Goscinny Books in Order

In 50 BC, Asterix, Obelix, and their fellow Gauls defend their small village against Julius Caesar’s Roman forces. Cunning and the druid Getafix’s strength-giving magic potion give the villagers a chance to keep their freedom.

Nicholas recounts a year of primary school through the eyes of a little French boy. His classmates turn ordinary lessons, playground games, and everyday encounters into escapades that leave the adults struggling to maintain order.

When Getafix breaks the golden sickle needed to prepare the village’s magic potion, Asterix and Obelix travel to Lutetia to replace it. Their errand leads them into the city’s criminal underworld and a gang trafficking in sickles.

Asterix and Obelix accompany Getafix to the annual druids’ gathering, where Goths seize the chance to abduct the prized potion-maker. As Romans, Gauls, and rival Goths collide, the rescue turns into a chaotic struggle over magic and power.

Summer takes Nicholas away from school and into fresh adventures at the seaside and holiday camp. Fishing expeditions, nighttime treasure hunts, and a new circle of friends create plenty of opportunities for well intentioned trouble.

When Cacofinix is carried off to Rome as a gift for Julius Caesar, Asterix and Obelix pursue him across the sea. Their rescue effort leads them into the Circus Maximus, where they must pose as gladiators before the Roman crowds.

Cleopatra wagers that Egypt can build Caesar a splendid palace in only three months, leaving her architect Edifis desperate for help. Asterix, Obelix, and Getafix head to Egypt to support the project while rivals try to sabotage it.

After accepting a Roman challenge, Asterix and Obelix tour Gaul to gather regional foods for a victory banquet. Pursued by Roman forces and thieves, they collect their unusual cargo while gaining a small, determined canine follower.

Nicholas and his friends find trouble in sixteen stories about life beyond the classroom. A visit to a new bookshop, a radio interview, and an unexpectedly messy chess game test their intentions and the patience of adults.

School photographs and games of cowboys and Indians become anything but orderly when Nicholas and his friends are involved. This illustrated collection follows the boys through everyday situations that their enthusiasm repeatedly turns into trouble.

A Roman-backed rival chief challenges Vitalstatistix for control of the Gaulish village. But when an accident leaves Getafix unable to prepare the usual magic potion, Asterix must help protect the village before the chiefs’ decisive contest.

Nicholas and his friends keep finding new ways to upset adults and one another. A forbidden game, an uncooperative sweet-shop owner, and Jeremy’s unwelcome baby brother bring fresh difficulties to the cheeky schoolboy’s daily adventures.

Asterix and Obelix cross the Channel to help a small British village resist Caesar’s invasion. With a barrel of magic potion in danger of being lost among the local food and drink, their mission becomes a race through Roman-occupied Britain.

The Normans arrive near the Gaulish village hoping to discover the secret of fear, which they believe will teach them to fly. Asterix must rescue timid visitor Justforkix and stop the invaders from turning his panic into a weapon.

Obelix falls for Panacea, only to learn that her fiancé Tragicomix has been sent into the Roman army. Determined to find him, Asterix and Obelix enlist in the legion and embark on a rescue mission that takes them to North Africa.

Julius Caesar wants the shield once owned by defeated Gaulish leader Vercingetorix for a triumphal celebration, but it has vanished. As Romans and Gauls hunt for it, Asterix investigates the trail while Vitalstatistix endures an unwanted health cure.

Grand Vizier Iznogoud accompanies Caliph Haroun al Plassid on a desert vacation with his servant Wa'at Alahf. Beneath the appearance of a pleasant outing lies his determination to remove the ruler and claim Baghdad's throne.

When a neighboring chief entrusts Asterix with a cauldron of money, it is stolen under his watch. Banished in disgrace, Asterix and the loyal Obelix seek increasingly unlikely ways to replace the missing coins and uncover the deception behind the loss.

The Gauls travel to Athens to compete in the ancient Olympic Games, confident that magic potion will make victory easy. When the potion is prohibited as an unfair stimulant, Asterix and his friends must find another way to outmatch Rome.

Lucky Luke tries to end the conflict between Patronimo’s Apache tribe and Colonel O’Nollan as losses mount on both sides. Negotiating for peace makes each faction suspect him of betrayal, leaving him in a dangerous position.

To fracture the indomitable village without a battle, Caesar dispatches a Roman agent skilled at planting suspicion. As jealousies and accusations spread among the Gauls, Asterix, Obelix, and Getafix must expose the scheme before their community tears itself apart.

A poisoned Roman official needs an antidote, but Getafix requires a rare Alpine flower to make it. Asterix and Obelix travel to Helvetia, where their search leads through mountainous country, Roman corruption, and a succession of Swiss-flavored obstacles.

Caesar tries a subtler conquest by building a luxurious Roman housing estate beside the Gauls’ village. As Roman residents arrive and the prospect of profit unsettles the locals, Asterix and his friends must prevent the development from changing their way of life.

After Chief Vitalstatistix boasts that he will serve stew flavored with Caesar’s laurel wreath, Asterix and Obelix head to Rome to obtain it. Their mission takes an unexpected turn when they pose as slaves to gain access to the imperial court.

A persuasive stranger named Prolix arrives in the Gaulish village claiming to predict the future. While many villagers accept his convenient prophecies, Asterix doubts the supposed soothsayer and sets out to reveal what is really behind his influence.

Asterix and Obelix escort a Corsican chief freed from Roman captivity back to his island. There, they join his people’s resistance against Caesar’s forces and a scheming praetor, amid vendettas, family rivalries, and fierce local pride.

When Caesar takes the son of a defiant Iberian chief hostage, Asterix and Obelix help rescue the boy and return him home. Their journey to Hispania brings them into conflict with Roman forces, an arena bull, and their young charge’s stubborn pride.

