What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Hi, I recently discovered Jeeves & Wooster series. There are 15 books in the series and I'm currently reading 11th book.

Could anyone advise witch series by Wodehouse to read next?

His books about Blandings Castle are equally wonderful. The first is called Something Fresh, but they can be read in any order.

Thank you :)

You're welcome. My favorite is Heavy Weather.

I stumbled across a nice Wodehouse tome at Goodwill a while back. I put it in my cart simply because I loved the Jeeves stuff. It was called Utterly Uncle Fred. It was great. I polished it off in no time.

Ditto the Blandings Castle series (starting with Something Fresh).

Psmith is a favorite series of mine, starting with Mike, which has since been divided into Mike at Wrykyn and Mike and Psmith; Psmith isn't introduced until the second half. But Mike is an English boarding school story, with endless blow-by-blow accounts of cricket matches, which isn't everyone's thing. The Psmith series crosses over with the Blandings Castle series in Leave It to Psmith (the last Psmith book and the second Blandings Castle book).

If you like golf, don't miss The Clicking of Cuthbert and The Heart of a Goof.

If you want other authors with that Jeeves and Wooster pairing/duality, I just finished Flowers for the Judge and found the main PI and his butler a similar pairing, with the opposite roles. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this (now i know) classic British mystery duo.

My family also loves the Lord Peter Wimsey Series Murder Must Advertise (for my favorite one) and the detective's relationship with his butler, Bunter. One of our family sayings is "I wish I had a Bunter!"

If you're looking for that really dry british sense of humor, I would recommend "3 men in a boat" by Jerome K Jerome; and if you like mysteries, G K Chesterton has a similar tone and time period.

Three Men in a Boat
G.K. Chesterton for Gillian's suggestions.

The Night Life of the Gods is another one. It's not quite like Jeeves and Wooster, but it's in the same vein of humour. Plus, I don't get to suggest those great classic writers of humour much any more. Thorne Smith is better known for his Topper series, which you might also like. Topper is the first book (and the one that the movie starring Cary Grant, Constance Bennett and Roland Young, was loosely based on.)