Herman Melville
Books in Order by Date of Publication
Herman Melville's writing career is a testament to his boundless imagination and literary genius spanning over 193 books in publication order. His unique writing style characterized by poetic language philosophical introspection and an unflinching gaze into the human condition sets him apart from his contemporaries. Melville's works typically fall under the genres of adventure sea fiction and philosophical novels drawing heavily from his own experiences as a sailor on the whaleship Acushnet. His most iconic works such as 'Moby-Dick' and 'Typee' have captivated readers with their sweeping narratives memorable characters and thought-provoking themes cementing Melville's status as a literary master. What makes his books so enduringly popular is their ability to transcend time and touch on universal concerns inviting readers to ponder the complexities of human nature and the mysteries of the universe.
1. Mardi and a voyage thither (1800) Buy on Amazon
2. Mardi / Omoo / Typee (1813) Buy on Amazon
3. Typee (1840) Buy on Amazon
4. The story of Toby (1846) Buy on Amazon
5. Omoo (1847) Buy on Amazon
6. Typee or A narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands or A peep at Polynesian life (1847) Buy on Amazon
7. Redburn (1849) Buy on Amazon
8. White-Jacket (1850) Buy on Amazon
9. Moby Dick (1851) Buy on Amazon
10. One hundred cottage stories for boys (1851) Buy on Amazon
11. Moby-Dick; or the Whale. by Herman Melville (1851) Buy on Amazon
12. The whale (1851) Buy on Amazon
13. Pierre or the Ambiguities (1852) Buy on Amazon
14. My own cottage stories for summer hours (1852) Buy on Amazon
15. Israel Potter (1855) Buy on Amazon
16. Piazza Tales (1856) Buy on Amazon
17. The Confidence Man (1857) Buy on Amazon
18. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) Buy on Amazon
19. Clarel (1876) Buy on Amazon
20. John Marr and other sailors with some sea-pieces (1888) Buy on Amazon
21. Billy Budd (1900) Buy on Amazon
22. Short Novels of the Masters (1901) Buy on Amazon
23. Billy Budd and other stories (1911) Buy on Amazon
24. The Apple-Tree Table (1922) Buy on Amazon
25. John Marr and Other Poems (1922) Buy on Amazon
26. Some personal letters of Herman Melville and a bibliography (1922) Buy on Amazon
27. The Works of Herman Melville (1922) Buy on Amazon
28. Poems containing Battle-pieces John Marr and other sailors Timoleon and miscellaneous poems (1924) Buy on Amazon
29. Selected Writings of Herman Melville (1924) Buy on Amazon
30. Billy Budd and other prose pieces (1924) Buy on Amazon
31. a narrative of adventures in the south seas (1925) Buy on Amazon
32. Benito Cereno (1926) Buy on Amazon
33. Novels (Bartleby the Scrivener / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd / Encantadas) (1928) Buy on Amazon
34. Romances of Herman Melville (Israel Potter / Mardi and a Voyage Thither / Moby Dick / Omoo / Redburn / Typee / White-Jacket) (1928) Buy on Amazon
35. Family correspondence of Herman Melville 1830-1904 (1929) Buy on Amazon
36. Representative Selections (1938) Buy on Amazon
37. Great Short Works of Herman Melville (1940) Buy on Amazon
38. The Encantadas (1940) Buy on Amazon
39. Novellas (Billy Budd / Encantadas) (1940) Buy on Amazon
40. The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles (1940) Buy on Amazon
41. Selected poems (1944) Buy on Amazon
42. Collected Poems (1947) Buy on Amazon
43. The Complete Stories of Herman Melville (1949) Buy on Amazon
44. The poetry of the Negro 1746-1970 (1949) Buy on Amazon
45. Selected Tales and Poems (1950) Buy on Amazon
46. Selected Tales and Poems By Herman Melville (1950) Buy on Amazon
47. Taipi (1951) Buy on Amazon
48. The Portable Melville (1952) Buy on Amazon
49. The United States in Literature (1952) Buy on Amazon
50. Future perfect (1955) Buy on Amazon
51. Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1956) Buy on Amazon
52. Billy Budd and THe Piazza Tales (1956) Buy on Amazon
53. Great American Short Stories (1957) Buy on Amazon
54. Billy Budd / Typee (1958) Buy on Amazon
55. Works (Billy Budd / Story of Toby / Typee) (1958) Buy on Amazon
56. The letters of Herman Melville (1960) Buy on Amazon
57. Billy Budd and Other Tales (1961) Buy on Amazon
58. Works (Billy Budd / Piazza Tales) (1961) Buy on Amazon
59. Moby Dick or The White Whale (1961) Buy on Amazon
60. Billy Bud (A Signet Classic CT 75) (1961) Buy on Amazon
61. Novels (Bartleby the Scrivener / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd) (1962) Buy on Amazon
62. Billy Budd Sailor (An Inside Narrative) (1962) Buy on Amazon
63. Selected Poems of Herman Melville (1964) Buy on Amazon
64. Novellas (Benito Cereno / Billy Budd) (1965) Buy on Amazon
65. Melville's marginalia (1965) Buy on Amazon
66. American Short Stories (1965) Buy on Amazon
