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Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939) · 1939

Margaret Atwood Books in Order

120 books · 2 series · 1961-2024

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.

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3 books, 2003-2013
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1 Oryx and Crake 2003 Amazon
2 The Year of the Flood 2009 Amazon
3
MaddAddam 2013 Amazon
2 books, 1985-2019
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1 The Handmaid's Tale 1985 Amazon
2 The Testaments 2019 Amazon

Standalone books

Books outside a series, oldest first.
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1
Double Persephone 1961 Amazon
2 The Circle Game 1964 Amazon
3
Expeditions 1966 Amazon
4 Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein 1966 Amazon
5 The Animals in That Country 1968 Amazon
6 The Edible Woman 1969 Amazon
7 Procedures for Underground 1970 Amazon
8 The Journals of Susanna Moodie 1970 Amazon
9 Power Politics 1971 Amazon
10 Surfacing 1972 Amazon
11 Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature 1972 Amazon
12 You Are Happy 1974 Amazon
13 Lady Oracle 1976 Amazon
14
A Travel Piece 1977 Amazon
15
Dancing Girls 1977 Amazon
16 Dancing Girls & Other Stories 1977 Amazon
17
Giving Birth 1977 Amazon
18
Hair Jewellery 1977 Amazon
19
Lives of the Poets 1977 Amazon
20
Polarities 1977 Amazon
21
Rape Fantasies 1977 Amazon
22
The Grave of the Famous Poet 1977 Amazon
23
The Man from Mars 1977 Amazon
24
The Resplendent Quetzal 1977 Amazon
25
The War in the Bathroom 1977 Amazon
26
Training 1977 Amazon
27
Under Glass 1977 Amazon
28
When it Happens 1977 Amazon
29 Two-Headed Poems 1978 Amazon
30 Up in the Tree 1978 Amazon
31 Life Before Man 1979 Amazon
32 Bodily Harm 1981 Amazon
33 True Stories 1981 Amazon
34
Variations on the Word Love 1981 Amazon
35
Betty 1982 Amazon
36 Second words 1982 Amazon
37
The Sin Eater 1982 Amazon
38
Bluebeard's Egg 1983 Amazon
39 Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories 1983 Amazon
40 Murder in the Dark 1983 Amazon
41
Unearthing Suite 1983 Amazon
42 Interlunar 1984 Amazon
43 The Secret Self -- Short Stories by Women 1985 Amazon
44
Freeforall 1986 Amazon
45 Literature 1986 Amazon
46 Literature--Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay 1986 Amazon
47 Poems 1976-1986 1986 Amazon
48 The Art of the Tale 1986 Amazon
49 Poems 1965-1975 1987 Amazon
50 Cat's Eye 1988 Amazon
51 Erotica 1990 Amazon
52 From Ink Lake 1990 Amazon
53 Margaret Atwood Conversations 1990 Amazon
54 Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces 1991 Amazon
55 Wilderness Tips 1991 Amazon
56 Good Bones 1992 Amazon
57
My Life as a Bat 1992 Amazon
58 Fiction 1993 Amazon
59 Literature--Structure, Sound, and Sense--Sixth Edition 1993 Amazon
60 The Norton Book of Science Fiction 1993 Amazon
61 The Robber Bride 1993 Amazon
62 Good Bones and Simple Murders 1994 Amazon
63 Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold 1994 Amazon
64 Morning in the Burned House 1995 Amazon
65 Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut 1995 Amazon
66 Strange things 1995 Amazon
67 The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories 1995 Amazon
68 Alias Grace 1996 Amazon
69 The Labrador Fiasco 1996 Amazon
70 Perrine's Literature--Structure, Sound, and Sense--Seventh Edition 1998 Amazon
71 The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction 1999 Amazon
72 Lost classics 2000 Amazon
73 Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- gold 2000 Amazon
74 The Blind Assassin 2000 Amazon
75 Perrine's Literature, Structure, Sound and Sense--Eighth Edition 2001 Amazon
76 Negotiating with the Dead 2002 Amazon
77 Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level 2002 Amazon
78 Literature--Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 2003 Amazon
79 Rude Ramsey and the Roaring Radishes 2003 Amazon
80 Literature, a Portable Anthology 2004 Amazon
81 New Beginnings 2005 Amazon
82 The Norton Introduction to Literature--Ninth Edition 2005 Amazon
83 The Penelopiad 2005 Amazon
84 Essentials of British and World Literature 2006 Amazon
85 Literature--An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing--Eleventh Edition 2006 Amazon
86
Moral Disorder 2006 Amazon
87 Moral Disorder and Other Stories 2006 Amazon
88 The Tent 2006 Amazon
89 Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose--1983-2005 2006 Amazon
90 Literature -- Part 1. Fiction -- Custom Edition for Anne Arundel Community College 2007 Amazon
91 Prentice Hall Literature 2007 Amazon
92 The Door 2007 Amazon
93 Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth 2008 Amazon
94 The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers -- eighth edition 2008 Amazon
95 Half-Minute Horrors 2009 Amazon
96 Literature--Sixth Compact Edition 2010 Amazon
97 The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition 2010 Amazon
98 In Other Worlds 2011 Amazon
99 MaddAdam 2013 Amazon
100 Stone Mattress 2014 Amazon
101 Perrine's Literature--Structure, Sound & Sense--Twelfth Edition 2015 Amazon
102 The Heart Goes Last 2015 Amazon
103 The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction--Shorter Eighth Edition 2015 Amazon
104 Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition 2016 Amazon
105 Hag-Seed 2016 Amazon
106 The Secret Loves of Geek Girls 2016 Amazon
107 Dearly 2020 Amazon
108 40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition 2021 Amazon
109 Burning Questions 2022 Amazon
110 Fourteen Days 2022 Amazon
111
The Climate Book 2022 Amazon
112 Old Babes in the Wood 2023 Amazon
113
Democracy 2024 Amazon
114
Curious Pursuits - Occasional Writing 1970-2005 Amazon
115
Happy Endings Amazon

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