Timmy Failure Books in Order
Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis contains 9 books, published between 2013 and 2020. The first book is Mistakes Were Made (2013) and the newest is Zero to Hero (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 2013–2020
- Total pages
- 2,915 across 9 books
- Reading time
- 49–73 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,915 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.
Timmy Failure is a comic detective series for children, about a boy who takes himself for the greatest investigator alive while his cases collapse around him. Total, a polar bear, works as his partner. Mistakes Were Made (2013) opens the run, followed by Now Look What You've Done, We Meet Again, Sanitized for Your Protection, The Book You're Not Supposed to Have and The Cat Stole My Pants. Nine titles make up the series, illustrated throughout and closing with Zero to Hero in 2020.
How many Timmy Failure books are there?
Timmy Failure has 9 books, released between 2013 and 2020.
Timmy Failure Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Timmy Failure 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.
- 1Mistakes Were Made2013 · 294 pages · confirmed 1/420132941/4
- 2Now Look What You've Done2014 · 275 pages · confirmed 1/420142751/4
- 3We Meet Again2014 · 258 pages · confirmed 1/420142581/4
- 4Sanitized for Your Protection2015 · 278 pages · confirmed 1/420152781/4
- 5The Book You're Not Supposed to Have2016 · 274 pages · confirmed 1/420162741/4
- 6The Cat Stole My Pants2017 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/420172881/4
- 7Now Look What Mistakes Were Made2017 · 592 pages · confirmed 1/420175921/4
- 8It's the End When I Say It's the End2018 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/420183521/4
- 9Zero to Hero2020 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/420203041/4
Is there a chronological order for Timmy Failure?
No separate chronological order is on record for Timmy Failure, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.
Do you have to read Timmy Failure books in order?
You should read the Timmy Failure books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Timmy Failure book also stands alone.
Where to start with Timmy Failure
Start with Mistakes Were Made (2013), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Timmy Failure book?
Zero to Hero (2020) is the newest Timmy Failure book released so far.
Is there a new Timmy Failure book coming?
No next Timmy Failure book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Timmy Failure at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Timmy Failure title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Timmy Failure books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 2,915 pages across all 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 288 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Timmy Failure books, 8 of 9, were published in the 2010s.
What the Timmy Failure books are about
All 9 Timmy Failure books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 7 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 7 of 9 books
- Mystery & detective 6 of 9 books
- Polar bear 6 of 9 books
- Private investigators 6 of 9 books
- Friendship 5 of 9 books
- Bears 4 of 9 books
- Humor 3 of 9 books
More books by Stephan Pastis
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
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The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
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