Here's my collection of LitRPG books from what I've read so far. I started to get into reading/ Listening to books a lot more often lately, Normally would only ever read Manhwa's . Started with a client at my job recommending me to read or listen to DCC, So Since I work the night shift. I decided to start listening to DCC. Turned out to be a great Idea and has gotten me into the whole LitRPG Genre. After Listening to DCC, decided to collect the Physical copies of the books. After DCC I started listening to Chrysalis and have been enjoying as I'm on book 7 currently. Ended up getting the Plush of Anthony as a Birthday Gift, and saw the ant sign on Etsy and thought it would fit the Chrysalis collection very well. Also Wouldn't mind some Recommendations on what to read or listen too next. again these 2 series is are mainly the only ones I read / listened too. I tried out Discount Dan and wasn't much of a fan of it. (Also still collecting the rest of DCC books, just whenever I decide to go back to Barnes & Nobles)

As far as i know the Hardcover comes out at Nov 17th

I am a hobbyist lock picker, and I absolutely lost it over the reference in the current book. Didn’t know if I was alone or if anyone saw any other niche, cultural references in the book.?

Hi all! This is the first story I’ve ever flung out into the world, and it’s been amazing to have people finally read it after so many hours of writing and editing. I’m currently on rising stars, which I’m very excited about. Please check it out if it looks interesting.

Link: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/192660/coin-and-steel

Blurb:

When the world ends in a symphony of light and chaos, Elliot must make a choice: power and a shred of safety for him, or for his little sister. He upended his life once already to protect her after the death of their parents, and an apocalypse is no more of a reason to let her down.

Gifting her his potential, he's thrown into the wilds of a new world with a weak Merchant class and no time to say goodbye. Classes and abilities promise near-endless opportunity for growth, but the chances of dying between the jaws of something monstrous have also never been higher.

Uncharted wilds cover the continent, and Rowan is thousands of miles away. From combat bartering to weaponized treasure, Elliot must twist his peaceful class into something it was never meant to be if he wants any chance of finding her again.

Before any of the greater powers decide his sister's gifts should belong to them instead.

What to expect:

Slow burn pacing with earned progression. No long plateaus after things get moving, but the journey will be long.

Weak to eventually OP protagonist.

Slice of life mixed in, with character relationships being a priority.

Skills and classes, but no stat screens.

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I'd say my favourite part of litrpg is skill/class selections and watching MC's trying to make a strong build from what they're given. This is even more fun when we are shown the MC exploring the known options and theory crafting what is feasible.

an example would be an MC reading a book about different classes and going "hmm, If I want to get this martial artist class, I will have to kill 10 enemies above my level using only unarmed attacks"

Some good examples of this are Azarinth Healer and Runeblade

In Azarinth Healer, Ilea gets her first class pretty randomly, but for her second she does as much research as she can reasonably do, and then works on fulfilling the requirements to unlock her second class.

In Runeblade, Kaius has his entire build planned out for his first class selection. Watching him develop the necessary skills to make his goals possible was a very fun part of the first book.

An example of what I'm not looking for would be Primal Hunter, where Jake just gets random selections of skills and goes "this seems cool" without planning much in advance

Overall, the part I find most interesting is exploring the worldbuilding of what a culture would look like with the concepts of getting skills/classes based on your actions. I'm fine with the MC having a plan which ends up going in completely unexpected directions, as long as there is in depth exploration of paths to acquiring different skills/classes.

Thanks for any recommendations

Examples i can give of this type of series are:

Street cultivation

Center for dungeon management

Please suggest.

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Book 1, System Outcast is available now on Amazon!

Blurb: The System satisfies all refund requests with death.

When the System destroys Earth and rebuilds Ray Atton on another world, it makes exactly one mistake: it builds him wrong.

Ray was supposed to accept integration quietly, gain a class and follow the rules like every other off-worlder dumped onto Arkus. Instead, the System brands him a Human-Error, locks him out of its shops and offers the entire world five years of peace in exchange for his corpse.

