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Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure Books in Order

Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure contains 56 books, published between 1981 and 2011. The first book is The Circus (1981) and the newest is Curse of the Pirate Mist (2011). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
56
Published
1981–2011
Pages on record
2,138 in 37 of 56 books
Reading time
36–53 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,138 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 37 of 56 titles with a page count on record.

See all 56 books in order Printable Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure checklist

Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure is the younger readers' branch of the Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks, where the reader decides what happens next and each choice leads to a different ending. The run holds 56 books published between 1981 and 2011, from The Circus to Curse of the Pirate Mist. Volumes are short, at a median of 52 pages, and cover haunted houses, robots, time travel, buried treasure and monsters in titles such as Your Very Own Robot, The Green Slime and Help! You're Shrinking.

How many Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure books are there?

Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure has 56 books, released between 1981 and 2011.

Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 56 Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Haunted House by R. A. Montgomery, book 2 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1981)
  2. Cover of Your Very Own Robot by R. A. Montgomery, book 4 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1982)
  3. Cover of Gorga, The Space Monster, book 5 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1982)
  4. Cover of The Green Slime, book 6 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1982)
  5. Cover of Help! You're Shrinking by Edward Packard, book 7 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1983)
  6. Cover of Indian Trail by R. A. Montgomery, book 8 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1983)
  7. Cover of Dream Trips by Edward Packard, book 9 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1983)
  8. Cover of The Bigfoot Mystery by Lynn Sonberg, book 11 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1983)
  9. Cover of The Creature from Miller's Pond by Susan Saunders, book 12 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1983)
  10. Cover of Jungle Safari by Edward Packard, book 13 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1983)
  11. Cover of The Search for Champ by Shannon Gilligan, book 14 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1983)
  12. Cover of The Three Wishes by Shannon Gilligan, book 15 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1984)
  13. Cover of Wild Horse Country by Lynn Sonberg, book 17 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1984)
  14. Cover of Summer Camp by Judy Gitenstein, book 18 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1984)
  15. Cover of The Tower of London, book 19 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1984)
  16. Cover of Trouble in Space, book 20 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1984)
  17. Cover of Mona is Missing by Shannon Gilligan, book 21 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1984)
  18. Cover of The Evil Wizard by Andrea Packard, book 22 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1984)
  19. Cover of The Polar Bear Express by Edward Packard, book 23 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1984)
  20. Cover of The Mummy's Tomb by Stephanie Spinner, book 24 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1985)
  21. Cover of The Flying Carpet by Jim Razzi, book 25 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1985)
  22. Cover of The Magic Path by Julius Goodman, book 26 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1985)
  23. Cover of The Fairy Kidnap by Shannon Gilligan, book 29 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1985)
  24. Cover of Blizzard at Black Swan Inn by Susan Saunders, book 32 of the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure series (1986)
  1. 1
    The Circus1981 · 55 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198155
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  2. 2
    The Haunted House1981 · confirmed 1/4
    1981–
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  3. 3
    Sunken Treasure1982 · 52 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198252
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  4. 4
    Your Very Own Robot1982 · 54 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198254
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  5. 5
    Gorga, The Space Monster1982 · 52 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198252
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  6. 6
    The Green Slime1982 · 52 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198252
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  7. 7
    Help! You're Shrinking1983 · 52 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198352
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  8. 8
    Indian Trail1983 · 51 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198351
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  9. 9
    Dream Trips1983 · 52 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198352
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  10. 10
    The Genie in the Bottle1983 · confirmed 1/4
    1983–
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  11. 11
    The Bigfoot Mystery1983 · 53 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198353
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  12. 12
    The Creature from Miller's Pond1983 · 54 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198354
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  13. 13
    Jungle Safari1983 · 51 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198351
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  14. 14
    The Search for Champ1983 · confirmed 1/4
    1983–
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  15. 15
    The Three Wishes1984 · confirmed 1/4
    1984–
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  16. 16
    Dragons!1984 · confirmed 1/4
    1984–
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  17. 17
    Wild Horse Country1984 · 54 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198454
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  18. 18
    Summer Camp1984 · 53 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198453
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  19. 19
    The Tower of London1984 · 51 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198451
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  20. 20
    Trouble in Space1984 · confirmed 1/4
    1984–
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  21. 21
    Mona is Missing1984 · 51 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198451
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  22. 22
    The Evil Wizard1984 · confirmed 1/4
    1984–
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  23. 23
    The Polar Bear Express1984 · 52 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198452
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  24. 24
    The Mummy's Tomb1985 · 54 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198554
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  25. 25
    The Flying Carpet1985 · 52 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198552
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  26. 26
    The Magic Path1985 · confirmed 1/4
    1985–
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  27. 27
    Ice Cave1985 · confirmed 1/4
    1985–
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  28. 28
    Fire!1985 · confirmed 1/4
    1985–
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  29. 29
    The Fairy Kidnap1985 · confirmed 1/4
    1985–
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  30. 30
    Runaway Spaceship1985 · confirmed 1/4
    1985–
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Where to start with Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure

Start with The Circus (1981), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure book?

Curse of the Pirate Mist (2011) is the newest Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure book released so far.

Is there a new Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure book coming?

No next Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure title on record dates from 2011, 15 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
2,138 pages across the 37 of 56 books with a recorded length, a median of 52 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure books, 50 of 56, were published in the 1980s.
Attribution
Of the 56 titles, 12 are credited to R. A. Montgomery, 7 to Edward Packard, 7 to Susan Saunders and 5 to Shannon Gilligan. A further 9 writers are credited. 15 titles carry no credit.

What the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure books are about

All 56 Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: plot-your-own stories is tagged on 48 of 56. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Characters in the Skylark Choose Your Own Adventure books

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.