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Where To Start With the Dungeon Crawler Carl Series

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When aliens take over Earth, the survivors are forced to compete in an intergalactic reality game show. As the contestants find themselves in increasingly outrageous scenarios, they will have to learn how to figure out who among them they can trust to survive … And honestly, who would have thought the destruction of all mankind could be so fun?! The Dungeon Crawler Carl series has taken the world by storm, with readers falling in love with the unlikely duo of Coast Guard veteran Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat Princess Donut as they progress throughout the game show. Let the games begin!

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    Dungeon Crawler Carl

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    You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systemic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what … Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series where survival is optional, but keeping the viewers entertained is not.
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    Carl’s Doomsday Scenario

    by Matt Dinniman

    Join Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they fight fantastical creatures and deadly mobs to make it to the next level and build the kind of fan following the dungeon masters can’t ignore in the second book in the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
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    Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this fourth level is unlike anything they could imagine. The Iron Tangle: An impossibly complicated subway system tied together into a knot of trains of all kinds, from classic steam engines to sleek modern cars. Up is down. Down is up. Close is far. The cars are filled with monsters, the railway stations aren’t always what they seem, and the exit is perpetually just a few stops away. Carl and Donut must work with other crawlers to solve the puzzle of the floor, but how can they do that when they don’t know who to trust?
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    The Gate of the Feral Gods

    by Matt Dinniman

    Surviving in a multilevel dungeon that also happens to be the set of the galaxy’s most watched game show has taught Carl and Princess Donut that there’s only one thing they can count on apart from each other: They never know what’s coming next. And this floor is no exception. A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. Welcome to the fifth floor of the dungeon.
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    The Butcher’s Masquerade

    by Matt Dinniman

    Just when Carl and Donut think they’ve seen it all as they compete to survive in the galaxy’s most popular game show, the latest dungeon level introduces a terrible new threat. The sixth floor. The Hunting Grounds. As the remaining crawlers battle for their lives, outside tourists are finally allowed to enter the game, and they are ready to hunt. Among them is Vrah, a famed and veteran hunter, intent on collecting the biggest trophy of her career. But her prey is far from harmless, and this season they are fighting back.
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    The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

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    The crawlers are given a new task: Find and capture six monsters, each of which will be turned into a card. The stronger, the deadlier, the better. At the end of the floor, the bad guys will also have decks, made of some of the most powerful cards available. So it’s crucial for crawlers to assemble the toughest squad possible. If Carl and Donut want a winning hand, they’ll have to capture the most lethal and terrifying monster of them all: The Bedlam Bride. But even if Carl and Donut can capture her, they know all too well that just because someone has been captured, it doesn’t mean they have been tamed.
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    This Inevitable Ruin

    by Matt Dinniman

    The ninth floor. Faction Wars. Nine armies enter, led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. The winning team must capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, betrayal … It all makes for great fun and even greater television. This is it. This is what they’ve been fighting toward. This is war.
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    A Parade of Horribles

    by Matt Dinniman

    Ignore those strange glitches that are occurring with increasing frequency. Don’t listen to those whispers about what’s happening on the mysterious eleventh floor, something the system AI called A Parade of Horribles. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it “a coming-out party for the ages.” But Carl is planning a party of his own. It’s a plan so dangerous, so insane, he can’t even consult his friends lest the AI put a stop to it. Because if it goes wrong, it’s not just the end of Carl and Donut. No. The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been …
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