Ursula K. Le Guin Books

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Ursula K. Le Guin was a famous American author that wrote science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction. She wrote several novels, short stories, poems, and children’s books over the course of her 60-year career.

Order of Earthsea Cycle Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 A Wizard of Earthsea 1968 Description / Buy
2 The Tombs of Atuan 1970 Description / Buy
3 The Farthest Shore 1972 Description / Buy
4 Tehanu 1990 Description / Buy
5 The Other Wind 2001 Description / Buy
6 The Daughter of Odren (Short Story) 2014 Description / Buy

Order of Earthsea Collections

# Read Title Published Details
1 Tales from Earthsea 2001 Description / Buy

Order of Earthsea Short Stories/Novellas

# Read Title Published Details
1 Dragonfly 2001 Description / Buy
2 The Finder 2001 Description / Buy
3 The Bones of the Earth (Short Story) 2001 Description / Buy

Order of Earthsea Non-Fiction Books

# Read Title Published Details
1 Earthsea Revisioned 1993 Description / Buy

Order of Catwings Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Catwings (Short Story) 1988 Description / Buy
2 Catwings Return (Short Story) 1989 Description / Buy
3 Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (Short Story) 1994 Description / Buy
4 Jane on Her Own (Short Story) 1999 Description / Buy
5 Cat Dreams (Short Story) 2009 Description / Buy

Order of Catwings Collections

# Read Title Published Details
1 Tales of the Catwings (Short Story) 1996 Description / Buy
2 More Tales of the Catwings (Short Story) 2000 Description / Buy

Order of Hainish Cycle Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Rocannon's World 1966 Description / Buy
2 Planet of Exile (Short Story) 1966 Description / Buy
3 City of Illusions 1967 Description / Buy
4 The Left Hand of Darkness 1969 Description / Buy
5 The Word for World is Forest 1972 Description / Buy
6 The Dispossessed 1974 Description / Buy
7 Four Ways to Forgiveness 1994 Description / Buy
8 The Telling 2000 Description / Buy

Order of Adventures In Kroy Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune 1982 Description / Buy
2 Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World (Short Story) 1983 Description / Buy

Order of Annals Of The Western Shore Series

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1 Gifts 2004 Description / Buy
2 Voices 2006 Description / Buy
3 Powers 2007 Description / Buy

Order of Orsinia Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Orsinian Tales 1976 Description / Buy
2 Malafrena 1979 Description / Buy

Order of Unreal and The Real Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 1: Where on Earth 2012 Description / Buy
2 The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands 2012 Description / Buy

Order of Wind's Twelve Quarters Short Stories/Novellas

# Read Title Published Details
1 April in Paris (Short Story) 1962 Description / Buy
2 The Masters (Short Story) 1963 Description / Buy
3 The Word of Unbinding (Short Story) 1964 Description / Buy
4 Things (Short Story) 1970 Description / Buy
5 The Good Trip (Short Story) 1970 Description / Buy
6 A Trip to the Head (Short Story) 1970 Description / Buy
7 The Stars Below (Short Story) 1974 Description / Buy
8 Direction of the Road 2017 Description / Buy
9 Darkness Box 2017 Description / Buy
10 The Day Before the Revolution 2017 Description / Buy
11 Semley's Necklace 2017 Description / Buy
12 The Rule of Names 2017 Description / Buy
13 Winter's King 2017 Description / Buy

Order of Ursula K. Le Guin Standalone Novels

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Lathe of Heaven 1971 Description / Buy
2 Very Far Away from Anywhere Else / A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else (Short Story) 1976 Description / Buy
3 The Eye of the Heron 1978 Description / Buy
4 The Beginning Place / Threshold 1980 Description / Buy
5 Always Coming Home 1985 Description / Buy
6 Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand 1991 Description / Buy
7 Changing Planes 2003 Description / Buy
8 Lavinia 2008 Description / Buy

