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. ^[1]

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
3	Tom Swift and His Airship Or, The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud	Wikisource Project Gutenberg
4	Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure	Wikisource Project Gutenberg
5	Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout Or, The Speediest Car on the Road	Wikisource Project Gutenberg
6	Tom Swift and His Wireless Message Or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island	Wikisource Project Gutenberg	1911
7	Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain	Wikisource Project Gutenberg
8	Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice Or, The Wreck of the Airship	Wikisource Project Gutenberg
9	Tom Swift and His Sky Racer Or, The Quickest Flight on Record	Wikisource Project Gutenberg
10	Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle Or, Daring Adventures on Elephant Island	Wikisource Project Gutenberg
11	Tom Swift in the City of Gold Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground	Wikisource Project Gutenberg	1912
12	Tom Swift and His Air Glider Or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure	Wikisource Project Gutenberg
13	Tom Swift in Captivity Or, A Daring Escape by Airship	Wikisource Project Gutenberg
14	Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera Or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures	Wikisource Project Gutenberg
15	Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight Or, On the Border for Uncle Sam	Wikisource Project Gutenberg
16	Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon Or, The Longest Shots on Record	Wikisource Project Gutenberg	1913
17	Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone Or, The Picture That Saved a Fortune	Wikisource Project Gutenberg	1914
18	Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship Or, The Naval Terror of the Seas	Project Gutenberg	1915
19	Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel Or, The Hidden City of the Andes	Project Gutenberg	1916
20	Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders Or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold	Project Gutenberg	1917
21	Tom Swift and His War Tank Or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam	Project Gutenberg	1918
22	Tom Swift and His Air Scout Or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky	Project Gutenberg	1919
23	Tom Swift and His Undersea Search Or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic	Project Gutenberg	1920
24	Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters Or, Battling with Flames in the Air	Project Gutenberg	1921
25	Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails	Project Gutenberg	1922
26	Tom Swift and His Flying Boat Or, Castaways of the Giant Iceberg	Project Gutenberg Faded Page	1923
27	Tom Swift and His Great Oil Gusher Or, The Treasure of Goby Farm	Project Gutenberg Faded Page	1924
28	Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets Or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions	Project Gutenberg Faded Page	1925
29	Tom Swift and His Airline Express Or, From Ocean to Ocean by Daylight	Project Gutenberg Faded Page	1926
30	Tom Swift Circling the Globe Or, The Daring Cruise of the Air Monarch	Project Gutenberg Faded Page	1927
31	Tom Swift and His Talking Pictures Or, The Greatest Invention on Record	Project Gutenberg Faded Page	1928
32	Tom Swift and His House on Wheels Or, A Trip around the Mountain of Mystery	Project Gutenberg Faded Page	1929
33	Tom Swift and His Big Dirigible Or, Adventures Over the Forest of Fire	Project Gutenberg	1930
34	Tom Swift and His Sky Train Or, Overland Through the Clouds		1931
35	Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet Or, Bringing Up the Lost Submarine		1932
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
38	Tom Swift and His Planet Stone Or, Discovering the Secret of Another World		1935
39	Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope [note 1]	Wikisource Project Gutenberg	1939	Thomas Moyston Mitchell
40	Tom Swift and His Magnetic Silencer [note 1]		1941

Tom Swift Jr.

Officially titled Tom Swift Jr., the second series was published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1954 to 1971. ^[2] 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		John Almquist
3	Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship
4	Tom Swift and His Giant Robot		Richard Sklar
5	Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster		James Duncan Lawrence
6	Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space	1955
7	Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter	1956
8	Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire		Thomas Mulvey
9	Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite		James Duncan Lawrence
10	Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane	1957
11	Tom Swift and His Deep-Sea Hydrodome	1958
12	Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon
13	Tom Swift and His Space Solartron
14	Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope	1959
15	Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector	1960
16	Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts
17	Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X	1961
18	Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
19	Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar	1962
20	Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober
21	Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates	1963
22	Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway
23	Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker	1964
24	Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector
25	Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere	1965
26	Tom Swift and His Sonic Boom Trap
27	Tom Swift and His Subocean Geotron	1966
28	Tom Swift and the Mystery Comet
29	Tom Swift and the Captive Planetoid	1967
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
33	Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts	1971	Vincent Buranelli

Tom Swift (1981)

Main article: Tom Swift III

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 [3]
2	Terror on the Moons of Jupiter
3	The Alien Probe
4	The War in Outer Space
5	The Astral Fortress
6	The Rescue Mission	1982
7	Ark Two		Neal Barrett, Jr.
8	Crater of Mystery	1983	Mike McQuay [4]
9	Gateway to Doom		Bob Vardeman
10	The Invisible Force		Neal Barrett, Jr.
11	Planet of Nightmares	1984	Mike MacQuay

Tom Swift (1991)

Main article: Tom Swift IV

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
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
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		Greg Cox [5]
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		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

References

1. "The Complete Tom Swift Sr. Home Page" . Retrieved 2 April 2011.
2. "The Complete Tom Swift Jr. Home Page" . Retrieved 28 April 2011.
3. "News archive". Locus. November 1997. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
4. "SFE: McQuay, Mike".
5. "Summary Bibliography: Greg Cox". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved January 26, 2021.

Notes

1. This title was published by Better Little Book.