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All the Jeeves books by PG Wodehouse in order, with brief summaries, series background, and simple advice on where to start with Bertie and Jeeves.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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21 books

1

Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

by PG Wodehouse

1916

A short Jeeves and Wooster adventure where an unexpected visitor turns a calm day into a social and romantic scramble. Bertie improvises, Jeeves provides the strategy, and the situation resolves with a tidy comic twist.

2

Leave it to Jeeves

by PG Wodehouse

1916

A stage farce featuring Jeeves, built around romantic tangles and a country-house weekend that threatens to go off the rails. With Bertie blundering and Jeeves quietly steering, it offers the duo’s comedy in a theatrical, dialogue-driven form.

3

Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg

by PG Wodehouse

1917

Bertie Wooster tries to help a friend with a troublesome relative, and a hard-boiled egg becomes the unlikely centerpiece of the plan. Misunderstandings spread through the country house, and Jeeves smooths things over before everyone explodes.

4

My Man Jeeves

by PG Wodehouse

1919

An early collection that includes some of the first Jeeves stories, plus Reggie Pepper adventures that show Wodehouse experimenting with the formula. Watch a clever valet handle muddled young men, pushy aunts, and social disasters.

5

The Inimitable Jeeves

by PG Wodehouse

1923

A set of linked adventures introducing Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet, Jeeves, as they navigate troublesome aunts, awkward engagements, and London society scrapes. Each episode ends with Jeeves calmly restoring order.

Recommended by:

Paul Graham

6

Carry On, Jeeves

by PG Wodehouse

1925

The original Jeeves collection, where Bertie Wooster keeps blundering into trouble and his new valet keeps rescuing him. These fast, magazine-sized farces revolve around broken engagements, embarrassing outfits, and clever fixes.

7

Very Good, Jeeves!

by PG Wodehouse

1930

A quick collection of short stories featuring Jeeves and Wooster, along with a handful of early Reggie Pepper tales. Expect country weekends, mistaken identities, and romantic knots that only a cool-headed valet can untangle.

Recommended by:

Paul Graham

8

Thank You, Jeeves

by PG Wodehouse

1933

Bertie Wooster retreats to the countryside to practice the banjolele, and his friends beg Jeeves to move back in. At Chuffnell Hall, broken engagements, jealous rivals, and a suspected kidnap turn Bertie’s hobby into chaos.

9

Right Ho, Jeeves

by PG Wodehouse

1934

Bertie Wooster decides to do good deeds, and each one makes things worse, for Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, and Bertie himself. Set at Brinkley Court, it’s a chain reaction of misunderstandings that only Jeeves can stop.

10

The Code of the Woosters

by PG Wodehouse

1938

Bertie Wooster heads to Totleigh Towers on a simple errand, retrieve a silver cow-creamer for Aunt Dahlia, and promptly collides with blackmailers, feuding friends, and a would-be dictator. Jeeves untangles it all, again.

11

Joy in the Morning

by PG Wodehouse

1947

Aunt Agatha orders Bertie to keep an eye on her nephew, and he ends up in the middle of an elopement plan, a stolen notebook, and a feud over a dog. Jeeves restores peace at Steeple Bumpleigh before Bertie is disowned forever.

12

The Mating Season

by PG Wodehouse

1949

Bertie Wooster tries to help friends through an impossible tangle of engagements at a country house, including the anxious Gussie Fink-Nottle. Aunt Agatha is on the warpath, and only Jeeves’s planning can get everyone paired off safely.

13

Ring for Jeeves

by PG Wodehouse

1953

Jeeves takes center stage as a new employer’s butler, while the earnest Bill Gedge tries to win his difficult fiancée and keep a country house from sliding into scandal. Love, lawsuits, and family pressure make Jeeves’s calm strategy essential.

14

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

by PG Wodehouse

1954

When Bertie Wooster’s friends and relatives collide in a mix of broken engagements and missing items, Jeeves must balance loyalty with the chance of a better job. Social disasters multiply, and Bertie learns that good intentions are dangerous.

15

Jeeves in the Offing

by PG Wodehouse

1960

A seaside holiday turns complicated when Bertie Wooster’s relatives start feuding, a young couple needs rescuing, and an innocent errand threatens to explode into scandal. Jeeves handles the diplomacy while Bertie supplies the chaos.

