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The "complete" list of novels & short stories
Non-fiction







General Science Click to open book cover in separate window.                  
Words of Science (Houghton Mifflin 1959)
Breakthroughs in Science (Houghton Mifflin 1960)
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (Basic Books 1960)
Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
     (Doubleday 1964)
The New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (Basic Books 1965)
Twentieth Century Discovery (Doubleday 1969)
Great Ideas of Science (houghton Mifflin 1969)
Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
     revised edition (Doubleday 1972)
Asimov's Guide to Science (Basic Books 1972)
More Words of Science (Houghton Mifflin 1972)
Ginn Science Program - Intermediate Level A (Ginn 1972)
Ginn Science Program - Intermediate Level B (Ginn 1972)
Ginn Science Program - Intermediate Level C (Ginn 1972)
Ginn Science Program - Advanced Level A (Ginn 1973)
Ginn Science Program - Advanced Level B (Ginn 1973)
Please Explain (Houghton Mifflin 1973)
A Choice of Catastrophes (Simon & Schuster 1979)
Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos (Crown 1982)
Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
     2nd revised edition (Doubleday 1982)
The Measure of the Universe (Harper & Row 1983)
Asimov's New Guide to Science (Basic Books 1984)
Fantastic Reading: Stories and Activities for Grade 5-8
     with David C. Yeager and Martin H. Greenberg
     (Good Year Books 1984)
The Edge of Tomorrow (Tor Books 1986)
Beginnings (Walker 1987)
Flim-Flam! with James Randi (Prometheus 1988)
Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery (Harper & Row 1989)
Clear Thinking : A Practical Introduction (Prometheus 1990)
     with Hy Ruchlis and Sandra Oddo
The Three-Pound Universe (J P Tarcher 1991)
     with Judith Hooper and Dick Teresi
Our Angry Earth with Frederick Pohl (TOR 1991)
Ask Isaac Asimov (Gareth Stevens 1991)
Why Do Stars Twinkle? (Gareth Stevens 1991)
Why Do We Have Different Seasons (Gareth Stevens 1991)
Why Does the Moon Change Shape? (Gareth Stevens 1991)
What Is a Shooting Star? (Gareth Stevens 1991)
What Is an Eclipse? (Gareth Stevens 1991)
Is Our Planet Warming Up? (Gareth Stevens 1992)
Why Are Some Beaches Oily? (Gareth Stevens 1992)
Why Is the Air Dirty? (Gareth Stevens 1992)
Why Are the Rain Forests Vanishing? (Gareth Stevens 1992)
Why Does Litter Cause Problems? (Gareth Stevens 1992)
Where Does Garbage Go? (Gareth Stevens 1992)
What's Happening to the Ozone Layer? (Gareth Stevens 1992)
What Happens When I Flush the Toilet? (Gareth Stevens 1992)
     with Elizabeth Kaplan
How Is Paper Made? with Elizabeth Kaplan (Gareth Stevens 1993)
How Does a Cut Heal? with Carrie Dierks (Gareth Stevens 1993)
Why Do Some People Wear Glasses? (Gareth Stevens 1993)
     with Carrie Dierks
Why Do We Need Sleep? (Gareth Stevens 1993)
     with Carrie Dierks
Why Do People Come in Different Colors? (Gareth Stevens 1993)
     with Carrie Dierks
Timeline of Discovery and Invention (Galahad Books 1993)

Mathematics

Realm of Numbers (Houghton Mifflin 1959)
Realm of Measure (Houghton Mifflin 1960)
Realm of Algebra (Houghton Mifflin 1961)
Quick and Easy Math (Houghton Mifflin 1964)
An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule (Houghton Mifflin 1965)
How Did We Find Out About Numbers? (Walker 1973)
The History of Mathematics (Carolina Biological Supplies 1989)
Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions (Harper-Collins 1994)
     with Edwin A. Abbott and Dionys Burger
Sphereland : A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe
     with Edwin A. Abbott and Dionys Burger (Harper-Collins 1994)

