A list of Dumbing of Age storylines in order of continuity. For a full timeline, check the Dumbing of Age Timeline.
Book 1: This Campus is a Friggin' Escher Print[]
- Move-In Day: The students begin arriving on campus. Ruth introduces herself by threatening Joyce's femurs. Dorothy breaks up with Danny, who encounters the mysterious Amazi-Girl shortly thereafter.
- Uphill From Here: Sal and her motorcycle enter the scene. Leslie's Gender Studies class kicks off. Walky shows his affection for Dorothy by pelting her with a plastic toy.
- Men Are From Beck, Women Are From Clark: Danny and Amber meet in Computer Studies. Ruth takes Billie's cheerleader uniform hostage. Joe and Joyce go on a disastrous date with Mike in tow.
- The Bechdel Test: Joe and Roz get busy. Amazi-Girl intervenes after Billie and Ruth nearly come to blows. Leslie's students learn about the Bechdel Test. Billie tries to break into journalism. Joyce discovers Dorothy is an atheist.
- Media Rumble: Joe and Roz's sex tape becomes major news on campus. Amber and Danny get closer. Dorothy and Walky sorta get closer. Billie accidentally learns a few of Ruth's secrets and spends a night in the closet.
- Yesterday Was Thursday: Congresswoman DeSanto arrives on campus on a damage control mission. Dorothy, Joyce, and Billie attend a party that goes south in a hurry.
Book 2: I Beg You, Don't Cast Your Body Into The Cragged Shame Pits of The Lustwolves[]
- Pajama Jeans: Walky discovers pajama jeans. The girls deal with the post-party fallout. Ethan has an ethical crisis. Joyce and her friends spend a day at the beach, or a reasonable imitation thereof.
- Choosing My Religion: Joyce rounds up people to go to church. Danny and Billie have a... close encounter. Walky and Dorothy's relationship deepens. Ethan and Joyce make a date (with Jesus).
- The First Step Towards Recovery: Billie continues to get no respect. Walky and Dorothy make it official. Danny and Amazi-Girl spend some quality time together.
- Time Keeps On Slippin': Walky finally gets his pajama jeans. Billie and Ruth have a confrontation where neither of them draws blood, much to Sarah's disappointment. Ethan introduces Joyce to the deep Biblical parallels of Transformers. Dorothy encounters Amazi-Girl.
- Saturday's All Right For Slighting: Billie takes Joyce, Sarah, and Dina on an ill-fated mall adventure. Sarah's past is revealed. Walky and Dorothy break up over his pajama jeans, though the split doesn't last.
- Strange Beerfellows: Amber takes Dina under her wing. Ruth and Billie bond over beer and volleyball. Dorothy and Walky have a sleepover. Amber and Danny get a late-night pizza. Joyce has an... interesting dream.
Book 3: Your Stupid Overconfidence is Nostalgic[]
- If The Shoe Splits: Walky learns some valuable lessons about shoes. Jason gives Sal a little one-on-one time. Ruth and Billie's relationship takes an interesting new turn.
- Guess Who's Coming To Galasso's: Joyce and Ethan go on a double date. Walky flies too close to the sun. Danny gets more than he bargained for when he helps Amazi-Girl fight campus crime.
- Answers in Hennessy: Joyce gets a flu shot and a bad case of gay panic, in that order. Amber and Danny get some comic books. Billie gets her Big Damn Hero moment and learns a few things about Ruth in the process. Joyce is sucked head-first into Dexter and Monkey Master.
- Just Hangin' Out With My Family: All hell breaks loose when parents descend on the IU campus for Freshman Family Weekend.
Book 4: Amazi-Girl is Always Prepared for Anything[]
- The Only Dope For Me Is You: Amber has a terrible day. Ruth tries to do something nice for Billie. Amazi-Girl battles her archnemesis, Scumbag Dad. Dorothy and Walky perform a sex.
- I Was A Teenage Churchmouse: Hoodie dress fever sweeps the campus. Joyce googles "strap-on". Amber faces the repercussions of her vigilante activities. Dorothy and Joyce discover a shocking secret.
- Up All Night To Get Vengeance: Clark Hall embraces door decorations. Amber tries to get payback. Billie's self-confidence runs out. Joyce's frustration mounts. Danny is helpful. DoA's readers discover the clitoris.
