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5 editor’s picks matching LitRPG
Best for readers who like LitRPG chaos, dungeon survival, dark humor, escalating rules, and high-stakes plans.
A Parade of Horribles
Fantasy · LitRPG · Sword and Sorcery
Our take
An Amazon Charts #1 this week, Carl and Donut reach the tenth floor, where a series of races, strange glitches, and whispers about the eleventh floor point to bigger dangers ahead, with a 4.8-star rating from more than 14,300 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like LitRPG chaos, dungeon survival, dark humor, escalating rules, and high-stakes plans.
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It’s off to the races in the explosive eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon.
Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.
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 calls 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.”
Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine.
Carl hates that it’s business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do.
So 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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On the sixth floor’s deadly Hunting Grounds, Carl and Princess Donut face dinosaurs, rival crawlers, and a sinister celebration known as the Butcher’s Masquerade.
The Butcher’s Masquerade
Fantasy · LitRPG
Our take
On the sixth floor’s deadly Hunting Grounds, Carl and Princess Donut face dinosaurs, rival crawlers, and a sinister celebration known as the Butcher’s Masquerade. But when outside tourists are finally allowed in—and elite hunter Vrah joins the chase—the hunters become the hunted. Survival means fighting back harder than ever in the fifth explosive entry of Matt Dinniman’s series.
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About the book
Attention. Attention. The gates are down. The hunters are loose.
Run, Run, Run.
A lush jungle teeming with danger. Savage dinosaurs seeking blood. A fallen princess intent on vengeance. A mysterious, end-of-floor celebration for the top crawlers, dubbed “The Butcher’s Masquerade.”
The sixth floor. The Hunting Grounds.
As the remaining crawlers battle for their lives, a new, terrible threat looms. Outside tourists are finally allowed to enter the game, and they are here and ready to hunt. Among them is Vrah, a famed and veteran hunter, intent on collecting the biggest trophy of her career.
But their prey is far from harmless, and this season they are fighting back.
Dungeon Crawler Carl and Princess Donut return in book five of the acclaimed litrpg series.
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A sharp fit for readers who enjoy dungeon adventures, absurd humor, deadly challenges, and uneasy alliances.
The Gate of the Feral Gods
Fantasy · LitRPG
Our take
On the dungeon’s fifth floor, Carl and his team have fifteen days to capture four castles and unlock the stairwell, but they must rely on low-level crawlers whose loyalty is uncertain. Their targets include a floating gnome fortress, a sand castle, a derelict submarine, and a trap-filled haunted crypt, with a 4.7-star rating from more than 55,800 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers who enjoy dungeon adventures, absurd humor, deadly challenges, and uneasy alliances.
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New achievement unlocked: total, utter failure.
Carl and Princess Donut have survived monsters, mazes, and madness, but the fifth floor is something new. The rules are simple—capture four castles in fifteen days—and completely impossible. A floating fortress of gnomes, a crumbling castle of sand, a haunted crypt, and a derelict submarine all stand between them and the next level.
To win, Carl must rely on a team of low-level crawlers who seem barely capable of survival. In a world where every ally could be bait, every victory carries a cost.
Matt Dinniman’s The Gate of the Feral Gods is a brutal, hilarious LitRPG adventure where teamwork, betrayal, and chaos collide deep in the dungeon’s deadly fifth floor.
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A strong match for readers who enjoy action-heavy progression fantasy, elaborate dungeon puzzles, dark humor, and chaotic teamwork.
The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
Fantasy · LitRPG
Our take
Carl and Donut reach the dungeon’s fourth floor, where they must navigate the Iron Tangle, a sprawling subway system filled with monsters, dangerous stations, and confusing routes, while a seemingly useless book may hold the key to escaping, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 73,500 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who enjoy action-heavy progression fantasy, elaborate dungeon puzzles, dark humor, and chaotic teamwork.
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About the book
Welcome to the Gun Show!
The top ten list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face.
The Iron Tangle. An impossibly-complicated subway system built out of the world's subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot. Up is down. Down is up. Close is far. The cars are filled with monsters, the railway stations are less than safe, and the exit is always just a few stops away.
But there is hope. For the first time, the crawlers are all working together. The loot is better than ever. And the secret to unraveling it all may be hidden in the pages of a seemingly-useless book. Welcome, crawlers. Welcome to the fourth floor of the dungeon.
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Carl and Princess Donut face their most dangerous crawl yet in the Over City, a shattered metropolis of undead circuses, cursed magic, and killer fame.
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario
Fantasy · LitRPG
Our take
Carl and Princess Donut face their most dangerous crawl yet in the Over City, a shattered metropolis of undead circuses, cursed magic, and killer fame. With every level deadlier than the last, surviving the game means outsmarting both monsters and millions of fans. Matt Dinniman’s Carl’s Doomsday Scenario is chaotic, darkly funny, and unforgettable.
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The dungeon has changed. The rules are gone. The apocalypse has gone viral.
In Dungeon Crawler World, Carl and Princess Donut have survived traps, monsters, and madness to reach the next stage. But in the Over City—a ruined metropolis crawling with undead circuses, falling bodies, and cursed magic—the odds of survival drop with every floor.
The world watches as the game spirals into chaos. Fame, fortune, and death blur together while an ancient spell threatens to end everything. Somewhere in the carnage, Carl is still missing his pants.
Matt Dinniman’s Carl’s Doomsday Scenario is a darkly funny, brutal, and wildly inventive LitRPG adventure about friendship, survival, and what it really takes to win when the game never ends.
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