Order of Victor Appleton Books
Victor Appleton is a house pseudonym created by Stratemeyer Syndicate, the group that created such franchises as Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. Victor Appleton is the name used most notably for the Tom Swift series as well as the Don Sturdy series. The Victor Appleton books would fall into the children’s/juvenile adventure book genres.
The Victor Apppleton house name made its debut in 1910 with the book Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle. The name has been used as recently as 2007 with the Tom Swift, Young Inventor series. Below is a list of the books published under the Victor Appleton and Victor Appleton II names in order of when they were originally released:
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Publication Order of Don Sturdy Books
| Don Sturdy on the Desert of Mystery / Autoing in the Land of Caravans | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy with the Big Snake Hunters / Lost in the Jungles of the Amazon | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy in the Tombs of Gold / The Old Egyptian's Great Secret | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy Across the North Pole / Cast Away in the Land of Ice | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy in the Land of Volcanoes / The Trail of the Ten Thousand Smokes | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy in the Port of Lost Ships / Adrift in the Sargasso Sea | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy Among the Gorillas / Adrift in the Great Jungle | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy Captured by Head Hunters / Adrift in the Wilds of Borneo | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy in Lion Land / The Strange Clearing in the Jungle | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy in the Land of Giants / Captives of the Savage Patagonians | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom / The Strange Cruise of the Phantom | (1931) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy in the Temples of Fear / Destined for a Strange Sacrifice | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy Lost in Glacier Bay / The Mystery of the Moving Totem Poles | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy Trapped in the Flaming Wilderness / Unearthing Secrets in Central Asia | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Don Sturdy with the Harpoon Hunters / The Strange Cruise of the Whaling Ship | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Tom Swift I Books
| Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle / Fun and Adventure on the Road | (1910) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat / The Rivals of Lake Carlopa | (1910) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Airship / The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud | (1910) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat / Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure | (1910) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout / The Speediest Car on the Road | (1910) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Wireless Message / The Castaways of Earthquake Island | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers / The Secret of Phantom Mountain | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Sky Racer / The Quickest Flight on Record | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle / Daring Adventures in Elephant Island | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice / The Wreck of the Airship | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift in the City of Gold / Marvelous Adventures Underground | (1912) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Air Glider / Seeking the Platinum Treasure | (1912) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift in Captivity / A Daring Escape by Airship | (1912) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera / Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures | (1912) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Great Search Light / On the Border for Uncle Sam | (1912) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon / The Longest Shots on Record | (1913) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone / The Picture That Saved a Fortune | (1914) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship / The Naval Terror of the Seas | (1915) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel / The Hidden City of the Andes | (1916) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders / The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold | (1917) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His War Tank / Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam | (1918) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Air Scout / Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky | (1919) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Undersea Search / The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic | (1920) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters / Battling with Flames in the Air | (1921) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive / Two Miles a Minute on the Rails | (1922) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Flying Boat / Castaways of the Giant Iceberg | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Great Oil Gusher / The Treasure of Goby Farm | (1924) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets / Tracing the Stolen Inventions | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Airline Express / From Ocean to Ocean by Daylight | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift Circling the Globe / The Daring Cruise of the Air Monarch | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Talking Pictures / The Greatest Invention on Record | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His House on Wheels / A Trip Around the Mountain of Mystery | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Big Dirigible / Adventures Over the Forest of Fire | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Sky Train / Overland Through the Clouds | (1931) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet / Bringing Up the Lost Submarine | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Television Detector / Trailing the Secret Plotters | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Ocean Airport / Foiling the Haargolanders | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Planet Stone / Discovering the Secret of Another World | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Magnetic Silencer | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Tom Swift Jr. Books
(as Victor Appleton II)
| Tom Swift and His Flying Lab | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Jetmarine | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Giant Robot | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Deep-Sea Hydrodome | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Space Solartron | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Sonic Boom Trap | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Sub-ocean Geotron | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Mystery Comet | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Captive Planetoid | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His G-Force Inverter | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Dyna-4 Capsule | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Tom Swift III Books
| The City in the Stars | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Terror on the Moons of Jupiter | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Alien Probe | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The War in Outer Space | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Astral Fortress | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rescue Mission | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ark Two | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crater of Mystery | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Gateway to Doom | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Invisible Force | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Planet of Nightmares | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Tom Swift IV Books
| The Black Dragon | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Negative Zone | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cyborg Kickboxer | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The DNA Disaster | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Monster Machine | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Aquatech Warriors | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Moonstalker | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Microbots | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fire Biker | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mind Games | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mutant Beach | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death Quake | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Quantum Force | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Tom Swift, Young Inventor Books
| Into the Abyss | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Robot Olympics | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Space Hotel | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rocket Racers | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On Top of the World | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Under the Radar | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Tom Swift Invention Books
(as Victor Appleton II, Thomas Hudson, T. Edward Fox, T Edward Fox)
| Tom Swift and His EnvirOzone Revivicator | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His QuieTurbine Skyliner | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Transcontinental BulleTrain | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Oceanic SubLiminator | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Cyclonic Eradicator | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift: Galactic Ambassador | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Paradox Planet | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Martian TerraVironment | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Tectonic Interrupter | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the AntiInferno Suppressor | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the High Space L-Evator | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the IntraEarth Invaders | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Coupe of Invisibility | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Yesterday Machine | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Reconstructed Planet | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His NanoSurgery Brigade | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Thermo-Ion Jetpack | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Atlantean HydroWay | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the SeaSpace HydroFarm | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Martian Moon Re-Placement | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Venusian InvulnoSuit | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the HoverCity | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the SubNeptunian Circumnavigation | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Marianas Aquanoids | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and the Starless Planet | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Swift and His Hypersonic SpacePlane | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Tom Swift: Inventors' Academy Books
| The Drone Pursuit | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sonic Breach | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Restricted Access | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Virtual Vandal | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Spybot Invasion | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Blurred Blogger | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Depth Perception | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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