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  • Bibliography:
    64 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1993
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Dilbert

1 - Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons (Mar-1994)
2 - Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies (Mar-1994)
3 - Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless (Aug-1993)
4 - Shave the Whales (Apr-1994)
5 - Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mail Boy (Mar-1995)
6 - It's Obvious You Won't Survive by Your Wits Alone (Aug-1995)
7 - Still Pumped From Using the Mouse (Mar-1996)
8 - Fugitive from the Cubicle Police (Sep-1996)
9 - Casual Day Has Gone Too Far (Mar-1997)
10 - Seven Years of Highly Defective People (Aug-1997)
11 - I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-Idiot (Mar-1998)
12 - Journey to Cubeville (Aug-1998)
13 - Don't Step in the Leadership (Mar-1999)
14 - Dilbert Gives You the Business (Aug-1999)
15 - Random Acts of Management (Mar-2000)
16 - When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View (Sep-2000)
17 - Excuse Me While I Wag (Apr-2001)
19 - Another Day in Cubicle Paradise (Mar-2002)
20 - What Do You Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle? Answer: A Coworker (Aug-2002)
21 - When Body Language Goes Bad (Mar-2003)
22 - Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Performance Review (Oct-2003)
23 - Don't Stand Where The Comet Is Assumed To Strike Oil (May-2004)
24 - It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It (Oct-2004)
25 - The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head (May-2005)
26 - Thriving on Vague Objectives (Nov-2005)
27 - What Would Wally Do? (Jun-2006)
28 - Try Rebooting Yourself (Oct-2006)
29 - Positive Attitude (Jul-2007)
30 - Cubes and Punishment (Nov-2007)
31 - This Is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value (May-2008)
32 - Freedom's Just Another Word for People Finding Out You're Useless (Apr-2009)
33 - 14 Years of Loyal Service in a Fabric-Covered Box (Oct-2009)
34 - Problem Identified: And You're Probably Not Part of the Solution (Jul-2010)
35 - I'm Tempted to Stop Acting Randomly (Dec-2010)
36 - Your Accomplishments Are Suspiciously Hard to Verify (Aug-2011)
37 - How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You? (Nov-2011)
38 - Teamwork Means You Can't Pick the Side That's Right (Apr-2012)
39 - I Can't Remember If We're Cheap or Smart (Oct-2012)
40 - Your New Job Title Is Accomplice (May-2013)
41 - I Sense a Coldness to Your Mentoring (Nov-2013)
42 - Go Add Value Someplace Else (Oct-2014)
43 - Optimism Sounds Exhausting (Nov-2015)
44 - I'm No Scientist, But I Think Feng Shui Is Part of the Answer (Nov-2016)
45 - Dilbert Gets Re-accommodated (Nov-2017)
46 - Cubicles That Make You Envy the Dead (Nov-2018)
48 - Eagerly Awaiting Your Irrational Response (Oct-2020)
49 - The Office Is a Beautiful Place When Everyone Else Works from Home (Dec-2021)
50 - Not Remotely Working (Dec-2022)

God's Debris

1 - God's Debris (Sep-2004)
2 - The Religion War (Sep-2004)

Book List in Order: 64 titles

  • Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless

    Dilbert - 3

  • Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons

    Dilbert - 1

  • Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies

    Dilbert - 2

  • Shave the Whales

    Dilbert - 4

    "Dilbert by Scott Adams is the most photocopied, pinned-up, downloaded, faxed and e-mailed comic strip in the world. Dubbed ""the cartoon hero of the workplace"" by The San Francisco Examiner, Dilbert has been syndicated since 1989 and now appears in...

  • Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mail Boy

    Dilbert - 5

  • It's Obvious You Won't Survive by Your Wits Alone

    Dilbert - 6

    Adams scrapes his pen across the fears and absurdities of an age we entered when we weren't paying attention-the age of the bureaucratic vacuum. Dilbert is the Everyman in the down-sized, techno-centered workplace. He's the corporately innocent engin...

  • Still Pumped From Using the Mouse

    Dilbert - 7

    For the more than 50 million readers who regularly enjoy Dilbert in over 2,000 newspapers worldwide, Scott Adams's take on the working world is outrageously fresh, farcical, and far-reaching. In this collection, Dilbert and his egg-shaped, bespectacl...

  • Fugitive from the Cubicle Police

    Dilbert - 8

  • Casual Day Has Gone Too Far

    Dilbert - 9

    """Dilbert""--the world's fastest growing comic strip, read by 60 million fans in 32 countries--deals with the frustrations of everyday corporate life, as the title character struggles to maintain his identity and happiness in a world where attacks c...



