Ray Bradbury

Perhaps the most famous and influential of all Ray Bradbury's novels, Fahrenheit 451 still holds up today, just as it did back then making the impact that it caused when first published. First published in 1953, it was a notorious book with the power to shock readers now just as it did back then. Using satire and humor to illustrate its more serious points, it works to expose people's prejudices in the process, along with the many dangers of conformity and censorship.

The best place to start is the Screenplays/Plays series, the earliest of Ray Bradbury's multi-book series: it opens with Kaleidoscope (1940) and runs to 4 books across 1940–2012, ending with Nemo! (2012). Ray Bradbury's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Ray Bradbury has 379 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1940 and 2023. 180 of them belong to 9 named series — the largest being The Ray Bradbury Chronicles series with 7 books — and 199 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Ray Bradbury's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Screenplays/Plays (1940–2012, 4 books), Green Town (1957–2008, 4 books) and Weird Tales (1981–1983, 4 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Ray Bradbury's 379 books into 9 named series and 199 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Ray Bradbury Chronicles (7 books, 1992–1993); Green Town (4 books, 1957–2008); Screenplays/Plays (4 books, 1940–2012); Weird Tales (4 books, 1981–1983); Crumley Mysteries (3 books, 1985–2003), plus 4 further series.