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  • Defiance of the Fall 12 by TheFirstDefier, J.F. Brink

    Defiance of the Fall 12 by TheFirstDefier, J.F. Brink

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Only the strong will survive when fate gathers.The war against the Kan'Tanu is drawing closer, and Zac can't wait any longer. Only by stepping into D-grade does he have a chance to keep Earth safe.Fusing life and death is thought impossible, but Zac has no choice but to achieve a miracle. And if there's one place where he might succeed, it's the Perennial Vastness...
  • Silvers by Brian J. Nordon

    Silvers by Brian J. Nordon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A world infested by demons. An Academy designed to train Heroes to save humanity from annihilation. A new student’s power could make all the difference. Humans have been pushed to the brink of extinction by an ever-evolving demonic threat. Portals are opening faster than ever, Towers bursting into the skies and Dungeons being mined below the last safe havens of society. The demons are winning...
  • The Cheat Code by Misba

    The Cheat Code by Misba

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After the terrible encounters with the war heroes, the Intuitionist, Kusha, is on the verge of breaking all promises she gave to her friends and family. Worse: both the war heroes might become aware of her power—her intuition, for she is their shortcut, for she is their cheat code. Both the Mesmerizer and the Monk need cheat codes to win at their games...
  • One Nation, Under... by Daniel Schinhofen

    One Nation, Under... by Daniel Schinhofen

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alvin and his wives had been busy over the last few weeks. They’d gone out of their way to visit settlements they’d helped in the past, all while killing a string of mini-bosses across what had been the American west. Life looked good for Team Asshole… until the devs made a mistake.Without any warning, Sammi stopped showing up...
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    litrpg  apocalyptic  magic  ai  romance  sci-fi  fantasy  harem
  • Vampire Gate by Apollos Thorne

    Vampire Gate by Apollos Thorne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After surviving Mistress Nava’s wrath, Elorion is banished from Sanctuary and everything he holds dear. He finds himself on an impossible quest to retrieve something from Lord Darius’s vault for the Head Mistress in hopes of bringing everyone back together...
  • Regicide by Dakota Krout

    Regicide by Dakota Krout

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The second installment of Dakota Krout's best-selling Completionist Chronicles series! After the encounter at the Mage's College, Joe's name has become well-known in Eternia. While the majority of his guild is ecstatic over the bonuses that he brings them, not everyone is pleased with his rising influence...
  • Catharsis by Travis Bagwell

    Catharsis by Travis Bagwell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    This is an alternate cover edition for B01J0E8Z8A On paper, Jason has a great life. He attends a prestigious private school on scholarship and his parents are reasonably well off. Yet life hasn't been easy for Jason. He has spent most of high school being tormented by both the students and faculty and his parents are never home. Frustrated and alone, his one escape has always been video games...
  • Rebellion by Dave Willmarth

    Rebellion by Dave Willmarth

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The one year Stabilization period has ended, and the aliens are colonizing earth! Allistor and his people have prepared as well as possible, and now they'll find out if it was enough. In this third book of the Shadow Sun series, Earth's survivors continue to fight for their lives, and to reclaim as much of the earth as they can for the human race...
  • The High Auction by Misba

    The High Auction by Misba

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the near future, a machinist, a monk, and a mesmerizer are looking for the Source of the universe, but among the ancient scriptures, they only find the devil …Few humans in the future find the secrets of what words and sounds can do, for the Apocalypse and war have led them to evolve in mind and physique. Two of them end World War III with just a four-minute speech...
  • Saviors by Brian J. Nordon

    Saviors by Brian J. Nordon

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The first semester is ending. It’s time to take on the Tower! The excursion was a mess. Sal’s trust in his team is at rock bottom from the actions of another in the final fight. He now needs to enter the Tower and fight demons with the same person that betrayed him...
  • Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

    Trojan Nightmare by Blaise Corvin

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Earth has been overrun with monsters... Post-Apocalypse America is unrecognizable from the past. Jake survives by working as the leader of a scavenging adventuring team. A former mage, now he follows the strange path of cultivation, taught to him by a mysterious traveler. As far as he knows, he is one of the only people on Earth with this power...
  • Sense by Jay Boyce

    Sense by Jay Boyce

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hunt the mesmer. Free the captives. Be the hero you never wanted to be.It's been ten days since Jade finally got out. Out of the bed she spent her life trapped in, out of the hospital, and now out of the city, the walls, and way outside of her comfort zone.The wilderness is a terrifying place, especially when you're hunting mesmer…and everything else is hunting you...
  • Proving Grounds by Apollos Thorne

    Proving Grounds by Apollos Thorne

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book 4 of the Underworld series!The minotaurs are dead. Mistress Nava is coming.Join Elorion as he searches for the power to face the impossible...
  • The Omen by Edward Brody

