Below is the complete list of Max Brallier’s Adventure Time books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Adventure Time Books
About Adventure Time
Max Brallier’s Adventure Time books are a collection of licensed tie-ins set in the eccentric fantasy world of Finn, Jake, Princess Bubblegum, Ice King, BMO, and the other inhabitants of the Land of Ooo. They are not a single continuing novel sequence in the manner of Brallier’s The Last Kids on Earth series. Instead, the books use several different formats—short fiction, branching adventures, puzzles, activity-driven storytelling, and picture-book parody—to recreate the unpredictable humor and imaginative freedom associated with the animated series. Brallier’s official bibliography groups six titles with his Adventure Time work.
Tales from the Land of Ooo provides perhaps the broadest introduction to this part of Brallier’s bibliography. Published in 2013, it is a full-color collection of original short stories following Finn and Jake through a succession of strange adventures. Rather than constructing one large plot, the book embraces variety, moving through the odd characters and comic possibilities of Ooo in a form suited to brief, self-contained reading. That episodic structure makes it particularly close in spirit to the franchise’s ability to shift rapidly between heroic fantasy, nonsense, friendship, and surreal comedy.
Other titles make reader participation central. Which Way, Dude? BMO’s Day Out begins with Finn and Jake playing with BMO before news about Princess Bubblegum sends the story into a rescue adventure. The reader can choose different paths while also working through mazes, puzzles, questions, word searches, and codes. Jake Goes Bananas similarly uses a multi-path structure, with riddles, puzzles, and decisions altering the route through the story. These books are therefore less concerned with establishing a fixed sequence of canonical events than with letting younger readers actively navigate an Adventure Time scenario.
How to Catch a Princess, written with Shane Johnson, takes a different approach by focusing on Ice King’s endless romantic ambitions. Structured more like a comic guidebook than a conventional chapter novel, it presents his supposedly useful ideas about winning a princess while incorporating games, prompts, and other activities. The format suits a character whose confidence and self-perception are often wildly disconnected from reality, allowing the humor to emerge from Ice King’s own approach to the subject.
A Christmas-tastic Carol is the most clearly literary parody among Brallier’s Adventure Time titles. Published in 2014, the illustrated picture book reworks Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol through the franchise’s characters and comic sensibility, placing Ice King in the central holiday role. Its deluxe picture-book presentation distinguishes it from the interactive adventures and short-story collection, reinforcing how varied this group of books actually is.
The remaining title, Stuck on Jake, further contributes to the set of Adventure Time books credited to Brallier, but the larger point is that these works should not be mistaken for a tightly serialized saga. They share a fictional universe and recurring cast rather than one continuous storyline. A reader does not need to follow them expecting character development or unresolved plot threads to advance from volume to volume in the way a traditional series would.
That loose structure is also what makes Brallier’s contribution distinctive. He repeatedly changes the mechanism of reading itself: one book gathers short stories, another asks the reader to choose routes, another incorporates puzzles, and another transforms a classic Christmas narrative into an Ooo-centered picture book. The connecting force is not chronology but play. Finn and Jake’s adventures, BMO’s presence, Ice King’s absurdity, and the broad imaginative possibilities of the Land of Ooo provide the common foundation, while each book finds a different way to invite the reader into that world.