Charles M. Schulz Books in Order

Snoopy's brother Spike leaves his desert home for a visit, drawing a warm welcome from the Peanuts gang. As they get to know their unusual guest, the children learn surprising details about his isolated life among the coyotes.

Charlie Brown is delighted when Peppermint Patty recruits him for her baseball team, believing she finally recognizes his pitching ability. His excitement turns to disappointment when he receives a pelican costume instead and discovers she wants a mascot rather than a player.

Charlie Brown, Snoopy and their friends return in a collection of Peanuts comic strips. Their continuing adventures explore the frustrations and pleasures of everyday life, bringing the gang's contrasting personalities together through familiar friendships and comic misunderstandings.

Lucy recruits Linus and Snoopy to work in her garden, leaving them exhausted after a day of digging and planting. She expects a harvest of familiar vegetables, but what eventually grows promises a surprise for the demanding gardener.

Bad weather repeatedly disrupts Charlie Brown's attempts to prepare his baseball team for spring. He hopes their first game will teach the players an important lesson, but the familiar challenges of leading a persistently unsuccessful team prove difficult to overcome.

This retrospective follows Peanuts from its 1950 beginnings through decades of changing characters and recurring dilemmas. More than a thousand strips, photographs and Charles Schulz’s comments trace the creation of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and their familiar world.

Dance lessons introduce Charlie Brown to a girl who invites him to the Sweetheart Ball. He imagines an ideal evening, but Snoopy's determination to join the dancing complicates a date that already depends on keeping his hopes and feet under control.

The final year of Peanuts brings Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and their friends together in one collection. These closing comic strips preserve the characters' everyday encounters and familiar relationships as Schulz brings his fifty-year newspaper series to an end.

Snoopy pursues literary success at his typewriter, trying his paw at novels, poems, puns, and letters. This Peanuts cartoon collection follows his persistent ambitions and creative experiments as he keeps working toward publication despite the difficulties facing an aspiring writer.

Charlie Brown faces failed kite flights, an empty Valentine's mailbox, and trouble on the baseball field in this full-color comic collection. The frustrations of daily life become easier to bear with Snoopy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, and the rest of his friends nearby.

Original comic strips, sketches, and archival materials trace Schulz's artistic development and the changing world of Peanuts. Edited by Chip Kidd, the collection places familiar characters alongside early drawings and personal records, revealing how the strip evolved across five decades.

The Peanuts characters explore affection in a themed collection of their romantic hopes and disappointments. Charlie Brown's fascination with the Little Red-Haired Girl, Lucy's devotion to Schroeder, and Snoopy and Woodstock's attachments offer different comic perspectives on wanting to be loved.

Christmas-themed Peanuts strips from 1950 through 1999 bring the gang together for decorations, carols, gifts, and seasonal misunderstandings. Snoopy's doghouse, Lucy's behavior, and Linus's reflections reveal the mixture of comic frustration and companionship that marks their holiday celebrations.

Snoopy, Woodstock, and the rest of the Peanuts cast reflect on the meaning of friendship. Their observations and relationships provide a small collection of comic perspectives on companionship, focusing on the connections that make these familiar characters important to one another.

Charlie Brown and his friends return to classrooms filled with misunderstood teachers, difficult lessons, and familiar distractions. Sally seeks time with Linus, Peppermint Patty struggles to stay awake, and Lucy claims the answers in a collection about the challenges of school life.

Schulz turns from the Peanuts neighborhood to golf courses, bowling alleys and bridge tables in this short-lived comic strip. Collected with commentary from collaborator Jim Sasseville, the cartoons explore the frustrations and absurdities of recreational competition.

The earliest Peanuts strips introduce Charlie Brown and a puppy named Snoopy as Schulz develops his neighborhood. Schroeder, Lucy and Linus arrive as infants, offering a glimpse of familiar characters before their personalities and appearances settled.

Pigpen joins the neighborhood, Linus acquires his security blanket and Lucy becomes increasingly formidable. The complete strips from 1953 and 1954 follow these developing personalities while Charlie Brown’s confidence begins giving way to more familiar disappointments.

Charlie Brown struggles on the pitcher's mound while Lucy and Peppermint Patty bring their own complications to the diamond. These baseball strips combine the team's familiar disappointments with the distractions, arguments and unlikely hopes that surround every game.

Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy and Woodstock communicate entirely through gestures and expressions in this collection of wordless Peanuts strips. Baseball mishaps, commanding looks and everyday adventures show how much the gang can convey without a line of dialogue.