    The Omen by Edward Brody

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book 5 of the bestselling Eden's Gate series! After the turmoil in the Arena, Gunnar retreats from Highcastle and attempts to maintain a low profile while the heat regarding Reborns subsides. Avoiding the human cities, he sets out to unexplored lands with guild mates and a potential new recruit...
  • Evolution by Travis Bagwell

    Evolution by Travis Bagwell

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    After exiting Awaken Online to find himself holding a knife and standing over two dead bodies, Jason is now being investigated for murder. To make matters worse, Claire has stumbled upon evidence of Alfred's involvement in the incident and the CPSC is circling - just waiting for Cerillion Entertainment to make a mistake...
  • Fortress of Shadows by Carrie Summers

    Fortress of Shadows by Carrie Summers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A giant telepathic parrot with a rather foul mouth, a horde of smelly goblins, and a tyrannical demon priestess… Welcome to Devon Walker’s “new normal.” During her first weeks in the deeply immersive VR game, Relic Online, she’s hacked out a home from a choking jungle, gathered a tribe of loyal followers, and earned a wisp stalker who insists she’s some kind of champion...
  • Ritualist by Dakota Krout

    Ritualist by Dakota Krout

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A game that puts all others to shame. Magic that has been banned from the world. A man willing to learn no matter the cost.The decision to start a new life is never an easy one, but for Joe the transition was far from figurative. Becoming a permanent addition to a game world, it doesn't take long to learn that people with his abilities are actively hunted...
  • Wild Wastes 5 by Randi Darren

    Wild Wastes 5 by Randi Darren

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Before world war two could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm.Legend has it that an experiment failed. Catastrophically so. And when it failed, the center of the United States, from the Sierra Nevada to the Mississippi river became "The Waste", where everything changed.Except it didn't only happen in North America...
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    litrpg  magic  ai  apocalyptic  romance  fantasy  harem  war
  • Vault of the Magi by Carrie Summers

    Vault of the Magi by Carrie Summers

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Q: What has two eyes (usually), a practice sword, and no clue? A: A noob. And a horde of them are coming to ruin Devon's day. Freshly returned from the underworld, Devon Walker has a major task ahead. A demon army is coming, and she must prepare Stonehaven for war. But no amount of fortification will allow the small settlement to hold against the coming horde...
  • Troll Nation by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson

    Troll Nation by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Build. Evolve. Conquer. The dawn of the Troll Nation has begun … Roark von Graf—former noble and hedge-mage, current mid-level mob in a MMORPG—has taken down the Dungeon Lord of the Cruel Citadel, but the battle has only started.Lowen, right hand to the Tyrant King, has come to Hearthworld, and he is building an army of his own...
  • Cavern of Spirits by Carrie Summers

    Cavern of Spirits by Carrie Summers

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Once upon a time, Devon Walker got trounced by an incompetent chimera... You know, sometimes it would be nice to catch a break. Devon's got a settlement to grow into a city, a game character she'd love to focus on leveling, and some kitchen cabinets that really need restocking. (That is, if she knew how to cook anything besides microwave popcorn...
  • Citadel of Smoke by Carrie Summers

    Citadel of Smoke by Carrie Summers

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    It's okay to have a few inner demons, right? Devon has a problem, and it's not just that her stealth skill is stuck at three. Though that is an issue when it comes to sneaking up on...well, anything. The real problem is that her former guildmate, Owen, is trapped in the demonic plane. Not just his in-game avatar. His mind is lost there too, leaving his real-life body in a coma...
  • Conservation by Seth Ring

    Conservation by Seth Ring

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For John Sutton, rest is just around the corner.Soon it will be time to sit on his porch, kick his feet up, and watch his wheat grow. All he has to do first is fight his way through a cutthroat magic competition held once every thousand years, navigating mage politics and an aggressive dragon empire bent on punishing him for Farroutef’s death...
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    magic  litrpg  epic  heroic-fantasy  fantasy  audiobook  demons  gods
  • Sanctuary by Apollos Thorne

    Sanctuary by Apollos Thorne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After coming face to face with death, Elorion and company have found a dungeon to call their own. They’ve fought hard to earn a stint of peace, but Mistress Nava is still out there and her captain is now on the hunt. The impending arrival of the army of minotaurs will be the greatest threat they have faced thus far. With their new-found freedom comes a myriad of additional dangers...
  • Through the Belly of the Beast by Apollos Thorne

    Through the Belly of the Beast by Apollos Thorne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Surviving Lord Darius's attack put Elorion's level over the top. He must soon leave the Mistress's Labyrinth for the unknown dangers of the Underworld.There are three paths that stand before him. Should he absorb all the Blue Magic he can find, power level his fellow captives, or take on the bone palace alone?The Underworld is waiting..
  • Voidborne by KrazeKode

