Michael Crichton bibliography explained

Author:	Michael Crichton
Novel:	29
Novellink:	Novels
Story:	10
Storylink:	Short stories
Option:	4
Optionname:	Nonfiction
Reflink:	References

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote 28 novels and his books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films.

Bibliography

Novels

Year	Title	Notes	Novel	Under Own Name	Published after Death	Adapted into Film	Ref.
1966	Odds On	as John Lange	1	No	No	No	^[1]
1967	Scratch One	as John Lange	2	No	No	No	^[2]
1968	Easy Go	as John Lange (also titled as The Last Tomb)	3	No	No	No	^[3]
1968	A Case of Need	as Jeffery Hudson (re-released as Crichton in 1993)	4	No	No	Yes	^[4]
1969	Zero Cool	as John Lange	5	No	No	No	^[5]
1969	The Andromeda Strain		6	Yes	No	Yes	^[6]
1969	The Venom Business	as John Lange	7	No	No	No	^[7]
1970	Drug of Choice	as John Lange (also titled Overkill)	8	No	No	No	^[8]
1970	Dealing	as Michael Douglas (with brother Douglas Crichton)	9	No	No	Yes	^[9]
1970	Grave Descend	as John Lange	10	No	No	No	^[10]
1972	Binary	as John Lange (re-released as by Crichton in 1993)	11	No	No	Yes	^[11]
1972	The Terminal Man		12	Yes	No	Yes	^[12]
1975	The Great Train Robbery		13	Yes	No	Yes	^[13]
1976	Eaters of the Dead	also titled The 13th Warrior	14	Yes	No	Yes	^[14]
1980	Congo		15	Yes	No	Yes	^[15]
1987	Sphere		16	Yes	No	Yes	^[16]
1990	Jurassic Park		17	Yes	No	Yes	^[17]
1992	Rising Sun		18	Yes	No	Yes	^[18]
1994	Disclosure		19	Yes	No	Yes	^[19]
1995	The Lost World		20	Yes	No	Yes	^[20]
1996	Airframe		21	Yes	No	No	^[21]
1999	Timeline		22	Yes	No	Yes	^[22]
2002	Prey		23	Yes	No	No	^[23]
2004	State of Fear		24	Yes	No	No	^[24]
2006	Next		25	Yes	No	No	^[25]
2009	Pirate Latitudes	Posthumous publication	26	Yes	Yes	No	^[26]
2011	Micro	Posthumous publication (completed by Richard Preston)	27	Yes	Yes	No	^[27]
2017	Dragon Teeth	Posthumous publication	28	Yes	Yes	No	^[28]
2024	Eruption	Posthumous publication (completed by James Patterson)	29	Yes	Yes	No	^[29]

Short fiction

Year	Title	Originally published	Notes
1957	"Johnny at 8:30"	First Words (1993)	poem
1960	"[Untitled]"	First Words (1993)	fan titled Well, Nothing.
1961	"Life Goes to a Party"	First Words (1993)
1961	"The Most Important Part of the Lab"	First Words (1993)
1968	"Villa of Assassins"	Stag Annual (1968)	as John Lange; excerpted from Scratch One (1967)
1968	"How Does That Make You Feel?"	Playboy (November 1968)	as Jeffrey Hudson
1970	"The Death Divers"	Man's World (December 1970)	as John Lange; excerpted from Grave Descend (1970)
1971	"The Most Powerful Tailor in the World"	Playboy (September 1971)
1984	"Mousetrap: A Tale of Computer Crime"	Life (January 1984)
2003	"Blood Doesn't Come Out"	McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (2003)

Post-Crichton novel

!Year!Title!Author!Ref.

2019

The Andromeda Evolution

Daniel H. Wilson

^[30]

Nonfiction

Year	Title
1970	Five Patients
1977	Jasper Johns
1983	Electronic Life
1988	Travels

Film and television

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1973	Extreme Close-Up
	Westworld
1978	Coma
1979	The Great Train Robbery				Also based on his novel
1981	Looker
1984	Runaway
1989	Physical Evidence
1993	Jurassic Park				Also based on his novel
	Rising Sun
1994	Disclosure
1996	Twister
1998	Sphere				Also based on his novel
1999	The 13th Warrior				Uncredited reshoots Director Also based on his novel

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Notes
1971–1974	Insight				Episodes "The War of the Eggs", "Killer" & "The Theft"
1972	Pursuit				TV movie Also based on his 1972 novel "Binary"
1994–2009	ER				Also creator

