13 Books like Ready Player One

Ready Player One was filled with so much to like. Video game, movie, and television lore, clever and studious footnotes, a crumbling “real world” and a vivid, exhilaratingly alive “virtual world,” all wrapped up in slick modern prose. How were we readers ever supposed to deal with just one book? Where are the expansions?

All of the books here are like Ready Player One in various ways, whether its because the major action takes place in a video game or virtual world, because of a shared fondne...