Order of Ursula K. Le Guin Short Stories/Novellas

# Read Title Published Details
1 Nine Lives 1968 Description / Buy
2 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Short Story) 1973 Description / Buy
3 The Field of Vision (Short Story) 1973 Description / Buy
4 The Water is Wide (Short Story) 1976 Description / Buy
5 Leese Webster (Short Story) 1979 Description / Buy
6 Gwilan's Harp 1981 Description / Buy
7 Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World 1983 Description / Buy
8 The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na (Short Story) ( With:) 1984 Description / Buy
9 Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (Short Story) ( With:) 1987 Description / Buy
10 Unchosen Love (Amazing Stories #591) 1994 Description / Buy
11 The Matter of Seggri (in Crank!) (Short Story) 1994 Description / Buy
12 Forgiveness Day (Short Story) 1994 Description / Buy
13 Solitude (in F&SF) (Short Story) 1994 Description / Buy
14 A Man of the People (in Asimov's) (Short Story) 1995 Description / Buy
15 A Woman’s Liberation (in Asimov's) (Short Story) 1995 Description / Buy
16 Ether OR 1995 Description / Buy
17 Mountain Ways (in Asimov's) (Short Story) 1996 Description / Buy
18 The Wild Girls (Short Story) ( With: Eleanor Arnason) 2011 Description / Buy
19 Dangerous People (Short Story) 2019 Description / Buy

Order of Ursula K. Le Guin Short Story Collections

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1 The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1 1975 Description / Buy
2 Wild Angels (Short Story) 1975 Description / Buy
3 The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 2 (Short Story) 1978 Description / Buy
4 Hard Words and Other Poems 1981 Description / Buy
5 The Compass Rose 1982 Description / Buy
6 In the Red Zone 1983 Description / Buy
7 Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences 1987 Description / Buy
8 Wild Oats and Fireweed (Short Story) 1988 Description / Buy
9 Blue Moon Over Thurman Street (Short Story) ( With:) 1994 Description / Buy
10 A Fisherman of the Inland Sea 1994 Description / Buy
11 Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems (Short Story) 1994 Description / Buy
12 Unlocking the Air and Other Stories 1996 Description / Buy
13 Sixty Odd (Short Story) 1999 Description / Buy
14 The Birthday of the World and Other Stories 2002 Description / Buy
15 Science Fiction Stories 2002 Description / Buy
16 Incredible Good Fortune (Short Story) 2006 Description / Buy
17 Walking in Cornwall (Short Story) 2008 Description / Buy
18 Finding My Elegy 2012 Description / Buy
19 Late in the Day: Poems, 2010-2014 (Short Story) 2015 Description / Buy
20 The Found and the Lost 2016 Description / Buy
21 Five Ways to Forgiveness 2017 Description / Buy
22 So Far, So Good (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy

Order of Ursula K. Le Guin Picture Books

# Read Title Published Details
1 A Visit from Dr. Katz (Short Story) 1988 Description / Buy
2 Fire and Stone 1989 Description / Buy
3 Fish Soup 1992 Description / Buy
4 A Ride on the Red Mare's Back 1992 Description / Buy
5 Tom Mouse 1998 Description / Buy

Order of Ursula K. Le Guin Non-Fiction Books

# Read Title Published Details
1 From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (Short Story) 1973 Description / Buy
2 Dreams Must Explain Themselves 1975 Description / Buy
3 The Language of the Night 1979 Description / Buy
4 Way of the Water's Going 1989 Description / Buy
5 Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (Short Story) 2009 Description / Buy
6 Cheek by Jowl 2009 Description / Buy
7 Words Are My Matter 2016 Description / Buy
8 No Time to Spare 2017 Description / Buy
9 Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing ( With:) 2018 Description / Buy

Order of About Writing Non-Fiction Series

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1 Dancing at the Edge of the World 1989 Description / Buy
2 Steering the Craft 1998 Description / Buy
3 The Wave in the Mind 2004 Description / Buy
4 Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin ( By: ) 2008 Description / Buy

Order of The WisCon Chronicles Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future 2008 Description / Buy
2 The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF 2009 Description / Buy
3 The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 2010 Description / Buy
4 The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 2011 Description / Buy
5 The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom 2012 Description / Buy
6 The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives 2013 Description / Buy
7 The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 2015 Description / Buy
8 The WisCon Chronicles 11 2017 Description / Buy

Order of Legends Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Legends ( By: Robert Silverberg) 1998 Description / Buy
2 Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King ( By: Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks, Robert Silverberg, Elizabeth Haydon) 1998 Description / Buy
3 Legends 3 ( With: Terry Pratchett, Tad Williams, Robert Jordan, Robert Silverberg) 1999 Description / Buy

