
- Early Heinlein novels
- RH01 – Rocket Ship Galileo, 1947
- RH02 – Beyond This Horizon, 1948 (initially serialized in 1942, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald)
- RH03 – Space Cadet, 1948
- RH04 – Red Planet, 1949
- RH05 – Sixth Column, 1949 (initially serialized in 1941, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald) (aka: The Day After Tomorrow)
- RH06 – Between Planets, 1951
- RH07 – The Puppet Masters, 1951 (re-published posthumously with excisions restored, 1990)
- RH08 – The Rolling Stones, 1952 (aka: Space Family Stone)
- RH09 – Farmer in the Sky, 1953 (initially serialized in 1950 in a condensed version in Boys’ Life magazine as “Satellite Scout” (Retro Hugo Award, 1951)
- RH10 – Starman Jones, 1953
- RH11 – The Star Beast, 1954
- RH12 – Tunnel in the Sky, 1955
- RH13 – Double Star, 1956Hugo Award, 1956
- RH14 – Time for the Stars, 1956
- RH15 – Citizen of the Galaxy, 1957
- RH16 – The Door into Summer, 1957
- RH17 – Have Space SuitWill Travel, 1958Hugo Award nominee, 1959
- RH18 – Methuselah’s Children, 1958 (originally a serialized novella in 1941)
- RH19 – Starship Troopers, 1959Hugo Award, 1960
- Middle Heinlein novels
- RH20 – Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961 — Hugo Award, 1962 (republished at the original greater length in 1991)
- RH21 – Podkayne of Mars, 1963
- RH22 – Orphans of the Sky, 1963 (fix-up novel comprising the novellas “Universe” and “Common Sense”, both originally published in 1941)
- RH23 – Glory Road, 1963Hugo Award nominee, 1964
- RH24 – Farnham’s Freehold, 1965
- RH25 – The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1966 — Hugo Award, 1967
- RH26 – I Will Fear No Evil, 1970
- RH27 – Time Enough for Love, 1973Nebula Award nominated, 1973 Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominated, 1974
- Late Heinlein novels
- RH28 – The Number of the Beast, 1980
- RH29 – Friday, 1982Hugo, Nebula, and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1983
- RH30 – Job: A Comedy of Justice, 1984 – Nebula Award nominee, 1984; Locus Fantasy Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, 1985
- RH31 – The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, 1985
- RH32 – To Sail Beyond the Sunset, 1987
- Early Heinlein works published posthumously
- RH33 – For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (written in 1939, published posthumously in 2003)
- RH34 – Variable Star (posthumously with Spider Robinson) (Heinlein’s 8 page outline written in 1955; Robinson’s full novel from the outline appeared in 2006)
- Short fiction
- “Future History” short fiction
- RH35 – The Past Through Tomorrow, Contains all the short stories, except those marked RH36, RH37 and RH38
- “Life-Line”, 1939
- RH36 – “Let There Be Light”, 1940
- “Misfit”, 1939
- “The Roads Must Roll”, 1940
- “Requiem”, 1940
- “If This Goes On”, 1940, first novel.
- “Coventry”, 1940
- “Blowups Happen”, 1940
- RH37 – “Universe”, 1941
- “We Also Walk Dogs” 1941 (as Anson MacDonald)
- RH38 – “Common Sense”, 1941
- “Methuselah’s Children”, 1941 (lengthened and published as a novel, 1958)
- “Logic of Empire”, 1941
- “Space Jockey”, 1947
- “It’s Great to Be Back!”, 1947
- “The Green Hills of Earth”, 1947
- “Ordeal in Space”, 1948
- “The Long Watch”, 1948
- “Gentlemen, Be Seated!”, 1948
- “The Black Pits of Luna”, 1948
- “Delilah and the Space Rigger”, 1949
- “The Man Who Sold the Moon”, 1950, (Retro Hugo Award)
- “The Menace From Earth”, 1957
- “Searchlight”, 1962
- Other short speculative fiction
- All the works initially attributed to Anson MacDonald, Caleb Saunders, John Riverside and Simon York, and many of the works attributed to Lyle Monroe, were later reissued in various Heinlein collections and attributed to Heinlein.
- At Heinlein’s insistence, the three Lyle Monroe stories marked with the symbol ‘§’ were never reissued in a Heinlein anthology during his lifetime.
