Expansion of the shortfiction piece "The Fireman". The 1953 editions and the 1967 Simon & Schuster edition also contained 2 short stories: "The Playground" and "And the Rock Cried Out".
PDF linked above details how this book about censorship was itself censored for years without Bradbury's knowledge.
| Year | Award | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Prometheus Award | Prometheus Hall of Fame Award | Nominee/Finalist |
| 1984 | Prometheus Award | Prometheus Hall of Fame Award | Winner |
| 1987 | Locus Poll Award | All-Time Best SF Novel | Nominee/Finalist |
| 1998 | Locus Poll Award | All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990 | Nominee/Finalist |
| 2004 | Retro Hugo Award | Best Novel | Winner |
| 2012 | Locus Online | 20th Century Science Fiction Novel | Nominee/Finalist |
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1953 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| October 1953 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| 1954 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Hart-Davis | Novel | |
| 1954 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | 1 |
| May 1955 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) | Novel | |
| 1957 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Novel | |
| 1960 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Novel | 9 |
| April 1960 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| December 1962 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| 1963 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Novel | |
| February 1963 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | ||
| October 1963 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | 3 |
| 1965 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi | Novel | 11 |
| March 1965 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| December 1965 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| September 1966 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| September 1966 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| 1967 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Simon & Schuster | Novel | |
| 1967 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Novel | |
| January 1967 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Novel | |
| January 1967 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Novel | |
| January 1967 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| February 1967 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Novel | 11 |
| April 1967 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Novel | |
| May 1967 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Simon & Schuster / SFBC | Novel | 19 |
| July 1967 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| August 1967 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | ||
| September 1967 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Novel | ||
| November 1967 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | ||
| 1968 | Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Novel | 11 | |
| 1968 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Macmillan of Canada | Novel | |
| March 1968 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | 3 |
| March 1968 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | 1 |
| March 1968 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | 3 |
| September 1968 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Novel | ||
| October 1968 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| October 1968 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Novel | 3 |
| October 1968 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| 1969 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Novel | 11 |
| February 1969 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Novel | |
| April 1969 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | ||
| May 1969 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Novel | ||
| June 1969 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| October 1969 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| December 1969 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| 1970 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi | Novel | |
| 1970 | Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Novel | 11 | |
| January 1970 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| March 1970 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | 3 |
| September 1970 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | ||
| November 1970 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | ||
| February 1971 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | ||
| July 1971 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| September 1971 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| November 1971 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | ||
| December 1971 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | ||
| 1972 | Fahrenheit 451 | Hart-Davis | Novel | ||
| 1972 | Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Novel | 11 | |
| 1972 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Fitzhenry & Whiteside | Novel | |
| 1972 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi | Novel | |
| May 1972 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | ||
| May 1972 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Novel | ||
| August 1972 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | ||
| October 1972 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| October 1972 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| 1973 | Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Novel | ||
| February 1973 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| June 1973 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| August 1973 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers | Novel | 11 |
| September 1973 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| October 1973 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Novel | 3 | |
| 1974 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Corgi | Novel | |
| January 1974 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| June 1974 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | 3 |
| October 1974 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| October 1974 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| September 1975 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| December 1975 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| April 1976 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| August 1976 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| August 1976 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Panther | Novel | |
| June 1977 | Fahrenheit 451 | Hart-Davis, MacGibbon | Novel | ||
| August 1977 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | |
| November 1977 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | |
| February 1978 | Fahrenheit 451 | Panther | Novel | ||
| August 1978 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | |
| October 1979 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | |
| 1980 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Granada | Novel | |
| March 1980 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | 3 |
| October 1980 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | 3 |
| November 1980 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | |
| March 1981 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | 1 |
| July 1981 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | |
| August 1982 | Fahrenheit 451 | The Limited Editions Club | Novel | ||
| October 1982 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | 3 |
| June 1983 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | |
| 1984 |
|
The Novels of Ray Bradbury | Granada | Omnibus | |1 |
| June 1984 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | |
| 1985 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Collins Educational | Novel | |
| January 1985 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / SFBC | Novel | 1 |
| 1987 |
|
Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The Golden Apples of the Sun, The Martian Chronicles | William Heinemann | Omnibus | 9 |
| August 1987 | Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | ||
| September 1987 | Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | ||
| 1988 | Fahrenheit 451 | Chivers Press | Novel | ||
| September 1989 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | |
| October 1989 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | |
| July 1990 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Grafton | Novel | |
| 1991 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | The Easton Press | Novel | 19 |
| 1993 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Flamingo | Novel | 9 |
| May 1993 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | 3 |
| September 1993 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Simon & Schuster | Novel | 33 |
| September 1993 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Simon & Schuster | Novel | 33 |
| 1995 | Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | ||
| 1996 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Ballantine Books | Novel | |
| 1996 | Fahrenheit 451 | Voyager / HarperCollins | Novel | 11 | |
| December 1997 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | G. K. Hall & Co. | Novel | |
| 2000 | Fahrenheit 451 | The Easton Press | Novel | 3 | |
| June 2001 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Voyager Classics / HarperCollins | Novel | |
| November 2001 | Fahrenheit 451 | Book-of-the-Month Club | Novel | ||
| March 2002 | Fahrenheit 451 | Del Rey / Ballantine | Novel | ||
| October 2003 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Simon & Schuster | Novel | |
| 2005 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Graham Press | Novel | |
| December 2006 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Chelsea House | Novel | |
| March 2008 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Wheeler Publishing | Novel | |
| June 2008 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Chelsea House | Novel | |
| July 2008 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Chelsea House | Novel | |
| November 2008 | Fahrenheit 451 | Science Fiction Book Club | Novel | ||
| 2011 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | The Folio Society | Novel | |
| 2012 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Simon & Schuster | Novel | |
| January 2012 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Simon & Schuster Paperbacks | Novel | |
| January 2012 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Simon & Schuster | Novel | |
| January 2012 | Fahrenheit 451 | Turtleback Books | Novel | ||
| January 2012 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Perfection Learning | Novel | |
| May 2012 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Simon & Schuster | Novel | |
| February 2013 |
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Fahrenheit 451 | Harper Voyager (UK) | Novel | |
| March 2013 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Harper Voyager (UK) | Novel | |
| October 2014 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Audible Studios | Novel | |
| May 2018 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Simon & Schuster Paperbacks | Novel | |
| September 2021 |
|
Bradbury: Novels & Story Cycles | The Library of America | Omnibus | |
| October 2022 |
|
The Ray Bradbury Collection | The Library of America | Omnibus | |2 |
| November 2025 |
|
Fahrenheit 451 | Simon & Schuster | Novel | |
| 8888 | Fahrenheit 451 | Modern Library | Novel |