Lincoln Peirce

Big Nate follows the adventures and journey of Nate Wright, an enthusiastic and rebellious sixth-grader, with his fantastic class mates and teachers. He's pictured as a young boy with minimal interest in his studies or contouring to standards that has brought him into numerous conflicts with his social studies teacher, Mrs. Godfrey, to whom he looks at to generally be his enemy.

The best place to start is the Big Nate Graphic Novels series, the earliest of Lincoln Peirce's multi-book series: it opens with From the Top (2010) and runs to 36 books across 2010–2026, ending with Code Red! (2026). Lincoln Peirce's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Lincoln Peirce has 79 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2010 and 2026. Every one of them sits in one of 6 named series — the largest being the Big Nate Graphic Novels series with 36 books.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Lincoln Peirce's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Big Nate Graphic Novels (2010–2026, 36 books), Big Nate Miscellaneous (2010–2020, 23 books) and Big Nate (2010–2026, 10 books), plus 3 more.

This guide splits Lincoln Peirce's 79 books into 6 named series, with no standalone titles: Big Nate Graphic Novels (36 books, 2010–2026); Big Nate Miscellaneous (23 books, 2010–2020); Big Nate (10 books, 2010–2026); Big Nate Activity (6 books, 2011–2016); Max and the Midknights (3 books, 2019–2022), plus 1 further series.