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Challenger's Call Books in Order

by Nathan ThompsonScience Fiction & Fantasy

4 books from Downfall and Rise (2020) to Lighting Distant Shores (2026). Rated 4.7 across 1,522 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Downfall and Rise

    Book 1 2020 4.7 (970)

    When a freak accident ruins his body and his memory, Wes Malcolm loses his scholarship and his place in the world. Every treatment has failed, save one: a fully immersive VR game, designed by his late, disgraced father, that mimics the…

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  2. Brace for the Wolves

    Book 2 2021 4.8 (432)

    The cry for Wes Malcolm's death has followed him from Earth all the way to Avalon, and an entire new breed of Hordebeast has taken up the call.

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  3. Woad Children

    Book 3 2022 by Nathan A. Thompson 4.9 (115)

    Wes Malcolm has wrested Avalon back from men, monsters, and false gods. The next step is to bring the battle to his enemy's camp. The world of the Woadlands is under siege from two cataclysms at once....

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  4. Lighting Distant Shores

    Book 4 2026 5.0 (5)

    He was too late to stop the darkness from falling. But there's still time to raise up a light. Wes Malcolm has arrived to the world of the Sun-Jeweled Seas, but the cataclysm of this world has already passed. Darkness covers the waters.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Challenger's Call 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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