Scratching the surface of Wodehouse

Currently almost if not everything in my stack of books to read (have I mentioned that I’ve started reading some paper books again? It’s splendid) is about theological issues, and I make slow progress on that stack. I need to find more time to read. I had some fanciful ideas of “book a week” (or more) in 2024, but at this rate, a book a month may be ambitious…

So far I don’t get much fiction in except for P. G. Wodehouse, some of whose earlier work is available free on Project Gutenberg. I’ve only read some of the Jeeves novels and then… everything I could find about Ronald Eustace Psmith.

Good grief. I sometimes think I’m like an uneducated, sloppily-dressed, non-smoking twenty-first century Psmith without a monocle. That is to say, I realize that I’m eccentric and that I’ve often exhibited the fault of talking much too much.

…let us not forget that but for that timely interruption I should have gone on for about another hour. I am like that. My friends have frequently told me that when once I start talking it requires something in the nature of a cataclysm to stop me.

— Psmith in Leave It To Psmith

Hmm. Project Gutenberg books I tend to read on my iPhone, the HTML off their website. For fiction I don’t have much of anything in the way of paper books.

But then again, I’ve not read much fiction until recently anyway. I’ve fairly scratched the Wodehousian surface—what other authors should I give a try next?