Jilly Cooper Books in Order
Jilly Cooper has written 50 books, published between 1970 and 2023. The first book is Jolly Super: Collected Pieces (1970) and the newest is Tackle! (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 50
- Published
- 1970–2023
- Confirmed
- 50 of 50 titles
- Pages on record
- 14,277 in 47 of 50 books
- Reading time
- 238–357 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 14,277 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 47 of 50 titles with a page count on record.
Dame Jilly Cooper (1937-2025) was an English journalist who became a novelist. Cooper started in journalism and published non-fiction on class, animals and marriage before turning to fiction with the 1975 romance Emily. The Rutshire Chronicles are her longest and best known sequence. Humour, English social class, horsemanship and manners run through the work. Fifty catalogued books open with the collection Jolly Super (1970) and close with Tackle! (2023).
How many Jilly Cooper books are there?
Jilly Cooper has 50 books, released between 1970 and 2023. They include 2 separate series.
Jilly Cooper Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 50 Jilly Cooper books in the order they were released, 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.
- 119701473/4
- 219731283/4
- 319752403/4
- 419751573/4
- 519761793/4
- 61976993/4
- 71976–3/4
- 819771993/4
- 919771603/4
- 1019781993/4
- 1119782243/4
- 121980323/4
- 1319801593/4
- 1419812793/4
- 151981323/4
- 1619812563/4
- 1719812833/4
- 1819811723/4
- 1919812243/4
- 201982323/4
- 2119822333/4
- 22Jolly Marsupial: Down Under and Other ScenesJilly Cooper Non-Fiction #121982 · 160 pages · confirmed 3/419821603/4
- 2319831413/4
- 241984613/4
- 2519859013/4
- 261985–3/4
- 271985603/4
- 2819851203/4
- 291986643/4
- 3019861763/4
- 3119871753/4
- 3219887203/4
- 331988853/4
- 34Angels Rush In: The Best of Jilly Cooper's Satire and HumourJilly Cooper Non-Fiction #211990 · 384 pages · confirmed 3/419903843/4
- 3519917683/4
- 3619922403/4
- 37How to Stay Married: User's Guide to WedlockJilly Cooper Non-Fiction #231992 · 80 pages · confirmed 3/41992803/4
- 381992963/4
- 3919937363/4
- 40Araminta's Wedding: or A Fortune Secured: A Country House ExtravaganzaJilly Cooper Standalone Novels #71993 · 183 pages · confirmed 3/419931833/4
- 4119941923/4
- 4219943193/4
- 4319968963/4
- 4419988003/4
- 4520027503/4
- 46200610083/4
- 4720107523/4
- 4820167363/4
- 4920202403/4
- 502023–3/4
Jilly Cooper 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.
Jilly Cooper Non-Fiction
26 books26 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Rutshire Chronicles in order
11 booksJilly Cooper Standalone Novels
8 books8 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Jilly Cooper Picture in order
4 booksJilly Cooper Short Story
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Jilly Cooper Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Jilly Cooper books run from Jolly Super: Collected Pieces (1970) to Tackle! (2023), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Jilly Cooper in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Jilly Cooper books in order?
You only need to read Jilly Cooper books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Jilly Cooper
Start with Jolly Super: Collected Pieces (1970), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Jilly Cooper book?
Tackle! (2023) is the newest Jilly Cooper book released so far.
Is there a new Jilly Cooper book coming?
No next Jilly Cooper book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Jilly Cooper at a glance
- Died
- Jilly Cooper died in 2025, according to Wikidata.
- Last book
- The newest book credited to Jilly Cooper on record dates from 2023.
- Release pace
- Jilly Cooper books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 14,277 pages across the 47 of 50 books with a recorded length, a median of 192 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jilly Cooper books, 22 of 50, were published in the 1980s.
What the Jilly Cooper books are about
35 of the 50 Jilly Cooper 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 7 of 35. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Humor 7 of 35 books
- England 3 of 35 books
- Romance 3 of 35 books
- Anecdotes 2 of 35 books
- English wit and humor 2 of 35 books
- Horsemanship 2 of 35 books
- Manners and customs 2 of 35 books
- Musicians 2 of 35 books
- Social classes 2 of 35 books
- Social life and customs 2 of 35 books
- Sociology 2 of 35 books
- Women 2 of 35 books