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The original Tom Swift series

The first novels to feature the Tom Swift character were released in 1910 by Grosset & Dunlap. The series was created by Edward Stratemeyer, and written by several ghostwriters in its duration.

The first 38 titles were published by Grosset & Dunlap, with two ghostwriters: Howard Garis wrote the first thirty-five titles, while Harriet Adams wrote the final three. Two more titles were published as a part of the Big Little Book series (by rival Western Publishing), and were ghostwritten by Thomas Moyston Mitchell.

Titles, authorship, and publication dates
#	Title	Pub.	Ghostwriter
1	Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle Or, Fun and Adventure on the Road	1910	Howard Garis
2	Tom Swift and His Motor Boat Or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa
3	Tom Swift and His Airship Or, The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud
4	Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure
5	Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout Or, The Speediest Car on the Road
6	Tom Swift and His Wireless Message Or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island	1911
7	Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain
8	Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice Or, The Wreck of the Airship
9	Tom Swift and His Sky Racer Or, The Quickest Flight on Record
10	Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle Or, Daring Adventures on Elephant Island
11	Tom Swift in the City of Gold Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground	1912
12	Tom Swift and His Air Glider Or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure
13	Tom Swift in Captivity Or, A Daring Escape by Airship
14	Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera Or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures
15	Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight Or, On the Border for Uncle Sam
16	Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon Or, The Longest Shots on Record	1913
17	Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone Or, The Picture That Saved a Fortune	1914
18	Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship Or, The Naval Terror of the Seas	1915
19	Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel Or, The Hidden City of the Andes	1916
20	Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders Or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold	1917
21	Tom Swift and His War Tank Or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam	1918
22	Tom Swift and His Air Scout Or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky	1919
23	Tom Swift and His Undersea Search Or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic	1920
24	Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters Or, Battling with Flames in the Air	1921
25	Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails	1922
26	Tom Swift and His Flying Boat Or, Castaways of the Giant Iceberg	1923
27	Tom Swift and His Great Oil Gusher Or, The Treasure of Goby Farm	1924
28	Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets Or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions	1925
29	Tom Swift and His Airline Express Or, From Ocean to Ocean by Daylight	1926
30	Tom Swift Circling the Globe Or, The Daring Cruise of the Air Monarch	1927
31	Tom Swift and His Talking Pictures Or, The Greatest Invention on Record	1928
32	Tom Swift and His House on Wheels Or, A Trip around the Mountain of Mystery	1929
33	Tom Swift and His Big Dirigible Or, Adventures Over the Forest of Fire	1930
34	Tom Swift and His Sky Train Or, Overland Through the Clouds	1931
35	Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet Or, Bringing Up the Lost Submarine	1932
36	Tom Swift and His Television Detector Or, Trailing the Secret Plotters	1933	Harriet Adams
37	Tom Swift and His Ocean Airport Or, Foiling the Haargolanders	1934
38	Tom Swift and His Planet Stone Or, Discovering the Secret of Another World	1935
39	Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope^{[note 1]}	1939	Thomas Moyston Mitchell
40	Tom Swift and His Magnetic Silencer^{[note 1]}	1941	Thomas Moyston Mitchell

Tom Swift Jr.

Officially titled Tom Swift, Jr., the second series was published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1954 to 1971.^[2] Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X and Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung are in the public domain, and are available as downloadable texts from Project Gutenberg. The first seventeen were originally published in blue tweed covers with dust jackets, and later published like the rest of the titles with yellow spines.

Titles, authorship, and publication dates
#	Title	Pub.	Ghostwriter
1	Tom Swift and His Flying Lab	1954	William Dougherty
2	Tom Swift and His Jetmarine		John Almquist
3	Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship		John Almquist
4	Tom Swift and His Giant Robot		Richard Sklar
5	Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster		James Duncan Lawrence
6	Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space	1955
7	Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter	1956
8	Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire		Thomas Mulvey
9	Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite		James Duncan Lawrence
10	Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane	1957
11	Tom Swift and His Deep-Sea Hydrodome	1958
12	Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon
13	Tom Swift and His Space Solartron
14	Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope	1959
15	Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector	1960
16	Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts	1960
17	Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X	1961
18	Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung	1961
19	Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar	1962
20	Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober	1962
21	Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates	1963
22	Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway	1963
23	Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker	1964
24	Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector	1964
25	Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere	1965
26	Tom Swift and His Sonic Boom Trap	1965
27	Tom Swift and His Subocean Geotron	1966
28	Tom Swift and the Mystery Comet	1966
29	Tom Swift and the Captive Planetoid	1967
30	Tom Swift and His G-Force Inverter	1968	Thomas Mulvey
31	Tom Swift and His Dyna-4 Capsule	1969	Richard McKenna
32	Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express	1970	Richard McKenna
33	Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts	1971	Vincent Buranelli

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