The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Published on 4. December 2025
Book
Hardback
544 pages
978-0-241-81624-0 (ISBN)
Description
WELCOME CRAWLERS, TO THE FOURTH FLOOR OF THE DUNGEON - THE IRON TANGLE!
The third explosive installment in Matt Dinniman's best selling LitRPG series, where teamwork is optional and betrayal is inevitable...
'If there's a better LitRPG than Dungeon Crawler Carl, I haven't read it' Shirtaloon, author of He Who Fights Monsters
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Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this fourth level is unlike anything they could imagine.
The Iron Tangle: an impossibly complicated subway system tied together into a knot of trains of all kinds.
The top ten list of most popular crawlers is now confirmed, and Carl and Donut have made it. But that popularity comes with a price . . .
They each now have a bounty on their head.
Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this fourth level is unlike anything they could imagine.
The Iron Tangle: an impossibly complicated subway system tied together into a knot of trains of all kinds.
The top ten list of most popular crawlers is now confirmed, and Carl and Donut have made it. But that popularity comes with a price . . .
They each now have a bounty on their head.
To get through this level, they must solve the puzzle of the floor. The secret to unravelling it all may be hidden in the pages of a seemingly useless book. But if they want to come close to success, they'll have to work with other crawlers.
Making friends is easy...until they want to kill you.
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Praise for Dungeon Crawler Carl
'Fresh. Creative. Hilarious. I'm obsessed...Princess Donut is my queen' Actor, producer and New York Times bestselling author Felicia Day
'I don't always say nice things about a book just because the writer has compromising pictures of me engaging in some very complicated international crimes, but when I do, I say them about Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl! Also, this series has no goddamn business burying so much depth and emotion and complexity under its bawdy, gory surface, but it does so anyway. What a wild-ass and unexpected delight' New York Times bestselling author Scott Lynch
'[A] comically cosmic adventure series...often laugh-out-loud funny...Grind your way to dungeon mastery alongside Carl and Princess Donut' The Wall Street Journal
'This is the book for anyone who ever wondered what it would be like to be a role player in a game with the best game master ever. Also for anyone who wants to read a good book. Or maybe anyone who has been outside at night?in their underwear?looking for their cat and wondering 'What's the worst thing that could happen?' Once you start, you won't put it down' Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series
'One of the most bananapants, funny, inventive books I have read in a while' Book Riot
'Dungeon Crawler Carl is just one big smile all the way through. Put on your best pair of boxer shorts and sit back for a truly fun and enjoyable read' New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson
The third explosive installment in Matt Dinniman's best selling LitRPG series, where teamwork is optional and betrayal is inevitable...
'If there's a better LitRPG than Dungeon Crawler Carl, I haven't read it' Shirtaloon, author of He Who Fights Monsters
--
Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this fourth level is unlike anything they could imagine.
The Iron Tangle: an impossibly complicated subway system tied together into a knot of trains of all kinds.
The top ten list of most popular crawlers is now confirmed, and Carl and Donut have made it. But that popularity comes with a price . . .
They each now have a bounty on their head.
Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this fourth level is unlike anything they could imagine.
The Iron Tangle: an impossibly complicated subway system tied together into a knot of trains of all kinds.
The top ten list of most popular crawlers is now confirmed, and Carl and Donut have made it. But that popularity comes with a price . . .
They each now have a bounty on their head.
To get through this level, they must solve the puzzle of the floor. The secret to unravelling it all may be hidden in the pages of a seemingly useless book. But if they want to come close to success, they'll have to work with other crawlers.
Making friends is easy...until they want to kill you.
----
Praise for Dungeon Crawler Carl
'Fresh. Creative. Hilarious. I'm obsessed...Princess Donut is my queen' Actor, producer and New York Times bestselling author Felicia Day
'I don't always say nice things about a book just because the writer has compromising pictures of me engaging in some very complicated international crimes, but when I do, I say them about Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl! Also, this series has no goddamn business burying so much depth and emotion and complexity under its bawdy, gory surface, but it does so anyway. What a wild-ass and unexpected delight' New York Times bestselling author Scott Lynch
'[A] comically cosmic adventure series...often laugh-out-loud funny...Grind your way to dungeon mastery alongside Carl and Princess Donut' The Wall Street Journal
'This is the book for anyone who ever wondered what it would be like to be a role player in a game with the best game master ever. Also for anyone who wants to read a good book. Or maybe anyone who has been outside at night?in their underwear?looking for their cat and wondering 'What's the worst thing that could happen?' Once you start, you won't put it down' Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series
'One of the most bananapants, funny, inventive books I have read in a while' Book Riot
'Dungeon Crawler Carl is just one big smile all the way through. Put on your best pair of boxer shorts and sit back for a truly fun and enjoyable read' New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson
Reviews / Votes
-- PRAISE FOR DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL * - * Fresh. Creative. Hilarious. I'm obsessed...Princess Donut is my queen. * Actor, producer and New York Times bestselling author Felicia Day * This series has no goddamn business burying so much depth and emotion and complexity under its bawdy, gory surface, but it does so anyway. What a wild-ass and unexpected delight. * New York Times bestselling author Scott Lynch * [A] comically cosmic adventure series...often laugh-out-loud funny...Grind your way to dungeon mastery alongside Carl and Princess Donut. * The Wall Street Journal * This is the book for anyone who ever wondered what it would be like to be a role player in a game with the best game master ever. Also for anyone who wants to read a good book. Or maybe anyone who has been outside at night-in their underwear-looking for their cat and wondering 'What's the worst thing that could happen?' Once you start, you won't put it down. * Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series * One of the most bananapants, funny, inventive books I have read in a while. * Book Riot * If there's a better LitRPG than Dungeon Crawler Carl, I haven't read it. * Shirtaloon, author of He Who Fights Monsters * Dungeon Crawler Carl is just one big smile all the way through. Put on your best pair of boxer shorts and sit back for a truly fun and enjoyable read. * New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson * Dungeon Crawler Carl is the best start to a series I've read this year. I wish I'd tried it sooner. * Will Wight, author of the Cradle series * To describe the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and the first book in particular, one must blend the darkest, grittiest science fiction with the humour of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It mixes fun, whimsical absurdity, and serious, dark themes with dire consequences...it is so spectacularly good that I cannot recommend it high enough. * Grimdark Magazine *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 56 mm
Weight
786 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-81624-0 (9780241816240)
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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
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Person
Matt Dinniman is a million copy Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the best-selling Dungeon Crawler Carl series along with several other books about the end of the world. He doesn't really hate Cocker Spaniels, and he plays bass in two bands.