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)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leave it to Psmith(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Summer Lightning / Fish Preferred(1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Heavy Weather(1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere(1935)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lord Emsworth and Others / The Crime Wave at Blandings(1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Uncle Fred in the Springtime(1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Full Moon(1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pigs Have Wings(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Galahad at Blandings / The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Pelican at Blandings(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The World of Blandings(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sunset at Blandings(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Imperial Blandings(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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Notes: Blandings Castle and Elsewhere is also known as Blandings Castle. Lord Emsworth and Others was also published under the title Crime Wave at Blandings. Galahad at Blandings was also published as The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood. A Pelican at Blandings is also known as No Nudes is Good Nudes.

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