These are the Novels and Short Stories
- For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, 1939, published posthumously in 2003
- Life Line, 1939, Short Story
- Misfit, 1939, Short Story
- Magic, Inc., 1940 (aka: "The Devil Makes the Law")
- Solution Unsatisfactory, 1940 (as Anson MacDonald)
- Let There Be Light, 1940, Short Story, (as Lyle Monroe)
- Successful_Operation, 1940 (aka: "Heil!") (as Lyle Monroe)
- The Roads Must Roll, 1940, Short Story
- Requiem, 1940, Short Story
- If This Goes On—, 1940, first novel
- Coventry, 1940
- Blowups Happen, 1940
- They, 1941
- —And He Built a Crooked House—, 1941
- By His Bootstraps, 1941 (as Anson MacDonald)
- Lost Legacy, 1941 (aka: "Lost Legion") (as Lyle Monroe)
- Elsewhen, 1941 (aka: "Elsewhere") (as Caleb Saunders)
- Beyond Doubt, 1941 (as Lyle Monroe with Elma Wentz)
- Universe, 1941
- We Also Walk Dogs, 1941 (as Anson MacDonald)
- Common Sense, 1941
- Methuselah's Children, 1941 (lengthened and published as a novel, 1958)
- Logic of Empire, 1941
- The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, 1942 (as John Riverside
- Waldo, 1942 (as Anson MacDonald)
- My Object All Sublime, 1942 (as Lyle Monroe)
- Goldfish Bowl, 1942 (as Anson MacDonald)
- Pied Piper, 1942 (as Lyle Monroe)
- A Bathroom of Her Own, 1946
- Dance Session, 1946 (love poem)
- The Witch's Daughter, 1946 (poem)
- Free Men, 1946 (published 1966)
- Water Is for Washing, 1947
- They Do It with Mirrors, 1947 (as Simon York)
- Jerry Was a Man, 1947
- Columbus Was a Dope, 1947 (as Lyle Monroe)
- On the Slopes of Vesuvius, 1947
- Space Jockey, 1947
- It's Great to Be Back!, 1947
- The Green Hills of Earth, 1947
- Rocket Ship Galileo, 1947, Novel
- "Our Fair City, 1948
- Beyond This Horizon, 1948 (initially serialized in 1942, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald), Novel
- Space Cadet, 1948, Novel
- Ordeal in Space, 1948
- The Long Watch, 1948
- Gentlemen, Be Seated!, 1948
- The Black Pits of Luna, 1948
- Poor Daddy, 1949
- Gulf, 1949
- Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon, 1949
- Delilah and the Space Rigger, 1949
- Red Planet, 1949, Novel
- Sixth Column, 1949 (initially serialized in 1941, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald) (aka: The Day After Tomorrow), Novel
- Cliff and the Calories, 1950
- Destination Moon, 1950
- Farmer in the Sky, 1950 (initially serialized in a condensed version in Boys' Life magazine as "Satellite Scout") (Retro Hugo Award, 1951), Novel
- The Man Who Sold the Moon, 1950, (Retro Hugo Award
- The Bulletin Board, 1951
- Between Planets, 1951, Novel
- The Puppet Masters, 1951 (re-published posthumously with excisions restored, 1990), Novel
- The Year of the Jackpot, 1952
- The Rolling Stones, 1952 (aka: Space Family Stone), Novel
- Project Nightmare, 1953
- Sky Lift, 1953
- Starman Jones, 1953, Novel
- The Star Beast, 1954, Novel
- Tunnel in the Sky, 1955, Novel
- Tenderfoot in Space, 1956 (serialized 1958)
- Double Star, 1956—Hugo Award, 1956, Novel
- Time for the Stars, 1956, Novel
- The Man Who Traveled in Elephants, 1957 (aka: "The Elephant Circuit")
- Citizen of the Galaxy, 1957, Novel
- The Door into Summer, 1957, Novel
- The Menace From Earth", 1957
- Have Space Suit—Will Travel, 1958—Hugo Award nominee, 1959, Novel
- Methuselah's Children, 1958 (originally a serialized novella in 1941), Novel
- —All You Zombies—, 1959
- Starship Troopers, 1959—Hugo Award, 1960, Novel
- Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961 -- Hugo Award, 1962, (republished at the original greater length in 1991), Novel
- Searchlight, 1962
- Podkayne of Mars, 1963, Novel
- Orphans of the Sky, 1963 (fix-up novel comprising the novellas "Universe" and "Common Sense", both originally published in 1941), Novel
- Glory Road, 1963—Hugo Award nominee, 1964, Novel
- Farnham's Freehold, 1964, Novel
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1966 -- Hugo Award, 1967, Novel
- I Will Fear No Evil, 1970, Novel
- Time Enough for Love, 1973—Nebula Award nominated, 1973; Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominated, 1974, Novel
- The Number of the Beast, 1980, Novel
- Friday, 1982—Hugo, Nebula, and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1983, Novel
- Job: A Comedy of Justice, 1984 - Nebula Award nominee, 1984; Locus Fantasy Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, 1985, Novel
- The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, 1985, Novel
- To Sail Beyond the Sunset, 1987, Novel
- Variable Star, 2006 (posthumously with Spider Robinson) (Heinlein's 8 page outline written in 1955; Robinson's full novel from the outline appeared in 2006)