P.G. Wodehouse Books

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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English author from Guildford, Surrey, that wrote General Fiction. Born in 1881 to Eleanor and Henry Ernest Wodehouse, Wodehouse’s parents did not play a significant role in his upbringing.

Order of Jeeves Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 My Man Jeeves (Short Story) 1919 Description / Buy
2 The Inimitable Jeeves / Jeeves 1923 Description / Buy
3 Carry On, Jeeves 1925 Description / Buy
4 Very Good, Jeeves! 1930 Description / Buy
5 Thank You, Jeeves 1933 Description / Buy
6 Right Ho, Jeeves / Brinkley Manor 1934 Description / Buy
7 The Code of the Woosters 1938 Description / Buy
8 Joy in the Morning / Jeeves in the Morning 1947 Description / Buy
9 The Mating Season 1949 Description / Buy
10 Ring for Jeeves / The Return of Jeeves 1953 Description / Buy
11 Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 1954 Description / Buy
12 Jeeves in the Offing / How Right You Are, Jeeves 1960 Description / Buy
13 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1963 Description / Buy
14 The World of Jeeves 1967 Description / Buy
15 Much Obliged, Jeeves / Jeeves and the Tie That Binds 1971 Description / Buy
16 Aunts Aren't Gentlemen / The Cat-Nappers 1974 Description / Buy
17 Jeeves and the Wedding Bells ( By: Sebastian Faulks) 2013 Description / Buy

Order of Blandings Castle Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Something New / Something Fresh 1915 Description / Buy
2 Leave it to Psmith 1923 Description / Buy
3 Summer Lightning / Fish Preferred 1929 Description / Buy
4 Heavy Weather 1933 Description / Buy
5 Blandings Castle and Elsewhere 1935 Description / Buy
6 Lord Emsworth and Others / The Crime Wave at Blandings 1937 Description / Buy
7 Uncle Fred in the Springtime 1939 Description / Buy
8 Full Moon 1947 Description / Buy
9 Pigs Have Wings 1952 Description / Buy
10 Galahad at Blandings / The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood 1964 Description / Buy
11 A Pelican at Blandings 1969 Description / Buy
12 The World of Blandings 1976 Description / Buy
13 Sunset at Blandings 1977 Description / Buy
14 Imperial Blandings 1992 Description / Buy
15 Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best 2001 Description / Buy

Order of Mr. Mulliner Collections

# Read Title Published Details
1 Meet Mr. Mulliner 1927 Description / Buy
2 Mr. Mulliner Speaking 1929 Description / Buy
3 Mulliner Nights 1933 Description / Buy
4 The World of Mr. Mulliner 1935 Description / Buy

Order of Monty Bodkin Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Luck of the Bodkins 1935 Description / Buy
2 Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin / The Plot that Thickened 1972 Description / Buy
3 Bachelors Anonymous 1973 Description / Buy

Order of Oldest Member Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Clicking of Cuthbert / Golf Without Tears 1922 Description / Buy
2 The Heart of a Goof / Divots 1926 Description / Buy

Order of Psmith Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Mike 1909 Description / Buy
2 Psmith in the City (Short Story) 1910 Description / Buy
3 Psmith, Journalist 1915 Description / Buy
4 Leave it to Psmith 1923 Description / Buy
5 Mike and Psmith / Enter Psmith 1935 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Psmith Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Mike and Psmith / Enter Psmith 1935 Description / Buy
2 Psmith in the City (Short Story) 1910 Description / Buy
3 Psmith, Journalist 1915 Description / Buy
4 Leave it to Psmith 1923 Description / Buy
5 Mike 1909 Description / Buy

Order of School Stories Series with

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Pothunters 1902 Description / Buy
2 A Prefect's Uncle 1903 Description / Buy
3 Tales of St. Austin's 1903 Description / Buy
4 The Gold Bat & Other Stories (Short Story) 1904 Description / Buy
5 The Head of Kay's (Short Story) 1905 Description / Buy
6 The White Feather (Short Story) 1907 Description / Buy
7 Mike at Wrykyn 1953 Description / Buy
8 The Pothunters and Other School Stories 1986 Description / Buy

Order of Ukridge Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Love Among The Chickens (Short Story) 1906 Description / Buy
2 Ukridge / He Rather Enjoyed It 1924 Description / Buy
3 The World of Ukridge 1975 Description / Buy

