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Home / Authors / Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood Canadian author Margaret Atwood is best known for the dystopian novel *The Handmaid’s Tale* and its sequels. A winner of the Booker Prize and Arthur C. Clarke Award, her works have sold millions worldwide. This page lists Margaret Atwood’s books in order, including both chronological publication and series reading order.
All books · chronological
1964 The Circle Game POoC · 1 Buy ↗ 1968 The Animals in that Country POoC · 2 Buy ↗ 1969 The Edible Woman POoSN · 1 Buy ↗ 1970 The Journals of Susanna Moodie(With: Charles Pachter) POoC · 3 Buy ↗ 1970 Procedures For Underground POoC · 4 Buy ↗ 1971 Power Politics POoC · 5 Buy ↗ 1972 Survival POoNB · 1 Buy ↗ 1972 Surfacing POoSN · 2 Buy ↗ 1974 You Are Happy POoC · 6 Buy ↗ 1976 Lady Oracle POoSN · 3 Buy ↗ 1976 Selected Poems POoC · 7 Buy ↗ 1977 Days Of The Rebels POoNB · 2 Buy ↗ 1977 Dancing Girls and Other Stories POoC · 8 Buy ↗ 1978 Up in the Tree POoSN · 4 Buy ↗ 1978 Two-Headed Poems POoC · 9 Buy ↗ 1979 Life Before Man POoSN · 5 Buy ↗ 1980 Anna's Pet POoPB · 1 Buy ↗ 1981 Bodily Harm POoSN · 6 Buy ↗ 1981 True Stories POoC · 10 Buy ↗ 1982 Second Words POoNB · 3 Buy ↗ 1983 Happy Endings POoSS · 1 Buy ↗ 1983 Bluebeard's Egg POoC · 11 Buy ↗ 1983 Murder in the Dark POoC · 12 Buy ↗ 1984 Interlunar POoC · 13 Buy ↗ 1986 The Handmaid's Tale POoTHTB · 1 Buy ↗ 1986 Selected Poems II POoC · 14 Buy ↗ 1987 The Canlit Foodbook POoNB · 4 Buy ↗ 1988 Cat's Eye POoSN · 7 Buy ↗ 1990 Margaret Atwood Conversations POoNB · 5 Buy ↗ 1990 For the Birds POoSN · 8 Buy ↗ 1991 Wilderness Tips POoC · 15 Buy ↗ 1992 Good Bones POoC · 16 Buy ↗ 1992 Poems 1976-1986 POoC · 17 Buy ↗ 1993 The Robber Bride POoSN · 9 Buy ↗ 1994 Polarities. Selected Stories POoC · 18 Buy ↗ 1994 Bones & Murder POoC · 19 Buy ↗ 1995 Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut POoPB · 2 Buy ↗ 1995 Strange Things POoNB · 6 Buy ↗ 1995 Morning in the Burned House POoC · 20 Buy ↗ 1996 Two Solicitudes POoNB · 7 Buy ↗ 1996 Alias Grace POoSN · 10 Buy ↗ 1996 The Labrador Fiasco POoSN · 11 Buy ↗ 1998 Eating Fire POoC · 21 Buy ↗ 2000 The Blind Assassin POoSN · 12 Buy ↗ 2001 Story of a Nation POoNB · 8 Buy ↗ 2002 Negotiating with the Dead / On Writers & Writing POoNB · 9 Buy ↗ 2003 Oryx and Crake POoMB · 1 Buy ↗ 2003 Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes POoPB · 3 Buy ↗ 2004 A Short History of Myth(By: Karen Armstrong) POoCTMB · 1 Buy ↗ 2004 Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda POoPB · 4 Buy ↗ 2004 Bottle POoSN · 13 Buy ↗ 2004 Moving Targets POoC · 22 Buy ↗ 2005 Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson(By: David Grossman) POoCTMB · 2 Buy ↗ 2005 The Penelopiad POoCTMB · 3 Buy ↗ 2005 Weight(By: Jeanette Winterson) POoCTMB · 4 Buy ↗ 2005 The Helmet of Horror(By: Victor Pelevin) POoCTMB · 5 Buy ↗ 2005 Where Three Roads Meet(By: Salley Vickers) POoCTMB · 6 Buy ↗ 2005 Curious Pursuits POoNB · 10 Buy ↗ 2005 Writing With Intent POoNB · 11 Buy ↗ 2006 Binu and the Great Wall(By: Su Tong) POoCTMB · 7 Buy ↗ 2006 The Tent POoC · 23 Buy ↗ 2006 Moral Disorder and Other Stories POoC · 24 Buy ↗ 2007 Baba Yaga Laid an Egg(By: Dubravka Ugre�i?) POoCTMB · 8 Buy ↗ 2007 Payback POoNB · 12 Buy ↗ 2007 The Door POoC · 25 Buy ↗ 2009 The Year of the Flood POoMB · 2 Buy ↗ 2009 Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine POoNB · 13 Buy ↗ 2011 Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery POoPB · 5 Buy ↗ 2011 In Other Worlds POoNB · 14 Buy ↗ 2012 The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home(With: Naomi Alderman) POoNASS · 1 Buy ↗ 2012 Thomas King: Works and Impact(By: Kathleen Flaherty,Helen Hoy,Robin Ridington,Marlene Goldman,James H. Cox,Eva Gruber,Aloys N.M. Fleischmann,Blanca Schorcht,Carter Meland,Doris Wolf,Favel,Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber,Julia Breitbach,Katja Sarkowsky,Linda Warley,Marco Ulm,Mark Shackleton,Marta Dvo?