• Tom Clancy's Op-Center
• Tom Clancy's Power Plays
• Tom Clancy's Net Force
• Tom Clancy's Net Force Explorers
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
• Tom Clancy's EndWar
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
• Tom Clancy's The Sum Of All Fears
• Island Thunder
• Black Arrow
• Chaos Theory
• Pandora Tomorrow
• Lockdown
• Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
• Vegas
• Vegas 2
• Double Agent
• Conviction
• Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2
• Future Soldier

By publication date

The Hunt for Red October (1984): Clancy's first published novel. CIA analyst Jack Ryan assists in the defection of a respected Soviet naval captain, along with the most advanced ballistic missile submarine of the Soviet fleet. The movie (1990) stars Alec Baldwin as Ryan and Sean Connery as Captain Ramius. Captain Mancuso is introduced here. Nearly every book after has Mancuso in ever increasing command of U.S. submarine forces.

Red Storm Rising (1986): War between NATO and USSR. The basis of the combat game of the same name, this book is not a member of the Ryan story series (although the protagonist of the story has many similarities with Jack Ryan). He co-wrote it with Larry Bond.

Patriot Games (1987): The first book that Clancy wrote, Patriot Games predates The Hunt for Red October in chronological order. Jack Ryan foils an attack in London on the Prince and Princess of Wales by the "Ulster Liberation Army". The ULA then attacks Ryan's Maryland home while he is hosting the Prince and Princess for dinner. The movie stars Harrison Ford as Ryan and Samuel L. Jackson as Robby Jackson.

The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988): First appearance of John Clark and Sergey Golovko. Ryan leads a CIA operation which forces the head of the KGB to defect. Other elements include anti-satellite lasers and other SDI-type weapons, and the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Major Alan Gregory is introduced here. (He appears later, updating SAM software in The Bear and the Dragon). Colonel Bondarenko also is introduced here. (He appears in later books offering advice to Golovko in "Executive Orders" and commanding the Russian Army defenses against China in its sequel "The Bear and the Dragon")

Clear and Present Danger (1989): The President authorizes the CIA to use American military forces in a covert war against cocaine producers in Colombia. The operation is betrayed. Ryan meets John Clark as they lead a mission to rescue abandoned soldiers. Domingo "Ding" Chavez (Clark's protege in later novels) is one of the rescued soldiers. The movie (1994) stars Harrison Ford as Ryan, Willem Dafoe as Clark and Raymond Cruz as Chavez.

The Sum of All Fears (1991): Arab terrorists find a nuclear weapon that had been lost by Israel, and use it to attack the United States. This nearly triggers a war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, due to the incompetence of the new President and his mistress with an anti-Ryan agenda. Ryan intervenes to avert the war. The 2002 movie stars Ben Affleck as Ryan, Liev Schreiber as Clark, and changes the identity and motivation of the terrorists to neo-Nazis.

Without Remorse (1993): Without Remorse takes place during the Vietnam War, when Jack Ryan was a teenager. Ex-SEAL John Clark (then John Kelly) fights a bloody one-man war against drug dealers in Baltimore, attracting the attention of Jack's father Emmett, a Baltimore police detective. He also helps plan and execute a raid on a prisoner-of-war camp in North Vietnam. Clark joins the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Debt of Honor (1994): A secret cabal of extreme nationalists gains control of Japan (having acquired some nuclear weapons), and start a war with the U.S. Ryan, now National Security Advisor, and Clark and Chavez, agents in Japan, help win the war. The Vice President resigns in a scandal, and the President appoints Ryan to replace him. A vengeful, die-hard Japanese airline pilot then crashes a jetliner into the U.S. Capitol during a joint session of Congress attended by most senior U.S. government leaders, including the President. Ryan thus becomes the new President through succession.

Executive Orders (1996): This is the immediate sequel to Debt of Honor. President Ryan survives press hazing, an assassination attempt, and a biological warfare attack on the USA. Clark and Chavez trace the virus to a Middle Eastern madman, and the U.S. military goes to work.

Strategies for Submarine Warfare (1996): Follows the missions of USS Cheyenne in a future war with China precipitated by China's invasion of the disputed Spratly Islands. Also not a Ryanverse book, SSN is actually a loosely connected collection of "scenario" chapters in support of the eponymous computer game.

