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Jack London Books in Order

156 books are credited to Jack London, published between 1899 and 2020; 82 of them appeared after Jack London's death in 1916. The first book is The Wisdom Of The Trail (1899) and the newest is Jack London's Stories for Boys (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
156
Published
1899–2020
Pages on record
20,840 in 109 of 156 books
Reading time
347–521 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 20,840 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 109 of 156 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Jack London, author of the Dogs of the Islands series

Jack London (January 12, 1876 to November 22, 1916), born John Griffith Chaney, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. London helped pioneer commercial fiction and the American magazine, and became one of the first American writers to win international celebrity and a large fortune from writing. A member of the radical San Francisco literary group "The Crowd", London campaigned for animal welfare, workers' rights and socialism. Those causes shaped The Iron Heel, a dystopian novel, and The People of the Abyss, a non-fiction exposé, as well as War of the Classes and Before Adam. The catalogue lists 156 titles from The Wisdom Of The Trail (1899), including The Son of the Wolf (1900) and Children of the Frost (1902).

How many Jack London books are there?

Jack London has 156 books, released between 1899 and 2020. 82 of them were published after Jack London's death in 1916. 2 of them belong to the Dogs of the Islands series.

Jack London Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 156 Jack London books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London (1902)
  2. Cover of The Faith of Men and Other Stories by Jack London (1902)
  3. Cover of The Cruise of the Dazzler by Jack London (1902)
  4. Cover of To Build a Fire by Jack London (1903)
  5. Cover of The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London (1903)
  6. Cover of How I Became a Socialist by Jack London (1903)
  7. Cover of The Call of the Wild and Typhoon by Jack London (1903)
  8. Cover of White Fang by Jack London (1906)
  9. Cover of Brown Wolf and Other Stories by Jack London (1906)
  10. Cover of The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London (1906)
  11. Cover of The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1907)
  12. Cover of The Road by Jack London (1907)
  13. Cover of To Build a Fire and Other Stories by Jack London (1908)
  14. Cover of The Strength of the Strong by Jack London (1909)
  15. Cover of Theft by Jack London (1910)
  16. Cover of The Taste of the Meat by Jack London (1910)
  17. Cover of The Abysmal Brute by Jack London (1911)
  18. Cover of South Sea Tales by Jack London (1911)
  19. Cover of A Daughter of the Aurora/A Piece of Steak by Jack London (1911)
  20. Cover of A Son of the Sun by Jack London (1912)
  21. Cover of The House of Pride by Jack London (1912)
  22. Cover of John Barleycorn by Jack London (1913)
  23. Cover of The Star Rover by Jack London (1914)
  24. Cover of The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London (1914)
  1. 1
    The Wisdom Of The Trail1899 · confirmed 2/4
    1899–
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  2. 2
    The Son of the Wolf1900 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1900112
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  3. 4
    The Man with the Gash1900 · confirmed 2/4
    1900–
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  4. 5
    The God of His Fathers1901 · confirmed 2/4
    1901–
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  5. 6
    A Daughter of the Snows1902 · 277 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1902277
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  6. 7
    Burning Daylight1902 · confirmed 2/4
    1902–
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  7. 9
    Children of the Frost1902 · confirmed 2/4
    1902–
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  8. 10
    The Cruise of the Dazzler1902 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1902128
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  9. 11
    A Daughter of the Aurora1902 · confirmed 2/4
    1902–
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  10. 12
    The Death of Ligoun1902 · 24 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190224
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  11. 13
    The People of the Abyss1903 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1903112
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  12. 14
    The Kempton-Wace Letters1903 · confirmed 2/4
    1903–
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  13. 15
    Amateur Night1903 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190332
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  14. 16
    To Build a Fire1903 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190332
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  15. 17
    The Shadow and the Flash1903 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190364
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  16. 18
    How I Became a Socialist1903 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190348
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  17. 19
    The Marriage of Lit-Lit1903 · 45 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190345
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  18. 20
    Demetrios Contos1903 · confirmed 2/4
    1903–
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  19. 21
    The Call of the Wild and Typhoon1903 · 15 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190315
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  20. 22
    The Call of the Wild1903 · confirmed 2/4
    1903–
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  21. 23
    The Sea-Wolf1904 · confirmed 2/4
    1904–
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  22. 24
    The Game1905 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190548
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  23. 25
    The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories1905 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1905192
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  24. 26
    Tales of the Fish Patrol1905 · confirmed 2/4
    1905–
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  25. 27
    What Life Means to Me1905 · confirmed 2/4
    1905–
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  26. 28
    Love of Life1905 · confirmed 2/4
    1905–
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  27. 29
    The War of the Classes1906 · 64 pages · confirmed 2/4
    190664
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  28. 30
    White Fang1906 · confirmed 2/4
    1906–
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Jack London books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Dogs of the Islands in order

2 books
  1. 1. Jerry of the Islands
  2. 2. Michael Brother of Jerry

Perennial Library in order

1 book
  1. 7. Great Short Works Of Jack London

Standalone books

153 books

153 Jack London titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Jack London Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Jack London books run from The Wisdom Of The Trail (1899) to Jack London's Stories for Boys (2020), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Jack London in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Jack London books in order?

You only need to read Jack London books in order within the Dogs of the Islands series, which holds 2 of the 156 Jack London books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Jack London

Start with The Wisdom Of The Trail (1899), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jack London book?

Jack London's Stories for Boys (2020) is the newest Jack London book released so far.

Is there a new Jack London book coming?

No next Jack London book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Jack London at a glance

Died
Jack London died in 1916, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Jack London are still being published after Jack London's death in 1916; the newest appeared in 2020.
Release pace
Jack London books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
20,840 pages across the 109 of 156 books with a recorded length, a median of 128 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jack London books, 48 of 156, were published in the 1900s.

What the Jack London books are about

62 of the 156 Jack London books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: short stories is tagged on 11 of 62. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.