  • Seven Years of Highly Defective People

    Dilbert - 10

  • I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-Idiot

    Dilbert - 11

    Scott Adams has accomplished a rare feat. In his wildly successful cartoon strip, Dilbert, he has transformed the daily drudgery of the workplace into a fresh, comic commentary on life. This volume of cartoons, which ran in newspapers from November 2...

  • Dilbert Book of Days: Trapped in a Dilbert World

  • Journey to Cubeville

    Dilbert - 12

    ""Since Adams parted company with Pacific Bell in 1995, the business he has built out of mocking business has turned into the sort of success story that the average cartoon hero could only dream of."-The London Financial Times"G"...

  • Don't Step in the Leadership

    Dilbert - 13

  • Dilbert Gives You the Business

    Dilbert - 14

    The perennially diffident Dilbert is a favourite among contemporary North American cartoons, and no wonder. The calm centre of a chaotic workplace, Dilbert represents the heels and heroes in the pre-millennium office environment. This marvellous coll...

  • The Dilbert Principle

    The creator of Dilbert, the fastest-growing comic strip in the nation (syndicated in nearly 1000 newspapers), takes a look at corporate America in all its glorious lunacy. Lavishly illustrated with Dilbert strips, these hilarious essays on incompeten...

  • Random Acts of Management

    Dilbert - 15

    In Random Acts of Management, cartoonist Scott Adams offers sardonic glimpses once again into the lunatic office life of Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, and others, as they work in an all-too-believably ludicrous setting filled with incompetent managemen...

  • Dilbert - A Treasury Of Sunday Strips

    Everyone who's in business, works for a business, or even just gives others the business is amazed: Scott Adams never lacks for yet another way to lampoon the corporate world. It's not that Adams is anti-business. He's more anti-bad boss than anythin...

  • When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View

    Dilbert - 16

    Scott Adams still has the corporate world guffawing about the adventures of nerdy Dilbert and his power-hungry companion, Dogbert, plus Ratbert and the pointy-haired boss, as they make their way through the travails of modern work life. Only a cartoo...



  • Excuse Me While I Wag

    Dilbert - 17

    Cubicle-dwelling business people the world over have been knowingly nodding, faithfully push-pinning their favorite strips to their cube walls, and--most of all--belly laughing out loud ever since Dilbert first arrived on the scene. In this collec...

  • Another Day in Cubicle Paradise

    Dilbert - 19

    When Dilbert first appeared in newspapers across the country in 1989, office workers looked around suspiciously. Was its creator, Scott Adams, a pen name for someone who worked amongst them? After all, the humor was just too eerily funny and familiar...

  • What Do You Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle? Answer: A Coworker

    Dilbert - 20

    "Once every decade, America is gifted with an angst-ridden anti-hero, a Nietzschean nebbish, an us-against-the-universe everyperson around whom our insecurities collect like iron shavings to a magnet. Charlie Chaplin. Dagwood Bumstead. Charlie Brown....

  • When Body Language Goes Bad

    Dilbert - 21

    "Dilbert is easily one of the most clever and consistently funny comics in current circulation. Like all great comic strips, it provides a much-needed daily dose of comedy and, most importantly, keeps its finger firmly planted on the pulse of truth w...

  • Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Performance Review

    Dilbert - 22

    "Confined to their cubicles in a company run by idiot bosses, Dilbert and his white-collar colleagues make the dronelike world of Kafka seem congenial."Parasitic consultants, weaselly stockbrokers, masochistic coworkers and the ever-present, evil-plo...

  • Don't Stand Where The Comet Is Assumed To Strike Oil

    Dilbert - 23

    "Confined to their cubicles in a company run by idiot bosses, Dilbert and his white-collar colleagues make the dronelike world of Kafka seem congenial." -- The New York Times Why is Dilbert such a phenomenon? People see their own dreary, monotonous...

  • God's Debris

    God's Debris - 1

    Explore the mysteries and magic of the cosmos with the acclaimed creator of Dilbert. God's Debris is the first non-Dilbert, non-humor book by best-selling author Scott Adams. Adams describes God's Debris as a thought experiment wrapped in a story. I...

  • The Religion War

    God's Debris - 2

      In this frenetically paced sequel to Adams' best-selling "thought experiment," God's Debris, the smartest man in the world is on a mission to stop a cataclysmic war between Christian and Muslim forces and save civilization. The brilliantly craf...

  • It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It

    Dilbert - 24

    Office workers, cubicle squatters, and corporate drones everywhere read Dilbert in their morning papers and see their own bosses and coworkers in the frames of the strip, enacting on newsprint the weird rituals and bizarre activities that are conduct...

