Order of Margaret Atwood Books

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist and poet. She writes in several genres, such as historical fiction and science fiction (and many of the sub-genres therein). Her novels, poetry and essays have been published in over 35 countries. She has been won many awards and been shortlisted for many more. Margaret lives in Toronto with fellow author Graeme Gibson.

Margaret Atwood became a published author in 1961 with the collection Double Persephone, which is now long since out-of-print. Below is a list of Margaret Atwood’s books in order of when they were first released:

Publication Order of The Handmaid's Tale Books

The Handmaid's Tale	(1986)
The Testaments	(2019)

Publication Order of MaddAddam Books

Oryx and Crake	(2003)
The Year of the Flood	(2009)
MaddAddam	(2013)

Publication Order of Angel Catbird Graphic Novels

Angel Catbird, Volume 1	(2016)
Angel Catbird, Volume 2: To Castle Catula	(2017)
Angel Catbird, Volume 3: The Catbird Roars	(2017)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

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

Publication Order of Short Stories Books

Moral Disorder	(2014)
The Bad News	(2018)
War Bears	(2019)
My Evil Mother	(2022)

Publication Order of Picture Books

Anna's Pet	(1980)
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut	(1995)
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes	(2003)
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda	(2004)
Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery	(2011)
A Trio of Tolerable Tales	(2017)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

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

Publication Order of Collections

The Circle Game	(1964)
The Animals in that Country	(1968)
The Journals of Susanna Moodie (With: Charles Pachter)	(1970)
Procedures For Underground	(1970)
Power Politics	(1971)
You Are Happy	(1974)
Selected Poems	(1976)
Dancing Girls and Other Stories	(1977)
Two-Headed Poems	(1978)
True Stories	(1981)
Bluebeard's Egg	(1983)
Murder in the Dark	(1983)
Interlunar	(1984)
Selected Poems II	(1986)
Wilderness Tips	(1991)
Good Bones	(1992)
Poems 1976-1986	(1992)
Polarities. Selected Stories	(1994)
Bones & Murder	(1994)
Morning in the Burned House	(1995)
Eating Fire	(1998)
Moving Targets	(2004)
The Tent	(2006)
Moral Disorder and Other Stories	(2006)
The Door	(2007)
The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie	(2014)
Stone Mattress	(2014)
Freedom	(2018)
Dearly	(2020)

Publication Order of Hogarth Shakespeare Books

The Gap of Time (By: Jeanette Winterson)	(2015)
Shylock is My Name (By: Howard Jacobson)	(2016)
Vinegar Girl (By: Anne Tyler)	(2016)
Hag-Seed	(2016)
New Boy (By: Tracy Chevalier)	(2017)
Dunbar (By: Edward St. Aubyn)	(2017)
Macbeth (By: Jo Nesbø)	(2018)

Publication Order of Canongate's The Myths Books

A Short History of Myth (By: )	(2004)
The Penelopiad	(2005)
Weight (By: Jeanette Winterson)	(2005)
The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur (By: )	(2005)
Where Three Roads Meet (By: )	(2005)
The Goddess Chronicle (By: )	(2008)

Publication Order of Imaginarium Books

Imaginarium 2011: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (By: ,Sandra Kasturi)	(2011)
Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (By: Tanya Huff,,Cory Doctorow,,Sandra Kasturi,,,,Dave Duncan,Susie Moloney)	(2013)
Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (With: Kelley Armstrong,Peter Watts,,,,Cory Doctorow,Nalo Hopkinson,A.M. Dellamonica,,,,,,,Amal El-Mohtar,,,,Rio Youers,Sandra Kasturi,,,,Silvia Moreno-Garcia)	(2014)
Imaginarium 5: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (By: Sandra Kasturi)	(2017)

