Jules Verne Books in Order

Set in colonial Peru, this shorter Verne tale mixes romance with social unrest and divided loyalties. A jeweler's daughter is caught between family expectations and a love that crosses dangerous lines.

Dr. Samuel Fergusson crosses Africa in a hydrogen balloon with his servant Joe and hunter Richard Kennedy. It is an early Verne adventure full of exploration, improvisation, and sky-high travel over unknown ground.

In a mechanized Paris of 1960, young Michel Dufrénoy finds that art, poetry, and feeling count for almost nothing. Verne's long-unpublished novel is a chilly dystopian vision of progress without soul.

Professor Lidenbrock, his wary nephew Axel, and guide Hans descend through an Icelandic volcano in search of the Earth's hidden interior. What they find is a subterranean world of ancient wonders and real danger.

Captain John Hatteras drives an Arctic expedition farther and farther north, no matter the human cost. Ice, mutiny, hunger, and obsession turn the search for the Pole into one of Verne's harshest adventures.

Stranded on a remote island, Verne's castaways turn practical knowledge into shelter, tools, and hope. Yet the island keeps offering signs that they may not be as alone there as they think.

The Baltimore Gun Club decides that postwar boredom can be solved with a giant cannon aimed at the Moon. Verne turns big engineering dreams into a brisk, funny, and surprisingly detailed lunar prelude.

During the American Civil War, a fast ship tries to break through a naval blockade with cargo and passengers aboard. The short novel moves quickly, with danger coming from sea, war, and divided allegiances.

As Captain Hatteras pushes deeper into the frozen north, the expedition leaves the ship behind and battles the Arctic on foot. Cold, hunger, and the captain's obsession make every mile feel earned.

A mysterious patron orders a specially built ship and an Arctic voyage, but keeps his identity hidden until the expedition is under way. The reveal of Captain Hatteras launches a grim race toward the top of the world.

In the final stage of the Captain Grant quest, the travelers reach New Zealand and face capture, violence, and one last chain of clues. The story finally brings the castaways and their rescuers together.

A damaged message in a bottle sends Mary and Robert Grant, Lord Glenarvan, and the brilliant bumbler Paganel across the southern hemisphere. The search for Captain Grant becomes a sweeping family adventure around the world.

With only a few words and a latitude to guide them, a rescue party chases clues from South America to Australia and New Zealand. It is one of Verne's warmest and most globe-trotting quest stories.

This opening part of the Captain Grant story begins with a broken document pulled from the sea. Its half-legible clues send the rescuers toward South America and the first stretch of a very long search.

The search for Captain Grant shifts to Australia, where fresh clues seem promising and a dangerous new ally enters the picture. False starts, long overland travel, and betrayal keep the rescue in doubt.

Professor Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land expect to hunt a sea monster and end up prisoners aboard Captain Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus. Their underwater journey mixes awe, danger, and the mystery of the man who commands the depths.

Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan are inside the projectile at last, but getting to the Moon is only the beginning. Weightlessness, close lunar passes, and dwindling resources make the sequel tense and inventive.

Aboard the massive Great Eastern, a transatlantic voyage turns personal when old love, jealousy, and an abusive marriage collide at sea. Verne uses the ship like a whole drifting society under pressure.

In a sleepy Flemish town, the eccentric Dr. Ox tries to stir human nature with a scientific experiment. Verne turns the setup into a sharp, comic tale about temperament, invention, and unintended consequences.

Six scientists set out to measure a meridian in southern Africa, only to have world politics catch up with them. The wilderness is hard enough, then the Crimean War makes the team itself uneasy ground.

Phileas Fogg bets that he can circle the globe in eighty days, then sets off with Passepartout and a timetable. Trains, steamers, mishaps, and a detective on his heels make the race irresistible.

Lieutenant Jasper Hobson leads a party to build a far northern outpost, only to learn they are living on a drifting island of ice. Arctic endurance and creeping disaster drive this unusual survival story.

This collection gathers Verne's comic and speculative shorter fiction, led by the famous Dr. Ox tale. Expect odd inventions, sly satire, and several quick turns into the marvelous or absurd.

Restless artillery enthusiasts decide their next great project will be firing a projectile to the Moon. The story turns club talk, engineering bravado, and national spectacle into one of Verne's signature premises.

A group of Civil War escapees lands on a remote island and survives through ingenuity, labor, and careful planning. Then unexplained rescues suggest that someone, somewhere nearby, is watching over them.

Told as a passenger's diary, this novel follows a doomed ship from hidden fire to wreck and desperate life on a raft. It is one of Verne's bleakest and most hard-edged survival stories.

The Tsar's courier must cross rebel-torn Siberia to warn Irkutsk about a traitor before it is too late. The mission gives Verne a fast, dangerous road novel powered by endurance and loyalty.

An old Scottish coalfield comes back to life when engineer James Starr is summoned to a hidden discovery deep underground. Strange warnings and eerie events haunt the mine before its secrets fully emerge.

A collision with a comet tears a small piece of Earth into space, carrying a handful of bewildered people with it. Verne mixes altered physics, astronomical wonder, and survival in one of his strangest journeys.