Order of Metis Seçkileri Series with

# Read Title Published Details
1 We Say No ( By: ) 1989 Description / Buy
2 We Say No: Chronicles 1963-1991 ( By:) 1989 Description / Buy
3 Exiled from Almost Everywhere ( By:) 1993 Description / Buy

Order of Outspoken Authors Series

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1 The Human Front (Short Story) ( By: Ken MacLeod) 2001 Description / Buy
2 The Left Left Behind (Short Story) ( By: Terry Bisson, Eleanor Arnason) 2009 Description / Buy
3 Lucky Strike ( By: Kim Stanley Robinson) 2009 Description / Buy
4 The Underbelly (Short Story) ( By: Gary Phillips, Eleanor Arnason) 2010 Description / Buy
5 Mammoths of the Great Plains (Short Story) ( By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010 Description / Buy
6 The Wild Girls (Short Story) ( With: Eleanor Arnason) 2011 Description / Buy
7 Modem Times 2.0 (Short Story) ( By: Michael Moorcock, Eleanor Arnason) 2011 Description / Buy
8 The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Short Story) ( By: Cory Doctorow, Eleanor Arnason) 2011 Description / Buy
9 Surfing the Gnarl (Short Story) ( By: Rudy Rucker, Eleanor Arnason) 2012 Description / Buy
10 Report from Planet Midnight (Short Story) ( By: Nalo Hopkinson, Eleanor Arnason) 2012 Description / Buy
11 The Science of Herself (Short Story) ( By: Karen Joy Fowler, Eleanor Arnason) 2013 Description / Buy
12 Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (Short Story) ( By: Eleanor Arnason, Paul Krassner) 2013 Description / Buy
13 New Taboos ( By: John Shirley) 2013 Description / Buy
14 Raising Hell (Short Story) ( By: Eleanor Arnason) 2014 Description / Buy
15 My Life, My Body (Short Story) ( By: Marge Piercy) 2015 Description / Buy
16 Gypsy ( By: Eleanor Arnason) 2015 Description / Buy
17 Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be ( By: Joe R. Lansdale, Eleanor Arnason) 2016 Description / Buy
18 Fire. (Short Story) ( By: Elizabeth Hand, Eleanor Arnason) 2017 Description / Buy
19 Totalitopia (Short Story) ( By: John Crowley) 2017 Description / Buy
20 The Atheist in the Attic (Short Story) ( By: Samuel R. Delany, Eleanor Arnason) 2018 Description / Buy
21 Thoreau's Microscope (Short Story) ( By: Michael Blumlein, Eleanor Arnason) 2018 Description / Buy
22 The Beatrix Gates (Short Story) ( By: Rachel Pollack) 2019 Description / Buy
23 A City Made of Words (Short Story) ( By: Paul Park) 2019 Description / Buy

Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Series with Karen Joy Fowler, Samuel R. Delany

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Left Left Behind (Short Story) ( By: Terry Bisson) 2009 Description / Buy

Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction ( By: Isaac Asimov, Tanith Lee, Gene Wolfe, Barry B. Longyear, John M. Ford, Alan Dean Foster, Randall Garrett, George Scithers) 1980 Description / Buy
2 Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far ( By: Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Barry B. Longyear, John M. Ford, Jack Williamson, John Brunner, Somtow Sucharitkul, George Scithers) 1981 Description / Buy
3 Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own ( With: Connie Willis, Pat Cadigan, Joan D. Vinge, Tanith Lee, Pamela Sargent, Mary Gentle) 1983 Description / Buy
4 Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! ( By:) 1985 Description / Buy
5 Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! ( By: Connie Willis, George R.R. Martin, Ron Goulart, John Kessel, George Alec Effinger, Robert Thurston, Tanith Lee, Lucius Shepard, Lillian Carl) 1989 Description / Buy
6 Isaac Asimov's Aliens ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1991 Description / Buy
7 Isaac Asimov's Robots ( By: Isaac Asimov) 1991 Description / Buy
8 Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite ( By: Isaac Asimov, John M. Ford) 1993 Description / Buy
9 Isaac Asimov's War ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1993 Description / Buy
10 Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1994 Description / Buy
11 Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1995 Description / Buy
12 Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (Short Story) ( By: Isaac Asimov, Terry Bisson) 1995 Description / Buy
13 Isaac Asimov's Christmas ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1997 Description / Buy
14 Isaac Asimov's Camelot ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois, Eleanor Arnason) 1998 Description / Buy
15 Isaac Asimov's Detectives ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1998 Description / Buy
16 Isaac Asimov's Valentines ( By: Isaac Asimov, Terry Bisson) 1999 Description / Buy
17 Isaac Asimov's Werewolves ( By: Isaac Asimov, Suzy McKee Charnas, Gardner Dozois) 1999 Description / Buy
18 Isaac Asimov's Solar System ( By: Gardner Dozois) 1999 Description / Buy
19 Isaac Asimov's Utopias ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 2000 Description / Buy
20 Isaac Asimov's Father Day ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 2001 Description / Buy
21 Isaac Asimov's Halloween ( By: Isaac Asimov) 2001 Description / Buy

