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The Best Web Novels of All Time, Ranked

The serials that defined the genre, from system apocalypses to immortal sects. Start at the top.

10 seriesUpdated 23 Oct 2026Picked by the Comic Fusion team
  1. Lord of the Mysteries cover
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    Lord of the Mysteries

    Steampunk streets, secret societies and potion-fuelled powers. The serial others are measured by.

  2. Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint cover
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    Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint

    An obscure novel's only reader watches it come true. The bar for every reader-in-the-book story.

  3. Reverend Insanity cover
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    Reverend Insanity

    The boldest villain lead in cultivation fiction, and a cult favourite for exactly that reason.

  4. I Shall Seal the Heavens cover
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    I Shall Seal the Heavens

    A stubborn failed scholar who won't give up his ideals. One of China's most popular xianxia.

  5. A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality cover
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    A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality

    It founded its own subgenre, 'mortal flow', and still sets the standard for patient xianxia.

  6. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation cover
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    Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

    Often called the grandfather of isekai: a shut-in reborn and determined not to waste it.

  7. Coiling Dragon cover
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    Coiling Dragon

    One of the first giant web novels completed in English: Linley's fight for his fallen clan.

  8. The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor cover
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    The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor

    A gamer who sold his old account starts over in the first VR MMO. The Korean game-fantasy classic.

  9. Trash of the Count's Family cover
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    Trash of the Count's Family

    Wake as the hero's punching bag and try to dodge the plot, picking up a dragon and two cats.

  10. Solo Leveling cover
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    Solo Leveling

    The novel behind the hunter boom: an E-rank nobody, a double dungeon and a system only he can see.

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