An Omnibus (Latin for "with all" -- the same root as the bus you ride on) is usually several novels/issues collected in a single volume. In most cases, each installment had been published in some form, either as a standalone work, or as a part of another collection. Omnibuses are often published as a way to earn more money, or to release out-of-print installments. Another occasion is for a milestone, like the anniversary of a work or for the release of the last installment in a series. The publishing industry sometimes refers to these as "bind-ups".

Similar to the omnibus release is the manga industry's ''Tankobon'', which is a recopilatory volume that collects a couple months' worth of weekly releases of one single manga, in contrast to the weekly releases published on periodic anthologies such as ''Magazine/ShonenJump''.

They often end up being a {{Doorstopper}}.

Related to {{Anthology}}. Compare CompilationMovie, PatchworkStory, and CompilationRerelease. Contrast MultiVolumeWork.

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* There's an ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' omnibus that compiles the entire series into a single volume. [[DoorStopper It's around 700 pages long]].
* Viz has compiled ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' and ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' into "Viz Big" editions that contain three or four volumes each. Both ''Manga/OnePiece'' and ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' have also received this treatment, but neither are under the Viz Big name.
* Creator/DarkHorseComics has started doing this with many manga series, including [[Manga/{{Chobits}} several]] Creator/{{CLAMP}} works.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is being re-released in Omnibuses in North America with a new translation job, in order to replace the first 21 volumes which had varying levels of dubious quality. Negima's predecessor ''Manga/LoveHina'' has been released by Kodansha Comics in the form of five Omnibus editions.
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' has a number of omnibus collections. The first two are three volumes each, and every subsequent one is two each.
** It is likely that creator Yu Aida is aware of these overseas editions (the Japanese collections are all single volumes). He has created an Idolmaster 4-koma where one of the girls learns the word ''Omnibus''.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' received a [[DoorStopper 1000 page long]] "Colossal Edition" that compiles the first five volumes of the manga, courtesy of Kodansha Comics. Another "Colossal Edition" compiling volumes 6 through 10 was released the following year, and volumes 11 through 15 the year after that. It's safe to assume the rest of the series will follow suit.
* ''Manga/SandsOfDestruction'' was compiled into two volumes after it completed its run in ''Dengeki Maoh''; each volume is around 200 pages. Each one also includes a couple of {{omake}} comics.
* All 12 volumes of ''Manga/DeathNote'' were compiled into ''[[DoorStopper a single 2400 page omnibus]]''. It must be [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-10-02/all-2400-pages-of-death-note-manga-compiled-in-one-really-big-volume/.107129 seen]] to be believed.
* The original 9 volumes of ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' were rereleased as 3 omnibus editions.
* ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'' was originally published in 31 volumes, with around 9 chapters per volume. They were later republished in 15 deluxe editions with twice the material per book. Only the deluxe editions were released in English.
* ''Manga/PrincessKnight'' gained an omnibus version released sometime in the 2010s that contained all stories in the United States. Previously the series was released in separate volumes similar to its original Japanese release.
* When Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Manga/{{Unico}}'' gained an [[LateExportForYou official English translation in 2012]] due to a Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign. A colored version of the series gained 2 omnibus editions between 2012 and 2013 in the western market. Italy also gained an omnibus version of the manga in 2020.
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* Comics in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse have been getting combined into books much larger than graphic novel. They're each called an "Omnibus", and contain two to three arcs, each composed of four comics. This started with the ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'' series, which has a total of three omnibuses.
* Comic books in general nowadays tend to be collected in Trade Paperback editions collecting a story arc; hence WritingForTheTrade.
** Marvel and DC also put out "Essential" and "Showcase" editions of older comics: phone book-sized books in black and white collecting a larger series at a time, usually 20 issues or more. Plus the "absolute" editions, which are in color on high quality paper, usually with extras.
** And of course both Marvel and DC have books called Omnibuses: Hardcover books with high quality pages larger than normal comics and with [[DoorStopper huge page counts]], at the cost of a hefty price tag.
** A bit more affordable per book, at least at the time of release, is the ''Marvel Masterworks'' series of hardcovers, which usually reprints around 10-12 issues worth of material in each volume.