- The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit: Amazi-Girl investigates when Clark Hall's whiteboards get all penis-y. Billie ruins everything she touches (and even some things she didn't touch). Danny makes an important discovery.
Book 5: Hey, Guess What, I'm A Lesbian![]
- When Somebody Loved Me: Marcie gets some backstory. Walky and company track down Billie. Ruth expands her wardrobe. Joyce gets a little more than she bargained for when a surprise visitor arrives on campus.
- Three's a Crowd: Amazi-Girl goes on patrol. Joyce does a little research.
- The Butterflies Won't Fly Away: Joyce and Becky throw a party in Joyce's dorm room.
- Walking with Dina: Willis temporarily violates his personal code of comic conduct for Dina's sake. Things proceed (mostly) adorably. Ethan bumps into Danny at an event for questioning individuals. Becky's dad gets put on a bus.
Book 6: The Machinations of My Revenge Will Be Cold, Swift, and Absolutely Ridiculous[]
- To Those Who'd Ground Me: Walky's epic plans for the future start to seem less likely. Becky's dad shows up on campus and things get chaotic quickly.
- That Perfect Girl: Mary gets fed up with Carla's antics. Joyce's dad comes to take her home for a visit.
- When God Closes the Door: Walky gets a care package. Joyce gets mad and opens a window. Carla exacts her revenge.
- It All Returns: Becky and the Browns go to church. Ruth needs help.
Book 7: Just Put Down the Ukulele Only Then Can the Healing Begin[]
- Glower Vacuum: Sal and Amazi-Girl form a truce and attempt to track down Ryan. Billie visits Ruth in the hospital. Becky tries to see the top of Dina's head.
- Everything You've Ever Wanted Floats Above: Leslie and Robin wake up in the same bed. Jacob shares his views on sex. Dorothy tries to fix everything, and Walky confides a secret.
- The Thing I Was Before: Ruth is forced to keep her RA job and faces an uphill battle with redemption. Amber and Sal play Mario Kart. Leslie takes in Becky to tighten the screws on Robin.
- The "Do" List: Joe's "do" list is leaked, and he tries to do damage control with donuts. New Danny debuts a hat and a ukulele. Amber returns to campus with her demons louder than ever.
Book 8: Up Here We Can Be Garbage[]
- Face the Strange: Billie and Malaya trade rooms. Jacob takes Joyce to his church.
- This Is The Way That We Love: Joyce breaks her toe. Amazi-Girl has escapades Amber can't remember. Billie and Ruth go on a real date, Ethan makes out with Mike, Dorothy and Walky go on pause, and Sal sings Johnny Cash.
- Faz Is Great: Faz unexpectedly turns up at campus, forcing Amber and her friends to babysit him. Jason is fired and finds himself hanging out with Walky.
- Of Mike And Men: Mike and Ethan formalize things. Dorothy ends up at an awkward lunch with Joyce, Jacob, and Raidah. Mike's asshole ways are given a backstory. Sal finds Amber and Walky on Garbage Roof.
Book 9: Now Let's Go Commit Something Mildly Subversive Which, at Worst, Will Serve as a Humanizing Anecdote and Not as Anything Truly Threatening to the Power Structures at Hand[]
- Flyin' To The Red: Ethan reconciles with Sal, but the tension between Sal and Amber finally boils over. Dorothy and Joyce have to smuggle an iguana back to Malaya's room.
- But the Sun Still Shines: Lucy tries to find the secret to Billie's popularity in time for movie night. Amber tells Walky what she did to Sal. Ruth confronts Billie about alcohol.
- Sometimes the Sky Was So Far Away: Joyce has a dream about Rich Mullins and questions her faith. Sarah tries to decorate for Halloween without seeming interesting. Robin hires Becky to manage her campaign.
- Vote for Robin: Becky surprises Dina with a birthday gift. Amber and Walky track down Asher. Sal tries to be a wingman for Marcie. Billie finds Ruth at a bar. Amazi-Girl runs into a copycat.
Book 10: Renounce Magical Thinking and Embrace Empirical Evidence[]
- Birthday Pursuit: It's Dina and Sarah's Birthday! Ruth doesn't know what to do about that. Blaine bails Ross out of jail and they plot, Joyce manages to fake her way into being Jacob's girlfriend to his brother, which makes him break up with Raidah.