�k,Martin Kuester,Reingard M. Nischik,Ren�e Hulan,Stuart Christie,Suzanne Rintoul) POoESiNALaCB · 1 Buy ↗ 2013 MaddAddam POoMB · 3 Buy ↗ 2013 The Goddess Chronicle(By: Natsuo Kirino) POoCTMB · 9 Buy ↗ 2014 Moral Disorder POoSS · 3 Buy ↗ 2014 The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie POoC · 26 Buy ↗ 2014 Stone Mattress POoC · 27 Buy ↗ 2015 The Gap of Time(By: Jeanette Winterson) POoHSB · 1 Buy ↗ 2015 The Heart Goes Last POoSN · 14 Buy ↗ 2015 Dire Cartographies POoNB · 15 Buy ↗ 2016 Angel Catbird, Volume 1 POoACGN · 1 Buy ↗ 2016 Shylock is My Name(By: Howard Jacobson) POoHSB · 2 Buy ↗ 2016 Vinegar Girl(By: Anne Tyler) POoHSB · 3 Buy ↗ 2016 Hag-Seed POoHSB · 4 Buy ↗ 2017 To Castle Catula POoACGN · 2 Buy ↗ 2017 The Catbird Roars POoACGN · 3 Buy ↗ 2017 New Boy(By: Tracy Chevalier) POoHSB · 5 Buy ↗ 2017 A Trio of Tolerable Tales POoPB · 6 Buy ↗ 2017 Dunbar(By: Edward St. Aubyn) POoHSB · 6 Buy ↗ 2017 The Burgess Shale POoNB · 16 Buy ↗ 2018 Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies(With: Aritha van Herk,Linda Hutcheon,Silvia Mergenthal,Marlene Goldman,Eva Gruber,Julia Breitbach,Katja Sarkowsky,Caroline Rosenthal,Michael Hutcheon,Shuli Barzilai,Bettina Mack,Claire Omhovere,Florian Freitag,Jutta Ernst,Sherrill Grace) POoESiNALaCB · 2 Buy ↗ 2018 The Bad News POoSS · 4 Buy ↗ 2018 Macbeth(By: Jo Nesb�) POoHSB · 7 Buy ↗ 2018 Freedom POoC · 28 Buy ↗ 2019 The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel POoGN · 1 Buy ↗ 2019 The Testaments POoTHTB · 2 Buy ↗ 2019 War Bears POoSS · 5 Buy ↗ 2021 Two Scorched Men POoSS · 6 Buy ↗ 2022 My Evil Mother POoSS · 7 Buy ↗ 2022 Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces POoNB · 17 Buy ↗ 2023 Old Babes in the Wood POoC · 30 Buy ↗ 2024 Cut and Thirst POoSS · 8 Buy ↗ 2024 Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023 POoC · 31 Buy ↗ 2025 Book of Lives POoNB · 18 Buy ↗ Book series · browse all →
Publication Order of European Studies in North American Literature and Culture Books 2 books · 2012–2018
01 Thomas King: Works and Impact(By: Kathleen Flaherty,Helen Hoy,Robin Ridington,Marlene Goldman,James H. Cox,Eva Gruber,Aloys N.M. Fleischmann,Blanca Schorcht,Carter Meland,Doris Wolf,Favel,Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber,Julia Breitbach,Katja Sarkowsky,Linda Warley,Marco Ulm,Mark Shackleton,Marta Dvo?�k,Martin Kuester,Reingard M. Nischik,Ren�e Hulan,Stuart Christie,Suzanne Rintoul) 2012 Buy ↗ 02 Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies(With: Aritha van Herk,Linda Hutcheon,Silvia Mergenthal,Marlene Goldman,Eva Gruber,Julia Breitbach,Katja Sarkowsky,Caroline Rosenthal,Michael Hutcheon,Shuli Barzilai,Bettina Mack,Claire Omhovere,Florian Freitag,Jutta Ernst,Sherrill Grace) 2018 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Angel Catbird Graphic Novels 3 books · 2016–2017
01 Angel Catbird, Volume 1 2016 Buy ↗ 02 To Castle Catula 2017 Buy ↗ 03 The Catbird Roars 2017 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Hogarth Shakespeare Books 7 books · 2015–2018
01 The Gap of Time(By: Jeanette Winterson) 2015 Buy ↗ 02 Shylock is My Name(By: Howard Jacobson) 2016 Buy ↗ 03 Vinegar Girl(By: Anne Tyler) 2016 Buy ↗ 05 New Boy(By: Tracy Chevalier) 2017 Buy ↗ 06 Dunbar(By: Edward St. Aubyn) 2017 Buy ↗ 07 Macbeth(By: Jo Nesb�) 2018 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books 18 books · 1972–2025
