Shaun Bythell Books in Order

Shaun Bythell has written 5 books, published between 2014 and 2022. The first book is Tripe Advisor: Misadventures in the Bookshop, Wigtown (2014) and the newest is Remainders of the Day (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
2014–2022
Pages on record
128 in 1 of 5 books

Tripe Advisor: Misadventures in the Bookshop, Wigtown (2014) opens Shaun Bythell's catalogue of 5 books, which closes with Remainders of the Day (2022). Bythell is a Scottish bookshop owner, and the writing comes straight out of the trade: The Diary of a Bookseller (2017), Confessions of a Bookseller (2019) and Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops (2020) sit between. Antiquarian bookselling, customers, staff and book collectors are the subject matter, and Diary of a Bookseller is the one series catalogued.

How many Shaun Bythell books are there?

Shaun Bythell has 5 books, released between 2014 and 2022. 3 of them belong to the Diary of a Bookseller series.

Shaun Bythell Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Shaun Bythell 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. 12014
  2. 2
    The Diary of a BooksellerDiary of a Bookseller #12017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017
  3. 3
    Confessions of a BooksellerDiary of a Bookseller #22019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019
  4. 4
    Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops2020 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020128
  5. 5
    Remainders of the DayDiary of a Bookseller #32022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022

Shaun Bythell 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.

Diary of a Bookseller in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Diary of a Bookseller
  2. 2. Confessions of a Bookseller
  3. 3. Remainders of the Day

Standalone books

2 books

2 Shaun Bythell titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Shaun Bythell books in order?

You only need to read Shaun Bythell books in order within the Diary of a Bookseller series, which holds 3 of the 5 Shaun Bythell books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Shaun Bythell

Start with Tripe Advisor: Misadventures in the Bookshop, Wigtown (2014), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Shaun Bythell book?

Remainders of the Day (2022) is the newest Shaun Bythell book released so far.

Is there a new Shaun Bythell book coming?

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

Shaun Bythell at a glance

Paused
No new Shaun Bythell title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Shaun Bythell books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
128 pages across the 1 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 128 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Shaun Bythell books, 3 of 5, were published in the 2010s.

What the Shaun Bythell books are about

1 of the 5 Shaun Bythell 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 1 books
  • Antiquarian booksellers 1 of 1 books
  • Book collectors 1 of 1 books
  • Booksellers and bookselling 1 of 1 books
  • Bookstores 1 of 1 books
  • Customer services 1 of 1 books
  • Employees 1 of 1 books
  • Written communication 1 of 1 books