# List of Tom Swift books

All books in the various Tom Swift book series. All books are credited to the pseudonym Victor Appleton (or, in the case of the Tom Swift Jr. series, Victor Appleton II), while the character was created by Edward Stratemeyer for his book packaging house, the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Counterparts to the Tom Swift character and series are later Stratemeyer creations, The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, the former of which Swift crossed over with in the fourth series.

## The original Tom Swift series

The first novels to feature the Tom Swift character were released in 1910 by Grosset & Dunlap. The series was created by Edward Stratemeyer, and written by several ghostwriters in its duration.
The first 38 titles were published by Grosset & Dunlap, with two ghostwriters: Howard Garis wrote the first thirty-five titles, while Harriet Adams wrote the final three. Two more titles were published as a part of the Big Little Book series (by rival Western Publishing), and were ghostwritten by Thomas Moyston Mitchell.
Title, authorship, publication date, and source text (when available) :
| # | Title | Public domain source | Pub. | Ghostwriter |
| 1 | Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle Or, Fun and Adventure on the Road | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1910 | Howard Garis |
| 2 | Tom Swift and His Motor Boat Or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1910 | Howard Garis |
| 3 | Tom Swift and His Airship Or, The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1910 | Howard Garis |
| 4 | Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1910 | Howard Garis |
| 5 | Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout Or, The Speediest Car on the Road | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1910 | Howard Garis |
| 6 | Tom Swift and His Wireless Message Or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1911 | Howard Garis |
| 7 | Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1911 | Howard Garis |
| 8 | Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice Or, The Wreck of the Airship | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1911 | Howard Garis |
| 9 | Tom Swift and His Sky Racer Or, The Quickest Flight on Record | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1911 | Howard Garis |
| 10 | Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle Or, Daring Adventures on Elephant Island | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1911 | Howard Garis |
| 11 | Tom Swift in the City of Gold Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1912 | Howard Garis |
| 12 | Tom Swift and His Air Glider Or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1912 | Howard Garis |
| 13 | Tom Swift in Captivity Or, A Daring Escape by Airship | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1912 | Howard Garis |
| 14 | Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera Or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1912 | Howard Garis |
| 15 | Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight Or, On the Border for Uncle Sam | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1912 | Howard Garis |
| 16 | Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon Or, The Longest Shots on Record | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1913 | Howard Garis |
| 17 | Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone Or, The Picture That Saved a Fortune | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1914 | Howard Garis |
| 18 | Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship Or, The Naval Terror of the Seas | Project Gutenberg | 1915 | Howard Garis |
| 19 | Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel Or, The Hidden City of the Andes | Project Gutenberg | 1916 | Howard Garis |
| 20 | Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders Or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold | Project Gutenberg | 1917 | Howard Garis |
| 21 | Tom Swift and His War Tank Or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam | Project Gutenberg | 1918 | Howard Garis |
| 22 | Tom Swift and His Air Scout Or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky | Project Gutenberg | 1919 | Howard Garis |
| 23 | Tom Swift and His Undersea Search Or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic | Project Gutenberg | 1920 | Howard Garis |
| 24 | Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters Or, Battling with Flames in the Air | Project Gutenberg | 1921 | Howard Garis |
| 25 | Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails | Project Gutenberg | 1922 | Howard Garis |
| 26 | Tom Swift and His Flying Boat Or, Castaways of the Giant Iceberg | Project Gutenberg Faded Page | 1923 | Howard Garis |
| 27 | Tom Swift and His Great Oil Gusher Or, The Treasure of Goby Farm | Project Gutenberg Faded Page | 1924 | Howard Garis |
| 28 | Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets Or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions | Project Gutenberg Faded Page | 1925 | Howard Garis |
| 29 | Tom Swift and His Airline Express Or, From Ocean to Ocean by Daylight | Project Gutenberg Faded Page | 1926 | Howard Garis |
| 30 | Tom Swift Circling the Globe Or, The Daring Cruise of the Air Monarch | Project Gutenberg Faded Page | 1927 | Howard Garis |
| 31 | Tom Swift and His Talking Pictures Or, The Greatest Invention on Record | Project Gutenberg Faded Page | 1928 | Howard Garis |
| 32 | Tom Swift and His House on Wheels Or, A Trip around the Mountain of Mystery | Project Gutenberg Faded Page | 1929 | Howard Garis |
| 33 | Tom Swift and His Big Dirigible Or, Adventures Over the Forest of Fire | 1930 | | Howard Garis |
| 34 | Tom Swift and His Sky Train Or, Overland Through the Clouds | 1931 | | Howard Garis |
| 35 | Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet Or, Bringing Up the Lost Submarine | | 1932 | Howard Garis |
| 36 | Tom Swift and His Television Detector Or, Trailing the Secret Plotters | | 1933 | Harriet Adams |
| 37 | Tom Swift and His Ocean Airport Or, Foiling the Haargolanders | | 1934 | Harriet Adams |
| 38 | Tom Swift and His Planet Stone Or, Discovering the Secret of Another World | | 1935 | Harriet Adams |
| 39 | Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope | Wikisource Project Gutenberg | 1939 | Thomas Moyston Mitchell |
| 40 | Tom Swift and His Magnetic Silencer | | 1941 | Thomas Moyston Mitchell |

