In a publishing career spanning 80 years (1930–2010),Gardner's first publication at age 16 was a magic trick in the periodical The Sphinx. popular mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner (1914–2010) authored or edited over 100 books and countless articles, columns and reviews.
All Gardner's works were non-fiction except for two novels – The Flight of Peter Fromm (1973) and Visitors from Oz (1998) – and two collections of short pieces – The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix (1967, 1985) and The No-Sided Professor (1987).
Books Original works Match-ic (1936), Illus. by Nelson C. Hahne;Ireland Magic Company. Here's New Magic: An Array of New and Original Magic Secrets (1937) "by Joe Berg" [actually ghostwritten by Gardner], Illus. by Nelson C. Hahne; Chicago: Privately printed. 12 Tricks with a Borrowed Deck (1940), Ireland Magic Company, illust. by Harlan Tarbell, intro. by Paul Rosini. After the Dessert (1941), Max Holden, illust. by Nelson Hahne. Cut the Cards (1942), Max Holden, illust. by Nelson Hahne. Over the Coffee Cups (1949), Tulsa: Montandon Magic, illust. by the author (close-up magic, including "dinner-table tricks and gags") In the Name of Science: An Entertaining Survey of the High Priests and Cultists of Science, Past and Present (1952), G. P. Putnam's Sons Republished (revised & expanded) as Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1957), Mineola, New York: Dover Publications; . Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery (1956), Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, . Logic Machines and Diagrams (1958), McGraw-Hill: New York Republished (1968) as Logic Machines, Diagrams, and Boolean Algebra; Dover Publications, Inc. 2nd edition (1983) as Logic Machines and Diagrams with introduction by Donald Michie, University of Chicago Press. Mathematical Puzzles (1961), New York: Thomas Y. Crowell (Illust. by Anthony Ravielli). Reprinted w/corrections in 1986 as Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles, Dover; . Relativity for the Million (1962); New York: MacMillan Company (Illust. by Anthony Ravielli). Revised/updated 1976 as The Relativity Explosion New York: Vintage Books, . Revised/enlarged 1997 as Relativity Simply Explained, New York: Dover; . The Ambidextrous Universe: Mirror Asymmetry and Time-Reversed Worlds (1964) 2nd edition, 1969. 3rd edition, 1990 as The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings; W.H. Freeman & Company. 3rd edition, Revised, 2005, Dover; . Never Make Fun of a Turtle, My Son (1969), Simon & Schuster (poems; illust. by John Alcorn) The Flight of Peter Fromm (1973), Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc. Prometheus Books (novel). Confessions of a Psychic: The Secret Notebooks of Uriah Fuller (1975), Teaneck, New Jersey: Karl Fulves. Aha! Insight (1978), W.H. Freeman & Company; Further Confessions of a Psychic: The Secret Notebooks of Uriah Fuller (1980), Teaneck, New Jersey: Karl Fulves; 70 pp. Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight (1982), (Series: Tools for Transformation); W.H. Freeman & Company; The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener (1983; Revised 1999 edition by St. Martin's Griffin; .) Baffling Brainteasers (1983); Davis Publications. The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold? (1986) Revised 1998 edition, Prometheus Books. How Not to Test a Psychic: Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments with Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek (1989), Prometheus Books The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy (1993), Prometheus Books My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (1994), Dover; . A Die of Another Color (1995); Karl Fulves (Illust. by Joseph K. Schmidt). Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery (1995), Prometheus Books; The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays (1996), Springer-Verlag Match Magic: More Than Seventy Impromptu Tricks With Matches (1998), Piccadilly Books. Visitors from Oz (1998), St. Martin's Press; (novel). The Colossal Book of Wordplay (2010), with Ken Jennings; Puzzlewright. Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner (2014); Princeton University Press
Collected columns, articles and reviews The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (1959) Reprinted in 1988 as Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games, University of Chicago Press, . The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (1961) Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American (1966), Simon & Schuster. The Numerology of Dr. Matrix: The Fabulous Feats and Adventures in Number Theory, Sleight of Word, and Numerological Analysis (Literary, Biblical, Political, Philosophical and Psychonumeranalytical) of That Incredible Master Mind (1967), Simon & Schuster. Reprinted/expanded as The Incredible Dr. Matrix: The World's Greatest Numerologist (1976), Charles Scribner's Sons; . Reprinted/expanded as The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix (1985); Prometheus Books; , (cloth), (paper). Unexpected Hangings, and Other Mathematical Diversions (1968), Simon & Schuster. The Sixth Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (1971), Simon & Schuster Mathematical Carnival (1975), Vintage Books. Mathematical Magic Show (1977), Vintage. Mathematical Circus (1979), Vintage. Science Fiction Puzzle Tales (1981), Random House (Foreword by Isaac Asimov) Reprinted as Mathematical Puzzle Tales (2000), Mathematical Association of America . Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus (1981), Prometheus Books; (paperback), (hardback), (Avon pocket paperback) Order and Surprise (1983), Prometheus Books, Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements (1983), W. H. Freeman & Co. Puzzles from Other Worlds (1984), Vintage Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments (1986), W. H. Freeman & Co. . Riddles of the Sphinx and other Mathematical Puzzle Tales (1987), Mathematical Association of America, Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments (1987), W.H. Freeman & Company; The No-Sided Professor and Other Tales of Fantasy, Humor, Mystery, and Philosophy (1987), Prometheus Books; . (26 short stories, 2 poems) The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher (1988), Prometheus Books; Gardner's Whys & Wherefores (1989), University of Chicago Press. Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers (1989), W. H. Freeman & Co. . Fractal Music, Hypercards and More (1991), W. H. Freeman On the Wild Side: The Big Bang, ESP, the Beast 666, Levitation, Rainmaking, Trance-Channeling, Seances and Ghosts, and More... (1992), Prometheus Books; The Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic (1985), Magic, Inc (574 pgs). 2nd edition (1993), as Martin Gardner Presents; Kaufman and Greenberg (415 pgs). 3rd edition (2015), as Impromptu; The Miracle Factory (864 pgs), with Todd Karr. Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher (1996), Prometheus Books; The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995 (1997), St. Martin's Griffin; Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications (1997), Springer Verlag; Martin Gardner's Table Magic (1998),Omnibus of Gardner's first five published books: Match-ic (1936), 12 Tricks with a Borrowed Deck (1940), After the Dessert (1941), Cut the Cards (1942), and Over the Coffee Cups (1949). Dover; From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr.: On Science, Literature, and Religion (2000), Prometheus Books; Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience (2001), W.W. Norton & Company; . A Gardner's Workout: Training the Mind and Entertaining the Spirit (2001), . (collection of articles and reviews that Gardner published from 1984 to 2000) The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems (2001), W.W. Norton & Company; (a "best of" collection) Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Gödel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics (2003), The title alludes to Charles Sanders Peirce's ridiculing of Laplace's "principle of insufficient reason", which suggested uniform prior probability for Bayesian statistics. Dana Scott Richards, editor (2006), The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems (2006), W.W. Norton & Company; . The Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings—both Serious and Whimsical (2007), Prometheus Books; The Fantastic Fiction of Gilbert Chesterton: Essays on His Novels and Short Stories (2008), Shelburne, Ontario: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box; (Collection of previously published material). When You Were a Tadpole and I was a Fish and other Speculations about This and That (2009), Hill and Wang;
As editor/annotator Great Essays in Science (1957) Revised in 1984 as The Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science, Prometheus Books; . The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was (1957; edited w/ Russel B. Nye), Michigan State University Press Revised edition, 1994; Michigan State University Press. Best Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd (1959), New York: Dover. (Sometimes cited as "Volume 1".) Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd, Volume 2 (1960), New York: Dover. (Also published in the same year as More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd) The Annotated Alice (1960), New York: Bramhall House Clarkson Potter. (no ISBN) Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (1961) by C.C. Bombaugh, Dover.This book is an abridgment of Bombaugh's 1890 work Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-Fields of Literature with extensive notes by Gardner. The Annotated Snark (1962), New York: Simon & Schuster. 2nd edition, 1974. Revised in 1981 as The Hunting of the Snark: A Centennial Edition; Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann; Includes "The Designs of the Snark" by Charles Mitchell and a bibliography by Selwyn Goodacre. Reprinted/revised in 2006 as The Annotated Hunting of the Snark: The Definitive Edition, Norton; Intro by Adam Gopnik. The Annotated Ancient Mariner (1965) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, New York: Clarkson Potter. Philosophical Foundations of Physics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (1966) by Rudolf Carnap, Basic Books. Republished w/corrections (1995) as An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Dover (New foreword). Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney (1967), Charles Scribner's Sons. Expanded as 536 Curious Problems and Puzzles (1995), Barnes and Noble. The Annotated Casey at the Bat: A Collection of Ballads about the Mighty Casey (1967); New York: Clarkson Potter. 2nd (1984) edition; Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. . 3rd (1995) edition; New York: Dover Publications, . Carroll, Lewis, The Wasp in a Wig: A "Suppressed" Episode of 'Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There''', Lewis Carroll Society of North America/C.N. Potter: Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1977. Fujimura, Kobon (1977), The Tokyo Puzzles, Scribners (Tr. by Fumie Adachi).The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown (1987), Oxford University Press, (Notes by Gardner, on G. K. Chesterton's stories).More Annotated Alice (1990), Random House; (a "supplement" to The Annotated Alice)The Annotated Night Before Christmas: A Collection of Sequels, Parodies, And Imitations of Clement Moore's Immortal Ballad About Santa Claus Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Martin Gardner (1991), Summit Books (Reprinted, Prometheus Books, 1995); Kordemsky, Boris A. (1992), The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Series: Dover Recreational Math). [Simplified edition of 1956 Russian-language original.]Peter Puzzlemaker Returns! More Puzzles for Problem Solvers (1994); Dale Seymour Publications ("Compiled and introduced" by Gardner; no primary author given.)Best Remembered Poems (1995), Dover.Famous Poems From Bygone Days (1995), Dover. Wells, H.G., "The Country of the Blind" and Other Science Fiction Stories (1997 Dover edition), introduction by Gardner for each story. (Series: Dover Thrift Editions) Carroll, Lewis, Phantasmagoria (1998), Prometheus Books (satirical poem).