Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Annotated Wizard of Oz | 1900 | L. Frank Baum | Buy |
| 2 | Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz | 1905 | L. Frank Baum | Buy |
| 3 | Little Wizard Stories of Oz | 1913 | L. Frank Baum | Buy |
| 4 | Oz, The Complete Collection, Volume 5: The Magic of Oz / Glinda of Oz / The Royal Book of Oz | 2013 | L. Frank Baum | N/A |
The Oz Collections series gathers companion volumes and collected editions related to L. Frank Baum’s Oz books. The Annotated Wizard of Oz (1900) is a scholarly edition with extensive notes on the original novel’s text and illustrations. Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1905) collects a series of newspaper comic strips that Baum wrote as a tie-in to his second Oz book. Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1913) gathers six short tales featuring favorite Oz characters.
The final entry is a modern omnibus, Oz, The Complete Collection, Volume 5 (2013), which bundles The Magic of Oz, Glinda of Oz, and The Royal Book of Oz into a single edition. These collections are useful for readers who want to go beyond the individual novels and explore the wider world of Oz-related material that Baum produced during his lifetime.