Jules Verne Books in Order

Three companions attempt to cross Africa in a balloon.

Three travellers descend through a volcano towards Earth’s centre.

A captain drives his crew north through Arctic ice.

A damaged message sends a rescue party across continents.

Three captives travel beneath the seas in a submarine.

A man bets he can circle the globe in eighty days.

A scientist's experiment turns a quiet town quarrelsome.

Castaways build a new life on an island with secrets.

A courier crosses Siberia to deliver a warning during an uprising.

A comet carries a group of people away from Earth.

An engineer returns to a Scottish mine hiding new dangers.

A young sailor takes command amid danger and deception.

Two heirs build rival cities with a shared fortune.

A wealthy man hires a killer, then wants to live.

A family's Amazon voyage is threatened by an old accusation.

A wealthy young castaway learns to survive far from home.

An inventor takes balloon enthusiasts captive aboard his flying machine.

An orphan struggles to make his way in Ireland.

Pirates seek an inventor’s secret weapon for their own use.

A southern voyage becomes a search through Antarctic ice.

An investigator pursues an inventor across land, water, and air.

Two amateur astronomers compete to claim a meteor of gold.

Three men travel toward the Moon inside a cannon shell.

Begin with a famous underground adventure that brings scientific curiosity and discovery together.

Follow with a brisk, accessible race that highlights Verne's humor and narrative momentum.

Move into richer scientific description with one of Verne's most memorable imagined machines.

Turn to aerial exploration for another clear example of travel driven by inventive technology.

Take on a broader rescue adventure before meeting its connections in The Mysterious Island.

Read this expansive survival story after the two earlier adventures connected to its mysteries.

Expand from earthly exploration into space, with the two lunar adventures already paired in sequence.

Shift from scientific speculation to a sustained overland adventure built around an urgent mission.

Now try a demanding polar expedition centered on leadership, endurance, and the pursuit of discovery.

Return to inventive machinery with an aerial adventure that introduces Robur before his sequel.

Follow with a pursuit that extends the questions surrounding technological power.

Explore rival visions of progress after seeing technology become a source of personal power.

Continue the darker technological theme through a compact adventure about a dangerous invention.

Pause for a shorter scientific satire that turns experimentation into small-town social comedy.

Keep the lighter tone while returning to travel, danger, and an unusual personal predicament.

Revisit subterranean settings through a more contained adventure rooted in a Scottish mining community.

Broaden the journey again with Amazon travel and a mystery involving an old accusation.

Turn to a young protagonist whose responsibilities give this maritime adventure its particular focus.

Save this more extravagant cosmic premise until Verne's blend of speculation and adventure feels familiar.

Approach this Antarctic search adventure later in your reading.

Enjoy this playful castaway tale after the more substantial island adventure earlier in the list.

Explore a less familiar side of Verne through an Irish orphan's hardships and perseverance.

Finish with a lesser-known astronomical satire that brings scientific discovery into conflict with greed.