Victor Appleton

Victor Appleton

Victor Appleton also writes as: Victor Appleton II.

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Tom Swift and His Flying RaceYacht (Tom Swift Invention, #29) was the most recently released book by Victor Appleton, on July 3rd, 2023.

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Victor Appleton Stats: The most read book by Victor Appleton on Book Notification is The Moving Picture Boys at Panama, the 6th novel in The Moving Picture Boys series. The second most read book is Tom Swift and His Airship / The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud (Tom Swift I #3).

Below is a complete list of Victor Appleton books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series. The most popular series by Victor Appleton is the Tom Swift I Series.

List of Don Sturdy Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Don Sturdy books are Don Sturdy Among the Gorillas / Adrift in the Great Jungle, Don Sturdy on the Desert of Mystery / Autoing in the Land of Caravans, and Don Sturdy with the Big Snake Hunters / Lost in the Jungles of the Amazon.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Don Sturdy on the Desert of Mystery / Autoing in the Land of Caravans
1925
Go
2
Don Sturdy with the Big Snake Hunters / Lost in the Jungles of the Amazon
1925
Go
3
Don Sturdy in the Tombs of Gold / The Old Egyptian's Great Secret
1925
Go
4
Don Sturdy Across the North Pole / Cast Away in the Land of Ice
1925
Go
5
Don Sturdy in the Land of Volcanoes / The Trail of the Ten Thousand Smokes
1925
Go
6
Don Sturdy in the Port of Lost Ships / Adrift in the Sargasso Sea
1926
Go
7
Don Sturdy Among the Gorillas / Adrift in the Great Jungle
1927
Go
8
Don Sturdy Captured by Head Hunters / Adrift in the Wilds of Borneo
1928
Go
9
Don Sturdy in Lion Land / The Strange Clearing in the Jungle
1929
Go
10
Don Sturdy in the Land of Giants / Captives of the Savage Patagonians
1930
Go
11
Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom / The Strange Cruise of the Phantom
1931
Go
12
Don Sturdy in the Temples of Fear / Destined for a Strange Sacrifice
1932
Go
13
Don Sturdy Lost in Glacier Bay / The Mystery of the Moving Totem Poles
1933
Go
14
Don Sturdy Trapped in the Flaming Wilderness / Unearthing Secrets in Central Asia
1934
Go
15
Don Sturdy with the Harpoon Hunters / The Strange Cruise of the Whaling Ship
1935
Go

List of The Moving Picture Boys Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top The Moving Picture Boys books are The Moving Picture Boys at Panama, The Moving Picture Boys and the Flood, and The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Moving Picture Boys in the Jungle
1913
Go
2
The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast
1913
Go
3
The Moving Picture Boys in the West
1913
Go
4
The Moving Picture Boys in Earthquake Land
1913
Go
5
8
The Moving Picture Boys and the Flood
1914
Go
6
10
The Moving Picture Boys at Panama
1915
Go
7
The Moving Picture Boys Under the Sea
1916
Go
8
10
The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front
1918
Go
9
The Moving Picture Boys on the French Battlefields
1919
Go

List of Tom Swift I Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Tom Swift I books are Tom Swift and His Airship / The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud, Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat / Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure, and Tom Swift and His Wireless Message / The Castaways of Earthquake Island.

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

List of Tom Swift Jr. Books in Publication Order (as Victor Appleton II)

Ranked by popularity, the top Tom Swift Jr. books are Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X, Tom Swift and His Jetmarine, and Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Tom Swift and His Flying Lab
1954
Go
2
Tom Swift and His Jetmarine
1954
Go
3
Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship
1954
Go
4
Tom Swift and His Giant Robot
1954
Go
5
Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster
1954
Go
6
Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space / Tom Swift and His Sky Wheel
1955
Go
7
Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter
1956
Go
8
Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire
1956
Go
9
Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite
1956
Go
10
Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane
1957
Go
11
Tom Swift and His Deep-Sea Hydrodome
1958
Go
12
Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon
1958
Go
13
Tom Swift and His Space Solartron
1958
Go
14
Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope / Tom Swift in the Jungle of the Mayas
1959
Go
15
Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector / Tom Swift and the City of Gold
1959
Go
16
Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts
1960
Go
17
10
Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X
1961
Go
18
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
1961
Go
19
Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar
1962
Go
20
Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober
1962
Go
21
Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates
1963
Go
22
Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway
1963
Go
23
Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker
1964
Go
24
Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector
1964
Go
25
Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere
1965
Go
26
Tom Swift and His Sonic Boom Trap
1965
Go
27
Tom Swift and His Sub-ocean Geotron
1966
Go
28
Tom Swift and the Mystery Comet
1966
Go
29
Tom Swift and the Captive Planetoid
1967
Go
30
Tom Swift and His G-Force Inverter
1968
Go
31
Tom Swift and His Dyna-4 Capsule
1969
Go
32
Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express
1970
Go

