Edgar Rice Burroughs Books in Order

A soldier transported to Mars becomes caught in its wars.

A boy raised by apes encounters the human world.

A sheltered young man learns to survive in the wild.

A returning adventurer uncovers captivity behind a promised Martian paradise.

A scientist's artificial men escape control near Borneo.

Tarzan faces hidden enemies and returns toward the African jungle.

John Carter pursues his captive princess across Mars.

Two men find an inhabited world inside the Earth.

Tarzan escapes captivity and pursues enemies who threaten his family.

A Chicago brawler faces danger and the chance to change.

An outlaw faces love and conflict without knowing his origins.

A modern woman shares a bond with a prehistoric man.

Tarzan’s son leaves England for life in the African jungle.

Tarzan returns to a lost city where treasure brings danger.

A naval officer crosses a forbidden boundary into Europe's future.

A young Martian prince seeks a kidnapped woman he loves.

A stranded officer faces winged captors on a prehistoric island.

Wartime enemies reach an island where prehistoric creatures still live.

A small town faces theft, secrets, and mistaken identities.

A rescue expedition reaches a land of prehistoric life.

A human boy grows up among apes in the jungle.

Tarzan pursues revenge as war reaches his African home.

Tarzan searches for his missing wife in a hidden land.

Tarzan faces jungle dangers with a lion he has raised.

A Martian princess faces captivity and a deadly chess game.

Tarzan enters a hidden land of tiny warring peoples.

An American mistaken for a king faces plots against the crown.

A family's lunar adventures lead to resistance on an occupied Earth.

Tarzan encounters a hidden society ruled by medieval customs.

An Earth soldier confronts brain transplants and danger on Mars.

Tarzan encounters hidden Roman societies in the African interior.

A young captive struggles for freedom inside a hollow Earth.

Tarzan enters a hidden world beneath Earth on a rescue mission.

A young Martian warrior sets out to rescue the woman he loves.

An explorer lands on Venus and encounters pirates and princesses.

An American faces danger and forbidden love on Venus.

Begin with Burroughs's best-known hero, whose upbringing establishes the central tensions of the series.

Continue directly with the sequel, building on relationships and conflicts introduced in Tarzan's debut.

Stay with Tarzan as family dangers give his jungle skills a more personal purpose.

The next generation broadens the family story while keeping the jungle adventure familiar.

Return to Tarzan himself for lost-city adventure that draws on his established world.

Pause for linked childhood stories that deepen your acquaintance with the young Tarzan.

Resume the adult adventures as wartime conflict changes the pressures on Tarzan's African home.

Follow the preceding adventure into a hidden land, keeping its continuing search in sequence.

Continue with an animal partnership and further dangers rooted in Tarzan's familiar jungle world.

Now explore a more fantastic hidden society through an already familiar adventuring hero.

Keep the Tarzan sequence moving with a hidden society shaped by medieval customs.

Another concealed civilization extends the series' historical fantasies before you branch into other worlds.

Begin the Mars sequence with John Carter's arrival and a clear introduction to Barsoom.

Read next for a direct continuation that expands the dangers and beliefs of Mars.

Complete the opening John Carter sequence before moving to other heroes on the planet.

Shift to a younger generation once the Martian setting and its relationships are familiar.

Broaden your view of Barsoom through another princess's adventures and its distinctive chess tradition.

A new Earth visitor offers a fresh perspective on Martian science and social divisions.

Continue across Barsoom with a local warrior, adding another viewpoint to the established world.

Open the hollow-Earth adventures with the discovery that introduces Pellucidar and its prehistoric dangers.

Move to another Pellucidarian protagonist after learning the setting; intervening series volumes are not listed here.

Bring the Tarzan and Pellucidar strands together after becoming familiar with both adventure worlds.

Start the Caspak sequence with its arrival story and the island's strange prehistoric environment.

Follow with the rescue expedition, which builds directly on the preceding island adventure.

Finish the Caspak sequence with a complementary viewpoint that develops the island's unusual societies.

Begin a fresh planetary series with Carson Napier's arrival and introduction to Venus.

Continue Carson Napier's adventures after the opening book establishes his surroundings and central relationship.

Turn from invented worlds to a rougher adventure centered on character and personal change.

Follow The Mucker with a connected adventure that shifts toward small-town mystery and mistaken identities.

Explore a lighter survival romance now that the major recurring adventure worlds are familiar.

Branch into historical adventure for medieval conflict, romance, and questions of concealed identity.

Try royal impersonation and political intrigue as another variation on Burroughs's adventure romances.

Explore a standalone scientific adventure that turns from distant worlds to artificial human life.

Read this prehistoric romance after Tarzan, whose world provides connections for the standalone adventure.

Add a shorter speculative adventure that exchanges hidden civilizations for an imagined future Europe.

Finish with a broader speculative saga, moving from lunar exploration into a future Earth's struggles.