Jeeves & Wooster- Homage to P.G. Wodehouse Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Jeeves and the King of Clubs | 2018 | Buy |
| Jeeves and the Leap of Faith | 2020 | Buy |
Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Schott’s Original Miscellany | 2002 | Buy |
| Schott’s Food and Drink Miscellany | 2003 | Buy |
| Schott’s Sporting, Gaming, and Idling Miscellany | 2004 | Buy |
| Schott’s Almanac 2006 | 2005 | Buy |
| Schott’s Almanac 2007 | 2006 | Buy |
| Schott’s Almanac 2008 | 2007 | Buy |
| Schott’s Miscellany 2008 | 2007 | Buy |
| Schott’s Almanac 2009 | 2008 | Buy |
| Schott’s Almanac 2010 | 2009 | Buy |
| Schott’s Quintessential Miscellany | 2010 | Buy |
| Schott’s Almanac 2011 | 2010 | Buy |
| Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition | 2013 | Buy |
Ben Schott began his career as a photographer and advertising copywriter before turning a Christmas card concept into Schott’s Original Miscellany in 2002. The book, a dense and witty collection of trivia, lists, and reference material arranged in no particular order, became a bestseller within weeks and eventually sold around 2.5 million copies across 21 languages. The success led to a run of follow-up almanacs and annual miscellanies published through the mid-2010s.
Alongside his non-fiction work, Schott has written for The New York Times OpEd page and The Times. In 2018 he published his first novel, Jeeves and the King of Clubs, an authorized continuation of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster characters. The novel was received warmly on both sides of the Atlantic, and a sequel, Jeeves and the Leap of Faith, followed in 2020. Both books aim to replicate the tone and comic machinery of Wodehouse while telling new stories.
Schott is a versatile writer who moves between reference publishing, journalism, and literary fiction. His two bodies of work, the miscellany series and the Wodehouse continuations, attract quite different readers, though both reflect the same appetite for precision, wit, and the well-organized sentence.