Astronomy

The Clock We Live On (Abelard-Schuman 1959)
The Kingdom of the Sun (Abelard-Schuman 1960)
Satellites in Outer Space (Random House 1960)
The Double Planet (Abelard-Schuman 1960)
Planets for Man (Random House 1964)
The Universe (Walker 1966)
The Moon (Follett 1967)
Environments Out There (Scholastic/Abelard-Schuman 1967)
To the Ends of the Universe (Walker 1967)
Mars (Follett 1967)
Stars (Follett 1968)
Galaxies (Follett 1968)
ABC's of Space (Walker 1969)
What Makes the Sun Shine? (Little/Brown 1971)
Comets and Meteors (Follett 1973)
The Sun (Follett 1973)
Jupiter, the Largest Planet (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1973)
Our World in Space (New York Graphic 1974)
The Solar System (Follett 1975)
How Did We Find Out About Comets? (Walker 1975)
Eyes on the Universe (Houghton Mifflin 1975)
Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1976)
The Collapsing Universe (Walker 1977)
How Did We Find Out About Outer Space? (Walker 1977)
Mars, the Red Planet (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1977)
How Did We Find Out About Black Holes? (Walker 1978)
Saturn and Beyond (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1979)
Extraterrestrial Civilizations (Crown 1979)
Venus: Near Neighbor of the Sun (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1981)
Visions of the Universe (Cosmos Store 1981)
How Did We Find Out About The Universe? (Walker 1982)
Asimov's Guide to Halley's Comet (Walker 1985)
The Exploding Suns (Dutton 1985)
How Did We Find Out About Sunshine? (Walker 1987)
Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs? (Gareth Stevens 1987)
Asteroids (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Earth's Moon (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Mars: Our Mysterious Neighbor (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Quasars, Pulsars and Black Holes (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Rockets, Probes and Satellites (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Our Solar System (Gareth Stevens 1988)
The Sun (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Uranus: The Sideways Planet (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Saturn: The Ringed Beauty (Gareth Stevens 1988)
How Was the Universe Born? (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Earth: Our Home Base (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Ancient Astronomy (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Unidentified Flying Objects (Gareth Stevens 1988)
The Space Spotter's Guide (Gareth Stevens 1988)
Is There Life on Other Planets? (Gareth Stevens 1989)
Science Fiction, Science Fact (Gareth Stevens 1989)
Mercury: The Quick Planet (Gareth Stevens 1989)
Space Garbage (Gareth Stevens 1989)
Jupiter: The Spotted Giant (Gareth Stevens 1989)
The Birth and Death of Stars (Gareth Stevens 1989)
Think About Space with Frank White (Walker 1989)
Mythology and the Universe (Gareth Stevens 1989)
Colonizing the Planets and Stars (Gareth Stevens 1989)
Astronomy Today (Gareth Stevens 1989)
Pluto: A Double Planet (Gareth Stevens 1989)
Piloted Space Flights (Gareth Stevens 1989)
Comets and Meteors (Gareth Stevens 1989)
Neptune: The Farthest Giant (Gareth Stevens 1990)
Venus: A Shrouded Mystery (Gareth Stevens 1990)
The World's Space Programs (Gareth Stevens 1990)
How Did We Find Out About Neptune? (Walker 1990)
How Did We Find Out About Pluto? (Walker 1991)
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space (Random House 1991)
The Sun and Its Secrets with Francis Reddy (Gareth Stevens 1994)
Death from Space : What Killed the Dinosaurs (Gareth Stevens 1994)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki
A Distant Puzzle : The Planet Uranus (Gareth Stevens 1994)
     with Francis Reddy
The Red Planet : Mars with Francis Reddy (Gareth Stevens 1994)
Mysteries of Deep Space : Black Holes, Pulsars, and Quasars
     with Francis Reddy (Gareth Stevens 1994)
Cosmic Debris : The Asteroids (Gareth Stevens 1994)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki
Our Planetary System with Greg Walz-Chojnacki (Gareth Stevens 1995)
Space Colonies with Greg Walz-Chojnacki (Gareth Stevens 1995)
Astronomy in Ancient Times (Gareth Stevens 1995)
     with Francis Reddy
The Birth of Our Universe (Gareth Stevens 1995)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Frank Reddy
Our Planet Earth with Francis Reddy (Gareth Stevens 1995)
The Ringed Planet : Saturn with Francis Reddy (Gareth Stevens 1995)
Planet of Extremes : Jupiter (Gareth Stevens 1995)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki
Nearest the Sun : The Planet Mercury (Gareth Stevens 1995)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Francis Reddy
Our Vast Home : The Milky Way and Other Galaxies
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki (Gareth Stevens 1995)
Star Cycles : The Life and Death of Stars (Gareth Stevens 1995)
     with Francis Reddy
Pollution in Space (Gareth Stevens 1995)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Frank Reddy
Space Explorers with Francis Reddy (Gareth Stevens 1995)
A Star Gazer's Guide (Gareth Stevens 1995)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Frank Reddy
Exploring Outer Space : Rockets, Probes, and Satellites
     with Francis Reddy (Gareth Stevens 1995)
Aliens and Extraterrestrials : Are We Alone? (Gareth Stevens 1995)
     with Frank Reddy and Greg Walz-Chojnacki
Ufo's True Mysteries or Hoaxes (Gareth Stevens 1995)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki, Frank Reddy and Rudolf Steiner
Modern Astronomy (Gareth Stevens 1996)
     with Frank Reddy and Greg Walz-Chojnacki
Discovering Comets and Meteors (Gareth Stevens 1996)
     with Frank Reddy and Greg Walz-Chojnacki
The 21st Century in Space (Gareth Stevens 1996)
     with Robert Giraud, Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Francis Reddy
Folklore and Legends of the Universe (Gareth Stevens 1996)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Francis Reddy
Astronomy Projects (Gareth Stevens 1996)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Francis Reddy
Global Space Programs (Gareth Stevens 1996)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Francis Reddy
A Distant Giant : The Planet Neptune (Gareth Stevens 1996)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Francis Reddy
A Double Planet? : Pluto and Charon (Gareth Stevens 1996)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Francis Reddy
Earth's Twin : The Planet Venus (Gareth Stevens 1996)
     with Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Francis Reddy