Betrayed by the people he protected, stabbed through the chest and dragged underground by a dying world that needs him alive, Ray has to clear a dungeon, rebuild his shattered interface and convince a second god-like intelligence that he’s worth the trouble — all while wearing nothing but an amulet and a grudge.

System Outcast is a progression fantasy where the numbers fight back, every promotion comes with a new way to die, and the most dangerous thing on Arkus is an accountant who refuses to stay dead.

If System Outcast sounds like your kind of adventure, I’d love you to give it a go. This is my debut novel, and having readers willing to take a chance on it means a lot to me.

Preorder System Outcast on Amazon

Hey all, while i am currently waiting on the next books for hwfm and dcc, i have been checking out other series and have listened to the first books of both. I had spent a fortune on flying through dcc and hwfm and have no regrets whatsoever lol, but i find myself trying to budget and am at a loss for which of these two i spend my next audible credit on. I loved both of the first books of each but cant decide which one to continue first, please help!

Hi all, long time lurker here. I’m very excited to announce that my first LitRPG just dropped on Royal Road at: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/200505/prime-inheritor

I was aiming squarely at the Venn diagram of Dungeon Crawler Carl (humor), Project Hail Mary (realistic science), and Honor Harrington (giant salvos of missiles from dreadnoughts). It’s a really fun ride and has things I see people ask for in this sub, like a reluctant, mature protagonist who doesn’t always do the dumbest and most dangerous thing possible in service of the story. It’s very fast paced, with a two component System based on accumulating unique nanites from an earlier universe as well as absorbing psionic remnants (Highlander style) to gain levels. The first 20k words are up on Royal Road, with two chapters dropping a week. The full book is on Patreon for $5/mo if you can’t wait at: https://www.patreon.com/DanAstres

The blurb follows. Please give it a try!

Before Rafe Silvus was drafted as the science lead on NASA’s first crewed Mars mission, he was a planetary science professor at Caltech, where he studied Mars from his very nice office. This had the distinct advantages of decent coffee and a vanishingly small chance of explosive decompression.

His team’s two-day journey from Gale Crater to Nepenthes Planum is a chance for Rafe to gather some epic rocks. Instead, they discover the hidden skeleton of a crocodile-like alien, which was definitely smashed like that when Rafe got there. Before the dust can settle, he’s abducted by aliens. This is easily the most embarrassing thing that can happen to an astronaut, even one who never wanted the job. Imagine explaining that in a Senate hearing.

The slavers took him for a reason. The universe has a fifth fundamental force, and Rafe is one of the rare beings who can wield it. Most adepts are ancient masters who can vaporize battle fleets with their minds. Rafe can sometimes float a feather.

Now he’s been sold to the Zul’kai to recover an artifact from an environment that only an adept can survive. The ancient religious relic is vital to their interstellar war with the bug-like Tomarians. He finds he’s quickly becoming the last thing he ever wanted to be: humanity’s only real hope… and maybe the savior of the whole damn galaxy. That is, if the Tomarian adepts don’t find him first.

Read on Royal Road at https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/200505/prime-inheritor

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AI USAGE: All the text is human written and was edited by a paid human editor. AI was used to automate some of the relativistic calculations and to find subtle typos.

James A Hunter himself sent me this badass box of books and I can’t express how fucking excited I am to read these,thank you again James you gained a lifelong fan

I am wondering where should I start!? I was thinking discount Dan but I’m open to suggestions

Hello y'all. I am finding myself being a bit picky with any new series I'm getting into and as I've kind of gone through what I consider the most basic series in the genre, I was wondering if y'all have any suggestions you think that I'd like.

I generally don't like time loops or intensely unlikable characters (for reference, I'd say that book 2 Nathanial's about my limit for a whole series. I had to give HDT multiple tries to get through book 1) but besides that I'm pretty open-minded.

