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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Standalone series? Start with "Fahrenheit 451" (1953) and follow publication order through all 50 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Fahrenheit 451
1953
The Halloween Tree
1972
Green Shadows, White Whale
1992
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines
1998
From the Dust Returned
2001
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
The Ray Bradbury Chronicles 1 (With: Al Williamson,Kent Williams,John Van Fleet,Ralp Reese,Ray Zone,Chuck Roblin,Vicente Segrelles)
1992
Ray Bradbury Chronicles, Vol 4
1993
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
Across the Sullen Void
2023
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