Fiction

• Ann Veronica
• In the Days of the Comet
• The First Men in the Moon
• The Invisible Man
• The Island of Doctor Moreau
• The New Machiavelli
• The Research Magnificent
• The Soul of a Bishop
• The Time Machine
• The War of the Worlds
• The Wheels of Chance
• The World Set Free
• Tono Bungay
• When the Sleeper Wakes

Non-Fiction

• God The Invisible King
• The Outline of History
• Mind at the End of its Tether

Movies list

• The History of Mr. Polly (2006)
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005)
• The Time Machine (2002)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
• The Invisible Man (1984)
• The Time Machine (1978)
• Empire of the Ants (1977)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
• The Food of the Gods (1976)
• The Invisible Man (1975)
• La Merveilleuse Visite (1976)
• Love and Mr. Lewisham (1972)
• Half a Sixpence (1967)
• Village of the Giants (1965)
• The First Men in the Moon (1964)
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Magic Shop (1964)
• The Time Machine (1960)
• Terror Is a Man (1959)
• The New Invisible Man (1958)
• The Invisible Man
  (1958 TV series)
• The Door in the Wall (1956)
• The War of the Worlds (1953)
• The Passionate Friends (1949)
• The History of Mr. Polly (1949)
• Dead of Night (1945)
• The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
• Kipps (1941)
• Things to Come (1936)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
• The Invisible Man (1933)
• Island of Lost Souls (1932)
• Marriage (1927)
• The Passionate Friends (1922)

• 1866 - H.G. Wells was born on September 21, 1866 in Bromley, Kent.
• 1880 - Apprenticed to Windsor firm of drapers.
• 1883 - Wells became a teacher-pupil at Midhurst Grammar School.
• 1887 - First published story, "A Tale of the Twentieth Century".
• 1888 - The Chronic Argonauts serialized.
• 1890 - B.Sci degree.
• 1891 - Wells settled in London, married his cousin Isabel and continued his career as a teacher in a correspondence college.
• 1893 - "The Man of the Year Million". First published book, A Text Book of Biology; full-time writer henceforth.
• 1894 - First fiction professionally published under own name: "The Stolen Bacillus" in the Pall Mall Budget, 21 June.
• 1895 - Marries "Jane" (Amy Catherine Robbins).
• 1901 - The First Men in the Moon. First son born to Jane: George Philip Wells.
• 1903 - Second son born to Jane: Frank Richard Wells.
• 1909 - Wells became the first president of the Royal College of Science Association (an organization he helped set up).
• 1909 - Daughter born to Amber White, née Reeves: Anna White.
• 1914 - At the outbreak of war in 1914, Wells was involved in a love affair with a young journalist, Rebecca West, 26 years his junior.
• 1914 - Third son born to Rebecca West: Anthony West.
• 1922 - Stands unsuccessfully for Parliament as Labour candidate for London University.
• 1927 - Death of Jane.
• 1929 - First Wells broadcasts on BBC Radio.
• 1931 - Diagnosed as diabetic.
• 1932 - The Island of Dr Moreau filmed as Island of Lost Souls.
• 1936 - Films scripted by Wells: Things to Come and The Man Who Could Work Miracles.
• 1946 - Wells died in London on August 13, 1946.

