Return to Paradise (1951) is a collection of short stories written by American author James A. Michener.

In Return to Paradise, Michener revisits the islands and cultures of the South Pacific in the late 1940s, combining factual descriptions and tales set in such exotic places as Tahiti, Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia.

"[2] A. J. Liebling of The New Yorker wrote that Michener "has had to assume a number of expert roles, including those of anthropologist, linguist, historian, gastronome, economist, and expert on colonial administration, but he's handled this Hydra-headed assignment modestly and in an easy-going and sometimes distinguished style.

His fictional pieces, however, seem to have been tossed off without any long period of incubation, and the points they make, while undoubtedly estimable, are arrived at in fairly obvious ways.

Starring Gary Cooper and Roberta Haynes, it was directed by Mark Robson, who also brought The Bridges at Toko-Ri, another Michener book, to screen one year later.