Victor Appleton is the collective pseudonym for American authors who created the Tom Swift series of juvenile adventure novels. The series has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, establishing a lasting legacy in children’s literature. This page provides the Victor Appleton books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.
1910 Tom Swift and His Airship / The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud PO · 3 No link
1910 Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle / Fun and Adventure on the Road PO · 1 No link
1910 Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat / The Rivals of Lake Carlopa PO · 2 No link
1910 Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat / Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure PO · 4 No link
1910 Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout / The Speediest Car on the Road PO · 5 No link
1911 Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle / Daring Adventures in Elephant Island PO · 9 No link
1911 Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice / The Wreck of the Airship PO · 10 No link
1911 Tom Swift and His Wireless Message / The Castaways of Earthquake Island PO · 6 No link
1911 Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers / The Secret of Phantom Mountain PO · 7 No link
1911 Tom Swift and His Sky Racer / The Quickest Flight on Record PO · 8 No link
1912 Tom Swift in the City of Gold / Marvelous Adventures Underground PO · 11 No link
1912 Tom Swift and His Air Glider / Seeking the Platinum Treasure PO · 12 No link
1912 Tom Swift in Captivity / A Daring Escape by Airship PO · 13 No link
1912 Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera / Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures PO · 14 No link
1912 Tom Swift and His Great Search Light / On the Border for Uncle Sam PO · 15 No link
1913 Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon / The Longest Shots on Record PO · 16 No link
1913 The Moving Picture Boys in the Jungle PO · 1 No link
1913 The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast PO · 2 No link
1913 The Moving Picture Boys in the West PO · 3 No link
1913 The Moving Picture Boys in Earthquake Land PO · 4 No link
1914 Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone / The Picture That Saved a Fortune PO · 17 No link
1914 The Moving Picture Boys and the Flood PO · 5 No link
1915 Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship / The Naval Terror of the Seas PO · 18 No link
1915 The Moving Picture Boys at Panama PO · 6 No link
1916 Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel / The Hidden City of the Andes PO · 19 No link
1916 The Moving Picture Boys Under the Sea PO · 7 No link
1917 Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders / The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold PO · 20 No link
1918 Tom Swift and His War Tank / Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam PO · 21 No link
1918 The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front PO · 8 No link
1919 Tom Swift and His Air Scout / Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky PO · 22 No link
1919 The Moving Picture Boys on the French Battlefields PO · 9 No link
1920 Tom Swift and His Undersea Search / The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic PO · 23 No link
1921 Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters / Battling with Flames in the Air / Tom Swift and the Flaming Air Battle PO · 24 No link
1922 Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive / Two Miles a Minute on the Rails PO · 25 No link
1923 Tom Swift and His Flying Boat / Castaways of the Giant Iceberg PO · 26 No link
1924 Tom Swift and His Great Oil Gusher / The Treasure of Goby Farm PO · 27 No link
1925 Don Sturdy on the Desert of Mystery / Autoing in the Land of Caravans PO · 1 No link
1925 Don Sturdy with the Big Snake Hunters / Lost in the Jungles of the Amazon PO · 2 No link