    Voidborne by KrazeKode

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He has a gift for fighting. Unfortunately, punching things doesn't pay the Bills...At least, that was the case until Noah Brown died and an Eldritch god found his soul.The strange encounter brings him to a new world, summoned by bloody cultists. Even worse, he's got nothing but the shirt on his back and a strange item in his System menu described [???] : A source of infinite potential...
  • The Goblin Siege by Apollos Thorne

    The Goblin Siege by Apollos Thorne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    After surviving the onslaught of week one, Lucius has something to prove. He seeks to train under a living legend in hopes of being ready for the goblin siege. He isn’t the only one looking to train. As his competition grows in strength, he must push himself harder than ever before. Then, he unexpected happens...
  • Southern Storm by Randi Darren

    Southern Storm by Randi Darren

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    [Spoiler for the faint hearted at the bottom of the blurb. Please read all the way through.] Before world war two could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm. Now, Yosemite city stands as the gateway between two worlds, and an equal power in the continent. Unfortunately it’s surrounded on all sides by those who would love to see them fail...
  • Shaman's Revenge by Vasily Mahanenko

    Shaman's Revenge by Vasily Mahanenko

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The adventures of the Shaman continue!Daniel Mahan, the legendary Shaman of the Barliona game world, has served his sentence in virtual reality. Eleven months of adventures and battles in exchange for eight years in prison isn’t a bad trade-off. And yet Barliona refuses to relinquish its grip on the Shaman so easily, erasing the boundary between his two realities...
  • The Dreamtrails by Isobelle Carmody

    The Dreamtrails by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The adventure continues with acclaimed fantasy author Isobelle Carmody's The Dreamtrails, an omnibus edition of books five and six in the dystopian fantasy the Obernewtyn Chronicles--"Wavesong" and "The Stone Key!" Captured, Elspeth Gordie is drawn deep into the heart of her enemies. Once there, she meets unusual allies and uncovers a devastating plot brewing in their ranks...
  • The Kartoss Gambit by Vasily Mahanenko

    The Kartoss Gambit by Vasily Mahanenko

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A product of the latest technologies, Barliona is a virtual world brimming with fun and entertainment. The government has become the guarantor for the in-game currency, allowing its free circulation. As a result, the population floods Barliona in pursuit of easy money.It doesn't take long for the game developers to discover a source of free labor: real-world prison convicts...
  • King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition.To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake...
  • Survival Quest by Vasily Mahanenko, Василий Маханенко

    Survival Quest by Vasily Mahanenko, Василий Маханенко

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Barliona: a virtual world jam-packed with monsters, battles-and, predictably, players. Millions of them come to Barliona, looking forward to the things they can't get in real life: elves and magic, dragons and princesses, and unforgettable combat. The game has become so popular that players now choose to spend months online without returning home...
  • Dungeon Duel by Eden Hudson, James Hunter

    Dungeon Duel by Eden Hudson, James Hunter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Build. Evolve. Conquer. Welcome to a whole new kind of Boss Battle...Roark von Graf fought his way up from the bottom to become not only the Dungeon Lord of the Cruel Citadel, but the leader of the Troll Nation, making underhanded alliances with other dungeons and players along the way.Until now, he's only had to worry about his enemies attacking from inside the game...
  • Apocalypse Online by Robyn Wideman

    Apocalypse Online by Robyn Wideman

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At first everyone thought it was a game...But aliens have arrived and they are turning people into fertilizer.Brad and Sam are gamers and when they started playing the hot new game Apocalypse Online they had no idea that the game was a preview of reality! With the help of a benevolent alien AI and nanotechnology, our heroes will have a chance to survive the apocalypse...
  • Echoes of the System by Carrie Summers

    Echoes of the System by Carrie Summers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Monsters. Mayhem. Toaster waffles?Devon Walker has had it rough lately. She kinda saved the game world--or at least earned the citizens of Aventalia a small respite from the demon attacks--but the wild magic she used had some devastating consequences, starting with a shattered landscape and the apparent vanishing of her settlement...
  • Unprepared Healer by Jonathan Brooks

    Unprepared Healer by Jonathan Brooks

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Exposed as the Contender at the top of the Rankings, Thaden has to make a run for it….After the Assimilation System inadvertently outed Thaden as a Contender, as well as confirming that he was at the top of most of the Rankings, the Lifewarden has to leave the town of Ashcleft as soon as possible...
  • Darkling Siege by James A. Hunter

