Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead is a series of graphic novels and novels created by American writer Robert Kirkman and American artist Tony Moore. The focus of the series is on Kentucky police officer Rick Grimes, who along with his family and many others, must survive a zombie apocalypse. The series is set in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2010, the series was premiered as a television drama adaptation, developed by Frank Darabont.

Robert Kirkman began his Walking Dead series in 2003, with the first graphic novel (Days Gone Bye) published in 2004. Each graphic novels is comprised of six issues of the comic book series. Tony Moore pencilled the first six issues, while Charlie Adlard has done the art ever since. The comic book series is currently ongoing. The “Governor” novel series began in 2011 with Rise of the Governor and concluded in 2014 with The Fall of the Governor, Part 2. Below is a list of Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead books in order of when they were originally published (which is the same as their chronological order):

Publication Order of Walking Dead Graphic Novels

(By: Robert Kirkman)

The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye (2004)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us (2004)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Book One (2004)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars (2005)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Book Two (2005)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire (2005)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead Omnibus, Volume 1 (2005)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense (2006)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 6: This Sorrowful Life (2007)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 7: The Calm Before (2007)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 8: Made to Suffer (2008)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain (2009)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain (2009)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become (2009)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 11: Fear the Hunters (2010)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 12: Life Among Them (2010)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 12: Life Among Them (2010)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 13: Too Far Gone (2010)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 13: Too Far Gone (2010)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out (2011)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out (2011)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 15: We Find Ourselves (2011)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 15: We Find Ourselves (2011)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Book Eight (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 16: A Larger World (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 16: A Larger World (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead: Compendium Two (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 17: Something to Fear (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 17: Something to Fear (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead: The Covers Volume 2 (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead: The Covers Volume 2 (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Book Nine (2013)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Book Nine (2013)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 18: What Comes After (2013)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 18: What Comes After (2013)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 19: March to War (2013)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 19: March to War (2013)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 20: All Out War Part 1 (2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 20: All Out War, Part 1 (2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 21: All Out War, Part 2 (2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 21: All Out War Part 2 (2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Book Ten (2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead: All Out War AP Edition (2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 22: A New Beginning (2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 22: A New Beginning (2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 23: Whispers Into Screams (2015)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 23: Whispers Into Screams (2015)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 24: Life and Death (2015)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 24: Life and Death (2015)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead: Compendium Three (2015)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 25: No Turning Back (2016)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 25: No Turning Back (2016)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms (2016)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms (2016)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 27: The Whisperer War (2017)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 27: The Whisperer War (2017)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 28: A Certain Doom (2017)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 28: A Certain Doom (2017)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead: Here's Negan! (2017)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Book Fourteen (2017)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Book Fourteen (2017)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 29: Lines We Cross (2018)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 29: Lines We Cross (2018)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 30: New World Order (2018)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead: Compendium - 15th Anniversary Box Set (2018)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead: Compendium - 15th Anniversary Box Set (2018)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 31: The Rotten Core (2019)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 31: Rotten Core (2019)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest in Peace (2019)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace (2019)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead, Book Sixteen (2019)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead: Compendium Four (2019)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Walking Dead Books

Rise of the Governor (2011)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Road to Woodbury (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Fall of the Governor, Part 1 (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Just Another Day at the Office (2012)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Fall of the Governor, Part 2 (2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Descent (2014)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Invasion (2015)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Search and Destroy (2016)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Return to Woodbury (2017)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
Typhoon (2019)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Walking Dead Collections

The Walking Dead 100 Project (2013)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Walking Dead Cutting-Room Floor (2015)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price
The Quotable Negan (2018)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Publication Order of Walking Dead Survivors' Guide Graphic Novels

The Walking Dead Survivors' Guide (2011)Best Hardcover PriceBest Paperback PriceBest Kindle Price

Note: The Walking Dead novels were written with Jay Bonansinga.

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One Response to “Order of Walking Dead Books”

  1. Jonathan Melusky: 7 years ago

    There is a new 2015 book out called “Descent” that can be added to the list after The Fall of the Governor Part 2.

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