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Jan 1, 2024 · Browse our complete guide to all 26 Jeff Kinney books in order (from the series written by Jeff Kinney). Plus, we’ve organized our list in order.
- About Jeff Kinney
- Early Career
- His Career Takes Off
- Greg Heffley
- Rowley Jefferson
- Diary of A Wimpy Kid
- Diary of A Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules
- A Booming Success
- The Future
Jeffrey Patrick (Jeff) Kinney is best known as the author of the iconic children’s book series, “The Diary of a Wimpy Kid”. Apart from his writing exploits, Kinney is also heavily involved in online game creation, cartooning, website creation, movie producing, and has even made the big screen as an actor in his own movies. Born in 1971, Kinney live...
It was while at college at the University of Maryland in the early 1990s that his talent for writing and cartooning first came to the fore. He first made his name with the popular cartoon strips Igdoof. At this stage of his life, Kinney had his sights firmly on a future career as a newspaper cartoonist, but failed to achieve syndication for any of ...
However, in the year 2004 his career took a promising turn with the release of a web book called Diary of a Wimpy Kid. A long-term project started as far back as 1998, the web book was a huge success and Kinney was pressured to release a print version, which he did in 2007. The book is hand illustrated with simple illustrations, in the form of chil...
The Wimpy kid main character, middle-school weakling, Greg Heffley, has become an iconic figure for all the like-minded American middle-schoolers. Greg Heffley is certainly not likely to develop into a typical heroic leading-man type figure. His character has many flaws, including: laziness, paranoia, selfishness, egotism, lack of remorse for his w...
For many, Rowley (Want to come over to my house and play?) Jefferson, Greg Heffley’s best friend, is the real hero of the series. A character shaped by his over-protective parents who are certainly not fond of Greg, Rowley is a skilled manipulator who often gets others into trouble while craftily avoiding the blame himself. Initially coming across ...
The first volume in the series was a huge hit when first released in 2007, winning a New York Times best seller award. Greg Heffley is introduced as a middle school newbie,’ continually harassed by his older brother Rodrick and blamed for everything that his spoilt rotten’ younger brother Manny gets away with. Mom and Dad, Susan and Frank, disappro...
The story begins with Greg recounting the horrors’ of his summer vacation, having been continually bullied and harassed by his older brother Rodrick. The film features Rodrick much more than in the first volume. Rodrick is a wannabe rocker’, lead singer of “Loaded Diaper’, a band with a stand-out name but no stand-out talent. Rodrick is far more ob...
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has been a runaway success, both in book and film form. Many of the books have been on best seller lists for many weeks with Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days being the best-selling book of 2009. In total, the three movie adaptations have grossed more than 220 million dollars (US) since their release. All the books have...
Jeff Kinney has no immediate plans to put the series to rest. Why would he when he is riding on the crest of such a successful monster wave? In 2010, seven of the top ten places on the best sellers list in the United States were held by Kinney’s Wimpy Kid stories. All told, sales are now into the tens of millions of copies and the momentum shows no...
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Boys don’t keep diaries―or do they?
- Rodrick Rules. Whatever you do, don’t ask Greg Heffley how he spent his summer vacation, because he definitely doesn’t want to talk about it.
- The Last Straw. Let’s face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways.
- Dog Days. It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside.
The books have sold more than 290 million copies globally. In addition to the book series, Jeff has written and illustrated three spin-off titles in the Awesome Friendly Kid series, written from the perspective of Greg’s best friend, Rowley Jefferson.
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)
- Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #2)
- The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #3)
- Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #4)
A complete list of all Jeff Kinney's books & series in order (32 books) (2 series). Browse plot descriptions, book covers, genres, pseudonyms, ratings and awards.
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How many Diary of a Wimpy Kid books are there? As of May 2023, there are 24 books in author Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid universe, including a supplemental series entitled the Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid, which follows the character, Rowley Jefferson.