P.G. Wodehouse Books In Order
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My Man Jeeves | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Inimitable Jeeves / Jeeves | (1923) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Carry On, Jeeves | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Very Good, Jeeves! | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thank You, Jeeves | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Right Ho, Jeeves / Brinkley Manor | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Code of the Woosters | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Joy in the Morning / Jeeves in the Morning | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mating Season | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ring for Jeeves / The Return of Jeeves | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jeeves in the Offing / How Right You Are, Jeeves | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World of Jeeves | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Much Obliged, Jeeves / Jeeves and the Tie That Binds | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen / The Cat-Nappers | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Blandings Castle Books
Something New / Something Fresh | (1915) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Lightning / Fish Preferred | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heavy Weather | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lord Emsworth and Others / The Crime Wave at Blandings | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Uncle Fred in the Springtime | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Full Moon | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pigs Have Wings | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Galahad at Blandings / The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Pelican at Blandings | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World of Blandings | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sunset at Blandings | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Imperial Blandings | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Mr. Mulliner Collections
Meet Mr. Mulliner | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Mulliner Speaking | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mulliner Nights | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World of Mr. Mulliner | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Monty Bodkin Books
The Luck of the Bodkins | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin / The Plot that Thickened | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bachelors Anonymous | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Oldest Member Books
The Clicking of Cuthbert / Golf Without Tears | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Heart of a Goof / Divots | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Psmith Books
Mike | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Psmith in the City | (1910) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Psmith, Journalist | (1915) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Leave it to Psmith | (1923) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mike and Psmith / Enter Psmith | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mike and Psmith was originally published as part of Mike in 1909 and thus comes first in the series chronologically. |
Chronological Order of Psmith Books
Mike and Psmith / Enter Psmith | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Psmith in the City | (1910) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Psmith, Journalist | (1915) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Leave it to Psmith | (1923) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mike | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of School Stories Books
The Pothunters | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Prefect's Uncle | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of St. Austin's | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gold Bat & Other Stories | (1904) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Head of Kay's | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The White Feather | (1907) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mike at Wrykyn | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pothunters and Other School Stories | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Ukridge Books
Love Among The Chickens | (1906) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ukridge / He Rather Enjoyed It | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World of Ukridge | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Uncle Fred Books
Uncle Fred in the Springtime | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Uncle Dynamite | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cocktail Time | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Service with a Smile | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World Of Uncle Fred | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
William Tell Told Again | (1904) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Not George Washington | (1907) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Swoop! | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Gentleman of Leisure / The Intrusion of Jimmy | (1910) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Prince and Betty | (1912) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Nugget | (1913) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Uneasy Money | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Piccadilly Jim | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Damsel in Distress | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Coming of Bill / Their Mutual Child | (1920) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jill the Reckless / The Little Warrior | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Adventures of Sally / Mostly Sally | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girl on the Boat / Three Men and a Maid | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bill the Conqueror | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sam the Sudden / Sam in the Suberbs | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Small Bachelor | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Money for Nothing | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Money | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
If I Were You | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Sally | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hot Water | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Laughing Gas | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Moonshine | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Quick Service | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Money in the Bank | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spring Fever | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Old Reliable | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Barmy in Wonderland | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
French Leave | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Something Fishy | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ice in the Bedroom | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frozen Assets / Biffen's Millions | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Company for Henry / The Purloined Paperweight | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girl in Blue | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Luck Stone | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Gem Collector | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Smile that Wins | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Goodbye To All Cats | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Amazing Hat Mystery | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mulliner’s Buck-U-Uppo | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Man Upstairs & Other Stories | (1914) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man with Two Left Feet & Other Stories | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Indiscretions of Archie | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Young Men in Spats | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Week-End Wodehouse | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nothing Serious | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Few Quick Ones | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Plum Pie | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vintage Wodehouse | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales from the Drones Club | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Four Plays | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World of Wodehouse Clergy | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Ho!: The Best of P.G. Wodehouse | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Wodehouse | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit and Other Stories | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Highballs for Breakfast | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Above Average at Games | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Globe By the Way Book | (1908) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Louder and Funnier | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Performing Flea | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bring on the Girls! | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Over Seventy | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wodehouse on Wodehouse | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wodehouse Nuggets | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wodehouse on Golf | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Bedside Playboy | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
English Country House Murders | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Great Baseball Stories | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Amis Story Anthology | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Round the Christmas Fire | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ultimate Short Story Bundle | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
P.G. Wodehouse was one of the most widely renowned humorists of the 20th century.
+BIOGRAPHY
Wodehouse was born October 15, 1881; and he died on February 14th, 1975 in a Southampton Hospital, New York, from a long illness that eventually culminated in a heart attack at the age of 93. At the time of his death, he had nearly 200 different works under his name, ranging from novels to short stories, songs, and plays.
P.G. Wodehouse’s mother was visiting her sister in England when he was born, the pair returning to Hong Kong where his father, a Magistrate, was living a few weeks later.
Wodehouse returned to Britain at a fairly early age, attending Dulwich College in London. Upon completing school, Wodehouse spent some time as a banker at the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank but soon chose to switch jobs, finding a place as a sports reporter at the old Globe Newspaper.
