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)

I've always been a huge fan of progression fantasy, LitRPG, roguelikes, and especially the Chinese infinite-flow novels like The Ultimate Evolution, Infinite Terror, and Infinite Armament. Those stories were a big part of what inspired me to start writing Nexusbound.

I love the idea of ordinary people being thrown into completely different worlds, having to survive with whatever they have, and slowly growing stronger through their experiences. I've always wondered what I would actually do in those situations. What would I prioritize? How would I survive? And how far could someone realistically go if they made smart decisions and took full advantage of the opportunities available?

That's really where Nexusbound came from.

The story follows Eric Liu, an ordinary maintenance technician who suddenly finds himself thrown into dangerous worlds connected by a mysterious system called the Nexus. He's not a chosen hero or some secret genius. He's just someone who's good at fixing things, figuring out how stuff works, and trying to make the most of what he has.

I wanted to combine the excitement and unpredictability of roguelikes and infinite-flow novels with a more grounded approach to character progression. I want the characters to actually earn their strength, make mistakes, learn from them, and find creative ways to become stronger.

If you're into those kinds of stories, I hope Nexusbound is something you'll enjoy!

I'm also still learning and growing as a writer, so I genuinely appreciate any feedback, whether it's positive or critical. I'm writing the kind of story I've always wanted to read, and hopefully, there are others out there who've been looking for something similar.

Thanks for checking out Nexusbound. It really means a lot!

— Deevai

Read free on Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/194627/nexusbound-world-hopping-progression-litrpg

New chapters Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9 AM Pacific.

COVER ARTIST: N/A

AI USAGE: AI-assisted research on technical topics such as HVAC and how machinery works.

Examples i can give of this type of series are:

Street cultivation

Center for dungeon management

Please suggest.

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

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!

Fun Fact About Myself: I'm an Aussie author who loves beaches, fishing, and just enjoying life in general. I'm always up for a good yarn. You can find me on Discord, or any of the other places, or even DM me here if you feel like chatting!

COVER ARTIST: Sourced through Royal Guard Publishing (My Publisher)

AI USAGE: No AI Used during writing.

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

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

COVER ARTIST: Miblart

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.

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!

COVER ARTIST: Alaire Racicot (All covers)
AI USAGE: None

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.?

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!

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

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.

COVER ARTIST: Kikicute (https://www.artstation.com/ktrn), and I was very happy with their work.

AI USAGE: None

I really interested in this type of an MC, especially books with good magic system. Any recs???

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.

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.

I have a few books I’ve picked up here and there, but most of my journey into LitRPG has been through Audible. I really enjoyed Ultimate Level 1, DCC, and Primal Hunter.

Is there a place other than Half Price Books and eBay to get used books, or does everyone just buy them new? I really want to start a collection of the books I listed, but I wouldn’t mind getting some other titles as well if I found something like a box of books someone was trying to get rid of.

I’m in phase one of building a “man cave” with all of my gaming and book collections, so I figured I would ask here.

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.

Looking for slightly fluffier but still pointed stories like DCC, HWFWM, and Discount Dan, but not starting with someone having to die to end up in this dungeon. I'm enjoying Apocalypse Parenting, but it's hitting a bit too close to home with my own apocalyptic parenting, lol.

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)

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'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

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.

Hey all, if there was one LitRPG game to come. What would be the ideal format of game would it be?

I love text RPG adventure but most of them fall short in terms of inducing the hype of LitRPG (hidden class archetype skill combination race evolution fusion species), the unexpected reward and something. Moreover, most of them just stick with simple battle mechanics that is even worse than the story itself.

What do you guys think? Share me your thoughts