Order of Blandings Castle Books

Order of Blandings Castle Books


Blandings Castle is a series of comic stories and novels by British humourist P.G. Wodehouse. The castle is located in Blandings, Shropshire, England. The main character of the series is Lord Emsworth, the absent-minded head of the Threepwood family. He has nine living sisters, a brother, three children and several in-laws that occupy the castle.

The Blandings Castle series (also known as the “Blandings books”) consists of 11 novels and 9 short stories, beginning with Something Fresh in 1915 and ending with Sunset at Blandings in 1977. Below is a list of P.G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Blandings Castle Books

Something New / Something Fresh

(1915)

Leave it to Psmith

(1923)

Summer Lightning / Fish Preferred

(1929)

Heavy Weather

(1933)

Blandings Castle and Elsewhere

(1935)

Lord Emsworth and Others / The Crime Wave at Blandings

(1937)

Uncle Fred in the Springtime

(1939)

Full Moon

(1947)

Pigs Have Wings

(1952)

Galahad at Blandings / The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood

(1964)

A Pelican at Blandings

(1969)

The World of Blandings

(1976)

Sunset at Blandings

(1977)

Imperial Blandings

(1992)

Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best

(2001)