H.G. Wells Books In Order
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The Time Machine | (1895) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Wonderful Visit | (1895) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Island of Dr. Moreau | (1896) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Wheels of Chance | (1896) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Invisible Man | (1897) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The War of the Worlds | (1898) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
When the Sleeper Wakes / The Sleeper Awakes | (1899) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Love and Mr. Lewisham | (1899) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The First Men in the Moon | (1901) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sea Lady | (1902) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth | (1904) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kipps | (1905) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Modern Utopia | (1905) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Days of the Comet | (1906) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The War in the Air | (1908) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tono-Bungay | (1909) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ann Veronica | (1909) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The History of Mr Polly | (1910) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sleeper Awakes | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The New Machiavelli | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Marriage | (1912) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Passionate Friends | (1913) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The World Set Free | (1914) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman | (1914) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bealby: A Holiday | (1915) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Research Magnificent | (1915) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Boon, the Mind of the Race | (1915) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Boon | (1915) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mr. Britling Sees It Through | (1916) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Soul of a Bishop | (1917) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Joan and Peter: A Story of an Education | (1918) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Undying Fire | (1919) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Secret Places of the Heart | (1922) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Men Like Gods | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Dream | (1924) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Christina Alberta's Father | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The World of William Clissold | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Meanwhile the Picture of a Lady | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The King Who Was a King | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Autocracy of Mr. Parham | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bulpington of Blup | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Shape of Things to Come | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Croquet Player | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Star Begotten | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Camford Visitation | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Brynhild | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Brothers | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Apropos of Dolores | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Holy Terror | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
All Aboard for Ararat | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Babes in the Darkling Wood | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
You Can't Be Too Careful | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Wealth of Mr. Waddy | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Chronic Argonauts / The Chronic Argonaughts | (1888) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Triumphs of a Taxidermist | (1894) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Treasure in the Forest | (1894) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid | (1894) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes / The Story of Davidson's Eyes | (1895) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Plattner Story | (1896) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Star | (1897) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sea-Raiders | (1897) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Crystal Egg | (1897) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Story Of The Days To Come | (1897) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation | (1898) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Dream of Armageddon | (1901) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost | (1902) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Valley of Spiders | (1903) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Magic Shop | (1903) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland | (1903) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Door in the Wall | (1906) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Desert Daisy | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ugh-Lomi and the Cave Bear | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The New Accelerator | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Under the Knife | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Vision of Judgment | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Aepyornis Island | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Obliterated Man | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences | (1895) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents | (1896) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Crystal Egg and Other Tales | (1897) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Thirty Strange Stories | (1897) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Plattner Story and Others | (1897) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tales of Space and Time | (1899) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Twelve Stories and a Dream | (1906) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories | (1909) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tales of Wonder | (1910) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Complete Short Stories | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Moth and Other Stories | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Man With a Nose | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Days of the Comet & Seventeen Short Stories | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Red Room and Other Stories | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Grisly Folk, and the Wild Asses of the Devil | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Collected Short Stories | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tales of the Weird and Supernatural | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best Short Stories of H.G. Wells | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Argonauts of the Air & 15 Short Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Door in the Wall? And Other Stories | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Screenplays Books
The Man Who Could Work Miracles | (1898) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Certain Personal Matters | (1897) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Anticipations | (1901) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Discovery of the Future | (1902) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mankind in the Making | (1903) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Future in America | (1906) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
This Misery of Boots | (1907) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
First and Last Things | (1908) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
New Worlds for Old | (1908) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Floor Games | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Little Wars | (1913) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
An Englishman Looks at the World | (1914) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
What is Coming? | (1916) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Elements of Reconstruction | (1916) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
God the Invisible King | (1917) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
War and the Future / Italy, France and Britain at War | (1917) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In The Fourth Year | (1918) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Outline of History | (1919) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Russia in the Shadows | (1920) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Salvaging of Civiization | (1921) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Short History of the World | (1922) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Washington and the Riddle of Peace / Washington and the Hope of Peace | (1922) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Modern Utopia and Other Discussions | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives? | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Science of Life | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Experiment in Autobiography | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