Snoopy dreams of the Masters while Charlie Brown hopes simply to survive the first hole. These golf strips follow wayward shots, competitive ambitions and troublesome caddies as the Peanuts gang discovers how frustrating a quiet afternoon outdoors can become.

Selected panels and punchlines bring together the Peanuts gang's observations on love, friendship and everyday disappointments. Drawing on decades of strips, this illustrated collection finds small truths in Charlie Brown's worries, Lucy's certainty and Snoopy's distinctive outlook.

Linus grows more articulate and anxious while Charlie Brown encounters further setbacks. These complete strips from 1957 and 1958 give Snoopy an expanding role, particularly through his impressions and repeated attempts to steal Linus’s prized blanket.

Linus begins speaking, Snoopy experiments with impressions and Lucy’s feelings for Schroeder become unmistakable. The complete strips from 1955 and 1956 trace the neighborhood’s changing relationships, including many cartoons seldom seen after their original newspaper publication.

Snoopy and his friends consider the give and take of friendship in this illustrated gift book. Brief observations and familiar Peanuts characters explore sharing, companionship and the everyday gestures that help friends understand one another.

The Peanuts gang takes on basketball, football, hockey and tennis in this sports strip collection. Competitive ambitions collide with uneven abilities as Charlie Brown and his friends wrestle with teamwork, fair play and the comic frustrations of trying to win.

Frieda and her unusual cat join the neighborhood as Sally faces kindergarten and Lucy intensifies her campaign against Linus’s blanket. These complete 1961 and 1962 strips follow new friendships, family tensions and the gang’s persistent insecurities.

Sally arrives, Linus awaits the Great Pumpkin and Lucy establishes her psychiatric booth. The complete strips from 1959 and 1960 follow the gang’s growing world as Snoopy takes his familiar place on top of his doghouse.

Snoopy's imaginative identities take center stage in this illustrated collection, from Joe Cool to the World War I Flying Ace. Eight of his best-known personas reveal how an ordinary beagle turns daily life into an assortment of grand adventures.

Snoopy and the Peanuts gang reflect on trust as an essential part of love in this small illustrated collection. Schulz's drawings and gentle humor explore the confidence, affection and understanding that connect people who care about one another.

Schroeder's piano playing provides the center of this collection of music-themed strips. Lucy's romantic interest, the gang's musical encounters and Schroeder's devotion to his instrument bring competing priorities to a world where enthusiasm rarely guarantees harmony.

Linus campaigns for class president while Lucy expands her efforts to diagnose Charlie Brown’s shortcomings. The complete 1963 and 1964 strips also introduce the numerically named 95472 siblings and reveal surprising possibilities inside Snoopy’s doghouse.

Snoopy launches his writing career and battles the Red Baron while Charlie Brown and Linus attend summer camp. These complete 1965 and 1966 strips also introduce Peppermint Patty, expanding the neighborhood beyond its familiar circle of friends.

Pigpen's ever-present cloud of dust follows him through this collection of Peanuts strips. Untroubled by the gang's objections, he defends his distinctive appearance and finds dignity in dirt he believes may have belonged to ancient civilizations.

Classic Peanuts strips explore the closeness and complications of family life. Charlie Brown and his friends discover the comfort of belonging alongside the irritation of living with relatives, finding humor in the people who know them best.

Snoopy’s bird companion receives the name Woodstock as the gang confronts school rules, shifting identities and romantic disappointments. The complete 1969 and 1970 strips also follow Snoopy’s encounters with the mysterious authority of the Great Beagle.

Sally’s school worries and feelings for Linus take center stage while summer camp creates misunderstandings for Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty. These complete 1971 and 1972 strips also introduce Marcie and Snoopy’s confident Joe Cool persona.

Snoopy’s Flying Ace fantasies dominate his days, but the return of his original owner unsettles Charlie Brown. These complete 1967 and 1968 strips also introduce Franklin and give Peppermint Patty a growing place in the neighborhood.

Organized by decade, this collection traces Peanuts across sixty years of changing characters and enduring concerns. Selected strips appear alongside Schulz's commentary, revealing the development of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the neighborhood that grew around them.

Charlie Brown hides a baseball-shaped rash beneath a paper bag and discovers an unexpected new identity at camp. These complete 1973 and 1974 strips also follow Rerun’s arrival, Marcie’s mishaps and Sally’s conversations with her schoolhouse.