Order of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Series with Gary A. Braunbeck, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robin McKinley, William Nolan, Robert R. McCammon, Brian Hodge, Richard Christian Matheson, Greg Bear, Michael Swanwick, Karen Joy Fowler, John Kessel, R.A. Lafferty, Lisa Goldstein, Pat Cadigan, Michael McDowell, John Farris, Stephen Gallagher, Charles de Lint, Chet Williamson, Daniel Abraham, Lewis Shiner, Edward Bryant, Lisa Tuttle, Joan D. Vinge, Tanith Lee, Lucius Shepard, Jeff VanderMeer, Dan Simmons, Neil Gaiman, Terry Dowling, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peter Straub, Jane Yolen, Joan Aiken, Patricia C. Wrede, Garry Douglas Kilworth, Emma Bull, Michael Bishop, Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Shirley, Elizabeth Bear, Peter Dickinson, Margo Lanagan, Ted Chiang, Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner, Kim Newman, John M. Ford, Richard Matheson, Barry N. Malzberg, Alice Hoffman, S.P. Somtow, Steve Tem, Jonathan Carroll, Ian McDonald, Douglas Clegg, Douglas E. Winter, Christopher Fowler, David B. Silva, John Brunner, Bentley Little, Adam Roberts, Paul Di Filippo, Conrad Williams, Graham Joyce, Simon Clark, China Miéville, Geoff Ryman, Lucy Taylor, William Hope Hodgson, Tanya Huff, M. John Harrison, William Browning Spencer, Steven Brust, Craig Shaw Gardner, Thomas M. Disch, Luis Alberto Urrea, Lucy Sussex, Fred Chappell, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Scott Nicholson, Isabel Allende, Angela Carter, M. Rickert, Michael Chabon, Stuart Dybek, Ben Fountain, Steven Millhauser, Jeffrey Ford, James Lawrence Powell, Thomas Ligotti, Nisi Shawl, Anthony Doerr, Kevin Brockmeier, Jack Womack, Bruce Sterling, Michael Blumlein, Greg van Eekhout, Lawrence Miles, Christopher Rowe, John Crowley, Tim Pratt, Garth Nix, Andy Duncan, Laird Barron, Michael Shea, James P. Blaylock, Ellen Klages, Kij Johnson, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Sarah Monette, Kat Howard, Nathan Ballingrud, Alan Moore, Elizabeth Massie, Terri Windling, Susanna Clarke, Gary McMahon, Susan Cooper, Ellen Datlow, K.W. Jeter, Ru Emerson, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Karen Russell, Veronica Schanoes, Stephen Volk, Adam Nevill, Tina Rath, Simon Bestwick, Robert Coover, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ian Frazier, P Djèlí Clark, Frances Hardinge, Leif Enger, Natalie Babbitt, Gwen Strauss, Michael de Larrabeiti, R.T. Smith, Karel ?apek, Rachel Simon

# Read Title Published Details
1 Eighth Annual Collection ( By: William Browning Spencer, Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow) 1995 Description / Buy
2 Ninth Annual Collection ( By: Stephen King, Peter Crowther, Terry Dowling, Ellen Datlow) 1996 Description / Buy
3 Twelfth Annual Edition ( By: Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow) 1999 Description / Buy
4 Thirteenth Annual Collection ( By: Tim Lebbon, Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow) 2000 Description / Buy