Derivative works

Films based on Crichton's novels

Year	Title	Director
1971	The Andromeda Strain	Robert Wise
1972	Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues	Paul Williams
	The Carey Treatment (A Case of Need)	Blake Edwards
1974	The Terminal Man	Mike Hodges
1979	The Great Train Robbery	Michael Crichton
1993	Jurassic Park	Steven Spielberg
	Rising Sun	Philip Kaufman
1994	Disclosure	Barry Levinson
1995	Congo	Frank Marshall
1997		Steven Spielberg
1998	Sphere	Barry Levinson
1999	The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead)	John McTiernan
2001	Jurassic Park III (based on characters created by Crichton)	Joe Johnston
2003	Timeline	Richard Donner
2015	Jurassic World (based on characters created by Crichton)	Colin Trevorrow
2018	(based on characters created by Crichton)	J. A. Bayona
2022	Jurassic World Dominion (based on characters created by Crichton)	Colin Trevorrow
2025	Jurassic World Rebirth (based on characters created by Crichton)	Gareth Edwards

Sequel to Crichton's film

Year	Title	Director
1976	Futureworld (sequel to Westworld)	Richard T. Heffron
2024	Twisters (based on characters created by Crichton; sequel to Twister)	Lee Isaac Chung

Television series based on Crichton's films

Year	Title	Network	Producers
1980	Beyond Westworld		Lou Shaw
2016–2022	Westworld		J. J. Abrams, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy

In development

Year	Title	Network	Producers
TBA	Dragon Teeth		TBA
TBA	Sphere		TBA^[31]

Notes and References

1. Book: Odds On . John Lange. Odds On.
2. Book: Scratch One . John Lange. Scratch One.
3. Book: Easy Go . John Lange. Easy Go (novel).
4. Book: A Case of Need . Jeffery Hudson . 978-0-525-93802-6. A Case of Need . 1993-08-01 . Dutton.
5. Book: Zero Cool . John Lange . 978-0-8439-5959-8. Zero Cool . 2008 . Dorchester Publishing Company, Incorporated.
6. Book: The Andromeda Strain . Michael Crichton . 978-0-394-41525-3. The Andromeda Strain . 1969 . Knopf.
7. Book: The Venom Business . John Lange. The Venom Business.
8. Book: Drug of Choice . John Lange . 978-0-451-04116-6. Drug of Choice . 1970 . Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated.
9. Book: Dealing . Michael Douglas . 978-0-394-42168-1. Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues . 1971 . Knopf.
10. Book: Grave Descend . John Lange . 978-0-8439-5597-2. Grave Descend . 2006 . Dorchester Publishing Company, Incorporated.
11. Book: Binary. Lange. 978-0-394-47987-3. Knopf. 1972. Binary (novel).
12. Book: The Terminal Man . Michael Crichton . 978-0-394-44768-1. The Terminal Man . 1972 . Knopf.
13. Book: The Great Train Robbery . Michael Crichton . 978-0-394-49401-2. The Great Train Robbery (novel) . 1975-05-12 . Knopf.
14. Book: Eaters of the Dead . Michael Crichton . 978-0-394-49400-5. Eaters of the Dead . 1976 . Knopf.
15. Book: Congo . Michael Crichton . 978-0-394-51392-8. Congo (novel) . 1980 . Knopf.
16. Book: Sphere . Michael Crichton . 978-0-394-56110-3. Sphere (novel) . 1987 . Knopf.
17. Book: Jurassic Park . Michael Crichton . 978-0-394-58816-2. Jurassic Park (novel) . 1990 . Knopf.
18. Book: Rising Sun . Michael Crichton . 978-0-345-38037-1. Rising Sun (Crichton novel) . 1993 . Ballantine Books.
19. Book: Disclosure . Michael Crichton . 978-0-679-41945-7. Disclosure (novel) . 1994.
20. Book: The Lost World . Michael Crichton . 978-0-679-41946-4. The Lost World (Crichton novel) . 1995.
21. Book: Airframe . Michael Crichton . 978-0-679-44648-4. Airframe (novel) . 1996.
22. Book: Timeline . Michael Crichton . 978-0-679-44481-7. Timeline (novel) . 1999 . Alfred A. Knopf.
23. Book: Prey . Michael Crichton . 978-0-679-44481-7. Prey (novel) . 1999 . Alfred A. Knopf.
24. Book: State of Fear . Michael Crichton . 978-0-06-621413-9. State of Fear . 2004-12-07 . Harper Collins.
25. Book: Next . Michael Crichton . 978-0-06-087298-4. Next (Crichton novel) . 2006-11-28 . Harper Collins.
26. Book: Pirate Latitudes . Michael Crichton . 978-0-06-192937-3. Pirate Latitudes . November 24, 2009 . Harper Collins.
27. News: New Crichton novel coming in the fall . USA Today . May 22, 2011.
28. Web site: HarperCollins to Publish Found Novel by Late Michael Crichton. Publishers Weekly.
29. Web site: BREAKING: #MichaelCrichton and #JamesPatterson co-authored novel gets TITLE and RELEASE DATE.. X.
30. News: Don Oldenburg. November 14, 2019. 'The Andromeda Evolution' an infectious sequel to Michael Crichton's classic best-seller. USA Today.
31. Hibberd. James. Michael Crichton's novel Sphere is getting an HBO adaptation. Entertainment Weekly. 27 August 2020.