## Tom Swift Jr.

Officially titled Tom Swift Jr., the second series was published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1954 to 1971. Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X and Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung are in the public domain, and are available as downloadable texts from Project Gutenberg.
Titles, authorship, and publication dates :
| # | Title | Pub. | Ghostwriter |
| 1 | Tom Swift and His Flying Lab | 1954 | William Dougherty |
| 2 | Tom Swift and His Jetmarine | 1954 | John Almquist |
| 3 | Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship | 1954 | John Almquist |
| 4 | Tom Swift and His Giant Robot | 1954 | Richard Sklar |
| 5 | Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster | 1954 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 6 | Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space | 1955 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 7 | Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter | 1956 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 8 | Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire | 1956 | Thomas Mulvey |
| 9 | Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite | 1956 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 10 | Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane | 1957 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 11 | Tom Swift and His Deep-Sea Hydrodome | 1958 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 12 | Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon | 1958 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 13 | Tom Swift and His Space Solartron | 1958 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 14 | Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope | 1959 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 15 | Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector | 1960 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 16 | Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts | 1960 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 17 | Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X | 1961 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 18 | Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung | 1961 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 19 | Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar | 1962 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 20 | Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober | 1962 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 21 | Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates | 1963 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 22 | Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway | 1963 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 23 | Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker | 1964 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 24 | Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector | 1964 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 25 | Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere | 1965 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 26 | Tom Swift and His Sonic Boom Trap | 1965 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 27 | Tom Swift and His Subocean Geotron | 1966 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 28 | Tom Swift and the Mystery Comet | 1966 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 29 | Tom Swift and the Captive Planetoid | 1967 | James Duncan Lawrence |
| 30 | Tom Swift and His G-Force Inverter | 1968 | Thomas Mulvey |
| 31 | Tom Swift and His Dyna-4 Capsule | 1969 | Richard McKenna |
| 32 | Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express | 1970 | Richard McKenna |
| 33 | Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts | 1971 | Vincent Buranelli |

## Tom Swift (1981)

The third Tom Swift series was launched following the Stratemeyer Syndicate moving publishers to Simon & Schuster. The series was published under the publisher's Wanderer imprint (as were the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books at the time), and lasted from 1981 to 1984. This series took place in outer space and featured fan-favorite character Aristotle the Robot, who was introduced in the second volume.
The series was cancelled in 1984, when Simon & Schuster bought the Syndicate. Two titles — Chaos on Earth and The Micro World — were written by Neal Barrett, but not published before its cancellation. The manuscripts of the two titles are in the Syndicate's archives, which are held at the New York Public Library.
Titles, authorship, and publication dates :
| # | Title | Pub. | Ghostwriter |
| 1 | The City in the Stars | 1981 | William Rotsler & Sharmon Divono |
| 2 | Terror on the Moons of Jupiter | 1981 | William Rotsler & Sharmon Divono |
| 3 | The Alien Probe | 1981 | William Rotsler & Sharmon Divono |
| 4 | The War in Outer Space | 1981 | William Rotsler & Sharmon Divono |
| 5 | The Astral Fortress | 1981 | William Rotsler & Sharmon Divono |
| 6 | The Rescue Mission | 1982 | William Rotsler & Sharmon Divono |
| 7 | Ark Two | 1982 | Neal Barrett, Jr. |
| 8 | Crater of Mystery | 1983 | Mike McQuay |
| 9 | Gateway to Doom | 1983 | Bob Vardeman |
| 10 | The Invisible Force | 1983 | Neal Barrett, Jr. |
| 11 | Planet of Nightmares | 1984 | Mike MacQuay |