Rainbow Six (1998): Released to coincide with the computer game of the same name. John Clark and Ding, who is now Clark's son-in-law, lead an elite multi-national anti-terrorist unit that combats a worldwide genocide attempt by eco-terrorists. (Jack Ryan is the U.S. President and only mentioned or referred to as either 'The President' or 'Jack'.)

The Bear and the Dragon (2000): War between Russia and China. Ryan recognizes the independence of Taiwan, Chinese police officers kill a Roman Catholic Cardinal, and the American armed forces help Russia defeat a Chinese invasion of Siberia.

Red Rabbit (2002): In the early 1980s, CIA analyst Ryan aids in the defection of a Soviet officer who knows of a plan to assassinate Pope John Paul II.

The Teeth of the Tiger (2003): Jack Ryan's son, Jack Ryan Jr., becomes an intelligence analyst, and then a field consultant, for The Campus, an off-the-books intelligence agency with the freedom to discreetly assassinate individuals "who threaten national security", following the end of the Jack Ryan Sr. presidential administration. This book of the Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy introduces Ryan's son and two nephews as heirs to his spook-legacy.

Dead or Alive (2010): Clancy's newest novel, the story picks up where The Teeth of the Tiger left off with Jack Ryan Jr. and The Campus trying to catch a terrorist known as "The Emir".

By series plot chronology

Novels not in the series

• Red Storm Rising (1986)
• SSN (1996)

Jack Ryan/John Clark Universe

• Without Remorse (1993) (John Kelly/Clark, Jack's father Emmett Ryan, brief appearance by Jack)
• Patriot Games (1987)
• Red Rabbit (2002)
• The Hunt for Red October (1984)
• The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1988)
• Clear and Present Danger (1989)
• The Sum of All Fears (1991)
• Debt of Honor (1994)
• Executive Orders (1996)
• Rainbow Six (1998) (John Kelly/Clark, Jack Ryan by unnamed reference)
• The Bear and the Dragon (2000)
• The Teeth of the Tiger (2003) (Jack Ryan Jr., Jack Ryan by reference)
• Dead or Alive (2010) (Jack Ryan Jr.)

Op-Center Universe

• Op-Center
• Mirror Image
• Games of State
• Acts of War
• Balance of Power
• State of Siege
• Divide and Conquer
• Line of Control
• Mission of Honor
• Sea of Fire
• Call to Treason
• War of Eagles

NetForce Universe

• NetForce (1998)
• Hidden Agendas
• Night Moves
• Breaking Point
• Point of Impact
• Cybernation
• State of War
• Springboard
• Changing of the Guard
• The Archimedes Effect

NetForce Explorers Universe

• Virtual Vandals
• The Deadliest Game
• One is the Loneliest Number
• The Ultimate Escape
• End Game
• Cyberspy
• The Great Race
• Shadow of Honor
• Private Lives
• Safe House

Power Plays Series

• Politika (novel, 1997)
• Politika (computer game) by Red Storm Entertainment
• Politika (board game)
• ruthless.com (novel, 1998)
• ruthless.com (computer game, 1998) by Red Storm Entertainment
• Shadow Watch (novel, 1999) by Jerome Preisler
• Shadow Watch (computer game, 1999) by Red Storm Entertainment
• Bio-Strike (novel, 2000) by Jerome Preisler
• Cold War (novel, 2001) by Jerome Preisler
• Cutting Edge (novel, 2002) by Jerome Preisler
• Zero Hour (novel, 2003) by Jerome Preisler
• Wild Card (novel, 2004) by Jerome Preisler

Ghost Recon Universe

• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon by Grant Blackwood as David Michaels

EndWar Universe

• Tom Clancy's EndWar by Grant Blackwood as David Michaels

H.A.W.X Universe

• Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X by Grant Blackwood as David Michaels

Non-fiction

• A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship (1993)
• Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment (1994)
• A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing (1995)
• A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit (1996)
• A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force (1997)
• A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier (1999)
• Special Forces: A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces (2001)

• Into the Storm - On the Ground in Iraq (with Fred Franks) (1997)
• Every Man a Tiger - the Gulf War Air Campaign (with Chuck Horner) (1999)
• Shadow Warriors - Inside the Special Forces (with Carl Stiner) (2002)
• Battle Ready (with Anthony Zinni) (2004)

• The Tom Clancy Companion - Edited by Martin H. Greenberg ... Writings by Clancy along with a concordance of all his fiction novels, detailing characters and military units or equipment.

• The Hunt for Red October (1987): Submarine sim loosely based on the novel of the same name. Produced by Grandslam Entertainment for IBM PC, C64, and Amiga.
• Red Storm Rising (1988): Submarine sim loosely based on the novel of the same name. Produced by MicroProse for IBM PC, C64, and Amiga.
• The Hunt for Red October (1990): Submarine sim based on the movie of the same name. Produced by Grandslam Entertainment for IBM PC, Amiga, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Game Boy.
• SSN (1996): Submarince sim based on the novel of the same name. Produced by Simon & Schuster Interactive for IBM PC.
• Shadow Watch (2000): Turn based strategy based on the Power Play novel of the same name.
• The Sum of All Fears (2002): Tactical first person shooter similar in style to Rainbow Six, but based on the Ghost Recon engine. The plot is based on the movie of the same name. Produced by Ubisoft for the IBM PC and Nintendo GameCube system.

• Rainbow Six series: Squad-based first-person shooters, based on the novel of the same name, typically taking place in closed urban environments.
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998)
• Eagle Watch (1999)
• Rogue Spear (1999)
• Urban Operations (2000)
• Covert Operations Essentials (2000)
• Take-Down — Missions in Korea (2001)
• Black Thorn (2001)
• Lone Wolf (2002)
• Raven Shield (2003)
• Black Arrow (2004)
• Athena Sword (2004)
• Iron Wrath (2005)
• Lockdown (2005)
• Critical Hour (2006)
• Vegas (2006)
• Vegas 2 (2008)

• Ghost Recon series: Squad-based first-person shooters/third-person shooters. As opposed to the Rainbow Six games, Ghost Recon usually takes place in larger, outdoor environments.
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (2001)
• Desert Siege (2003)
• Island Thunder (2003)
• Jungle Storm (2004)
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 (2004)
• Summit Strike (2005)
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (2006)
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (2007)
• Future Soldier (2011)

• Splinter Cell series: Third person stealth games, lately spawned a line of books written by a series of different authors, all writing under the pseudonym David Michaels.
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2002)
• Pandora Tomorrow (2004)
• Chaos Theory (2005)
• Essentials (2006)
• Double Agent (2006)
• Conviction (2010)

• EndWar series: Franchise set in a speculative World War III, taking place in 2020.
• Tom Clancy's EndWar (2008)
• Tom Clancy's EndWar 2 (TBA)

• H.A.W.X series: Air combat.
• Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X (2009)
• Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X 2 (2010)

• The Hunt for Red October (1988)
• : Naval wargame published by TSR, Inc., based on the novel of the same name. It covered modern naval warfare between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
• Red Storm Rising (1989)
• :Ground warfare wargame published by TSR, Inc., based on the novel of the same name. It covered an attack on NATO forces in western Europe by the Warsaw Pact. It included rules for integration with The Hunt for Red October game of the year before. The publisher reused the system for Europe Aflame (1989), a strategic World War II game, and A Line in the Sand, a strategic game about the First Gulf War.
• Tom Clancy's Politika (1997)

• Clancy is one of only two authors to have sold two million copies on a first printing in the 1990s. (John Grisham is the other author.) Clancy's 1989 novel Clear and Present Danger sold 1,625,544 hardcover copies, making it the #1 bestselling novel of the 1980s.

• Clancy received an honorary doctorate in humane letters and delivered the commencement address at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1992, and has since worked a reference to the school into many of his main works.

• Clancy is an honorary Yeoman Warder of The Tower of London holding the title "Supernumerary Yeoman". On the television show Ace of Cakes his wife commissioned, for his 60th birthday, a special cake in the shape of the Tower of London in acknowledgment of his status. In the episode, Tom Clancy referred to the Beefeaters as, "Just a terrific bunch of guys".

• Clancy received the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement from the Navy League of the United States in 1990.

Literary reviews and criticism

• "Something for the Boys" by Christopher Hitchens, The New York Review of Books, November 14, 1996. A review of Clancy's Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit.