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 Hainish Cycle Books
| Rocannon's World | (1966) |
  
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| Planet of Exile | (1966) |
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| City of Illusions | (1967) |
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| The Left Hand of Darkness | (1969) |
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| The Dispossessed | (1974) |
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| The Word for World is Forest | (1976) |
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| Four Ways to Forgiveness | (1995) |
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| The Telling | (2000) |
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Publication Order of Earthsea Cycle Books
| A Wizard of Earthsea | (1968) |
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| The Tombs of Atuan | (1970) |
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| The Farthest Shore | (1972) |
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| Tehanu | (1990) |
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| The Other Wind | (2001) |
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Publication Order of Earthsea Collections
| The Earthsea Quartet | (1993) |
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| Tales from Earthsea | (2001) |
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Publication Order of Earthsea Non-Fiction Books
| Earthsea Revisioned | (1993) |
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Publication Order of Adventures In Kroy Books
| The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune | (1982) |
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| Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World | (1983) |
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Publication Order of Catwings Books
| Catwings | (1988) |
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| Catwings Return | (1989) |
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| Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings | (1994) |
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| Jane On Her Own | (1992) |
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| Cat Dreams | (2009) |
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Publication Order of Catwings Collections
| Tales of the Catwings | (1996) |
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| More Tales of the Catwings | (2000) |
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Publication Order of Chronicles Of The Western Shore Books
| Gifts | (2004) |
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| Voices | (2006) |
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| Powers | (2007) |
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Publication Order of Unreal and the Real Collections
| Where on Earth | (2012) |
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| Outer Space, Inner Lands | (2012) |
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Lathe of Heaven | (1971) |
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| Very Far Away from Anywhere Else | (1976) |
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| The Eye of the Heron | (1978) |
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| Malafrena | (1979) |
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| The Beginning Place | (1980) |
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| Always Coming Home | (1985) |
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| Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand | (1991) |
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| Changing Planes | (2003) |
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| Lavinia | (2008) |
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Publication Order of Short Stories
| The Water is Wide | (1976) |
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| Leese Webster | (1979) |
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| Gwilan's Harp | (1981) |
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| The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na | (1984) |
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| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | (1991) |
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| Nine Lives | (1992) |
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| Buffalo Gals: Won't You Come Out Tonight | (1994) |
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| The Wild Girls | (2011) |
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Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Wild Angels | (1974) |
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| Orsinian Tales | (1975) |
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| The Wind's Twelve Quarters | (1975) |
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| Walking in Cornwall | (1976) |
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| Nebula Award Stories 11 | (1976) |
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| Hard Words and Other Poems | (1981) |
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| The Compass Rose | (1982) |
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| In the Red Zone | (1983) |
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| Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences | (1987) |
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| The Visionary, Wonders Hidden | (1988) |
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| Blue Moon Over Thurman Street | (1993) |
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| Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems | (1994) |
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| A Fisherman of the Inland Sea | (1994) |
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| Unlocking the Air and Other Stories | (1996) |
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| Sixty Odd: New Poems | (1999) |
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| The Birthday of the World and Other Stories | (2002) |
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| Incredible Good Fortune: New Poems | (2006) |
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| Dragon Lords and Warrior Women | (2010) |
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| Finding My Elegy | (2012) |
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| Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 | (2015) |
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Publication Order of Picture Books
| A Visit from Dr. Katz | (1988) |
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| Fire and Stone | (1989) |
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| Fish Soup | (1992) |
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| A Ride on the Red Mare's Back | (1992) |
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| Tom Mouse | (2002) |
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Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| From Elfland to Poughkeepsie | (1973) |
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| Dreams Must Explain Themselves | (1975) |
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| The Language of the Night | (1979) |
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| Steering the Craft | (1984) |
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| Dancing at the Edge of the World | (1989) |
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| The Way of the Water's Going | (1989) |
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| The Wave in the Mind | (2004) |
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| Cheek by Jowl | (2009) |
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| Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching | (2009) |
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| The World Split Open | (2014) |
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| Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story | (2015) |
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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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