Publication Order of Tesseracts Books

Tesseracts (By: Judith Merril)	(1985)
Tesseracts² (By: Phyllis Gotlieb)	(1987)
Tesseracts 3 (With: William Gibson,Charles de Lint,Phyllis Gotlieb,Michael Skeet,Peter Watts,Judith Merril,,,,,,Élisabeth Vonarburg,,,,,,,,Dave Duncan)	(1990)
Tesseracts 4 (By: Michael Skeet,Lorna Toolis)	(1992)
Tesseracts 5 (By: Yves Meynard,Robert Runté)	(1996)
Tesseracts 6 (By: Robert J. Sawyer,Carolyn Clink)	(1997)
Tesseracts 7 (By: David Annandale,Michael Skeet,,Cory Doctorow,,,Yves Meynard,,,Shirley Meier,Carolyn Clink,,Élisabeth Vonarburg)	(1998)
Tesseracts 8 (By: Cory Doctorow,,A.M. Dellamonica,,,Yves Meynard,,,,Sandra Kasturi)	(2002)
TesseractsQ (By: Élisabeth Vonarburg,Jane Brierley)	(2002)
Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction (By: ,Nalo Hopkinson)	(2005)
Tesseracts Ten (By: Edo Van Belkom)	(2006)
Tesseracts Eleven (By: ,Cory Doctorow)	(2007)
Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction (By: Michael Skeet)	(2008)
Tesseracts Thirteen (By: Nancy Kilpatrick)	(2009)
Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories (By: )	(2010)
Tesseracts Fifteen (By: Julie E. Czerneda)	(2011)
Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound (By: Kevin J. Anderson,Robert J. Sawyer,,,,Neil Peart,,Carolyn Clink,Sandra Kasturi)	(2012)
Superhero Universe (By: )	(2016)
Compostela (By: Spider Robinson)	(2017)