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Biochemistry and Human Metabolism (Williams & Wilkins 1952)
The Chemicals of Life (Abelard-Schuman 1954)
Chemistry and Human Health (McGraw-Hill 1956)
Building Blocks of the Universe (Abelard-Schuman 1957)
The World of Carbon (Abelard-Schuman 1958)
The World of Nitrogen (Abelard-Schuman 1958)
Life and Energy (Doubleday 1962)
The Search for the Elements (Basic Books 1962)
The Genetic Code (Orion Press 1963)
A Short History of Chemistry (Doubleday 1965)
The Noble Gases (Basic Books 1966)
The Genetic Effects of Radiation with Theodosius Dobzhansky (AEC 1966)
Photosynthesis (Basic Books 1969)
How Did We Find Out About Vitamins? (Walker 1974)
How Did We Find Out About Coal? (Walker 1980)
How Did We Find Out About DNA? (Walker 1985)
How Did We Find Out About Photosynthesis? (Walker 1988)

Physics

Inside the Atom (Abelard-Schuman 1956)
Inside the Atom revised edition (Abelard-Schuman 1966)
The Neutrino (Doubleday 1966)
Understanding Physics, volume I (Walker 1966)
Understanding Physics, volume II (Walker 1966)
Understanding Physics, volume III (Walker 1966)
Light (Follet 1970)
Electricity and Man (AEC 1972)
Worlds Within Worlds (AEC 1972)
How Did We Find Out About Electricity? (Walker 1973)
How Did We Find Out About Energy? (Walker 1975)
How Did We Find Out About Atoms? (Walker 1976)
How Did We Find Out About Nuclear Power? (Walker 1976)
How Did We Find Out About Solar Power? (Walker 1981)
How Did We Find Out About Computers? (Walker 1984)
How Did We Find Out About Robots? (Walker 1984)
Robots with Karen Frenkel (Harmony House 1985)
How Did We Find Out About the Speed of Light? (Walker 1986)
How Did We Find Out About Superconductivity? (Walker 1988)
How Did We Find Out About Microwaves? (Walker 1989)
How Did We Find Out About Laser? (Walker 1990)
Atom (Dutton 1991)
Atom : Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos (Penguin 1992)
     with D.F. Bach

