Order of Ursula K. Le Guin Books
Ursula K. Le Guin is an American author of science fiction, fantasy and children’s books, as well as a poet. Her trademarks involving imagining new worlds with unique politics, environments, genders, religions, sexualities and cultures. Ursula is best known for her Hainish and Earthsea series. Her influences include Philip K. Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling and Norse mythology. She has influenced authors like Neil Gaiman, Iain Banks and Christopher Paolini.
Ursula became a published author in 1959 with the poem Folksong from the Montayna Province. Her first novel was the beginning of her Hainish Cycle, Rocannon’s World – quickly followed by Planet of Exile. Both novels were published in 1966. Below is a list of Ursula K. Le Guin’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Adventures In Kroy Books
| The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Annals Of The Western Shore Books
| Gifts | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Voices | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Powers | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Catwings Collections
| Tales of the Catwings | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| More Tales of the Catwings | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Catwings Books
| Catwings | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Catwings Return | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jane on Her Own | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cat Dreams | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Earthsea Collections
| Tales from Earthsea | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Earthsea Cycle Books
| A Wizard of Earthsea | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Tombs of Atuan | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Farthest Shore | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tehanu | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Other Wind | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Daughter of Odren | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Earthsea Non-Fiction Books
| Earthsea Revisioned | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Earthsea Short Stories/Novellas
| Dragonfly | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Finder | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Bones of the Earth | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Hainish Cycle Books
| Rocannon's World | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Planet of Exile | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| City of Illusions | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Word for World is Forest | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dispossessed | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Four Ways to Forgiveness | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Telling | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Legends Books
| Legends | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Legends 3 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Orsinia Books
| Orsinian Tales | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Malafrena | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
Publication Order of Metis Seçkileri Books
(with Eduardo Galeano)
| Exiled from Almost Everywhere | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of The Last Interview Books
Publication Order of Unreal and The Real Books
| The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 1: Where on Earth | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Wind's Twelve Quarters Short Stories/Novellas
| April in Paris | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Masters | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Word of Unbinding | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Things | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Good Trip | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Trip to the Head | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Stars Below | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Direction of the Road | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Darkness Box | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Day Before the Revolution | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Semley's Necklace | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rule of Names | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Winter's King | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Lathe of Heaven | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Very Far Away from Anywhere Else / A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Eye of the Heron | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Beginning Place / Threshold | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Always Coming Home | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Changing Planes | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lavinia | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Nine Lives | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Field of Vision | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Water is Wide | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Leese Webster | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gwilan's Harp | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Unchosen Love (Amazing Stories #591) | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Matter of Seggri (in Crank!) | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Forgiveness Day | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Solitude (in F&SF) | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Man of the People (in Asimov's) | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Woman’s Liberation (in Asimov's) | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ether OR | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mountain Ways (in Asimov's) | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wild Girls | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dangerous People | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1 | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wild Angels | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 2 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hard Words and Other Poems | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Compass Rose | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the Red Zone | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wild Oats and Fireweed | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blue Moon Over Thurman Street | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Fisherman of the Inland Sea | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Unlocking the Air and Other Stories | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sixty Odd | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Birthday of the World and Other Stories | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Stories | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Incredible Good Fortune | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Walking in Cornwall | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Finding My Elegy | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Late in the Day: Poems, 2010-2014 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Found and the Lost | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Five Ways to Forgiveness | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| So Far, So Good | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| A Visit from Dr. Katz | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fire and Stone | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fish Soup | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Ride on the Red Mare's Back | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tom Mouse | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| From Elfland to Poughkeepsie | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dreams Must Explain Themselves | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Language of the Night | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Way of the Water's Going | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cheek by Jowl | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Coyote's Song: The Teaching Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Words Are My Matter | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| No Time to Spare | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of About Writing Non-Fiction Books
| Dancing at the Edge of the World | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Steering the Craft | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Wave in the Mind | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Year's Best SF Anthology Books
| Year's Best SF | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 2 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 3 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 4 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 5 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 6 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 7 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 8 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 9 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 10 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 11 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 12 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 13 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 14 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 15 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 16 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 17 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 18 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Best Science Fiction of the Year Books
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Year's Best Fantasy Books
| Year's Best Fantasy | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best Fantasy 2 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best Fantasy 3 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best Fantasy 4 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best Fantasy 5 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best Fantasy 6 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best Fantasy 7 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best Fantasy 8 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best Fantasy 9 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
| Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Aliens | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Robots | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's War | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Ghosts | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Christmas | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Camelot | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Detectives | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Werewolves | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Solar System | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Utopias | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Father Day | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Isaac Asimov's Halloween | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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Notes: Very Far Away from Anywhere Else was also published as A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else. The Beginning Place is also titled Threshold. The Visionary, Wonders Hidden was co-authored with Scott Russell Sanders. Dragon Lords and Warrior Women was co-authored with Katharine Kerr, Vonda N. McIntyre and Sherwood Smith. The World Split Open also includes contributions by Edward P. Jones, Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson and Wallace Stegner.
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