Matt Dinniman Books in Order

On the colony world New Sonora, rancher Oliver Lewis watches Earth turn his home into a live‑fire game called Operation Bounce House, letting paying gamers pilot war machines against real settlers. Armed with scrap tech and family lore, he fights to hold the line.

This first graphic novel adaptation of Dungeon Crawler Carl collects the opening episodes of the webcomic, following Carl and Princess Donut through the dungeon’s earliest, bloodiest floors with vivid art that balances gruesome action against the cat’s over‑the‑top charm.

Book eight sends Carl and Donut onto the tenth floor, a gauntlet of increasingly unhinged, race‑like challenges. To survive, they must navigate shifting rules, cutthroat competitors, and a spectacle designed to push even top crawlers past their breaking point.

Faction Wars on the ninth floor pits nine alien‑backed armies—and a rebel NPC force—against one another for control of a central fortress. Carl, Donut, and Katia lead their own side in a brutal campaign where deaths are permanent and only one friend can advance.

On the eighth floor—a haunted echo of Earth’s final days—Carl and Donut must capture six legendary monsters and turn them into summoning cards. To stand a chance, they target Shi Maria, the Bedlam Bride, an intelligent, god‑touched horror who can shatter minds.

On the sixth floor’s jungle Hunting Grounds, Carl and Donut become prey. Dinosaurs stalk the trees, wealthy tourists drop in to hunt crawlers for sport, and a lavish event called the Butcher’s Masquerade hides a fresh, brutal twist in the rules of the game.

The fifth floor drops Carl, Donut, and Mongo into a war bubble of four bizarre fortresses, from a floating gnome citadel to a haunted crypt. To unlock the stairwell, they must seize each stronghold while surviving the influence of terrifying, nothing‑touched gods.

Carl and Donut enter the Iron Tangle, a knot of interlocking trains and stations where nothing stays where it should. Hunted as top‑ten crawlers, they’re forced into uneasy alliances—and a mysterious “cookbook” of dungeon‑breaking recipes may be their only real edge.

On the shattered third floor known as the Over City, Carl and Donut tackle their first full season as breakout stars. Quests, a grotesque undead carnival, and bodies falling from the sky hide an ancient spell that could end their run in spectacular fashion.

In the final chapter of The Shivered Sky, Indigo and her companions face a last, all‑or‑nothing war over the shattered heavens. As angelic remnants, rebellious demons, and human souls collide, the outcome will decide who controls the afterlife—if anyone survives it.

The war for the afterlife moves into the demons’ own streets as Indigo and the scattered survivors of Heaven’s defenders struggle to regroup. Hunted through a city ruled by monsters, they search for allies, safe ground, and a way to turn the occupation back on itself.

Indigo dies expecting peace and instead wakes in a ruined Heaven where angels are nearly extinct, demons patrol the burning sky, and humans are herded like livestock. With a fragile resistance on the brink of collapse, she has one option left: learn to fight.

When aliens demolish every human‑made structure on Earth and rebuild the planet as an 18‑level dungeon, Carl and his ex‑girlfriend’s prize show cat, Princess Donut, are forced to play along. To survive, they must clear floors, entertain the galaxy, and stay alive on camera.

Struggling artist Duke accepts a lucrative mural job and instead wakes inside Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon, a full‑immersion survival horror game. Forced to keep colossal monsters alive for sadistic players who feel every cut, he must become terrifying just to survive.

Popper leads what should be a simple scouting mission into the Spiral, a tower‑defense gauntlet guarding the hobgoblin capital. Riding his hippocorn Alice with a handful of mercenaries, he plans to sneak in and out—until everything unravels into all‑out chaos.

Jonah wakes inside legendary VRMMO Dominion of Blades with no memory, reset to level one and no way to log out. With only two uneasy allies in a world gone quiet, he must grind, level, and outwit a ruthless human foe to stay alive.

Six months after a living mass of bodies called the Grinder erased Tucson, a surviving witness finally describes the night an entire city died. This grim, first‑person account follows the monster’s growth and the desperate, often futile attempts to escape it.

This early collection gathers twelve off‑kilter stories set in a warped version of everyday America, where ex‑conjoined Spam sculptors, genius lunch ladies, and teenage exorcists wander through darkly funny urban fairy tales that never quite go where you expect.