* The original ''Official Handbook of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' comics have been compiled into paperback books.
* The first seven ''ComicBook/DangerGirl'' comics were reprinted in a paperback book.
* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' was initially published as individual issues, which were collected into nine trade paperbacks... which were then republished as the One Volume Edition. It's a 1300-page tome.
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' was at one point collected into a single limited-edition volume containing the original 20-part series - a mere 652 pages. (Strictly speaking a compilation of compilations, collecting 4 volumes containing 5 parts each.)
* Many of the older ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' comics have been published in omnibus form, as have many Series/{{Angel}} ones. Ditto the early Buffy tie-in novels.
* ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'' has a series of six omnibus editions collecting everything published up until the end of 2011, with the exception of the two ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' IntercontinuityCrossover miniseries (due to licensing reasons) and the ''Silverback'' miniseries featuring Argent's OriginsEpisode (due to the original artwork reportedly being too deteriorated to reproduce). The first four omnibus editions collect all the main ''Grendel'' stories in order of internal chronology and the final two collect the ''Grendel Tales'' side stories not featuring any of the main successive Grendels.
* The French World War II AlternateHistory comic book ''ComicBook/Block109'' has an omnibus regrouping all stories set in this universe, titled ''Block 109: Univers''.
* All 3 volumes of ''ComicBook/{{Hound|2014}}'' were compiled into a single 504-page omnibus by Creator/DarkHorseComics in 2022.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Maat}}'': The [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/11/511-ma-at-chapters-1-2 Chapters 1 & first two chapters]] have been bundled together for the Whateleyacademy site.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/OneQEightyFour'': Originally published as three separate volumes in Japan, this novel's English release combined all three into one really big book.
* French editor [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Omnibus]] published one of Creator/PaulFeval's ''Literature/LeBossu'', containing the namesake novel (500 pages+) as well as most of the continuation works by his son, Paul Féval jr., including the {{prequel}} ''La jeunesse du Bossu'', the sequel ''Les chevauchées de Lagardère'' and the SpinOff ''Cocardasse & Passepoil''.
* Most of the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' novels have been reprinted in omnibus editions, with two or three novels to a book.
* The ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' also has a number of omnibuses; [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming all of them have "Miles" in the title]] after the primary series protagonist except for ''Cordelia's Honor'', which collects the novels where Cordelia is the protagonist. ''Memory'' -- the capstone novel of the series -- remains in print separately despite the fact that the two novels after it have already been collected as ''Miles in Love''.
* The ''Literature/SectorGeneral'' books have been collected into four omnibus editions of three novels each. Confusingly, the novels themselves are mostly {{Patchwork Stor|y}}ies pieced together out of shorter works.
* Creator/RogerZelazny's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'' series, which consists of two sets of five novels, has had several. The first set was originally collected as ''The Chronicles of Amber'' (logically enough). When the second set of novels came out, telling the tale of the son of the protagonist of the first set, the first set was reprinted as ''The First Chronicles of Amber'', and the new set was published as ''The Second Chronicles of Amber''. All ten novels were collected in ''The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles''.
* The three ''Literature/LordDarcy'' books (''Murder and Magic'', ''Too Many Magicians'' and ''Lord Darcy Investigates'') were made into one book entitled ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Darcy_(omnibus) Lord Darcy]]''.
* The 12 ''Literature/ThievesWorld'' books have been combined into 4 collections: ''Sanctuary'', ''Cross-Currents'', ''The Shattered Sphere'' and ''The Price of Victory''.
* Creator/LloydAlexander's five Prydain books were joined into ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain''.
* Harper Collins has published several one volume compilations of the seven ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' books.
* The "Invasion" series of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novels.
* ''Lord Peter'', a collection of Creator/DorothyLSayers' short stories starring Literature/LordPeterWimsey published in 1986.
