Margaret Atwood books

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author of literary fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. She is best known for The Handmaid's Tale and the MaddAddam trilogy.

Angel Catbird Graphic Novels Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Angel Catbird, Volume 1 2016 Buy
To Castle Catula 2017 Buy
Angel Catbird, Volume 3: The Catbird Roars 2017 Buy

Anthologies

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Women Writers at Work 1989 Buy
The Best American Short Stories 1989 1989 Buy
The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories 1990 Buy
Colors of a New Day 1990 Buy
Cries of the Spirit 1991 Buy
The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces 1992 Buy
Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories 1992 Buy
Ploughshares Winter 1993-94 1993 Buy
Minding the Body 1994 Buy
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994 Buy
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women 1995 Buy
Ten 1996 Buy
Sunrise to Sunset 1997 Buy
Wild Women 1997 Buy
Mistresses of the Dark 1998 Buy
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 1998 Buy
Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium 1999 Buy
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction 1999 Buy
Ovid Metamorphosed 2000 Buy
When The Wild Comes Leaping Up 2002 Buy
The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War 2003 Buy
The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles 2004 Buy
More Stories We Tell 2004 Buy
The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping 2007 Buy
The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories 2007 Buy
The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction. 2008 Buy
Sisters 2009 Buy
First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors 2009 Buy
Crimespotting 2009 Buy
Half-Minute Horrors 2009 Buy
The Secret History of Science Fiction 2009 Buy
I’m With the Bears 2011 Buy
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2012 Buy
The World Split Open 2014 Buy
Loosed Upon the World 2015 Buy
The Secret Loves of Geek Girls 2015 Buy
First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner 2016 Buy
Freeman’s Power 2018 Buy
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers 2019 Buy
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes 2022 Buy
Furies 2023 Buy
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering 2024 Buy

Canongate’s The Myths Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
A Short History of Myth 2004 Buy
The Myths 2005 N/A
Lion’s Honey: The Myth of Samson 2005 Buy
The Penelopiad 2005 Buy
The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur 2005 N/A
Lion’s Honey 2005 N/A
The Helmet of Horror 2005 Buy
Dream Angus 2006 N/A
Anna In w grobowcach świata 2006 N/A
The Goddess Chronicle 2013 Buy
Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus 2005 N/A
O Conto da Deusa 2008 N/A
Orphans of Eldorado 2008 N/A
The Hurricane Party 2007 N/A
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2009 N/A
Ragnarök 2011 N/A
The Song of King Gesar 2013 N/A
Weight 2005 Buy
Where Three Roads Meet 2005 Buy
Binu and the Great Wall 2006 Buy
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg 2007 Buy

Collections

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Circle Game 1964 Buy
The Animals in that Country 1968 Buy
The Journals of Susanna Moodie 1970 Buy
Procedures For Underground 1970 Buy
Power Politics 1971 Buy
You Are Happy 1974 Buy
Selected Poems 1976 Buy
Dancing Girls and Other Stories 1977 Buy
Two-Headed Poems 1978 Buy
True Stories 1981 Buy
Bluebeard’s Egg 1983 Buy
Murder in the Dark 1983 Buy
Interlunar 1984 Buy
Selected Poems II 1986 Buy
Wilderness Tips 1991 Buy
Good Bones 1992 Buy
Poems 1976-1986 1992 Buy
Polarities. Selected Stories 1994 Buy
Bones & Murder 1994 Buy
Morning in the Burned House 1995 Buy
Eating Fire 1998 Buy
Moving Targets 2004 Buy
The Tent 2006 Buy
Moral Disorder and Other Stories 2006 Buy
The Door 2007 Buy
The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie 2014 Buy
Stone Mattress 2014 Buy
Freedom 2018 Buy
Dearly 2020 Buy
Old Babes in the Wood 2023 Buy
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023 2024 Buy

European Studies in North American Literature and Culture Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Thomas King: Works and Impact 2012 Buy
Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies 2018 Buy

Graphic Novels

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel 2019 Buy

Hogarth Shakespeare Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Gap of Time 2015 Buy
Shylock is My Name 2016 Buy
Vinegar Girl 2016 Buy
Hag-Seed 2016 Buy
New Boy 2017 Buy
Dunbar 2017 Buy
Macbeth 2018 Buy

MaddAddam Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Oryx and Crake 2003 Buy
The Year of the Flood 2009 Buy
Год потопа 2009 N/A
MaddAddam 2013 Buy
Uusi maa 2013 N/A

Naomi Alderman Short Stories/Novellas

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home 2012 N/A

Non-Fiction

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Survival 1972 Buy
Days Of The Rebels 1977 Buy
Second Words 1982 Buy
The Canlit Foodbook 1987 Buy
Margaret Atwood Conversations 1990 Buy
Strange Things 1995 Buy
Two Solicitudes 1996 Buy
Story of a Nation 2001 Buy
Negotiating with the Dead / On Writers & Writing 2002 Buy
Curious Pursuits 2005 Buy
Writing With Intent 2005 Buy
Payback 2007 Buy
Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine 2009 Buy
In Other Worlds 2011 Buy
Dire Cartographies 2015 Buy
The Burgess Shale 2017 Buy
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2022 Buy
Book of Lives 2025 Buy

Picture Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Anna’s Pet 1980 Buy
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut 1995 Buy
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes 2003 Buy
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda 2004 Buy
Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery 2011 Buy
A Trio of Tolerable Tales 2017 Buy

Short Stories/Novellas

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Happy Endings 1983 N/A
The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home 2012 N/A
Moral Disorder 2014 Buy
The Bad News 2018 Buy
War Bears 2019 Buy
Two Scorched Men 2021 N/A
My Evil Mother 2022 Buy
Cut and Thirst 2024 Buy

Standalone Novels

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Edible Woman 1969 Buy
Surfacing 1972 Buy
Lady Oracle 1976 Buy
Up in the Tree 1978 Buy
Life Before Man 1979 Buy
Bodily Harm 1981 Buy
Cat’s Eye 1988 Buy
For the Birds 1990 Buy
The Robber Bride 1993 Buy
Alias Grace 1996 Buy
The Labrador Fiasco 1996 Buy
The Blind Assassin 2000 Buy
Bottle 2004 Buy
The Heart Goes Last 2015 Buy

The Handmaid’s Tale Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Orjattaresi 1985 N/A
The Handmaid’s Tale 1986 Buy
The Testaments 2019 Buy
Заветы 2019 N/A

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author whose career spans more than sixty years, beginning with her poetry collection The Circle Game in 1964. She has written novels, short story collections, poetry, non-fiction, graphic novels, and children’s books. Her best-known work, The Handmaid’s Tale (1986), became a cultural touchstone and was adapted into a widely watched television series.

Atwood’s fiction often explores power, gender, technology, and environmental collapse. The MaddAddam trilogy imagines a post-apocalyptic world reshaped by genetic engineering, while her standalone novels range from gothic mystery (Alias Grace) to literary realism (Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride). She has received the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and numerous other honors throughout her career.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Margaret Atwood written?

Margaret Atwood has written 163 books across fourteen series.

What was Margaret Atwood's first book?

Margaret Atwood’s first book is The Circle Game, published in 1964.

What are Margaret Atwood's most famous novels?

Margaret Atwood’s most famous novels include The Handmaid’s Tale (1986), its sequel The Testaments (2019), the MaddAddam trilogy starting with Oryx and Crake (2003), The Blind Assassin (2000), and Alias Grace (1996). She has won the Booker Prize twice.

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