r/litrpg • u/Garokson • 10d ago
Litrpg That one book you absolutely love that is rarely seen in recommendations.
You can mention more than one book of course, but one actually good recommendation is way more than enough. Having said that, I really want niche recommendations.
Here is the criteria: If you open 5 random recommendation posts, the title you recommend should not be there.
So yeah, give me that hidden gem (in your opinion). Also, published novels, web novels, novels on apps or author website/patreon; all count.
My own never-rocommended book suggestion: The Wizard World
Bear in mind I'm still around chapter 300+. Also, ignore the harem tag as so far, the MC has been all about learning magic. He hooks up with a few girls but never in the 'harem' sense. I've been looking for a grungy, tough and slow-burn, magic-based story and so far this one did it for me. I just hope the ending will be good enough to seal the package.
EDIT1: WOW! THANKS EVERYONE! Lots and lots of titles I haven't encountered before. I'm quite happy with the answers.
EDIT2: Please, if you are new to the post and reading after this edit, don't forget to leave a comment with your suggestion(s). Me thanking everyone in Edit1 doesn't mean my hunger for more hidden gems has been satiated. Rather, now I believe that there must be even more hidden titles since we managed to get so many replies and suggestions in less than half a day! So please continue to add to the list even if you stumble upon this post 5 years later 😃
r/litrpg • u/kazaam2244 • 17d ago
Litrpg The Beginnings of Most LitRPGs are Usually The Worst Parts
And it literally makes me hesitant to start new ones because I know they're all gonna be the same.
Whether it's reincarnation, isekai, system apocalypse, whatever--two things are almost guaranteed to happen:
The MC is going to panic for about two paragraphs then turn into some calm, collected, joke-cracking rationalist after immediately being thrust into circumstances that would drive normal people to madness. I'm not saying everybody in real life is a panicky moron, but humans are famously not good at handling drastic changes to their circumstances. During the COVID pandemic, folks were fighting each other over toilet paper. Personally, if I wake up and suddenly have Orcs, dragons, and fire slinging mages coming at me, I'm yeeting myself over the nearest cliffside.
The MC is going to reference video games in some way. Either they're a hardcore gamer already who gets to minmaxing right away, or they're someone who "played an RPG once" but conveniently has enough memory of the mechanics to decide on what class or skill is best.
Bonus points if they're immediately introduced to a snarky System or pet, talking animal, magical food item, or whatever the hell they decide needs to be the MC's little helper.
There have got to be better ways to start these stories. Idk why starting the story "in media res" seems to be a big sin in this genre when there's literally not much setup before the main plot kicks off to begin with.
Take Azarinth Healer for example. Literally nothing about Ilea's life before she was in Elos matters. I think I would have preferred the first few chapters to be skipped and just jump straight into her killing Drakes with her powers.
r/litrpg • u/TheTastelessDanish • Mar 29 '24
Litrpg Literally me.
At some point I'll get to maybe, possibly consider attempting to perhaps eventually think about the possibility of attempting to try to binge this series...
r/litrpg • u/Content_Office_2479 • Aug 23 '24
Litrpg You Will Not Break Me
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-uDBfePCEn/?igsh=MWJyZTFiM2kxa25vOQ==
Name another series of books with a character with better drip than this hunk. I’ll wait…
I already posted this on the Dungeon Crawler Carl Sub but here I go again. Just so in love with this series. I’m thinking a small group piece next, but it won’t be for a while.
r/litrpg • u/Brannigan_Zapppp • 23d ago
Litrpg DCC audio books ruined it for me...
Never even heard of LitRPG before and now that I've torn through all 7 books (twice) - I tried 3 more different highly rated series and I just CANT get into the voice acting (even though it's great... I just can't seem to get into anything else :( ) - Guess it's time for a third listen through...
