H.G. Wells Books In Order
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The Time Machine | (1895) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wonderful Visit | (1895) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Island of Dr. Moreau | (1896) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wheels of Chance | (1896) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Invisible Man | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The War of the Worlds | (1898) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When the Sleeper Wakes / The Sleeper Awakes | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love and Mr. Lewisham | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The First Men in the Moon | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sea Lady | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth | (1904) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kipps | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Modern Utopia | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Days of the Comet | (1906) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The War in the Air | (1908) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tono-Bungay | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ann Veronica | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The History of Mr Polly | (1910) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sleeper Awakes | (1911) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Machiavelli | (1911) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Marriage | (1912) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Passionate Friends | (1913) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World Set Free | (1914) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman | (1914) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bealby: A Holiday | (1915) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Research Magnificent | (1915) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Boon, the Mind of the Race | (1915) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Boon | (1915) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Britling Sees It Through | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Soul of a Bishop | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Joan and Peter: A Story of an Education | (1918) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Undying Fire | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret Places of the Heart | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Men Like Gods | (1923) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dream | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Christina Alberta's Father | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World of William Clissold | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Meanwhile the Picture of a Lady | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The King Who Was a King | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Autocracy of Mr. Parham | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bulpington of Blup | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shape of Things to Come | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Croquet Player | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Begotten | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Camford Visitation | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brynhild | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Brothers | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Apropos of Dolores | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Holy Terror | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All Aboard for Ararat | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Babes in the Darkling Wood | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You Can't Be Too Careful | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wealth of Mr. Waddy | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Chronic Argonauts / The Chronic Argonaughts | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Triumphs of a Taxidermist | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Treasure in the Forest | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes / The Story of Davidson's Eyes | (1895) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Plattner Story | (1896) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Star | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sea-Raiders | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crystal Egg | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Story Of The Days To Come | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation | (1898) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Dream of Armageddon | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Valley of Spiders | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magic Shop | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Door in the Wall | (1906) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Desert Daisy | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ugh-Lomi and the Cave Bear | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Accelerator | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under the Knife | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Vision of Judgment | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aepyornis Island | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Obliterated Man | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences | (1895) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents | (1896) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crystal Egg and Other Tales | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirty Strange Stories | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Plattner Story and Others | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of Space and Time | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twelve Stories and a Dream | (1906) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of Wonder | (1910) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complete Short Stories | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moth and Other Stories | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man With a Nose | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Days of the Comet & Seventeen Short Stories | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Red Room and Other Stories | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Grisly Folk, and the Wild Asses of the Devil | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Short Stories | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of the Weird and Supernatural | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of H.G. Wells | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Argonauts of the Air & 15 Short Stories | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Door in the Wall? And Other Stories | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Screenplays Books
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Certain Personal Matters | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anticipations | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Discovery of the Future | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mankind in the Making | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Future in America | (1906) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
This Misery of Boots | (1907) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
First and Last Things | (1908) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Worlds for Old | (1908) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Floor Games | (1911) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Wars | (1913) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Englishman Looks at the World | (1914) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What is Coming? | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Elements of Reconstruction | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
God the Invisible King | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
War and the Future / Italy, France and Britain at War | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In The Fourth Year | (1918) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Outline of History | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Russia in the Shadows | (1920) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Salvaging of Civiization | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Short History of the World | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Washington and the Riddle of Peace / Washington and the Hope of Peace | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Modern Utopia and Other Discussions | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives? | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science of Life | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Experiment in Autobiography | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
H.G. Wells in Love | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
World Brain | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fate of Homo Sapiens / The Fate of Man | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New World Order | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Conquest of Time | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crux Ansata | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mind at the End of Its Tether | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frank Swinnerton | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Interviews and Recollections | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Experiment in Autobiography, Vol. 2 | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Volume of Journalism | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Conquest of Time and The Happy Turning | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Wars and Floor Games | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of H.G. Wells Audiobooks Books
The Martian Invasion of Earth | (1898) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 2 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 4 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 3 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pocket Book of Mystery Stories | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
World's Great Mystery Stories | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bar The Doors | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Great Short Stories | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Over the Rainbow | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
War Stories | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Science Fiction Stories | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of the Occult | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Crime Stories Ever Told | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Great Classic Science Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Contact: Stories of the New World | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amazing Stories, February 1929 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Classic Martian Stories | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lost Mars | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Occult Fiction Collection | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Classic Tales of Horror | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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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You forgot ..
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