List of Tom Swift III Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Tom Swift III books are Crater of Mystery, Ark Two, and Planet of Nightmares.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The City in the Stars
1981
Go
2
Terror on the Moons of Jupiter
1981
Go
3
The Alien Probe
1981
Go
4
The War in Outer Space
1981
Go
5
The Astral Fortress
1981
Go
6
The Rescue Mission
1981
Go
7
Ark Two
1982
Go
8
6
Crater of Mystery
1982
Go
9
The Gateway to Doom
1983
Go
10
The Invisible Force
1983
Go
11
Planet of Nightmares
1984
Go

List of Tom Swift IV Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Tom Swift IV books are The Black Dragon, The Negative Zone, and Cyborg Kickboxer.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Black Dragon
1991
Go
2
The Negative Zone
1991
Go
3
Cyborg Kickboxer
1991
Go
4
The DNA Disaster
1991
Go
5
Monster Machine
1991
Go
6
Aquatech Warriors
1991
Go
7
Moonstalker
1992
Go
8
The Microbots
1992
Go
9
Fire Biker
1992
Go
10
Mind Games
1992
Go
11
Mutant Beach
1992
Go
12
Death Quake
1993
Go
13
Quantum Force
1993
Go

List of Tom Swift, Young Inventor Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Tom Swift, Young Inventor books are Into the Abyss, The Robot Olympics, and The Space Hotel.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Into the Abyss
2006
Go
2
The Robot Olympics
2006
Go
3
The Space Hotel
2006
Go
4
Rocket Racers
2007
Go
5
On Top of the World
2007
Go
6
Under the Radar
2007
Go

List of Tom Swift Invention Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Tom Swift Invention books are Tom Swift and His Tectonic Interrupter, Tom Swift and His Hypersonic SpacePlane, and Tom Swift and the AntiInferno Suppressor.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Tom Swift and His EnvirOzone Revivicator
2010
Go
2
Tom Swift and His QuieTurbine Skyliner
2010
Go
3
Tom Swift and His Transcontinental BulleTrain
2011
Go
4
Tom Swift and His Oceanic SubLiminator
2011
Go
5
Tom Swift and His Cyclonic Eradicator
2011
Go
6
Tom Swift: Galactic Ambassador
2011
Go
7
Tom Swift and the Paradox Planet
2012
Go
8
Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts
2012
Go
9
Tom Swift and His Martian TerraVironment
2013
Go
10
10
Tom Swift and His Tectonic Interrupter
2013
Go
11
Tom Swift and the AntiInferno Suppressor
2013
Go
12
Tom Swift and the High Space L-Evator
2014
Go
13
Tom Swift and the IntraEarth Invaders
2014
Go
14
Tom Swift and His Tectonic Interrupter (By: Thomas Hudson)
2014
Go
15
Tom Swift and the AntiInferno Suppressor (By: Thomas Hudson)
2014
Go
16
Tom Swift and the Coupe of Invisibility
2014
Go
17
Tom Swift and the Yesterday Machine
2015
Go
18
Tom Swift and the Reconstructed Planet
2016
Go
19
Tom Swift and His NanoSurgery Brigade
2016
Go
20
Tom Swift and His Thermo-Ion Jetpack
2016
Go
21
Tom Swift and the Atlantean HydroWay
2016
Go
22
Tom Swift and the Martian Moon Re-Placement (With: Thomas Hudson)
2018
Go
23
Tom Swift and the Venusian InvulnoSuit (With: Thomas Hudson)
2018
Go
24
Tom Swift and the HoverCity (With: Thomas Hudson)
2018
Go
25
Tom Swift and the SubNeptunian Circumnavigation (With: Thomas Hudson)
2019
Go
26
Tom Swift and the Marianas Aquanoids (With: Thomas Hudson, T. Edward Fox)
2019
Go
27
Tom Swift and His Hypersonic SpacePlane (With: Thomas Hudson, T. Edward Fox)
2019
Go
28
Tom Swift and His Cybernetic Planeteers
2023
Go
29
Tom Swift and His Flying RaceYacht
2023
Go
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List of Tom Swift: Inventors' Academy Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Tom Swift: Inventors' Academy books are The Drone Pursuit, Restricted Access, and The Spybot Invasion.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Drone Pursuit
2019
Go
2
The Sonic Breach
2019
Go
3
Restricted Access
2019
Go
4
The Virtual Vandal
2020
Go
5
The Spybot Invasion
2020
Go
6
Augmented Reality
2021
Go
7
The Blurred Blogger
2021
Go
8
Depth Perception
2022
Go
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Victor Appleton

