List of books by P. G. Wodehouse

The following is a complete list of books by P. G. Wodehouse, including novels and collections of short stories, sorted first by date of publication and later by "series" – i.e. by recurring characters or locations. Wodehouse's work has been anthologized, recompiled, and republished under a great many titles; only the titles as originally published are listed here.

Many of Wodehouse's short stories appeared first in magazines and were later published in collections, some of which include tales from several of his canons: Lord Emsworth and Others, for example, contains stories about Blandings Castle, the Oldest Member, Mr Mulliner, and Freddie Widgeon. As a consequence, precise classification of his works into one series or another is impossible; some of the compilations below overlap between series, causing several books to be listed more than once.

Chronological list

UK title and date of publication		US title and date of publication		Notes
The Pothunters	1902
A Prefect's Uncle	1903
Tales of St Austin's	1903			Short stories
The Gold Bat	1904
William Tell Told Again	1904
The Head of Kay's	1905
Love Among the Chickens	1906	Love Among the Chickens	1909	Rewritten version published in 1921
The White Feather	1907
Not George Washington	1907			An autobiographical novel
The Globe By the Way Book	1908			Collected journalism
The Swoop	1909
Mike	1909			Second half published as Enter Psmith in 1935; both parts released in 1953, the first half as Mike at Wrykyn and the second as Mike and Psmith
A Gentleman of Leisure	1910	The Intrusion of Jimmy	1910
Psmith in the City	1910
Psmith, Journalist	1915	The Prince and Betty	1912	Note that The Prince and Betty as published in the UK is an entirely different novel from Psmith, Journalist; the U.S. The Prince and Betty is a blending of the two books
The Prince and Betty	1912			Not published in the U.S.
The Little Nugget	1913	The Little Nugget	1914
The Man Upstairs (book)	1914			Short stories
Something Fresh	1915	Something New	1915
Uneasy Money	1917	Uneasy Money	1916
Piccadilly Jim	1918	Piccadilly Jim	1917
The Man With Two Left Feet (book)	1917	The Man With Two Left Feet	1933	Short stories
My Man Jeeves	1919			Short stories; many rewritten for Carry on, Jeeves
The Coming of Bill	1920	Their Mutual Child	1919
A Damsel in Distress	1919	A Damsel in Distress	1919
Jill the Reckless	1921	The Little Warrior	1920
Indiscretions of Archie	1921	Indiscretions of Archie	1921
The Clicking of Cuthbert	1922	Golf Without Tears	1924	Short stories
The Girl on the Boat	1922	Three Men and a Maid	1922
The Adventures of Sally	1922	Mostly Sally	1923
The Inimitable Jeeves	1923	Jeeves	1923
Leave it to Psmith	1923	Leave It to Psmith	1924
Ukridge	1924	He Rather Enjoyed It	1926	Short stories
Bill the Conqueror	1924	Bill the Conqueror	1925
Carry on, Jeeves	1925	Carry on, Jeeves	1927	Short stories
Sam the Sudden	1925	Sam in the Suburbs	1925
The Heart of a Goof	1926	Divots	1927	Short stories
The Small Bachelor	1927	The Small Bachelor	1927
Meet Mr Mulliner	1927	Meet Mr. Mulliner	1928	Short stories
Money For Nothing	1928	Money For Nothing	1928
Mr Mulliner Speaking	1929	Mr. Mulliner Speaking	1930	Short stories
Summer Lightning	1929	Fish Preferred	1929
Very Good, Jeeves	1930	Very Good, Jeeves	1930	Short stories
Big Money	1931	Big Money	1931
If I Were You	1931	If I Were You	1931
Louder and Funnier	1932			Articles written for Vanity Fair
Doctor Sally	1932			Included in the U.S. Crime Wave at Blandings collection as The Medicine Girl
Hot Water	1932	Hot Water	1932
Mulliner Nights	1933	Mulliner Nights	1933	Short stories
Heavy Weather	1933	Heavy Weather	1933
Thank You, Jeeves	1934	Thank You, Jeeves	1934
Right Ho, Jeeves	1934	Brinkley Manor	1934
Blandings Castle	1935	Blandings Castle	1935	Short stories
The Luck of the Bodkins	1935	The Luck of the Bodkins	1936
Young Men in Spats	1936	Young Men in Spats	1936	Short stories
Laughing Gas	1936	Laughing Gas	1936
Lord Emsworth and Others	1937	Crime Wave at Blandings	1937	Short stories
Summer Moonshine	1938	Summer Moonshine	1937
The Code of the Woosters	1938	The Code of the Woosters	1938
Uncle Fred in the Springtime	1939	Uncle Fred in the Springtime	1940
Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets	1940	Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets	1940	Short stories
Quick Service	1940	Quick Service	1940
Money in the Bank	1946	Money in the Bank	1942
Joy in the Morning	1947	Joy in the Morning	1946	In US also has been published as Jeeves in the Morning
Full Moon	1947	Full Moon	1947
Spring Fever	1948	Spring Fever	1948
Uncle Dynamite	1948	Uncle Dynamite	1948
The Mating Season	1949	The Mating Season	1949
Nothing Serious	1950	Nothing Serious	1951	Short stories
The Old Reliable	1951	The Old Reliable	1951
Barmy in Wonderland	1952	Angel Cake	1952
Pigs Have Wings	1952	Pigs Have Wings	1952
Ring for Jeeves	1953	The Return of Jeeves	1954
Bring on the Girls	1954	Bring on the Girls	1953	Semi-autobiographical stories, in collaboration
Performing Flea	1953	Author! Author!	1962	A collection of letters, with notes
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit	1954	Bertie Wooster Sees It Through	1955
French Leave	1956	French Leave	1959
Over Seventy	1957	America, I Like You	1956	Reminiscences and journalism
Something Fishy	1957	The Butler Did It	1957
Cocktail Time	1958	Cocktail Time	1958
A Few Quick Ones	1959	A Few Quick Ones	1959	Short stories
Jeeves in the Offing	1960	How Right You Are, Jeeves	1960
Ice in the Bedroom	1961	Ice in the Bedroom	1961
Service With a Smile	1961	Service With a Smile	1962
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves	1963	Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves	1963
Frozen Assets	1964	Biffen's Millions	1964
Galahad at Blandings	1965	The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood	1965
Plum Pie	1966	Plum Pie	1967	Short stories
Company For Henry	1967	The Purloined Paperweight	1967
Do Butlers Burgle Banks?	1968	Do Butlers Burgle Banks?	1968
A Pelican at Blandings	1969	No Nudes Is Good Nudes	1970
The Girl in Blue	1970	The Girl in Blue	1971
Much Obliged, Jeeves	1971	Jeeves and the Tie That Binds	1971
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin	1972	The Plot That Thickened	1973
Bachelors Anonymous	1973	Bachelors Anonymous	1974
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen	1974	The Cat-Nappers	1975
		The Uncollected Wodehouse	1976	Short stories
Sunset at Blandings	1977	Sunset at Blandings	1978	Unfinished

