Edgar Rice Burroughs Books in Order

John Carter, a Civil War veteran, wakes on Mars, Barsoom, where low gravity makes him a formidable fighter. Caught between warring peoples, he risks everything to save Princess Dejah Thoris and find a place to belong.

An orphaned child is raised by apes in Africa and grows into Tarzan, a fearless hunter who learns to navigate both jungle law and human society. When Jane Porter arrives, Tarzan must choose between two worlds.

John Carter returns to Barsoom after years away and finds his search for Dejah Thoris tangled in a deadly religion and a cruel hidden world. To reach her, he must survive enemies who wear holiness like a mask.

On a remote island, a scientist creates living “monster men,” and his daughter becomes the target of the creatures and the men hunting them. The story mixes mad science, jungle danger, and a fight to escape before the experiment collapses.

Tarzan follows a trail that leads from Africa to Europe and back again, discovering hidden identities and new enemies. The adventure expands his world, adds allies, and sets up recurring threats that will follow him for years.

David Innes and inventor Abner Perry test a burrowing machine and break into Pellucidar, a sunlit world inside the Earth. Dinosaurs, rival tribes, and the telepathic Mahars turn their return trip into a fight for survival.

Jane and Tarzan’s young son are taken, and Tarzan gathers an unlikely band of animal allies to track them down. The chase moves from jungle paths to criminal plots, testing Tarzan’s family, and his ruthless determination.

Victoria Custer is pulled into a story of reincarnation and a love that seems to return across ages. The novel shifts between modern life and a prehistoric world, blending romance with survival and the fear of being trapped in the wrong time.

Billy Byrne, a tough Chicago brawler, is kidnapped and carried far from home, where street instincts are no longer enough. Forced to survive among criminals and strangers, he discovers loyalty and a chance to become someone better.

In medieval England, a young noble becomes an outlaw known as the Outlaw of Torn, leading a secret war against powerful enemies. Court intrigue, disguises, and rebellion collide as he fights for justice and the woman he loves.

The fight for Barsoom escalates as John Carter closes in on Dejah Thoris and the forces holding her. Rival cities, betrayals, and desperate alliances push him toward a showdown that could reshape Mars.

David Innes returns to Pellucidar and takes on a larger mission than escape. To challenge the Mahars’ rule, he must unite scattered tribes, survive treachery, and build a rebellion in a world where time and distance work against him.

In a future where travel beyond the 30th meridian is forbidden, a Pan-American expedition crosses the line and finds a shattered, brutal Europe. Exploration quickly turns into a fight to survive, make allies, and get home.

Tarzan becomes entangled with the lost city of Opar, its treasure, and the dangerous priestess who rules its rituals. With lives at stake, he must balance duty, temptation, and a brutal struggle for control in the jungle.

A chance encounter outside a Chicago eatery pulls an ordinary man into a fast-moving tangle of danger and deception. As he tries to protect a young woman in trouble, he finds himself up against criminals who do not forgive interference.

Billy Byrne tries to build a new life, but the past keeps finding him. Back in civilization, he faces criminals, misunderstandings, and tests of character that force him to prove he has truly changed.

Tarzan’s son is kidnapped and grows up in the jungle under a new name, learning hard lessons about trust and violence. His path crosses that of Meriem, another lost child, as both fight to survive and find home.

Princess Thuvia vanishes and Martian prince Carthoris is blamed for her kidnapping. To clear his name, he hunts the real culprits across hostile cities and deserts, where a rescue mission can ignite a war.

A young man is thrown into danger far from home and forms an unlikely bond with a lion. Pursued by ruthless men, he must survive the wild, protect his companion, and untangle the human plot that put him in peril.

Bridge, a streetwise outsider, arrives in a quiet town hoping for a clean start and finds the opposite. A local scandal erupts into danger, and his underworld instincts become the only tools he can trust.

Set deeper in the Caspak saga, this adventure pushes into the island’s most dangerous zones, where intelligent enemies and brutal customs replace simple monster hunting. Survival depends on courage, cunning, and alliances made under pressure.

