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13 fantasy books to read after The Phantom Server, by Livadny, Andrei, the closest match first.

  1. The Outlaw

    1. The Outlaw

    by Livadny, Andrei

    • Same series
    • Same author

    High School junior Chase Jackson doesn't know it but he has a rare disease that overproduces and then overwhelms the body. He just believes he got really good at football.The...

  2. Black Sun

    2. Black Sun

    by Livadny, Andrei

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Now in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, the timeless novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness, from Edward Abbey, one of America’s foremost defenders of the natural...

  3. Opening Moves: The Gam3

    3. Opening Moves: The Gam3

    by Yap, Cosimo

    • On the same lists

    An entertaining science fiction power up LITRPG that focuses on a grand galaxy-spanning video game where the in-game stakes have real world consequences to earth.The fate of the universe literally...

  4. Mirror World

    4. Mirror World

    by Osadchuk, Alexey

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    The closest you'll find to Shaman's Quest series -- also by a Russian author with an unpronounceable name. If you've ever read one of those news articles about prisoners in...

  5. Realm Of Arkon

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    5. Realm Of Arkon

    by Akella, G.

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    Real of Arkon is basically the MMORPG Everquest meets Diablo video game made into an LITRPG. I would not recommend this book as your segway into the world of LITRPG,...

  6. The Dark Paladin

    6. The Dark Paladin

    by Mahanenko, Vasily

    • On the same lists

    Most people know Vasily Mahanenko through his Way of the Shaman books, which are probably the most popular LITRPG on Amazon right now. His brand new series, Dark Paladin, however,...

  7. The Game Is Life

    7. The Game Is Life

    by Schott, Mr. Terry

    • On the same lists

    This one has a very Hunger Games feel to it -- that is, there's lots of drama, angst, romance, and betrayal between a few 20-undersomethings.And of course, there is a...

  8. Perimeter Defense

    8. Perimeter Defense

    by Atamanov, Michael

    • On the same lists

    This one has a lot of empire building and grand strategy in it -- sort of like the main character stuck in a virtual Eve Online who's is responsible for...

  9. Viridian Gate Online: Cataclysm

    9. Viridian Gate Online: Cataclysm

    by Hunter, J. A.

    • On the same lists

    If you've read Play to Live (Alterworld), Viridian Gate Online feels somewhat similar especially to the early Alterworld books (after the 4th book, the entire series details). It' got a...

  10. The Dark Herbalist

    10. The Dark Herbalist

    by Atamanov, Michael

    • On the same lists

    Atamanov wrote one of the better LitRPG's with his science fiction Perimeter Defense series, which tells a grand strategy style tale that feels a bit like your are reading a...

  11. Eden's Gate: The Reborn

    11. Eden's Gate: The Reborn

    by Brody, Edward

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    Another cross-into-a-game-world LitRPG and a new one (came out in 2017), but it's also one of the better reads and certainly better than most. It has a bit of an...

  12. Otherland

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    12. Otherland

    by Williams, Tad

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    This one has been around for a long while now and pre-dates the whole LitRPG movement. However, as the premise of the story takes place partly in a massive, realistic...

  13. Ready Player One: A Novel

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    13. Ready Player One: A Novel

    by Cline, Ernest

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    Not 'strictly' a LitRPG novel, but Ready Player One has a lot of elements that make up an LITRPG book, those being the in-game sequences. This is not only a...

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