Big Nate Books in Order

Nate is stuck balancing a Benjamin Franklin report with a fleeceball season that goes sideways fast. Team drama, Gina's interference, and Nate's giant ego make this one a sharp, funny school story.

This opening comic collection introduces Nate Wright at full volume. Between detention, sarcasm, school elections, and daily disasters, it shows exactly why sixth grade is never quiet when Nate is around.

A fortune cookie tells Nate he will surpass all others, and he decides this has to be his big day. Instead, every class turns into a fresh disaster as Nate talks, schemes, and blunders his way toward fame.

Nate may think he is the star, but this collection reminds you how much Francis, Teddy, Artur, Gina, and the rest of the gang matter. Friendship, rivalry, and classroom chaos drive every page.

After losing his skateboard, Nate sets his sights on winning a custom board through his scout troop. The catch is that he has to beat Artur, the calm, talented rival who seems better at almost everything.

Nate charges through pranks, homework dodges, band chaos, and sports headaches in another fast-moving batch of strips. The jokes are quick, the reactions are huge, and the trouble starts almost immediately.

This Sunday-only collection gives Nate's adventures a larger visual stage. The jokes still center on school, family, friends, and sports, but the format lets Peirce stretch out the gags in fun ways.

When P.S. 38 is forced to share space with hated Jefferson Middle School, Nate's life gets even worse. A broken wrist, school rivalry, and a hard-won creative partnership push him far outside his comfort zone.

Another full-color comics collection finds Nate trying to survive school with his pride mostly intact. Grades, teachers, bad ideas, and social disasters keep colliding in the way only Big Nate can make funny.

Nate launches himself into another run of schemes without much of a plan and even less patience. The result is a lively collection of school-day jokes, awkward moments, and self-inflicted comic damage.

This comic collection follows Nate through the usual minefield of pop quizzes, detention, sports trouble, and bad ideas. As the title suggests, he keeps asking the wrong question and getting the funniest answer.

Nate loses the school camera and ends up in the middle of a friendship meltdown with Francis. As the search drags on, clutter, blame, and humiliation pile up until Nate finally has to face his own part in it.

This Sunday-strip collection gives Nate a little more room for visual chaos and big punch lines. Whether he is at school, on the field, or making things awkward at home, the trouble always lands hard.

A quick-hit collection of Big Nate comics packed with school skirmishes, wisecracks, and tiny battles that somehow become huge. Nate treats every seat, snack, and insult like something worth fighting over.

Sports, pranks, band practice, and classroom trouble all collide in this energetic collection. Nate keeps moving, talking, and competing, even when every new plan seems custom-built to blow up in his face.

Nate's faith in his own brilliance powers every strip here, even when the evidence keeps stacking up against him. Expect classroom trouble, social misses, and the kind of confidence that makes failure funnier.

Mrs. Godfrey, Ellen, Dad, Gina, Artur, and plain old bad luck all seem determined to break Nate's spirit. He responds the only way he knows how, with sarcasm, stubbornness, and several terrible choices.

Nate faces the usual grind of classes, teachers, and embarrassment, and naturally wishes for any possible escape route. The strips are short, punchy, and built around his gift for making bad days even worse.

Nate Wright's run of bad luck reverses when Chad lends him a lucky charm. School troubles, a new rival and his band's performance test whether this sudden confidence can last, or whether Nate is depending on something unreliable.

Nate's cleverest ideas keep turning into his loudest failures in this lively collection. School projects, pranks, sports, and friendship drama all get filtered through a kid who thinks he is always two steps ahead.

A ruined history outline starts a terrible streak for Nate, just as school launches a new Fitness Zone craze. Then a lucky charm seems to change everything, until Field Day puts that luck to the test.

Nate would love to be the most admired kid in school, but his plans rarely survive first contact with reality. This collection gets plenty of laughs out of his ego, his friends, and his many social misfires.

Nate swings for big wins with class campaigns, entrepreneurial schemes, and sports hero dreams. Even when he misfires, his confidence never really wobbles, and that is what makes the crashes so funny.

A new kid named Breckenridge lands at P.S. 38 just as Nate gets pulled into the school's centennial celebration. What starts as a welcome assignment turns into a scavenger hunt, an old mystery, and a hidden mural.

Nate barrels through another round of social embarrassment, school headaches, and overconfident planning. The strips are full of quick reversals and the kind of middle school humiliation Nate somehow keeps surviving.

Pop quizzes, bad horoscope news, snack deprivation, and ordinary school misery all hit Nate at once. He insists he can handle it, which usually means readers are about to get some of his funniest disasters.