Biology

Races and People with William C. Boyd (Abelard-Schuman 1955)
The Living River (Abelard-Schuman 1960)
The Wellsprings of Life (Abelard-Schuman 1960)
The Human Body (Houghton Mifflin 1963)
The Human Brain (Houghton Mifflin 1964)
A Short History of Biology (Doubleday 1964)
ABC's of Ecology (Walker 1972)
How Did We Find Out About Dinosaurs? (Walker 1973)
How Did We Find Out About Germs? (Walker 1974)
How Did We Find Out About Our Human Roots? (Walker 1979)
How Did We Find Out About Life in the Deep Sea? (Walker 1982)
How Did We Find Out About the Beginning of Life? (Walker 1982)
How Did We Find Out About Genes? (Walker 1983)
How Did We Find Out About Blood? (Walker 1987)
How Did We Find Out About the Brain? (Walker 1987)
The History of Biology (Carolina Biological Supplies 1988)
Little Library of Dinosaurs (Outlet 1988)

Geography

How Did We Find Out About Antarctica? (Walker 1979)

Science Essay Collections

Only a Trillion (Abelard-Schuman 1957)
Fact and Fancy (Doubleday 1962)
View From a Height (Doubleday 1963)
Adding a Dimension (Doubleday 1964)
Of Time and Space and Other Things (Doubleday 1965)
From Earth to Heaven (Doubleday 1966)
Is Anyone There? (Doubleday 1967)
Science, Numbers and I (Doubleday 1968)
The Solar System and Back (Doubleday 1970)
The Stars in Their Courses (Doubleday 1971)
The Left Hand of the Electron (Doubleday 1972)
Today and Tomorrow and - (Doubleday 1973)
The Tragedy of the Moon (Doubleday 1973)
Asimov on Astonomy (Doubleday 1974)
Asimov on Chemisty (Doubleday 1974)
Of Matters Great and Small (Doubleday 1975)
Science Past - Science Future (Doubleday 1975)
Asimov on Physics (Doubleday 1976)
The Planet That Wasn't (Doubleday 1976)
Asimov on Numbers (Doubleday 1977)
The Beginning and the End (Doubleday 1977)
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright (Doubleday 1978)
Life and Time (Doubleday 1978)
The Road to Infinity (Doubleday 1979)
The Sun Shines Bright (Doubleday 1981)
Change! (Houghton Mifflin 1981)
Counting the Eons (Doubleday 1983)
The Roving Mind (Prometheus 1983)
Science and Creationism with Ashley Montagu (Oxford Univ Press 1984)
X Stands for Unknown (Doubleday 1984)
The Subatomic Monster (Doubleday 1985)
The Dangers of Intelligence (Houghton Mifflin 1986)
Far as the Human Eye Could See (Doubleday 1987)
Past, Present and Future (Prometheus 1987)
The Relativity of Wrong (Doubleday 1988)
The Tyrannosaurus Prescription (Prometheus 1989)
Asimov on Science (Doubleday 1989)
Frontiers (Dutton 1990)
Out of the Everywhere (Doubleday 1990)
The Secret of the Universe (Doubleday 1990)
Frontiers II with Janet Asimov (Dutton 1993)