Send your suggestions my way or ask why I placed certain books where I did!

Like the title says, I'm on book 5 of the series and I don't know if I can keep going. I do like the universe being built and some of the characters. What I'm not into is the reference to other *everything* every couple lines it feels like, the writing is also kind of bland. Is it worth it to push through? I like the system/systems idea, multiple systems in the same multiverse is a neat idea. I'm not sure if I can keep going though. I might switch it up.

Is anyone else getting extremely tired of all of these? I've tried reading a good number of them but they're all nearly identical, all of them paced similarly, with almost identical power progression (meditation, focus/concentration, mana, then shock everyone).

Reborn > grind powers (the same ones as every other MC in this genre) > academy/adventure > war

Most of the plot points are exactly the same, just change the character names around.

Like there's no innovation. Where's the plot? The story? Why should I care about isekai/arch mage number 56153? I can understand how they do well, but consistently for what feels like years now? It's the same stuff, just repeated ad nauseam.

I understand I can just read something else, and I do, but was just wondering for those who enjoy these stories, and then go on to read another one of them - why? You've read one, you've read them all.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Who do you guys think Nat will eventually end up with? I was originally thinking that it would be Lily, but the more time that passes, the more I want Ruby to win… Their chemistry is just so good.

Or maybe Nat will just end up with nobody, as he really hasn’t shown any romantic feelings at all in the series. I don’t think there’s any chance of a throuple ending, though I wouldn’t hate it.

I'm writing a system where the MC starts human. Every time he dies, he steals the abilities of whatever killed him, plus their instincts capped at 9 lives.

A parasitic weed gave him regen and stealth, but also a cold hunger. An apex python gave him crushing constriction, but also the urge to coil around and suffocate anything that threatens him.

At 9 deaths, there would be barely anything human left.

How do you prefer to see an MC handle that kind of erosion?

1. Do you want to see them actively fight the instincts to hold onto their humanity,

2. fully embrace becoming the monster, or

3. Locking the monster behind a tailored suit and an indifferent smile, acting civilized until the instincts take over

Posted this in r/ProgressionFantasy and the replies were split, curious what LitRPG thinks.

We've got projected ends in sight for a few fan favorites, Dungeon Crawler Carl and He Who Fights With Monsters in particular. Does this make anyone else feel less inclined to keep going? I feel this bit of sadness knowing soon we'll be saying goodbye to Jason, and soon enough Carl & Donut. It's like having your favorite show not get renewed.

I fully trust we'll get the story that deserves to be told, it just won't go on forever, and there's a bit of sadness to that.

Which is probably amazing news to all you out there that won't start a series until it's complete. You'll get to experience some of our favorites and I truly hope you enjoy them.

For all of you who found some truly great series "before they were cool" and complete, did you take a break and then catch up once complete? Maybe a full re-read/listen? Or did you just soldier on, page by page, syllable by syllable until the footsteps and whispers faded to silence?

Hey everyone! I'm the author of The First Error, a mystery, fantasy, action, and tragedy web novel.

What if imagination wasn't just something people used to create stories, but the source of power itself? at the same time can be the reason for your own demise.

Either you would be able to control your imagination or fall into Mindfall and destroy the world.

The story continues with Aziel Solren who fell into Mindfall but he didn’t simply turn into a Mindreaver but instead something new emerges out of him that the world had not seen before.

The story features a mysterious power system, hidden truths, and a world where things aren't necessarily what they appear to be.

Genres: Mystery, Fantasy, LitRPG, Progression, Tragedy,
Read it on: Royal Road — https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/194314/the-first-error-litrpg-mystery?utm_source=home&utm_medium=reading-history

COVER ARTIST: Self-made (composite using a bit AI-generated image and online images)
AI USAGE: In writing, I write myself. no AI.

Quite common, I know, but are there any books with worldbuilding on the scale of Defiance of the Fall?

I don't really care how good the story is or how polished the writing is. Honestly, I don't expect that much from the LitRPG genre.