Nate thinks his family may be moving to California, and suddenly everything feels off-balance. While he worries in secret, school projects, old enemies, and one big misunderstanding keep pushing him toward panic.

This big anniversary volume looks back across years of Big Nate strips with favorite comics, creator commentary, and extra behind-the-scenes material. It is part celebration, part retrospective, and a lot of fun for longtime fans.

Nate and his baseball team are stuck with the humiliating name Cream Puffs, and he is desperate to prove they are not pushovers. Injuries, mockery, and big-game nerves make the payoff especially satisfying.

Flying dodgeballs, locker chaos, band trouble, and classic Nate overreaction keep this collection moving fast. It is another strong dose of school humor powered by bad timing and even worse judgment.

Chad's health kick, Jenny and Artur drama, and Nate's crush on a new pitcher all collide in one especially busy collection. It is full of baseball, insults, and the kind of social chaos Nate never sees coming.

Friendship is the real engine here, even when Nate is dodging homework, pulling pranks, and making everything louder than it needs to be. The collection balances school mayhem with the push and pull of Nate's crew.

Summer is close, but Nate still has to survive overripe bananas, a mascot contest, jealous classmates, and Coach John in the classroom. This one has the same sharp jokes with a strong end-of-school-year vibe.

Nate keeps turning regular sixth-grade problems into first-rate comic disasters. Pranks, music class trouble, sports fails, and classroom meltdowns roll by fast in a collection that is easy to pick up and hard to stop.

A mystery girl at the fair leaves Nate completely lovestruck, right when summer school and Gina's tutoring loom over him. The mix of romance panic and ordinary school misery works very well here.

A younger version of Nate discovers that a new box of crayons can send his imagination racing. It is a simple, playful board book that keeps his creative energy while aiming at much younger readers.

Nate never lets a grudge go quietly, and this collection gets a lot of mileage out of that fact. Rivalries, revenge plots, and school-day scheming keep the laughs coming at a brisk, comic-strip pace.

Nate's band gets a big chance at the school open house, but Trudy's return knocks his confidence sideways. Music, crushes, and middle school ego combine into one of his louder comic collections.

Pop quizzes, detentions, and classroom ambushes are exactly the kind of thing Nate attracts. This early collection delivers quick jokes, familiar faces, and plenty of proof that school never catches him prepared.

Nate thinks standing near the class gerbil might be the perfect excuse for another homework disaster. Add Prank Day, a homemade superhero movie, and more classroom trouble, and the mess quickly grows.

Nate juggles a maybe-romance with Daisy, a dangerous haircut from Teddy, and a comic-shop mystery that lets him play hero. It is a funny, slightly breezy collection with plenty of classic embarrassment.

Soccer setbacks, teacher blowups, awkward surprises, and Nate's usual oversized reactions power this collection. It is familiar Big Nate territory, which means fast laughs, expressive art, and very little calm.

Flying baked goods, Dee Dee drama, and fresh battles with Mrs. Godfrey keep the school on alert. Nate's latest round of schemes is loud, silly, and exactly the kind of mess longtime readers expect.

Healthy Halloween snacks, football frustration, and Gina's grab for control of the student lounge all make Nate's life worse. He answers with coaching, meddling, and the usual amount of comic overcommitment.

Eighth graders steal Nate's lunch spot, Chad turns weirdly aggressive, and Dee Dee enters the picture for a terrible movie date. This collection keeps the pressure on Nate from every possible angle.

A lucky charm sends Nate on a brief hot streak that includes better grades, cash, and even a movie date. Naturally, bad haircuts, runaway gerbils, and fresh chaos bring him crashing back to earth.

Oral reports, school stress, an advice column, and even an emotional support dog all become part of Nate's latest survival plan. The title is good advice, because he definitely does not follow it.

Nate ends up battling Gina, the school board, and a rival slob in another fast, joke-packed collection. Even by his standards, the conflicts pile up quickly, and he handles them with his usual mix of pride and panic.

Nate tries to quit Cheez Doodles, gets dumped by Francis, and strikes out at the school dance, all in one rough stretch. It is another full-color collection powered by snacks, embarrassment, and bad timing.

Back-to-school rumors, class president drama, a sea-cucumber mascot dream, and an alleged food fight keep Nate in motion. He stirs up trouble all over P.S. 38, but somehow the place is still standing.

Nate throws himself into podcasting, pranks, baseball worries, crushes, and fresh school headaches. Surprise locker partners and cafetorium duty only add to the sense that his latest semester may be overloaded from day one.

Nate charges into more classroom chaos, Gina battles, and soccer highs and lows in this later comic collection. As usual, his big ideas only make the halls of P.S. 38 louder, stranger, and much funnier.