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This is a list of the best most popular LitRPG/MMORPG books. This Genre is a mix of Video Games, fantasy and or sci-fi. Mostly young adult this Genre explores many topics.

Examples are The Game, NPC's, Threadbare, Perimeter Defence and Many more ...
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4.32 avg rating — 10,352 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 5,870 ratings
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4.22 avg rating — 4,329 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 4,288 ratings
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4.48 avg rating — 12,140 ratings
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4.65 avg rating — 109,015 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 2,205 ratings
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4.24 avg rating — 3,285 ratings
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4.42 avg rating — 6,258 ratings
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4.31 avg rating — 16,040 ratings
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4.33 avg rating — 4,744 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 7,694 ratings
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4.29 avg rating — 5,211 ratings
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536 books · 681 voters · list created August 29th, 2018 by Micheal (votes) .
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message 1: by SentaiBrad (last edited Jun 16, 2022 11:57AM) (new)

SentaiBrad Unsouled (the #1 on this list) is good so far, but a Litrpg it is not. xD


message 2: by Michael (new)

Michael Cox SentaiBrad wrote: "Unsouled (the #1 on this list) is good so far, but a Litrpg it is not. xD"

Alot of folks consider English-language wuxia-based novels as part of the genre.


message 3: by SentaiBrad (new)

SentaiBrad Michael wrote: "SentaiBrad wrote: "Unsouled (the #1 on this list) is good so far, but a Litrpg it is not. xD"

Alot of folks consider English-language wuxia-based novels as part of the genre."


Which they are not. LitRPG is very specific. I'm on book 7 of that series, so it IS really good and shares a few themes overall, but in the definition of LitRPG; it isn't.


message 4: by Aamer (new)

Aamer The Fortifier Series by D.K. Landtroop should easily be in the top twenty. When going by review numbers alone it should be way higher on this list.


message 5: by Patrícia⁷ (new)

Patrícia⁷ Many of these are not LitRPG, I may be doing a clean up of this list. Let me know if you spot any fantasy and sci-fi books that don't relate to gaming, transporting people to games/dungeons or fantasy worlds (although this last barely qualifies), etc...


message 6: by Mitchell (last edited Feb 16, 2026 05:17PM) (new)

Mitchell Friedman To date I haven't been really exposed to litrpg as a concept. One of my book groups is about to read Dungeon Crawler Carl.

So what criteria would you say is required to split a book off as not being litrpg?

For example I don't see Dream Park or its sequels or Dungeon Crawlin' Fools or its sequels or Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery. Or Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1

I do see Ready Player One


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