Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jolly Super: Collected Pieces | 1970 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 2 | Jolly Super Too | 1973 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 3 | Jolly Superlative | 1975 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 4 | Super Men & Super Women | 1976 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 5 | Superjilly | 1977 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 6 | Supercooper | 1980 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 7 | Intelligent and Loyal | 1981 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 8 | Class | 1981 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 9 | The British in Love | 1981 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 10 | Love and Other Heartaches | 1981 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 11 | Beyond Bartlett | 1982 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 12 | Jolly Marsupial: Down Under and Other Scenes | 1982 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 13 | Animals In War | 1983 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 14 | Leo and Jilly Cooper on Rugby | 1984 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 15 | On Cricket | 1985 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 16 | Hotfoot To Zabriskie Point | 1985 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 17 | Horse Mania! | 1986 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 18 | How to Survive Christmas | 1986 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 19 | Turn Right At The Spotted Dog | 1987 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 20 | How to Survive from Nine to Five | 1988 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 21 | Angels Rush In: The Best of Jilly Cooper’s Satire and Humour | 1990 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 22 | Mongrel Magic | 1992 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 23 | How to Stay Married: User’s Guide to Wedlock | 1992 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 24 | Women And Super Women | 1992 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 25 | The Common Years | 1994 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
| 26 | Between the Covers | 2020 | Jilly Cooper | Buy |
Jilly Cooper’s nonfiction career actually predates her fiction. She started in the early 1970s with Jolly Super, a collection of her newspaper columns, and continued producing column collections throughout the decade. These books are full of her distinctive voice: funny, opinionated, and warmly observant about English life. Class, published in 1981, became one of her most widely read nonfiction titles, offering a comic dissection of the English social hierarchy that still feels relevant decades later.
Her nonfiction also includes a number of books about animals. Intelligent and Loyal and Mongrel Magic celebrate dogs, while Animals in War tells the stories of animals in military conflict. Cooper wrote about sports too, co-authoring books on rugby and cricket with her husband Leo Cooper. Later titles like Turn Right at the Spotted Dog and Hotfoot to Zabriskie Point are travel and humor pieces, while Between the Covers (2020) looks back over her long career.