Order of Uncle Fred Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Uncle Fred in the Springtime 1939 Description / Buy
2 Uncle Dynamite 1948 Description / Buy
3 Cocktail Time 1958 Description / Buy
4 Service with a Smile 1961 Description / Buy
5 The World Of Uncle Fred 1983 Description / Buy

Order of P.G. Wodehouse Standalone Novels

# Read Title Published Details
1 William Tell Told Again (Short Story) 1904 Description / Buy
2 Not George Washington (Short Story) 1907 Description / Buy
3 The Swoop! (Short Story) 1909 Description / Buy
4 A Gentleman of Leisure / The Intrusion of Jimmy 1910 Description / Buy
5 The Prince and Betty 1912 Description / Buy
6 The Little Nugget 1913 Description / Buy
7 Uneasy Money 1917 Description / Buy
8 Piccadilly Jim 1917 Description / Buy
9 A Damsel in Distress 1919 Description / Buy
10 The Coming of Bill / Their Mutual Child 1920 Description / Buy
11 Jill the Reckless / The Little Warrior 1921 Description / Buy
12 The Adventures of Sally / Mostly Sally 1922 Description / Buy
13 The Girl on the Boat / Three Men and a Maid 1922 Description / Buy
14 Bill the Conqueror 1924 Description / Buy
15 Sam the Sudden / Sam in the Suberbs 1925 Description / Buy
16 The Small Bachelor 1927 Description / Buy
17 Money for Nothing 1928 Description / Buy
18 Big Money 1931 Description / Buy
19 If I Were You 1931 Description / Buy
20 Doctor Sally (Short Story) 1932 Description / Buy
21 Hot Water 1932 Description / Buy
22 Laughing Gas 1936 Description / Buy
23 Summer Moonshine 1937 Description / Buy
24 Quick Service 1940 Description / Buy
25 Money in the Bank 1942 Description / Buy
26 Spring Fever 1948 Description / Buy
27 The Old Reliable 1951 Description / Buy
28 Barmy in Wonderland 1952 Description / Buy
29 French Leave 1956 Description / Buy
30 Something Fishy 1957 Description / Buy
31 Ice in the Bedroom 1961 Description / Buy
32 Frozen Assets / Biffen's Millions 1964 Description / Buy
33 Company for Henry / The Purloined Paperweight 1967 Description / Buy
34 Do Butlers Burgle Banks? 1968 Description / Buy
35 The Girl in Blue 1970 Description / Buy
36 The Luck Stone 1997 Description / Buy

Order of P.G. Wodehouse Short Stories/Novellas

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Gem Collector (Short Story) 1909 Description / Buy
2 The Smile that Wins (Short Story) 1996 Description / Buy
3 Goodbye To All Cats (Short Story) 2000 Description / Buy
4 The Amazing Hat Mystery (Short Story) 2017 Description / Buy
5 Mulliner’s Buck-U-Uppo (Short Story) 2017 Description / Buy

Order of P.G. Wodehouse Short Story Collections

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Man Upstairs & Other Stories 1914 Description / Buy
2 The Man with Two Left Feet & Other Stories 1917 Description / Buy
3 Indiscretions of Archie 1921 Description / Buy
4 Young Men in Spats 1936 Description / Buy
5 Week-End Wodehouse 1940 Description / Buy
6 Eggs, Beans and Crumpets 1940 Description / Buy
7 Nothing Serious 1950 Description / Buy
8 A Few Quick Ones 1959 Description / Buy
9 Plum Pie 1966 Description / Buy
10 Vintage Wodehouse 1979 Description / Buy
11 Tales from the Drones Club 1982 Description / Buy
12 Four Plays 1983 Description / Buy
13 The World of Wodehouse Clergy 1984 Description / Buy
14 What Ho!: The Best of P.G. Wodehouse 2000 Description / Buy
15 The Best of Wodehouse 2007 Description / Buy
16 Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit and Other Stories 2014 Description / Buy
17 Highballs for Breakfast 2016 Description / Buy
18 Above Average at Games 2019 Description / Buy