02 Days Of The Rebels 1977 Buy ↗ 04 The Canlit Foodbook 1987 Buy ↗ 05 Margaret Atwood Conversations 1990 Buy ↗ 06 Strange Things 1995 Buy ↗ 07 Two Solicitudes 1996 Buy ↗ 08 Story of a Nation 2001 Buy ↗ 09 Negotiating with the Dead / On Writers & Writing 2002 Buy ↗ 10 Curious Pursuits 2005 Buy ↗ 11 Writing With Intent 2005 Buy ↗ 13 Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine 2009 Buy ↗ 14 In Other Worlds 2011 Buy ↗ 15 Dire Cartographies 2015 Buy ↗ 16 The Burgess Shale 2017 Buy ↗ 17 Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2022 Buy ↗ Publication Order of The Handmaid's Tale Books 2 books · 1986–2019
01 The Handmaid's Tale 1986 Buy ↗ 02 The Testaments 2019 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Standalone Novels 14 books · 1969–2015
01 The Edible Woman 1969 Buy ↗ 04 Up in the Tree 1978 Buy ↗ 05 Life Before Man 1979 Buy ↗ 09 The Robber Bride 1993 Buy ↗ 11 The Labrador Fiasco 1996 Buy ↗ 12 The Blind Assassin 2000 Buy ↗ 14 The Heart Goes Last 2015 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Graphic Novels 1 book · 2019
01 The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel 2019 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Naomi Alderman Short Stories/Novellas 1 book · 2012
01 The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home(With: Naomi Alderman) 2012 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Canongate's The Myths Books 9 books · 2004–2013
01 A Short History of Myth(By: Karen Armstrong) 2004 Buy ↗ 02 Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson(By: David Grossman) 2005 Buy ↗ 03 The Penelopiad 2005 Buy ↗ 04 Weight(By: Jeanette Winterson) 2005 Buy ↗ 05 The Helmet of Horror(By: Victor Pelevin) 2005 Buy ↗ 06 Where Three Roads Meet(By: Salley Vickers) 2005 Buy ↗ 07 Binu and the Great Wall(By: Su Tong) 2006 Buy ↗ 08 Baba Yaga Laid an Egg(By: Dubravka Ugre�i?) 2007 Buy ↗ 09 The Goddess Chronicle(By: Natsuo Kirino) 2013 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Picture Books 6 books · 1980–2017
02 Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut 1995 Buy ↗ 03 Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes 2003 Buy ↗ 04 Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda 2004 Buy ↗ 05 Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery 2011 Buy ↗ 06 A Trio of Tolerable Tales 2017 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas 7 books · 1983–2024
03 Moral Disorder 2014 Buy ↗ 06 Two Scorched Men 2021 Buy ↗ 07 My Evil Mother 2022 Buy ↗ 08 Cut and Thirst 2024 Buy ↗ Publication Order of MaddAddam Books 3 books · 2003–2013
01 Oryx and Crake 2003 Buy ↗ 02 The Year of the Flood 2009 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Collections 31 books · 1964–2024
01 The Circle Game 1964 Buy ↗ 02 The Animals in that Country 1968 Buy ↗ 03 The Journals of Susanna Moodie(With: Charles Pachter) 1970 Buy ↗ 04 Procedures For Underground 1970 Buy ↗ 05 Power Politics 1971 Buy ↗ 07 Selected Poems 1976 Buy ↗ 08 Dancing Girls and Other Stories 1977 Buy ↗ 09 Two-Headed Poems 1978 Buy ↗ 11 Bluebeard's Egg 1983 Buy ↗ 12 Murder in the Dark 1983 Buy ↗ 14 Selected Poems II 1986 Buy ↗ 15 Wilderness Tips 1991 Buy ↗ 17 Poems 1976-1986 1992 Buy ↗ 18 Polarities. Selected Stories 1994 Buy ↗ 19 Bones & Murder 1994 Buy ↗ 20 Morning in the Burned House 1995 Buy ↗ 22 Moving Targets 2004 Buy ↗ 24 Moral Disorder and Other Stories 2006 Buy ↗ 26 The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie 2014 Buy ↗ 27 Stone Mattress 2014 Buy ↗ 30 Old Babes in the Wood 2023 Buy ↗ 31 Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023 2024 Buy ↗