Richard Adams Books in Order

After Fiver foresees disaster at Sandleford Warren, Hazel leads a small band of rabbits into the unknown. Their search for a safe home becomes a hard, dangerous journey through predators, strange warrens, and human threats.

When hunter Kelderek encounters a giant bear believed to embody divine power, the fate of the Beklan Empire shifts around him. Faith, war, ambition, and fear turn this fantasy into a story about power and ruin.

An illustrated nature guide that follows the year from season to season. It introduces the birds, animals, trees, and flowers an amateur naturalist is most likely to notice outdoors.

A gentleman tyger and his son set sail from Victorian England into a wild, dreamlike world. Told in verse, it is a playful picture-book adventure of storms, jungles, volcanoes, and improbable return.

Rowf and Snitter escape a brutal research station and try to survive in the Lake District. When people fear the dogs may carry a deadly plague, their flight turns into a relentless manhunt.

In this swashbuckling narrative poem, an Elizabethan ship's cat serves aboard the privateer Alcestis. Captured by Spanish sailors, he waits for the right moment to help free the imprisoned crew.

This illustrated guide looks at the natural world under sun and stars. Birds, weather, plants, night creatures, and changing light all help show how different the same landscape can feel across a day.

A shy English dealer in antique ceramics falls hard for a mysterious woman and marries her almost at once. What begins as romance slowly turns eerie, haunted, and deeply unsettling.

Nineteen folktales from around the world, retold with Adams's love of oral storytelling. Animals, magic, trickery, and old beliefs run through this varied collection of lively, strange tales.

A collection of retold folktales and fables from many cultures, linked by Adams's sense of how stories travel and endure. The book moves easily between the playful, the eerie, and the morally sharp.

Richard Adams retells a Polynesian legend in verse, centering on Hina, Maui, and the giant eel Te Tuna. It is a lush, mythic story of desire, danger, and vengeance by the sea.

Richard Adams and Ronald Lockley recount their voyage to Antarctica in a book full of wildlife, weather, and icebound scenery. Penguins, seals, whales, and the scale of the southern ocean are the real stars.

Maia, a poor teenage girl from the Beklan Empire, is pulled into slavery, court intrigue, and political danger. Her beauty draws attention, but it is her nerve and resilience that keep her alive.

A year of walks, sightings, and small observations, much of it rooted in the Isle of Man. Adams records birds, flowers, weather, and the quiet pleasures of paying close attention to the natural world.

The American Civil War is retold through the eyes of Traveller, Robert E. Lee's horse. Adams turns military history into an intimate story of loyalty, fear, and loss on and off the battlefield.

A short, illustrated introduction to Antarctica that gathers voices, images, and information about the remote southern continent. It focuses on the stark landscape, the wildlife, and the fascination of the polar world.

In his memoir, Adams looks back on childhood in Berkshire, school, Oxford, and wartime army service. It offers the life behind the novels, before literary fame changed anything.

This return to Watership Down mixes rabbit folklore with new adventures around the warren. Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and the legendary El-ahrairah all help expand the world beyond the ending of the first novel.

This historical novel follows three generations of one family through English upheaval. Loyalty, court life, music, and treason draw them from the fall of Richard III into the dangerous Tudor years.

Born enslaved in 1759, Daniel is torn from plantation life, taken to England, and then caught up again in the machinery of the slave trade. It is a harsh historical novel about dignity, cruelty, and moral awakening.

Emma's homemade dragon comes to life and turns out to be remarkably good at finding lost things. His small adventures grow bigger and bigger, until even the queen comes asking for help.

This graphic adaptation retells the rabbits' dangerous journey to find a new home after Fiver's warning. The story's courage, friendship, fear, and survival all carry over vividly into comics form.