A wartime voyage ends in shipwreck on a mysterious island where dinosaurs still roam. Trapped with former enemies, the survivors must explore inland, learn the island’s strange rules, and find a way out before the jungle claims them.

The castaways’ story continues as new survivors are drawn into the island’s deeper regions, where dangers are not just prehistoric. With human rivals and unfamiliar societies ahead, escape becomes harder, and trust becomes rarer.

A mysterious rider with a hidden past arrives in a hard country where loyalty is bought and sold. As violence closes in, he must decide whether to keep running or stand and fight for a life he never thought he deserved.

A collection of short adventures from Tarzan’s early years, showing how he learned jungle skills, made enemies, and built his own code. Each story adds texture to his legend without slowing the pace.

During wartime, Tarzan is driven into a relentless hunt that takes him across dangerous territory and into human conflicts he never wanted. Revenge, rescue, and survival collide as he fights enemies who do not play by jungle rules.

Tarzan ventures into a hidden land beyond the known jungle, where strange tribes and ancient rivalries shape daily life. To survive and escape, he must learn new rules fast and outthink enemies who know the terrain.

A young man takes a job as an efficiency expert and tries to bring order to a chaotic business, with mixed results. Misunderstandings, workplace politics, and unexpected romance turn a simple assignment into comic trouble.

Tara of Helium is abducted, and warrior Gahan of Gathol tracks her into Manator, a strange realm where captives are used as pieces in a lethal living chess game. Saving her means beating rules designed to kill.

A man from the countryside is drawn into Hollywood’s bright lights and darker corners, where ambition and corruption sit side by side. As a young actress’s life spins out of control, he must decide how far to go to help her.

Tarzan befriends a rare golden lion and is pulled into a conflict that mixes jungle danger with human treachery. Protecting the animal and the people around him means facing hunters and enemies who want power at any cost.

Julian 5th sets out for Mars in a pioneering spacecraft, but betrayal forces a crash on the Moon, where strange powers rule hidden societies. Survival turns into a struggle between factions, and the consequences echo for generations.

A baby left on a doorstep grows up into a young woman whose life refuses to stay simple. From high society to sudden danger, the story throws her into blackmail, travel, and unexpected twists that keep her scrambling to stay in control.

Tarzan is drawn into a bizarre miniature civilization, where size and strength mean something new. Cut off from his usual advantages, he must survive captivity and political intrigue while trying to return to the wider world.

In this western tale, a quiet ranchland is shaken by a feared bandit and the rumors surrounding him. A man caught between law and outlaw life must navigate ambushes, loyalty tests, and a showdown under a wide desert sky.

After a shipwreck, a sheltered man survives on a remote island and meets a fierce young woman raised outside civilization. Together they face predators, hostile intruders, and the question of what “home” should mean once rescue becomes possible.

Centuries after the first lunar contact, Earth has been conquered by invaders from the Moon, and Chicago lies in ruins. A new Julian fights to survive in a brutal world and sparks a resistance against the Kalkars’ rule.

Far in the future, civilization has shifted into new tribal powers, and a later Julian, the Red Hawk, becomes a leader in the long war against the Moon’s descendants. The struggle mixes rebellion, raids, and the hard work of building unity.

Barney Custer, an American who looks exactly like a European king, is swept into palace intrigue and revolution. Hunted by enemies on all sides, he must rely on nerve and quick thinking to survive a role he never wanted.

This volume pairs two late Tarzan adventures, one involving a film crew and a “lion man,” and another featuring a deadly leopard-men cult. Together they show Tarzan dealing with human deception as much as jungle danger.

A wounded airman from Earth awakens on Barsoom and is drawn into the work of a brilliant, dangerous scientist. When bodies and identities can be traded, survival depends on knowing who to trust and what you can live with.