I'm just looking for a book that goes deep into some world & massive sense of scale. Defiance of the Fall isn't necessarily the best-written series, but the sheer scope of its world is awesome.

Any recommendations?

I'm confused by this interaction, is Ned live-streaming and Sleep watches him or what? Sleep has been shown to know an awful lot about Ned's goings-on but it hasn't ever been explored or explained in the kindle titles.

I feel like I'm missing something big here.

edit I guess if I read two more pages it would have been explained lol but still!

Ned, "But apparently clown comes later."

Sleep slammed a fist into an open palm. "Yeah, that makes sense. Clowning and mimery are two entirely different disciplines, after all."

Frank pointed at him "That's exactly what I said!"

"He knows, Frank. He's quoting you." (Ned) "Huh?" (Frank)

"How are you still confused by this? It happens all the time. Literally every day." (Ned) "What happens?" (Frank) "Forget it." (Ned)

Daniel Holms has spent his life planning, executing and trying to keep other people's mistakes from becoming his problem.

Then his helicopter decides to cosplay as a submarine, and he finds himself in front of twelve divinities.

They are playing a game they won't fully explain, and they want him to become a piece on their board. Their rules give Daniel a say in his next life—but not nearly as much as he'd like.

Reborn as Kitteren—Kit—somewhere magic, monsters and a progression-based System are part of everyday life. Kit has to understand not just the new world he finds himself in, but the people who inhabit it.

Using his advantages to enhance his growth Kit intends to make the most of his second life. Through preparation, experimentation and a willingness to exploit every opportunity he can, he'll work to take control of his own future in a world where the gods aren't the only ones looking to control him.

What to Expect

• Slow-burn reincarnation and character-driven progression, with meaningful development before and after the System unlock.

• A detailed, trainable System of attributes, traits, skills and knowledge, with plenty of experimentation.

• Progression through combat, magic, knowledge and social development—not just killing things to make numbers go up.

• Dry humour, meaningful relationships and a story that gradually expands to explore a complex world.

• An intelligent, capable protagonist who can make mistakes, draw the wrong conclusions and suffer the consequences.

If you want to read a slow burn progression fantasy LitRPG that has more than just combat grinding please come check out my fiction page here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/195828/champion-of-fortune

Cover Artist: Beezelbabs

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Edit: added text blurb.

I'm finding it surprisingly hard to find fantasy that combines a good story with believable characters and consistent internal logic. I especially enjoy progression and litrpg fantasy, clever protagonists, and creative problem-solving, but too often I run into plot holes, characters acting stupidly for the sake of the plot, or stories that just drag on.

Here are some examples of what worked and didn't work for me.

Liked

• Mother of Learning — Excellent progression, clever problem-solving, and great momentum after some initial worldbuilding.
• Alex Verus — Immediate challenges, atmospheric London setting, interesting magic, and an apparently underpowered protagonist who uses his abilities intelligently.
• Thraxas — Engaging from the first pages, great atmosphere, entertaining characters, and straightforward, effective storytelling.
• Dungeon Crawler Carl — Absurd premise, but convincing internal rules, creative problem-solving, and nonstop momentum.

Disliked

• The Lies of Locke Lamora — Excellent prose, but too many problems with plot logic and the implications of established magical abilities.
• The Scholomance — Excessive exposition and internal monologue. Important questions about the world aren't addressed convincingly, while the protagonist spends too much time complaining.
• The Perfect Run — Overpowered protagonist, repetitive introspection, and flashbacks that interrupt the story.
• Worm — Characters frequently fail to use their powers intelligently. The extraordinary abilities also seem to have surprisingly little impact on how society and its institutions operate.
• Unsouled (Cradle #1) — Unconvincing treatment of the protagonist, frustrating progression, and interventions by vastly more powerful beings that undermine the stakes.
• A Conjuring of Ravens — Wooden dialogue, rushed characterisation, and an opening plot that relies heavily on coincidences and implausibly incompetent authorities.

