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Caverns and Creatures Books in Order

by Robert BevanScience Fiction & Fantasy

10 books from Critical Failures (2014) to Critical Failures X (2025). Rated 4.5 across 36,212 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Critical Failures

    Book 1 2014 4.2 (10.1k)

    They weren’t chosen. They weren’t heroes. They weren’t even particularly bright. But they were assholes. When a group of dysfunctional idiots gets dragged into a fantasy RPG, they don’t become heroes. They become everyone else’s problem.

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  2. Critical Failures II: Fail Harder

    Book 2 2015 4.6 (5.7k)

    Finding themselves permanently stuck in this strange new world, the gang tries to make the best of it....

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  3. Critical Failures III

    Book 3 2014 4.6 (4.9k)

    Going back home was not exactly what Tim and the C&C gang expected. Trouble continues to follow them back to Gulf Coast Mississippi. Trouble...and a gnome...and an undead midget....

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  4. Critical Failures IV: The Phantom Pinas

    Book 4 2017 4.5 (3.9k)

    The adventure continues. Tim and the C and C gang face their most difficult challenges yet. Horses die. Eyeballs are eaten. People are urinated on. A god is born....

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  5. Critical Failures V

    Book 5 2017 4.6 (3.5k)

    Many view "hitting rock bottom" as a foundation on which to rebuild one's life, a place from which one can only ascend. Gamers know to search for a secret door leading down to the sewer....

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  6. Critical Failures VI

    Book 6 2019 4.7 (2.9k)

    In the wake of their recent loss, the Caverns and Creatures gang are left hanging. Do their choices amount to more than waiting around to die of thirst and leaping to a quicker death? Probably, or else this would have been a much shorter…

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  7. Critical Failures VII

    Book 7 2019 4.7 (1.9k)

    Deeming the Whore's Head Inn no longer safe to hide in, the gang decide to take a more proactive role in their pursuit to get back to reality, or at least to keep Mordred from doing so....

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  8. Critical Failures VIII

    Book 8 2020 4.7 (1.8k)

    Splitting the party is never a good idea, but sometimes, that's just the hand fate deals you. On Nazere, the gang's plans are cast into the wind when a stubborn foe returns to settle a score....

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  9. Critical Failures IX

    Book 9 2022 4.8 (1.3k)

    After being scattered across the globe, our heroes seek to reunite with each other. But the consequences of recent events continue to plague them.

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  10. Critical Failures X

    Book 10 2025 4.7 (326)

    Having established leverage over Mordred and influence in the Cardinian government, Tim is ready to move forward with the next phase of his plan. But Mordred has an ace up his sleeve that could shift the balance of power back in his favor.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Caverns and Creatures is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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