Quotations and artwork from Peanuts turn the gang's experiences with friendship, love, music and baseball into everyday observations. Charlie Brown's setbacks, Lucy's pronouncements and Snoopy's imagination offer humorous ways of thinking about life's familiar difficulties.

Schulz's prose writings offer an account of his life, artistic methods, and beliefs beyond the comic strip. Autobiographical pieces, lectures, introductions, and commentary explore the making of Peanuts and the concerns about faith, philosophy, and modern life reflected in its characters.

Snoopy’s wandering brother Spike and sister Belle expand his family while an injury interrupts his adventures. These complete 1975 and 1976 strips also follow Peppermint Patty’s unconventional education and Charlie Brown’s chance to meet his baseball idol.

Charlie Brown leaves home after trouble with the kite-eating tree and finds a small team needing a coach. These complete 1977 and 1978 strips also introduce demanding tennis players and bring new complications to the gang’s friendships.

Charlie Brown spends time in the hospital while Snoopy’s imagination leads him into airline management and riverboat gambling. These complete 1979 and 1980 strips also follow the Beagle Scouts and an unexpected romantic connection involving Peppermint Patty.

Snoopy’s brother Marbles arrives, Charlie Brown faces upheaval on the baseball field and the Van Pelts attempt farming. These complete 1981 and 1982 strips follow familiar anxieties alongside fresh family encounters and increasingly elaborate canine adventures.

Two Christmas features written and drawn by Schulz return from their original magazine appearances. A sequence of seasonal vignettes and a separate holiday story bring Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang into celebrations beyond the newspaper strip.

Camp, school essays and seasonal expectations keep the Peanuts gang occupied while Snoopy experiments with a punk hairstyle. These complete 1985 and 1986 strips also introduce the commercially minded Tapioca Pudding and revisit Spike’s solitary desert life.

Spike sends Snoopy an urgent message from the desert while Charlie Brown discovers an embarrassing role on Peppermint Patty’s baseball team. These complete 1983 and 1984 strips also explore tangled affections, school troubles and Linus’s blanket support group.

This small collection presents Schulz's cartoons about church life, gathering material originally drawn for religious publications. The humor considers the everyday behavior of believers, offering a focused selection from the artist's work outside the familiar world of Peanuts.

The Peanuts gang explores friendship through Charlie Brown's thoughtfulness, Snoopy's loyalty and Lucy's forceful advice. Familiar characters and illustrated observations consider the different qualities friends bring to one another, including the awkward moments that make companionship complicated.

Sincerity, generosity and a positive outlook guide this Peanuts collection about gratitude. The gang's familiar personalities bring humor to small expressions of appreciation, showing how everyday kindness and the people around us can become reasons to be thankful.

This volume gathers the Sunday Peanuts strips from 1952 through 1955 in restored color. The early pages trace Schulz's changing drawing style and the introduction and development of characters including Schroeder, Lucy, and Linus as the comic's familiar world takes shape.

Snoopy's imagination takes him from his doghouse to scouting trips, sports, and other adventures in this color comic-strip collection for younger readers. Activities and facts accompany encounters with Woodstock, Charlie Brown, and the rest of the Peanuts neighborhood.

This volume gathers the daily Peanuts strips published throughout the 1970s. Read together, the decade's newspaper installments follow Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and their friends through the continuing comic life of Schulz's neighborhood, one day at a time.

Charlie Brown and Linus struggle with romance while Sally writes a school Christmas play and Snoopy produces a revealing book. These complete 1987 and 1988 strips also give Rerun more attention as Schulz experiments with flexible panel arrangements.

Charlie Brown meets Peggy Jean, Snoopy receives a jury summons and Olaf enters an unusual contest. These complete 1989 and 1990 strips combine romantic confusion, family visits and the familiar tensions of school, camp and neighborhood friendships.

Memorable quotations and illustrations from Peanuts celebrate sports, outdoor adventures and games. Charlie Brown and his friends bring their usual mix of enthusiasm and frustration to staying active, finding reasons to participate even when success remains uncertain.

Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Sally and Snoopy's sister Belle bring their distinctive personalities to this illustrated Peanuts collection. Their confidence, determination and individual quirks shape observations about meeting challenges and appreciating the qualities that make each person different.

Christmas strips and quotations bring the Peanuts gang together for a collection about seasonal joy. Schulz's characters navigate holiday expectations and celebrations, finding humor and warmth in the small moments that accompany this familiar time of year.

