Margaret Atwood

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  • Bibliography:
    65 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1969
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Gilead

1 - The Handmaid's Tale (Jan-1985)
2 - The Testaments (Sep-2019)

MaddAddam

1 - Oryx and Crake (May-2003)
2 - The Year of the Flood (Sep-2009)
3 - Maddaddam (Sep-2013)

Positron

1 - I'm Starved for You (Mar-2012)
2 - Choke Collar (Sep-2012)
3 - Erase Me (Dec-2012)
4 - The Heart Goes Last (May-2013)

Book List in Order: 65 titles

  • The Animals in That Country

  • The Edible Woman

    By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stab...

  • Surfacing

    From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale -- now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series -- and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the sto...

  • Lady Oracle

    Joan Foster is a secret writer of Gothic romances. When her outrageously feminist book, Lady Oracle, becomes a bestseller, everything in her life changes. To escape her deteriorating marriage, her affair with an artist, and the criminal urges of a f...

  • Days of the Rebels

  • Dancing Girls and Other Stories

    Dancing Girls is Margaret Atwood’s highly praised first collection of short fiction. In it she explores the dark intricacies of the mind, the complexities of human relationships, and the clashes between cultures. In the stories, the mundane and...

  • Life Before Man

    From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale -- now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series -- and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, e...

  • Bodily Harm

    BODILY HARM is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie Wilford flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine, she is confronted by a world where her rules ...

  • True Stories



  • Murder in the Dark

  • Interlunar

  • The Handmaid's Tale

    Gilead - 1

    A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, ...

  • Canlit Foodbook

  • Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories

    A woman remembers her mother's favorite stories, the vignettes of family life that reveal parent to child...A potter tries to come to terms with the group of poets who live with her, idolize her, and infuriate her...A political activist feels a great...

  • Cat's Eye

    Returning to the city of her youth for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce ...

  • Wilderness Tips

    Here are brilliantly rendered stories that explore themes of loss and discovery, of the gap between youthful dreams and mature reality, of how we connect with others and with the sometimes hidden parts of ourselves. In each of these tales Margaret A...

  • For the Birds

  • The Robber Bride

    From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments -- one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia...

  • Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut

    Presenting Princess Prunella. Proud, prissy, and pretty, and unhappily very spoiled, she lives in a pink palace with her pinheaded parents, her three plump pussycats, and her prize puppy dog, Pug. Her passion? Her very own person. Her aspiration? To...



  • Bones And Murder

    In this collection of miscellaneous writings by Margaret Atwood, Gertrude describes what really happened in Hamlet, an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves, and a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula ...

  • Alias Grace

    In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of...

  • Labrador Fiasco

    The "Bloomsbury Birthday Quids" are small editions of short stories by major writers, in a format and style of the "Bloomsbury Classics". Printed on high-quality paper, designed by Jeff Fisher, the books should become collectors' items. This title is...

  • Good Bones

    These wise and witty writings home in on Shakespeare, tree stumps, ecological disasters, bodies (male and female), and theology, amongst other matters. We hear Gertrude's version of what really happened in Hamlet; an ugly sister and a wicked stepmoth...

  • The Blind Assassin

    The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named La...

  • Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes

    In this fantastic and funny picture book Margaret Atwood offers a deliciously ridiculous tale about the virtues of resisting restrictions. Rude Ramsay has reached the end of his rope! Sick of eating rock-hard rice, wrinkled ravioli, and raw rhinocero...

  • Oryx and Crake

    MaddAddam - 1

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale

    Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggl...

  • Bottle

  • The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus

    For Penelope, wife of Odyseeus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband was off fighting the Trojan war was not a simple business. Already aggrieved that he had been lured away due to the shocking behaviour of her beautiful cousin Helen, Penelope mus...

  • Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda

    Bob never knew he was a human boy, after being abandoned outside a beauty parlor and then raised by a bunch of dogs. He barked at businessmen and burrowed under bushes. Fortunately for Bob, dimple-faced Dorinda, a distressed damsel down on her luc...



  • The Tent

    A delightfully pointed m?lange of fictional pieces from one of the world's most acclaimed and incisive authors, The Tent is a sparkling addition to Margaret Atwood's always masterful work. Here Atwood pushes form once again, with meditations on wa...

  • Moral Disorder and Other Stories

    Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since Wilderness Tips. In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humou...

  • Up in the Tree

    Two children rejoice in their home up in a tree, free from parental guidance and earthbound concerns. But when beavers gnaw their ladder into matchsticks, the children aren’t sure they want to be quite so alone. Playful, whimsical, and wry, the sto...

  • The Year of the Flood

    MaddAddam - 2

    The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as ...

