Order of Ray Bradbury Books
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American author of fantasy, sci-fi, horror and mysteries. Although he was best known for his more than 500 short stories, he is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451. A reader from a young age, some of his early influences included authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.G. Wells and Arthur C. Clarke. In his teens and early twenties, he was writing short stories for pulp magazines. After his death in June 2012, the New York Times wrote in his obituary that he was “the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream.” President Obama also issued an official statement.
Ray Bradbury became a published author in November 1941, earning $15 for the story Pendulum, which he co-wrote with Henry Hasse. His first full-length publication was the short story collection Dark Carnival in 1947. His first novel was 1953’s Fahrenheit 451. Below is a list of Ray Bradbury’s books and short stories in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Crumley Mysteries Books
| Death is a Lonely Business | (1985) |    |
| A Graveyard for Lunatics | (1990) | |
| Let's All Kill Constance | (2003) | |
Publication Order of Green Town Books
| Dandelion Wine | (1957) | |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | (1962) | |
| Farewell Summer | (2006) | |
| Summer Morning, Summer Night | (2008) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Fahrenheit 451 | (1953) | |
| The Halloween Tree | (1972) | |
| Green Shadows, White Whale | (1992) | |
| Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines | (1998) | |
| From the Dust Returned | (2001) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Dark Carnival | (1947) | |
| The Martian Chronicles | (1950) | |
| The Illustrated Man | (1951) | |
| A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories | (1952) | |
| The Golden Apples of the Sun | (1953) | |
| The October Country | (1955) | |
| The Day It Rained Forever | (1959) | |
| A Medicine for Melancholy | (1959) | |
| The Small Assassin | (1962) | |
| R Is for Rocket | (1962) | |
| The Machineries of Joy | (1964) | |
| The Vintage Bradbury | (1965) | |
| The Autumn People | (1965) | |
| Twice 22 | (1966) | |
| Tomorrow Midnight | (1966) | |
| S is for Space | (1966) | |
| Fever Dream And Other Fantasies | (1968) | |
| I Sing the Body Electric | (1969) | |
| Ray Bradbury | (1975) | |
| Long After Midnight | (1976) | |
| Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories | (1979) | |
| The Stories of Ray Bradbury | (1980) | |
| The Last Circus and the Electrocution | (1980) | |
| Dinosaur Tales | (1984) | |
| A Memory of Murder | (1984) | |
| The Toynbee Convector | (1988) | |
| Selected from Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed | (1990) | |
| Classic Stories 2 | (1990) | |
| Quicker Than the Eye | (1996) | |
| Driving Blind | (1997) | |
| One More for the Road | (2002) | |
| Stories Volume 2 | (2003) | |
| Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales | (2003) | |
| The Cat's Pajamas | (2004) | |
| Now and Forever | (2007) | |
| We'll Always Have Paris | (2009) | |
| A Pleasure to Burn | (2010) | |
| The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 1 | (2011) | |
| The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 2 | (2014) | |
| The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 3 | (2017) | |
| Killer, Come Back To Me | (2020) | |
| Venus Remembered | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Poems | (1945) | |
| Skeletons | (1945) | |
| The Homecoming | (1946) | |
| The Black Ferris | (1948) | |
| The Blue Bottle / Death-Wish | (1950) | |
| There Will Come Soft Rains | (1950) | |
| The Veldt | (1950) | |
| A Sound of Thunder | (1951) | |
| The Fog Horn | (1951) | |
| The Playground | (1953) | |
| The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit | (1972) | |
| The Mummies of Guanajuato | (1978) | |
| One Timeless Spring | (1980) | |
| The Love Affair | (1982) | |
| Death Has Lost Its Charm For Me | (1987) | |
| Fever Dream | (1987) | |
| The Thing at the Top of the Stairs | (1988) | |
| The Dragon Who Ate His Tail | (2007) | |
| Marionettes, Inc. | (2009) | |
| Defense Mech | (2021) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Why Man Explores | (1977) | |
| The Art of Playboy | (1985) | |
| Zen in the Art of Writing | (1987) | |
| Folon's Folons | (1990) | |
| Yestermorrow | (1991) | |
| Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship | (1998) | |
| Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities 1950-2050 | (2001) | |
| Conversations with Ray Bradbury | (2004) | |
| Bradbury Speaks | (2005) | |
| Match to Flame | (2007) | |
| Listen to the Echoes | (2010) | |
Publication Order of Poetry Books
| When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed | (1973) | |
| Where Robot Mice & Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns | (1977) | |
| This Attic Where the Meadow Greens | (1979) | |
| The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope | (1981) | |
| The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury | (1982) | |
Publication Order of Screenplays/Plays Books
| Kaleidoscope | (1940) | |
| The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics | (1963) | |
| Pillar of Fire and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow | (1975) | |
| Nemo! | (2012) | |
Publication Order of Star Science Fiction Books
(with Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl, Jack Vance, Richard Matheson, Philip K. Dick, Lester del Rey, Jack Williamson)
| Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 | (1953) | |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels Books
(with)
| Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation | (2009) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Star Science Fiction Stories 3 | (1955) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | |
| Stories for the Dead of Night | (1957) | |
| The Ghoul Keepers | (1961) | |
| The Bedside Playboy | (1963) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers | (1965) | |
| The Microcosmic God | (1965) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me | (1967) | |
| Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures | (1967) | |
| Time Untamed | (1967) | |
| Nova 1 | (1970) | |
| Young Demons | (1972) | |
| The Devil's Generation | (1973) | |
| Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 | (1973) | |
| Gooseflesh | (1974) | |
| Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... | (1974) | |
| The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | (1974) | |
| Beyond Midnight | (1976) | |
| The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series | (1976) | |
| Extraterrestrial Intelligence | (1976) | |
| The Late Great Future | (1976) | |
| Weird Legacies | (1977) | |
| Rod Serling's Other Worlds | (1978) | |
| They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures | (1979) | |
| Ghosts That Haunt You | (1980) | |
| The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | (1980) | |
| Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror | (1980) | |
| Weekend Book of Science Fiction | (1981) | |
| Scaremongers | (1981) | |
| Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 | (1983) | |
| 13 Horrors of Halloween | (1983) | |
| Fourth Planet from the Sun | (1984) | |
| The Monster Book of Monsters | (1988) | |
| Science Fiction Stories | (1988) | |
| Tales of the Occult | (1989) | |
| Great Baseball Stories | (1990) | |
| The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | |
| The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces | (1992) | |
| Monsters in Our Midst | (1993) | |
| The Ultimate Witch | (1993) | |
| Sea-Cursed | (1994) | |
| Space Movies | (1995) | |
| Night Screams | (1996) | |
| Mystery Stories | (1996) | |
| Dark Terrors 3 | (1997) | |
| Time Machines | (1997) | |
| The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings | (1998) | |
| A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic | (1998) | |
| The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection | (1998) | |
| The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | (1999) | |
| October Dreams | (2000) | |
| The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature | (2002) | |
| Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters | (2002) | |
| Writing Los Angeles | (2002) | |
| Murder On The Railways | (2003) | |
| Dark Delicacies | (2005) | |
| A Tangled Web | (2005) | |
| Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V | (2006) | |
| Masques V | (2006) | |
| Selected Shorts | (2008) | |
| The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | |
| Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead | (2009) | |
| The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | |
| Like Water for Quarks | (2011) | |
| Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury | (2012) | |
| A Carnivàle of Horror | (2012) | |
| Psychos | (2012) | |
| Other Worlds | (2013) | |
| The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | |
| Fantastic Stories Presents | (2014) | |
| Field of Fantasies | (2014) | |
| Darker Terrors 7 | (2016) | |
| The 12th Science Fiction MEGAPACK® | (2016) | |
| Grave Predictions | (2016) | |
| Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore | (2017) | |
| Lost Mars | (2018) | |
| The Science Fiction Collection #1 | (2018) | |
| Flight or Fright | (2018) | |
| 99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories | (2019) | |
| The Science Fiction Collection | (2019) | |
| One Hundred | (2020) | |
| The Ultimate Short Story Bundle | (2020) | |
Notes: The Martian Chronicles is also known as The Silver Locusts. Fever Dream and Other Fantasies is co-authored with Robert Bloch. Imagining Space was co-authored with Roger D. Launius. Conversations with Ray Bradbury was co-authored with Steven L. Aggelis. Match to Flame is co-authored with Sam Weller.
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