1925 Don Sturdy in the Tombs of Gold / The Old Egyptian's Great Secret PO · 3 No link
1925 Don Sturdy Across the North Pole / Cast Away in the Land of Ice PO · 4 No link
1925 Don Sturdy in the Land of Volcanoes / The Trail of the Ten Thousand Smokes PO · 5 No link
1925 Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets / Tracing the Stolen Inventions PO · 28 No link
1926 Don Sturdy in the Port of Lost Ships / Adrift in the Sargasso Sea PO · 6 No link
1926 Tom Swift and His Airline Express / From Ocean to Ocean by Daylight PO · 29 No link
1927 Don Sturdy Among the Gorillas / Adrift in the Great Jungle PO · 7 No link
1927 Tom Swift Circling the Globe / The Daring Cruise of the Air Monarch PO · 30 No link
1928 Don Sturdy Captured by Head Hunters / Adrift in the Wilds of Borneo PO · 8 No link
1928 Tom Swift and His Talking Pictures / The Greatest Invention on Record PO · 31 No link
1929 Don Sturdy in Lion Land / The Strange Clearing in the Jungle PO · 9 No link
1929 Tom Swift and His House on Wheels / A Trip Around the Mountain of Mystery PO · 32 No link
1930 Don Sturdy in the Land of Giants / Captives of the Savage Patagonians PO · 10 No link
1930 Tom Swift and His Big Dirigible / Adventures Over the Forest of Fire PO · 33 No link
1931 Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom / The Strange Cruise of the Phantom PO · 11 No link
1931 Tom Swift and His Sky Train / Overland Through the Clouds PO · 34 No link
1932 Don Sturdy in the Temples of Fear / Destined for a Strange Sacrifice PO · 12 No link
1932 Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet / Bringing Up the Lost Submarine PO · 35 No link
1933 Don Sturdy Lost in Glacier Bay / The Mystery of the Moving Totem Poles PO · 13 No link
1933 Tom Swift and His Television Detector / Trailing the Secret Plotters PO · 36 No link
1934 Don Sturdy Trapped in the Flaming Wilderness / Unearthing Secrets in Central Asia PO · 14 No link
1934 Tom Swift and His Ocean Airport / Foiling the Haargolanders PO · 37 No link
1935 Don Sturdy with the Harpoon Hunters / The Strange Cruise of the Whaling Ship PO · 15 No link
1935 Tom Swift and His Planet Stone / Discovering the Secret of Another World PO · 38 No link
1939 Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope PO · 39 No link
1941 Tom Swift and His Magnetic Silencer PO · 40 No link
1954 Tom Swift and His Flying Lab PO · 1 No link
1954 Tom Swift and His Jetmarine PO · 2 No link
1954 Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship PO · 3 No link
1954 Tom Swift and His Giant Robot PO · 4 No link
1954 Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster PO · 5 No link
1955 Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space / Tom Swift and His Sky Wheel PO · 6 No link
1956 Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter PO · 7 No link
1956 Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire PO · 8 No link
1956 Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite PO · 9 No link
1957 Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane PO · 10 No link
1958 Tom Swift and His Deep-Sea Hydrodome PO · 11 No link
1958 Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon PO · 12 No link
1958 Tom Swift and His Space Solartron PO · 13 No link
1959 Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope / Tom Swift in the Jungle of the Mayas PO · 14 No link
1959 Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector / Tom Swift and the City of Gold PO · 15 No link
1960 Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts PO · 16 No link
1961 Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X PO · 17 No link
1961 Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung PO · 18 No link
1962 Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar PO · 19 No link
1962 Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober PO · 20 No link
1963 Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates PO · 21 No link
1963 Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway PO · 22 No link
