# The best Jules Verne novels

The Extraordinary Voyages that readers on SensCritique, Babelio and Booknode like best, from the Nautilus to Michael Strogoff.

- 29 votes · 15 items
- Dec 14, 2025 · Damien Gautier
- https://even.best/en/l/2222/the-best-jules-verne-novels

## Top 15

1. **In Search of the Castaways** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1867-1868. Searching for a lost father along the 37th parallel.
2. **Robur the Conqueror** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1886. An inventor and his flying machine, the Albatross.
3. **Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1869-1870. Captain Nemo and the Nautilus.
4. **Around the World in Eighty Days** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1872. Phileas Fogg and Passepartout race the clock.
5. **Journey to the Centre of the Earth** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1864. A descent through an Icelandic volcano.
6. **The Mysterious Island** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1874-1875. Castaways from a balloon rebuild civilisation.
7. **From the Earth to the Moon** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1865. A giant cannon to send men to the Moon.
8. **Michael Strogoff** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1876. The Tsar's courier crosses Siberia.
9. **Five Weeks in a Balloon** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1863. The first Extraordinary Voyage, over Africa.
10. **The Carpathian Castle** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1892. A haunted castle and a voice from the past.
11. **Tribulations of a Chinaman in China** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1879. A bored rich man hires someone to kill him.
12. **Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1878. A ship's boy must take command.
13. **Around the Moon** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1870. The sequel: the trip around the Moon.
14. **The Green Ray** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1882. Chasing an optical phenomenon at sunset.
15. **Two Years' Vacation** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1888. Schoolboys shipwrecked on an island.

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