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Isaac Asimov bibliography (chronological)

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In a writing career spanning 53 years (1939–1992), science fiction and popular science author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) wrote and published 40 novels, 383 short stories, over 280 non-fiction books, and edited about 147 others.

In this article, Asimov's books are listed by year (in order of publication within a year, where known) with publisher indicated. They are divided between original works and edited books. Works of fiction are denoted by an asterisk (*) and books for children or adolescents by a dagger (†). Currently, 504 total books are listed here (357 original and 147 edited or annotated by Asimov).

Original book-length works

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1950

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1951

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1952

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1953

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The first installment of Asimov's The Caves of Steel took the cover of the October 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller

1954

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1955

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1956

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1957

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1958

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1959

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  • Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future* (Doubleday)
  • The Clock We Live On (Abelard-Schuman)
  • Words of Science, and the History Behind Them† (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Realm of Numbers (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Breakthroughs in Science (Houghton Mifflin)

1960

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  • The Living River (Abelard-Schuman)
  • The Kingdom of the Sun (Abelard-Schuman)
  • Realm of Measure (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Satellites in Outer Space (Random House)
  • The Wellsprings of Life (Abelard-Schuman)
  • The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (Basic Books)
    • 2nd edition: The New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (1965; Basic Books)
    • 3rd edition: Asimov's Guide to Science (1972; Basic Books)
    • 4th edition: Asimov's New Guide to Science (1984; Basic Books)
  • The Double Planet (Abelard-Schuman)

1961

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  • Realm of Algebra (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Words from the Myths† (Houghton Mifflin)

1962

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1963

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  • Words from the Exodus† (Houghton Mifflin; illustrations by William Barss)
  • The Genetic Code (Orion Press)
  • The Human Body: Its Structure and Operation (Houghton Mifflin; illustrations by Anthony Ravielli)
    • Revised/expanded edition, 1992
  • View from a Height (Doubleday)
  • The Kite That Won the Revolution† (Houghton Mifflin)

1964

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1965

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  • A Short History of Chemistry (Doubleday)
  • The Greeks: A Great Adventure† (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Of Time and Space and Other Things (Doubleday)
  • An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule (Houghton Mifflin)

1966

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  • Fantastic Voyage* (Houghton Mifflin)
  • The Noble Gases (Basic Books)
  • The Neutrino: Ghost Particle of the Atom (Doubleday)
  • The Roman Republic (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Understanding Physics, 3 volumes (Walker)
    • Vol. I: Motion, Sound, and Heat
    • Vol. II: Light, Magnetism, and Electricity
    • Vol. III: The Electron, Proton, and Neutron
  • The Genetic Effects of Radiation (U.S. AEC)
  • The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar (Walker)
    • 2nd edition (1971; Walker)
    • 3rd edition (1980), as The Universe: From Flat Earth to Black Holes and Beyond (Walker)
  • From Earth to Heaven (Doubleday)

1967

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  • The Moon (Follet)
  • Environments Out There (Scholastic/Abelard-Schuman)
  • The Roman Empire (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Through a Glass, Clearly* (New English Library)
  • Is Anyone There? (Doubleday)
  • To the Ends of the Universe (Walker)
  • Mars (Follet)
  • The Egyptians (Houghton Mifflin)

1968

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1969

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1970

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1971

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  • The Stars in Their Courses (Doubleday)
  • What Makes the Sun Shine? (Little, Brown & Co.)
  • The Best New Thing*† (World Pub. Co.)
  • The Land of Canaan (Houghton Mifflin)
  • ABC's of the Earth† (Walker)
  • The Sensuous Dirty Old Man (as by Dr. "A.") (Walker)
  • Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor (Houghton Mifflin)

1972

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  • The Left Hand of the Electron (Doubleday)
  • The Gods Themselves* (Doubleday)
  • More Words of Science† (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Electricity and Man (U.S. AEC)
  • ABC's of Ecology† (Walker)
  • The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying* (Doubleday)
  • The Shaping of France (Houghton Mifflin)
  • The Story of Ruth† (Doubleday)
  • Ginn Science Program, Intermediate Level A† (Ginn)
  • Ginn Science Program, Intermediate Level C† (Ginn)
  • Worlds Within Worlds (U.S. AEC)
  • Ginn Science Program, Intermediate Level B† (Ginn)

