Minecraft (Delilah S Dawson) Books in Order
Part ofDelilah S Dawson Books in OrderSee Delilah S. Dawson's Minecraft books in order, with summaries, Mob Squad series background, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: July 8, 2026
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Minecraft (Delilah S Dawson) books in publication order
3 books
Mob Squad
by Delilah S Dawson
2021
When danger slips past the wall around Cornucopia, Mal and her friends head into the Overworld for the first real adventure of their lives. This official Minecraft novel is fast, funny, and strong on teamwork.
Don't Fear the Creeper
by Delilah S Dawson
2022
The Mob Squad faces another Minecraft crisis as new threats test the fragile peace around Cornucopia and the friendships holding the group together. It stays focused on bravery, exploration, and kids learning to protect home.
Never Say Nether
by Delilah S Dawson
2022
Tok vanishes, the village potions disappear, and the Mob Squad has to chase the truth into much more dangerous territory. The sequel keeps the friendship focus while pushing the Minecraft adventure into a hotter, riskier dimension.
Minecraft (Delilah S Dawson) books in chronological order
Series background & context
Delilah S. Dawson's Minecraft books center on the Mob Squad, a group of kids from the village of Cornucopia who start out behind a big wall and then learn the world is much larger, stranger, and more dangerous than they were told. That is the basic promise of the series: exploration, teamwork, and a lot of trouble waiting just beyond the safe map.
Cornucopia is only safe until it isn't.
The first book, Mob Squad, works by taking familiar Minecraft ideas and turning them into a kid adventure with real momentum. Mal wants more than the ordinary routine of village life, and once danger slips through the wall, she and her friends have to head into the Overworld and figure things out for themselves. The appeal is not just the monsters and landmarks. It is the feeling of kids learning that the rules they grew up with were never the whole story.
The later books keep pushing outward. Never Say Nether expands the danger and forces the group to work with people they do not fully trust. Don't Fear the Creeper keeps the pressure on friendship, bravery, and the cost of trying to protect home once you know how fragile home really is. Across the series, the names and places may be Minecraft, but the emotional shape is classic middle grade adventure.
That makes this page useful even if you do not usually read game tie-ins. These books are built to be inviting, funny, and fast, but they also care about loyalty, leadership, and the awkward work of growing into the person a group needs.
If you want Minecraft stories with more plot than pure in-joke energy, this is a good lane. Expect quests, mobs, new dimensions, and kids who slowly realize that being the brave one does not mean feeling fearless.
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