1964 Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker PO · 23 No link
1964 Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector PO · 24 No link
1965 Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere PO · 25 No link
1965 Tom Swift and His Sonic Boom Trap PO · 26 No link
1966 Tom Swift and His Sub-ocean Geotron PO · 27 No link
1966 Tom Swift and the Mystery Comet PO · 28 No link
1967 Tom Swift and the Captive Planetoid PO · 29 No link
1968 Tom Swift and His G-Force Inverter PO · 30 No link
1969 Tom Swift and His Dyna-4 Capsule PO · 31 No link
1970 Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express PO · 32 No link
1981 The City in the Stars PO · 1 No link
1981 Terror on the Moons of Jupiter PO · 2 No link
1981 The Alien Probe PO · 3 No link
1981 The War in Outer Space PO · 4 No link
1981 The Astral Fortress PO · 5 No link
1981 The Rescue Mission PO · 6 No link
1982 Ark Two PO · 7 No link
1982 Crater of Mystery PO · 8 No link
1983 The Gateway to Doom PO · 9 No link
1983 The Invisible Force PO · 10 No link
1984 Planet of Nightmares PO · 11 No link
1991 The Black Dragon PO · 1 No link
1991 The Negative Zone PO · 2 No link
1991 The DNA Disaster PO · 4 No link
1991 Monster Machine PO · 5 No link
1991 Aquatech Warriors PO · 6 No link
1991 Cyborg Kickboxer PO · 3 No link
1992 Moonstalker PO · 7 No link
1992 The Microbots PO · 8 No link
1992 Fire Biker PO · 9 No link
1992 Mind Games PO · 10 No link
1992 Mutant Beach PO · 11 No link
1993 Death Quake PO · 12 No link
1993 Quantum Force PO · 13 No link
2006 Into the Abyss PO · 1 No link
2006 The Robot Olympics PO · 2 No link
2006 The Space Hotel PO · 3 No link
2007 Rocket Racers PO · 4 No link
2007 On Top of the World PO · 5 No link
2007 Under the Radar PO · 6 No link
2010 Tom Swift and His EnvirOzone Revivicator PO · 1 No link
2010 Tom Swift and His QuieTurbine Skyliner PO · 2 No link
2011 Tom Swift and His Transcontinental BulleTrain PO · 3 No link
2011 Tom Swift and His Oceanic SubLiminator PO · 4 No link
2011 Tom Swift and His Cyclonic Eradicator PO · 5 No link
2011 Tom Swift: Galactic Ambassador PO · 6 No link
2012 Tom Swift and the Paradox Planet PO · 7 No link
2012 Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts PO · 8 No link
2013 Tom Swift and His Martian TerraVironment PO · 9 No link
2013 Tom Swift and His Tectonic Interrupter PO · 10 No link
2013 Tom Swift and the AntiInferno Suppressor PO · 11 No link
2014 Tom Swift and the High Space L-Evator PO · 12 No link
2014 Tom Swift and the IntraEarth Invaders PO · 13 No link
2014 Tom Swift and His Tectonic Interrupter(By: Thomas Hudson) PO · 14 No link
2014 Tom Swift and the AntiInferno Suppressor(By: Thomas Hudson) PO · 15 No link
2014 Tom Swift and the Coupe of Invisibility PO · 16 No link
2015 Tom Swift and the Yesterday Machine PO · 17 No link
2016 Tom Swift and the Reconstructed Planet PO · 18 No link
2016 Tom Swift and His NanoSurgery Brigade PO · 19 No link
2016 Tom Swift and His Thermo-Ion Jetpack PO · 20 No link
2016 Tom Swift and the Atlantean HydroWay PO · 21 No link
2018 Tom Swift and the Martian Moon Re-Placement(With:Thomas Hudson) PO · 22 No link
2018 Tom Swift and the Venusian InvulnoSuit(With:Thomas Hudson) PO · 23 No link
2018 Tom Swift and the HoverCity(With:Thomas Hudson) PO · 24 No link
2019 Tom Swift and the SubNeptunian Circumnavigation(With:Thomas Hudson) PO · 25 No link
2019 Tom Swift and the Marianas Aquanoids(With:Thomas Hudson,T. Edward Fox) PO · 26 No link
2019 Tom Swift and His Hypersonic SpacePlane(With:Thomas Hudson,T. Edward Fox) PO · 27 No link
2019 The Drone Pursuit PO · 1 No link
2019 The Sonic Breach PO · 2 No link
2019 Restricted Access PO · 3 No link
2020 The Virtual Vandal PO · 4 No link
2020 The Spybot Invasion PO · 5 No link
2021 Augmented Reality PO · 6 No link
2021 The Blurred Blogger PO · 7 No link
2022 Depth Perception PO · 8 No link
2023 Tom Swift and His Cybernetic Planeteers PO · 28 No link
2023 Tom Swift and His Flying RaceYacht PO · 29 No link