There are 8 books in the Adrian Mole series. The newest book is The Prostrate Years which came out in 2009.

A humorous story first published in 1982, which chronicles the daily life of a teenage boy and all his problems.
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The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series.

Sunday July 18th
My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched.

In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries, the…

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True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

'Wonderfully funny and sharp as knives' Sunday Times

In the third instalment of the hilarious Adrian Mole series, 16-year-old Adrian navigates his way into adulthood . . .

Monday June 13th
I had a good, proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever, but…

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The Wilderness Years

The Wilderness Years
Mole is back.

The fourth novel in the massively popular Adrian Mole series, from internationally bestselling author Sue Townsend. Once again she lets us delve into the hilarious and touching life of a character adored by millions everywhere.

Adrian Mole has at last reached physical maturity, but he can't help…

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The Cappuccino Years

The Cappuccino Years
An accidental celebrity, with a spreading bald patch, despairing of family values, Mole is still worrying: Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce "The White Van", his serial killer comedy? Mole, aged 30 1/4, chronicles the closing years of the 20th century with slanderous abandon.

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Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction

Book cover of Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
He's back. Mole, now an angst-ridden 38, is still coping with life in middle-England as a single parent to Glen and William, and battling his own particular weapon of mass destruction.

Marigold and I quarrelled last night as to which of us has the most monstrous mother and only stopped…

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The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001

Book cover of The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001
'Adrian Mole really is a brilliant comic creation! Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself! [Sue Townsend is] one of our finest living comic writers' - "The Times". 'A delight. Genuinly funny! Compassion shines through the unashamed ironic social commentary' - "Guardian".…

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The Prostrate Years

Book cover of The Prostrate Years

The sensational final instalment in comic legend Sue Townsend's hilarious and iconic Adrian Mole series

'Effortlessly hilarious. Brilliant satire and tragedy' Times

'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAY

Read as Adrian continues to struggle with his…