Snoopy's kisses, Lucy's pursuit of Schroeder and Charlie Brown's crush illustrate the many forms affection can take. Quotations and artwork from the original strips explore expressing love, facing uncertainty and caring about someone who may not respond as hoped.

Quotations and illustrations from Peanuts celebrate individuality through the gang's contrasting personalities. Their quirks, hopes and misunderstandings offer humorous observations about accepting differences and finding confidence in the traits that make each person recognizable.

Friendships and crushes shape this collection of Peanuts strips for younger readers. Snoopy and Woodstock's unusual companionship and Peppermint Patty's affection for Charlie Brown are among the relationships that bring the familiar gang together through misunderstandings, loyalty, and everyday humor.

Charlie Brown tries to keep his repeatedly defeated baseball team motivated while struggling on the pitcher's mound. Lucy's distractions, Schroeder's musical interests, and Snoopy's position on the field complicate his efforts in a collection of Peanuts strips centered on the sport.

Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang confront life's discouragements with familiar comic-strip humor. Classic strips and quotations find moments of encouragement amid setbacks, offering a lighthearted perspective on getting through difficult days and continuing to try.

Lucy presents her forceful view of life through encounters with the Peanuts gang. Psychiatric advice, arguments with Linus, teasing Charlie Brown, and determined pursuit of Schroeder reveal how her confidence and impatience shape friendships, family life, and her own romantic ambitions.

Daily and Sunday strips from 1950 through 1975 trace the early decades of Peanuts. Charlie Brown, Snoopy and their friends develop through everyday misadventures, revealing the familiar concerns and imaginative detours that shaped the growing neighborhood.

Sunday Peanuts strips from 1956 through 1960 are collected with coloring restored to match their newspaper appearance. Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and their friends share the pages with an increasingly prominent Snoopy as the comic develops its distinctive ensemble and humor.

Thanksgiving brings complications for Snoopy and his friends in this collection of original strips. An invitation from Spike, Woodstock's anxieties about the holiday meal and the children's seasonal troubles turn plans for a celebration into comic uncertainty.

The daily Peanuts strips of the 1980s appear together in this decade-spanning collection. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and their friends return in the newspaper installments that carried Schulz's familiar neighborhood through another ten years of comic encounters.

Charlie Brown hits a decisive home run while Linus campaigns for Snoopy to join the Supreme Court. These complete 1993 and 1994 strips also follow a missing school bus, Woodstock’s family history and Snoopy’s unexpected hospital stay.

The Peanuts gang enters the 1990s with its familiar mixture of friendship, frustration and imaginative escape. This volume collects every newspaper strip from 1991 and 1992, showing Schulz continuing to explore his characters through changing situations and visual expression.

Charlie Brown's outlook on life takes center stage in a collection drawn from the world of Peanuts. His familiar position as Snoopy's owner and the neighborhood's often disappointed optimist provides a comic view of ordinary hopes, setbacks, and relationships.

Snoopy's daily priorities provide a beagle's philosophy in this themed Peanuts collection. Dancing, friendship with Woodstock, a dependable supper dish, and keeping Charlie Brown busy reveal a perspective shaped by appetite, imagination, and the pleasures of life atop a doghouse.

Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin while his friends question a belief that repeatedly leaves him disappointed. These early Halloween strips follow his determined faith, the gang's skeptical responses and the annual vigil that became a Peanuts tradition.

Woodstock offers a small bird's perspective on life through his experiences around Snoopy's doghouse. Attempts at flight, affection for worms, and efforts to serve as Snoopy's secretary turn his difficulties and enthusiasms into a collection of comic observations.

Schulz turns his attention to bridge players and the social rituals surrounding their game. These cartoons explore the habits, misunderstandings, and personal foibles that arise around the card table, finding humor in both competition and the people who take it seriously.

A decade-by-decade selection of nearly two thousand Peanuts strips follows the comic's development and its characters' debuts. Schulz's own reflections connect his creative choices with his life, placing familiar jokes and relationships within the strip's long history.

Lucy van Pelt offers her forceful perspective on winning, running a business and challenging oppression. This illustrated collection draws on the outspoken Peanuts character's ambitions and opinions to explore confidence, independence and making the most of being a girl.

Snoopy's dancing provides the focus for a collection of comics and quotations about finding joy. Alongside scenes of the beagle and his friends, sayings from a range of figures encourage gratitude, movement, and a lighter approach to everyday frustrations.

