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The Game at Carousel Books in Order

by Rob M. LastrelScience Fiction & Fantasy

4 books so far (book 5 is due December 22, 2026). They run from The Bystander (2024) to The Centennial: A Horror Movie LitRPG (2026). Rated 4.9 across 690 listener reviews.

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The Unchosen: A Horror Movie LitRPG

Book 5 · out December 22, 2026 · preorder now

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Reading order

  1. The Bystander

    Book 1 2024 4.9 (267)

    In a town where horror movie tropes come to life, one’s only chance to survive is to play their role, in the first book of a spine-tingling gamelit series.

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  2. The Invitation: A Horror Movie LitRPG

    Book 2 2024 4.9 (168)

    Five heroes trapped in a horror movie must find their way out—and avoid dying for good—in the second installment of this imaginative LitRPG series.

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  3. The Atlas: A Horror Movie LitRPG

    Book 3 2024 4.9 (192)

    The third installment of a cinematic horror-LitRPG series: Die in the story, and you'll be back; break the story, and you're gone for good.

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  4. The Centennial: A Horror Movie LitRPG

    Book 4 2026 4.9 (63)

    A group of friends will have to survive the movie—without letting its horrors spill off the screen—in the chilling fourth installment of this LitRPG series. In the horror-movie town of Carousel, Project Rewind is nearing its end.

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  5. The Unchosen: A Horror Movie LitRPG

    Book 5 Out December 22, 2026

    The movie's only just begun as Riley and his team inch closer to its horrifying climax in the fifth installment of this spine-tingling LitRPG adventure.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Game at Carousel 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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