• The Time Machine (1895)
• The Wonderful Visit (1895)
• The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
• The Wheels of Chance (1896)
• The Invisible Man (1897)
• The War of the Worlds (1898)
• When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)
• Love and Mr Lewisham (1900)
• The First Men in the Moon (1901)
• The Sea Lady (1902)
• The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)
• Kipps (1905)
• A Modern Utopia (1905)
• In the Days of the Comet (1906)
• The War in the Air (1908)
• Tono-Bungay (1909)
• Ann Veronica (1909)
• The History of Mr Polly (1910)
• The Sleeper Awakes (1910)
  revised edition of When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)
• The New Machiavelli (1911)
• Marriage (1912)
• The Passionate Friends (1913)
• The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
• The World Set Free (1914)
• Bealby: A Holiday (1915)
• Boon (1915)
• The Research Magnificent (1915)
• Mr Britling Sees It Through (1916)
• The Soul of a Bishop (1917)
• Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education (1918)
• The Undying Fire (1919)
• The Secret Places of the Heart (1922)
• Men Like Gods (1923)
• The Dream (1924)
• Christina Alberta's Father (1925)
• The World of William Clissold (1926)
• Meanwhile (1927)
• Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928)
• The Autocracy of Mr Parham (1930)
• The Bulpington of Blup (1932)
• The Shape of Things to Come (1933)
• The Croquet Player (1936)
• Brynhild (1937)
• Star Begotten (1937)
• The Camford Visitation (1937)
• Apropos of Dolores (1938)
• The Brothers (1938)
• The Holy Terror (1939)
• Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940)
• All Aboard for Ararat (1940)
• You Can't Be Too Careful (1941)

• Text-Book of Biology (1893)
• Honours Physiography (1893)
  with R. A. Gregory
• Certain Personal Matters (1897)
• Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical
  and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (1901)
• Mankind in the Making (1903)
• The Future in America (1906)
• This Misery of Boots (1907)
• Will Socialism Destroy the Home? (1907)
• New Worlds for Old (1908)
• First and Last Things (1908)
• Floor Games (1911)
• The Great State (1912)
• Great Thoughts From H. G. Wells (1912)
• Thoughts From H. G. Wells (1912)
• Little Wars (1913)
• The War That Will End War (1914)
• An Englishman Looks at the World (1914);
  U.S. title: Social Forces in England and America
• The War and Socialism (1915)
• The Peace of the World (1915)
• What is Coming? (1916)
• The Elements of Reconstruction (1916)
  published under the pseudonym D. P.
• God the Invisible King (1917)
• War and the Future (aka Italy, France and Britain at War) (1917)
• Introduction to Nocturne (1917)
• In the Fourth Year (1918)
• The Idea of a League of Nations (1919)
  with Viscount Edward Grey, Lionel Curtis, William Archer, H. Wickham Steed, A. E. Zimmern, J. A. Spender, Viscount Bryce and Gilbert Murray
• The Way to the League of Nations (1919)
  with Viscount Edward Grey, Lionel Curtis, William Archer, H. Wickham Steed, A. E. Zimmern, J. A. Spender, Viscount Bryce and Gilbert Murray
• The Outline of History (1920)
• Russia in the Shadows (1920)
• Frank Swinnerton (1920)
  with Arnold Bennett, Grant Overton
• The Salvaging of Civilization (1921)
• A Short History of the World (1922) (New and Rev Ed. 1946)
• Washington and the Hope of Peace
  (aka "Washington and the Riddle of Peace") (1922)
• Socialism and the Scientific Motive (1923)
• The Story of a Great Schoolmaster:
  Being a Plain Account of the Life and Ideas
  of Sanderson of Oundle (1924) a biography
  of Frederick William Sanderson
• A Year of Prophesying (1925)
• A Short History of Mankind (1925)
• Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History" (1926)
• Wells' Social Anticipations (1927)
• The Way the World is Going (1928)
• The Book of Catherine Wells (1928)
• The Open Conspiracy (aka What Are We To Do With Our Lives?) (1928)
• The Science of Life (1930)
  with Julian S. Huxley, G. P. Wells
• Divorce as I See It (1930)
• Points of View (1930)
• The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931)
• The New Russia (1931)
• Selections From the Early Prose Works of H. G. Wells (1931)
• After Democracy (1932)
• An Experiment in Autobiography (1934)
• The New America: The New World (1935)
• The Anatomy of Frustration (1936)
• World Brain (1938)
• The Fate of Homo Sapiens (aka The Fate Of Man) (1939)
• The New World Order (1939)
• Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water (1939)
• The Common Sense of War and Peace (1940)
• The Rights of Man (1940)
• The Pocket History of the World (1941)
• Guide to the New World (1941)
• The Outlook for Homo Sapiens (1942)
• The Conquest of Time (1942)
• Modern Russian and English Revolutionaries (1942)
  with Lev Uspensky
• Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Reorganization (1942)
• Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church (1943)
• '42 to '44: A Contemporary Memoir (1944)
• Reshaping Man's Heritage (1944)
  with J. B. S. Haldane, Julian S. Huxley
• The Happy Turning (1945)
• Mind at the End of its Tether (1945)
• Marxism vs Liberalism (1945)
  with J. V. Stalin
• H.G. Wells: Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction (1975)

