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Following the success of the five Planet of the Apes movies (pictures of novels below) came two TV series, "Planet of the Apes" and "Return to the Planet of the Apes". Award Books published four books from the first TV series, and Ballantine Books published three from the second series. The fourth book in the first series is extremely hard to find.

In 2001, Planet of the Apes was re-made as a new standalone movie which saw the publication of a novelisation and subsequent sequels, including some younger reader novels from Harper Books. In 2011, Planet of the Apes was re-launched again with a new sequence of movies. The first was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' which, to my knowledge, was never novelised, then in 2014 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' was released and novelised and in 2017 'War for the Planet of the Apes' was released and novelised.

In 2017 a new book was published titled 'Tales From the Forbidden Zone' and was followed by four omnibus editions of earlier novels. In 2018 'Death of the Planet of the Apes' was published.

= In My Collection / = Not in My Collection

THE TV SERIES

Award Books

No 1 (1974)

Man the Fugitive
No 2 (1975)

Escape to Tomorrow
No 3 (1975)

Journey Into Terror
No 4 (1976)

Lord of the Apes

Ballantine Books

No 1 (1976)

Visions From Nowhere
No 2 (1976)

Escape From Terror Lagoon
No 3 (1976)

Man, the Hunted Animal

THE ORIGINAL FILMS
The Planet of the Apes

1964

Signet
1975

Penguin
1991

Mandarin
2001

Del Rey
2001

Penguin
2005

Arrow

1970

Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Bantam
1974

Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Bantam

1973

Escape From the Planet of the Apes
Award
1974

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Award
1973

Battle For the Planet of the Apes
Award

2001 FILM

2001

Film Novelisation
Boxtree
2002

The Fall - Sequel Novel
Harper Entertainment
2003

Colony - Sequel Novel
Harper Entertainment

Harper Entertainment Books

2001

The Planet of the Apes Junior Novelization
2002

The Planet of the Apes : Force
2002

The Planet of the Apes : Resistance
Unpublished

The Planet of the Apes : Rule

There doesn't appear to be any novelisation of the 2011 film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

Titan Books

2014 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES FILM

2014

Film Prequel Novel
2014

Film Novelisation

2017 WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES FILM

2017

Film Prequel Novel
2017

Film Novelisation

NEW TITAN BOOKS

Jan 2017
Omnibus 1
Feb 2017


Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Escape From the Planet of the Apes
Omnibus 2
Apr 2017


Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Battle For the Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Omnibus 3
Sep 2017


Man the Fugitive
Escape to Tomorrow
Journey Into Terror
Lord of the Apes
Omnibus 4
Feb 2018


Visions From Nowhere
Escape From Terror Lagoon
Man, the Hunted Animal
Nov 2018

REFERENCE BOOKS

2001

The Planet of the Apes Chronicles
Plexus
2001

The Planet of the Apes : Leo's Logbook
Puffin

Planet of the Apes Annuals Gallery