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Ursula K. Le Guin Books in Order
Every Ursula K. Le Guin book in publication order — 104 in total, spanning 1966–2019.
Publication Order of Earthsea Cycle Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Wizard of Earthsea | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Tombs of Atuan | 1970 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Farthest Shore | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Tehanu | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Other Wind | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Earthsea Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tales from Earthsea | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Earthsea Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Earthsea Revisioned | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Catwings Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catwings | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Catwings Return | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Jane on Her Own | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Cat Dreams | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Catwings Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tales of the Catwings | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | More Tales of the Catwings | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Hainish Cycle Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rocannon's World | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Planet of Exile | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | City of Illusions | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The Left Hand of Darkness | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Word for World is Forest | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Dispossessed | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Four Ways to Forgiveness | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | The Telling | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Adventures In Kroy Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Annals Of The Western Shore Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gifts | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Voices | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Powers | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Orsinia Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orsinian Tales | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Malafrena | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Unreal and The Real Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 1: Where on Earth | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lathe of Heaven | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Very Far Away from Anywhere Else / A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Eye of the Heron | 1978 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The Beginning Place / Threshold | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Always Coming Home | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Changing Planes | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Lavinia | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine Lives | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Water is Wide | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Leese Webster | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Gwilan's Harp | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | The Wild Girls | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Dangerous People | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1 | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Wild Angels | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 2 | 1978 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Hard Words and Other Poems | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | The Compass Rose | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | In the Red Zone | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | Wild Oats and Fireweed | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | A Fisherman of the Inland Sea | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Blue Moon Over Thurman Street | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | Unlocking the Air and Other Stories | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Sixty Odd | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | The Birthday of the World and Other Stories | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Science Fiction Stories | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | Incredible Good Fortune | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | Walking in Cornwall | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | Finding My Elegy | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Late in the Day: Poems, 2010-2014 | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | The Found and the Lost | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | Five Ways to Forgiveness | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | So Far, So Good | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Visit from Dr. Katz | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Fire and Stone | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Fish Soup | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | A Ride on the Red Mare's Back | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Tom Mouse | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From Elfland to Poughkeepsie | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Dreams Must Explain Themselves | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Language of the Night | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Way of the Water's Going | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Cheek by Jowl | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | Words Are My Matter | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | No Time to Spare | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of About Writing Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dancing at the Edge of the World | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Steering the Craft | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Wave in the Mind | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (By:) | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Nebula Awards Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nebula Awards 11 | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Wondermakers 2 | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | Beyond Tomorrow | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The Altered I | 1978 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Edges | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Interfaces | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | Modern Classics of Fantasy | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Dragon Lords and Warrior Women | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | The World Split Open | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Women of Futures Past | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 104, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rocannon's World | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Planet of Exile | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | City of Illusions | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | A Wizard of Earthsea | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Nine Lives | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Left Hand of Darkness | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Tombs of Atuan | 1970 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | The Lathe of Heaven | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | The Farthest Shore | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | The Word for World is Forest | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | From Elfland to Poughkeepsie | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader | 1973 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | The Dispossessed | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | Wondermakers 2 | 1974 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1 | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | Wild Angels | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | Dreams Must Explain Themselves | 1975 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | Orsinian Tales | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | Very Far Away from Anywhere Else / A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | The Water is Wide | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | Nebula Awards 11 | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | Beyond Tomorrow | 1976 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | The Eye of the Heron | 1978 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 2 | 1978 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | The Altered I | 1978 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | Malafrena | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | Leese Webster | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | The Language of the Night | 1979 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | The Beginning Place / Threshold | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | Edges | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | Interfaces | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | Gwilan's Harp | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | Hard Words and Other Poems | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | The Compass Rose | 1982 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | In the Red Zone | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | Always Coming Home | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 | Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 | Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences | 1987 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 | Catwings | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 | Wild Oats and Fireweed | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 | A Visit from Dr. Katz | 1988 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 | Catwings Return | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 49 | Fire and Stone | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 50 | Way of the Water's Going | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 51 | Dancing at the Edge of the World | 1989 | Amazon US UK |
| 52 | Tehanu | 1990 | Amazon US UK |
| 53 | Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 54 | Fish Soup | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 55 | A Ride on the Red Mare's Back | 1992 | Amazon US UK |
| 56 | Earthsea Revisioned | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 57 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction | 1993 | Amazon US UK |
| 58 | Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 59 | Four Ways to Forgiveness | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 60 | A Fisherman of the Inland Sea | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 61 | Blue Moon Over Thurman Street | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 62 | Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems | 1994 | Amazon US UK |
| 63 | Tales of the Catwings | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 64 | Unlocking the Air and Other Stories | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 65 | The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1996 | Amazon US UK |
| 66 | Modern Classics of Fantasy | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 67 | Tom Mouse | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 68 | Steering the Craft | 1998 | Amazon US UK |
| 69 | Jane on Her Own | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 70 | Sixty Odd | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 71 | The Year's Best Science Fiction | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 72 | The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | 1999 | Amazon US UK |
| 73 | More Tales of the Catwings | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 74 | The Telling | 2000 | Amazon US UK |
| 75 | The Other Wind | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 76 | Tales from Earthsea | 2001 | Amazon US UK |
| 77 | The Birthday of the World and Other Stories | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 78 | Science Fiction Stories | 2002 | Amazon US UK |
| 79 | Changing Planes | 2003 | Amazon US UK |
| 80 | Gifts | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 81 | The Wave in the Mind | 2004 | Amazon US UK |
| 82 | Voices | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 83 | Incredible Good Fortune | 2006 | Amazon US UK |
| 84 | Powers | 2007 | Amazon US UK |
| 85 | Lavinia | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 86 | Walking in Cornwall | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 87 | Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (By:) | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 88 | Cat Dreams | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 89 | Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 90 | Cheek by Jowl | 2009 | Amazon US UK |
| 91 | Dragon Lords and Warrior Women | 2010 | Amazon US UK |
| 92 | The Wild Girls | 2011 | Amazon US UK |
| 93 | The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 1: Where on Earth | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 94 | The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 95 | Finding My Elegy | 2012 | Amazon US UK |
| 96 | The World Split Open | 2014 | Amazon US UK |
| 97 | Late in the Day: Poems, 2010-2014 | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 98 | The Found and the Lost | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 99 | Words Are My Matter | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 100 | Women of Futures Past | 2016 | Amazon US UK |
| 101 | Five Ways to Forgiveness | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 102 | No Time to Spare | 2017 | Amazon US UK |
| 103 | So Far, So Good | 2018 | Amazon US UK |
| 104 | Dangerous People | 2019 | Amazon US UK |
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