive. Protect his mother. Become stronger. When monsters begin appearing across Blackridge City, Ethan discovers that the world has entered the first stage of an apocalypse. People are dying, creatures are hunting humans, and a mysterious System is choosing ordinary people to become Players. But Ethan is not an ordinary Player. The System calls him Player Zero. As Ethan fights to survive, he begins gaining experience, growing stronger, and discovering abilities that could change his fate. However, the monsters are not his only enemies. A dangerous group known as the Hunters is searching for him, and they will do anything to capture him before he discovers the truth about his past. Then Ethan learns something even more frightening. Twenty years ago, he was taken to a secret facility and given a name he cannot remember. Subject Zero. His mother has spent years hiding the truth to protect him, while someone from his past has been waiting for him to remember. Now the apocalypse has begun, the Hunters are closing in, and a powerful enemy has entered the city. Ethan must become strong enough to protect the people he loves and uncover why the System chose him. Because if he fails, Blackridge City will fall. And Ethan may discover that the greatest danger in this new world is not the monsters. It is what he was created to become.

Three hundred years ago, the monsters came and never left. In Greystone, every child awakens power at eighteen… except Thomas Walker. Branded a Null and humiliated before the entire academy, his fate seems sealed, until a mysterious system awakens inside him. Now, every drop of sweat makes him stronger. Every mission unlocks impossible power. And when the bullies who once broke him become his first prey, Thomas learns that vengeance can be legendary. But deep in the shadows, a prophecy stirs, one that marks him as the key to the coming war. The boy they all mocked will become the storm they fear.

Mocked as trash, Kai was the disciple no one believed in until the day his System awakened. Every humiliation, every strike and every attempt to break him only fueled his rise.. But powerful enemies lurk in his sect. The arrogant genius Li Shen, and the cunning Zhao, who will stop at nothing to see him crushed. Kai swears to shatter every chain of suppression. Kai has to survive and prove that even the most broken can ascend beyond heaven itself.

In the forsaken ruins of Nethralis, the despised scavenger Zephyr Kaelith unearths a cursed relic. What binds to him is no blessing — it is the Primordial System, a primordial entity predating gods and creation itself. [Primordial System bound.] [Anomaly detected: You were never meant to exist.] Now every death he deals reshapes destiny. Every step unravels the world’s laws. But the System is starving… and reality itself will be its feast.

Akira Kuromiya is just an average high schooler who gets killed by a robber. He wakes up and is now a chicken!? Even worse he becomes the familiar of a girl who"s apparently the heiress of a powerful clan. That was for a short while though, as he was abandoned and woke up to find out he, now she, is trapped in a deadly magical forest with all sorts creatures trying to kill her. The world she finds herself is one of magic and monsters like the manga she's been reading. Akira, now Hinotori is trying to live her life as a chicken in another world! The book is quite slow paced, with some arcs seeming quite useless and boring. However, I promise, every arc is important and I urge you to continue. If you can't, I won't try to stop you because the choice is yours.

BLURB They killed him for being weak and not to expose them Big mistake. Ethan Hardy was the invisible man, the loyal employee, the devoted husband, the guy everyone walked over. When he caught his wife in bed with his boss, they didn't just betray him. They murdered him. Strangled him. Dumped his body in the ocean. But the ancient seal embedded in his chest had other plans. Now he's back from the dead with powers that shatter concrete and bend reality. The forgotten heir to a hidden empire of awakened warriors. The inheritor of a sentient artifact that whispers secrets of unimaginable strength. Revenge is just the beginning. His enemies wanted him gone. Now they'll beg him for mercy. He won't give it.

On the day the world ends, Asher Cole comes home to find his wife betraying him with his best friend. Minutes later, a zombie crashes through the door, forcing the three of them into a choice about who deserves to survive. Pushed toward certain death, Asher is infected with the zombie virus, but instead of turning, he awakens godlike spatial abilities that reshape his understanding of what power truly means. But Asher’s evolution is only the beginning. As his abilities grow beyond comprehension, he discovers he’s not fighting an apocalypse,he’s a tool in an ancient war between consciousness and void, between infinite dimensions and creeping entropy. Forced to evolve from vengeful survivor to multiversal architect, Asher must decide whether meaning exists in a universe destined to collapse, or whether fighting for a hopeless cause is the only thing that makes existence matter at all.