67. Billy Budd - Benito Cereno. (1965) Buy on Amazon
68. Bartleby the Scrivener (1966) Buy on Amazon
69. White Jacket or the World in a Man-of-War (1966) Buy on Amazon
70. The experience of literature (1967) Buy on Amazon
71. Billy Budd Sailor & Other Stories (1967) Buy on Amazon
72. Short Stories -- Classic Modern Contemporary (1967) Buy on Amazon
73. Five Tales (Bartleby the Scrivener / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd / I and My Chimney / Lightning-Rod Man) (1967) Buy on Amazon
74. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Billy Budd / Red Badge of Courage / Scarlet Letter (1969) Buy on Amazon
75. Timoleon (1970) Buy on Amazon
76. On the Slain Collegians (1971) Buy on Amazon
77. Cetology (1973) Buy on Amazon
78. Herman Melville's Authentic anecdotes of Old Zack (1973) Buy on Amazon
79. Poems of Herman Melville (1976) Buy on Amazon
80. Moby Dick of the White Whale (1979) Buy on Amazon
81. Billy Budd Sailor and Other Stories (1982) Buy on Amazon
82. The Lightning-Rod Man (1982) Buy on Amazon
83. Redburn / White-Jacket / Moby-Dick (1983) Buy on Amazon
84. Works (Billy Budd / Confidence-Man / Moby Dick / Piazza Tales) (1984) Buy on Amazon
85. Works (Billy Budd / Moby Dick) (1984) Buy on Amazon
86. Pierre / Israel Potter / The Piazza Tales / The Confidence-Man / Uncollected Prose / Billy Budd (1984) Buy on Amazon
87. Best of Herman Melville (Israel Potter / Moby Dick / Omoo / Typee) (1984) Buy on Amazon
88. Herman Melville Classic Stories (Bartleby the Scrivener / Bell Tower / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd / Encantadas / Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids / Piazza) (1986) Buy on Amazon
89. The Short Story (1987) Buy on Amazon
90. The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860 (1987) Buy on Amazon
91. Billy Budd Sailor (1988) Buy on Amazon
92. At the hostelry ; and Naples in the time of Bomba (1989) Buy on Amazon
93. Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience (1989) Buy on Amazon
94. Novels (Bartleby the Scrivener / Benito Cereno) (1990) Buy on Amazon
95. Correspondence (The Writings of Herman Melville) (1993) Buy on Amazon
96. Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Fishing Stories (1996) Buy on Amazon
97. Billy Budd Sailor and Selected Tales (1997) Buy on Amazon
98. The Complete Shorter Fiction (1997) Buy on Amazon
99. BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER A Story of Wall Street--The Original 1853 Text (1997) Buy on Amazon
100. Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices Timeless Themes--The American Experience (1999) Buy on Amazon
101. Bartleby the Scrivener and Other Stories (Bartleby the Scrivener / Bell-Tower / Lightning-Rod Man) (1999) Buy on Amazon
102. Moby-Dick Billy Budd and other writings (2000) Buy on Amazon
103. Noveletas by Herman Melville (2000) Buy on Amazon
104. Tales Poems and Other Writings (2001) Buy on Amazon
105. The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading Thinking Writing--Sixth Edition (2002) Buy on Amazon
106. Published poems (2002) Buy on Amazon
107. Literature The Human Experience Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition (2003) Buy on Amazon
108. Works (Moby Dick / Typee) (2004) Buy on Amazon
109. Redburn ; Vareuse-blanche (2004) Buy on Amazon
110. Novels (Bartleby the Scrivener / Bell-Tower / Encantadas) (2005) Buy on Amazon
111. The encantadas and other stories (2005) Buy on Amazon
112. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition (2006) Buy on Amazon
113. Collected Works of Herman Melville (2007) Buy on Amazon
114. Billy Budd and the Encantadas (2008) Buy on Amazon
115. The whiteness (2008) Buy on Amazon
116. Happy Failure (2009) Buy on Amazon
117. I and My Chimney (2009) Buy on Amazon
118. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition (2009) Buy on Amazon
119. Fiddler (2009) Buy on Amazon
120. Daniel Orme (2009) Buy on Amazon
121. Two Temples (2009) Buy on Amazon
122. Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids (2009) Buy on Amazon
123. Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! or the Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano (2009) Buy on Amazon
124. Piazza (2009) Buy on Amazon
125. Billy Budd Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings (2009) Buy on Amazon
126. The Happy Failure (2009) Buy on Amazon
127. The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition (2010) Buy on Amazon
128. Moby Dick Graphic Novel (2010) Buy on Amazon
129. Moby Dick or the Whale - Original Version (2010) Buy on Amazon
130. Die Encantadas (2011) Buy on Amazon
131. Billy Budd Vortoppmann Auf der Indomitable (2011) Buy on Amazon
132. Romances of Herman Melville (2011) Buy on Amazon
133. Encantadas and Other Stories (2012) Buy on Amazon
