Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Battlestar Galactica | 1978 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 2 | Galactica | 1978 | Ron Goulart | N/A |
| 3 | The Cylon Death Machine | 1979 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 4 | Resurrection | 1979 | Ron Goulart | N/A |
| 5 | The Tombs of Kobol | 1979 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 6 | The Young Warriors | 1980 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 7 | Galactica Discovers Earth | 1980 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 8 | The Living Legend | 1982 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 9 | War of the Gods | 1982 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 10 | Greetings From Earth | 1983 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 11 | Experiment in Terra | 1984 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 12 | Experiment in Terra - Battlestar Galactica 09 | 1984 | Ron Goulart | N/A |
| 13 | The Long Patrol | 1984 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 14 | Battlestar Galactica 11: The Nightmare Machine | 1985 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 15 | The Nightmare Machine | 1985 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 16 | Battlestar Galactica 12: “Die, Chameleon!” | 1986 | Ron Goulart | N/A |
| 17 | Die, Chameleon! | 1986 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 18 | Battlestar Galactica 13: Apollo’s War | 1987 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 19 | Apollo’s War | 1987 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
| 20 | Battlestar Galactica 14: Surrender the Galactica! | 1988 | Ron Goulart | N/A |
| 21 | Surrender the Galactica! | 1988 | Ron Goulart | Buy |
The Classic Battlestar Galactica series by Ron Goulart ran for a decade, from the original Battlestar Galactica in 1978 through Surrender the Galactica! in 1988. With 21 entries in total, it is one of the longer novelization series of its era, keeping pace with and then extending well beyond the television run it adapted.
The early books — including Galactica, The Cylon Death Machine, Resurrection, and The Tombs of Kobol — were published in rapid succession between 1978 and 1979. The pace settled through the early 1980s with titles like The Living Legend, War of the Gods, and Greetings From Earth, before the later numbered entries (Apollo’s War, Die, Chameleon!, The Nightmare Machine) carried the story through to 1988. Reading in publication order gives the most complete sense of how the characters and conflicts developed across the full run.