Reading order
Pippi Longstocking reading order
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- Score
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 1945–1948
- Published
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Classics
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
3 volumes1945–1948Completed
- Three books, in order, and it takes an afternoon each.
- Pippi Longstocking introduces her; Pippi Goes on Board is more of the same and ends with her refusing to leave with her father; Pippi in the South Seas takes her there anyway and closes the story with the three children deciding not to grow up.
- Nothing depends on anything, but the last chapter of the third only lands if you have read the first.
- Lindgren also wrote several Pippi picture books later; they are retellings, not sequels.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 428 pages, about 8 hours. At 45 min a day that is 10 days.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 8, 2026.
- Stage 18 h10 daysby November 8, 2026
- 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 Pippi Longstocking book is the longest?
“Pippi Longstocking” is the longest at 160 pages; the shortest is “Pippi in the South Seas” with 128 pages.
What should I read after Pippi Longstocking?
Other series by Astrid Lindgren: The Six Bullerby Children, Emil from Lönneberga, Children's Everywhere.