New York Times Bestsellers
Clive Cussler has placed 14 books on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 180 weeks on the charts. 2 titles reached #1.
Raise the Titanic!
Dirk Pitt Series
22 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #2 · debuted Dec 1976
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Treasure
Dirk Pitt Series
18 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #3 · debuted Mar 1988
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Reading Order
11 series · 227 books
Clive Cussler Children's Books
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The Adventures of Vin Fiz | 2006 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy | 2010 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
The Sea Hunters Series
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The Sea Hunters | 1994 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Sea Hunters II | 2002 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Clive Cussler Non-Fiction Books
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed | 1998 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Built for Adventure: The Classic Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Built to Thrill | 2016 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
General Military Series
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The British Home Guard Pocketbook by A.F.U. Green | — | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple by Stuart Smith | 1950 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | The Forgotten Dead: Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off The Coast of Devon in 1944 by Mark Rogerson, Ken Small | 1988 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang & Usage by Rick Jolly | 1989 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | Joshua L. Chamberlain: The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War by Thomas A. Desjardin | 1999 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | Hunt the Bismarck: The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship by Angus Konstam | 2003 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | Out of Nowhere: A history of the military sniper, from the Sharpshooter to Afghanistan by Martin Pegler | 2004 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 8 | Rome at War by Adrian Goldsworthy | 2005 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 9 | Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War by Aaron Sheehan-Dean | 2006 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 10 | Rolling Thunder In A Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited by Andrew Wiest | 2006 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 11 | FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II by Gordon L. Rottman | 2007 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 12 | An Officer's Manual of the Western Front: 1914-1918 by Stephen Bull | 2008 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 13 | Warship 2008 by John Jordan | 2008 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 14 | Deceiving Hitler: Double-Cross and Deception in World War II by Terry Crowdy | 2008 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 15 | Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World by Brian Lavery | 2009 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 16 | The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 by Blair Worden | 2009 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 17 | No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II (General Mi by Kenneth K. Koskodan | 2009 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 18 | Battleground Prussia by Prit Buttar | 2010 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 19 | The Road to Victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa by Dale A. Dye, Robert J. O'Neill | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 20 | The Spitfire Pocket Manual: 1939-1945 by Martin Robson | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 21 | Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare with James P. Delgado | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 22 | Warship 2011 by John Jordan | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 23 | Quick Training for War (Short Story) by Robert Baden-Powell, Martin Robson | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 24 | Panther: Germany's quest for combat dominance by Michael; Green Gladys Green | 2012 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 25 | The Para Fitness Guide by Sam McGrath | 2012 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 26 | The Rice Paddy Navy: U.S. Sailors Undercover in China by Linda Kush | 2012 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 27 | The Commando Pocket Manual: 1940-1945 (Short Story) by Christopher Westhorp | 2012 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 28 | Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq by Lou DiMarco | 2012 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 29 | America's Elite: U.S. Special Forces From The American Revolution To The Present Day by Chris McNab | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 30 | American Tanks & AFVs of World War II by Michael Green | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 31 | Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne by Ian Senior | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 32 | No Victory in Valhalla: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Bastogne to Berchtesgaden by Ian Gardner | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 33 | The SAS Pocket Manual: 1941-1945 (Short Story) by Christopher Westhorp | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 34 | Company of Heroes: A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam by Eric Poole | 2015 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 35 | Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915 by Prit Buttar | 2015 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 36 | The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume I: 1939–42 by Thomas Anderson | 2015 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 37 | Finland at War: the Winter War 1939-40 by Vesa Nenye | 2015 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 38 | American Knights: The Untold Story of the Men of the Legendary 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion by Victor Failmezger | 2015 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 39 | Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45 by Chris Birks, Vesa Nenye, Peter Munter, Toni Wirtanen | 2016 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 40 | Liberty or Death: The French Revolution by Peter McPhee | 2016 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 41 | Samurai Armour: Volume I: The Japanese Cuirass by Trevor Absolon | 2016 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 42 | Maps of War: Mapping conflict through the centuries by Jeremy Black | 2016 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 43 | We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 by Robert Forczyk | 2016 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 44 | Instrument of War: The German Army 1914–18 by Dennis E. Showalter | 2016 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 45 | With Their Bare Hands: General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon by Gene Fax | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 46 | Loco Spotter’s Guide (Short Story) by Stuart Black | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 47 | The Long Range Desert Group in World War II by Gavin Mortimer | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 48 | Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin by Mungo Melvin | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 49 | Bloodstained Sands: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II by Michael G. Walling | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 50 | Soviet T-10 Heavy Tank and Variants by Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 51 | Shadow over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943–45 by Jim Laurier, Robert Forsyth | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 52 | Shot Down and in the Drink: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews Saved from the Sea in WWII by Graham Pitchfork | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 53 | The Splintered Empires by Prit Buttar | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 54 | Panther by Thomas Anderson | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 55 | The Second World Wars by Victor Davis Hanson | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 56 | Concorde Pocket Manual by Richard Johnstone-Bryden | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 57 | Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 58 | Case Red: The Collapse of France by Robert Forczyk | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 59 | Legion versus Phalanx by Myke Cole | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 60 | The Mosquito Pocket Manual: All Marks in Service 1941–1945 (Short Story) by Martin Robson | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 61 | Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Naval Campaign of World War II by Jeffrey R. Cox | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 62 | Cutty Sark Pocket Manual (Short Story) by Arron Hewett, Louise MacFarlane | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 63 | Snapdragon: The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern by Liesl Bradner, Phil Stern | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 64 | Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 65 | HMS Belfast Pocket Manual by John Blake | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 66 | The German Soldier's Pocket Manual: 1914–18 (Short Story) by Stephen Bull | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 67 | Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat: Naval slang and its everyday usage by Martin Robson | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 68 | Valley Of The Shadow: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu by Kevin M. Boylan, Luc Olivier | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 69 | Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On by Leigh Neville | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 70 | Forts: An illustrated history of building for defence by Jeremy Black, National Archives | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 71 | The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German codebreaking 1939–45 by Christian Jennings | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 72 | Charlie Company Journeys Home: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans by Andrew Wiest | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 73 | Run to the Sound of the Guns: The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq by Nicholas Moore, Mir Bahmanyar | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 74 | Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank by Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 75 | Hitler's Death by Luke Daly-Groves | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 76 | The Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917–Present by Chris McNab, Mark Galeotti | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 77 | The Pirate World: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers by Angus Konstam | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 78 | How to Survive in the Georgian Navy: A Sailor's Guide (Short Story) by National Archives | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 79 | An Englishman Abroad: SOE Agent Dick Mallaby’s Italian Missions, 1943–45 by Gianluca Barneschi | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 80 | War Bows: Longbow, crossbow, composite bow and Japanese yumi by Mike Loades | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 81 | Pilgrim Days: A Lifetime of Soldiering from Vietnam to the SAS by Alastair MacKenzie | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 82 | Panzerartillerie: Firepower for the Panzer Divisions by Thomas Anderson | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 83 | Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign In Korea by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 84 | World War II Battle by Battle by Nikolai Bogdanovic | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 85 | Doctor for Friend and Foe: Britain's Frontline Medic in the Fight for the Falklands by Rick Jolly | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 86 | Warship 2019 by John Jordan | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 87 | Scapa 1919: The Archaeology of a Scuttled Fleet by Innes McCartney | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 88 | Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway by David Rigby | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 89 | German submarine U-1105 'Black Panther': The naval archaeology of a U-boat (Short Story) by Aaron Stephan Hamilton | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 90 | Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank by Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 91 | The Hurricane Pocket Manual: All marks in service 1939–45 (Short Story) by Martin Robson | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 92 | On a Knife's Edge by Prit Buttar | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 93 | Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 by Robert Forczyk | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 94 | Sent by the Iron Sky: The Legacy of an American Parachute Battalion in World War II by Ian Gardner | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 95 | The Persian War: In Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices by William Shepherd | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 96 | Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943 by Jeffrey R. Cox | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 97 | Audacious Missions of World War II: Daring Acts of Bravery Revealed Through Letters and Documents from the Time by National Archives | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 98 | Be PARA Fit: The 4-Week Formula for Elite Physical Fitness by Sam McGrath | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 99 | Hitler's Tanks: German Panzers of World War II by Chris McNab | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 100 | The Master Shipwright's Secrets: How Charles II built the Restoration Navy by Richard Endsor | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 101 | Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916–18 by Rob Johnson | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 102 | The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 by Anthony Tucker-Jones | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 103 | Rome - City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943–44 by Victor Failmezger | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 104 | I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 105 | The Reckoning by Prit Buttar | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 106 | Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's Revenge by Angus Konstam | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 107 | Blood, Metal and Dust: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001–14 by Ben Barry | 2020 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 108 | The Churchill Quiz Book: How much do you know about Britain's wartime leader? by Kieran Whitworth | 2021 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 109 | Warship 2021 by John Jordan | 2021 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 110 | Soviet T-62 Main Battle Tank by Stephen Sewell, James Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov | 2021 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 111 | Jutland 1916: The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield by Innes McCartney | 2021 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Clive Cussler Anthologies
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| 1 | Thriller 2 | 2009 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
About the Author
Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed.