Lester Dent Reading Order

181 books (1933–1979)

Start with Pirate of the Pacific, the first of 181 books in the Doc Savage series.

#	Title
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 1945Buy 🇺🇸
146	Terror Takes 7 1945Buy 🇺🇸
147	The Screaming Man 1945Buy 🇺🇸
148	The Ten Ton Snakes 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 🇺🇸

1 book (2007–2007)

#	Title
1	Doc Savage: The Lost Radio Scripts Of Lester Dent 2007Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2009–2013)

Start with Dead Men's Bones: The Air Adventure Stories of Lester Dent, the first of 5 books in the Library Collections series.

#	Title
1	Dead Men's Bones: The Air Adventure Stories of Lester Dent 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hell's Hoofprints: The Complete Western Trails Tales of Lester Dent 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Skull Squadron: The Air War Stories of Lester Dent 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fists of Fury: The Adventures of Curt Flagg 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	Terror, Inc.: The Weird Mysteries of Lent Dent 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2006–2012)

Start with Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales and read in order.

#	Title
1	Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Weird Adventures Of The Blond Adder 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hell in Boxes: The Exploits of Lynn Lash and Foster Fade 2012Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1946–2015)

Start with Dead at the Take-Off, the first of 9 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Dead at the Take-Off 1946Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lady to Kill 1947Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lady Afraid 1950Buy 🇺🇸
4	Cry at Dusk 1952Buy 🇺🇸
5	Lady in Peril 1959Buy 🇺🇸
6	Hades & Hocus Pocus 1979Buy 🇺🇸
7	Sinister Ray 1987Buy 🇺🇸
8	Honey in his Mouth 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Genius Jones 2015Buy 🇺🇸

37 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 1974Buy 🇺🇸
26	Dr. Time 1974Buy 🇺🇸
27	Red Moon 1974Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Cartoon Crimes 1974Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Man From Atlantis 1974Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Nightwitch Devil 1974Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Purple Zombie 1974Buy 🇺🇸
32	Demon Island 1975Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Blood Countess 1975Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Death Machine 1975Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Glass Man 1975Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Iron Skull 1975Buy 🇺🇸
37	Roaring Heart of the Crucible(By: Nancy Holder,Will Murray,Greg Cox,Joe Gentile,Mel Odom) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (1990–2024)

Start with Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel(By: Martin Powell), the first of 22 books in the The Pulp 2.0 Library series.

#	Title
1	Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel(By: Martin Powell) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Time Machine(By: Bill Spangler) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Radio Western Adventures 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Miracle Squad(By: John Wooley,Terry Tidwell,Bill Cunningham) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	Agent 13(By: Flint Dille,David Marconi) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Auslander Files(By: Michael Patrick Sullivan) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	The New Adventures of Frankenstein Collection(By: Donald F. Glut,Bill Cunningham) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Twilight Avenger(By: John Wooley,Terry Tidwell) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Twilight Avenger Returns(By: John Wooley) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
10	The New Adventures of Frankenstein Collection Volume 2(By: Donald F. Glut,Scott Dutton) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Raven Collection(By: Bill Cunningham) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	Killer: Volume 1(By: Bill Cunningham) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
13	Killer: Volume 2(By: Bill Cunningham) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
14	Strong Man(By: Bob Powell,Jerry Siegel) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
15	Tales Of Frankenstein(By: Donald F. Glut) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Mike Shayne Private Eye Comic Collection(By: Bill Cunningham) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
17	Killer: Volume 3(By: Bill Cunningham) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
18	Killer: Volume 4(By: Bill Cunningham) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
19	Killer: Volume 5(By: Bill Cunningham) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
20	Men's Adventure Reader(By: Bill Cunningham) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
21	Terror!(By: Joan Boix) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
22	Origins of Buck Rogers: Armageddon 2419 A.D.(By: Philip Francis Nowlan) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

22 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(As: Kenneth Robeson) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Frightened Fish(As: Kenneth Robeson) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Jade Ogre(As: Kenneth Robeson) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	White Eyes(As:Kenneth Robeson) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
6	Flight into Fear(As: Kenneth Robeson) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Forgotten Realm(As:Kenneth Robeson) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Whistling Wraith(As: Kenneth Robeson) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	Horror in Gold(As: Kenneth Robeson) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Desert Demons(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	Death's Dark Domain(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Infernal Buddha(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	Phantom Lagoon(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	Skull Island(By: Will Murray) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Miracle Menace(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Ice Genius(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	The War Makers(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Secret of Satan's Spine(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Sinister Shadow(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
20	Glare of the Gorgon(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
21	Empire of Doom(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
22	Mr. Calamity(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2016–2016)

#	Title
1	Six Scarlet Scorpions(As:Kenneth Robeson) 2016Buy 🇺🇸