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Lord Peter Wimsey Reading Order
Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers has 11 main books (1923–1937), plus 3 novella or companions. Start with Whose Body? (1923) and read the numbered books in order.
Lord Peter Wimsey books in order
Your reading speed
- 3 h 43 min
- 5 h 1 min
- 4 h 59 min
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- 4 h 27 min
- 4 h 32 min
- 6 h 9 min
- 7 h 51 min
- 6 h 1 min
- 5 h 55 min
- 8 h 13 min
- 6 h 58 min
- 5 h 5 min
- 3 h 31 min
- 4 h 25 min
Main books together: 3,645 pages, about 63 h 49 min at 238 words per minute.
Page counts: median across editions on Open Library. Times assume about 250 words per page. How we calculate.
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Lord Peter Wimsey: common questions
- How many books are in the Lord Peter Wimsey series?
- There are 11 main books in Lord Peter Wimsey, plus 3 novella or companion books. The most recent main book listed here is Busman's Honeymoon (1937).
- What order should I read Lord Peter Wimsey in?
- Read Lord Peter Wimsey in its numbered order: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, Unnatural Death, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, and so on. Lists the 11 Wimsey novels in publication order; the short story collections are listed separately.
- What is the first Lord Peter Wimsey book?
- The first book is Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers, published in 1923.
- How long does it take to read the whole Lord Peter Wimsey series?
- The 11 main books add up to about 3,645 pages (median edition lengths). At 238 words per minute that is about 64 hours of reading, or about 128 days at 30 minutes a day.
- Do I need to read the Lord Peter Wimsey novellas?
- The 3 novella or companion books (Lord Peter Views the Body, Hangman's Holiday, In the Teeth of the Evidence) sit outside the main numbering. You can follow the main story without them; their numbers (like 0.5 or 2.5) show where they fit between the main books.