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In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade has devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines — puzzles based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past, promising massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win — and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

Keith has died twelve times. After making a deal with a mysterious immortal, he was sent to a new world in hopes of gaining a better life for his family — but the deal had no expiration date, no matter how many times he died. After his dozenth death, Keith renegotiates: he is sent to the world of Raiah, filled with monsters and a system of magic similar to the fantasy roleplaying games his brother used to enjoy. Completing a quest to hunt the most dangerous monsters on the planet is the price he must pay to reclaim his old life. All of his experiences from previous lives translate to Skills — which is fortunate, because if Keith fails this time, the price will be far steeper.

When Jack Vance's grandfather is murdered, his dying words extract a promise: get Jack to attend Darkthorn Academy. Jack doesn't like it, but he'll honor the man who raised him. Surviving the Academy won't be easy. Jack must make alliances, harness magic, and face enemies both living and dead—all while looting dungeons to pay his school fees. If he's lucky, he might just make it to second year.

In the year 2057, the world has become a corporate-run utopia for the super-rich and a hellhole for everyone else. Catherine 'Cat' Leblanc is an orphan about as far from super-rich as one can be. When the Incursion alarms start blaring and the sky starts raining hungry xenos, it's just another blemish on an already piss-poor afternoon. A cyberpunk magical-girl alien-invasion LitRPG.

Jake is working at the neighborhood market when the world ends — not through nuclear war or climate change, but through meddling gods from another world who shuffle Earth like a deck of cards. Monsters, dungeons, and magical items scatter across the globe, and everyone suddenly has access to a strange new card-based magic system. Jake finds himself alone in a completely new and dangerous world, hiding in his market with a bunch of curious elf-like strangers knocking on his door wanting to buy things. The gods may have stacked the deck against him, but Jake might have a few cards up his sleeve.

Ever since Arwin was summoned as a child, all he has known is war. To claim the demon queen's life and end the conflict, he must sacrifice himself — but at the moment of the final blow, the Hero of Mankind is betrayed. Caught in a magical explosion thought to end him, Arwin awakens a month later to find everyone has already moved on. His [Hero] class has changed to a unique blacksmith class called [The Living Forge], empowered by consuming magical items. Some of his old passive Titles remain, giving him the power to forge a new future exactly as he chooses. Arwin isn't going to settle for anything less than completely surpassing the powers he wielded as the Hero. After all, you are what you eat — and Arwin's diet just became legendary.

Ryan Rosa has had a run of bad luck, but when he receives a VIP package for the newest virtual reality game, his luck takes a turn for the better — until he's stabbed in the back by a guild of players who betray him for a unique weapon he possesses. Ryan contemplates doing the one thing every player hates: re-rolling his unique character and starting over. But even starting over won't save him in New Realm Online. He'll have to work smarter to avoid using his last re-roll.

An editor finds herself waking up in one of her favorite RPGs with no clue as to what's going on or how to get back home. This might be the part where others rejoice over getting whisked away to a world of wizards and magic, but she certainly doesn't think it's anything to celebrate. After all, she woke up in the body of a small-time villain with some severe personality issues.

Corporate flameout Ned Altimer dives into the VRMMO Earthblood Online and never looks back. His advantages are twofold: exclusive access to the game's three-day Head Start period, and a ridiculously handsome talking axe named Frank who knows the game's deepest secrets—if he ever feels like sharing them. But those advantages also make Ned a target. Once the Head Start ends, his fellow players will stop at nothing to rip that suave, violent, disarmingly charismatic axe right out of his hands. In seventy-two hours, the greatest manhunt in gaming history begins.

On the world of Marconen, your first Break determines the trajectory of your life. Calvin chose magic — and without proper schooling or a mentor, he is dragged by fate across the planet, blending different schools of magic and powerful abilities into something entirely new. A deeper secret hides behind his success: why was he born an exile? Why is his System so strange, and why does it keep talking to him? As time marches on, something evil grows in power across the ocean.