Ursula K. Le Guin Anthologies

# Read Title Published Details
1 Orbit 6 1970 Description / Buy
2 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 1970 Description / Buy
3 Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader 1973 Description / Buy
4 Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 1973 Description / Buy
5 Stopwatch 1974 Description / Buy
6 Wondermakers 2 1974 Description / Buy
7 Fantastic Stories Special - 1975 Sword & Sorcery Annual 1975 Description / Buy
8 Nebula Award Stories 11 1976 Description / Buy
9 Nebula Award Stories Ten 1976 Description / Buy
10 Beyond Tomorrow 1976 Description / Buy
11 Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection 1977 Description / Buy
12 The Altered I 1978 Description / Buy
13 The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories 1978 Description / Buy
14 Edges 1980 Description / Buy
15 The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction 1980 Description / Buy
16 Interfaces 1980 Description / Buy
17 What If? Volume 3 1982 Description / Buy
18 Over the Rainbow 1983 Description / Buy
19 The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 1983 Description / Buy
20 Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own 1983 Description / Buy
21 Changes | Stories of Metamorphosis 1983 Description / Buy
22 Great Fantasy 1983 Description / Buy
23 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection 1985 Description / Buy
24 The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985 Description / Buy
25 Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr 1987 Description / Buy
26 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection 1988 Description / Buy
27 First Annual Collection 1988 Description / Buy
28 Science Fiction Stories 1988 Description / Buy
29 Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 1988 Description / Buy
30 The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats 1988 Description / Buy
31 Through Other Eyes 1988 Description / Buy
32 Flights of Fancy 1993 Description / Buy
33 The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales 1993 Description / Buy
34 The Norton Book of Science Fiction 1993 Description / Buy
35 First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994 Description / Buy
36 Crank! Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1994 1994 Description / Buy
37 Seventh Annual Collection 1994 Description / Buy
38 Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 1994 Description / Buy
39 Asimov's Science Fiction, July 1995 1995 Description / Buy
40 The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women 1995 Description / Buy
41 Killing Me Softly 1995 Description / Buy
42 Year's Best SF 1996 Description / Buy
43 The Year's Best Science Fiction, Thirteenth Annual Collection 1996 Description / Buy
44 Mystery Stories 1996 Description / Buy
45 Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1996 1996 Description / Buy
46 Modern Classics of Fantasy 1997 Description / Buy
47 Wild Women 1997 Description / Buy
48 More Amazing Stories 1998 Description / Buy
49 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 1998 Description / Buy
50 Far Horizons 1999 Description / Buy
51 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection 1999 Description / Buy
52 The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology 1999 Description / Buy
53 The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature 2002 Description / Buy
54 Fifteenth Annual Collection 2002 Description / Buy
55 Year's Best SF 8 2003 Description / Buy
56 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Volume 104 Number 2, February 2003 2003 Description / Buy
57 New Magics 2004 Description / Buy
58 Seventeenth Annual Collection 2004 Description / Buy
59 In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2004 Description / Buy
60 The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction 2005 Description / Buy
61 12 Short Stories and Their Making: An Anthology with Interviews 2005 Description / Buy
62 Galileo's Children 2005 Description / Buy
63 The Wand in the Word 2006 Description / Buy
64 The Space Opera Renaissance 2006 Description / Buy
65 The Best of the Best, Vol 2 2007 Description / Buy
66 The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 2007 Description / Buy
67 The Secret History of Science Fiction 2009 Description / Buy
68 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010 Description / Buy
69 Dragon Lords and Warrior Women 2010 Description / Buy
70 Lightspeed: Year One 2011 Description / Buy
71 Like Water for Quarks 2011 Description / Buy
72 The Moment of Change 2012 Description / Buy
73 Diverse Energies 2012 Description / Buy
74 Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology 2013 Description / Buy
75 Aliens: Recent Encounters 2013 Description / Buy
76 The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 2013 Description / Buy
77 The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013 Description / Buy
78 Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 90, March 2014 2014 Description / Buy
79 The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women 2014 Description / Buy
80 The World Split Open 2014 Description / Buy
81 Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Visions 2015 Description / Buy
82 Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology 2015 Description / Buy
83 Women of Futures Past 2016 Description / Buy
84 PEN America Issue 21: Mythologies 2018 Description / Buy
85 The Future is Female! 2018 Description / Buy
86 The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition 2019 Description / Buy
87 Think in Public 2019 Description / Buy
88 Gobshite Quarterly 2023, #41/42: 20th. anniversary issue 2023 Description / Buy
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Born in 1929 in Berkley, California, her father (Alfred Louis Kroeber) was an anthropologist. Theodora Kroeber, her mother, was an author. Theodora started writing in her 60s, producing works like ‘Ishi in Two Worlds.’