- RH39 – “Magic, Inc.”, 1940 (aka: “The Devil Makes the Law”)
- RH40 – “Solution Unsatisfactory”, 1940 (as Anson MacDonald)
- RH36 – “Let There Be Light”, 1940 (as Lyle Monroe)
- RH41 – “Successful Operation” 1940 (aka: “Heil!”) (as Lyle Monroe)
- RH42 – “They”, 1941
- RH43 – “And He Built a Crooked House”, 1941
- RH44 – “By His Bootstraps”, 1941 (as Anson MacDonald)
- RH45 – “Lost Legacy”, 1941 (aka: “Lost Legion”) (as Lyle Monroe)
- RH46 – “Elsewhen”, 1941 (aka: “Elsewhere”) (as Caleb Saunders)
- RH47 – § “Beyond Doubt”, 1941 (as Lyle Monroe with Elma Wentz)
- RH48 – “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag”, 1942 (as John Riverside)
- RH49 – “Waldo”, 1942 (as Anson MacDonald)
- RH50 – § “My Object All Sublime”, 1942 (as Lyle Monroe)
- RH51 – “Goldfish Bowl”, 1942 (as Anson MacDonald)
- RH52 – § “Pied Piper”, 1942 (as Lyle Monroe)
- RH53 – “Free Men”, 1946 (published 1966)
- RH54 – “Jerry Was a Man”, 1947
- RH55 – “Columbus Was a Dope”, 1947 (as Lyle Monroe)
- RH56 – “On the Slopes of Vesuvius”, 1947
- RH57 – “Our Fair City”, 1948
- RH58 – “Gulf”, 1949
- RH59 – “Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon”, 1949
- RH60 – “Destination Moon”, 1950
- RH61 – “The Year of the Jackpot”, 1952
- RH62 – “Project Nightmare”, 1953
- RH63 – “Sky Lift”, 1953
- RH64 – “Tenderfoot in Space”, 1956 (serialized 1958)
- RH65 – “The Man Who Traveled in Elephants”, 1957 (aka: “The Elephant Circuit”)
- RH66 – “All You Zombies”, 1959
- Other short fiction
- RH67 – “A Bathroom of Her Own”, 1946
- RH68 – “Dance Session”, 1946 (love poem)
- RH69 – “The Witch’s Daughter”, 1946 (poem)
- RH70 – “Water Is for Washing”, 1947
- RH71 – “They Do It with Mirrors”, 1947 (as Simon York)
- RH72 – “Poor Daddy”, 1949
- RH73 – “Cliff and the Calories”, 1950
- RH74 – “The Bulletin Board”, 1951
- Collections (Not Included in bibliography as content can be found above)
- The Man Who Sold the Moon, 1950
- Waldo & Magic, Inc., 1950
- The Green Hills of Earth, 1951
- Assignment in Eternity, 1953
- Revolt in 2100, 1953
- The Robert Heinlein Omnibus, 1958
- The Menace From Earth, 1959
- The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, 1959 (aka: 6 X H)
- Three by Heinlein, 1965
- A Robert Heinlein Omnibus, 1966
- The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, 1966
- The Past Through Tomorrow, 1967 (almost-complete Future History collection, missing “Let There Be Light,” “Universe,” and “Common Sense”)
- The Best of Robert A. Heinlein, 1973
- Expanded Universe, 1980
- A Heinlein Trio, 1980 (omnibus of The Puppet Masters, Double Star, and The Door Into Summer)
- The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein, 1999 (omnibus of Waldo & Magic, Inc. and The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag)
- Infinite Possibilities, 2003 (omnibus of Tunnel in the Sky, Time for the Stars, and Citizen of the Galaxy)
- To the Stars, 2004 (omnibus of Between Planets, The Rolling Stones, Starman Jones, and The Star Beast)
- Off the Main Sequence, 2005 (short stories including three never before collected)
- Four Frontiers, 2005 (omnibus of Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, Red Planet, and Farmer in the Sky)
- Outward Bound, 2006 (omnibus of Have Space SuitWill Travel, Starship Troopers, Podkayne of Mars)
- Foreword
- RH75 – Tomorrow, the Stars, 1952, anthology of stories by 14 authors selected by Frederik Pohl and Judith Merril, foreword by Heinlein who got his name on the cover.
- Nonfiction
- RH76 – No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying, written 1947, published 1973
- RH77 – Grumbles from the Grave, 1989 (posthumously)
- RH78 – Take Back Your Government: A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen, 1992 (Originally published as How To Be A Politician)
- RH79 – Tramp Royale, 1992
- Miscellaneous
- RH80 – The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, illuminated by D.F Vassallo, 1978
- RH81 – Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master, 1992