    Darkling Siege by James A. Hunter

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not even gods are safe from the power of the fabled Doom-Forged weapon.Grim Jack didn’t set out to be the leader of Eldgard’s united armies, but with dungeons falling one by one and hordes of Vogthar pouring into the material plane, it’s up to him to save both citizens and travelers from digital destruction...
  • Expansion by Matthew Peed

    Expansion by Matthew Peed

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As Robia Valley recover from the necromancer attack. Regan and Louella work to increase their strength to meet the coming challenges. In the dark, forces move to unknown means. Adventurers come from far and wide to test their strength in the rumored dungeon. Join them as they make their journey...
    Categorized as:
    epic  heroic-fantasy  litrpg  magic  adult  anti-hero  audiobook  book
  • Contest by Tony Corden

    Contest by Tony Corden

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    NOTE: The content of 'CONTEST' is approximately 200,000 words. A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In ‘Nascent’, she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves...
  • Throne of the Ancients: A LitRPG Adventure by Carrie Summers

    Throne of the Ancients: A LitRPG Adventure by Carrie Summers

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Prepare for smashface! The question is, will it be Devon's or the demon horde's?See, that's the problem with the Chosen One trope. Devon Walker really just wanted to power level, ideally solo, and collect some loot along the way. But yeah. Things in Relic Online just haven't turned out like she'd hoped...
  • Occultist by Oliver Mayes

    Occultist by Oliver Mayes

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Damien thought his exams would be bad enough. Then his mother collapsed with a failing heart.In a desperate move Damien throws himself into the Streamer Contest of Saga Online, the latest fantasy VR-MMORPG. Winning will provide the funds for his mom’s surgery. Yet early betrayal and a close run in with a vampire almost ruin his attempt before he even begins...
  • The Rose Mark by Connie Suttle

    The Rose Mark by Connie Suttle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sherra We belong to the King--those of us with the black roses tattooed on our left wrist, directly over our pulse. As if every beat of our hearts reminds us that we are not our own. All the women with the fire burning within them are culled, tattooed and taken to the warriors, to provide more energy. Energy that the warriors will then use to defeat the barbarians from the ocean of sand...
  • The Stone Key by Isobelle Carmody

    The Stone Key by Isobelle Carmody

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Friend becomes foe and trust is a thing of the past when the Misfits’ most relentless enemy turns Elspeth’s world upside down. Through coercion and mind control, Ariel stands on the cusp of his ultimate revenge—and it falls to Elspeth to rescue a former ally whose mind and body have been manipulated to unleash a plague that will destroy all it touches...
  • Wyrd Blood by Donna Augustine

    Wyrd Blood by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes I wonder what life was like before magic burst into existence, before the Magical War of 810 destroyed our world. What it was like before there were Wyrd Blood, or we were forced into hiding.  And that's what I've been doing for years, hiding me and my crew. But that's about to end. My crew is starving and things are getting dire...
  • Thirteen Rising by Romina Russell

    Thirteen Rising by Romina Russell

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Romina Russell’s epic sci-fi fantasy series reaches its breathtaking conclusion with this fourth and final novel.The master has been unmasked. Rho’s world has been turned upside down...
  • Eden's Gate: The Arena: A LitRPG Adventure by Edward Brody

    Eden's Gate: The Arena: A LitRPG Adventure by Edward Brody

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book 4 of the bestselling Eden's Gate series! Edgewood is under attack, and the threat of war lingers across the Serpent Sea. In order to protect their village, the members of Unity will need to work together to level-up and find better gear. They'll need to lay the foundation of a castle that can serve as a fortification from intruders...
  • Civil War by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson

    Civil War by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Build. Evolve. Conquer. Welcome to the Civil War ... Roark von Graf—former noble and hedge-mage, current mid-level mob in a MMORPG—has his sights set on taking down the tyrannical Dungeon Lord. But the reigning Troll despot is nearly as devious as Roark, and his followers are much higher level...
  • The Luckless by A.M. Sohma

    The Luckless by A.M. Sohma

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Welcome to Retha, the full submersion video game where you can be the hero of your own adventure. Unfortunately for Kit, it only takes one moment to turn the game into a nightmare.When Chronicles of Retha experiences a software malfunction, Kit—a disenchanted veteran player—is stuck in the game without a way to log off...
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    epic  litrpg  magic  action-adventure  book  dragons  fae  female-mc
  • Temper by Xander Boyce

    Temper by Xander Boyce

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A haven for humanity. Factions forming and fracturing. The seeds of a new empire.Drew and his team are racing to create a system-recognized ‘Habitat’. To make this happen, they must conquer more nodes, deal with an antagonistic superior officer, and possibly worst of all: their own fear.Freeing the troll’s sacrificial captives was only the beginning...
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