  • The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head

    Dilbert - 25

    He captures our workplace frustrations with dead-on accuracy. He knows all about the technophobic vice president, the fascist information systems supervisor, and even the big, stubborn, dumb guy. How does he do it? How does he know? It's downright sp...



  • Thriving on Vague Objectives

    Dilbert - 26

    "I think that idiot bosses are timeless, and as long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material." -- Scott Adams Dilbert and the gang are back for this 26th collection, Thriving on Vague Objectives. Adams has his finger ...

  • What Would Wally Do?

    Dilbert - 27

    What would the world of work be like without Dilbert? Downright insufferable!When it became syndicated in 1989, Dilbert struck a nerve with workers everywhere. Through its frames they saw life on the job as they knew it, with all the absurdity, crazi...

  • Try Rebooting Yourself

    Dilbert - 28

    "It''s an embarrassment of riches. I feel like an undertaker who just heard about a bus accident. It''s tragic, but good for business.""Maybe, just maybe, the reason Scott Adams is able to so completely and utterly skewer the absurdities of the moder...

  • Positive Attitude

    Dilbert - 29

    Today I had a choice of doing something important that no one would ever realize . . . or doing something that would look like an accomplishment. So I attended meetings until I could no longer appreciate the difference." -Dilbert* Dilbert appears in ...

  • Cubes and Punishment

    Dilbert - 30

    My cube is sucking the life force out of me." --DilbertIn Cubes and Punishment: A Dilbert Book, Dilbert sardonically skewers the Dostoevskian sense of despair and anxiety that corporate life breeds. And nowhere is this sense more alive than in the de...

  • This Is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value

    Dilbert - 31

    "Ninety percent of ethics is picking the right ethicist."" -DilbertMore This Is the Part Where You Pretend to Add ValueScott Adams offers up his this Dilbert collection ex...

  • Freedom's Just Another Word for People Finding Out You're Useless

    Dilbert - 32

    No office can function without a little humor and craziness. Adams turns mundane office issues into excruciatingly funny office moments. In Freedom''s Just Another Word for People Finding Out You''re Useless, fans get a hilarious collection of g...

  • 14 Years of Loyal Service in a Fabric-Covered Box

    Dilbert - 33

    Anyone who works in a fabric-covered box can relate to Dilbert. Since 1989, Dilbert has been the touchstone of office humor for people all over the world. As long as there are corrupt businesses, inept bosses and downright loathsome co-workers, there...

  • Problem Identified: And You're Probably Not Part of the Solution

    Dilbert - 34

    In Problem Identified: And You're Probably Not Part of the Solution, cartoonist Scott Adams affectionately ridicules inept office colleagues--those co-workers behind the pointless projects, interminable meetings, and ill-conceived downsizings--in ...

  • I'm Tempted to Stop Acting Randomly

    Dilbert - 35

    Following his 20th anniversary hit, Dilbert 2.0, Scott Adams returns with another Dilbert collection of funny page favorites inside I'm Tempted to Stop Acting Randomly.

    Inside this collection, Dilbert and his team "flail around in futility"...



  • Your Accomplishments Are Suspiciously Hard to Verify

    Dilbert - 36

    Inside Your Accomplishments Are Suspiciously Hard to Verify, Adams tackles the subjects of Elbonian slave labor, faulty product recalls, less-than-anonymous employee surveys, and more. If you've ever looked among your co-workers and t...

  • How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You?

    Dilbert - 37

    AMP''s Dilbert calendars are the best-selling calendars in the world, with sales over 400,000 every year. Pointless projects, endless meetings, and random downsizing make up the Dilbert world.For more than 20 years, Scott Adams's Dilbert has chro...

  • Teamwork Means You Can't Pick the Side That's Right

    Dilbert - 38

    AMP’s Dilbert calendars are the best-selling calendars in the world, with sales over 400,000 every year. Pointless projects, endless meetings, and random downsizing make up the Dilbert world.He''s the icon of millions of corporate ...

  • Dilbert 2.0: The Early Years

    The first book in the four-volume, chronological history of the Dilbert comic strip—honoring two droll decades of corporate dysfunction and employee apathy.In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hob...

  • Dilbert 2.0: The Boom Years 1994-1997

    Revisit the dead-end workplace culture of the peak ’90s in the second book in the four-volume, chronological history of the iconic Dilbert comic strip.In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes,&...

  • Dilbert 2.0: The Dot-Com Bubble 1998-2000

    The end of an era is just the beginning of workplace wackiness for Dilbert—third in the four-volume, chronological history of the classic comic strip.In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes,&#...

