Ricky Gervais

About Ricky Gervais Ricky Gervais is best known across the globe as an English personality with various talents, showcasing his skills as a comedian, actor, and a gifted writer among other roles. He sprung into mainstream recognition after his hugely entertaining creation of the TV series The Office and Extras, which he co-created and co-managed with his regular writing-partner Stephen Merchant. Apart from masterminding the shows, Gervais demonstrated his superb acting talent by playing the principal characters of David Brent and Andy Millman in both series respectively.

The best place to start is the Stephen Merchant Collections series, the earliest of Ricky Gervais's multi-book series: it opens with The Office: The Scripts, Series 1 (2002) and runs to 3 books across 2002–2006, ending with Extras: The Illustrated Scripts (2006). Ricky Gervais's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Ricky Gervais has 12 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2002 and 2009. 9 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Flanimals series with 6 books — and 3 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. Ricky Gervais's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Stephen Merchant Collections (2002–2006, 3 books) and Flanimals (2004–2009, 6 books).

This guide splits Ricky Gervais's 12 books into 2 named series and 3 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Flanimals (6 books, 2004–2009); Stephen Merchant Collections (3 books, 2002–2006).