Reading order
Big Nate reading order
- Big Nate: In a Class by Himself2010
- Big Nate: Strikes Again2010
- Big Nate: On a Roll2011
- Big Nate Goes for Broke2012
- Big Nate: Flips Out2013
- Big Nate: In the Zone2014
- Big Nate: Blasts Off2016
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7- 7 volumes
- Volumes
- 2010–2016
- Published
- about 30 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
Quick answer
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Publication order
7 volumes2010–2016Completed
- These are the novels, which is a smaller shelf than it looks: most of Big Nate is comic-strip collections and activity books, and only the illustrated novels tell a running story.
- Wikidata numbers none of them, so the order below follows publication years and may be missing a volume — the books stand on their own well enough that this costs little.
- In a Class by Himself is the first.
A plan for the whole series
7 volumes, 1,554 pages, about 30 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 5 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 10, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 116 habout 3 weeksby November 20, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 212 h16 daysby December 10, 2026
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
No volume in this series has enough ratings to enter a ranking yet, so the list carries no scores — the order and the volumes are still complete.
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 28, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Big Nate book is the longest?
“Big Nate: In a Class by Himself” is the longest at 224 pages; the shortest is “Big Nate: In the Zone” with 216 pages.