Tom Tomorrow Books in Order
Tom Tomorrow has written 13 books, published between 1992 and 2020. The first book is Greetings From This Modern World (1992) and the newest is Life in the Stupidverse (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 13
- Published
- 1992–2020
- Pages on record
- 2,566 in 12 of 13 books
- Reading time
- 43–64 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,566 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 13 titles with a page count on record.
Tom Tomorrow is the pen name of Dan Perkins, an American editorial cartoonist born on April 5, 1961. This Modern World, the weekly comic strip by Tom Tomorrow, comments on current events; as of 2015 it ran in more than 80 newspapers in the United States and Canada. Perkins was formerly the comics curator at the Daily Kos. Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Mother Jones and The Economist. The catalogue holds 13 books from Greetings From This Modern World (1992) to Life in the Stupidverse (2020).
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How many Tom Tomorrow books are there?
Tom Tomorrow has 13 books, released between 1992 and 2020.
Tom Tomorrow Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 13 Tom Tomorrow 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 November 2026.
- 119921032/4
- 219941192/4
- 319961172/4
- 419981192/4
- 520001192/4
- 620032362/4
- 720061412/4
- 820081532/4
- 92009–2/4
- 1020111282/4
- 1120161332/4
- 12201710702/4
- 1320201282/4
Tom Tomorrow 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.
This Modern World in order
13 books- 1. Greetings From This Modern World
- 2. Tune In Tomorrow
- 3. The Wrath of Sparky
- 4. Penguin Soup for the Soul
- 5. When Penguins Attack!
- 6. The Great Big Book of Tomorrow
- 7. Hell in a Handbasket
- 8. The Future's So Bright I Can't Bear to Look
- 9. The Very Silly Mayor
- 10. Too Much Crazy
- 11. Crazy Is the New Normal
- 12. Tom Tomorrow: 25 Years of Tomorrow
- and 1 more in the table above
Do you have to read Tom Tomorrow books in order?
You only need to read Tom Tomorrow books in order within the This Modern World series, which holds 13 of the 13 Tom Tomorrow books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Tom Tomorrow
Start with Greetings From This Modern World (1992), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Tom Tomorrow book?
Life in the Stupidverse (2020) is the newest Tom Tomorrow book released so far.
Is there a new Tom Tomorrow book coming?
No next Tom Tomorrow book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Tom Tomorrow at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Tom Tomorrow title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Tom Tomorrow books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,566 pages across the 12 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 128 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Tom Tomorrow books, 5 of 13, were published in the 2000s.
When Tom Tomorrow books were published
Publication distribution by decade, showing when Tom Tomorrow titles appeared. 2000s was the most productive decade with 5 titles.
13 books total across 4 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.
What the Tom Tomorrow books are about
All 13 Tom Tomorrow books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: politics and government is tagged on 10 of 13. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Politics and government 10 of 13 books
- Caricatures and cartoons 7 of 13 books
- Comics & graphic novels 4 of 13 books
- Humor 4 of 13 books
- Social conditions 4 of 13 books
- Americans 3 of 13 books
- Humor, topic, politics 2 of 13 books