Two adventurous youngsters, known as the Tarzan Twins, get separated from safety and must survive deep in the African jungle. Cannibals, wild animals, and hidden dangers test their courage until Tarzan tracks their trail.

Shoz-Dijiji rises as a fierce Apache warrior in the American Southwest, caught between tribal expectations and the pressures of a changing frontier. Raids, rivalries, and a personal romance thread build toward hard choices about loyalty and survival.

Shoz-Dijiji’s story continues as outside forces tighten and internal feuds turn deadly. With his reputation growing and enemies multiplying, he must protect his people while facing the personal costs of becoming a living symbol on the frontier.

A new protagonist is drawn into Pellucidar’s brutal inner-earth politics and forced to survive among rival tribes and slavers. As alliances shift, he must fight for freedom and learn what leadership costs in a world without night.

Tarzan’s search for missing friends leads him to a hidden realm in Africa that feels like a surviving fragment of an ancient empire. To escape its politics and dangers, he must outfight enemies who have ruled in secret for generations.

Tarzan is pulled into Pellucidar, the savage world inside the Earth, where dinosaurs and telepathic rulers prey on humans. Cut off from the surface, he joins the fight for freedom and survives by instinct and relentless action.

Cast out and sold into slavery, Tan Hadron fights to reclaim his honor and freedom on Barsoom. His journey runs through arenas, warlords, and shifting identities, where a single mistake can cost a life, or a kingdom.

Tarzan uncovers a dangerous plot involving foreign agents, hidden strongholds, and people willing to sell out entire communities. To stop the scheme, he must fight through traps that are more political than animal, and just as lethal.

Tarzan becomes entangled in a struggle over power in a remote African region, where slavers and warlords exploit fear. A rescue turns into a larger campaign, and Tarzan must outthink enemies who count on intimidation to win.

An American adventurer in Cambodia stumbles into a hidden kingdom and a “jungle girl” living between worlds. As outsiders close in, he must navigate secret politics and dangerous terrain to protect what the lost land is trying to hide.

Carson Napier crash-lands on Venus, Amtor, and immediately meets pirates, rival cities, and a princess named Duare. With no way home, he fights to survive and to keep Duare out of the hands of those who treat people like prizes.

Tarzan returns to a hidden land of strange tribes and lost riches when danger threatens friends and allies. The journey forces him into brutal contests, uneasy alliances, and a fight to keep power from falling into the wrong hands.

Tarzan crosses paths with a Hollywood expedition and a mysterious “lion man,” and what starts as a stunt turns into real danger. He must untangle deception, rescue the vulnerable, and restore order in a jungle that does not forgive mistakes.

Carson Napier’s troubles on Amtor deepen as he’s captured and dragged into new regions of Venus, each with its own laws and dangers. Separated from allies, he must improvise escapes while searching for Duare across a hostile world.

Tan Hadron pursues a kidnapping and a wider conspiracy that threatens the balance of power on Mars. With enemies closing in, he must fight his way through betrayals and uneasy alliances across Barsoom’s harsh frontier.

A secretive leopard-men cult spreads fear through the jungle, and Tarzan must track the killers without knowing who wears the mask. The hunt becomes a tense mix of mystery and action as Tarzan closes in on enemies hiding in plain sight.

Jane is kidnapped, and Tarzan follows her trail into remote country where legends of a life-extending secret draw ruthless men. The quest becomes a race through hidden valleys and brutal fights, with Tarzan unwilling to lose his family again.

A man from the surface is stranded in Pellucidar and forced to live by stone-age rules, learning survival one brutal lesson at a time. Captivity, pursuit, and shifting tribal politics make every step toward freedom uncertain.

Tarzan enters a forbidden city where outsiders are not meant to return and finds a web of politics and danger inside its walls. Rescue becomes harder than the journey in, and Tarzan must fight smart as well as hard to get out.

Carson Napier continues his fight to survive on Amtor while navigating rival kingdoms and the fallout of earlier battles. With Duare’s safety still in doubt, he pushes deeper into Venus’s patchwork world of pirates, priests, and warlords.

