Dungeon Crawler Carl
by Matt DInniman
New Book of the Week , June 3, 2025
In Dungeon Crawler Carl, Carl’s world collapses. Literally. Every interior on Earth with a roof is collapsed and absorbed into the 18-Level World Dungeon. Part Hunger Games, part role-playing game, The Dungeon is an episodic intergalactic reality show with impossible odds. Dinniman has a clear understanding of what makes action readable and an impressive ability to bring a character to life. And beneath the very foot-enthusiastic game host A.I. and the ultra charismatic talking cat, Dungeon Crawler Carl is about humanity—finding and keeping it under a system that exploits and commodifies. It is the funnest, most engaging series I’ve ever read—and it all starts here: “You will not break me."
— Shane
Dungeon Crawler Carl was reviewed in Newsletter #391 on June 3, 2025. For more like this, and other bookish news, sign up for the newsletter .
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