List by series

Blandings Castle

The upper-class inhabitants of the fictional Blandings Castle, including the eccentric Lord Emsworth, obsessed by his prize-winning pig, the "Empress of Blandings", are the subject of eleven novels and nine short stories, written between 1915 and Wodehouse's death in 1975.

Something Fresh (1915) (U.S. title: Something New)
Leave it to Psmith (1923)
Summer Lightning (1929) (U.S. title: Fish Preferred)
Heavy Weather (1933)
Blandings Castle (1935) – Twelve short stories, six of which are about Blandings; written from 1926 to 1928, they occur before the events of Summer Lightning.
Lord Emsworth and Others (1937) – Despite its title, only one of the nine short stories, "The Crime Wave at Blandings", concerns Lord Emsworth (U.S. title: Crime Wave at Blandings)
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
Full Moon (1947)
Nothing Serious (1950) – One story of ten, "Birth of a Salesman"
Pigs Have Wings (1952)
Service With a Smile (1961)
Galahad at Blandings (1965)
Plum Pie (1966) – One story of nine, "Sticky Wicket at Blandings" (Probably to be read before Service With a Smile)
A Pelican at Blandings (1969) (U.S. title: No Nudes is Good Nudes)
Sunset at Blandings (1977) – Wodehouse's final novel, unfinished when he died

The Drones Club

The members of the Drones Club, a raucous social club for London's idle rich which was born in the Jeeves stories, are the subject of a number of separate stories, told by various narrators.

Young Men in Spats (1936) – Eleven short stories about members of The Drones Club, three told by Mr Mulliner
Lord Emsworth and Others (1937) – A story about Dronesman Freddie Widgeon in a book of nine (U.S. title: Crime Wave at Blandings)
Nothing Serious (1950) – One Freddie Widgeon in a book of ten
Barmy in Wonderland (1952)
Cocktail Time (1958)
A Few Quick Ones (1959) – Ten short stories

Golf stories

Wodehouse wrote many of his short stories – though no novels – about the sport of golf, which all characters involved consider the only worthwhile pursuit in life. The Oldest Member narrates most of them.

