The Complete List of Margaret Atwood Books

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I was first introduced to Margaret Atwood’s books as a nineteen-year-old college student when Oryx and Crake appeared in a course syllabus. I had no idea what an oryx (a type of antelope) was or what a crake (a small land bird) was, and I certainly didn’t know that I was about to meet one of my favorite authors. and indeed, one of the greatest authors of all time. when I found the blind killer in a thrift store that summer, I didn’t even read the synopsis before I grabbed it.

margaret atwood’s books often weave multiple stories into a compelling plot, moving between characters and time periods seamlessly, leaving the reader eager to tease out the connections.

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She is best known for dystopian novels like The Handmaid’s Tale, but her first published works were essentially collections of poetry. she has also written many works of short fiction and nonfiction, as well as graphic novels and children’s books.

what has margaret atwood written?

Since the 1960s, Margaret Atwood has published 17 novels, 17 collections of poetry, 8 collections of short fiction, 8 children’s books, 3 graphic novels, 10 nonfiction works, and a variety of small press editions in various genres, as well as television and radio scripts.

here is the complete list of margaret atwood books published by major publishers for adult readers:

the circle game, poetry, (1964)
the edible woman, novel, (1969)
the animals of that country, poetry, (1969)
the susanna moodie diaries, poetry, (1970)
procedures for underground, poetry, (1970)
emergency, novel, (1972)</ li
Survival: A Topical Guide to Canadian Literature, Nonfiction, (1972)
Power Politics, Poetry, (1973)
Are You Happy, Poetry, (1975 )
the oracle lady, novel, (1976)
selected poems, poetry, (1976)
selected poems 1965-1976, poetry, (1976) </li
ballerinas, short fiction, (1977)
days of the rebels 1815-1840, non-fiction, (1977)
two-headed poems, poetry, ( 1978)
life before man, novel, (1979)
bodily harm, novel, (1981)
true stories, poetry, (1981)
second word: selected critical prose, non-fiction, (1982)
murder in the dark, short fiction, (1983)
bluebeard egg, short fiction, (1983)
interlunar, poetry, (1984)
the handmaid’s tale, novel, (1985)
selected poems ii, poetry, (1986)
cat’s eye, novel, (1988)</li
selected poems 1966-1984, poetry, (1990)
advice on nature, short fiction, (1991)
poems by margaret atwood 1976-1986, poetry, (1991)
good bones, short fiction, (1992)
the thief bride, novel, (1993)
the morning in the burned house, poetry, (1995)
stranger things: the malevolent north in the canadian literature, non-fiction, (1995)
alias grace, novel, (1996)
eating fire: selected poetry 1965-1995, poetry, (1998)
the blind assassin, novel, (2000)
dealing with the dead: a writer on writing, nonfiction, (2002)
oryx and crake, novel, (2003 )
moving targets: writing with intention 1982-2004, non-fiction, (2004)
la penelopiada, novel, (2005)
curious activities: occasional writing, nonfiction, (2005)
writing with intent: essays, reviews, personal prose 1983-2005, nonfiction fiction, ( 2005)
the store, short fiction, (2006)
moral disorder, short fiction, (2006)
the door, poetry, (2007)
payment: debt and the dark side of wealth, non-fiction, (2008)
the year of the flood, novel, (2009)
en other worlds: science fiction and the human imagination, nonfiction, (2011)
maddaddam, novel, (2013)
mattress of stone: nine short stories, short fiction, (2014) </li
heart goes last, novel, (2015)
hag-seed, novel, (2016)
angel catbird, vol. 1, graphic novel, (2016)
angel bird, vol. 2, graphic novel, (2017)
angel bird, vol. 3, graphic novel, (2017)
war bears, vol. 1-3, graphic novel, (2018)
the wills, novel, (2019)

who is margaret atwood?

margaret atwood has spent most of her life in canada. born in ottawa in 1939 and raised in northern ontario, quebec and toronto, where he has lived since 1992. after earning his undergraduate degree from victoria college at the university of toronto and an master’s degree from radcliffe, he began but never completed a doctorate .

Between 1964 and 1989, Atwood served as professor of English and writer-in-residence at various universities in Canada and the United States. She has also served as president of multiple writers’ associations, including vice president of pen international.

with atwood’s impressive list of publications, it’s no surprise that he’s won a host of writing awards and has received 24 honorary degrees from universities including harvard, oxford, and sorbonne. His writing awards include the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction in 1987 and Booker Award in both 2000 and 2019.

what are margaret atwood’s most popular books?

the handmaid’s tale + the wills

In what is probably his best-known work, Atwood offers a vision of a dystopian future in which birth rates have fallen due to environmental pollution. as a result, fertile women are assigned to the households of powerful men to bear children in place of their infertile wives.

In the style of a typical Margaret Atwood book, The Handmaid’s Tale interweaves the offended narrator’s current life with her memories of life before the current totalitarian regime.

Published 24 years after the first book, its sequel, The Wills, picks up the story fifteen years later, this time through the alternate voices of two teenagers and an older woman known as Aunt Lydia. the three narrators are trying in their own way, in their own places, to fight to overthrow the patriarchal system.

maddaddam trilogy: oryx and crake, the year of the flood, & damn it

The maddaddam trilogy is another series set in a dystopian future, this time in a world ravaged by the plague and genetic engineering run amok.

in oryx and crake, we meet snowman, who may be the last human on earth and who tells the story of his life as jimmy, before the plague. we’re also introduced to bizarre, gene-spliced animals like rakunks, which are part raccoon and part skunk, and creepily genetically modified foods, like chickienobs, which allow scientists to grow only the edible parts of the chicken.

the year of the flood and maddaddam continue the story of this society, following people from two religious sects, one that seeks to marry science and religious belief while preserving all plant and animal life and another that supports the use of oil and rejects environmentalism.

alias grace

And now for something completely different, this book by Margaret Atwood blends truth and imagination to tell a version of a true Canadian crime story.

The story is told by Grace Marks, who has been convicted of murdering her employer and his housekeeper, who was also her lover. grace tells the story to a psychiatrist, dr. Simon Jordan, who hopes to prove his innocence based on the fact that he doesn’t remember anything from the day the murders occurred.

atwood leaves it up to the reader to determine grace’s guilt or innocence as well, as he weaves some suspicious characters and dubious events into grace’s narrative, including hypnotism and possible ghostly possession.

the blind assassin

The Blind Assassin is a perfect example of Margaret Atwood’s striking choice of words and use of unique plot structure. not only do we have an old lady telling her (and her sister laura’s) life story through current events and flashbacks, but we also have a book within a book telling the story of an author named alex thomas who had a relationship with both women. , and then there’s a story within that story called the blind killer.

If that’s not enough for you to read, just read the first line: “ten days after the war ended, my sister threw a car off the bridge.”

Whether you’re a fan of fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose, Margaret Atwood has you covered.

what are your favorite works by margaret atwood?

about the author

katie reads about 100 books each year, thanks to ebooks and audiobooks. enjoy a variety of genres and read just about anything. When she’s not reading, she’s an English teacher near Cincinnati, Ohio.

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