John Carter investigates a new menace, synthetic warriors built for conquest. As plots unfold in hidden cities and strange laboratories, he must protect Helium while uncovering who is turning science into a weapon.

Tarzan escorts a dangerous prisoner through hostile territory and discovers that justice is rarely simple in the jungle. Betrayal, pursuit, and unexpected alliances turn a straightforward mission into a test of Tarzan’s judgment and restraint.

A drifter takes on the job of deputy sheriff in Comanche County and quickly learns that the badge makes him a target. Outlaws, corrupt power, and a hard moral choice force him to decide what kind of lawman he will be.

A later Barsoom adventure pits John Carter against a synthetic enemy who unleashes a gigantic white ape as a living weapon. With Dejah Thoris in danger, Carter must outfight brute force and outthink a plot built on fear.

This collection returns to Barsoom for late-era John Carter adventures, including a clash with a synthetic enemy and a threat that reaches beyond Mars. It works best once you know the world and its long-running rivalries.

A set of linked Barsoom adventures follows Llana of Gathol as she faces kidnappers, monsters, and lost civilizations. Each tale drops her into danger fast, then forces a clever escape before the next trap snaps shut.

Pellucidar’s struggle for freedom continues as new threats and rival factions rise in the endless daylight. Exploration and warfare collide, pushing the rebels into strange territories where the Mahars’ shadow still reaches.

On Venus, Carson Napier and his allies are forced into flight again as enemies close in from multiple directions. The escape becomes a series of desperate bargains and battles, with Duare’s fate tied to the outcome.

John Carter is abducted by eerie skeletal beings from Jupiter and drawn into an interplanetary threat aimed at Mars. This late tale reads like a cliffhanger-driven fragment from the outer edges of the Barsoom saga.

David Innes returns to Pellucidar and is drawn into a perilous expedition toward an unknown region rumored to be deadly. Strange peoples, treachery, and the harsh logic of survival turn exploration into a fight to come back alive.

During World War II, Tarzan becomes involved in a rescue and sabotage mission alongside a foreign legion. Jungle skills meet modern warfare as he fights to save captives and outmaneuver enemies in a conflict larger than any one man.

An omnibus-style volume that gathers several mid-series Barsoom adventures in one place. Expect kidnappings, strange cities, and perilous journeys across Mars, with the spotlight shifting between different heroes and corners of the planet.

Two linked science-fiction adventures follow an Earthman who is transported to a distant world and forced into war and survival. Strange cultures, alien dangers, and a drive to get home keep the story moving at pulp speed.

Tarzan encounters a man who looks like him, and the double becomes the center of a dangerous scheme. Confusion, captivity, and a fight for identity push Tarzan into a mystery where brute force is not enough.

Carson Napier encounters a strange figure who uses superstition and “magic” to control others on Venus. To free captives and survive, Carson must expose the trick, and face the very real danger behind it.

This late Tarzan collection sends him into remote coasts and sudden rescues, where castaways and criminals collide. The stories lean into short, fast plots, with Tarzan solving problems quickly and leaving before trouble can settle.

A warrior from the Germanic tribes is swept into the violent politics of ancient Rome and ends up in the orbit of an emperor. Court intrigue, survival, and culture clash drive a story that feels like Burroughs doing historical adventure.

A three-act romantic comedy in which a young woman dreams of the stage while the people around her try to steer her into a quieter life. A tangle of schemes and surprises tests relationships and forces characters to reveal what they really want.

A collection of letters between Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston that traces their friendship and daily lives over many years. The correspondence offers a candid look at writing, business, family worries, and the era they lived through.

This continuation of The Cave Girl follows its characters beyond the island and into new dangers. Wilderness survival gives way to modern threats, forcing hard choices about love, identity, and where they truly belong.

Based on the film, this novelization follows John Carter from the American West to Mars, where he’s pulled into a conflict between rival factions. It retells the story with scene-by-scene detail and added context.