134. Confidence-Man and Billy Budd Sailor (2012) Buy on Amazon
135. The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (2012) Buy on Amazon
136. Redburn - His First Voyage (2013) Buy on Amazon
137. Omoo Oder Abenteuer Im Stillen Ocean (2013) Buy on Amazon
138. Moby Dick; or the Whale (2014) Buy on Amazon
139. Moby Dick (Chinese Edition) (2014) Buy on Amazon
140. The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition (2015) Buy on Amazon
141. Omoo : Adventures in the South Seas (2015) Buy on Amazon
142. Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (2015) Buy on Amazon
143. Bartleby the Scrivener : By Herman Melville (2016) Buy on Amazon
144. Sea Stories (2016) Buy on Amazon
145. Encantadas or Enchanted Isles (2017) Buy on Amazon
146. Typee by Herman Melville (2017) Buy on Amazon
147. Bell-Tower (2017) Buy on Amazon
148. Encantadas (2017) Buy on Amazon
149. Confidence-Man (2019) Buy on Amazon
150. Pierre (2019) Buy on Amazon
151. Moby Dick- Annotated (2019) Buy on Amazon
152. Bartleby (2019) Buy on Amazon
153. Moby Dick (Collins Classics) (2019) Buy on Amazon
154. Bartleby the Scrivener a Story of Wall-Street (2019) Buy on Amazon
155. Mardi and a Voyage Thither Vol. II (of 2) (2019) Buy on Amazon
156. Billy Budd Foretopman (2019) Buy on Amazon
157. Mardi and a Voyage Thither Vol. I (of 2) (2019) Buy on Amazon
158. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (2020) Buy on Amazon
159. Typee Illustrated (2020) Buy on Amazon
160. Redburn Illustrated (2020) Buy on Amazon
161. Confidence-Man : His Masquerade (2020) Buy on Amazon
162. Moby Dick o la Ballena Blanca (Spanish Edition) (2020) Buy on Amazon
163. Confidence (2020) Buy on Amazon
164. Short Fiction (2020) Buy on Amazon
165. Omoo : Adventures in the South Seas: (5*8) (2020) Buy on Amazon
166. Moby-Dick; the Whale (2020) Buy on Amazon
167. Redburn Illutrated (2020) Buy on Amazon
168. Typee : (6*9) (2020) Buy on Amazon
169. Bartleby the Scrivener Illustrated (2021) Buy on Amazon
170. Mardi (2021) Buy on Amazon
171. Moby-Dick Illustrated (2021) Buy on Amazon
172. Typee Annotated (2021) Buy on Amazon
173. I Would Prefer Not To (2021) Buy on Amazon
174. Redburn-Classic Original Edition(Annotated) (2021) Buy on Amazon
175. Mardi : And a Voyage Thither Vol. I (2021) Buy on Amazon
176. Apple-Tree Table (2021) Buy on Amazon
177. Moby Dick (GoodVibeRead Edition) (2021) Buy on Amazon
178. Bartleby the Scrivener (Annotated) (2021) Buy on Amazon
179. Redburn(Annotated) (2021) Buy on Amazon
180. Moby Dick : a Classics (2021) Buy on Amazon
181. Bartle (2021) Buy on Amazon
182. Moby Dick (a Classics Novel by Herman Melville) (2021) Buy on Amazon
183. Israel Potter His Fifty Years of Exile (2021) Buy on Amazon
184. Redburn-Classic Original Edition;illustrated (2021) Buy on Amazon
185. Moby-Dick or the WHALE (Annotated) (2021) Buy on Amazon
186. Typee Herman Melville (Illustrated) (2021) Buy on Amazon
187. Moby Dick by Herman Melville Illustrated Novel (2021) Buy on Amazon
188. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Illustrated) (2021) Buy on Amazon
189. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville(Annotated) (2021) Buy on Amazon
190. Typee by Melville Annoated Edition (2021) Buy on Amazon
191. Moby-Dick; or the Whale; Volume 2 (2022) Buy on Amazon
192. Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches (2022) Buy on Amazon
193. White Jacket; or the World on a Man-Of-War (2022) Buy on Amazon
About Herman Melville
Herman Melville was a celebrated American novelist and author born on August 1 1819 in New York City. Growing up on the East Coast Melville's exposure to the sea and its cultures deeply influenced his writing. He began his career as a sailor traveling extensively before turning to literature drawing from his experiences to craft rich narratives that captivated readers.
Melville's distinctive writing style characterized by poetic language philosophical introspection and a keen sense of humanity has made his books enduring favorites among readers. With a unique ability to weave together disparate elements from the mundane to the sublime Melville's novels explore fundamental questions about existence morality and the human condition. His writing often defies easy categorization deftly blending elements of realism romance and allegory to create complex thought-provoking works.
Melville's novels have a way of engaging readers on multiple levels inviting them to immerse themselves in his vivid often contradictory worlds. His characters with their contradictions and complexities are both deeply human and transcendent inspiring readers to reflect on their own place within the larger scheme of things. This blend of accessibility and depth has contributed to Melville's enduring popularity solidifying his position as one of the greatest American authors of his generation.