Victor Appleton was a house pen name that was used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and all of its successors. It is most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of novels.

Edward Stratemeyer (founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book packing company) conceived the Tom Swift character in 1910. Edward invented the series in order to capitalize on the market for children’s science adventure.

The Syndicate’s authors created Tom Swift books by first preparing an outline with all of the plot elements, followed by drafting and then editing the detailed manuscript. The books were then published under the house pen name of Victor Appleton.

Edward and Howard Garis wrote the majority of the novels in the original series, with the final three volumes being written by Harriet Stratemeyer, Edward’s daughter. The first Tom Swift series concluded in 1941.

Most of the Tom Swift novels emphasized Tom’s inventions. The books describe the effects of technology and science as wholly beneficial, and the inventor’s role in society being a heroic and admirable one.

Tom Swift has been cited as an inspiration by various inventors and scientists, including Kelly Johnson, an aircraft designer.

Other book series Victor Appleton is credited with writing include: Movie Boys, Moving Picture Boys,Motion Picture Chums, and Don Sturdy.

Harriet Adams created the Tom Swift, Jr. series which was published under the “Victor Appleton” name. Many of the titles were outlined and plotted by Adams. Books were then written by Richard McKenna, John Almquist, William Doughtery, Richard Sklar, Tom Mulvey, and James Duncan Lawrence (who wrote 23 books of this series). This series ended in 1971.

Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road introduces readers to Tom Swift (18 year old mechanical genius and inventor), who longs to have a motorcycle. All of a sudden, one almost lands right in his lap and the distraught owner sells it to Tom. Even though it runs well, Tom knows that he can make some improvements to it that ‘ll make it run even smoother and even faster.

He has issues with Andy Foger, his teen rival that is forever attempting to outdo Tom. However now this mysterious gang of thieves have arrived in Shopton and Tom hopes he can leave Andy in the dust while attempting to unravel the mystery behind these thieves, and this one odd hobo that appears right when it’s the most inconvenient for our hero. Tom gets attacked and waylaid by this gang once they learn he’s on their trail.

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  1. Stephen King, author of The Dark Tower Series.
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  3. John Grisham, author of the Jake Brigance Series.
  4. Agatha Christie, author of: And Then There Were None / Ten Little Indians.
  5. Dan Brown, author of the Robert Langdon Series.

Victor Appleton: F.A.Q

What was the first book Victor Appleton wrote?

The first book written by Victor Appleton was Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle / Fun and Adventure on the Road, published in 1910.

What was the most recent book Victor Appleton wrote?

Their most recently released work was Tom Swift and His Flying RaceYacht on July 3rd, 2023.

What is the most popular book by Victor Appleton?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Victor Appleton book is The Moving Picture Boys at Panama. Here are their most popular books:
  1. The Moving Picture Boys at Panama (10)
  2. Tom Swift and His Airship / The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud (10)
  3. Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle / Fun and Adventure on the Road (10)
  4. The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front (10)
  5. The Moving Picture Boys and the Flood (8)

Are there upcoming new books by Victor Appleton?

Victor Appleton does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.

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How many books has Victor Appleton written?

Victor Appleton has written 161 books across 10 series.
  • 15 books in the Don Sturdy Series
  • 9 books in The Moving Picture Boys Series
  • 40 books in the Tom Swift I Series
  • 32 books in the Tom Swift Jr. Series
  • 11 books in the Tom Swift III Series
  • 13 books in the Tom Swift IV Series
  • 6 books in the Tom Swift, Young Inventor Series
  • 27 books in the Tom Swift Invention Series
  • 8 books in the Tom Swift: Inventors' Academy Series

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