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The Trash Droid Files Books in Order

by Michael CheneyScience Fiction & Fantasy

5 books from The Trash Droid Files: Phoenix Rising (2026) to The Trash Droid Files: Book 5, System Shutdown (2026). Rated 4.5 across 12 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. The Trash Droid Files: Phoenix Rising

    Book 1 2026 4.1 (7)

    Tedd saved the world. Their thanks: a bounty on his head. With the Manager gone, humanity wasted no time declaring war on every robot left standing—hunting them for parts, for sport, and for credits.

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  2. The Trash Droid Files

    Book 2 2026 5.0 (1)

    Tedd has found something worse than humans who hate robots. Humans who want to be them. Phoenix has one goal: kill every machine that thinks for itself. And they're rewiring their own skulls to make it happen. McKenzie is back.

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

  3. The Trash Droid Files, Book 3: The Purge

    Book 3 2026 5.0 (1)

    Tedd thinks he's ready for the Purge. He's wrong. Wyatt's kill orders are out. Every machine that thinks for itself, every robot left standing — hunted, stripped, and destroyed. The scale of it is worse than anyone feared.

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  4. The Trash Droid Files

    Book 4 2026 5.0 (3)

    Tedd has always outrun his problems. The map just ran out. Phoenix is spreading north like a virus, chipping humans, crushing machines, and dipping into a deep warchest. Tedd's side is flat broke.

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  5. The Trash Droid Files: Book 5, System Shutdown

    Book 5 2026

    Tedd helped build an army to take the fight to Phoenix. But Wyatt Voss has other ideas. Ambushed, attacked and bleeding out across the desert, Tedd's only move left is the one nobody saw coming—fighting alongside the enemy.

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for The Trash Droid Files 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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