The best Jules Verne novels
The top 3 according to 29 votes from people: In Search of the Castaways · Robur the Conqueror · Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. (Updated Dec 14, 2025.)
The Extraordinary Voyages that readers on SensCritique, Babelio and Booknode like best, from the Nautilus to Michael Strogoff.
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Top 15
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In Search of the Castaways
1867-1868. Searching for a lost father along the 37th parallel.
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Robur the Conqueror
1886. An inventor and his flying machine, the Albatross.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
1869-1870. Captain Nemo and the Nautilus.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1872. Phileas Fogg and Passepartout race the clock.
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
1864. A descent through an Icelandic volcano.
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The Mysterious Island
1874-1875. Castaways from a balloon rebuild civilisation.
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From the Earth to the Moon
1865. A giant cannon to send men to the Moon.
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Michael Strogoff
1876. The Tsar's courier crosses Siberia.
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
1863. The first Extraordinary Voyage, over Africa.
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The Carpathian Castle
1892. A haunted castle and a voice from the past.
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Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
1879. A bored rich man hires someone to kill him.
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Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
1878. A ship's boy must take command.
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Around the Moon
1870. The sequel: the trip around the Moon.
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The Green Ray
1882. Chasing an optical phenomenon at sunset.
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Two Years' Vacation
1888. Schoolboys shipwrecked on an island.
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Comments (1)
Michel Strogoff était mon préféré quand j'étais gamin, content de le voir dans le top 5