Jules Verne Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Voyages Extraordinaires Books
Five Weeks in a Balloon | (1863) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras | (1864) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Journey to the Center of the Earth | (1864) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Earth to the Moon | (1865) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Captain Grant's Children | (1867) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Search Of The Castaways | (1867) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | (1869) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Round The Moon | (1869) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Floating City | (1871) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa | (1872) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fur Country | (1873) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Around the World in Eighty Days | (1873) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mysterious Island | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Survivors of the Chancellor | (1875) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Michael Strogoff or, The Courier of the Czar | (1876) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Off On A Comet | (1877) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Child of the Cavern | (1877) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen | (1878) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Begum's Fortune | (1879) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tribulations of a Chinaman | (1879) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Steam House | (1880) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon | (1881) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Godfrey Morgan | (1882) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green Ray | (1882) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Keraban the Inflexible | (1883) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vanished Diamond: The Star of the South | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Archipelago On Fire | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mathias Sandorf | (1885) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lottery Ticket | (1885) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Robur the Conqueror | (1886) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
North Against South | (1887) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Flight To France | (1887) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two Years' Vacation | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Family Without A Name | (1889) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Purchase of the North Pole: Topsy-Turvy | (1889) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Caesar Cascabel | (1890) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mistress Branican | (1891) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Castle of the Carpathians | (1892) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Claudius Bombarnac | (1892) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Foundling Mick | (1893) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Captain Antifer | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Propeller Island | (1895) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Facing The Flag | (1896) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clovis Dardentor | (1896) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Survivors of the Jonathan | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sphinx of the Ice / An Antarctic Mystery | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mighty Orinoco | (1898) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Will Of An Eccentric | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Castaways of the Flag | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Village in the Treetops | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sea Serpent | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Kip Brothers | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Travel Scholarships | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Drama In Livonia | (1904) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Master of the World | (1904) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lighthouse at the End of the World | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Invasion of the Sea | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chase of the Golden Meteor | (1908) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz | (1910) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Children Of Captain Grant Books
Mysterious Document | (1867) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On the Track | (1867) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Among the Cannibals | (1867) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Barsac Mission Books
Into the Niger Bend | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The City in the Sahara | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Adventures of Captain Hatteras Books
The Desert of Ice | (1866) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The English at the North Pole | (1866) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Captain Nemo Books
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | (1869) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mysterious Island | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Second Fatherland Books
The Castaways of the Flag | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Their Island Home | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Steam House Books
Tigers and Traitors | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Demon of Cawnpore | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Two Years Holiday Books
Adrift in the Pacific | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Second Year Ashore | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Paris in the Twentieth Century | (1863) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Underground City | (1877) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
A Fantasy of Dr. Ox | (1872) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Year 2889 | (1889) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Carpathian Castle | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Doctor Ox And Other Stories | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Yesterday And Tomorrow | (1910) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jules Verne Collection, 33 Works | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Science Fiction Stories | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Classic Sea Stories | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Sea Adventure | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beach Books Anthology | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of the Restless Sea - Adventure Anthology | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jules Verne was a French author of novels. He was born in 1828 and died in 1905. Verne is the most famous French author to ever live thanks to the mainstream appeal, popularity, and ultimately the legacy and quality of his works.
He was known for starting the science fiction genre on its way as well as his dynamic novels. Even though he pioneered the genre, the novels and what he writes about did not always fall into the sci-fi category specifically. He wrote about strange worlds and travel through air, space, and underwater before aircraft and submarines or even space travel had been invented. Beyond Agatha Christie and Disney Productions, he is the third most often translated author ever.
Verne wrote romantic adventure stories for the nineteenth centuries that captured the imagination of the public like never before, writing about flying machines or machines that went underwater or fantastical creatures capable of completely destroying a vessel and everyone on board it.