The Man Upstairs (1914) – One story in a book of nineteen
The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922) – Ten stories, nine told by the Oldest Member (U.S. title: Golf Without Tears)
The Heart of a Goof (1926) – Nine golf stories (U.S. title: Divots)
Mr. Mulliner Speaking (1929) – One story in a book of nine
Lord Emsworth and Others (1937) – Three stories in a book of nine (U.S. title: Crime Wave at Blandings)
Nothing Serious (1950) – Five stories in a book of ten
A Few Quick Ones (1959) – One story in a book of ten
Plum Pie (1966) – One story in a book of nine

Jeeves

See also: The Jeeves books

The wealthy, foppish Bertie Wooster narrates a number of stories and novels, which, collectively called the Jeeves canon, are Wodehouse's most famous. They recount the improbable and unfortunate situations in which Bertie and his friends find themselves, and the manner in which his ingenious valet Jeeves is always able to solve them. Many of Bertie's problems stem from his aunts, the fearsome Aunt Agatha and loving Aunt Dahlia.

The Man With Two Left Feet (book) (1917) – A collection of thirteen short stories, one of which, "Extricating Young Gussie", introduces Jeeves, Bertie, and Aunt Agatha, though Bertie's surname may be Mannering-Phipps rather than Wooster. Bertie has a cousin named Gussie Mannering-Phipps. Bertram did not have a surname, and it remains a matter of considerable debate amongst Wodehouse scholars as to whether he was indeed Bertie Wooster, or merely Bertie Mannering-Phipps.
My Man Jeeves (1919) – Eight short stories, four about Jeeves and four about Reggie Pepper
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) – Eleven short stories (U.S. title: Jeeves)
Carry on, Jeeves (1925) – Ten short stories, five repeated in some form from My Man Jeeves
Very Good, Jeeves (1930) – Eleven short stories
Thank You, Jeeves (1934) – The first full-length Jeeves novel
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) – (U.S. title: Brinkley Manor)
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
Joy in the Morning (1946) (U.S. title: Jeeves in the Morning)
The Mating Season (1949)
Ring for Jeeves (1953) – In which Bill Belfry "borrows" Jeeves from Bertie (U. S. title: The Return of Jeeves)
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954) (U.S. title: Bertie Wooster Sees It Through)
A Few Quick Ones (1959) – One Jeeves story in a book of ten
Jeeves in the Offing (1960) (U.S. title: How Right You Are, Jeeves)
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)
Plum Pie (1966) – One Jeeves story in a book of nine
Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971) – In which appears the only mention of Jeeves's Christian name, Reginald (U.S. title: Jeeves and the Tie That Binds)
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (1974) (U.S. title: The Catnappers)

Mr Mulliner

Mr Mulliner is a long-winded pub raconteur who tells outrageous stories about his family.

Meet Mr Mulliner (1927) – Nine short stories
Mr Mulliner Speaking (1929) – Nine short stories
Mulliner Nights (1933) – Nine short stories
Blandings Castle (1935) – Twelve short stories, five of which are about Mulliner
Young Men in Spats (1936) – Eleven short stories about members of The Drones Club, three told by Mr Mulliner
Lord Emsworth and Others (1937) – Nine short stories, one told by Mr Mulliner (U.S. title: Crime Wave at Blandings)
Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets (1940) – One story in a book of nine
A Few Quick Ones (1959) – Two stories in a book of ten

Psmith

Psmith is an ingenious jack-of-all-trades. The worlds of Psmith and Blandings overlap, as in his final adventure Psmith visits the Castle, becomes a friend of Freddie Threepwood and is eventually employed by Lord Emsworth.

Mike (1909) – Reissued in two parts as Mike at Wrykyn and Mike and Psmith in 1953; the second part also published as Enter Psmith in 1935
Psmith in the City (1910)
Psmith Journalist (1915)
Leave it to Psmith (1923)

School stories

The Pothunters (1902)
A Prefect's Uncle (1903)
Tales of St. Austin's (1903)
The Gold Bat (1904)
The Head of Kay's (1905)
The White Feather (1907)
Mike (1909)

Ukridge

Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge is a scheming character, always looking to enlarge his income.

Love Among the Chickens (1906) – The only full-length Ukridge novel
Ukridge (1924) – Ten short stories, which apparently take place before the events of Love Among the Chickens
Lord Emsworth and Others (1937) – Three stories in a book of nine
Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets (1940) – Three stories in a book of nine
Nothing Serious (1950) – One story in a book of ten
A Few Quick Ones (1959) – One story in a book of ten
Plum Pie (1966) – One story in a book of nine

Uncle Fred

Pongo Twistleton's Uncle Fred is a wily and mischievous former Pelican, with a love of taking of false identities.

