Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), better known as H.G. Wells, was an English author who is considered one of the fathers of science fiction. However, his bibliography ranges far past the outer reaches of science fiction. He wrote fiction books in many different genres as well as non-fiction books such as textbooks, historical books, political books and much more.

Some of the most well known of H.G. Wells’ published fictional work include novels such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau and The War of the Worlds – all of which are considered classic novels to say the least. Below is the order in which H.G. Wells’ fictional novels were published:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Time Machine (1895)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wonderful Visit (1895)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wheels of Chance (1896)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Invisible Man (1897)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The War of the Worlds (1898)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
When the Sleeper Wakes / The Sleeper Awakes (1899)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Love and Mr. Lewisham (1899)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The First Men in the Moon (1901)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sea Lady (1902)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kipps (1905)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Modern Utopia (1905)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In the Days of the Comet (1906)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The War in the Air (1908)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tono-Bungay (1909)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ann Veronica (1909)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The History of Mr Polly (1910)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sleeper Awakes (1911)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The New Machiavelli (1911)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Marriage (1912)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Passionate Friends (1913)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The World Set Free (1914)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bealby: A Holiday (1915)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Research Magnificent (1915)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Boon, the Mind of the Race (As: Reginald Bliss) (1915)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Boon (1915)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Soul of a Bishop (1917)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Joan and Peter: A Story of an Education (1918)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Undying Fire (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Secret Places of the Heart (1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Men Like Gods (1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dream (1924)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Christina Alberta's Father (1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The World of William Clissold (1926)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Meanwhile the Picture of a Lady (1927)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The King Who Was a King (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Autocracy of Mr. Parham (1930)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bulpington of Blup (1930)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shape of Things to Come (1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Croquet Player (1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Star Begotten (1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Camford Visitation (1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brynhild (1937)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Brothers (1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Apropos of Dolores (1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Holy Terror (1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All Aboard for Ararat (1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
You Can't Be Too Careful (1941)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wealth of Mr. Waddy (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Chronic Argonauts / The Chronic Argonaughts (1888)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Triumphs of a Taxidermist (1894)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Treasure in the Forest (1894)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (1894)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes / The Story of Davidson's Eyes (1895)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Plattner Story (1896)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Star (1897)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sea-Raiders (1897)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Crystal Egg (1897)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Story Of The Days To Come (1897)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation (1898)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Dream of Armageddon (1901)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost (1902)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Valley of Spiders (1903)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Magic Shop (1903)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland (1903)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Door in the Wall (1906)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Desert Daisy (1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ugh-Lomi and the Cave Bear (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The New Accelerator (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Under the Knife (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Vision of Judgment (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Aepyornis Island (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Obliterated Man (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences (1895)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1896)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Crystal Egg and Other Tales (1897)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thirty Strange Stories (1897)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Plattner Story and Others (1897)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Space and Time (1899)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Twelve Stories and a Dream (1906)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories (1909)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Wonder (1910)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Complete Short Stories (1927)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Moth and Other Stories (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Man With a Nose (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In the Days of the Comet & Seventeen Short Stories (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Red Room and Other Stories (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Grisly Folk, and the Wild Asses of the Devil (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Collected Short Stories (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of the Weird and Supernatural (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best Short Stories of H.G. Wells (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Argonauts of the Air & 15 Short Stories (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Door in the Wall? And Other Stories (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Screenplays Books

The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Certain Personal Matters (1897)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anticipations (1901)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Discovery of the Future (1902)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mankind in the Making (1903)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Future in America (1906)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
This Misery of Boots (1907)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
First and Last Things (1908)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
New Worlds for Old (1908)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Floor Games (1911)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Little Wars (1913)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An Englishman Looks at the World (1914)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What is Coming? (1916)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Elements of Reconstruction (1916)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
God the Invisible King (1917)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
War and the Future / Italy, France and Britain at War (1917)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In The Fourth Year (1918)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Outline of History (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Russia in the Shadows (1920)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Salvaging of Civiization (1921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Short History of the World (1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Washington and the Riddle of Peace / Washington and the Hope of Peace (1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Modern Utopia and Other Discussions (1925)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives? (1928)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Science of Life (With: G.P. Wells,Julian Huxley) (1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings (1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Experiment in Autobiography (1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
H.G. Wells in Love (1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
World Brain (1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fate of Homo Sapiens / The Fate of Man (1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The New World Order (1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Conquest of Time (1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Crux Ansata (1943)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Frank Swinnerton (With: Arnold Bennett,Grant M. Overton) (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Interviews and Recollections (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Experiment in Autobiography, Vol. 2 (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Volume of Journalism (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Conquest of Time and The Happy Turning (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Little Wars and Floor Games (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of H.G. Wells Audiobooks Books

The Martian Invasion of Earth (1898)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Martian Invasion of Earth is an full-cast adaptation of The War of the Worlds.

Publication Order of Correspondence Of H.G. Wells Books

The Correspondence of H.G. Wells (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 2 (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 4 (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 3 (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Pocket Book of Mystery Stories(1941)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
World's Great Mystery Stories(1943)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bar The Doors(1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
50 Great Short Stories(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Over the Rainbow(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
War Stories(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mysterious Sea Stories(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Science Fiction Stories(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of the Occult(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best Crime Stories Ever Told(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Great Classic Science Fiction(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Time Traveler's Almanac(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Contact: Stories of the New World(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Amazing Stories, February 1929(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Classic Martian Stories(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lost Mars(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Occult Fiction Collection(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Classic Tales of Horror(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Note: The Sleeper Awakes is a reworked version of When the Sleeper Wakes.

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