John Carter of Mars Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.