1973

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  • How Did We Find Out the Earth Is Round? † (Walker)
  • Comets and Meteors (Follet)
  • The Sun (Follet)
  • How Did We Find Out About Electricity? † (Walker)
  • The Shaping of North America: From Earliest Times to 1763 (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Today and Tomorrow and ... (Doubleday)
  • Jupiter, the Largest Planet (Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard)
  • Ginn Science Program, Advanced Level A† (Ginn)
  • Ginn Science Program, Advanced Level B† (Ginn)
  • How Did We Find Out About Numbers? † (Walker)
  • Please Explain (Houghton Mifflin)
  • The Tragedy of the Moon (Abelard-Schuman)
  • How Did We Find Out About Dinosaurs? † (Walker)
  • The Best of Isaac Asimov* (Sphere)

1974

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  • Asimov on Astronomy (Doubleday)
  • The Birth of the United States: 1763-1816 (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Have You Seen These?* (NESRAA)
  • Our World in Space (New York Graphic Society)
  • How Did We Find Out About Germs? † (Walker)
  • Tales of the Black Widowers* (Doubleday)
  • Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship (John Day)
  • Asimov on Chemistry (Doubleday)
  • How Did We Find Out About Vitamins?† (Walker)

1975

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  • Of Matters Great and Small (Doubleday)
  • The Solar System (Follet)
  • Our Federal Union: The United States from 1816 to 1865 (Houghton Mifflin)
  • How Did We Find Out About Comets?† (Walker)
  • Science Past, Science Future (Doubleday)
  • Buy Jupiter and Other Stories* (Doubleday)
  • Eyes on the Universe: A History of the Telescope (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Lecherous Limericks (Walker)
  • The Heavenly Host*† (Walker); illustrations by Bernard Colonna
  • The Ends of the Earth: The Polar Regions of the World (Weybright & Talley)
  • How Did We Find Out About Energy?† (Walker; Series: How Did We Find Out Series)

1976

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1977

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  • The Collapsing Universe: The Story of Black Holes (Walker)
  • Asimov on Numbers (Doubleday)
  • How Did We Find Out About Outer Space?† (Walker)
  • Still More Lecherous Limericks (Walker)
  • The Beginning and the End (Doubleday)
  • Mars, the Red Planet (Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard)
  • The Golden Door: The United States from 1865 to 1918 (Houghton Mifflin)
  • The Key Word and Other Mysteries* (Walker)
  • Asimov's Sherlockian Limericks (Mysterious)

1978

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  • Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright (Doubleday)
  • How Did We Find Out About Earthquakes? † (Walker)
  • Animals of the Bible† (Doubleday)
  • Limericks: Too Gross; or Two Dozen Dirty Stanzas (W. W. Norton)
  • How Did We Find Out About Black Holes? † (Walker)
  • Life and Time (Doubleday)

1979

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1980

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1981

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  • In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis (Crown/Stonesong Press)
  • Asimov on Science Fiction (Doubleday)
  • Venus, Near Neighbor of the Sun (Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard)
  • Three by Asimov* (Targ)
  • How Did We Find Out About Solar Power?† (Walker)
  • How Did We Find Out About Volcanoes?† (Walker)
  • Visions of the Universe (The Cosmos Store); co-written with Kazuaki Iwasaki
  • The Sun Shines Bright (Doubleday)
  • Change! Seventy-one Glimpses of the Future (Houghton Mifflin)
  • A Grossery of Limericks (W. W. Norton)

1982

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1983

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1984

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  • X Stands for Unknown (Doubleday)
  • Norby's Other Secret*† (Walker)
  • How Did We Find Out About Computers?† (Walker)
  • Opus 300 (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Banquets of the Black Widowers* (Doubleday)
  • Isaac Asimov's Limericks for Children† (Caedmon)
  • How Did We Find Out About Robots? † (Walker)

1985

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  • Asimov's Guide to Halley's Comet (Walker)
  • The Exploding Suns: The Secrets of the Supernovas (E. P. Dutton)
  • Norby and the Lost Princess*† (Walker)
  • How Did We Find Out About the Atmosphere?† (Walker)
  • Living in the Future (Harmony House)
  • Robots: Machines In Man's Image (Harmony House)
  • The Edge of Tomorrow* (Tor/Tom Doherty Associates)
  • The Subatomic Monster (Doubleday)
  • The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries* (Walker)
  • Robots and Empire* (Doubleday)
  • Norby and the Invaders*† (Walker)
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day* (Creative Education)
  • How Did We Find Out About DNA?† (Walker)

1986

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1987

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  • Far as Human Eye Could See: Essays on Science (Doubleday)
  • How Did We Find Out About Blood?† (Walker)
  • Past, Present, and Future (Prometheus Books)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz III (Dembner Books)
  • How Did We Find Out About Sunshine? † (Walker)
  • How to Enjoy Writing: A Book of Aid and Comfort (Walker)
  • Norby Finds a Villain*† (Walker)
  • Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain* (Doubleday)
  • How Did We Find Out About the Brain?† (Walker)
  • Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Beginnings: The Story of Origins of Mankind, Life, the Earth, the Universe (Walker)
  • Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov* (Avenel)

