Kenneth Robeson Reading Order
4 series · 241 books
Kenneth Robeson is the collective pen name for the writers behind the iconic pulp adventure series featuring characters like Doc Savage and The Avenger. Over his prolific career from 1933 to 2018, he authored an impressive 241 books across four series, including the celebrated Wild Adventures of Doc Savage and Wild Adventures of Pat Savage. His engaging storytelling and thrilling narratives have cemented his legacy in the adventure fiction genre.
Doc Savage Series
Complete181 books (1933–1979)
Start with Pirate of the Pacific, the first of 181 books in the Doc Savage series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 |  Pirate of the Pacific 1933Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | Quest of the Spider 1933Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  The Czar of Fear 1933Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  The Land of Terror 1933Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  The Lost Oasis 1933Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | The Man of Bronze 1933Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | The Phantom City 1933Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | The Polar Treasure 1933Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | The Red Skull 1933Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | The Sargasso Ogre 1933Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  Brand of the Werewolf 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  Death in Silver 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 | Fear Cay 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 | Meteor Menace 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 | The Annihilist 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 | The King Maker 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 |  The Man Who Shook the Earth 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 |  The Monsters 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 | The Mystery on the Snow 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 | The Sea Magician 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 |  The Squeaking Goblin 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 |  The Thousand-Headed Man 1934Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 |  Dust of Death 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 | Murder Melody 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 | Quest of Qui 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 | Red Snow 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 |  Spook Hole 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 |  The Fantastic Island 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 |  The Land of Always-Night 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 |  The Majii 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 | The Mystic Mullah 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 |  The Roar Devil 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 |  The Secret in the Sky 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 34 |  The Spook Legion / The Ghost Legion 1935Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 35 |  Cold Death 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 36 |  Murder Mirage 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 37 | Mystery Under the Sea 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 38 |  Resurrection Day 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 39 |  The Black Spot 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 40 | The Haunted Ocean 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 41 |  The Men Who Smiled No More 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 42 |  The Metal Master 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 43 | The Midas Man 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 44 | The Seven Agate Devils 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 45 | The South Pole Terror 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 46 | The Vanisher 1936Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 47 | He Could Stop the World 1937Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 48 |  Land of Long Juju 1937Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 49 | Mad Eyes 1937Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 50 | Repel / The Deadly Dwarf 1937Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 51 | The Derrick Devil 1937Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 52 |  The Feathered Octopus 1937Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 53 | The Golden Peril 1937Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 54 | The Land of Fear 1937Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 55 |  The Magic Island / Ost 1937Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 56 | The Mental Wizard 1937Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 57 |  The Terror in the Navy 1937Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 58 | Devil on the Moon 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 59 | Fortress of Solitude 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 60 |  The Devil Genghis 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 61 | The Giggling Ghosts 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 62 | The Green Death 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 63 | The Living-Fire Menace 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 64 |  The Motion Menace 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 65 |  The Mountain Monster 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 66 |  The Munitions Master 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 67 |  The Pirate's Ghost 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 68 | The Red Terrors 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 69 | The Submarine Mystery 1938Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 70 |  Hex 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 71 | Mad Mesa 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 72 |  Merchants of Disaster 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 73 | Poison Island 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 74 |  The Crimson Serpent 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 75 | The Dagger in the Sky 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 76 | The Flaming Falcons 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 77 | The Freckled Shark 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 78 | The Gold Ogre 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 79 | The Other World 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 80 | The Stone Man 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 81 | The Yellow Cloud 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 82 |  World's Fair Goblin 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 83 |  Devils of the Deep 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 84 |  The Angry Ghost 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 85 |  The Awful Dynasty 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 86 |  The Awful Egg 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 87 | The Boss of Terror 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 88 | The Evil Gnome 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 89 |  The Flying Goblin 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 90 |  The Men Vanished 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 91 | The Purple Dragon 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 92 |  The Spotted Men 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 93 |  Tunnel Terror 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 94 |  Bequest of Evil 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 95 |  Birds of Death 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 96 |  Mystery Island 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 97 |  Peril in the North 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 98 |  The All-White Elf 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 99 | The Devil's Playground 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 100 | The Golden Man 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 101 |  The Green Eagle 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 102 | The Headless Men 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 103 | The Invisible Box Murders 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 104 |  The Mindless Monsters 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 105 |  The Pink Lady 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 106 | Men of Fear 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 107 |  Pirate Isle 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 108 |  The Devil's Black Rock 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 109 |  The Fiery Menace 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 110 |  The Laugh of Death 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 111 | The Magic Forest 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 112 | The Man Who Fell Up 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 113 |  The Rustling Death 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 114 | The Speaking Stone 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 115 | The Three Wild Men 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 116 | The Too-Wise Owl 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 117 |  They Died Twice 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 118 |  Hell Below 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 119 | Mystery on Happy Bones 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 120 | The Black, Black Witch 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 121 |  The Goblins 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 122 | The King of Terror 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 123 | The Mental Monster 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 124 | The Running Skeletons 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 125 | The Secret of the Su 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 126 |  The