Asheli is slowly carving away at her list of 1,001 books to read before she dies.
I decided I would start a similar project and read every known Isaac Asimov book – nearly 500 in all. To make the challenge more interesting I am also only going to rent them from the library (with the exception of the Empire Novels, which I received as a gift for joining the science fiction book club).
I have crossed out the items I have read. – 6 down.
Pebble In The Sky
I, Robot
The Stars, Like Dust– (Tyrann)
Foundation
David Starr, Space Ranger
Foundation and Empire
The Currents of Space
Biochemistry and Human Metabolism
Second Foundation
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
The Caves of Steel
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus
The Chemicals of Life: Enzymes, Vitamins, and Hormones
The Martian Way and Other Stories
The End of Eternity
Races and People
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury
Chemistry and Human Health
Inside The Atom
The Naked Sun
Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter
Building Blocks of the Universe
Earth Is Room Enough: Science Fiction
Tales of Our Own Planet
Only a Trillion
The World of Carbon
Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn
The World of Nitrogen
The Death Dealers (A Whiff of Death)
Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future
The Clock We Live On
Words of Science, and the History Behind Them
Realm of Numbers
The Living River
The Kingdom of the Sun
Realm of Measure
Breakthroughs in Science
Satellites in Outer Space
The Wellsprings of Life
The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Science
The Double Planet
Words from the Myths
Realm of Algebra
Life and Energy
Words in Genesis
Fact and Fancy
Words on the Map
The Hugo Winners
The Search For The Elements
Words from the Exodus
The Genetic Code
The Human Body: Its Structure and Operation
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales
View from a Height
The Kite That Won the Revolution
The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functions
A Short History of Biology
Quick and Easy Math
Adding a Dimension
Planets For Man
The Rest of the Robots
Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 1st Ed.
A Short History of Chemistry
The Greeks: A Great Adventure
Of Time and Space and Other Things
The New Intelligent Man’s Guide to Science
An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule
Fantastic Voyage
The Noble Gases
Inside The Atom (3rd revised edition)
The Neutrino: Ghost Particle of the Atom
The Roman Republic
Understanding Physics, Volume I
Understanding Physics, Volume II
Understanding Physics, Volume III
The Genetic Effects of Radiation
Tomorrow’s Children: Eighteen Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Universe: From Flat Earth to Quasar
From Earth to Heaven
The Moon
Environments Out There
The Roman Empire
Through a Glass, Clearly
Is Anyone There?
To the Ends of the Universe
Mars
The Egyptians
Asimov’s Mysteries
Science, Numbers, and I
Stars
Galaxies
The Near East: 10,000 Years of History
The Dark Ages
Asimov’s Guide To The Bible, Volume I
Words from History
Photosynthesis
The Shaping of England
Twentieth Century Discovery
Nightfall and Other Stories
Asimov’s Guide To The Bible, Volume II
Opus 100
ABC’s of Space
Great Ideas of Science
The Solar System and Back
Asimov’s Guide To Shakespeare, Volume I
Asimov’s Guide To Shakespeare, Volume II
Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire
ABC’s of the Ocean
Light
The Stars in Their Courses
Where Do We Go from Here?
What Makes the Sun Shine?
The Sensuous Dirty Old Man
The Best New Thing
Isaac Asimov’s Treasury of Humor
The Hugo Winners, Volume II
The Land of Canaan
ABC’s of the Earth
Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, New Rev. Ed.
The Left Hand of the Electron
Asimov’s Guide to Science
The Gods Themselves
More Words of Science
Electricity and Man
ABC’s of Ecology
The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying
The Shaping of France
The Story of Ruth
Ginn Science Program, Int. Level A
Ginn Science Program, Int. Level C
Asimov’s Annotated “Don Juan”
Worlds Within Worlds
Ginn Science Program, Int. Level B
How Did We Find Out the Earth Is Round?
Comets and Meteors
The Sun
How Did We Find Out About Electricity?
The Shaping of North America: From Earliest Times to 1763
Today and Tomorrow and…
Jupiter, the Largest Planet
Ginn Science Program, Adv. Level A
Ginn Science Program, Adv. Level B
How Did We Find Out About Numbers?
Please Explain
The Tragedy of the Moon
How Did We Find Out About Dinosaurs?
The Best of Isaac Asimov
Nebula Award Stories Eight
Asimov on Astronomy
The Birth of the United States
Have You Seen These?
Before The Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s
Our World in Space
How Did We Find Out About Germs?
Asimov’s Annotated “Paradise Lost”
Tales of the Black Widowers
Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship
Asimov on Chemistry
How Did We Find Out About Vitamins?
Of Matters Great and Small
The Solar System
Our Federal Union
How Did We Find Out About Comets?
Science Past, Science Future
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
Eyes on the Universe: A History of the Telescope
Lecherous Limericks
The Heavenly Host
The Ends of the Earth: The Polar Regions of the World
How Did We Find Out About Energy?
“The Dream”, “Benjamin’s Dream”, and “Benjamin’s Bicentennial Blast”
Asimov on Physics
Murder at The ABA (Authorised Murder [U.K.])
How Did We Find Out About Atoms?
Good Taste
The Planet That Wasn’t
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
More Lecherous Limericks
More Tales of the Black Widowers
Alpha Centauri, the Nearest Star
How Did We Find Out About Nuclear Power?
Familiar Poems Annotated
The Collapsing Universe: The Story of Black Holes
Asimov on Numbers
How Did We Find Out About Outer Space?
Still More Lecherous Limericks
The Hugo Winners, Volume III
The Beginning and the End
Mars, the Red Planet
The Golden Door
The Key Word and Other Mysteries
Asimov’s Sherlockian Limericks
One Hundred Great Science Fiction Short-Short Stories
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
How Did We Find Out About Earthquakes?
Animals of the Bible
Limericks: Too Gross; or Two Dozen Dirty Stanzas
How Did We Find Out About Black Holes?
Life and Time
Saturn and Beyond
Opus 200
In Memory Yet Green
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 1: 1939
Extraterrestrial Civilizations
How Did We Find Out About Our Human Roots?
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 2: 1940
The Road to Infinity
A Choice of Catastrophes
The Science Fictional Solar System
The Thirteen Crimes of Science Fiction
Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts
How Did We Find Out About Antarctica?
Casebook of the Black Widowers
The Future in Question
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 3: 1941
How Did We Find Out About Oil?
In Joy Still Felt
Who Done It?
Space Mail
Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 4: 1942
The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction
The Annotated “Gulliver’s Travels”
How Did We Find Out About Coal?
The Future I
In the Beginning
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 5: 1943
Asimov on Science Fiction
Venus, Near Neighbor of the Sun
Three by Asimov
How Did We Find Out About Solar Power?
How Did We Find Out About Volcanoes?
Visions of the Universe
Catastrophes!
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science
Fiction of the 19th Century
The Seven Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction
Fantastic Creatures: An Anthology of Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Sun Shines Bright
Change!: Seventy-one Glimpses of the Future
Raintree Reading Series I
Travels Through Time
Thinking Machines
Wild Inventions
After The End
A Grossery of Limericks
Miniature Mysteries: One Hundred
Malicious Little Mystery Stories
The Twelve Crimes of Christmas
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 6: 1944
Space Mail II
Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries
TV: 2000
Laughing Space
How Did We Find Out About Life In the Deep Sea
The Complete Robot
Speculations
Flying Saucers
Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos
Raintree Reading Series II
Earth Invaded
Mad Scientists
Mutants
Tomorrow’s TV
How Did We Find Out About the Beginning of Life?
Dragon Tales
The Big Apple Mysteries
Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 2nd Rev. Ed.
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 7: 1945
Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz
The Last Man on Earth
Science Fiction A to Z: A Dictionary of Great Science Fiction Themes
Foundation’s Edge
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of the 19th Century
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 8: 1946
How Did We Find Out About the Universe?
