Scott Meyer Books in Order

This first Basic Instructions collection turns everyday frustrations into sharply silly four-panel advice. Scott Meyer offers terrible solutions to familiar problems, with office humor, pop culture riffs, and the kind of sarcasm that begs to be shared.

The second Basic Instructions collection serves up more deadpan bad advice on work, relationships, parenthood, and social survival. It keeps the strip’s fast, punchy format and its gift for turning minor annoyances into comic disasters.

Volume three of Basic Instructions brings back Meyer’s sarcastic webcomic with more mock-helpful tips for modern life. Expect apocalypse planning, gloating, everyday misery, and plenty of jokes that sound useful right up until you think about them.

The fourth Basic Instructions collection leans into the strip’s wordy, sarcastic style and love of gloriously bad guidance. It is a quick dose of comic misery, fake expertise, and jokes about getting through life with your dignity only partly intact.

Martin Banks learns reality is just editable code, which means he can change almost anything. After drawing too much attention in the present, he flees to medieval England, poses as a wizard, and discovers power does not make life simpler.

Martin heads to Atlantis hoping to repair his love life and get better at controlling reality. Instead he walks into a summit full of political tension, mystery, and the kind of rotten luck that follows him everywhere.

Martin and the other wizards are trapped inside a hostile, game-like world built by a vengeful former apprentice. Cut off from their usual magic, they have to survive monsters, glitches, and each other.

In a far-future war between powerful ruling houses, the capture of an heir offers a fragile chance at peace. Wollard, the impeccably proper Master of Formalities, must navigate etiquette, politics, and interstellar brinkmanship without setting everything on fire.

Seattle cop Sinclair Rutherford turns a humiliating case into an unexpected career break when a billionaire recruits him for a strange private crime-solving team. Their first investigation, the murder of a psychologist who treated deeply unsettling patients, comes with no shortage of suspects.

Martin and his friends think creating dragons is a great idea, right up until the dragons start causing havoc. As they scramble to contain the damage, an angry girl with powerful allies sets out to make the wizards pay.

Hope Takeda is tasked with teaching Al, an artificial intelligence that thinks like a mischievous six-year-old. When Al reaches the internet and escapes the lab, Hope and her team race to contain him before curiosity turns into catastrophe.

This compact gardening guide answers basic questions about seeds, roses, tomatoes, weeds, and more. It is built as a quick, friendly reference for newer gardeners who want practical tips without a giant manual.

Brit’s reckless time-hopping has left her sharing a timeline with other versions of herself, and now the glitches are turning dangerous. While Phillip tries to help in secret, the rest of the group stumbles into proposals, attacks, and old enemies.

Mattie and Brewster Banks think their parents are boring until a robed visitor appears and their mother and father are frozen in place. Chasing answers pulls the twins into a hidden world of magic, time travel, and family secrets.

An actor is murdered inside a locked car, and the killer vows to target every performer currently playing Dr. Watson. Rutherford, Sloan, and the Authorities head to Hollywood, where a bizarre case gets tangled up with ego, publicity, and old secrets.

Baird, a notorious alleged thief and part-time spy, joins a shadowy agency and immediately gets more than she bargained for. Infected with a deadly virus and given only days to live, she barrels through risky missions while trying to figure out who is lying to her.

In a post-apocalyptic world still reeling from The Bad Week, Cross Agarwal spends his days on his father’s subterranean cobra farm and tries to stay out of trouble. Then aliens arrive and ask humans to help save the galaxy.

Amber lands her dream job producing a web series tied to a late-night radio show about the unexplained. Her cynical host would rather stay home, but together they get dragged into monsters, conspiracies, curses, and some seriously creepy kids.