Order of J.G. Ballard Books
J.G. Ballard was an English author who passed away in 2009. As an author, he first rose to fame for his novel The Drowned World that put him in association with the New Wave of science fiction. He would go on to write Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical novel about a young British boy in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation.
That book was made into a film starring Christian Bale and directed by Steven Spielberg. That wasn’t the only book of his to be adapted into a film as he also had his books Crash (by David Cronenberg) and High-Rise (by Ben Wheatley) adapted into films.
Publication Order of Empire Of The Sun Books
| Empire of the Sun | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Kindness of Women | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Wind from Nowhere | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Drowned World | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Drought | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Crystal World | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Love and Napalm | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crash | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Concrete Island | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| High-Rise | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Unlimited Dream Company | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hello America | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Day of Creation | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Running Wild | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rushing to Paradise | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cocaine Nights | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Super-Cannes | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Millennium People | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kingdom Come | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Subliminal Man | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chronopolis | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| Billenium | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Voices of Time | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Passport To Eternity | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Terminal Beach | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Day of Forever | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Disaster Area | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Atrocity Exhibition | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Vermilion Sands | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chronopolis and Other Stories | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Low Flying Aircraft and Other Stories | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Venus Hunters / The Overloaded Man | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Myths of the Near Future | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| War Fever and Other Stories | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Complete Short Stories: Volume 2 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Complete Short Stories, Volume 1 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Science Fiction of J. G. Ballard | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| A User's Guide to the Millennium | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Quotes | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| J.G. Ballard Conversations | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Miracles of Life | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Extreme Metaphors | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Mondo Books
| Mondo Barbie | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Mondo Elvis | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Mondo Marilyn | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Mondo James Dean | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
If You Like J.G. Ballard Books, You’ll Love…
The Drowned World imagines a terrifying world where global warming has melted the ice caps and a jungle has overrun a now tropical London. The book takes place in 2145 and follows a biologist named Dr. Robert Kearns and his team of scientists as they confront the city jungle. The book works as a biological mystery with giant lizards, dragonflies, and insects fiercely as well as a retelling of the Heart of Darkness as the story also includes a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers.
Considered one of the most shocking novels of the twentieth century, Crash is a blend of violence, transgression, and eroticism. The book follows a man named Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist who has turned into a nightmare angel of the expressway. He collects alienated crash victims and also dabbels in experiments with a series of autoerotic atrocities that continue to get more and more sinister. All of this works to satisfy Vaughan, but it is not enough as he craves the ultimate crash – a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant, and iconic celebrity.