Counting the Eons
The Winds of Change and Other Stories
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 9: 1947
Show Business Is Murder
Hallucination Orbit: Psychology In Science Fiction
Caught In the Organ Draft: Biology In Science Fiction
The Roving Mind
The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book
The Measure of the Universe
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural Stories of the 19th Century
Starships: Stories Beyond the Boundaries of the Universe
The Union Club Mysteries
Norby, the Mixed-up Robot
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 10: 1948
How Did We Find Out About Genes?
The Robots of Dawn
Thirteen Horrors of Halloween
Creations: The Quest For Origins in Story and Science
Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz II
Wizards
Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines!: An Anthology of Robot and Computer Stories
Computer Crimes and Capers
Intergalactic Empires
Machines That Think: The Best Science Stories About Robots and Computers
X Stands for Unknown
One Hundred Great Fantasy Short-Short Stories
Raintree Reading Series 3
Bug Awful
Children Of The Future
The Immortals
Time Warps
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 11: 1949
Witches
Murder on the Menu
Young Mutants
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts
Norby’s Other Secret
How Did We Find Out About Computers?
Opus 300
The Science Fictional Olympics
Fantastic Reading: Stories & Activities for Grade 5-8
Banquets of the Black Widowers
Election Day 2084: Science Fiction
Stories on the Politics of the Future
Isaac Asimov’s Limericks for Children
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 12: 1950
Young Extraterrestrials
Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space
Asimov’s New Guide to Science
Supermen
Baker’s Dozen: 13 Short Fantasy
Novels
How Did We Find Out About Robots?
Asimov’s Guide to Halley’s Comet
Cosmic Knights
The Hugo Winners, Volume IV
Young Monsters
The Exploding Suns: The Secrets of the
Supernovas
Norby and the Lost Princess
Spells
How Did We Find Out About the Atmosphere?
Living in the Future
Robots, Machines In Man’s Image
The Edge of Tomorrow
Great Science Fiction Stories by the World’s Great Scientists
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 13: 1951
The Subatomic Monster
The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries
Robots and Empire
Amazing Stories: Sixty Years of the Best Science Fiction
Young Ghosts
Baker’s Dozen: Thirteen Short Science Fiction Novels
It’s Such a Beautiful Day
Norby and the Invaders
Giants
How Did We Find Out About DNA?
The Alternate Asimovs
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 14: 1952
Comets
Young Star Travelers
The Hugo Winners, Volume V
The Dangers of Intelligence and Other
Science Essays
Mythical Beasties
How Did We Find Out About the Speed of Light?
Futuredays: A Nineteenth-Century Vision of the Year 2000
Science Fiction by Asimov
Tin Stars
The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov
The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Earth
Robot Dreams
Norby and the Queen’s Necklace
Magical Wishes
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 15: 1953
Far as Human Eye Could See
The Twelve Frights of Christmas
How Did We Find Out About Blood?
Past, Present, and Future
Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz III
How Did We Find Out About Sunshine?
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 16: 1954
Young Witches and Warlocks
How to Enjoy Writing: A Book of Aid and Comfort
Devils
Norby Finds a Villain
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain
Hound Dunnit
Space Shuttles
How Did We Find Out About the Brain?
Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs?
Beginnings: The Story of Origins – of Mankind, Life, the Earth, the Universe
Atlantis
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 17: 1955
Asimov’s Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan
Isaac Asimov Presents From Harding to Hiroshima
How Did We Find Out About Superconductivity?
Other Worlds of Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations
The Relativity of Wrong
Prelude to Foundation
Encounters
The Asteroids
The Earth’s Moon
Mars: Our Mysterious Neighbor
Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies
Quasars, Pulsars, and Black Holes
Rockets, Probes, and Satellites
Our Solar System
The Sun
Uranus: The Sideways Planet
History of Biology (a chart)
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Crime
Stories of the 19th Century
The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1930’s
Monsters
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 18: 1956
Azazel
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Story-a-Month 1989 Calendar
Ghosts
Saturn: The Ringed Beauty
How Was the Universe Born?
