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)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Graveyard for Lunatics(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Let's All Kill Constance(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Green Town Books

Dandelion Wine(1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Something Wicked This Way Comes(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Farewell Summer(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Summer Morning, Summer Night(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Fahrenheit 451(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Halloween Tree(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Green Shadows, White Whale(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
From the Dust Returned(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Dark Carnival(1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Martian Chronicles(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Illustrated Man (With: P. Craig Russell)(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Apples of the Sun(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The October Country(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Day It Rained Forever(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Medicine for Melancholy(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Small Assassin(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
R Is for Rocket(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Machineries of Joy(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Vintage Bradbury(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Autumn People(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Twice 22(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tomorrow Midnight(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
S is for Space(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fever Dream And Other Fantasies(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
I Sing the Body Electric(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ray Bradbury(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Long After Midnight(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Stories of Ray Bradbury(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Circus and the Electrocution(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dinosaur Tales(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Memory of Murder(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Toynbee Convector(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Selected from Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Classic Stories 2(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ray Bradbury Chronicles 1 (With: Al Williamson,Kent Williams,John Van Fleet,P. Craig Russell,Ralp Reese,Ray Zone,Chuck Roblin,Vicente Segrelles)(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ray Bradbury Chronicles, Vol 4(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quicker Than the Eye(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Driving Blind(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
One More for the Road(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stories Volume 2(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cat's Pajamas(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Now and Forever(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
We'll Always Have Paris(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Pleasure to Burn(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 1(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 2(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 3(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Killer, Come Back To Me(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Venus Remembered(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Across the Sullen Void(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Poems(1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Skeletons(1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Homecoming(1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Zero Hour(1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Black Ferris(1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Blue Bottle / Death-Wish(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
There Will Come Soft Rains(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Veldt(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Sound of Thunder(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fog Horn(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Playground(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All Summer in a Day(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mummies of Guanajuato(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
One Timeless Spring(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Love Affair(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death Has Lost Its Charm For Me(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fever Dream(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Thing at the Top of the Stairs(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis, and Ministers(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dragon Who Ate His Tail(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Marionettes, Inc.(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Defense Mech(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Why Man Explores (With: Norman Cousins,Jacques-Yves Cousteau)(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Art of Playboy(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Zen in the Art of Writing(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Folon's Folons(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Yestermorrow(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities 1950-2050(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Conversations with Ray Bradbury(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bradbury Speaks(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Match to Flame(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Listen to the Echoes (With: Sam Weller)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Poetry Books

When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Where Robot Mice & Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
This Attic Where the Meadow Greens(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Screenplays/Plays Books

Kaleidoscope(1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pillar of Fire and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nemo!(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Last Interview Books

Learning to Live Finally (By: Jacques Derrida)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Roberto Bolaño (By: Roberto Bolaño)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kurt Vonnegut (By: Kurt Vonnegut)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jorge Luis Borges (By: Jorge Luis Borges)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hannah Arendt (By: Hannah Arendt)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
James Baldwin (By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ray Bradbury (With: Sam Weller)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gabriel García Márquez (By: Gabriel García Márquez)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lou Reed (By: Lou Reed)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ernest Hemingway (By: Ernest Hemingway)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nora Ephron (By: Nora Ephron)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Philip K. Dick (By: Philip K. Dick)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
J. D. Salinger (By: J.D. Salinger)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Oliver Sacks (By: Oliver Sacks)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jane Jacobs (By: Jane Jacobs)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
David Bowie (By: David Bowie)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Martin Luther King, Jr. (By: Martin Luther King Jr.)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Christopher Hitchens (By: Christopher Hitchens)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hunter S. Thompson (By: Hunter S. Thompson)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kathy Acker (By: Kathy Acker)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Julia Child (By: Julia Child)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ursula K. Le Guin (By: Ursula K. Le Guin)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Billie Holiday (By: Billie Holiday)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Graham Greene (By: Graham Greene)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Toni Morrison (By: Toni Morrison)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Frida Kahlo (By: Frida Kahlo)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shirley Chisholm (By: Shirley Chisholm)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fred Rogers (By: Fred Rogers)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Johnny Cash (By: Johnny Cash)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
John Lewis (By: Melville House)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Janet Malcolm (By: Melville House)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kurt Cobain (By: Melville House)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
bell hooks (By: bell hooks)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Octavia E. Butler (By: Melville House)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Graphic Novels Books

(with Tim Hamilton, Ron Wimberly)

Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (With: Tim Hamilton)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation (With: Howard Zimmerman,Dennis Calero)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation (By: Dennis Calero)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation (With: Ron Wimberly)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Weird Tales Books

Weird Tales 1 (By: Lin Carter)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Weird Tales 2 (By: Robert Bloch,Tanith Lee,H.P. Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Weird Tales 3 (By: Robert Bloch,Tanith Lee,Robert E. Howard,Evangeline Walton)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Weird Tales 4 (With: Robert E. Howard)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Anthologies

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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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