• "A Family Elopement" (1884)
• "A Tale of the Twentieth Century" (1887)
• "A Talk with Gryllotalpa" (1887)
  published under the pseudonym Septimus Browne
• "A Vision of the Past" (1887)
• "The Chronic Argonauts" (1888)
• "The Devotee of Art" (1888)
• "The Flying Man" (aka "The Advent of the Flying Man") (1893)
• "Æpyornis Island" (1894)
• "A Deal in Ostriches" (1894)
• "The Diamond Maker" (1894)
• "The Flowering of the Strange Orchid" (aka "The Strange Orchid") (1894)
• "The Hammerpond Park Burglary" (1894)
• "The Lord of the Dynamos" (1894)
• "How Gabriel Became Thompson" (1894)
• "In the Avu Observatory" (1894)
• "In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story"
  (aka "A Bardlet's Romance") (1894)
• "The Jilting of Jane" (1894)
• "The Man With a Nose" (1894)
• "A Misunderstood Artist" (1894)
• "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation" (1894)
• "The Stolen Bacillus" (1894)
• "The Thing in No. 7" (1894)
• "Through a Window" (aka "At a Window") (1894)
• "The Thumbmark" (1894)
• "The Triumphs of a Taxidermist" (1894)
• "The Argonauts of the Air" (1895)
• "A Catastrophe" (1895)
• "The Cone" (1895)
• "How Pingwill Was Routed" (1895)
• "Le Mari Terrible" (1895)
• "The Moth" (aka "A Moth – Genus Novo") (1895)
• "Our Little Neighbour" (1895)
• "Pollock and the Porroh Man" (1895)
• "The Reconciliation" (aka "The Bulla") (1895)
• "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes"
  (aka "The Story of Davidson's Eyes") (1895)
• "The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic"
  (aka "The Obliterated Man") (1895)
• "The Temptation of Harringay" (1895)
• "Wayde's Essence" (1895)
• "The Apple" (1896)
• "In the Abyss" (1896)
• "The Plattner Story" (1896)
• "The Purple Pileus" (1896)
• "The Rajah's Treasure" (1896)
• "The Red Room" (1896) (aka "The Ghost of Fear")
• "A Slip Under the Microscope" (1896)
• "The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham" (1896)
• "Under the Knife" (aka "Slip Under the Knife") (1896)
• "The Crystal Egg" (1897)
• "The Lost Inheritance" (1897)
• "Mr Marshall's Doppelganger" (1897)
• "A Perfect Gentleman on Wheels" (1897)
• "The Presence by the Fire" (1897)
• "The Star" (1897)
• "A Story of the Days To Come" (1897)
• "A Story of the Stone Age"
  (aka "Stories of the Stone Age") (1897)
• "Jimmy Goggles the God" (1898)
• "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" (1898)
• "Miss Winchelsea's Heart" (1898)
• "The Stolen Body" (1898)
• "Walcote" (1898)
• "Mr. Brisher's Treasure" (1899)
• "A Vision of Judgment" (1899)
• "A Dream of Armageddon" (1901)
• "Filmer" (1901)
• "Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland" (1901)
• "The New Accelerator" (1901)
• "The Inexperienced Ghost"
  (aka "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost") (1902)
• "The Loyalty of Esau Common" (1902)
• "The Land Ironclads" (1903)
• "The Magic Shop" (1903)
• "The Truth About Pyecraft" (1903)
• "The Valley of the Spiders" (1903)
• "The Country of the Blind" (1904)
• "The Empire of the Ants" (1905)
• "The Door in the Wall" (1906)
• "The Beautiful Suit" (aka "A Moonlight Fable") (1909)
• "Little Mother Up the Morderberg" (1910)
• "My First Aeroplane" (1910)
• "The Story of the Last Trump" (1915)
• "The Wild Asses of the Devil" (1915)
• "Peter Learns Arithmetic" (1918)
• "The Grisly Folk" (1921)
• "The Pearl of Love" (1924)
• "The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper" (1932)
• "Answer to Prayer" (1937)
• "The Country of the Blind (revised)" (1939)