Earth: Our Home Base
Ancient Astronomy
Unidentified Flying Objects
Space Spotter’s Guide
Norby Down to Earth
The Sport of Crime
How Did We Find Out About Microwaves?
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 19: 1957
Asimov’s Galaxy: Reflections on Science Fiction
All the Troubles of the World
Franchise
Robbie
Sally
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult
Purr-fect Crime
Is There Life On Other Planets?
Science Fiction, Science Fact
Mercury: The Quick Planet
Space Garbage
Jupiter: The Spotted Giant
The Birth and Death of Stars
The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov
Robots
History of Mathematics (a chart)
Think About Space: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?
Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz IV
The Tyrannosaurus Prescription: and One Hundred Other Science Essays
Asimov On Science: A 30 Year Retrospective 1959-1989
Visions of Fantasy: Tales From the Masters
Nemesis
Curses
Asimov’s Chronology of Science and Discovery
How Did We Find Out About Photosynthesis?
The Complete Science Fair Handbook
Little Treasury of Dinosaurs (5 book set)
Giant Dinosaurs (vol. 1)
Armored Dinosaurs (vol. 2)
Small Dinosaurs (vol. 3)
Sea Reptiles and Flying Reptiles (vol. 4)
Meat-Eating Dinosaurs and Horned Dinosaurs (vol. 5)
The New Hugo Winners
Senior Sleuths: A Large Print Anthology of Mysteries and Puzzlers
Norby and Yobo’s Great Adventure
Mythology and the Universe
Colonizing the Planets and the Stars
Astronomy Today
Pluto: A Double Planet?
Piloted Space Flights
Comets and Meteors
Puzzles of the Black Widowers
Norby and the Oldest Dragon
Cosmic Critiques: How & Why Ten Science Fiction Stories Work
Frontiers: new discoveries about man and his planet, outer space and the universe
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 20: 1958
Out of the Everywhere
Robot Visions
How Did We Find Out About Lasers?
Neptune: The Farthest Giant
Venus: A Shrouded Mystery
The World’s Space Programs
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 21: 1959
Nightfall
Robots from Asimov’s Invasions
The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science
Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s
The Complete Stories Volume 1
The March of the Millennia: A Key To
Looking At History
The Secret of the Universe
How Did We Find Out About Neptune?
How Did We Find Out About Pluto?
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 22: 1960
Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos
Cal
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 23: 1961
The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940’s
Christopher Columbus: Navigator to the New World
What is a Shooting Star?
Why Do Stars Twinkle?
Why Does the Moon Change Shape?
Why Do We Have Different Seasons?
What is an Eclipse?
Faeries
The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1960s
Isaac Asimov’s Guide to Earth and Space
Ferdinand Magellan: Opening the Door to World Exploration
Norby and the Court Jester
Our Angry Earth: a Ticking Time Bomb
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Why Are Whales Vanishing?
Is Our Planet Warming Up?
Why Is the Air Dirty?
Where Does Garbage Go?
What Causes Acid Rain?
Asimov’s Chronology of the World
Asimov Laughs Again: More Than 700 Favorite Jokes, Limericks, and Anecdotes
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF
Stories, 24: 1962
The New Hugo Winners, Volume II
The Complete Stories Volume 2
Why Are Some Beaches Oily?
Why Are Animals Endangered?
What’s Happening to the Ozone Layer?
Why Are the Rain Forests Vanishing?
Why Does Litter Cause Problems?
Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories, 25: 1963
The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1970s
The Ugly Little Boy (Child of Time [U.K.])
Forward the Foundation
The Positronic Man
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s
Frontiers II: more recent discoveries about life, Earth, space, and the universe
The Future in Space
I. Asimov: A memoir
Gold
Yours, Isaac Asimov
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