Adam Kay Books in Order
Adam Kay has written 12 books, published between 2011 and 2025. The first book is How to Be a Bogus Doctor (2011) and the newest is A Particularly Nasty Case (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 12
- Published
- 2011–2025
- Pages on record
- 560 in 2 of 12 books
Adam Kay is a British comedian, television writer and former doctor, born in 1980. Medicine supplies his material: This Is Going to Hurt (2017) is a diary of his time as a doctor in training, and Kay adapted it for television alongside credits on Crims, Mrs. Brown's Boys and Mitchell and Webb. Twelve catalogued books run from How to Be a Bogus Doctor (2011) to A Particularly Nasty Case (2025), taking in Undoctored (2022), the Kay's Anatomy and Kay's Brilliant Brains books for children, and the Dexter Procter series. Volumes median 280 pages.
How many Adam Kay books are there?
Adam Kay has 12 books, released between 2011 and 2025. 1 of them belong to the Dexter Procter series.
Adam Kay Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 12 Adam Kay books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1How to Be a Bogus Doctor2011 · confirmed 2/42011–2/4
- 2This Is Going to Hurt2017 · confirmed 2/42017–2/4
- 3What Seems to Be the Problem2019 · confirmed 2/42019–2/4
- 4Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas2019 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/420191442/4
- 5Kay's Marvellous Medicine2021 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/420214162/4
- 6Kay's Anatomy2022 · confirmed 2/42022–2/4
- 7Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients2022 · confirmed 2/42022–2/4
- 8Amy Gets Eaten2023 · confirmed 2/42023–2/4
- 9Kay's Brilliant Brains2023 · confirmed 2/42023–2/4
- 102024–2/4
- 11Kay’s Incredible Inventions2024 · confirmed 2/42024–2/4
- 12A Particularly Nasty Case2025 · confirmed 2/42025–2/4
Adam Kay books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Dexter Procter in order
1 bookStandalone books
11 books11 Adam Kay titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Adam Kay books in order?
You only need to read Adam Kay books in order within the Dexter Procter series, which holds 1 of the 12 Adam Kay books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Adam Kay
Start with How to Be a Bogus Doctor (2011), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Adam Kay book?
A Particularly Nasty Case (2025) is the newest Adam Kay book released so far.
Is there a new Adam Kay book coming?
No next Adam Kay book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Adam Kay at a glance
- Still publishing
- Adam Kay published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Adam Kay books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 560 pages across the 2 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 280 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Adam Kay books, 8 of 12, were published in the 2020s.
What the Adam Kay books are about
2 of the 12 Adam Kay books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Anecdotes 1 of 2 books
- Diaries 1 of 2 books
- Great Britain, biography 1 of 2 books
- Humor, topic, business & professional 1 of 2 books
- Internship and Residency 1 of 2 books
- Kay, adam 1 of 2 books
- Physician and patient 1 of 2 books
- Physician-Patient Relations 1 of 2 books
- Residents (Medicine) 1 of 2 books