Stephan Pastis Books in Order
Stephan Pastis has written 37 books, published between 2005 and 2025. The first book is Nighthogs (2005) and the newest is Pearls Gets Plastered (2025). Publication order is the reading order below. 24 of the 37 books listed here are in the Pearls Before Swine series, which has its own page: Pearls Before Swine books in order.
- Books
- 37
- Published
- 2005–2025
- Pages on record
- 6,832 in 29 of 37 books
- Reading time
- 114–171 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,832 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 29 of 37 titles with a page count on record.
Stephan Pastis is an American cartoonist and former lawyer, and the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. Strip collections fill much of a 37-title catalogue - Nighthogs (2005), When Pigs Fly (2010), Rat's Wars (2013), Pearls Blows Up (2014) - and Pastis also writes for children, starting with Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2013) and continuing into Trubble Town. The seventh Timmy Failure book, It's the End When I Say It's the End, entered the New York Times children's middle grade list at number 4.
How many Stephan Pastis books are there?
Stephan Pastis has 37 books, released between 2005 and 2025. They include 3 series and 2 titles listed outside any series.
Stephan Pastis Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 37 Stephan Pastis books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 120051281/4
- 22010–1/4
- 320132941/4
- 420131281/4
- 520131281/4
- 620142751/4
- 720142581/4
- 820142551/4
- 920142551/4
- 102014–1/4
- 1120141271/4
- 1220152781/4
- 1320151271/4
- 1420152261/4
- 1520152481/4
- 1620162741/4
- 1720161271/4
- 1820161781/4
- 1920161251/4
- 2020172881/4
- 2120175921/4
- 2220172481/4
- 2320171781/4
- 24I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream Because Puns SuckPearls Before Swine #172017 · 127 pages · confirmed 1/420171271/4
- 25It’s the End When I Say It’s the End2018 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/420183521/4
- 2620183521/4
- 2720181281/4
- 2820182561/4
- 2920203041/4
- 302020–1/4
- 3120212881/4
- 322021–1/4
- 3320222881/4
- 34Looking Up2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 352023–1/4
- 362024–1/4
- 372025–1/4
Stephan Pastis series in order
Each series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Timmy Failure books in order 9 books
- Pearls Before Swine books in order 24 books
Stephan Pastis books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Trubble Town in order
2 booksStandalone books
2 books2 Stephan Pastis titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Stephan Pastis books in order?
You only need to read Stephan Pastis books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Stephan Pastis
Start with the first book of the Stephan Pastis series you want to read: Timmy Failure starts with Mistakes Were Made (2013) and Pearls Before Swine starts with Nighthogs (2005). The earliest catalogued title overall is Nighthogs (2005).
What is the newest Stephan Pastis book?
Pearls Gets Plastered (2025) is the newest Stephan Pastis book released so far.
Is there a new Stephan Pastis book coming?
No next Stephan Pastis book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Stephan Pastis at a glance
- Still publishing
- Stephan Pastis published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Stephan Pastis books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 6,832 pages across the 29 of 37 books with a recorded length, a median of 255 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Stephan Pastis books, 27 of 37, were published in the 2010s.
What the Stephan Pastis books are about
31 of the 37 Stephan Pastis books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 11 of 31. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 11 of 31 books
- Comics & graphic novels 10 of 31 books
- Caricatures and cartoons 9 of 31 books
- Pigs 8 of 31 books
- Crocodiles 6 of 31 books
- Friendship 6 of 31 books
- Mystery & detective 6 of 31 books
- Polar bear 6 of 31 books
- Private investigators 6 of 31 books
- Rats 6 of 31 books
- Animals 5 of 31 books