- To Remind You of My Love: Mike draws Blaine and Ross away from the party. Amazi-Girl shows up as Blaine dons a supervillain suit and pulls out a ball-peen hammer... and then Amber feels like she's forgetting something important. Joyce learns Ross is free and struggles to tell Becky. Also her toenail finally falls off.
- When It Crumbles: The ten-year narrative climax. Blaine and Ross set their plan into action, but hit a crucial roadblock when Amber and Amazi-Girl turn out to be the same person. Dorothy hatches a plan. Blaine turns on Ross. Joyce helps Amber make peace with Amazi-Girl.
- Is a Song Forever?: Parents show up for the aftermath. Hank has to choose between his daughter and his wife. Linda wants to get Amber expelled. Danny tells Ethan how he really feels about Mike. The mafia deals with Blaine. Amber shares Garbage Roof with everyone who helped her.
Book 11: I Excised All My Anxieties Into Cartoon Characters Who Definitely Don't Have Feelings For Each Other[]
- This Bright Millennium: Everyone arrives back on campus for spring semester after a timeskip. Booster is introduced and given the tour.
- Look Straight Ahead: Billie goes by Jennifer now. Becky grows jealous of Dorothy's relationship with Joyce. Joyce gets glasses.
- See You in the Funny Page: Walky and Joyce brainstorm ideas for a comic strip in the student newspaper.
- Hompk!: New science forces Dina to change her signature interjection. Walky's scruffy hair makes him suddenly attractive, and Lucy must capitalize on it before he realizes. Jennifer sets up a date between Ruth and Daisy.
- As Long As It's Free: Ruth ends up dating Jason instead of Daisy. Danny gifts Sal a bicycle to cheer her up. Joe tries to dig deep for some feelings but comes up short.
Book 12: Her Hugs Are Traps[]
- Sister, Christian: Sarah's younger sister Liz comes to visit. Joyce skips class to hang out with her but can't introduce her to any of her friends except Joe. Sal makes things official with Danny. Becky and Dorothy find out that Joyce is atheist now and everything gets awkward. Liz makes a move on Joe, and a sexiled Danny encounters Ethan in the lounge.
- I'll Leave You A Phantom: Joyce tries to make amends with Becky and Dorothy. Amber cannot healthily grieve Mike, and Joe agonizes over his feelings for Joyce, so they agree to trade worries. Progress is made towards equilibrium and healing.
- Trial and Sarah: Liz still hasn't left yet, so Sarah must personally escort her back to Muncie. Dina tries using the scientific method to achieve pants euphoria and defeats God.
- Don't Stop Billie-ving: Becky and Dina spread their good news but keep Joyce out of the loop. Jennifer takes Joyce to get a prescription for birth control, but Joyce is also given a referral for an autism diagnosis. Jason tries to catch up on Ruth's backstory.
- This Was Halloween: Flashing back to October, Sarah and Joyce hold a Halloween party for all of their friends. Ruth confides in a recently traumatized Dorothy about wanting to break up with Billie, further complicating her attempts to bring everyone together again. Mary invites Becky and Dina to her Hell House in the Commons. Amber and Walky have a falling out over incompatible coping mechanisms. Raidah invites Billie out after she leaves the party.
Book 13: TBA[]
- Bring Me To Life Drawing: Dorothy accompanies Joyce to pick up her birth control, and Joyce lashes out at her for being overprotective. Amber makes a new friend. Joe opens up about his anxieties.
- Turning Saints Into The Sea: Booster sets out to befriend Ethan on purpose. Dorothy tries to talk Joyce out of dating Joe, but takes drastic measures when Joyce pushes back. Ruth tries to get Jason rehired as a TA. Becky finds out Dorothy was accepted into Yale, and Dorothy reveals why she hasn't told anyone.
- Joementum: Lucy and Walky join Raidah's group for brunch. Jennifer is upset when Walky has no difficulty whatsoever being accepted by her mature friendgroup. Joe learns to be a stable boyfriend. Dorothy continues to spiral downward and tries to get back with Walky.
- But Don't Give Yourself Away: The Walkerton parents visit. Danny boosts their opinion of Sal, but Lucy is given the cold shoulder. Suspecting racism, Lucy and Walky conspire to have Amber pose as Walky's girlfriend to raise his parents' opinion of Lucy. Carol dumps more trauma on Joyce. Amber lets slip that she hacked Walky's grades after he told her not to.