Set beneath Scotland, this alternate title for Verne's mining novel follows a reborn coal community inside the earth. New industry, underground life, and mysterious threats give the story its claustrophobic pull.

When the ship's officers die, fifteen-year-old Dick Sand has to command a crippled vessel with lives depending on him. Sabotage sends the survivors into Africa and straight toward the slave trade.

Two heirs use a vast fortune to build rival cities, one devoted to health and justice, the other to war and domination. Verne turns their clash into a sharp tale about science, politics, and power.

Rather than a single adventure, this is Verne's wide-ranging account of the explorers who mapped the globe. It traces major voyages, discoveries, and the changing picture of the world they produced.

Bored millionaire Kin-Fo decides he wants to die, then promptly changes his mind after arranging his own murder. His frantic chase across China gives Verne one of his funniest and fastest plots.

A group of travelers crosses India in a house on wheels pulled by a giant steam elephant. The ingenious machine is great fun, but the aftermath of the 1857 rebellion gives the journey a darker edge.

Joam Garral floats down the Amazon on a giant timber raft, hoping to clear his name at journey's end. A blackmailer and a coded document turn the family voyage into a race against disaster.

Spoiled Californian Godfrey Morgan expects a pleasant tour of the world and gets shipwrecked instead. Cast away with his hopeless tutor, he has to grow up quickly on an island that will not indulge him.

Helena Campbell puts off marriage until she can see the elusive green flash at sunset. Her search through Scotland becomes a light romantic adventure about weather, timing, and finally knowing one's own heart.

A stubborn merchant refuses to pay a small Bosphorus crossing tax and chooses an absurdly long route around the Black Sea instead. Verne builds a wonderfully comic travel tale out of pure principle and pride.

During the Greek War of Independence, Lieutenant Henry d'Albaret hunts pirates and tries to rescue the woman he loves from a ruthless enemy. History, sea action, and personal revenge drive the story together.

A French engineer creates an enormous diamond in hopes of winning the woman he loves, only for the gem to disappear. The hunt that follows crosses the South African diamond fields and exposes greed at every turn.

After political betrayal destroys his life, Mathias Sandorf survives and remakes himself for a long revenge. Verne's answer to a Monte Cristo tale mixes conspiracy, disguise, and Mediterranean adventure.

A missing lottery ticket stands between a struggling Norwegian family and sudden rescue from poverty. Verne turns the premise into a tense, wintry story about chance, hope, and the people waiting on both.

Robur kidnaps his balloon-loving rivals and forces them aboard the Albatross, his heavier-than-air flying machine. The result is an around-the-world aerial adventure and a fierce argument about the future of flight.

In Civil War Florida, antislavery planter James Burbank becomes the target of Texar, a vindictive pro-slavery enemy. Family danger and political violence turn the conflict into a deeply personal war.

Set against the upheaval of revolutionary war, this novel follows travelers trying to cross a suspicious and dangerous France. Verne keeps the stakes personal, with loyalty, identity, and safe passage always in doubt.

This edition of *Two Years' Vacation* follows shipwrecked boys learning to govern themselves on a remote island. Survival skills matter, but so do pride, fairness, and the question of who gets to lead.

A group of schoolboys is stranded on a Pacific island and must build shelter, share authority, and survive without adults. Rivalries and later human threats make the long exile more than a simple castaway tale.

In Lower Canada during the 1837 rebellion, the sons of a disgraced traitor fight to redeem their family and aid the cause of independence. Verne ties political history to shame, courage, and sacrifice.

This brisk future tale follows a media tycoon through a world of spoken news, video communication, flying travel, and scientific excess. It reads like a playful list of predictions wrapped inside a story.

The old Moon-gunners return with a new plan: buy the Arctic and fire a colossal cannon to tilt the Earth for profit. Verne treats giant engineering with both excitement and a healthy sense of absurdity.

After thieves steal their savings, a family of circus performers decides to return from America to France by rolling through Alaska and Siberia. The route is outrageous, and that is exactly why it works.

Dolly Branican loses both child and husband to the sea, then recovers and leads her own long search into Australia. It is one of Verne's most determined quests, driven by grief, love, and willpower.

A reporter boards the Transasiatic Railway hoping for a good feature and finds a train full of odd passengers, danger, and surprise heroics. It is travel writing, comedy, and adventure all in one carriage.

A supposedly haunted castle in Transylvania hides a story of obsession, lost love, and uncanny technology. Verne leans into Gothic atmosphere while quietly explaining the tricks behind the terror.

This Irish-set novel follows an orphan from hardship and exploitation to hard-earned independence. Less about gadgets than grit, it shows Verne working in a more social and character-driven mode.

A seafaring miser chases treasure clues scattered across the globe, each one leading to another leg of the puzzle. The hunt is funny, sprawling, and built on the gap between greed and reality.

A quartet of musicians is invited aboard a floating island-city built for millionaires. Luxury, vanity, and rival factions slowly push the marvelous machine toward chaos in this sly late satire.

