Spike Milligan Reading Order
1 series · 163 books
Spike Milligan was an Irish-English writer and entertainer renowned for his unique blend of humor in various forms, including poetry, plays, and prose. He created an impressive body of work, comprising 171 books across one series and several standalone novels, with his most famous contributions being his comical autobiographies about his experiences as a WWII soldier and the beloved radio program, The Goon Show. Active from 1959 until 2006, Milligan left an indelible mark on the landscape of comedy and literature.
Standalone Novels Series
163 books
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Collection of Spikes |
| 2 | A book of bits or a bit of a book |
| 3 | Badjelly the witch |
| 4 | Box 18:The Unpublished Spike Milligan |
| 5 | Depression and How to Survive It |
| 6 | Giant Tales |
| 7 | Help I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Tube |
| 8 | Help, I'm a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Factory |
| 9 | Letters |
| 10 | Milligan's Meaning of Life |
| 11 | Milligan's ark |
| 12 | Milligans Meaning of Life |
| 13 | Mon rôle dans la chute d'Adolf Hitler |
| 14 | Open Heart University |
| 15 | Poems for Toni Savage |
| 16 | Rommel? Gunner Who? |
| 17 | Small dreams of a scorpion |
| 18 | Spike Milligan's Peace |
| 19 | The Completely Essential Spike Milligan |
| 20 | The Goon Again |
| 21 | The Goon Show Compendium |
| 22 | The Goon Shows |
| 23 | The Lost Goon Shows |
| 24 | The Magical World of Milligan |
| 25 | The bald twit lion |
| 26 | Tombstone Humour |
| 27 | Vivat Milligna |
| 28 | Witch Tales |
| 29 | Silly Verse for Kids 1959 |
| 30 | A dustbin of Milligan 1961 |
| 31 | Puckoon 1963 |
| 32 | The little pot boiler 1963 |
| 33 | A book of bits, or 1965 |
| 34 | A book of bits 1967 |
| 35 | A dustbin of Millgan 1967 |
| 36 | A Book of Milliganimals 1968 |
| 37 | The bedside Milligan 1969 |
| 38 | Values 1969 |
| 39 | The bedsitting room 1970 |
| 40 | Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall 1971 |
| 41 | Adolf Hitler 1972 |
| 42 | The Goon Show scripts 1972 |
| 43 | Theb edsitting room 1972 |
| 44 | More Goon Show scripts 1973 |
| 45 | "Rommel?"-"Gunner who?" 1974 |
| 46 | Dip the puppy 1974 |
| 47 | Spike Milligan's transports of delight 1974 |
| 48 | The book of the Goons 1974 |
| 49 | Dip the puppy , a fairy story ; with, The terrible monster jelly 1975 |
| 50 | The Milligan book of records 1975 |
| 51 | The great McGonagall scrap book 1975 |
| 52 | Monty, His Part in My Victory 1976 |
| 53 | William McGonagall, the truth at last 1976 |
| 54 | Poems 1977 |
| 55 | The Bedside Milligan or Read Your Way to Insomnia 1977 |
| 56 | The Spike Milligan letters 1977 |
| 57 | Goblins 1978 |
| 58 | Monty (War Biography) 1978 |
| 59 | Mussolini 1978 |
| 60 | Twelve poems that made December colder 1979 |
| 61 | Get in the Q annual 1980 |
| 62 | The Q Annual 1980 |
| 63 | Chill air 1981 |
| 64 | Ifonly I were bald 1981 |
| 65 | Indefinite articles 1981 |
| 66 | Unspun socks froma chicken's laundry 1981 |
| 67 | William McGonagall 1981 |
| 68 | Sir Nobonk and the terrible, awful, dreadful, naughty, nasty dragon 1982 |
| 69 | The 101 best and only limericks of Spike Milligan 1982 |
| 70 | The Goon cartoons 1982 |
| 71 | More Goon cartoons 1983 |
| 72 | Spike Milligan's The melting pot 1983 |
| 73 | The bedside Milligan, or, Read yourself to insomnia 1983 |
| 74 | There's a lot of it about! 1983 |
| 75 | There's lot of it about! 1983 |
| 76 | A potboiling dustbin full of bits 1984 |
| 77 | More Spike Milligan letters 1984 |
| 78 | Silly verse for kids and animals 1984 |
| 79 | Floored masterpieces with worse verse 1985 |
| 80 | Spike Milligan'sfurther transports of delight 1985 |
| 81 | Where have all the bullets gone? 1985 |
| 82 | For Lucy Gates 1986 |
| 83 | Goodbye soldier 1986 |
| 84 | Esquimau 1987 |
| 85 | Goodbye Soldier (War Biography) 1987 |