Publication Order of Best American Short Stories Books

The Best Short Stories of 1915	(1916)
The Best Short Stories of 1916	(1916)
The Best Short Stories of 1917	(1917)
The Best Short Stories of 1918	(1918)
The Best Short Stories of 1919	(1919)
The Best Short Stories of 1921	(1921)
The Best Short Stories of 1922	(1922)
The Best Short Stories of 1923	(1923)
The Best Short Stories 1924	(1924)
The Best Short Stories of 1925	(1925)
The Best Short Stories 1926	(1926)
The Best Short Stories 1927	(1927)
The Best Short Stories of 1928	(1928)
The Best Short Stories of 1929	(1929)
The Best Short Stories 1930	(1930)
The Best Short Stories 1931	(1931)
The Best Short Stories of 1932	(1932)
The Best Short Stories 1933	(1933)
The Best Short Stories 1934	(1934)
The Best Short Stories 1935	(1935)
The Best Short Stories 1936	(1936)
The Best Short Stories 1937	(1937)
The Best Short Stories of 1938	(1938)
50 Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939	(1939)
The Best Short Stories 1939	(1939)
The Best Short Stories of 1940	(1940)
The Best Short Stories 1941	(1941)
The Best American Short Stories 1942	(1942)
The Best American Short Stories 1943	(1943)
The Best American Short Stories 1944	(1944)
The Best American Short Stories 1945	(1945)
The Best American Short Stories 1946	(1946)
The Best American Short Stories 1947	(1947)
The Best American Short Stories 1948	(1948)
The Best American Short Stories 1949	(1949)
The Best American Short Stories 1950	(1950)
The Best American Short Stories 1951	(1951)
The Best American Short Stories 1952	(1952)
The Best American Short Stories 1953	(1953)
The Best American Short Stories 1955	(1955)
The Best American Short Stories 1956	(1956)
The Best American Short Stories 1957	(1957)
The Best American Short Stories 1958	(1958)
The Best American Short Stories 1959	(1959)
The Best American Short Stories 1960	(1960)
The Best American Short Stories 1961	(1961)
The Best American Short Stories 1962	(1962)
The Best American Short Stories 1963	(1963)
The Best American Short Stories 1964	(1964)
The Best American Short Stories 1965	(1965)
The Best American Short Stories 1966	(1966)
The Best American Short Stories 1967	(1967)
The Best American Short Stories 1968	(1967)
The Best American Short Stories of 1969	(1969)
The Best American Short Stories 1970	(1970)
The Best American Short Stories 1971	(1971)
The Best American Short Stories 1972	(1972)
The Best American Short Stories 1973	(1973)
The Best American Short Stories 1974	(1974)
The Best of Best American Short Stories 1915-1950	(1975)
The Best American Short Stories 1975	(1975)
The Best American Short Stories 1976	(1976)
The Best American Short Stories 1977	(1977)
The Best American Short Stories 1978	(1978)
The Best American Short Stories 1979	(1979)
The Best American Short Stories 1980	(1980)
The Best American Short Stories 1981	(1981)
The Best American Short Stories 1982	(1982)
The Best American Short Stories 1983	(1983)
The Best American Short Stories 1984	(1984)
The Best American Short Stories 1985	(1985)
The Best American Short Stories 1986	(1986)
The Best American Short Stories 1987	(1987)
The Best American Short Stories 1988	(1988)
The Best American Short Stories 1989	(1989)
The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties	(1990)
The Best American Short Stories 1990	(1990)
The Best American Short Stories 1991	(1991)
The Best American Short Stories 1992	(1992)
The Best American Short Stories 1993	(1993)
The Best American Short Stories 1994	(1994)
The Best American Short Stories 1995	(1995)
The Best American Short Stories 1996	(1996)
The Best American Short Stories 1997	(1997)
The Best American Short Stories 1998	(1998)
The Best American Short Stories 1999	(1999)
The Best American Short Stories 2000	(2000)
The Best American Short Stories of the Century	(2000)
The Best American Short Stories 2001	(2001)
The Best American Short Stories 2002	(2002)
The Best American Short Stories 2003	(2003)
The Best American Short Stories 2004	(2004)
The Best American Short Stories 2005	(2005)
The Best American Short Stories 2006	(2006)
The Best American Short Stories 2007	(2007)
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story	(2007)
The Best American Short Stories1921	(2007)
The Best American Short Stories 2008	(2008)
The Best American Short Stories 2009	(2009)
The Best American Short Stories 2010	(2010)
The Best American Short Stories 2011	(2011)
The Best American Short Stories 2012	(2012)
The Best American Short Stories 2013	(2013)
The Best American Short Stories 2014	(2014)
The Best American Short Stories 2015	(2015)
100 Years of The Best American Short Stories	(2015)
The Best American Short Stories 2016	(2016)
The Best American Short Stories 2017	(2017)
The Best American Short Stories 2018	(2018)
The Best American Short Stories 2019	(2019)
The Best American Short Stories 2020	(2020)
Anthology series.

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories	(1990)
Tesseracts 3	(1990)
Ten	(1996)
Crimespotting	(2009)
I'm With the Bears	(2011)
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury	(2012)
The World Split Open	(2014)
Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing	(2014)
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers	(2019)

Notes: The Year of the Flood was also published as God’s Gardeners. Anna’s Pet was co-authored with Joyce Barkhouse. For the Birds was co-authored with Shelly Tanaka. Crimespotting was co-authored by Lin Anderson, Kate Atkinson, Chris Brookmyre, John Burnside, Isla Dewar, A.L. Kennedy, Denise Mina, Ian Rankin and James Robertson. I’m with the Bears also contains stories by Paolo Bacigalupi, T.C. Boyle, Toby Litt, Lydia Millet, Wu Mingi, David Mitchell, Nathaniel Rich, Kim Stanley Robinson and Helen Simpson. The World Split Open also includes contributions by Edward P. Jones, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marilynne Robinson and Wallace Stegner.

If You Like Margaret Atwood Books, You’ll Love…

• Kurt Vonnegut
• William Shakespeare
• Philip K. Dick

Margaret Atwood Synopsis: The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English by Margaret Atwood is an a collection of some of the best poetry Canada has to offer chosen by Margaret Atwood, along with an introduction from the author.

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