Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Carnival of Death | 1934 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 2 | Dead Men Kill | 1934 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 3 | Hostage to Death | 1935 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 4 | Hurricane | 1935 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 5 | Wind-Gone-Mad | 1935 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 6 | The Headhunters | 1936 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 7 | The Battling Pilot | 1937 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 8 | Death’s Deputy | 1940 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 9 | Typewriter in the Sky | 1942 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 10 | Slaves of Sleep | 1948 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 11 | Seven Steps to the Arbiter / The Kingslayer | 1949 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 12 | To the Stars / Return to Tomorrow | 1950 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 13 | Fear | 1952 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 14 | Buckskin Brigades | 1955 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 15 | Battlefield Earth | 1982 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 16 | A Very Strange Trip | 1989 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 17 | The Automagic Horse | 1994 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 18 | Ai! Pedrito! | 1998 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 19 | The Ultimate Adventure | 2006 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 20 | Read & Listen Package | 2006 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 21 | Spy Killer | 2009 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
| 22 | Final Blackout | 2014 | L. Ron Hubbard | Buy |
L. Ron Hubbard’s standalone novels stretch across five decades and multiple genres. His earliest works, like The Carnival of Death (1934) and Hurricane (1935), are adventure stories from his pulp magazine period. Fear (1952), a horror novella, is often cited as his best pure fiction. Buckskin Brigades (1955) is a historical adventure about the fur trade.
His most famous standalone is Battlefield Earth (1982), a sprawling science fiction novel about humanity fighting to free Earth from alien occupation. At over 1,000 pages, it was one of the longest science fiction novels of its time. The book remains widely read despite the critical drubbing received by its 2000 film adaptation. Later standalone titles from the 2000s and 2010s are mostly republications of earlier pulp stories in book form.