Name: The Martian Invasion of Earth
Author: H.G. Wells
ISBN: 1787030679

The earliest H.G. Wells book we track dates to 1888, and the catalogue now runs to 177 books. The work is organised into 8 series; the longest is Correspondence Of H.G. Wells at 4 books. The newest book on our shelves is Tales of Time Warps (2024).

New York Times Bestsellers

2 books

H.G. Wells has placed 2 books on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 5 weeks on the charts. One title reached #1.

Experiment in Autobiography

H.G. Wells Non-Fiction Books

4 weeks on the Times Hardcover Nonfiction list · peaked at #1 · debuted Nov 1934

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The Bulpington of Blup

H.G. Wells Other Novels

1 week on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #3 · debuted Feb 1933

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Reading Order

8 series · 177 books

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	The Time Machine	1895	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	The Wonderful Visit	1895	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	The Island of Dr. Moreau (Short Story)	1896	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	The Wheels of Chance	1896	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5	The Invisible Man	1897	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6	The War of the Worlds	1898	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7	When the Sleeper Wakes / The Sleeper Awakes	1899	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8	Love and Mr. Lewisham	1899	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9	The First Men in the Moon	1901	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10	The Sea Lady	1902	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11	The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth	1904	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12	Kipps	1905	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13	A Modern Utopia	1905	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14	In the Days of the Comet	1906	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15	The War in the Air	1908	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16	Tono-Bungay	1909	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17	Ann Veronica	1909	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18	The History of Mr Polly	1910	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
19	The Sleeper Awakes	1911	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
20	The New Machiavelli	1911	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
21	Marriage	1912	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
22	The Passionate Friends	1913	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
23	The World Set Free	1914	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
24	The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman	1914	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
25	Bealby: A Holiday	1915	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
26	The Research Magnificent	1915	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
27	Boon, the Mind of the Race (As: Reginald Bliss)	1915	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
28	Boon	1915	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
29	Mr. Britling Sees It Through	1916	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
30	The Soul of a Bishop	1917	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
31	Joan and Peter: A Story of an Education	1918	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
32	The Undying Fire	1919	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
33	The Secret Places of the Heart	1922	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
34	Men Like Gods	1923	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
35	The Dream	1924	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
36	Christina Alberta's Father	1925	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
37	The World of William Clissold	1926	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
38	Meanwhile the Picture of a Lady	1927	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
39	Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island	1928	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
40	The King Who Was a King	1929	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
41	Autocracy of Mr. Parham	1930	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
42	Bulpington of Blup	1930	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
43	The Shape of Things to Come	1933	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
44	The Croquet Player	1936	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
45	Star Begotten	1937	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
46	The Camford Visitation	1937	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
47	Brynhild	1937	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
48	The Brothers	1938	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
49	Apropos of Dolores	1938	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
50	The Holy Terror	1939	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
51	All Aboard for Ararat	1940	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
52	Babes in the Darkling Wood	1940	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
53	You Can't Be Too Careful	1941	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
54	The Wealth of Mr. Waddy	1969	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	The Chronic Argonauts / The Chronic Argonaughts (Short Story)	1888	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	The Triumphs of a Taxidermist (Short Story)	1894	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	The Treasure in the Forest (Short Story)	1894	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (Short Story)	1894	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5	The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes / The Story of Davidson's Eyes (Short Story)	1895	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6	The Plattner Story (Short Story)	1896	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7	The Star (Short Story)	1897	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8	The Sea-Raiders (Short Story)	1897	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9	The Crystal Egg (Short Story)	1897	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10	A Story Of The Days To Come (Short Story)	1897	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11	Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation (Short Story)	1898	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12	A Dream of Armageddon (Short Story)	1901	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13	The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost (Short Story)	1902	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14	The Valley of Spiders	1903	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15	The Magic Shop (Short Story)	1903	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16	Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland (Short Story)	1903	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17	The Door in the Wall (Short Story)	1906	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18	The Desert Daisy	1957	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
19	Ugh-Lomi and the Cave Bear (Short Story)	2016	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
20	The New Accelerator (Short Story)	2017	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
21	Under the Knife (Short Story)	2022	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
22	A Vision of Judgment (Short Story)	2022	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
23	Aepyornis Island (Short Story)	2022	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
24	The Obliterated Man (Short Story)	2022	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences (Short Story)	1895	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents	1896	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	The Crystal Egg and Other Tales	1897	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	Thirty Strange Stories	1897	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5	The Plattner Story and Others	1897	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6	Tales of Space and Time	1899	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7	Twelve Stories and a Dream	1906	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8	The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories	1909	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9	Tales of Wonder	1910	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10	The Complete Short Stories	1927	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11	The Moth and Other Stories	1962	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12	Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction	1975	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13	The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories	1977	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14	The Man With a Nose	1984	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15	In the Days of the Comet & Seventeen Short Stories	1999	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16	The Red Room and Other Stories	2000	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17	The Grisly Folk, and the Wild Asses of the Devil	2008	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18	Collected Short Stories	2008	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
19	Tales of the Weird and Supernatural	2011	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
20	The Best Short Stories of H.G. Wells	2015	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
21	The Argonauts of the Air & 15 Short Stories	2015	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
22	The Door in the Wall? And Other Stories (Short Story)	2017	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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	1	The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Short Story)	1898		Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	Certain Personal Matters	1897	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	Anticipations	1901	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	The Discovery of the Future (Short Story)	1902	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	Mankind in the Making	1903	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5	The Future in America	1906	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6	This Misery of Boots (Short Story)	1907	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7	First and Last Things	1908	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8	New Worlds for Old	1908	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9	Floor Games	1911	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10	Little Wars	1913	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11	An Englishman Looks at the World	1914	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12	What is Coming? (Short Story)	1916	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13	Elements of Reconstruction (Short Story)	1916	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14	God the Invisible King	1917	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15	War and the Future / Italy, France and Britain at War (Short Story)	1917	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16	In The Fourth Year (Short Story)	1918	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17	The Outline of History	1919	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18	Russia in the Shadows	1920	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
19	The Salvaging of Civiization (Short Story)	1921	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
20	A Short History of the World	1922	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
21	Washington and the Riddle of Peace / Washington and the Hope of Peace	1922	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
22	A Modern Utopia and Other Discussions	1925	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
23	The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives?	1928	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
24	The Science of Life ( With: G.P. Wells, Julian Huxley)	1929	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
25	The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings	1933	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
26	Experiment in Autobiography	1934	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
27	H.G. Wells in Love	1934	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
28	World Brain	1938	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
29	The Fate of Homo Sapiens / The Fate of Man	1939	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
30	The New World Order (Short Story)	1939	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
31	The Conquest of Time	1942	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
32	Crux Ansata	1943	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
33	Mind at the End of Its Tether	1945	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
34	Frank Swinnerton ( With: Arnold Bennett, Grant M. Overton)	1975	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
35	Interviews and Recollections	1980	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
36	Experiment in Autobiography, Vol. 2	1984	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
37	A Volume of Journalism	1999	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
38	The Conquest of Time and The Happy Turning	2002	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
39	Little Wars and Floor Games	2006	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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✓	#	Book Title	Year	Awards	Buy
	1	The Martian Invasion of Earth	1898		Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	The Correspondence of H.G. Wells	1996	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 2	1997	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 4	1997	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 3	1997	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

