Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Swift and His Flying Lab | 1954 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 2 | Tom Swift and His Jetmarine | 1954 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 3 | Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship | 1954 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 4 | Tom Swift and His Giant Robot | 1954 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 5 | Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster | 1954 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 6 | Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space / Tom Swift and His Sky Wheel | 1955 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 7 | Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker | 1964 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 8 | Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter | 1956 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 9 | Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire | 1956 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 10 | Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite | 1956 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 11 | Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane | 1957 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 12 | Tom Swift and His Deep-Sea Hydrodome | 1958 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 13 | Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon | 1958 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 14 | Tom Swift and His Space Solartron | 1958 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 15 | Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope / Tom Swift in the Jungle of the Mayas | 1959 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 16 | Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung | 1961 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 17 | Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector / Tom Swift and the City of Gold | 1959 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 18 | Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X | 1961 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 19 | Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober | 1962 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 20 | Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts | 1960 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 21 | Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates | 1963 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 22 | Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway | 1963 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 23 | Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar | 1962 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 24 | Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector | 1964 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 25 | Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere | 1965 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 26 | Tom Swift and His Sonic Boom Trap | 1965 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 27 | Tom Swift and His Sub-ocean Geotron | 1966 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 28 | Tom Swift and the Mystery Comet | 1966 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 29 | Tom Swift and the Captive Planetoid | 1967 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 30 | Tom Swift and His G-Force Inverter | 1968 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 31 | Tom Swift and His Dyna-4 Capsule | 1969 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
| 32 | Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express | 1970 | Victor Appleton | Buy |
Tom Swift Jr. brought the Swift family into the Space Age. Thirty-two books published between 1954 and 1970 follow the original Tom’s son as he builds rocket ships, giant robots, atomic earth blasters, and other inventions that matched the era’s space-race enthusiasm.
The series updated the formula — same young inventor premise, but the technology jumped from motor-boats to jetmarines, from airships to flying labs. The books capture mid-century America’s belief that technology could solve any problem, with Tom Jr. as the teenage embodiment of scientific optimism.