Hi all, I read Citizen of the Galaxy, Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land and loved them all, Stranger in a Strange Land being my favourite. What other ones would you say are worth a look or two?
“Glory Road” is my personal favorite… has sort of a “tongue-in-cheek-Tolkien” feel to it.
“Time Enough For Love” is definitely a magnum opus and not to be missed.
“I Will Fear No Evil” is very thought provoking, and has yet another main character named “Smith”
That should hold ya for now! Happy reading!..Timmy
Time Enough for Love. Super book.
IMHO, the best Heinleins after The Moon is a Harsh Mistress are his juveniles. Time for the Stars, Between Planets, Tunnel in the Sky and Have Space Suit, Will Travel in particular.
After that, Methuselah’s Children and The Puppet Masters.
I read and enjoyed The Number of the Beast, although it was rather strange, and contained The Wizard of Oz and stuff. Stranger in a Strange Land is the best, you’re right. BTW, do you know if you read the abridged version or the original?
You missed “Door Into Summer”, “Double Star”, “Waldo”, and “Starbeast”. Well, okay, only “Starbeast” is actually a juvenile. But I would put the first 3 right after “Have Spacesuit…” and in front of “Tunnel”. Then the rest of the juveniles.
I’d recommend “The Door Into Summer”, “Have Space Suit - Will Travel”, “Tunnel in the Sky”, “Time for the Stars”, and “Double Star” in no particular order. They are all excellent.
I liked Glory Road.
Time Enough For Love or I Will Fear No Evil
Read ANYTHING but “The Number of the Beast” and “The Cat Who Walks Through Walls”.
I would have to say my favorite is Job. He nailed this book. I liked Stranger in a Strange Land, as well, but it isn’t my favorite by him. You should also check out Glory Road, as mentioned before. And I really liked The Cat Who Walked Through Walls and Time Enough for Love.
The Door Into Summer
And don’t go within a million miles of “Farnham’s Freehold”. Yuk.
I really enjoyed “Tunnel in the sky” even though it was a Juvenile novel. Heinlein throws you a few red herrings about the plot that kept me guessing up to the very end 
FYI & IMHO: The Sixth Column (can’t remember the alternate title) appears very racist to modern eyes. Personally, I’d put it & Farnham’s Freehold in the “I want to read everything RAH wrote” category, but wouldn’t be in a hurry to find them.
Job is fairly thought-provoking for the religiously-open-minded.
I still haven’t made up my mind about Friday - other then to gripe that the cover artist for my copy OBVIOUSLY didn’t read the book - Friday is not a blond, blue-eyed Nordic
I vote for Time Enough For Love and The Number of the Beast. I love the literary conceits in The Number of the Beast. Friday is a fun read though too.
All of the above. But don’t overlook The Green Hills of Earth, a short story collection, some of his earlier stuff. The title story contains the title poem.
I did not like Number of the Beast one bit. Had to stop reading that chauvinistic junk. And just about every single line the characters said to one another is a punchline. Come on, who talks like that. Is it just me, or did Heinlein become more chauvinistic as he matured?
To the OP, I generally do like just about everything he wrote though. NOTB was a fluke I think, even though his later work is more “old fashioned” in sentimentality it’s still good.
My favorite so far, after Stranger in a Strange land is Tunnel in the Sky. A kid’s story, but it sure is fun.
My vote is for Double Star. It’s a great story whose influence can be seen in many subsequent works.
Time Enough For Love has excellent parts to it, but don’t read it unless you can tolerate bits of gratuitous incest.
In retrospect, I think Time enough for love should be read only for the story The tale of the adopted daughter. The rest is just RAH trying to repeat the outrage he caused with SiSL.
Why not go back to the beginning - Pick up The Past through tomorrow and get to the very start of the Lazarus Long stories, to get them in order. You also get Misfit which fits in witth the rest of the Heinlein universe. Get Expanded Universe after that, and you’re set to go after the novels. I still marvel when re-reading TPTT, and seeing the birth of modern SciFi.