Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle / Fun and Adventure on the Road | 1910 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 2 | The Black Dragon | 1991 | Victor Appleton | N/A |
| 3 | Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat / The Rivals of Lake Carlopa | 1910 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 4 | The Negative Zone | 1991 | Victor Appleton | N/A |
| 5 | Tom Swift and His Airship / The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud | 1910 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 6 | Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat / Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure | 1910 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 7 | Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout / The Speediest Car on the Road | 1910 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 8 | Tom Swift and His Wireless Message / The Castaways of Earthquake Island | 1911 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 9 | Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers / The Secret of Phantom Mountain | 1911 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 10 | Tom Swift and His Sky Racer / The Quickest Flight on Record | 1911 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 11 | Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle / Daring Adventures in Elephant Island | 1911 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 12 | Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice / The Wreck of the Airship | 1911 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 13 | Tom Swift in the City of Gold / Marvelous Adventures Underground | 1912 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 14 | Tom Swift and His Air Glider / Seeking the Platinum Treasure | 1912 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 15 | Tom Swift in Captivity / A Daring Escape by Airship | 1912 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 16 | Quantum Force | 1993 | Victor Appleton | N/A |
| 17 | Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera / Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures | 1912 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 18 | Tom Swift and His Great Search Light / On the Border for Uncle Sam | 1912 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 19 | Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon / The Longest Shots on Record | 1913 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 20 | Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone / The Picture That Saved a Fortune | 1914 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 21 | Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship / The Naval Terror of the Seas | 1915 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 22 | Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel / The Hidden City of the Andes | 1916 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 23 | Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders / The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold | 1917 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 24 | Tom Swift and His War Tank / Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam | 1918 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 25 | Tom Swift and His Air Scout / Uncle Sam’s Mastery of the Sky | 1919 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 26 | Tom Swift and His Undersea Search / The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic | 1920 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 27 | Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters / Battling with Flames in the Air / Tom Swift and the Flaming Air Battle | 1921 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 28 | Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive / Two Miles a Minute on the Rails | 1922 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 29 | Tom Swift and His Flying Boat / Castaways of the Giant Iceberg | 1923 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 30 | Tom Swift and His Great Oil Gusher / The Treasure of Goby Farm | 1924 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 31 | Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets / Tracing the Stolen Inventions | 1925 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 32 | Tom Swift and His Airline Express / From Ocean to Ocean by Daylight | 1926 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 33 | Tom Swift Circling the Globe / The Daring Cruise of the Air Monarch | 1927 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 34 | Tom Swift and His Talking Pictures / The Greatest Invention on Record | 1928 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 35 | Tom Swift and His House on Wheels / A Trip Around the Mountain of Mystery | 1929 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 36 | Tom Swift and His Big Dirigible / Adventures Over the Forest of Fire | 1930 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 37 | Tom Swift and His Sky Train / Overland Through the Clouds | 1931 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 38 | Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet / Bringing Up the Lost Submarine | 1932 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 39 | Tom Swift and His Television Detector / Trailing the Secret Plotters | 1933 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 40 | Tom Swift and His Ocean Airport / Foiling the Haargolanders | 1934 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 41 | Tom Swift and His Planet Stone / Discovering the Secret of Another World | 1935 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 42 | Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope | 1939 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 43 | Tom Swift and His Magnetic Silencer | 1941 | Victor Appleton | N/A |
The original Tom Swift series launched in 1910 with Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle and ran forty-three books through 1941. Tom is a young inventor whose creations drive the plot of each book — he builds submarines, airships, electric runabouts, wireless messages, and dozens of other devices, many of which anticipated real technology by decades.
The series defined a genre of invention-based adventure fiction for young readers and made Tom Swift a household name. The character’s influence extended beyond fiction — the word “taser” is an acronym for “Tom A. Swift’s Electric Rifle,” drawn directly from the 1911 book.