Danny Wallace

Danny Wallace is a bestselling author, known for their extensive body of work spanning 5 book series with over 21 titles.

The best place to start is the Lonely Planet Travel Literature series, the earliest of Danny Wallace's multi-book series: it opens with By the Seat of My Pants (2005) and runs to 7 books across 2005–2016, ending with Lonely Planet Tales from Nowhere (2016). Danny Wallace's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Danny Wallace has 30 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2001 and 2025. 13 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Lonely Planet Travel Literature series with 7 books — and 17 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Danny Wallace's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Lonely Planet Travel Literature (2005–2016, 7 books) and Hamish and The PDF (2015–2019, 6 books).

This guide splits Danny Wallace's 30 books into 2 named series and 17 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Lonely Planet Travel Literature (7 books, 2005–2016); Hamish and The PDF (6 books, 2015–2019).