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Earthen Contenders Books in Order

6 books from Unexpected Healer (2024) to Unbelievable Healer (2025). Rated 4.5 across 2,393 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Unexpected Healer

    Book 1 2024 4.3 (783)

    Against his will, Thaden was transported elsewhere in a big flash of light along with millions of other Humans from Earth, to a place where they would train to become Contenders in a whole new world.

  2. Unprepared Healer

    Book 2 2024 4.5 (510)

    After the Assimilation System inadvertently outed Thaden as a Contender, as well as confirming that he was at the top of most of the Rankings, the Lifewarden has to leave the town of Ashcleft as soon as possible.

  3. Undisguised Healer

    Book 3 2024 4.6 (343)

    Even though he never intended it to happen, the events that occurred in the city of Forgestone have set Thaden on a course to fix the problems that he inadvertently caused.

  4. Unaffiliated Healer

    Book 4 2025 4.5 (334)

    After resolving all the pending SPECIAL Quests that had been plaguing him, Thaden is finally ready to evolve his Class, where he can then continue to Level-up past his current limit.

  5. Unrestrained Healer

    Book 5 2025 4.7 (235)

    After barely surviving an attack by an Adversarial entity, Thaden helps pick up the pieces of the Guild he’d previously joined.

  6. Unbelievable Healer

    Book 6 2025 4.6 (188)

    After inadvertently triggering the start of Developmental Phase 4 with the destruction of The Citadel, Thaden learns from his squirrel companion, Sadia, what the Wildlands has in store for him and the other Contenders.

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About this reading order

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