Caesar gives the Gauls’ village to an inept legionary, who trades its title deed to an ambitious innkeeper. When the newcomer claims the right to settle there and challenge Vitalstatistix for leadership, the village is thrown into bitter political division.

While fishing, Asterix and Obelix are blown far off course by a storm and reach an unfamiliar land across the sea. Trying to find their way home, they encounter new peoples, unexpected wildlife, and Viking explorers navigating the same strange territory.

Julius Caesar sends an economics-minded Roman to undermine the Gauls by turning Obelix’s menhirs into a booming business. As advertising and profit fever transform the village, Asterix and his friends confront the chaos of a market built to collapse.

A holiday in the desert offers Iznogoud another chance to pursue his ambition of ruling Baghdad. With his servant beside him, the scheming vizier tries to turn the Caliph's vacation into an opportunity to seize power.

Iznogoud searches for a magical shortcut to replacing Baghdad's Caliph. A melting djinn, an invisibility spell, a cursed diamond, and a voodoo doll feature among the schemes his ambition drives him to try in this comic collection.

One of Caesar's challenges brings Asterix and Obelix to a lake containing the Isle of Pleasure. Its beautiful sirens offer temptations that threaten to distract the Gauls from crossing the water and completing their task.

To satisfy another of Caesar's seemingly impossible demands, Asterix and Obelix must enter the Cave of the Beast. The two Gauls face a frightening unknown as their challenge takes them underground into a place of mysterious danger.

Caesar's series of challenges pits Obelix's appetite against the cooking of Mannekenpix, a Belgian chef. Asterix and his companion must tackle an extraordinary meal as part of their effort to prove the strength of the Gauls.

Asterix and Obelix confront a ravine full of crocodiles in another of Caesar's twelve tests. Asked to cross using an invisible tightrope, the Gauls must face the hungry creatures waiting below as they pursue their village's freedom.

Asterix and Obelix must endure a night on a haunted plain as part of Caesar's challenge. Ghostly Roman legionaries threaten their rest, testing the two Gauls' courage as they work through the seemingly impossible tasks.

Obelix faces Verses the Persian in a contest of javelin throwing, one of Caesar's twelve challenges. The Gaul must surpass an extraordinary opponent to keep his village's quest for freedom moving toward its next test.

Asterix and Obelix encounter Cilindric the German, a surprisingly formidable practitioner of judo. Their task is to defeat him, putting the Gauls' strength and ingenuity to the test against a fighting technique unfamiliar to them.

Asterix and Obelix enter a bureaucratic building to obtain Permit A 38 for Caesar's challenge. Unhelpful officials send them from desk to desk, turning a simple request into a test of patience and resourcefulness.

Asterix must outrun Asbestos, an Olympic champion reputed to be faster than a horse. This first of Caesar's twelve tasks sets the Gaul against an extraordinary athlete, with his village's future riding on the challenge.

The Caliph finally hears of Iznogoud's wicked reputation but believes his vizier needs help. He searches for a legendary carrot said to make people kinder, while Iznogoud continues dreaming of taking the throne from him.

Asterix, Obelix, and their chief travel to Belgium after Caesar declares the Belgians the bravest of all Gauls. A contest to demolish Roman camps turns into a wider showdown when Caesar moves against both rival peoples.

Iznogoud considers sending the Caliph on a one way journey into space as another route to Baghdad's throne. Education, art, and dreams also become possible tools in this collection of the ambitious vizier's schemes.

Asterix recounts the childhood mishap that gave Obelix his permanent superhuman strength: his fall into Getafix’s magic potion. This illustrated origin story looks back to the boys’ early friendship and reveals how a defining legend of the village began.

Readers search busy illustrated scenes for Dogmatix and his friends in this picture puzzle book. A banquet dance, a boarding party, and a wild boar hunt provide crowded settings in which the little dog must be spotted.

This collection gathers fourteen brief Asterix stories, including material originally created for Pilote alongside previously uncollected and new pages. The episodes revisit the village through schooldays, sports, fashion, Dogmatix, the heroes’ birth, and reflections on how Asterix was created.

Baghdad's Grand Vizier Iznogoud wants the throne occupied by Caliph Haroun al Plassid. With his servant Wa'at Alahf helping him, he devises increasingly elaborate schemes to remove the ruler in this collection of comic adventures.

For one topsy turvy day, masters become slaves and a Grand Vizier can become Caliph. Iznogoud sees his chance to make that temporary power permanent, racing against a deadline as other stories explore challenges, labyrinths, and elections.

A magic computer appears to offer Iznogoud an answer to his obsession with replacing the Caliph. This collection also takes his scheming onto a road that traps its travelers, as he searches for another way to remove his ruler.

Iznogoud commissions a flying carpet intended to carry the Caliph on a one way journey. Disguised as a gift, the device is another attempt to seize Baghdad's throne, but its handling depends on unreliable helpers.

A magician offers Iznogoud a delicious soup whose poison works only on caliphs. As the vizier carries it through Baghdad, its tempting aroma attracts unwanted tasters, complicating his latest attempt to remove Haroun al Plassid.

Iznogoud imagines wielding political power in a collection of satirical comic strips. His fantasies place him in roles ranging from minister to dictator, exposing the cruelty and absurdity behind his preferred solutions to public problems.

This omnibus brings together The Nightmares of Iznogoud, More Nightmares of Iznogoud, and The Returns of Iznogoud. The collections follow Baghdad's ambitious vizier through political fantasies and further comic adventures in his pursuit of power.

Tradition requires Iznogoud to give the Caliph a present on the vizier's own birthday. A gift from grateful magicians supplies a shower designed to make its user disappear, offering Iznogoud another chance to seize power.