History

The Kite That Won the Revolution (Houghton Mifflin 1963)
The Greeks (Houghton Mifflin 1965)
The Roman Republic (Houghton Mifflin 1966)
The Roman Empire (Houghton Mifflin 1967)
The Egyptians (Houghton Mifflin 1967)
The Near East (Houghton Mifflin 1968)
The Dark Ages (Houghton Mifflin 1968)
Words from History (Houghton Mifflin 1968)
The Shaping of England (Houghton Mifflin 1969)
Constantinople (Houghton Mifflin 1970)
The Land of Canaan (Houghton Mifflin 1971)
The Shaping of France (Houghton Mifflin 1972)
The Shaping of North America (Houghton Mifflin 1973)
The Birth of the United States (Houghton Mifflin 1974)
Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship (John Day 1974)
Our Federal Union (Houghton Mifflin 1975)
The Golden Door (Houghton Mifflin 1977)
The March of the Millennia with Frank White (Walker 1990)
Asimov's Chronology of the World (Harper-Collins 1991)
Christopher Columbus : Navigator to the New World
     (Gareth Stevens 1991)

The Bible

Words in Genesis (Houghton Mifflin 1962)
Words from the Exodus (Houghton Mifflin 1963)
Asimov's Guide to the Bible, volume I (Doubleday 1968)
Asimov's Guide to the Bible, volume II (Doubleday 1969)
The Story of Ruth (Doubleday 1972)
Animals in the Bible (Doubleday 1978)
In the Beginning (Crown 1981)

Literature

Words from the Myths (Houghton Mifflin 1961)
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, volume I (Doubleday 1970)
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, volume II (Doubleday 1970)
Asimov's Annotated Don Juan (Doubleday 1972)
Asimov's Annotated Paradise Lost (Doubleday 1974)
Familiar Poems, Annotated (Doubleday 1977)
Asimov's Sherlockian Limericks (Mysterious Press 1977)
The Annotated Gulliver's Travels (Clarkson Potter 1980)
How to Enjoy Writing with Janet Asimov (Walker 1987)
Asimov's Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan (Doubleday 1988)

Humor and Satire

The Sensous Dirty Old Man (Walker 1971)
Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor (Houghton Mifflin 1971)
Lecherous Limericks (Walker 1975)
More Lecherous Limericks (Walker 1976)
Still More Lecherous Limericks (Walker 1977)
Limericks: To Gross with John Ciardi (Norton 1978)
A Grossary of Limeicks with John Ciardi (Norton 1981)
Limericks for Children (Caedmon 1984)
Asimov Laughs Again (Harper-Collins 1992)

Autobiography

In Memory Yet Green (Doubleday 1979)
In Joy Still Felt (Doubleday 1980)
I, Asimov completed by Janet Asimov (Doubleday 1994)

Miscellaneous

Opus 100 (Houghton Mifflin 1969)
Opus 200 (Houghton Mifflin 1979)
Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (Grosset & Dunlap 1979)
Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz by Ken Fisher (Dembner 1982)
Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz II by Ken Fisher (Dembner 1983)
Opus 300 (Houghton Mifflin 1984)
Work in the 21st Century (Hippocrene Books 1984)
Living in the Future edited (Harmony House 1985)
Future Days (Henry Holt 1986)
Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz III by Ken Fisher (Dembner 1987)
Isaac Asimov Presents: From Harding to Hiroshima (Dembner 1988)
     by Barrington Boardman
Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Qoutations (Blue Cliff 1988)
     with Jason A. Shulman
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction and Fantasy Story-a-Month 1989 Calendar
     with Martin H. Greenberg (Pomegranate 1988)
Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz IV by Ken Fisher (Dembner 1989)
The Complete Science Fair Handbooks (Scott Foresman 1989)
     with Anthony D. Fredericks
Visions of Tomorrow (Gareth Stevens 1995)
     with Frank Reddy and Greg Walz-Chojnacki
The Best of Isaac Asimov Presents Super Quiz (Barricade Books 1996)
     by Ken Fisher
Yours, Isaac Asimov : A Lifetime of Letters (Main Street Books 1996)
     edited by Stanley Asimov

By other hands

The John W. Campbell Letters With Isaac Asimov and A.E. Van Vogt
     by John W. Campbell (Ac Projects 1991)
Isaac Asimov : An Annotated Bibliography of the Asimov Collection at
     Boston University (Greenwood Publishing Group 1995)
     by Scott E. Green
Index to Isaac Asimov's New Library of the Universe (Gareth Stevens 1996)
     by Greg Walz-Chojnacki and Frank Reddy



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