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#	Book Title	Year	Buy
1	Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror	1931	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2	The Pocket Book of Mystery Stories	1941	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3	World's Great Mystery Stories	1943	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4	Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bar The Doors	1946	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5	50 Great Short Stories	1952	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6	The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	1970	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A	1973	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...	1974	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9	Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	1979	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10	Over the Rainbow	1983	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11	The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories	1984	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12	Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls	1985	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13	War Stories	1987	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14	Mysterious Sea Stories	1987	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15	Science Fiction Stories	1988	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16	Tales of the Occult	1989	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17	The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales	1993	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18	The Best Crime Stories Ever Told	2002	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
19	The Campfire Collection	2003	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
20	The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives	2005	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
21	Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural	2008	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
22	Great Classic Science Fiction	2010	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
23	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction	2010	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
24	The Time Traveler's Almanac	2013	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
25	Contact: Stories of the New World	2013	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
26	Amazing Stories, February 1929	2014	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
27	Classic Martian Stories	2014	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
28	Lost Mars	2018	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
29	30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories	2019	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
30	30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die	2019	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
31	Classic Tales of Horror	2020	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
32	Tales of Time Warps	2024	Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

About the Author

Herbert George Wells was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary.

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H.G. Wells Books in Order

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H.G. Wells Other Novels

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Correspondence Of H.G. Wells Series

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