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Jerome K. Jerome Books in Order

30 books are credited to Jerome K. Jerome, published between 1886 and 2017; 13 of them appeared after Jerome K. Jerome's death in 1927. The first book is Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and the newest is Three Men in the Dark: Tales of Terror (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
30
Published
1886–2017
Pages on record
2,755 in 18 of 30 books
Reading time
46–69 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,755 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 18 of 30 titles with a page count on record.

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Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 - 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, born in Walsall in the Midlands. After the death of Jerome's father in 1871, Jerome held a clerical post and spent three years as an actor. The comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889) is the work Jerome is best known for, with Three Men on the Bummel as its sequel and the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow beside it. The catalogue holds 30 titles, among them Stage-Land (1889), Told After Supper (1891), The New Utopia (1891) and Novel Notes (1893). Subject tags name humour, essays, English short stories and ghost stories; later dates in the listing reflect reissues and anthologies.

How many Jerome K. Jerome books are there?

Jerome K. Jerome has 30 books, released between 1886 and 2017. 13 of them were published after Jerome K. Jerome's death in 1927.

Jerome K. Jerome Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 30 Jerome K. Jerome 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.

  1. Cover of Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome (1886)
  2. Cover of Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (1889)
  3. Cover of Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome (1891)
  4. Cover of After-Supper Ghost Stories by Jerome K. Jerome (1891)
  5. Cover of Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. Jerome (1891)
  6. Cover of Second thoughts of an idle fellow By by Jerome K. Jerome (1898)
  7. Cover of Tea-Table Talk by Jerome K. Jerome (1903)
  8. Cover of They and I by Jerome K. Jerome (1909)
  9. Cover of The Master of Mrs. Chilvers by Jerome K. Jerome (1911)
  10. Cover of All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. Jerome (1919)
  11. Cover of The Other Jerome K. Jerome by Jerome K. Jerome (1984)
  12. Cover of Told After Supper and Other Stories and Poems of Christmas by Jerome K. Jerome (2006)
  13. Cover of The Cost of Kindness, and Clocks by Jerome K. Jerome (2007)
  14. Cover of Selected Short Stories From Jerome K. Jerome by Jerome K. Jerome (2007)
  15. Cover of On the Art of Making Up One's Mind by Jerome K. Jerome (2008)
  16. Cover of Three Men in the Dark: Tales of Terror by Jerome K. Jerome (2017)
  1. 1
    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow1886 · 104 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1886104
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  2. 2
    Stage-Land1889 · confirmed 2/4
    1889–
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  3. 3
    Three Men in a Boat1889 · 361 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1889361
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  4. 4
    The Haunted Mill / The Ruined House1891 · confirmed 2/4
    1891–
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  5. 5
    The New Utopia1891 · 28 pages · confirmed 2/4
    189128
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  6. 6
    Told After Supper1891 · 68 pages · confirmed 2/4
    189168
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  7. 7
    After-Supper Ghost Stories1891 · 264 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1891264
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  8. 8
    Diary of a Pilgrimage1891 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1891192
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  9. 9
    On the Stage--And Off - The Brief Career of a Would-Be-Actor1891 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1891192
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  10. 10
    Novel Notes1893 · confirmed 2/4
    1893–
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  11. 11
    Second thoughts of an idle fellow By1898 · 110 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1898110
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  12. 12
    Tea-Table Talk1903 · 60 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190360
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  13. 13
    Idle Ideas in 19051905 · confirmed 2/4
    1905–
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  14. 14
    They and I1909 · 172 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1909172
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  15. 15
    The Master of Mrs. Chilvers1911 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/4
    191196
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  16. 16
    All Roads Lead to Calvary1919 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1919256
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  17. 17
    My Life and Times1926 · confirmed 2/4
    1926–
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  18. 18
    Evergreens & Other Short Stories1982 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1982128
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  19. 19
    The Other Jerome K. Jerome1984 · 196 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1984196
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  20. 22
    The Cost of Kindness, and Clocks2007 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200748
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  21. 23
    Selected Short Stories From Jerome K. Jerome2007 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200764
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  22. 24
    On the Art of Making Up One's Mind2008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008–
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  23. 25
    The Angel and the Author--And Others2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
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  24. 26
    The Works of Jerome K. Jerome2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  25. 27
    The Lesson2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  26. 28
    CyclingFound on The Shelves of The London Library #22016 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201696
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  27. 29
    Three Men in the DarkCollins Chillers #62017 · confirmed 2/4
    2017–
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  28. 30
    Three Men in the Dark: Tales of Terror2017 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017320
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Jerome K. Jerome 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.

Found on The Shelves of The London Library in order

1 book
  1. 2. Cycling

Collins Chillers in order

1 book
  1. 6. Three Men in the Dark

Standalone books

28 books

28 Jerome K. Jerome titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jerome K. Jerome books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 30 Jerome K. Jerome books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Jerome K. Jerome

Start with Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jerome K. Jerome book?

Three Men in the Dark: Tales of Terror (2017) is the newest Jerome K. Jerome book released so far.

Is there a new Jerome K. Jerome book coming?

No next Jerome K. Jerome book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Jerome K. Jerome at a glance

Died
Jerome K. Jerome died in 1927, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Jerome K. Jerome are still being published after Jerome K. Jerome's death in 1927; the newest appeared in 2017.
Release pace
Jerome K. Jerome books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
Length
2,755 pages across the 18 of 30 books with a recorded length, a median of 119 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jerome K. Jerome books, 8 of 30, were published in the 1890s.

What the Jerome K. Jerome books are about

15 of the 30 Jerome K. Jerome books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: humor is tagged on 4 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.