Order of P.G. Wodehouse Non-Fiction

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Globe By the Way Book 1908 Description / Buy
2 Louder and Funnier 1932 Description / Buy
3 Performing Flea 1953 Description / Buy
4 Bring on the Girls! ( With: Guy Bolton) 1954 Description / Buy
5 Over Seventy 1956 Description / Buy
6 Wodehouse on Wodehouse 1980 Description / Buy
7 Wodehouse Nuggets 1983 Description / Buy
8 Wodehouse on Golf 2009 Description / Buy

P.G. Wodehouse Anthologies

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Bedside Playboy 1963 Description / Buy
2 English Country House Murders 1988 Description / Buy
3 The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes 1989 Description / Buy
4 Great Baseball Stories 1990 Description / Buy
5 The Amis Story Anthology 1992 Description / Buy
6 Round the Christmas Fire 2013 Description / Buy
7 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories 2019 Description / Buy
8 The Ultimate Short Story Bundle 2020 Description / Buy
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The author was constantly switching boarding schools. This continued for over a decade. The only blood relation with a consistent presence in Wodehouse’s life was his brother.

But the author’s unstable upbringing was not without its benefits. He spent several holidays with various aunts. The experiences inspired the aunts in the Bertie Wooster books.

After a stint at Dulwich College, any plans the author had for transitioning to university were shattered by his family’s financial woes. This paved the way for his time at London’s Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC).

Although, Wodehouse had no interest in banking. In fact, he took every opportunity he got to write. The author nurtured the activity during his childhood, using the hobby to fill the void in his life.

He continued to write during his banking days until he garnered enough success to turn the activity into a full-time career, pivoting out of banking into journalism and landing a position at The Globe.

After plying his trade at The New Yorker, the author dabbled in musical comedies, collaborating with the likes of Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton.

This was the beginning of a long and successful career, during which the author wrote many short stories and novels. Because people know him as an English author, they might be surprised to learn about the many years he spent in France.

Initially, Wodehouse went back and forth between England and the US. But when the threat of double taxation from British and American authorities arose, he fled to France in the early 1930s.

When the Second World War broke out, the author was so disinterested in international politics that he downplayed the severity of the conflict, refusing to return to England.

By the time he realized his mistake, the Germans had imprisoned Wodehouse. Initially, they took him to Belgium. Then, they sent the author to Tost, where he entertained the other prisoners.

After his release, the author made the mistake of basing various radio broadcasts on these interactions. His actions came back to bite him because England was still at war, and his countrymen accused Wodehouse of collaborating with the Nazis.

Libraries started banning his books. After attracting criticism from authors like A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh), it looked like Wodehouse’s career was over. But MI5 conducted an investigation into the author’s broadcasts and concluded that he was merely naïve, not a traitor.

Despite behind exonerated, Wodehouse decided to abandon England for New York. He spent the rest of his life in the US. He died in 1975.

P.G. Wodehouse Books Into Movies

‘The Girl on The Boat’ and ‘A Damsel in Distress’ became films. BBC turned the Blandings and Jeeves stories into a TV show. The Jeeves series received another adaptation in the 1990s. Granada Television made the adaptation.

Best P.G. Wodehouse Books

The author had a short career as a Hollywood screenwriter. He loved those days because Hollywood overpaid him for his services. Wodehouse’s best books include:

Right Ho, Jeeves: Bertie spent the last two months on vacation. But now he’s back in London. However, before he can find his footing, Bertie learns that his intimidating aunt wants him to visit her country house.

Bertie is intrigued. But before he can act, he also learns from Jeeves that an old university friend wants to see him. This is even more intriguing because, the last time Bertie checked, Gussie was at his country estate studying newts.

More importantly, Gussie hated London. Why was he in the city now, and what could he possibly want from Bertie?

The Code of the Woosters: Bertie is in a pickle. Madeline and Gussie have a romantic relationship of sorts. Madeline is the daughter of Sir Watkyn Basset, a judge. Watkyn’s opinion of Bertie is somewhat spotty because the judge fined him for stealing a policeman’s helmet.

However, that hasn’t stopped Madeline from taking an interest in Bertie. She’s convinced that Bertie harbors feelings for her. Madeline doesn’t mind because she wants to marry Bertie once her engagement to Gussie falls apart.

When Does The Next P.G. Wodehouse book come out?

P.G. Wodehouse doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Above Average at Games and was released on October, 31st 2019. It is the newest book in the P.G. Wodehouse Short Story Collections.

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