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. All 13 books listed here are in the This Modern World series, which has its own page: This Modern World books in order.

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 200300 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).

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 September 2026.

  1. 1
    Greetings From This Modern WorldThis Modern World #11992 · 103 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992103
  2. 2
    Tune In TomorrowThis Modern World #21994 · 119 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994119
  3. 3
    The Wrath of SparkyThis Modern World #31996 · 117 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996117
  4. 4
    Penguin Soup for the SoulThis Modern World #41998 · 119 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998119
  5. 5
    When Penguins Attack!This Modern World #52000 · 119 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000119
  6. 6
    The Great Big Book of TomorrowThis Modern World #62003 · 236 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003236
  7. 7
    Hell in a HandbasketThis Modern World #72006 · 141 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006141
  8. 82008153
  9. 92009
  10. 10
    Too Much CrazyThis Modern World #102011 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011128
  11. 11
    Crazy Is the New NormalThis Modern World #112016 · 133 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016133
  12. 12
    Tom Tomorrow: 25 Years of TomorrowThis Modern World #122017 · 1070 pages · confirmed 2/4
    20171070
  13. 13
    Life in the StupidverseThis Modern World #132020 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020128

Tom Tomorrow series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

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 first This Modern World book. It is also the earliest catalogued 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.

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.