Ursula and her siblings were avid readers. The author took an interest in science fiction and fantasy at a young age, reading Norse Mythology, Native American legends, and publications like ‘Astounding Science.’

A passion for writing followed soon after, with Ursula submitting her first short story (to Astounding Science Fiction) before she was a teenager. Admittedly, the achievement did not bolster her confidence because the short story was rejected.

Ursula moved on, joining Berkley High School, attending Radcliffe College (Harvard University), and earning a Master of Arts from Columbia University. In the early 50s, a Fullbright Grant allowed her to travel to France to further her studies.

The author’s birth name was Ursula Kroeber. On her way to France (1953), she met Charles Le Guin. She married the historian that same year, taking his surname.

The development upended her studies. At the time, her husband was pursuing his doctorate. Later on, they had a daughter (1957). Another daughter followed (1959), and then a son (1964).

Even though she wanted desperately to write, her children kept the author busy. But she persevered, publishing her first short story in 1961. Publishers had rejected the five novels she had written in the last ten years, so the publication of her short story (An die Musik) was significant.

She wrote and published several stories until ‘Rocannon’s World’ came out in 1966, her first novel. Many people believe that ‘A Wizard of Earthsea’ is her best novel.

It came out in 1968, and even though she aimed the story at teenagers, it also appealed to adults. Ursula had no interest in writing for young adults. She wrote the book because an editor assured her that teenagers were a lucrative market.

Her next novel, ‘The Left Hand of Darkness,’ shocked the publishing industry because it tackled controversial themes such as sexuality and gender. The book generated a lot of buzz among critics and audiences. Eventually, it received awards recognition.

Today, the book sits alongside ‘A Wizard of Earthsea’ as one of Ursula’s most important works. Though, it is worth noting that she wrote sequels for ‘A Wizard of Earthsea’ that critics and audiences loved.
The books are rarely mentioned because ‘A Wizard of Earthsea’ tends to eclipse them. But diehard Ursula K. Le Guin fans love the entire series.

Her literary heroes include Victor Hugo, J.R.R. Tolkien, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy, to mention but a few.

Ursula K. Le Guin Awards

Ursula has won several Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards.

Ursula K. Le Guin Books into Movies

‘The Lathe of Heaven’ became a film. Studio Ghibli used two Earthsea books (3 and 4) to create ‘Tales from Earthsea,’ an epic fantasy anime film. The Sci-Fi Channel turned the Earthsea books into a miniseries (Legend of Earthsea).

Best Ursula K. Le Guin Books

The author was 88 when she died. Her health was poor for months before she passed away in 2018. Ursula’s best books include:

A Wizard of Earthsea: A Wizard of Earthsea is the first novel in the Earthsea Cycle series. The central character, Ged, is the greatest sorcery the world has ever seen. However, in his youth, Ged used the name Sparrowhawk, and he was a far cry from the influential figure so many people respect.

Sparrowhawk was brash and arrogant, and he wanted power. But his carelessness unleashed a dark entity. And now, Sparrowhawk must restore the balance.

The Left Hand of Darkness: The Left Hand of Darkness is part of the Hainish Cycle of books. The novel follows a human emissary that travels to an alien world in the hopes of convincing the civilization to join an intergalactic empire. But the inhabitants of the strange world are unlike any the emissary has ever met because they can discard their gender for a new one. The emissary is forced to confront and reexamine his views.

When Does The Next Ursula K. Le Guin book come out?

Ursula K. Le Guin doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Gobshite Quarterly 2023, #41/42: 20th. anniversary issue and was released on January, 6th 2023.

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