1988

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  • How Did We Find Out About Superconductivity?† (Walker)
  • The Relativity of Wrong (Doubleday)
  • Prelude to Foundation* (Doubleday)
  • The Asteroids† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • The Earth's Moon† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Mars: Our Mysterious Neighbor† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Quasars, Pulsars, and Black Holes† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Rockets, Probes, and Satellites† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Our Solar System† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • The Sun† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Uranus: The Sideways Planet† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • History of Biology [A chart] (Carolina Biological Suppls.)
  • Azazel* (Doubleday)
  • Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction and Fantasy Story-a-Month 1989 Calendar (Pomegranate Calendars & Bks)
  • Saturn: The Ringed Beauty† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • How Was the Universe Born?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Earth: Our Home Base† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Ancient Astronomy† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Unidentified Flying Objects† (Gareth Stevens, Inc; Series: Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe)
  • The Space Spotter's Guide† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Norby Down to Earth*† (Walker)

1989

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  • How Did We Find Out About Microwaves?† (Walker)
  • Asimov's Galaxy: Reflections on Science Fiction (Doubleday)
  • All the Troubles of the World* (Creative Education)
  • Franchise* (Creative Education)
  • Robbie* (Creative Education)
  • Sally* (Creative Education)
  • Is There Life on Other Planets?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Science Fiction, Science Fact† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Mercury: The Quick Planet† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Space Garbage† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Jupiter: The Spotted Giant† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • The Birth and Death of Stars† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov* (Dark Harvest)
  • The History of Mathematics [a chart] (Carolina Biological Suppls.)
  • Think About Space: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? (Walker; Series: The Think Series), with Frank White
  • Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz IV (Dembner Books)
  • The Tyrannosaurus Prescription: and One Hundred Other Science Essays (Prometheus Books)
  • Asimov on Science: A 30 Year Retrospective 1959–1989 (Doubleday)
  • Nemesis* (Doubleday)
  • Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery (Harper & Row)
  • How Did We Find Out About Photosynthesis?† (Walker)
  • The Complete Science Fair Handbooks (Scott Foresman & Co)
  • Little Treasury of Dinosaurs† (5 book set) (Outlet)
    • Giant Dinosaurs†
    • Armored Dinosaurs†
    • Small Dinosaurs†
    • Sea Reptiles and Flying Reptiles†
    • Meat-Eating Dinosaurs and Horned Dinosaurs†
  • Norby and Yobo's Great Adventure*† (Walker)
  • Mythology and the Universe† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Colonizing the Planets and the Stars† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Astronomy Today† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Pluto: A Double Planet?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Piloted Space Flights† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Comets and Meteors† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)

1990

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  • Puzzles of the Black Widowers* (Doubleday)
  • Norby and the Oldest Dragon*† (Walker)
  • Frontiers: New Discoveries About Man and His Planet, Outer Space and the Universe (E. P. Dutton/Truman)
  • Out of the Everywhere: Thoughts on Science from the Master (Doubleday)
  • Robot Visions* (Byron Preiss)
  • How Did We Find Out About Lasers?† (Walker)
  • Neptune: The Farthest Giant† (Gareth Stevens, Inc; Series: Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe)
  • Venus: A Shrouded Mystery† (Gareth Stevens, Inc; Series: Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe)
  • The World's Space Programs† (Gareth Stevens, Inc; Series: Isaac Asimov's Library of the Universe)
  • Nightfall* (Doubleday); co-written with Robert Silverberg
  • The Complete Stories Volume 1* (Doubleday)
  • How Did We Find Out About Neptune?† (Walker)
  • The March of the Millennia: A Key to Looking at History (Walker), with Frank White
  • Cal: A Short Story Written Exclusively for Members of the Isaac Asimov Collection* (Doubleday)

