Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Timmy Failure: Zero to Hero-Timmy Failure Prequel | 2020 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 2 | Mistakes Were Made | 2013 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 3 | Стават и грешки | 2013 | Stephan Pastis | N/A |
| 4 | Now Look What You’ve Done | 2014 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 5 | We Meet Again | 2014 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 6 | Sanitized for Your Protection | 2015 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 7 | The Book You’re Not Supposed to Have | 2016 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 8 | The Cat Stole My Pants | 2017 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 9 | Now Look What Mistakes Were Made | 2017 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 10 | It’s the End When I Say It’s the End | 2018 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
| 11 | Zero to Hero | 2020 | Stephan Pastis | Buy |
The Timmy Failure series by Stephan Pastis began in 2013 with Mistakes Were Made and ran through 2020. The illustrated middle-grade books follow Timmy Failure, a supremely confident but spectacularly wrong kid detective who runs his own agency called Total Failure Inc. His business partner is Total, a large and mostly unhelpful polar bear.
Each book features Pastis’s own illustrations alongside the text, and the humor comes from the gap between Timmy’s self-image as a brilliant investigator and his actual track record of failures. The series was adapted into a 2020 Disney+ film. Zero to Hero serves as a prequel, going back to Timmy’s earliest detective days.