• Select Conversations with an Uncle
  (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminscences (1895)
• The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895)
• The Red Room (1896)
• Thirty Strange Stories (1897)
• The Plattner Story and Others (1897)
• Tales of Space and Time (1899)
• A Cure For Love (1899)
• Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903)
• The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1911)
• The Door in the Wall and Other Stories (1911)
• The Star (1913)
• Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses
  of the Devil, and The Last Trump (1915)
  first edition published under the pseudonym Reginald Bliss
• Tales of the Unexpected (1922)
• Tales of Wonder (1923)
• Tales of Life and Adventure (1923)
• The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories (1925)
• The Short Stories of H. G. Wells (1927)
• Selected Short Stories (1927)
• The Adventures of Tommy (1929)
• The Valley of Spiders (1930)
• The Stolen Body and Other Tales of the Unexpected (1931)
• The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells
  (aka The Favorite Short Stories of H. G. Wells) (1937)
• Short Stories by H. G. Wells (1940)
• The Inexperienced Ghost (1943)
• The Land Ironclads (1943)
• The New Accelerator (1943)
• The Truth About Pyecraft and Other Short Stories (1943)
• Twenty-Eight Science Fiction Stories (1952)
• Seven Stories (1953)
• Three Prophetic Science Fiction Novels of H. G. Wells (1960)
• The Cone (1965)
• Best Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells (1966)
• The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells (1966)
• H.G. Wells: Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction (1975)
• The Man with the Nose
  and Other Uncollected Stories of H. G. Wells (1984)
• The Red Room and Other Stories (1998)
• Selected Stories of H. G. Wells (2004)

Published versions of film scripts and scenarios written by Wells

• The King Who Was a King: The Book of a Film
  (1929 - scenario for a film which was never made)
• Things to Come (1935 - adaptation of The Shape of Things to Come and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
• The New Faust (in Nash's Pall Magazine, December 1936
  adaptation of "The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham")

• "Zoological Retrogression" (1891)
• "The Rediscovery of the Unique" (1891)
• "Ancient Experiments in Co-Operation" (1892)
• "On Extinction" (1893)
• "The Man of the Year Million" (1893)
• "The Sun God and the Holy Stars" (1894)
• "Province of Pain" (1894)
• "Life in the Abyss" (1894)
• "Another Basis for Life" (1894)
• "The Rate of Change in Species" (1894)
• "The Biological Problem of To-day" (1894)
• "The 'Cyclic' Delusion" (1894)
• "Flat Earth Again" (1894)
• "Bio-Optimism" (1895)
• "Bye-Products in Evolution" (1895)
• "Death" (1895)
• "The Duration of Life" (1895)
• "The Visibility of Change in the Moon" (1895)
• "The Limits of Individual Plasticity" (1895)
• "Human Evolution, an Artificial Process" (1896)
• "Intelligence on Mars" (1896)
• "Concerning Skeletons" (1896)
• "The Possible Individuality of Atoms" (1896)
• "Morals and Civilisation" (1897)
• "On Comparative Theology" (1898)
• "The Discovery of the Future" (1902)
• "The Grisly Folk" (1921)
• "Mr. Wells and Mr. Vowles" (1926)
• "The Red Dust a Fact!" (1927)
• "Democracy Under Revision" (1927)
• "Wells Speaks Some Plain Words to us,"
  New York Times, October 16, 1927
• "Common Sense of World Peace" (1929)
• "Foretelling the Future" (1938)

H. G. Wells - Chronological Bibliography