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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 |
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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 |
Order of Earthsea Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Tales from Earthsea | 2001 | Description / Buy |
Order of Earthsea Short Stories/Novellas
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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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 |
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1 | Earthsea Revisioned | 1993 | Description / Buy |
Order of Catwings Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1 | The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune | 1982 | ||
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
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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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 |
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1 | Orsinian Tales | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Malafrena | 1979 | Description / Buy |
Order of Unreal and The Real Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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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 Ursula K. Le Guin Standalone Novels
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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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 |
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1 | Nine Lives | 1968 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Short Story) | 1973 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Water is Wide (Short Story) | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Leese Webster (Short Story) | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Gwilan's Harp | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na (Short Story) | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (Short Story) | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Unchosen Love (Amazing Stories #591) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Matter of Seggri (in Crank!) (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Forgiveness Day (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Solitude (in F&SF) (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
13 | A Man of the People (in Asimov's) (Short Story) | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
14 | A Woman’s Liberation (in Asimov's) (Short Story) | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Ether OR | 1995 | ||
16 | Mountain Ways (in Asimov's) (Short Story) | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Wild Girls (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Dangerous People (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of Ursula K. Le Guin Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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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) | 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 |
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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 |
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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 | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of About Writing Non-Fiction Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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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 | 2008 | Description / Buy |
Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Isaac Asimov's Masters of Science Fiction | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Isaac Asimov's Aliens | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Isaac Asimov's Robots | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Isaac Asimov's War | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (Short Story) | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Isaac Asimov's Christmas | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Isaac Asimov's Camelot | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Isaac Asimov's Detectives | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Isaac Asimov's Valentines | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Isaac Asimov's Werewolves | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Isaac Asimov's Solar System | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Isaac Asimov's Utopias | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Isaac Asimov's Father Day | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Isaac Asimov's Halloween | 2001 | Description / Buy |
Order of Nebula Awards Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Nebula Awards 1 | 1966 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Nebula Awards 2 | 1966 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Nebula Awards 3 | 1968 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Nebula Awards 4 | 1968 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Nebula Awards 5 | 1969 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Nebula Awards 6 | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Nebula Awards 7 | 1972 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Nebula Awards 8 | 1973 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Nebula Awards 9 | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Nebula Awards 10 | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
11 | Nebula Awards 11 | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Nebula Awards 14 | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Nebula Awards 15 | 1981 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Nebula Awards 16 | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Nebula Awards 17 | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Nebula Awards 19 | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Nebula Awards 20 | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Nebula Awards 21 | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Nebula Awards 22 | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Nebula Awards 23 | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Nebula Awards 24 | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Nebula Awards 25 | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Nebula Awards 26 | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Nebula Awards 27 | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Nebula Awards 28 | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Nebula Awards 29 | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Nebula Awards 30 | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Nebula Awards 31 | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Nebula Awards 33 | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Nebula Awards 34 (2000) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Nebula Awards 36 (2002) | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Nebula Awards 37 (2003) | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Nebula Awards 38 (2004) | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Nebula Awards 39 (2005) | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Nebula Awards 40 (2006) | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Nebula Awards 42 (2008) | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
37 | Nebula Awards 43 (2009) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Nebula Awards 44 (2010) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
39 | Nebula Awards 45 (2011) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Nebula Awards 46 (2012) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Nebula Awards 47 (2013) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
42 | Nebula Awards 50 (2016) | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Nebula Awards 51 (2017) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
44 | Nebula Awards 52 (2018) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Nebula Awards 53 (2019) | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Order of The O. Henry Prize Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
5 | O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
7 | PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories: 2012 | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The PEN /O. Henry Prize Stories: 2012 | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Order of The WisCon Chronicles Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 8: Re-Generating WisCon | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Trials by Whiteness | 2017 | Description / Buy |
Order of The Year's Best Science Fiction Anthology Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Best of the Best | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
21 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Legends Series with Diana Gabaldon, Terry Pratchett, Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Haydon
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Legends | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Legends 3 | 1999 | Description / Buy |
Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Human Front (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Left Left Behind (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Lucky Strike (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Underbelly (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Mammoths of the Great Plains (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Wild Girls (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Modem Times 2.0 (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Surfing the Gnarl (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Report from Planet Midnight (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Science of Herself (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Raising Hell (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Gypsy | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Fire. (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Totalitopia (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Atheist in the Attic (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Thoreau's Microscope (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Beatrix Gates (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
21 | A City Made of Words (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Chronological Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Left Left Behind (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
2 | The Lucky Strike (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Underbelly (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Mammoths of the Great Plains (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Modem Times 2.0 (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Wild Girls (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Surfing the Gnarl (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Report from Planet Midnight (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Human Front (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Science of Herself (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Raising Hell (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Gypsy | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Fire. (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
17 | Totalitopia (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Atheist in the Attic (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Thoreau's Microscope (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
20 | The Beatrix Gates (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
21 | A City Made of Words (Short Story) | 2019 | Description / Buy |
Ursula K. Le Guin Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader | 1973 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Wondermakers 2 | 1974 | Description / Buy | |
3 | Beyond Tomorrow | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Altered I | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Edges | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Interfaces | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
9 | The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
14 | The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Norton Book of Science Fiction | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Crank! Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1994 | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1994 | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1995 | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Asimov's Science Fiction, July 1995 | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
22 | The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Year's Best SF | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
24 | The Year's Best Science Fiction, Thirteenth Annual Collection | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1996 | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
26 | Modern Classics of Fantasy | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Wild Women | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Far Horizons | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
30 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
31 | The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
32 | The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
33 | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
34 | New Magics | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
35 | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
36 | In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
37 | The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
38 | The Space Opera Renaissance | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
39 | The Best of the Best, Vol 2 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
40 | The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
41 | The Secret History of Science Fiction | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
42 | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Dragon Lords and Warrior Women | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
44 | The Moment of Change | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
45 | Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
46 | The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
47 | The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
48 | The World Split Open | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
49 | Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
50 | Women of Futures Past | 2016 | Description / Buy |
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 Dangerous People and was released on March, 5th 2019. It is the newest book in the Ursula K. Le Guin Short Stories/Novellas.