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Updated 2026-07-11 / 104 books / 13 series
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.
Books by Margaret Atwood in Publication Order
1964
The Circle Game
POoC / 1
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1968
The Animals in that Country
POoC / 2
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1969
The Edible Woman
POoSN / 1
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1970
The Journals of Susanna Moodie(With: Charles Pachter)
POoC / 3
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1970
Procedures For Underground
POoC / 4
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1971
Power Politics
POoC / 5
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1972
Survival
POoNB / 1
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1972
Surfacing
POoSN / 2
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1974
You Are Happy
POoC / 6
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1976
Lady Oracle
POoSN / 3
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1976
Selected Poems
POoC / 7
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1977
Days Of The Rebels
POoNB / 2
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1977
Dancing Girls and Other Stories
POoC / 8
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1978
Up in the Tree
POoSN / 4
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1978
Two-Headed Poems
POoC / 9
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1979
Life Before Man
POoSN / 5
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1980
Anna's Pet
POoPB / 1
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1981
Bodily Harm
POoSN / 6
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1981
True Stories
POoC / 10
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1982
Second Words
POoNB / 3
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1983
Happy Endings
POoSS / 1
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1983
Bluebeard's Egg
POoC / 11
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1983
Murder in the Dark
POoC / 12
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1984
Interlunar
POoC / 13
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1986
The Handmaid's Tale
POoTHTB / 1
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1986
Selected Poems II
POoC / 14
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1987
The Canlit Foodbook
POoNB / 4
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1988
Cat's Eye
POoSN / 7
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1990
Margaret Atwood Conversations
POoNB / 5
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1990
For the Birds
POoSN / 8
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1991
Wilderness Tips
POoC / 15
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1992
Good Bones
POoC / 16
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1992
Poems 1976-1986
POoC / 17
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1993
The Robber Bride
POoSN / 9
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1994
Polarities. Selected Stories
POoC / 18
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1994
Bones & Murder
POoC / 19
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1995
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut
POoPB / 2
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1995
Strange Things
POoNB / 6
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1995
Morning in the Burned House
POoC / 20
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1996
Two Solicitudes
POoNB / 7
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1996
Alias Grace
POoSN / 10
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1996
The Labrador Fiasco
POoSN / 11
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1998
Eating Fire
POoC / 21
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2000
The Blind Assassin
POoSN / 12
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2001
Story of a Nation
POoNB / 8
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2002
Negotiating with the Dead / On Writers & Writing
POoNB / 9
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2003
Oryx and Crake
POoMB / 1
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2003
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes
POoPB / 3
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2004
A Short History of Myth(By: Karen Armstrong)
POoCTMB / 1
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2004
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda
POoPB / 4
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2004
Bottle
POoSN / 13
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2004
Moving Targets
POoC / 22
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2005
Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson(By: David Grossman)
POoCTMB / 2
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2005
The Penelopiad
POoCTMB / 3
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2005
Weight(By: Jeanette Winterson)
POoCTMB / 4
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2005
The Helmet of Horror(By: Victor Pelevin)
POoCTMB / 5
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2005
Where Three Roads Meet(By: Salley Vickers)
POoCTMB / 6
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2005
Curious Pursuits
POoNB / 10
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2005
Writing With Intent
POoNB / 11
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2006
Binu and the Great Wall(By: Su Tong)
POoCTMB / 7
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2006
The Tent
POoC / 23
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2006
Moral Disorder and Other Stories
POoC / 24
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2007
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg(By: Dubravka Ugre’i?)
POoCTMB / 8
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2007
Payback
POoNB / 12
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2007
The Door
POoC / 25
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2009
The Year of the Flood
POoMB / 2
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2009
Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine
POoNB / 13
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2011
Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery
POoPB / 5
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2011
In Other Worlds
POoNB / 14
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2012
The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home(With: Naomi Alderman)
POoNASS / 1
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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
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2013
MaddAddam
POoMB / 3
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2013
The Goddess Chronicle(By: Natsuo Kirino)
POoCTMB / 9
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2014
Moral Disorder
POoSS / 3
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2014
The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie
POoC / 26
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2014
Stone Mattress
POoC / 27
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2015
The Gap of Time(By: Jeanette Winterson)
POoHSB / 1
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2015
The Heart Goes Last
POoSN / 14
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2015
Dire Cartographies
POoNB / 15
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2016
Angel Catbird, Volume 1
POoACGN / 1
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2016
Shylock is My Name(By: Howard Jacobson)
POoHSB / 2
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2016
Vinegar Girl(By: Anne Tyler)
POoHSB / 3
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2016
Hag-Seed
POoHSB / 4
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2017
To Castle Catula
POoACGN / 2
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2017
The Catbird Roars
POoACGN / 3
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2017
New Boy(By: Tracy Chevalier)
POoHSB / 5
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2017
A Trio of Tolerable Tales
POoPB / 6
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2017
Dunbar(By: Edward St. Aubyn)
POoHSB / 6
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2017
The Burgess Shale
POoNB / 16
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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
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2018
The Bad News
POoSS / 4
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2018
Macbeth(By: Jo Nesb’)
POoHSB / 7
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2018
Freedom
POoC / 28
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2019
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
POoGN / 1
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2019
The Testaments
POoTHTB / 2
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2019
War Bears
POoSS / 5
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2020
Dearly
POoC / 29
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2021
Two Scorched Men
POoSS / 6
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2022
My Evil Mother
POoSS / 7
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2022
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces
POoNB / 17
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2023
Old Babes in the Wood
POoC / 30
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2024
Cut and Thirst
POoSS / 8
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2024
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023
POoC / 31
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2025
Book of Lives
POoNB / 18
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Complete Margaret Atwood Series Reading Order /
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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
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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
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01
Angel Catbird, Volume 1
2016
Buy
02
To Castle Catula
2017
Buy
03
The Catbird Roars
2017
Buy
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
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
18
Book of Lives
2025
Buy
01
The Handmaid's Tale
1986
Buy
02
The Testaments
2019
Buy
01
The Edible Woman
1969
Buy
04
Up in the Tree
1978
Buy
05
Life Before Man
1979
Buy
08
For the Birds
1990
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
01
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
2019
Buy
01
The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home(With: Naomi Alderman)
2012
Buy
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
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
01
Happy Endings
1983
Buy
03
Moral Disorder
2014
Buy
06
Two Scorched Men
2021
Buy
07
My Evil Mother
2022
Buy
08
Cut and Thirst
2024
Buy
01
Oryx and Crake
2003
Buy
02
The Year of the Flood
2009
Buy
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
06
You Are Happy
1974
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
Where to start with Margaret Atwood
What is the best order to read Margaret Atwood books?
Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series,
follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.
Are standalone books and series both included?
Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are
broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.
Source note: Sequencebooks organizes author, book, and series records from its catalog data.
Publication years and series order are shown when available.