Books like Viridian Gate Online: Cataclysm

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   1. Opening Moves: The Gam3

   by Yap, Cosimo

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   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...

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   2. 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...

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   3. 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,...

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   4. The Phantom Server

   by Livadny, Andrei

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   For a Star Trek-style sci-fi RPG, give The Phantom Server series a go.  Livadny is an actual Russian science fiction writer who decided to try his hand at LitRPG, unlike...

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   5. The Dark Paladin

   by Mahanenko, Vasily

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   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,...

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   6. The Game Is Life

   by Schott, Mr. Terry

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   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...

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   7. Perimeter Defense

   by Atamanov, Michael

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   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...

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   8. The Dark Herbalist

   by Atamanov, Michael

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   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...

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   9. 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...

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    10. 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...

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    11. 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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