Peter Mayle Books in Order

Peter Mayle has written 54 books, published between 1975 and 2018. The first book is 'What's Happening to Me?': A Guide to Puberty (1975) and the newest is My Twenty-Five Years in Provence (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books: 54
Published: 1975–2018
Pages on record: 5,169 in 39 of 54 books
Reading time: 86–129 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,169 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 39 of 54 titles with a page count on record.

See all 54 books in order Printable Peter Mayle checklist

Provence made Peter Mayle's name, in travel writing about French village life, food and neighbours. The earlier work is very different: illustrated guides for children and parents, starting with 'What's Happening to Me?' (1975) and 'Where Did I Come From?' (1977), plus the Wicked Willie cartoons. Sam Levitt heads a later crime series. Fifty-four titles make up the catalogue, which closes with My Twenty-Five Years in Provence in 2018.

How many Peter Mayle books are there?

Peter Mayle has 54 books, released between 1975 and 2018. They include 2 series and 37 titles listed outside any series.

Peter Mayle 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.

Wicked Willie in order

9 books

1. Man's Best Friend
2. Twinkle Winkle: Man's Best Friend and Your Star Signs
3. Wicked Willie's Guide to Women: A Worm's Eye View of the Fair Sex
4. Wicked Willie's Low-Down on Men
5. The World According to Wicked Willie
6. Willie's Away!
7. Dear Willie
8. Wicked Willie Stand Up Comic
9. Willie's Leg-Over Handbook

Provence Non-Fiction

4 books

4 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Sam Levitt in order

4 books

1. The Vintage Caper
2. The Marseille Caper
3. The Corsican Caper / Murder in the Med
4. The Diamond Caper

Standalone books

37 books

37 Peter Mayle titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Peter Mayle books in order?

You only need to read Peter Mayle 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 Peter Mayle

Start with 'What's Happening to Me?': A Guide to Puberty (1975), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Peter Mayle book?

My Twenty-Five Years in Provence (2018) is the newest Peter Mayle book released so far.

Is there a new Peter Mayle book coming?

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

Peter Mayle at a glance

Died: Peter Mayle died in 2018, according to Wikidata.
Last book: The newest book credited to Peter Mayle on record dates from 2018.
Release pace: Peter Mayle books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length: 5,169 pages across the 39 of 54 books with a recorded length, a median of 78 pages each.
Busiest decade: Most Peter Mayle books, 23 of 54, were published in the 1980s.

What the Peter Mayle books are about

36 of the 54 Peter Mayle books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: social life and customs is tagged on 7 of 36. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Social life and customs 7 of 36 books
France 5 of 36 books
Juvenile literature 5 of 36 books
Manners and customs 5 of 36 books
Provence (france), description and travel 5 of 36 books
Homes and haunts 4 of 36 books
Nonfiction 4 of 36 books
Travel 3 of 36 books
Pictorial English wit and humor 3 of 36 books
Provence (france), social life and customs 3 of 36 books
Affluent consumers 2 of 36 books