Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pearls Before Swine : BLTs Taste So Darn Good | 2003 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 2 | Nighthogs | 2005 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 3 | This Little Piggy Stayed Home: A Pearls Before Swine Collection | 2004 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 4 | When Pigs Fly | 2010 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 5 | Nighthogs: A Pearls Before Swine Collection | 2005 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 6 | Unsportsmanlike Conduct | 2013 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 7 | Rat’s Wars | 2013 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 8 | The Crass Menagerie | 2008 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 9 | Pearls Blows Up | 2014 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 10 | The Sopratos: A Pearls Before Swine Collection | 2007 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 11 | Pearls Falls Fast | 2014 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 12 | Macho Macho Animals | 2008 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 13 | The Croc Ate My Homework | 2014 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 14 | The Saturday Evening Pearls, Volume 11: A Pearls Before Swine Collection | 2009 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 15 | Breaking Stephan | 2014 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 16 | Pearls Blows Up: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury | 2011 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 17 | King of the Comics | 2015 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 18 | Skip School, Fly to Space | 2015 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 19 | Pearls Freaks the #*%# Out: A | 2012 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 20 | Pearls Gets Sacrificed | 2015 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 21 | I’m Only in This for Me | 2016 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 22 | When Crocs Fly | 2016 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 23 | Stephan’s Web | 2016 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 24 | Joseph Wright of Derby, das Experiment mit der Luftpumpe: Eine Heilige Allianz zwischen Wissenschaft und Religion | 1986 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 25 | Pearls Hogs the Road | 2017 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 26 | Hercule Poirot’s Christmas | 2008 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 27 | Suit Your Selfie | 2017 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 28 | I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream Because Puns Suck | 2017 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 29 | Pearls Hogs the Road: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury | 2017 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 30 | Stephan’s Web: A Pearls Before Swine Collection | 2016 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 31 | Floundering Fathers | 2018 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 32 | Pearls Takes a Wrong Turn | 2018 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 33 | Pearls Goes Hollywood | 2020 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 34 | Pearls Awaits the Tide | 2021 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 35 | Pearls Seeks Enlightenment | 2023 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 36 | Pearls Gets Put in the Pokey | 2024 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 37 | Pearls Gets Plastered | 2025 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
Pearls Before Swine is Stephan Pastis’s signature creation, a daily comic strip that has run in newspapers since 2002. The strip collection books gather daily and Sunday strips into themed volumes, starting with BLTs Taste So Darn Good in 2003 and continuing through Pearls Gets Plastered in 2025.
The strip’s main characters include Rat (an arrogant cynic), Pig (a well-meaning simpleton), Zebra (the straight man who lives next to hungry crocodiles), and Goat (the intellectual). Pastis frequently inserts himself into the strip as a character, usually to be berated by Rat for the quality of his puns. The books include both standard collections of daily strips and larger treasury editions that compile multiple collections.