16

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

by PG Wodehouse

1963

Bertie Wooster returns to a country house full of strong-willed aunts, desperate suitors, and people who want him to steal things. Between mistaken identities and blackmail, he leans hard on Jeeves to keep order.

17

Jeeves Takes Charge

by PG Wodehouse

1967

The story that introduces Jeeves’s genius, as Bertie Wooster hires a new valet and immediately needs rescuing from an unwanted engagement. With quiet competence and a few well-placed maneuvers, Jeeves takes charge of both wardrobe and personal life.

18

The World of Jeeves

by PG Wodehouse

1967

A big selection of Jeeves and Wooster stories and novels, bringing together Bertie’s best blunders and Jeeves’s most elegant rescues. Ideal if you want the duo in one place, from early short stories to later capers.

19

Much Obliged, Jeeves

by PG Wodehouse

1971

Bertie Wooster is talked into standing as a candidate in a country by-election, a task he approaches with about as much skill as you’d expect. Rival campaigners, blackmail threats, and household dramas pile up, and Jeeves keeps the show from collapsing.

20

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

by PG Wodehouse

1974

Bertie Wooster tries to keep two formidable aunts happy and winds up trapped in a country-house nightmare involving an unwanted engagement, a missing piece of property, and a local scandal. Jeeves supplies the plan that gets Bertie out alive.

21

Jeeves in the Springtime & Other Stories

by PG Wodehouse

2008

A collection that includes the Jeeves tale ‘Jeeves in the Springtime’ alongside other early Wodehouse stories. Romance, class anxiety, and small mysteries drive the plots, all delivered in quick bursts with neat punchlines.

Series background & context

The Jeeves stories follow Bertie Wooster, a well-meaning young gentleman with more friends than sense, and Jeeves, his brilliantly capable valet. Bertie narrates most of the adventures, usually starting with a small favour and ending with half of London, and several country houses, thinking the worst of him.

The settings bounce between fashionable flats, gentlemen’s clubs, and weekends in the countryside. The trouble is almost never about money or violence. It’s about social traps, unwanted engagements, offended aunts, stolen odds and ends, and the kind of misunderstandings that spread because everyone is too polite to ask a direct question.

Bertie’s world is packed with recurring hazards. There are friends who need saving, like Bingo Little and the chronically nervous Gussie Fink-Nottle. There are romantic storms, often involving the dreamily intense Madeline Bassett. And there are aunts, particularly Aunt Agatha and Aunt Dahlia, who treat Bertie like a remote-controlled toy and are never impressed by his explanations.

Bertie’s instinct is to improvise, loudly. Jeeves’s instinct is to plan, quietly. The pattern is simple and satisfying: Bertie agrees to help a friend, or is ordered about by a relative, then discovers that every person involved has their own secret plan. Jeeves listens, suggests a tactful solution, and sometimes extracts a small price, like a new hat being burned or a ban on the banjolele.

The fun is watching Bertie talk himself deeper into trouble while Jeeves calmly moves the pieces.

Wodehouse wrote the duo in both short stories and novels. Collections like Carry On, Jeeves and Very Good, Jeeves! give you fast, standalone scrapes, while linked volumes like The Inimitable Jeeves stitch several episodes into a bigger arc. If you want full-length country-house tangles, novels such as Right Ho, Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, and Joy in the Morning are classic entry points, and later books like Much Obliged, Jeeves and Aunts Aren't Gentlemen keep the formula humming.

Part of the long-running joke is that Jeeves is always in demand. From time to time he is tempted by a rival offer, or disapproves of Bertie’s current behaviour, which gives Bertie a sudden motivation to behave, at least until the next crisis. Behind the scenes, Jeeves is also tied into a wider network of servants and gossip, which helps him learn things Bertie can’t.

Continuity is light. Characters return, relationships shift, and old mistakes are occasionally remembered, but you can read these in almost any order and still enjoy the ride. What really carries the series is the voice, Bertie’s cheerful panic, Jeeves’s icy competence, and the steady promise that, no matter how bad things look, someone will produce the exact right phrase, disguise, or telegram at the exact right moment.

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