Snoopy appears as a flying ace, Joe Cool, a baseball player, and Woodstock's companion in this full-color strip collection. Gathered for the comic's sixty-fifth anniversary, the selections follow the imaginative beagle and his relationships with the wider Peanuts gang.

This collection presents the Sunday Peanuts strips of 1961 through 1965 in restored color. Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and the wider neighborhood cast navigate everyday concerns while Snoopy's expanding role and imagination contribute to the comic's evolving world.

Snoopy imagines himself as animals and a World War I flying ace while pursuing adventures beyond his doghouse. Battles with the Red Baron, stolen artwork, an arm-wrestling challenge, and other encounters fill this collection of strips featuring the beagle's changing identities.

Snoopy and his Peanuts friends introduce colors in a board book designed for young children. Familiar characters and illustrations provide a simple setting for identifying and naming different colors, with sturdy pages intended for small hands and repeated shared reading.

Snoopy and the familiar Peanuts cast introduce numbers to young children in a compact board book. Colorful illustrations and the characters' presence create an accessible starting point for exploring early number concepts during shared reading, with sturdy pages suited to little hands.

Snoopy and his Peanuts companions introduce basic vocabulary in a board book for young children. Colorful illustrations connect familiar characters with early words, offering a simple setting for naming and recognition during shared reading on pages designed for small hands.

The complete daily Peanuts strips from the 1960s trace a decade of changes in Schulz's neighborhood. New arrivals, including Peppermint Patty, Woodstock, and Franklin, join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, and Linus in the evolving cast.

Selected Peanuts strips from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s bring together Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown, Lucy, and their friends. This collection revisits three decades of the gang's comic encounters, drawing its episodes from across Schulz's changing neighborhood.

Charlie Brown takes dancing lessons and receives an invitation to a sweetheart ball while Snoopy handles difficult legal cases. These complete 1995 and 1996 strips also follow Rerun’s wish for a playmate and Linus’s nighttime worries.

Charlie Brown becomes entangled in a forged-autograph scheme while Snoopy obtains a driver’s license. These complete 1997 and 1998 strips also follow Rerun’s artistic interests, a journey by Snoopy’s brothers and Linus’s troubled Great Pumpkin congregation.

The Peanuts gang encounters Christmas in a themed collection bringing together its celebrations and disappointments. Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and their friends approach the season through the familiar relationships and contrasting personalities of Schulz's neighborhood, giving holiday expectations a comic perspective.

This themed Peanuts collection looks for happiness in ordinary moments and familiar companionship. Warm blankets, snowy weather, and a filled supper dish become occasions for the characters to reflect on satisfaction, while belonging to their neighborhood group offers another source of comfort.

Woodstock’s adventures with Snoopy take the little bird from ambitious writing and imaginary flying to unlikely romances and precarious landings. This collection follows their friendship as Woodstock’s outsized personality repeatedly exceeds his modest size.

Charlie Brown's romantic hopes, football disappointments, Halloween experiences, and reflections on life take center stage in this full-color strip collection. Marking sixty-five years of Peanuts, it brings together the neighborhood cast through the recurring setbacks and persistence of its round-headed central character.

Charlie Brown confronts another round of school worries, unsuccessful football kicks and Lucy’s questionable advice. While Snoopy faces a hostile neighborhood cat, a project with the little red-haired girl gives Charlie Brown a fresh reason to worry.

Snoopy's friends express their affection for the beagle in a heart-shaped board book for young readers. Charlie Brown, Woodstock, and other familiar Peanuts characters provide a simple introduction to sharing love through the relationships surrounding their imaginative canine companion.

Linus shares his thoughts while guarding his security blanket, enduring Lucy's criticism, and waiting for the Great Pumpkin. This character-centered collection draws together his philosophical observations and everyday habits, balancing family frustrations with the beliefs and comforts he refuses to abandon.

The Sunday Peanuts pages from 1966 through 1970 appear together in a color-restored collection. Schulz's familiar cast explores ordinary frustrations and larger questions through the visual rhythms and extended storytelling space of the weekly Sunday comic strip.

Snoopy’s doghouse becomes a gathering place for friends, birds, rabbits and even a snowman in this comic-strip collection. Familiar childhood adventures unfold around the beagle’s imaginative life, provided everyone remembers the importance of serving his supper.

This collection brings together all the daily Peanuts strips from the 1950s, the comic's first decade. Its newspaper installments follow the early years of Schulz's neighborhood and the characters whose lives would continue across the next half century.