Two young men hope to secure an inheritance by being adopted by a wealthy eccentric they meet in North Africa. The scheme leads to comic misunderstandings, mishaps, and a lot of chasing the wrong plan.

A fragile inventor with a terrifying new weapon is abducted to a pirate stronghold, along with the man assigned to watch him. The question is whether genius will save the world or hand it over.

In the far south near the Strait of Magellan, the solitary Kaw-djer is drawn into the fate of shipwrecked settlers. The novel probes freedom, power, and responsibility at the edge of the inhabited world.

A southern voyage searching for lost men drifts into the eerie territory of Edgar Allan Poe's Antarctic fiction. Verne delivers ice, dread, and a mystery that feels both literary and physical.

Kaw-djer, a solitary idealist in the Magellanic region, helps shipwrecked settlers build a colony on the edge of the world. Survival is only the start, because power and principle soon collide.

An expedition up the Orinoco River searches for a missing father and navigates shifting identities along the way. The river journey gives Verne room for geography, danger, and a quietly emotional reveal.

A Chicago millionaire turns his fortune into a life-sized board game played across the United States. The contestants become pieces on the map, and travel itself becomes the prize and the trap.

Verne continues the world of *The Swiss Family Robinson* by returning to New Switzerland after survival has turned into settlement. New arrivals and new dangers test whether the island can truly become a homeland.

This sequel to *The Swiss Family Robinson* follows island life after the first crisis has passed. Community, belonging, and outside threats matter as much here as simple survival.

A French whaling voyage is shadowed by the sailor Jean-Marie Cabidoulin's terror of a legendary sea monster. The book balances maritime labor, superstition, and the slow strain of a hard voyage.

Two adventurers cut through Central African jungle and discover a treetop settlement that may blur the line between ape and human. It is a late Verne tale of exploration with an evolutionary twist.

After surviving shipwreck and helping suppress a mutiny, two brothers are blamed for a captain's murder they did not commit. Their fight to clear their names turns into a tale of exile and injustice.

A group of Caribbean-born students wins a prize voyage, only to learn their ship has been taken over by escaped criminals. Youthful excitement quickly gives way to danger on the open sea.

When a murder in Livonia leaves an innocent professor under suspicion, a young lawyer escapes Siberia to prove the truth. Verne blends political tension with a tight mystery of wrongful accusation.

A terrifying machine appears on road, water, and sky, and Inspector Strock is sent to identify its master. The chase leads back to Robur and one of Verne's most forceful warnings about unchecked invention.

This first half of the Barsac story begins as an official mission into West Africa and slowly darkens into intrigue. Travel, politics, and rising danger push the party farther from anything routine.

European engineers want to flood part of the Sahara and create an inland sea, but local resistance and nature itself refuse to cooperate. Verne sets grand planning against the limits of control.

The second half of the Barsac adventure leads into a hidden desert city sustained by secrecy and brutality. Escape, exposure, and survival take over once the travelers see what is really there.

On a lonely island near Tierra del Fuego, lighthouse keepers become prey when pirates seize the station and snuff out its light. The survivors must outlast the outlaws in one of Verne's starkest late adventures.

Two cousins inherit a mining claim in the Klondike and head north into the fever of the gold rush. Fortune gleams ahead, but weather, greed, and the land itself keep changing the terms.

An underpaid guide joins a bargain tour through Atlantic islands and soon finds himself trapped in a comic disaster. Bad planning, shipwreck, captivity, and romance all pile onto the same mismanaged holiday.

Two rival amateur astronomers discover a meteor made of gold and trigger a frenzy of vanity and greed. Then an inventor claims he can bring the thing down wherever he likes.

A champion fisherman sets out to drift down the Danube living on what he catches, but a criminal using his name changes everything. River travel, pursuit, and rescue shape this late Verne adventure.

A rejected suitor with a terrible scientific secret threatens a wedding in a Hungarian town. Verne turns jealousy and invisibility into a tense, eerie blend of romance, mystery, and speculative fiction.

This posthumous collection gathers Verne's later short fiction, from futuristic journalism to dark satire and civilizational collapse. It is a useful glimpse of how broad his imagination could be in miniature.

This volume from the *Second Fatherland* story returns to New Switzerland after the first castaway crisis has passed. Island life has deepened into home, but new people and new pressures disturb the balance.

As the boys' island exile stretches on, daily survival is no longer enough. Leadership struggles, dwindling certainty, and human enemies make the second year the true test of their little society.

In the second half of *The Steam House*, the remarkable steam elephant keeps moving through India as treachery and pursuit close in. Adventure travel gives way to sharper danger and unfinished revenge.

This collection leans toward Verne's darker speculative side, especially in tales of apocalypse, future society, and the fragility of civilization. It is a compact way to see how late Verne could turn unsettling.

This opening part of *The Steam House* sends travelers across India in a mechanical marvel while the violence of 1857 still hangs over the land. The journey is thrilling, but never truly carefree.

A mountain castle said to be haunted draws a skeptical visitor into a drama of grief, illusion, and obsession. Verne wraps a rational explanation inside one of his most Gothic settings.