Young Men in Spats (1936) – Eleven short stories about members of The Drones Club, one of which introduces Uncle Fred
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
Uncle Dynamite (1948)
Cocktail Time (1958)
Service With a Smile (1961)

Other

William Tell Told Again (1904)
Not George Washington (1907) – A semi-autobiographical novel
The Globe By the Way Book (1908) – A compilation from the column "By the Way", written by Wodehouse and Herbert Westbrook, which appeared in The Globe
The Swoop (1909)
A Gentleman of Leisure (1910)
The Prince and Betty (1912)
The Little Nugget (1913)
The Man Upstairs (book) – Nineteen short stories (1914)
Uneasy Money (1917)
The Man With Two Left Feet (book) (1917) – a collection of thirteen short stories, one of which, "Extricating Young Gussie", introduces Jeeves, Bertie, and Aunt Agatha
Piccadilly Jim – Partially a sequel to The Little Nugget (1918)
My Man Jeeves (1919) – Eight short stories, four about Jeeves and four about Reggie Pepper
A Damsel in Distress (1919)
The Coming of Bill (1920)
Jill the Reckless (1921)
Indiscretions of Archie (1921)
The Girl on the Boat (1922)
The Adventures of Sally (1922)
Bill the Conqueror (1924)
Sam the Sudden (1925)
The Small Bachelor (1927)
Money for Nothing (1928)
Big Money (1931)
If I Were You (1931)
Louder and Funnier – A collection of articles originally written for Vanity Fair magazine
Doctor Sally (1932)
Hot Water (1932)
Blandings Castle (1935) – Twelve short stories: six Blandings, five Mulliner, and one about Bobbie Wickham which does not fit into any of the series
The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)
Laughing Gas (1936)
Summer Moonshine (1938)
Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets (1940) – Four short stories about Bingo Little and one about Freddie Fitch-Fitch in a book of nine
Quick Service (1940)
Money in the Bank (1946)
Spring Fever (1948)
Nothing Serious (1950) – One Bingo Little and one Conky Biddle in a book of ten
The Old Reliable (1951)
Bring on the Girls (1951) – An autobiographical collaboration with Guy Bolton, subtitled "The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, With Pictures To Prove It".
Performing Flea (1951) – Subtitled "A Self-Portrait in Letters by P.G.Wodehouse, With an Introduction and Additional Notes by W. Townend". (U.S. title: Author! Author!)
French Leave (1956)
Over Seventy (1956) – Subtitled "An Autobiography With Digressions". (U.S. title: America, I Like You)
Something Fishy (1957) (U.S. title: The Butler Did It)
Ice in the Bedroom (1961)
Frozen Assets (1964)
Plum Pie (1966) – Nine short stories: one about Jeeves, one golf, one Freddie Threepwood, two Bingo Little, one Ukridge, two Freddie Widgeon, and one Mr Mulliner
Company For Henry (1967)
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? (1968)
The Girl in Blue (1970)
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972)
Bachelors Anonymous (1973)

Posthumous publications

Many early works were published in book form for the first time after Wodehouse's death; some of these collections are listed here

The Swoop! and Other Stories (1979) (U.S. only) – Contains The Swoop and ten shorts, four of them previously uncollected
The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories (1979) (U.S. only) – Contains William Tell Told Again, three shorts and an "Epilogue"
A Man of Means (1991) (UK only) – Six early shorts, written in collaboaration with C. H. Bovill
Plum Stones (1993-95) (UK only) – Twelve categorised volumes of stories and other writings
Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere (1997) (UK only) – Twenty-five early school stories, twelve of them set at Wrykyn
The Luck Stone (1997) – An adventure novel written under the pseudonym "Basil Windham", serialised in 1908
Death At The Excelsior and Other Stories (Project Gutenberg eBook, 2003) – A compilation of public-domain short stories
The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories ([ http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenberg] eBook, 2003) – A compilation of public-domain school stories
A Wodehouse Miscellany (Project Gutenberg eBook, 2003) – A compilation of public-domain articles, short stories and poetry
A Prince for Hire (2003) – Another blending of Psmith, Journalist and The Prince and Betty stories, originally serialised in 1931

References

* The Russian Wodehouse Society Bibliography
* Plum Sauce: A P.G. Wodehouse Companion by Richard Usborne

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