On the brink of death, a burned-out man in his late thirties is offered one last chance at life through experimental early access to a full-dive VRMMO — with one condition: he cannot log out. Sent into the world years before launch, he becomes something no developer planned: a seemingly permanent inhabitant living inside the game long before players arrive. While future adventurers dream of fame and leaderboards, he chooses a quieter path — claiming land in the mountains, learning blacksmithing, mining deep veins of ore, and slowly building a life with his hands. For a long while, the world is his alone. Then players begin to appear. To the first of them, he looks like a strange NPC with skills that shouldn't exist yet. He doesn't correct them. He would very much like to be left alone. Unfortunately, the world has other plans.

For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game — it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down Warcross players who bet on the game illegally. To make some quick cash, she hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships — only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation. Instead of being arrested, she gets a call from the game's creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka: he needs a spy inside this year's tournament to uncover a security problem. Whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune, Emika soon uncovers a sinister plot with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.

Kaius just wanted to unlock his class — instead, he restarted the apocalypse. After years of training, Kaius has barely acquired the first two of his family's legacy skills: powerful, vanishingly rare abilities whose method of creation is a secret people would kill for. Narrowly surviving a bandit ambush, he gets trapped in the Great Depths — a world-spanning dungeon. To escape, he must slay one of the Guardians defending the exits, a feat no classless fighter has ever survived. If that weren't bad enough, succeeding will reignite a forgotten trial that nearly ended civilization.

Matt is reincarnated as a tree in a fantasy world that serves as the eternal battlefield between demons and the heroes summoned to oppose them. At first a bystander, over a vast stretch of time TreeTree learns skills, gains levels, builds up a forest, trains young subordinates, and protects a village. A slow-burn epic spanning ages, told through frequent time-skips, following one unlikely soul as he grows from passive observer to a power that shapes the fate of an entire world.

Every thousand cycles, the 108 gods select their avatars among the most deserving champions of the galaxy for a grand game to decide who will next bear the crown of archon. This time, even the mightiest tremble — the twin arbiters have entered the fray. Space has chosen Lilth Seranne Kerentis: empress, conqueror, warrior, scholar, an undisputed genius of brawn and magic. Time has chosen Steve, a 25-year-old cello player from London. Thing is, Steve cannot lose. But to get there, he'll have a very bad time.

Four decades ago, Richard Forthrast fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft, built an illegal fortune smuggling marijuana, and eventually channeled it into a Fortune 500 gaming company with its own massively successful online RPG, T'Rain. The line between fantasy and reality becomes dangerously blurred when a young gold farmer accidentally triggers a virtual war for dominance — and Richard is caught at the center of something far more dangerous than any in-game conflict.

Summoned after an unfortunate accident in hopes they could protect the world from a coming threat, Ben and his classmates are given another chance at life. With fame and fortune promised to whoever is willing to fight, the deal seems reasonable — except Ben wasn't blessed with magic or combat skills. Only crafting and enchanting. His skills are not useless, but they are not seen as necessary to the coming war. Cast aside and alone, Ben tries to find his place in the world while meeting some of its colorful characters along the way.

The game under the tree looked like a hundred others Peters and Judy had at home. But they were bored and looking for something interesting to do, so they gave Jumanji a try. Little did they know when they unfolded its ordinary-looking playing board that they were about to be plunged into the most exciting and bizarre adventure of their lives. Chris Van Allsburg's classic picture book explores the ever-shifting line between fantasy and reality, as a quiet house is taken over by an exotic jungle.

Lives are a currency, and Noah Vines is rich. Reincarnated into the body of a poisoned magic school professor, Noah is given more than just a second chance at life — every time he dies, his body reforms. With infinite variations of runic magic to discover and with death as a painful soul wound rather than a final end, Noah finally has a chance to wander the lands of the living once again. And this time, he plans to get strong enough to make sure he never has to wait around in the afterlife again.

Running a restaurant was hard, but it filled Clive's life with meaning — running through a portal was easy, but it filled his life with demons. Weak in a world full of strength, Clive and his friends rely on grit and determination as they navigate a brutal, war-torn land of magic in search of a way home. There is a problem, though: Clive's been cursed. A demonic knife wound catapults them into a race against time to find a cure, fighting their way across Falritas in need of friends and levels like there's no tomorrow. Set in a chaotic land ruled by ruthless gods, complete with game mechanics, a progression system, and empire-building, where demons, werewolves, dwarves, and elves roam.