H.G. Wells in Love | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
World Brain | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Fate of Homo Sapiens / The Fate of Man | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The New World Order | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Conquest of Time | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Crux Ansata | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mind at the End of Its Tether | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Frank Swinnerton | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Interviews and Recollections | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Experiment in Autobiography, Vol. 2 | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Volume of Journalism | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Conquest of Time and The Happy Turning | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Little Wars and Floor Games | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of H.G. Wells Audiobooks Books
The Martian Invasion of Earth | (1898) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Martian Invasion of Earth is an full-cast adaptation of The War of the Worlds. |
Publication Order of Correspondence Of H.G. Wells Books
The Correspondence of H.G. Wells | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 2 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 4 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 3 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | (1931) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Pocket Book of Mystery Stories | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
World's Great Mystery Stories | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bar The Doors | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
50 Great Short Stories | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Over the Rainbow | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
War Stories | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mysterious Sea Stories | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Science Fiction Stories | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tales of the Occult | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best Crime Stories Ever Told | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Great Classic Science Fiction | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Contact: Stories of the New World | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Amazing Stories, February 1929 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Classic Martian Stories | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lost Mars | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Occult Fiction Collection | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Classic Tales of Horror | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
H.G. Wells was one of the prolific authors from The United Kingdom, who used to write his books based on a variety of genres, including politics, history, social realism, science fiction, etc. At present, he is best remembered for the science fiction books written by him and is regarded as the father of science fiction. Two other authors are included in this club along with him and they are Hugo Gernsback and Jules Verne. Author Wells has written numerous notable works of science fiction over the course of his writing career. In his lifetime, he was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature for a total of 4 times. Earlier, author Wells took a specialized training in biology and his thinking on the ethical matters happened in a fundamental and specifically Darwinian context. Right from his early days, he was an outspoken socialist. The later works of author Wells became increasingly didactic and political, due to which he used to write very less science fiction. Many a times, he used to indicate on his official documents that he was a journalist by profession. Some of the initial novels that author Wells wrote described the lower middle class life and made everyone believe that he was Charles Dickens’s worthy successor. However, he did not stop only at this. He went on to try different social strata and on one occasion even attempted English society’s diagnosis as a whole. Author Wells was a diabetic himself and co-founded The Diabetic Association in the year 1934, which is known as Diabetes UK in today’s world. Author Wells was born as Herbert George Wells in Brombley, Kent, The United Kingdom. His birth took place on September 21, 1866. Wells was the youngest of the 4 children of Sarah Neal and Joseph Wells and was called as Bertie by his family members. The family of Wells had inherited and acquired a shop in which they used to sell sporting and china goods. However, it did not prosper and hardly generated any income. Wells’s father used to support the family’s income by playing professional cricket for the county team of Kent. But, that too didn’t use to serve well for the family.
When Wells was a young boy, he was involved in an accident due to which he became bedridden in 1874 with a fractured leg. As a means to pass his time, he adopted the habit of reading books that he used to get from a local library. Soon, author Wells became devoted to the worlds showed to him in the books. The interesting stories also stimulated his urge to try his hand at writing. That year, he joined the Commercial Academy, which was a private school having a curriculum focussed on developing the writing skills of the students. Due to the erratic teaching method of the school, author Wells benefitted a lot. Wells continued to study there until 1880. His father got injured in 1877 which ended his cricketing career. And as there was no other major source of income, the family decided to place Wells and his brothers as apprentices in different occupations. Subsequently, Wells was made to work as a draper at the Hyde’s Draper Emporium. There, he used to work for 13 hours every day and sleep along with the other apprentices in a dormitory. The experience that Wells gained at the time of this job late inspired the plots his books Kipps and The Wheels of Chance. These books portray a draper apprentice’s life as well as provide a critique of the wealth distribution of the society. In 1891, he married his cousin named Isabel Mary. Later, when he started loving one of the students named Amy Catherine Robbins, they decided to separate in the year 1894. Catherine and Wells got entered into marriage in 1895. Due to his increasing poor health, he moved to Sandgate, where he constructed his large house called Spade House in 1901. Wells continued to have affairs with many other women in his life, all with the consent of his wife. Some his affairs with fellow woman authors. Apart from writing books, author Wells was also a prolific artist. He liked to express his feelings and thoughts through his sketches and drawings. He used to often use the sketches on the title pages and endpapers of his diaries. The paintings covered a variety of topics from political commentaries to literary contemporaries as well as his romantic interests.
One of the best known books written by H.G. Wells is titled as ‘The Food of the Gods’. It was first published in the year 1904. Author Wells has introduced the main character in this book as Albert Caddles. The central theme of the plot deals with the description of the things that happen when science tends to tamper with nature. In the form of a riveting and cautionary tale, Wells has shown the disastrous results revealing the chilling science fiction story. At the beginning, a couple of scientists are shown attempting to create a new food growth agent which could have beneficial uses to the mankind. In their attempt, they discover that the spread of the material cannot be controlled. As a result, several giant rats, insects, and chickens begin to run around. The children who are given the newly food stuffs also show incredible growth as well as serious illness. As the years pass, people who consumed the treated food stuffs find that they are not able to fit themselves in the hypocritical and ignorant society. They get shut away from the traditional society for having unusual mental powers. Consequently, hatred and ignorance get increased because a distinction line gets drawn between the giants and ordinary people across the families and communities. Another riveting tale of science fiction written by Wells is in the form of the book titled ‘The War of the Worlds’. It was initially released in 1897 and then again in 2002 by the Modern Library publishers. Author Wells has described the attack on England by the Martians. The creatures from Mars arrive in big cylinders. The first cylinder arrives near Woking. Out of curiosity, a large group of people gather to witness the unearthly machine. But, the Martians come out and kill numerous humans through their Heat Ray. Further, the creatures go on to cause a lot of destruction of life and property. As the humans look totally powerless against the Martians, it seems that the world would come to an end. But, the unearthly creatures don’t reckon one factor which brings about their end on Earth and forces them to fly back to their world.
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Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought.(1901)
Gee I wonder why
Anticipations is in the non fiction list