| 86 | M25 1987 |
| 87 | Teeth 1987 |
| 88 | The Looney 1987 |
| 89 | The Lost "Goon" Shows 1987 |
| 90 | The mirror running 1987 |
| 91 | Two Tales of Wonder 1987 |
| 92 | Rommel? Gunner Who? ; Monty 1988 |
| 93 | William McGonagall meets George Gershwin 1988 |
| 94 | Milligan's War 1989 |
| 95 | Scunthorpe Revisited 1989 |
| 96 | Scunthorpe revisited, added articles and instant relatives 1989 |
| 97 | Startling Verse for All the Family 1989 |
| 98 | That's Amazing 1989 |
| 99 | It Ends With Magic 1990 |
| 100 | Sunday - midnight 1990 |
| 101 | Condensed animals 1991 |
| 102 | Dr. Who 1991 |
| 103 | My mother 1991 |
| 104 | Peace Work 1991 |
| 105 | The mini Milligan collection 1992 |
| 106 | Bible, the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan 1993 |
| 107 | Hidden Words 1993 |
| 108 | Monty His Part in My Victory and Rommel? Gunner Who? 1993 |
| 109 | The dancer 1993 |
| 110 | Fleas, Knees and Hidden Elephants 1994 |
| 111 | In a jam 1994 |
| 112 | Lady Chatterley's Lover 1994 |
| 113 | The Bible 1994 |
| 114 | The Bible According to Spike Milligan 1994 |
| 115 | Wuthering Heights According to Spike Milligan 1994 |
| 116 | D.H. Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane according to Spike Milligan 1995 |
| 117 | Gunner Milligan, 954024 1995 |
| 118 | He's Innocent of Watergate or Dick's Last Stand 1995 |
| 119 | Lady Chatterley's lover according to Spike Milligan 1995 |
| 120 | Monty 1995 |
| 121 | Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan (Penguin Modern Authors) 1995 |
| 122 | Spike Milligan Cut-Out 1995 |
| 123 | Spike Milligan, a celebration 1995 |
| 124 | Black Beauty 1996 |
| 125 | Black Beauty according to Spike Milligan 1996 |
| 126 | D.H.Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane 1996 |
| 127 | Milligan's War and Peace Memoirs 1996 |
| 128 | Mussolini, his part in my downfall 1996 |
| 129 | Spike Milligan 1996 |
| 130 | Wolf Tales: Wolves, Witches & Giants 1996 |
| 131 | "Rommel 1997 |
| 132 | Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (According To...) 1997 |
| 133 | Frankenstein 1997 |
| 134 | Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan (According To...) 1997 |
| 135 | Lady Chatterley According to Spike Milligan 1997 |
| 136 | Milligan Preserved 1997 |
| 137 | Rommel? Gunner Who? (Abridged - 2 Audio Cassettes) 1997 |
| 138 | Frankenstein according to Spike Milligan 1998 |
| 139 | Live at Cambridge University (Comedy Club S.) 1998 |
| 140 | Puckoon. Eine irische Dorfgeschichte 1998 |
| 141 | Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan (According To...) 1998 |
| 142 | Spike Milligan at the Beeb 1998 |
| 143 | The Best of Milligan's Wake (Comedy Club S.) 1998 |
| 144 | The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan 1998 |
| 145 | World of Beachcomber (Comedy Club S.) 1998 |
| 146 | A mad medley of Milligan 1999 |
| 147 | Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan 1999 |
| 148 | The family album 1999 |
| 149 | The hound of the hound of Baskervilles according to Spike Milligan 1999 |
| 150 | The war memoirs 1999 |
| 151 | A Children's Treasury of Milligan 2000 |
| 152 | The Goon Show Classics 2000 |
| 153 | The Goon Show and More Guests, Vol. 18 2000 |
| 154 | The Murphy 2000 |
| 155 | Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan 2000 |
| 156 | The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (Poetry) 2001 |
| 157 | Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan 2002 |
| 158 | Spike's Poems 2002 |
| 159 | The Essential Spike Milligan 2002 |
| 160 | Classic Adventures 2003 |
| 161 | The Goon Show Classics Volume 21 "The Missing Battleship" 2003 |
| 162 | The Compulsive Spike Milligan 2004 |
| 163 | Box 18 2006 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Spike Milligan written?
- Spike Milligan has written 163 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1959 to 2006.