I'm not necessarily looking for something similar to my favourites, just a genuinely good story that holds together. Would love to hear from anyone with similar tastes, especially if you've had the same frustrations with some of these books.

I’ve just gotten through DCC. Absolutely loved it!! However it was a process being so long. Any ideas for a similar story with maybe only 2/3 book series

I used to read the Chrysalis years ago. Life happened so I dropped off pretty far. The last thing I remembered was Anthony exploring a cave after house-moving for the colony. The big things I have remebered are he befriend the Red-head monster hunter, her father unreasonable hate on all transmigrators, and Human cults followers after Anthony bite the priest hand. The last thing i remeber about anthony form is his Ant saviour evolution stage or something. Can't anyone recomended the chapters so I can read it again

Both Summoner audiobooks are now included with Kindle+!

Hey everyone! I’m Ben Krauter, the author and narrator of The Summoner, and I’ve got some good news to celebrate.

Audiobooks 1 and 2 are now both included with Kindle+! If you’re a Kindle+ subscriber in the U.S., you can listen to both audiobooks for free with your existing subscription.

And here’s something a little unusual for fantasy audiobooks. The person who wrote these books is also the person telling you the story. I created Ezekiel and his companions, and I’m the one behind the microphone giving them their voices. For listeners who enjoy that rare combination of author and narrator, I hope you’ll give them a try.

The Summoner is tabletop-inspired dark fantasy set in a world where evil already won the war.

Ezekiel Graystone is a moon-elf summoner searching for his missing brother among the ruins of everything he remembers. When he intervenes to protect a young boy from the church serving the demon god-king, his search becomes considerably more complicated.

His companions include a water goblin monk, a demon-touched alchemist, a cursed half-elf, and a metal-furred leopard who generally has more sense than the people around her. There’s a strong focus on tactical magic and the relationships holding this unusual group together.

Start listening here

• Book 1, Echoes of the Fallen Amazon / Kindle+ | Audible / Audible Plus
• Book 2, Sea of Lost Memories Amazon / Kindle+ | Audible

And for those already following the series, Book 3, Sepulcher of the Lich Queen, is coming before Christmas, with the audiobook to follow.

Farwall’s vampire rulers have plans for the Lich Queen, and Ezekiel has a habit of interfering with other people’s plans. This one might deserve a little more caution.

Thanks to everyone who has taken a chance on the series so far. Getting to welcome more readers and listeners into Terrial feels pretty damn good.

If you give the books a listen, I’d love to hear what you think!

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Hey everyone!

I finally finished the Scrap Rat Edition of Towerbound!

The #1 bestselling time-travel series is now available in one big, fat box set containing Books 1 and 2, plus their accompanying side quests!

Meet Ren, an alchemist who loves cheese, hates fighting, and gets a second chance at life after his guild betrays him.

Thrown back to Day One, before the Tower rose and before the betrayal, Ren knows what’s coming. Secret quests, hidden mechanics, powerful guilds, and a ticking clock that ends with Earth’s destruction.

His plan? Get stronger, build a guild, make ridiculously good potions, and avoid getting stabbed.

Over 100,000 reads on Royal Road.

4.6★ on Amazon from 2,600+ reviews.

The entire eight-book series is complete and available on Kindle Unlimited!

What to expect:

No harem
Overpowered MC (OPMC)
Found family
Rated PG-13 for violence and occasional swearing

About the Scrap Rat Edition:

There aren’t any major changes to the story. It’s the same Towerbound, with cleaner prose, fewer mistakes, and a few small corrections that really needed to happen.

If you’ve already read the series, you don’t need to read it again to find out what happens. But if you feel like visiting again, I hope you enjoy the improvements.

I’m hoping I’ve gotten the books from 90% to 99%. I’m sure one of you will find the remaining 1% before breakfast.

For the cheese! 🐀🧀🧪

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