* The ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' omnibusses demonstrate the kind of exaggerated propaganda Cain is used for: a commissar with bulging muscles standing triumphantly AtopAMountainOfCorpses [[http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/Hero-of-the-Imperium.html with an unbelievably smug grin]], [[http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/Defender-of-the-Imperium.html or with]] a BladeAboveTheShoulder and a smoking HandCannon. Note that Cain is tall but not particularly bulky, and prefers a smaller and more accurate laspistol to the monstrous bolt pistol he's shown with.
** A weird example is the one that contains all the Genevieve books. It contains 4 books, but Genevieve is only a very brief cameo in one and only in two of four short stories in another.
* Creator/DorothyParker lives on almost entirely in various omnibus versions of her poetry and short story collections, originally created to entertain servicemen during WWII. The best known of her omnibuses are ''The Portable Dorothy Parker'' and ''The Collected Dorothy Parker''.
* Many ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' novels series are reissued in omnibus form, each omnibus typically containing three novels. The Literature/GotrekAndFelix, ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'', Shira Calpurnia, and various Space Marine novels have received this treatment.
* All of the original 26 books in ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry were collected into a single volume called ''Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection''. A similar book, ''Thomas the Tank Engine: The New Collection'', exists for the first fourteen books by Wilbert's son Christopher. It has since been rendered dated by the publication of a new book in the series.
* ''Literature/TheIlluminatusTrilogy'' was reprinted as an omnibus in 1984, and it remains available that way to this day.
* ''The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr. Willy Wonka'' is an omnibus edition of ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' and ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator''.
* ''Literature/{{Rihannsu}}: The Bloodwing Voyages'' comprises the first four ''Rihannsu'' novels by Creator/DianeDuane, with ''Swordhunt'' and ''Honor Blade'' [[DividedForPublication merged back together]] and a few minor {{Orwellian Retcon}}s for the sake of internal continuity.
* The original Strand Magazine prints of ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' have been collected in two famed facsimile Omnibus volumes, known as the ''Sherlock Holmes Illustrated Omnibus'', complete with the illustrations by Sidney Paget and his colleagues.
* The Science Fiction Book Club printed an exclusive omnibus edition of the three ''Literature/DrakeMaijstral'' books under the title ''Ten Points for Style''.
* All the books in the ''Literature/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids'' series are this: a collection of disturbing and horrible short stories published into one book. There isn't a set amount of stories that are needed to complete a book, however; some have six stories, and others have up to twenty.
* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': The first three ebooks have been collected into a paperback book, called ''Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: The First Collected Episodes''. The name implies that there will be more collections.
* The ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' [[https://amazon.com/Lord-Rings-J-R-Tolkien/dp/B001LAYALS One Volume Edition]] combines the trilogy into a single book. This was originally an inversion, however, since Tolkien wrote ''Lord of the Rings'' as a single novel only to see it broken into three volumes by the publisher.
* ''Literature/OutOfThisWorld'':
** ''Out of This World Choice'' is a republication of volumes 2 and 5.
** Volumes 3 and 4 were republished together as an unnumbered book, using the same title as the series.
* ''Literature/TheGreatSFStories'': ''Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction'' is a series of two-book omnibuses that lasted for six volumes. The volumes republish the first twelve copies of ''The Great SF Stories'', printed a few years after the first publication of the originals. The [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness initial volumes]] presented each book separately, but later omnibuses would merge the two introductions into a cohesive whole, disguising its role.
* ''Literature/IsaacAsimovTheCompleteStories'': ''Volume 1'' was created by choosing three previous [[{{Anthology}} collections]] and reprinting them as a single volume. The foreword is clear that this series was intended to be an omnibus for Dr Asimov's entire publication history.
* Creator/BrianAldiss's ''Literature/AScienceFictionOmnibus'': This book republishes three previous [[GenreAnthology genre anthologies]], ''Penguin Science Fiction'' (1961), ''More Penguin Science Fiction'' (1963), and ''Yet More Penguin Science Fiction'' (1964) in a single ([[{{Doorstopper}} enormous]]) volume.
* ''Literature/Foundation1951'' and ''Literature/IRobot'' were published as a single volume by Creator/OctopusBooks in 1984.
* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'': From 2017-2018, the older film/television novelizations were reprinted in four omnibuses by Titan Books:
** Volume 1 collects the novelizations of ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'' and ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes''.
