Reading order
Adrian Mole series reading order
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾1982
- The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole1984
- The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole1989
- Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years1993
- Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years1999
- Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction2004
- The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999–20012008
- Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years2009
- Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major1991
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9- 7.87.8 / 1058 ratings
- Score
- 9 volumes
- Volumes
- 1982–2009
- Published
- about 55 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Young adult
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
9 volumes1982–2009Completed
- Sue Townsend’s comic diaries of Adrian Mole, a pompous, spotty, would-be intellectual teenager from Leicester, recording his parents’ crumbling marriage, his love for Pandora and his rejected poems against the backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain.
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ was one of the biggest sellers of the 1980s; later books follow Adrian, still hapless, into middle age.
- Very British and very funny.
- The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is the one with enough ratings.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
9 volumes, 2,921 pages, about 55 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 10 weeks.
Stages
4 stages, with 3 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around January 20, 2027, 11 days later than in one go.
- Stage 116 habout 3 weeksby November 20, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 216 h21 daysby December 14, 2026
- Short breakThe Emperor's Soul · Brandon Sanderson · 96 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 313 h17 daysby January 4, 2027
- Short breakOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century · Timothy Snyder · 128 pp. · score 8.4
- Stage 49 h12 daysby January 20, 2027
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Adrian Mole series book is the longest?
“Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major” is the longest at 496 pages; the shortest is “The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole” with 118 pages.