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Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
4.0

If the MMORPG from hell met Survivor Intergalactic met a bigger, dumber action movie, that would be this book. It has the same sort of acute media awareness that Hunger Games has, only with a lot more cartoonish violence and pop culture video game references that will probably age poorly but makes a lot of fun now. Carl and Donut are well likable despite their tropey origin stories, and the hints of byzantine politics underlying the smash and loot situation are interesting.