How Many Beans Books Are There? A Guide to the Series

New to The Beans and not sure where to start? Here's everything you need to know about how the series fits together.

The three series

Bean Tales follows the Beans through their everyday lives in the village of Hollybridge — small mishaps, sticky situations, and the individual traits and quirks each character uses to find their way through. Each book is a self-contained, 32-page story, perfect for a single bedtime.

Bean & Gone introduces the series' magical element. These are longer books — 7 or 8 chapters, 98 pages, more than a week's worth of bedtime reading — following what happens when the Beans' quiet lives are turned upside down by magic that carries them beyond the borders of Hollybridge, and even across time, as they try to find their way home.

Bean Before steps outside the main cast entirely. Each 64-page book is a standalone adventure, retelling a real story from history with a uniquely Beans twist, while still weaving subtly into the wider Beans world.

How many books are there?

So far: 9 Bean Tales books, 1 Bean & Gone book, and 1 Bean Before book — with 96 titles planned across the full series over time.

What order should I read them in?

Every Beans book can be read entirely on its own — pick up any title, in any series, and you'll be able to follow exactly what's going on. Each book has its own self-contained story that reaches a proper conclusion by the final page.

That said, every book is also sequentially numbered, so if you'd like to follow the full, unfolding story of Hollybridge and its characters from the very beginning, the numbering gives you the optimum reading order to do exactly that.

Where to start

If you're just getting to know the Beans, we'd recommend starting with Bean Tales #1–3 — Morton's Marvelous Moonday, Jess's Lost Little Lad, and Jim's Pongy Problem — as a gentle, funny introduction to Hollybridge and its residents, before moving on to the longer Bean & Gone adventures.

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