Jules Gabriel Verne
Some reading picks

last updated 25 January 2002


General notes: this is a partial listing of the novels and stories by this author. Those novels and stories which involve the same characters and/or storylines are collected together and listed in sequence of storyline chronology. Setting date (specified or presumed) is given. In some cases the resulting sequence differs from the sequence of writing and publication. Publication date is given in parenthesis.


  • Cinq Semaines en Ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon) (Jan 1863)

  • Voyage au centre de la Terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth) (Nov 1864)

  • De La Terre à la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon) (Oct 1865)
  • Autour de la Lune (Round the Moon) (Jan 1870)

  • Voyages et aventures du Capitaine Hatteras (The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras) (May 1866)

  • Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (The Children of Captain Grant, 3 vol.) (Jan 1868)

  • Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) (Jun 1870)
  • L'Ile mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island) (Oct 1875)

  • Une Ville flottante (A Floating City) (Jul 1871)

  • Aventures de trois Russes et trois Anglais (The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians) (Aug 1872)

  • Te Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in 80 Days) (1873)

  • Le Pays des fourrures (The Fur Country) (Jan 1873)

  • Le Docteur Ox (Doctor Ox) (Apr 1874)--short story collection including

  • Le Chancellor (The Chancellor) (Feb 1875)

  • Michel Strogoff (Michael Strogoff) (Nov 1876)

  • Les Indes noires (Black Indies) (Apr 1877)

  • Hector Servadac (Hector Servadac) (Nov 1877)

  • Un Capitaine de quinze ans (A Captain at Fifteen) (Nov 1878)

  • Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine (The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China) (Aug 1879)

  • Les cinq cents millions de la Bégum (The 500 Millions of the Begum) (Sep 1879)

  • Le Maison à vapeur (The Steam House) (Nov 1880)

  • La Jangada (The Jangada) (Nov 1881)

  • Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray) (Jul 1882)

  • L'Ecole des Robinsons (The School of Robinsons) (Nov 1882)

  • Kéraban-le-Têtu (Kereban the Inflexible) (Sep 1883)

  • L'Archipel en feu (Archipelago on Fire) (Aug 1884)

  • Mathias Sandorf (Mathias Sandorf) (Oct 1885)

  • Robur-le-conquérant (Robur the Conqueror) (Aug 1886)

  • Un Billet de loterie (The Lottery Ticket) (Nov 1886)

  • Le Chemin de France (The Road to France) (Oct 1887)

  • Nord contre Sud (North Against South) (Nov 1887)

  • Deux Ans de vacances (Two Years Holiday) (Nov 1888)

  • Famille-sans-nom (Family Without a Name) (Nov 1889)

  • Sans dessus dessous (The Purchase of the North Pole) (Nov 1889)

  • César Cascabel (César Cascabel) (Nov 1890)

  • La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2890 (In the Year 2889) (Jan 1891) (short story)

  • Mistress Branican (Mrs. Branican) (Nov 1891)

  • Le Château des Carpathes (The Carpathian Castle) (Oct 1892)

  • Claudius Bombarnac (Claudius Bombarnac) (Nov 1892)

  • P'tit-Bonhomme (Foundling Mick) (Nov 1893)

  • Mirifiques Aventures de Maître Antifer (The Wonderful Adventures of Captain Antifer) (Nov 1894)

  • L'Ile à Helice (Propeller Island) (Nov 1895)

  • Face au drapeau (For the Flag) (Jul 1896)

  • Clovis Dardentor (Clovis Dardentor) (Nov 1896)

  • Le Sphinx des glaces (The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) (Nov 1897)

  • Le superbe Orénoque (The Superb Orinoco) (Nov 1898)

  • Le Testament d'un excentrique (The Will of an Eccentric) (Nov 1899)

  • Seconde patrie (Second Fatherland) (Nov 1900)

  • Le Village aérien (The Aerial Village) (Jul 1901)

  • Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin (The Stories of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin) (Nov 1901)

  • Les Frères Kip (The Brothers Kip) (Nov 1902)

  • Bourses de voyage (Traveling Scholarships) (Nov 1903)

  • Un Drame en Livonie (A Drama in Livonia) (Aug 1904)

  • Maître du monde (Master of the World) (Nov 1904)

  • L'Invasion de la mer (The Invasion of the Sea) (Aug 1905)


    Information on Jules Verne's writings comes from The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography by Volker Dehs, Zvi Har'El and Jean-Michel Margot.


    © 2001, 2002 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
    Last modified 25 January 2002.
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