Max Brooks and various others Books in Order

Max Brooks and various others has written 14 books, published between 2017 and 2025. The first book is The Island (2017) and the newest is Roll for Adventure: The Temple of the Charged Creeper (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
14
Published
2017–2025
Pages on record
2,192 in 8 of 14 books
Reading time
37–55 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,192 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 14 titles with a page count on record.

Max Brooks and various others is a shared catalogue credit covering 14 children's novels tied to the Minecraft video game. The books run from The Island (2017) to Roll for Adventure: The Temple of the Charged Creeper (2025), with The End, The Lost Journals, The Mountain and Castle Redstone in between. Subject tags include adventure, fantasy, science fiction and islands, and the listing marks the books for grades 3 to 5. New titles are still appearing.

The Minecraft books follow characters who explore new lands and battle creatures while trying to survive in the game's world.

How many Max Brooks and various others books are there?

Max Brooks and various others has 14 books, released between 2017 and 2025.

Max Brooks and various others Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 14 Max Brooks and various others books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    The Island2017 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017288
  2. 2
    The Lost Journals2019 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019272
  3. 3
    The End2019 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019256
  4. 4
    The Voyage2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020
  5. 5
    The Rise of the Arch-Illager2020 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020304
  6. 6
    The Mountain2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021
  7. 7
    The Dragon2021 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021272
  8. 8
    The Haven Trials2021 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021224
  9. 9
    Zombies!2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  10. 10
    Don't Fear the Creeper2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  11. 11
    Castle Redstone2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  12. 12
    Return of the Piglins2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023
  13. 13
    The Village2023 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2023352
  14. 142025224

Max Brooks and various others books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

14 books

14 Max Brooks and various others titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Max Brooks and various others books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 14 Max Brooks and various others books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Max Brooks and various others

Start with The Island (2017), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Max Brooks and various others book?

Roll for Adventure: The Temple of the Charged Creeper (2025) is the newest Max Brooks and various others book released so far.

Is there a new Max Brooks and various others book coming?

No next Max Brooks and various others book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Max Brooks and various others at a glance

Still publishing
Max Brooks and various others published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Max Brooks and various others books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
2,192 pages across the 8 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 272 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Max Brooks and various others books, 11 of 14, were published in the 2020s.

What the Max Brooks and various others books are about

4 of the 14 Max Brooks and various others books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: adventure stories is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.