  • Dilbert 2.0: The Modern Era 2000-2008

    In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor. This fourth volume of the four-volume e-book edition of Dilbert 2.0 co...

  • Dilbert

    No one minds if work intrudes on their weekend as long as it’s Dilbert-related content! Get ahead of the Monday blues with Sunday’s best laughs.Everyone who’s in business, works for a business, or even just gives others the business...

  • Dilbert 2.0: The Boom Years: 1994 to 1997

    Scott Adams "is a VERY tough act to follow." -Suzanne Tobin, Washington PostIn the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott...

  • Dilbert 2.0: The Dot-com Bubble: 1998 TO 2000

    In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor. This third volume of the four-volume...



  • Dilbert 2.0: The Early Years: 1989 to 1993

    In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor. This first volume of the four-volume...

  • Dilbert 2.0: The Modern Era: 2001 TO 2008

    In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor. This fourth volume of the four-volume...

  • I Can't Remember If We're Cheap or Smart

    Dilbert - 39

    As the icon of oppressed, overworked, and abused cubicle dwellers everywhere, Dilbert gives the downtrodden something to laugh about.Whether avoiding pointless meetings with the clueless pointy-haired boss or angsting over insanely impossible sa...

  • Your New Job Title Is Accomplice

    Dilbert - 40

    Dubbed "the cartoon hero of the workplace" by the San Francisco Examiner, Dilbert is the cubicle-bound star of the most photocopied, pinned-up, downloaded, faxed, and e-mailed comic strip in the world.As fresh a look at the inanity of offic...

  • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

  • I Sense a Coldness to Your Mentoring

    Dilbert - 41

    Dilbert is the most photocopied, pinned-up, downloaded, faxed, and e-mailed comic strip in the world. Dubbed "the cartoon hero of the workplace" by the San Francisco Examiner, Dilbert has been syndicated since 1989 and now appears in 2,000 newspapers...

  • Go Add Value Someplace Else

    Dilbert - 42

     He''s the icon of millions of corporate workers, the most popular cubicle dweller on this planet. He spends his days in endless meetings with incompetent supervisors, performing perfunctory tasks mixed with the occasional team-building, brainst...

  • Optimism Sounds Exhausting

    Dilbert - 43

    Does Scott Adams really have a hidden camera in your cubicle?Dilbert, the cubicle-dwelling drone, is at his satirical best with this new collection of cartoons. Dilbert has managed to keep up with technology like iPads and Twitter over the years, as ...

  • I'm No Scientist, But I Think Feng Shui Is Part of the Answer

    Dilbert - 44

    Dilbert is thecartoon world's Office Space, a cubicle eye view of the real workplace!What do the arts of yoga, feng shui, and Irish dance have in common?   They can’t save you from a gnawing dissatisfaction with your job. Luckily, our ...

  • Dilbert Gets Re-accommodated

    Dilbert - 45

    Dilbert is the cartoon world's Office Space: a cubicle-eye-view of the real workplace!When confronted by unjust systems of corporate domination, whenever and wherever they may be, Dilbert boldly . . . gets “re-accommodated.”The l...

  • Cubicles That Make You Envy the Dead

    Dilbert - 46

    "The cartoon hero of the workplace"--San Francisco ExaminerDilbert is the cubicle-bound star of the most photocopied, pinned-up, downloaded, faxed, and e-mailed comic strip in the world.As fresh a look at the inanity of office life as it brought to t...

  • Dilbert Turns 30

    To celebrate 30 years of Dilbert, this special collection includes new comics, an introduction from the author, and the most popular strips and storylines from the past 10 years.Thirty years ago, Dilbert burst onto the funny pages with a bleak...

  • Eagerly Awaiting Your Irrational Response

    Dilbert - 48

    Scott Adams's cartoon hero of the workplace is back in another treasury featuring an entire year's worth of new Dilbert comic strips.In the age of big tech companies, open office plans, and corporate consolidation, Dilbert has never been more...

  • The Office Is a Beautiful Place When Everyone Else Works from Home

    Dilbert - 49

    Everyone's favorite comic strip office worker returns in this dry, sarcastic, and utterly hilarious new Dilbert collection. No one is more accomplished at making the drudgery of office work into comedy than Dilbert creator Scott Adams, whose land...

  • Not Remotely Working

    Dilbert - 50

    This relatable and hilarious selection of Dilbert comics from late 2020 through 2021 puts a spotlight on the comedic aspects of professional life during the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed the way we go to work, but the satirical ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Scott Adams has published 64 books.

Scott Adams does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Not Remotely Working, was published in December 2022.

The first book by Scott Adams, Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless, was published in August 1993.

Yes. Scott Adams has 2 series.
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