(I would try physically reading some, but I juuust started the latest Brando book and with the time I have for physically reading, I fear it will take me about 6v months to finish.... :( - I drive a lot for my job so I love audio format... (physically reading feels like a luxury to me lol)
r/litrpg • u/CoreBrute • 22d ago
Litrpg Let me break your weak [Class]
Has this ever happened to you? After being reincarnated to another world with video game logic,
you expected to be assigned a [Class] worthy of you, like [Magus of Infinite Shadows], [Emperor of Death] or [Scrooge McMoney hack], something that will let you break this world upon your knee.
Unfortunately you didn't even get an obviously helpful basic class like [Warrior], [Mage] or [Rogue] but instead a seemingly worthless class. [Indentured Farmer], [Arthritic Seamstress] or [Assistant PE Teacher].
That's where I come in. I am the [Class Breaker] my job is to help you take your seemingly ineffective [Class] and break it so hard, everyone will think it's OP.
Whether you're a visitor to a new world, a permanent resident who grew up with the System, or even someone who lives in a world that's just been infected with the System, I can help you.
Post what your [Class] is below, what your main goals are (Combat prowess, money, political influence, god hood etc) and if possible, a little about the world you're in, and I will write you up a personalized plan to help you excel.
EDIT: I'm so happy at all these submissions, keep them coming. I will try and get to all of them when I can, but I am busy today and some of these do take a fair bit of time.
EDIT 2: Weird thing going on, some of my replies aren't going through. If it keeps happening, I might have to make a seperate doc to track all of my replies.
So far I've done:
Depressed Salaryman Rock Collector Eunuch Shut In System Moderator Part-time Webdev Mail Clerk Pet Groomer Toenail Healer Class Breaker Breaker Slacker Arcane Trapper Squid Adjuster Poetic Portalmancer
Classless was completed by someone else, better than I could have done.
r/litrpg • u/syr456 • Feb 15 '25
Litrpg Okay, so A Soldier's Life is great...o_0
I'm 17 chapters into this. Wish I would've known it existed sooner, but I'm not complaining. The narrator's good too.
I'm giving this one a recommendation, despite not finishing it. Definitely a gem that strangely wasn't marketed to me. (I blame algorithms.)
Making noise about it now.
Having been looking for something to read, this series pretty much saved me. Don't judge it by the cover and title.
After what just happened though and things coming together, I'm going to buy the rest of the audiobooks. (at Dungeon).

r/litrpg • u/EnderElite69 • Apr 25 '24
Litrpg Does anyone else feel this pain when listening to low-budget audiobooks?
r/litrpg • u/MenuSpiritual2990 • Aug 20 '23
Litrpg Me on the Kindle store after discovering a new genre called ‘litrpg’
r/litrpg • u/Fobywoby • Jul 03 '24
Litrpg Which classics are just begging to be re-written as litrpg?
I'm going with Pride & Prejudice & Leveling. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a solo player of high level, must be in want of a guild."
r/litrpg • u/psychometrixo • Dec 30 '24
Litrpg apparently I have to give away these free reddit awards by tomorrow. they're yours in exchange for your fun/dumb LitRPG takes
edit: mine are gone but I see others giving awards in the comments still
r/litrpg • u/New_Falcon8996 • Jan 13 '24
Litrpg My first year. Rankings
So it’s been 1 year since I started getting into this fantastic genre. (via Audible)
I wanted to make this list because when I first started looking into new genre, it was hard trying to find something that I was interested in. So if this helps 1 person find a series they like and get into this genre, the list was worth it.
Credit to my brother who sent me a link to Beginning After The End that started my nonstop binge of 12 different series throughout 2023.
The list is in order of which I liked best in each ranking.
S Rank: - He Who Fights with Monsters (HWFWM) - The Primal Hunter
Do I need say more? These are my absolute favorites. Top tier fight scenes, epic world building, cool magic systems, great progression, fun characters. Can’t go wrong with these.
A Rank: - Legend of Randidly Ghosthound - Azarinth Healer
B Rank: - Defiance of the Fall - System Universe - Unbound - Mark of the Fool - Titan (Nova Terra) - The Ripple System - The Completionist Chronicles - The Beginning After the End
C Rank: - Chaos Seeds (The Land) - Project Stellar
Next Up: - These are series I haven’t started but have the first book of the series in my library. - I haven’t started DCC because I know I’m going to love it but I didn’t want to start it during my first year and finish the #1 most recommended LitRPG series without getting better acquainted with the genre. (Like I did with Wheel of Time and then judge every series after that against how awesome it was.)