Whether it was the Earth being grazed by a comet like in Hector Servadac or writing about an expedition whose mission is to get to the center of the planet, Jules Verne was always creative, inventive, and included his own flair for storytelling. He was also politically minded and many of his characters played into his sympathies, such as Captain Nemo from 20,000 Leagues being aligned against British Imperialism in India.
Verne admired Edgar Allan Poe’s stories and prose and felt strongly about the importance of scientific accuracy in writing. He was very passionate about accuracy even while writing about fantastical themes (an absence of which in fellow author H.G. Wells earned a chiding by Jules).
Many of his prominent novels were made into shorts and feature-length films and some titles were made into movies more than once and television movies too. Rocket to the Moon, The Mysterious Island, In the Year 2889, has also been turned into a movie, as has “Journey”, “20,000 Leagues”, “Around the World in 80 Days” and countless other classic Verne stories.
Verne became a published novelist when his debut novel Five Weeks In a Balloon was released. The book would later be turned into a movie that was released in 1962. It was filmed in California and starred Barbara Eden as Susan Gale, Red Buttons as Donald O’Shay, and Fabian as Jacques.
It was the first of many novels in his Voyages Extraordinaires series. Verne says that he wanted the story to take readers on a trip to Africa, and the only way to do that was on a balloon, so that is why the hot air balloon is included in the story. He says that at the time of writing it, he had no faith that people would actually be able to travel in giant balloons.
This was followed up by The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras, then it was followed by the third book– the iconic and world-famous A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. There would be much more in this incredible series that boasts a total of 54 novels!
Verne said that his goal with the Voyages series was to depict the Earth as well as outline all the knowledge amassed by modern science as well as recount a history of the universe. He confirmed that his object was to depict the Earth and the universe while achieving a high ideal of beauty and style. He said despite the saying that there cannot be style in an adventure novel, the saying was not true– but noted that the project had been ambitious in nature.
Five Weeks in A Balloon is the first in the series. In it, the main character is Doctor Samuel Fergusson. He is a scholar as well as an explorer who goes on voyages accompanied by two people. These would be Joe, his manservant, and professional hunter Richard Kennedy. Together they set out to discover the African continent and travel the uncharted and not-fully-explored land.
To do this, they will traverse certain areas by sailing in a balloon filled up with hydrogen that allows them to control altitude and take long trips thanks to his invention of a special mechanism. Their goal is to link the East Africa voyages that Sir Richard Burton and others took and connect them to the Sahara and Chad regions.
Starting on the east coast, the trio starts out on a trip that will take them through all of Africa on their way to the east coast. Can they make it? Pick up this book by Jules Verne to find out!
The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras is the second thrilling novel written by Jules Verne as part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series. When the book starts out, First Mate Shandon is surprised to see that he has received a letter in the mail. The mysterious letter has a request for him. It asks him to build a reinforced steamship in Liverpool, England.
This is a very strange request to make of someone and is no small order. Shandon is bewildered and confused, wondering who sent him the letter and for what purpose. Regardless, he makes his way out to Melville Bay and on towards the Arctic labyrinth. That is when at last a crewman reveals himself to Shandon, saying that he is Captain John Hatteras.
Hatteras confides in the First Mate that he has an obsession and must get to the North Pole. It is all that he can think about it and he must attempt it. The Captain follows his intention and it is not long before he experiences extreme cold as well as great hunger. Hatteras treks across the frozen land to find fuel and loses most of his crew along the way, who abandon him in his mad quest.
Hatteras has only an American to go by, and he is a rival explorer at that. As the Captain continues to try and get to the North Pole, he may encounter more danger and adventure than he ever thought possible as he attempts to get to the one place on Earth he wants to go. The odds are against him, but nothing can cause Hatteras to abandon his dream and obsession.
What will happen, and will Captain Hatteras reach the North Pole or perish along the way? Pick up this exciting novel from Jules Verne to find out and if you like this novel be sure to check out the many other books in Verne’s series.
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OMG i had no idea he was such a prolific writer.