It was during this period that he began writing short stories. His initial literary attempts where school novels tackling life in some of England’s most famous universities; with most of his novels primarily purposed for a boys magazine known as ‘The Captain’, P.G. Wodehouse’s talent for writing comic dialogue quickly manifested.
Success came soon after. By 1910, Wodehouse had established himself in a manner that made it possible for him to reside in both the US and France. It was during this period that Wodehouse’s obsession for golf developed, the sport featuring prominently in many of his short stories.
Wodehouse and Ethel, an American Widow, met in 1913 and they were married a year later. P.G. Wodehouse was in his new home in Le Touquet, France, having tea with his wife and their friends when World War II begun, Wodehouse eventually captured by German forces and spending some time in a prison camp.
Despite his dire situation, Wodehouse was well-treated and, indeed, found the time to keep writing.
His captor, Joseph Goebbels, quickly understood what a big fish they had captured, forcing the author to make many humorous appearances on German Radio.
The political fool that he was, P.G. Wodehouse was lured more than actually forced into the position, his broadcasts, which were initially only meant to be heard in the United States, eventually finding their way to Britain and causing a lot of annoyance.
Word of the broadcasts eventually reached Wodehouse’s publishers who, far from happy, determined to have him charged with treason. However, it quickly became obvious that the author had been tricked by his German captors, P.G. Wodehouse eventually returning to America with little opposition and becoming a citizen in 1955.
Hollywood clamored to lay a claim over Wodehouse though it became quickly apparent that they only wanted his name to sell their ads and posters. None the less, his popularity waxed rather than waning, so much so that some weeks before his death, in 1975, his wartime mistakes were forgiven by the British authorities, the queen eventually knighting him.
By the time of his knighthood, Wodehouse’s health was poor and he couldn’t even attend the ceremony. Being a devout fan of P.G. Wodehouse, Queen Elizabeth offered to travel to the US to present the knighthood personally.
Wodehouse spent many of his final years in and out of the hospital, stricken by pneumonia, lung failure, and heart problems. Wodehouse did not stop writing until the very end, finding some comfort in his typewriter.
Sunset at Blandings was the last work he ever wrote, finishing nine chapters before dying in 1975.
His wife, Lady Ethel, died in 1984. The couple bore no children, though Ethel had a daughter, Leonora, from a previous marriage who Wodehouse adopted. Leonora’s death in 1942 devastated Wodehouse.
+Carry on, Jeeves
From the moment the inimitable Jeeves, the gentleman’s gentleman, glides into Bertie Wooster’s life, providing him a magical cure for hangovers, Bertie cannot help but wonder how he ever managed without him.
Jeeves goes out of his way to make his presence totally indispensable, disentangling Bertie from many a scrape with aunts, girls and unbidden guests, his ability to pull hapless fellows like Bertie out of sundry holes making him a paragon.
Carry on, Jeeves has all those wonderful elements that make a P.G. Wodehouse book so entertaining to read. The premise is fairly simple, if not a little formulaic. Bertie Wooster is an itinerant man who, along with his indolent friends, cannot stay out of trouble.
And it always falls to the Jeeves to bail them out of their many shenanigans; the joy of Wodehouse’s books comes, not from their unpredictability or intrigue, but rather P.G. Wodehouse’s funny prose and dry humor.
Wooster alone allows ‘Carry on, Jeeves’ to entertain where more inventive books have failed because of all the confusing yet humorous slang that keeps flying out of his mouth.
‘Carry on, Jeeves’ is arranged as a collection of short stories, each entangling Wooster and Jeeves in a fairly expected complication within which Wodehouse’s writing manages to elevate his predictable plots.
Admittedly, only those individuals with an appreciation for P.G. Wodehouse’s particular style of humor will find these short stories entertaining.
+The Inimitable Jeeves
Love struck Bingo Little has come to rely upon the assistance of Bertie and Jeeves each time he falls head over heels in love and back again. From Honoria Glossop to Mabel the waitress and Charlotte Cordary Rowbotham, many a woman has had an the opportunity to cast their spells over Bingo
Meanwhile, Bertie finds the task of keeping the quick-tempered aspiring actor Bassington-Bassington from the stage, this at Aunt Agatha’s behest, far harder than he might have expected. Dealing with the energetic Claude and Eustace proves no less difficult; luckily for him, the intelligent and loyal Jeeves stands ready to extricate Bertie and his friends from the tightest of spots.
The Inimitable Jeeves is a surprisingly well-structured series of short stories. The fact that the stories are sequential, revolving around a common plotline (Bingo Little’s romantic entanglements) helps the book as a whole to truly achieve its potential.
As with every P.G. Wodehouse book, The Inimitable Jeeves is highly entertaining, doing little in the way of delivering inventive plots but instead relying upon Wodehouse’s inventive writing style to avail material that is as fresh as it is funny.
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I read some of the Jeeves books many years ago & started re-reading during the 2020 pandemic. Now I’m trying to read every P.G. Wodehouse I can find. Thanks for the useful info and background!
Is there a “approved” order to read his books in? A friend has these red bound books from Wodehouse and I just happened to picked up the Ukridge book and started to read but, after a few chapters had to laid the book down, cuz I was laughing so hard. The pain was intense but a delightful way to spend a few hours a day reading such a talented writer. Though I am curious if there is a list or order these books should be read in?