Jasper Fforde best books, ranked

Jasper Fforde — 10 titles in the rankings, first published between 2001 and 2012. They average 8.0, above the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages. 3 of the series have a reading order worth keeping to.

Editor’s note Playful, bookish comic fantasy. The Thursday Next novels follow a literary detective in an alternate 1980s Britain obsessed with books, who can step into fiction itself; start with The Eyre Affair, the most read but the lowest rated of them, as the series gets better, with Something Rotten at the top. Shades of Grey, a satire set in a society ranked by the colours people can see, rates just as highly.

Ranked titles

10 books

Average score

8.0

Total ratings

1.6K

First published

2001–2012

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