Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Bad Seed | 2017 | Jory John | Buy |
| 2 | The Bad Seed Goes to the Library | 2022 | Jory John | Buy |
| 3 | The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky | 2021 | Jory John | N/A |
| 4 | The Good Egg | 2019 | Jory John | Buy |
| 5 | The Good Egg and the Talent Show | 2022 | Jory John | Buy |
| 6 | he Great Eggscape! | 2020 | Jory John | N/A |
| 7 | The Cool Bean | 2019 | Jory John | Buy |
| 8 | As Cool as It Gets | - | Jory John | N/A |
| 9 | The Cool Bean Makes a Splash | 2024 | Jory John | N/A |
| 10 | The Couch Potato | 2020 | Jory John | Buy |
| 11 | The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky | 2021 | Jory John | Buy |
| 12 | The Smart Cookie | 2021 | Jory John | Buy |
| 13 | The Sour Grape | 2022 | Jory John | Buy |
| 14 | The Big Cheese | 2023 | Jory John | Buy |
| 15 | Have Yourself a Cheesy Little Christmas | 2025 | Jory John | N/A |
| 16 | The Humble Pie | 2025 | Jory John | Buy |
| 17 | The Cool Bean Presents: As Cool as It Gets | 2022 | Jory John | Buy |
The Food Group series by Jory John is a long-running collection of fiction books that started with The Bad Seed in 2017 and has grown to seventeen entries as of 2025. Each book features a different food character with a personality to match its name, from The Good Egg and The Cool Bean to The Smart Cookie, The Sour Grape, and The Big Cheese. Several characters have returned for follow-up stories, like The Bad Seed Goes to the Library and The Good Egg and the Talent Show.
The series has kept a steady publishing pace over the years, with new characters and spin-offs appearing regularly. Titles like The Couch Potato, The Humble Pie, and Have Yourself a Cheesy Little Christmas show the range of the food-themed cast. While individual books work on their own, reading them in order lets you meet each character as they were introduced and catch the connections between them.