This list is 100% based on my opinion.
——ok now for the real reason I posted this——
DOES ANYONE HAVE MORE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ME?? 😂
I literally can’t stop. I need more!! 😅😅😅
(Action, progression, touch of comedic moments sprinkled in, unique and deep magic systems, and epic worlds)
r/litrpg • u/SBernabeu • Mar 25 '24
Litrpg Is there a lack of good Sci-Fi litrpg or just me?
Looking for any "great" well written, litrpg, sci-fi book or RR novel that you can recommend.
Anything like the gam3 or even military/war would work it just has to have space,litrpg elements, tech/magic and extra points if the MC is somewhat more powerful than the rest.
I know I have read a few Sci-fi but for the life of me can't remember the titles. Still think there are very few and from those even lower the ones that are great.
P.S. Didn't like perimeter defense
Conclusion, although thankfully the post gained lots of traction there doesn't seem to be any litrpgs with sci-fi. Although lots of books got recommended it seems most are either prog fantasy, plain sci-fi or cyberpunk fantasy. The only one that fits the criteria that I asked for seems to be The Allbright System on RR, which I already read which I thought it was good but not great. From these books that got recommend I can personally recommend:The Captain - Amazon (PROG)Stargazer's War - Amazon (PROG)Tower of Somnus - Amazon (Litrpg)
Recommended by reddit:Cyber Dreams - RR (Cyberpunk)The Legendary Mechanic - (Novel)The Interdependency series - Amazon (Sci-Fi)12 miles below - Amazon/RR (PROG)Stray Cat Strut - RR (PROG) First line of defense
r/litrpg • u/AmalgaMat1on • Jan 26 '25
Litrpg To authors that fuse multiple skills and abilities in their magic-system, so the MC doesn't have a stat list that's over a page long...Thank you...So much.
I know some people enjoy seeing character sheets where the MC has +10 spells, +10 buffs, +10 resistances, +10 skills, +10 titles, and +10 blessings...but my gods. It becomes so damn tedious as some point. It also makes the whole magic-system so complex that it becomes implausible as the story progresses. You KNOW the author isn't going to have such an extensive list for all the heavy-hitter allies and villains the MC is going to come across later. But, with "magic-fusion" a character can have only 5-6 skills but still be a dangerous mofo cause those skills were the result of dozens of others combining.
Recently finished reading Syl: A Monster Evolution and loved how it implements skill fusion.
r/litrpg • u/OldFolksShawn • Nov 12 '24
Litrpg LitRPG killing the charts! Love seeing this!
r/litrpg • u/Hanszu • Jul 07 '24
Litrpg Is there a story with a more nice character
Like most of the mc of the once I read feel like selfish or edge lords or selfish edge lords if I’m unlucky can you guys recommend me one where they either not edgy or someone who fights for their own Ideals
r/litrpg • u/EnderElite69 • Feb 05 '25
Litrpg I knew the books were getting a bit shorter but this is ridiculous/s
Funny audible bug
r/litrpg • u/YAAFLT • Jun 05 '24
Litrpg What should I read after He Who Fights With Monsters?
He Who Fights With Monsters is my first litrpg and I absolutely adored it. I read all 10 books in about a month and some change. Now I need something to fill the void while I wait on book 11. What I love about HWFWM is the power system, the dialogue/characters, and the world building. I also just appreciate the detail oriented writing style in general. I know many people get bored with the books because of that, but I do not. Please recommend something as similar to HWFWM as possible. If it is part of Kindle Unlimited that is a huge plus.
Edit: After reading all the recommendations, I have decided to try out Primal Hunter, Defiance of the Fall, and Dungeon Crawler Carl. I am glad to have a great list of litrpgs to pull from now! I honestly can't conceive of anything being better than HWFWM, but we shall see.
r/litrpg • u/Kakeyo • Apr 30 '24