## Tom Swift (1991)

The fourth Tom Swift series was created as a counterpart to The Nancy Drew Files and The Hardy Boys Casefiles spin-offs, and was published by Archway from 1991 to 1993. The series had two books which crossed over with the Hardy Boys, a sub-series titled Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Ultra Thrillers — Time Bomb (August 1992) and The Alien Factor (June 1993).
Titles, authorship, and publication dates :
| # | Title | Pub. | Ghostwriter |
| 1 | The Black Dragon | April 1991 | Bill McCay |
| 2 | The Negative Zone | April 1991 | Bill McCay |
| 3 | Cyborg Kickboxer | June 1991 | Steven Grant |
| 4 | The DNA Disaster | August 1991 | F. Gwynplaine MacIntrye |
| 5 | Monster Machine | October 1991 | Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald |
| 6 | Aquatech Warriors | December 1991 | Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald |
| 7 | Moonstalker | February 1992 |
| 8 | The Microbots | April 1992 | Robert E. Vardeman |
| 9 | Fire Biker | June 1992 |
| 10 | Mind Games | October 1992 | Bruce Holland Rogers |
| 11 | Mutant Beach | December 1992 | Robert E. Vardeman |
| 12 | Death Quake | February 1993 | Bridget McKenna |
| 13 | Quantum Force | April 1993 |

## Tom Swift: Young Inventor

The fifth series to feature the Tom Swift character was published by Aladdin from 2006 to 2007. The series served as a counterpart to Nancy Drew: Girl Detective and The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers series, both of which were reboots of their original series. Like its counterparts, a big part of the reboot was that titles were now written in first-person narration.
The series was cancelled in late 2007, while its counterparts were rebooted into trilogies. A seventh title, Extraterrestrial Highway, was planned for publication in February 2008; however, it ultimately remained unpublished. There are ISBN's registered for volumes 8-11 in this series, but the titles and status of the manuscripts are unknown.
Titles and publication dates :
| # | Title | Released | Ghostwriter |
| 1 | Into the Abyss | June 1, 2006 (2006-06-01) |
| 2 | The Robot Olympics | June 1, 2006 (2006-06-01) | Greg Cox |
| 3 | The Space Hotel | October 10, 2006 (2006-10-10) |
| 4 | Rocket Racers | January 23, 2007 (2007-01-23) |
| 5 | On Top of the World | May 22, 2007 (2007-05-22) |
| 6 | Under the Radar | October 2, 2007 (2007-10-02) |

## Tom Swift Inventors' Academy

The sixth series to feature the Tom Swift character was launched by Aladdin in July 2019. It features a young Swift, age is around thirteen, who attends a school for young inventors and scientists. This series, a counterpart to the Hardy Boys Adventures and Nancy Drew Diaries series, is told in first-person narration, and published in eBook, paperback, and hardcover. Audiobooks of the first five titles released on CD narrated by Timothy Andres Pabon. A boxed set of the first four paperbacks was also published using cover art from the first book.
Titles and publication dates :
| # | Title | Released | Ghostwriter |
| 1 | The Drone Pursuit | July 2, 2019 (2019-07-02) | Michael Anthony Steele |
| 2 | The Sonic Breach | July 2, 2019 (2019-07-02) | Michael Anthony Steele |
| 3 | Restricted Access | October 22, 2019 (2019-10-22) | Michael Anthony Steele |
| 4 | The Virtual Vandal | March 17, 2020 (2020-03-17) | Michael Anthony Steele |
| 5 | The Spybot Invasion | July 28, 2020 (2020-07-28) | Michael Anthony Steele |
| 6 | Augmented Reality | March 16, 2021 (2021-03-16) | Michael Anthony Steele |
| 7 | The Blurred Blogger | June 15, 2021 (2021-06-15) | Michael Anthony Steele |
| 8 | Depth Perception | March 15, 2022 (2022-03-15) | Michael Anthony Steele |