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Originally Posted by mcoy
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Don't forget his Lucky Starr series.
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Or his R. Daneel series (which later connect to the Foundation series).
Or, well, anything he wrote. Aasimov was an incredible writer: he wrote over 500 books (suck on that George R. R. Martin), in nearly every major category of the Dewey Decimal system. Like there are ten major categories, he wrote books in nine, and if his philosophical forward in one book qualified as Philosophy he would have hit all ten
... and they're all good. I mean, I've even read the man's joke book, and while a lot of them are now a bit dated ("classic"), it's still fun. For instance:
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Originally Posted by Isaac Aasimov's Treasury of Humor
A condemned spy was being led out at dawn to the wall against which he was to be shot at sunrise. It was raining with ferocious intensity. On either side of him was a line of soldiers, and to one of them the condemned spy said bitterly "what beasts you all are to march me out to be shot in a rain like this."
And the soldier replied with equal bitterness, "What are you complaining about? We've got to march back."
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You just can't go wrong reading anything by Aasimov.