Spook of Grandpa Eden 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 127 |  The Talking Devil 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 128 |  The Time Terror 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 129 | Waves of Death 1943Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 130 | According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 131 |  Death Had Yellow Eyes 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 132 |  Jiu San 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 133 |  Satan Black 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 134 |  The Derelict of Skull Shoal 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 135 | The Lost Giant 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 136 |  The Man Who Was Scared 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 137 | The Pharaoh's Ghost 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 138 | The Shape of Terror 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 139 | The Three Devils 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 140 | The Whisker of Hercules 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 141 | Weird Valley 1944Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 142 | Cargo Unknown 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 143 |  King Joe Cay 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 144 |  Rock Sinister 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 145 | Strange Fish(As: Lester Dent) 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 146 |  Terror Takes 7 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 147 | The Screaming Man 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 148 | The Ten Ton Snakes(As: Lester Dent) 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 149 | The Terrible Stork 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 150 | The Thing That Pursued 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 151 | The Wee Ones 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 152 | Trouble on Parade 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 153 |  Violent Night / The Hate Genius 1945Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 154 |  Colors for Murder 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 155 | Death in Little Houses 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 156 |  Death is a Round Black Spot 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 157 |  Fire and Ice 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 158 | Five Fathoms Dead 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 159 | Measures for a Coffin 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 160 | Se-Pah-Poo 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 161 | Terror and the Lonely Widow 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 162 | The Devil is Jones 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 163 |  The Disappearing Lady 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 164 | The Exploding Lake 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 165 | Three Times a Corpse 1946Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 166 | Danger Lies East 1947Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 167 | Let's Kill Ames 1947Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 168 | No Light to Die By 1947Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 169 | Once Over Lightly 1947Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 170 | Target for Death 1947Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 171 | The Death Lady 1947Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 172 | The Monkey Suit 1947Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 173 |  I Died Yesterday 1948Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 174 | Terror Wears No Shoes 1948Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 175 | The Angry Canary 1948Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 176 | The Pure Evil 1948Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 177 | The Swooning Lady 1948Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 178 | Return From Cormoral 1949Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 179 | The Green Master 1949Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 180 | Up From Earth's Center 1949Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 181 | The Red Spider 1979Buy 🇺🇸 |
The Avenger Series
Complete37 books (1939–2013)
Start with Justice, Inc., the first of 37 books in the The Avenger series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  Justice, Inc. 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  The Devil's Horns 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  The Sky Walker 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  The Yellow Hoard 1939Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  Murder on Wheels 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  River of Ice 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  Stockholders in Death 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  The Blood Ring 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  The Flame Breathers 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 |  The Frosted Death 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | The Glass Mountain 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  The Smiling Dogs 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 | Tuned for Murder 1940Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 |  Death in Slow Motion 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 |  House of Death 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  Nevlo 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 |  Pictures of Death 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 |  The Hate Master 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 |  Three Gold Crowns 1941Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 |  Midnight Murder 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 |  The Black Death 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 |  The Green Killer 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 |  The Happy Killers 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 | The Wilder Curse 1942Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 |  Black Chariots(By: Ron Goulart) 1974Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 | Dr. Time(By: Ron Goulart) 1974Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 | Red Moon(By: Ron Goulart) 1974Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 |  The Cartoon Crimes(By: Ron Goulart) 1974Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 |  The Man From Atlantis(By: Ron Goulart) 1974Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 | The Nightwitch Devil(By: Ron Goulart) 1974Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 |  The Purple Zombie(By: Ron Goulart) 1974Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 |  Demon Island(By: Ron Goulart) 1975Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 |  The Blood Countess(By: Ron Goulart) 1975Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 34 |  The Death Machine(By: Ron Goulart) 1975Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 35 |  The Glass Man(By: Ron Goulart) 1975Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 36 | The Iron Skull(By: Ron Goulart) 1975Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 37 | Roaring Heart of the Crucible(By: Nancy Holder,Will Murray,Greg Cox,Joe Gentile,Mel Odom) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
Wild Adventures Of Doc Savage Series
Complete22 books (1991–2018)
Start with Escape from Loki(By: Philip Jose Farmer), the first of 22 books in the Wild Adventures Of Doc Savage series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  Escape from Loki(By: Philip Jose Farmer) 1991Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  Python Isle 1991Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  The Frightened Fish 1992Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  The Jade Ogre 1992Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  White Eyes 1992Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  Flight into Fear 1993Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  The Forgotten Realm 1993Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  The Whistling Wraith 1993Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  Horror in Gold 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | The Desert Demons 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  Death's Dark Domain 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  The Infernal Buddha 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  Phantom Lagoon 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 | Skull Island(By: Will Murray) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 |  The Miracle Menace 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  The Ice Genius 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 |  The War Makers 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 |  The Secret of Satan's Spine 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 |  The Sinister Shadow 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 |  Glare of the Gorgon 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 |  Empire of Doom 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 |  Mr. Calamity 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
Wild Adventures Of Pat Savage Series
Complete1 book (2016–2016)
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  Six Scarlet Scorpions 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Kenneth Robeson written?
- Kenneth Robeson has written 241 books across 4 series. Their published works span from 1933 to 2018.
- What is the first book in each Kenneth Robeson series?
- Here are the first books in Kenneth Robeson's series: Doc Savage: Pirate of the Pacific; The Avenger: Justice, Inc.; Wild Adventures Of Doc Savage: Escape from Loki(By: Philip Jose Farmer).
- What order should I read Kenneth Robeson's books?
- We recommend reading Kenneth Robeson's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
- Are Kenneth Robeson's series complete?
- Kenneth Robeson has 4 completed series.