** Volume 2 collects the novelizations of ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'', ''Film/BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes'', and ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001''.
** Volume 3 collects the four episode novelizations of [[Series/PlanetOfTheApes the live-action series]]: ''Man the Fugitive'', ''Escape to Tomorrow'', ''Journey Into Terror'' and ''Lord of the Apes''.
** Volume 4 collects the three episode novelizations of ''WesternAnimation/ReturnToThePlanetOfTheApes'': ''Visions from Nowhere'', ''Escape from Terror Lagoon'', and ''Man, the Hunted Animal''.
* ''Literature/TheRestOfTheRobots'': After this book was first published, the eight short stories were reprinted both as ''Eight Stories from The Rest of the Robots'' and under this title. The original book also includes ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'' and ''Literature/TheNakedSun''.
* German publisher {{Creator/Heyne}} created ''Meine Freunde, die Roboter'' as a combination of both ''Literature/IRobot'' and ''Literature/TheBicentennialManAndOtherStories''.
* ''The Robot Collection'' contains ''Literature/TheCompleteRobot'', ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'', and ''Literature/TheNakedSun''.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/JanetAsimov's ''Literature/TheNorbyChronicles'': Creator/AceBooks began releasing omnibuses for the ''Norby'' books in 1986, starting with ''The Norby Chronicles'' (containing ''Literature/NorbyTheMixedUpRobot'' and ''Literature/NorbysOtherSecret''), then ''Norby: Robot for Hire'' (containing ''Literature/NorbyAndTheLostPrincess'' and ''Literature/NorbyAndTheInvaders''), and ending with ''Norby Through Time and Space'' (containing ''Literature/NorbyAndTheQueensNecklace'' and ''Literature/NorbyFindsAVillain'') in 1988.
* Creator/UnicornPress published a [[{{Doorstopper}} volume with over 900 pages]] in 1950, titled ''Bland Beginning, Pebble in the Sky, Just for the Bride, The Owl and the Pussycat'', with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin those four books]]; ''Literature/BlandBeginning'' by Creator/JulianSymons, ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov, ''Literature/JustForTheBride'' by Creator/DorothyParkClark, and ''Literature/TheOwlAndThePussycat'' by Creator/OwenCameron.
* Creator/{{Servire}} published a [[{{Doorstopper}} 500+ page volume]] in 1970, titled ''Science Fiction Omnibus'', a Dutch translation of four American ScienceFiction {{Novel}}s; ''Literature/TheBigEye'' by Creator/MaxEhrlich, ''Literature/TheManWhoSoldTheMoon'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, ''Literature/{{Requiem}}'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, and ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov.
* ''Literature/CodenameVillanelle'': NamedAfterFirstInstallment which is a CodenameTitle-type ProtagonistTitle for Oxana Borisovna Vorontsova.
* The series ''Literature/TheHistoryOfMiddleEarth'' has received an omnibus edition with the twelve volumes grouped into three books. Part 1 has volumes I-V (covering the early development of what would eventually become ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''), part 2 has volumes VI-IX (also known as ''The History of Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''), and part 3 has volumes X-XII (the later development of the setting, following the publication of ''The Lord of the Rings'').
* All five of the ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' books (not counting the later one by Creator/EoinColfer) were collected into one [[DoorStopper 800-page volume]]. Also included was the short story "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe".
* ''Literature/TheBeastPlayer'': The main four volumes were published as two volumes in English (by Pushkin Children's Books in the UK and Henry Holt and Co. in the US).
* Creator/CormacMcCarthy:
** ''The Border Trilogy'', which comprises ''Literature/AllThePrettyHorses'', ''The Crossing'', and ''Cities of the Plain''.
** ''The Passenger'', which comprises ''The Passenger'' and ''Stella Maris''.
* Every ''Literature/MissMarple'' book has been compiled into one ''really'' thick book called ''The Complete Miss Marple'' that comes with a suitcase for carrying it.
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* WebVideo/{{Googlebrains}} has Lack of Inspiration which is technically an omnibus.
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