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Bad Machinery Books in Order

Bad Machinery by John Allison contains 10 books, published between 2013 and 2021. The first book is The Case of the Team Spirit (2013) and the newest is The Case of the Severed Alliance (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
2013–2021
Pages on record
1,054 in 8 of 10 books
Reading time
18–26 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,054 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

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Bad Machinery is a mystery comics series by John Allison, collected in 10 volumes published between 2013 and 2021. Catalogue subjects record school children, high school students, friendship and private investigators, and file the books as graphic novels. Each volume is titled as a case, from The Case of the Team Spirit (2013) to The Case of the Severed Alliance (2021), by way of The Case of the Good Boy, The Case of the Lonely One, The Case of the Fire Inside and The Case of the Forked Road. Median length is 132 pages.

How many Bad Machinery books are there?

Bad Machinery has 10 books, released between 2013 and 2021.

Bad Machinery Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Bad Machinery 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. Cover of The Case of the Good Boy by John Allison, book 2 of the Bad Machinery series (2014)
  2. Cover of The Case of the Fire Inside by John Allison, book 5 of the Bad Machinery series (2016)
  3. Cover of The Case of the Forked Road by John Allison, book 7 of the Bad Machinery series (2017)
  4. Cover of The Case of the Severed Alliance by John Allison, book 10 of the Bad Machinery series (2021)
  1. 1
    The Case of the Team Spirit2013 · 132 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013132
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  2. 2
    The Case of the Good Boy2014 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014144
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  3. 3
    The Case of the Simple Soul2014 · 131 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014131
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  4. 4
    The Case of the Lonely One2015 · 129 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015129
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  5. 5
    The Case of the Fire Inside2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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  6. 6
    The Case of the Unwelcome Visitor2016 · 135 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016135
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  7. 7
    The Case of the Forked Road2017 · 119 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017119
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  8. 8
    The Case of the Modern Men2019 · 136 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019136
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  9. 9
    The Case of the Missing Piece2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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  10. 10
    The Case of the Severed Alliance2021 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021128
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Is there a chronological order for Bad Machinery?

No separate chronological order is on record for Bad Machinery, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Bad Machinery books in order?

You should read the Bad Machinery books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Bad Machinery book also stands alone.

Where to start with Bad Machinery

Start with The Case of the Team Spirit (2013), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Bad Machinery book?

The Case of the Severed Alliance (2021) is the newest Bad Machinery book released so far.

Is there a new Bad Machinery book coming?

No next Bad Machinery book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Bad Machinery at a glance

Paused
No new Bad Machinery title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Bad Machinery books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,054 pages across the 8 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 132 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Bad Machinery books, 8 of 10, were published in the 2010s.

What the Bad Machinery books are about

7 of the 10 Bad Machinery books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: comics & graphic novels is tagged on 5 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by John Allison

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.