Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Edible Woman | 1969 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 2 | Surfacing | 1972 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 3 | Lady Oracle | 1976 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 4 | Up in the Tree | 1978 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 5 | Life Before Man | 1979 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 6 | Bodily Harm | 1981 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 7 | Cat’s Eye | 1988 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 8 | For the Birds | 1990 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 9 | The Robber Bride | 1993 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 10 | Alias Grace | 1996 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 11 | The Labrador Fiasco | 1996 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 12 | The Blind Assassin | 2000 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 13 | Bottle | 2004 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
| 14 | The Heart Goes Last | 2015 | Margaret Atwood | Buy |
Margaret Atwood’s standalone novels span her entire career, from The Edible Woman (1969) through to The Heart Goes Last (2015). The collection includes some of her most acclaimed work, such as The Blind Assassin (2000), which won the Booker Prize, and Alias Grace (1996), based on a real nineteenth-century murder case.
Her standalones range widely in subject matter and tone. Surfacing (1972) is a psychological exploration set in the Canadian wilderness, Lady Oracle (1976) is a darkly comic novel about a writer who fakes her own death, and Life Before Man (1979) is a domestic drama set in Toronto. The variety shows Atwood’s range across different modes of literary fiction.