Which of Ray Bradbury's books is your all-time personal favorite?

Like a lot of people, I hated to hear about the recent death of science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. Bradbury passed away Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 91, bringing to end one of the most storied writing careers in the history of American literature.

Bradbury was best known for his science fiction, but he also wrote a number of horror, fantasy and mystery works. His career spanned decades and he was a prolific writer producing more than 600 short stories and scores of novels, collections, anthologies, nonfiction books, stageplays, screenplays, teleplays, children’s books, poems, operas, essays and audiobooks.

In fact, Bradbury was so prolific that it’s extremely difficult to compile a list of his all-time books. What follows is list of his most prominent novels, nonfiction books and short story and essay collections, compiled from several sources, including his Web site (www.raybradbury.com) and Wikipedia. They’re in order of publication date.

- Dark Carnival (1947)
- The Martian Chronicles (1950)
- The Illustrated Man (1951)
- No Man Is an Island (1952)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
- The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
- The October Country (1955)
- Dandelion Wine (1957)
- The Day It Rained Forever (1959)
- A Medicine for Melancholy (1959)

- The Essence of Creative Writing (1962)
- R is for Rocket (1962)
- The Small Assassin (1962)
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
- The Machineries of Joy (1964)
- The Autumn People (1965)
- The Vintage Bradbury (1965)
- S is for Space (1966)
- Tomorrow Midnight (1966)
- Twice 22 (1966)

- Creative Man Among His Servant Machines (1967)
- I Sing the Body Electric! (1969)
- The Halloween Tree (1972)
- Ray Bradbury (1975)
- Long After Midnight (1976)
- The God in Science Fiction (1978)
- About Norman Corwin (1979)
- The Frog Horn and Other Stories (1979)
- The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980)
- One Timeless Spring (1980)
- The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980)

- There is Life on Mars (1981)
- Dinosaur Tales (1983)
- A Memory of Murder (1984)
- The Art of Playboy (1985)
- Death is a Lonely Business (1985)
- The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone (1985)
- The April Witch (1987)
- Death Has Lost Its Charm (1987)
- The Toynbee Convector (1988)
- Classic Stories 1 (1990)
- Classic Stories 2 (1990)

- Folon’s Folon’s (1990)
- Graveyard for Lunatics (1990)
- The Parrot Who Met Papa (1991)
- Selected from Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed (1991)
- Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures (1991)
- Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity (1991)
- Green Shadows, White Whale (1992)
- Quicker Than the Eye (1996)
- Driving Blind (1997)
- From the Dust Returned (2001)
- The Playground (2001)

- Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (2001)
- Let’s All Kill Constance (2002)
- One More for the Road (2002)
- Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003)
- Is That You, Herb? (2003)
- The Cat’s Pajamas (2004)
- Bradbury Speaks (2005)
- A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005)
- Farewell Summer (2006)
- The Homecoming (2006)
- The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007)

- Now and Forever (2007)
- Summer Morning, Summer Night (2007)
- Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 (2007)
- Ray Bradbury Stories, Vol. 2 (2009)
- We’ll Always Have Paris: Stories (2009)
- The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition - Vol. 1 (2011)

In the end, how many of Bradbury’s books have you read? Which is your personal favorite and why? Which did you like or dislike? Let us know in the comments section below.