1991

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  • Norby and the Court Jester*† (Walker)
  • The March of the Millennia: A Key to Looking at History (Walker)
  • The Secret of the Universe (Doubleday)
  • How Did We Find Out About Pluto? † (Walker)
  • Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos (E. P. Dutton/Truman)
  • Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb[1] (Tor); co-written with Frederik Pohl (2018 edition includes intro/afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson)
  • Why Do We Have Different Seasons?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Is Our Planet Warming Up? † (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Why Is the Air Dirty? † (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Why Are Whales Vanishing?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Where Does Garbage Go? † (Gareth Stevens, Inc; Series: Ask Isaac Asimov)
  • What Causes Acid Rain? † (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • What Is a Shooting Star?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Why Do Stars Twinkle?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Why Does the Moon Change Shape?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • What Is an Eclipse?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space (Random House)
  • Asimov's Chronology of the World (HarperCollins)
  • Christopher Columbus: Navigator to the New World† (Gareth Stevens, Inc; Series: Isaac Asimov's Pioneers of Science and Exploration)
  • Ferdinand Magellan: Opening the Door to World Exploration† (Gareth Stevens, Inc; Series: Isaac Asimov's Pioneers of Science and Exploration)
  • The History of Chemistry [a chart]

1992

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  • The Ugly Little Boy* (Doubleday); co-written with Robert Silverberg
  • The Complete Stories, Volume 2* (Doubleday)
  • Why Are Some Beaches Oily?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Why Are Animals Endangered?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc; Series: Ask Isaac Asimov)
  • Why Are the Rain Forests Vanishing? † (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Why Does Litter Cause Problems?† (Gareth Stevens, Inc)
  • Asimov Laughs Again: More Than 700 Favorite Jokes, Limericks, and Anecdotes (HarperCollins)
  • What's Happening to the Ozone Layer? † (Gareth Stevens, Inc)

1993

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1994

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1995

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1996

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2002

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2003

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As editor or annotator

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1962

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1963

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1966

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  • Tomorrow's Children: Eighteen Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction* (Doubleday)

1971

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1972

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  • Asimov's Annotated ‘Don Juan’ (Doubleday)

1973

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1974

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  • Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s* (Doubleday)
  • Asimov's Annotated ‘Paradise Lost’ (Doubleday)

1977

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  • Familiar Poems, Annotated (Doubleday)
  • The Hugo Winners, Volume III* (Doubleday)

1978

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  • One Hundred Great Science Fiction Short-Short Stories* (Doubleday)

1979

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1980

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1981

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  • The Future I* (Fawcett Crest)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 (1943)* (DAW Books)
  • Catastrophes!* (Fawcett Crest)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century* (Beaufort Books)
  • The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction* (Fawcett Crest)
  • Fantastic Creatures: An Anthology of Fantasy and Science Fiction* (Franklin Watts)
  • Raintree Reading Series I* (Raintree)
    • Travels Through Time*
    • Thinking Machines*
    • Wild Inventions*
    • After The End*
  • Miniature Mysteries: One Hundred Malicious Little Mystery Stories* (Taplinger)
  • The Twelve Crimes of Christmas* (Avon)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 6 (1944)* (DAW Books)

1982

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1983

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  • Show Business Is Murder* (Avon)
  • Hallucination Orbit: Psychology In Science Fiction* (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux), with Charles G. Waugh and Martin Harry Greenberg
  • Caught In the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction* (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)
  • The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book* (Crown)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural Stories of the 19th Century* (Beaufort Books)
  • Starships: Stories Beyond the Boundaries of the Universe* (Fawcett Crest)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 (1948)* (DAW Books)
  • Thirteen Horrors of Halloween* (Avon)
  • Creations: The Quest for Origins in Story and Science* (Crown)
  • Wizards* (NAL)
  • Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines! An Anthology of Robot and Computer Stories* (Franklin Watts)
  • Computer Crimes and Capers* (Academy Chicago Pub.)
  • Intergalactic Empires* (NAL)

1984

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1985

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  • Cosmic Knights* (NAL)
  • The Hugo Winners, Volume IV* (Doubleday)
  • Young Monsters* (Harper & Row)
  • Spells* (NAL)
  • Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Great Scientists* (Donald I. Fine)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 13 (1951)* (DAW Books)
  • Amazing Stories: Sixty Years of the Best Science Fiction* (TSR, Inc.)
  • Young Ghosts* (Harper & Row)
  • Baker's Dozen: Thirteen Short Science Fiction Novels* (Crown)
  • Giants* (NAL)

1986

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1987

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1988

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1989

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1990

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1991

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1992

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1993

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Books with introduction by Asimov

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  • Boardman, Barrington (1989), Flappers, Bootleggers, "Typhoid Mary" and the Bomb: An Anecdotal History of the U.S. from 1923-1945 (Harpercollins)
    • Reissued in 1992 as Isaac Asimov Presents From Harding to Hiroshima: An Anecdotal History of the United States from 1923 to 1945 (Dembner Books)

Short stories

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Main article: Isaac Asimov short stories bibliography

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Our Angry Earth (1991) was the last of Asimov's books to be published before his death.
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