  • Anna's Pet

    While visiting her grandparents' farm, city-girl Anna decides she wants a pet. A cow? A snake? Anna realizes that these creatures won't be happy in the city, and she doesn't want a pet unless it's happy. Grandma and Grandpa have just the right thing ...

  • I'm With the Bears

    The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing...

  • In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

    A marvelous collection of wide-ranging essays from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, exploring her lifelong relationship to science fiction -- as a reader and as a writerThe ebook edition of this title contains ov...

  • I'm Starved for You

    Positron - 1

    In this first installment of the saucy and sinister new Byliner Serial, “Positron,” Margaret Atwood takes readers on a thrill ride to the near future, where paranoia reigns but sex has definitely not gone out of style. “I’m Starved for You”...

  • Dancing Girls

    This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. Her men and women still miscommunicate, still remain separate in different rooms, different houses...

  • I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth



  • Shadow Show

    What do you imagine when you hear the name . . . Bradbury? You might see rockets to Mars. Or bizarre circuses where otherworldly acts whirl in the center ring. Perhaps you travel to a dystopian future, where books are set ablaze . . . or to an out...

  • Choke Collar

    Positron - 2

    In this second, steamy episode of the new Byliner Serial “Positron,” the Booker Prize"winning Margaret Atwood picks up where she left off in her dystopian dark comedy, mining wholly deviant territory where a totalitarian state collides with the...

  • Positron

  • Erase Me

    Positron - 3

  • The Heart Goes Last

    Positron - 4

    Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloa...

  • Maddaddam

    MaddAddam - 3

    Bringing together Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy points toward the ultimate endurance of community, and love. Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped...

  • Stone Mattress

    In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is...

  • Angel CatBird Volume 1

    The Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale writes her first graphic novel, a cat-centric all-ages New York Times bestselling adventure.On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by...

  • Hag-Seed

    William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it b...

  • Angel Catbird Volume 2: To Castle Catula

    The cat-centric adventure continues, in the all-ages follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood's debut graphic novel. Genetic engineer Strig Feleedus, also known as Angel Catbird, and his band of half-cats head to Castle Catula to se...



  • To Castle Catula

    The cat-centric adventure continues, in the all-ages follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood's debut graphic novel. Genetic engineer Strig Feleedus, also known as Angel Catbird, and his band of half-cats head to Castle Catula t...

  • A Trio of Tolerable Tales

    Three hilarious Margaret Atwood tales, together in a chapter book for the first time!In Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, Ramsay runs away from his revolting relatives and makes a new friend with more refined tastes.The second tale, Bashful Bob a...

  • Angel Catbird Volume 3: The Catbird Roars

    The Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale pens a conclusion to the dramatic, hilarious, and heartwarming Angel Catbird trilogy. It's all-out war in the madcap culmination of Angel Catbird's superhero saga. The ...

  • The Secret Loves of Geeks

    Following the smash-hit The Secret Loves of Geek Girls comes this brand new anthology featuring comic and prose stories from cartoonists and professional geeks about their most intimate, heartbreaking, and inspiring tales of love, sex and, dating. In...

  • Freedom

  • The Bad News

    “We don’t like bad news, but we need it. We need to know about it in case it’s coming our way.” This delicious, contemptuous and poignant micro-story is the first in the acclaimed collection, Moral Disorder, from towering author and #1 New Yo...

  • The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel

  • War Bears

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, comes this historical fiction graphic novel tracing the Golden Age of Canadian comic books. Collects War Bears issues #1-3. Oursonette, a fictional Nazi-fighting superheroine, is created...

  • The Testaments

    Gilead - 2

    Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic -- and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid'...

  • On Writers and Writing

    What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used t...

  • Good Bones, Simple Murders & the Tent

    In Good Bones and Simple Murders, Margaret Atwood displays, in condensed and crystallized form, the trademark wit and virtuosity of her best-selling novels.Among the jewels gathered here are Gertrude offering Hamlet a piece of her mind, the real trut...

  • Furies

    A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror'Where power and feminist rage meet' ...

  • Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and wha...

  • Fourteen Days

    Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of ...

  • Cut and Thirst

  • Angel Catbird

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    Margaret Atwood, the most prescient and admired author of her generation, presents an original audio adaptation of her latest leap into the comic sci-fi fantasy underground: Angel Catbird.

    Atwood wrote this New York Times best-selling fanta...

Award-Winning Books by Margaret Atwood

Alias Grace
1996 Scotiabank Giller Prize -- Fiction
The Blind Assassin
2000 Man Booker Prize -- Novel
2001 Hammett -- Best Novel
2001 Libris Award -- People's Choice
Maddaddam
2013 Goodreads Choice Award -- Science Fiction
Shadow Show
2012 Bram Stoker Award -- Anthology
The Testaments
2019 Amazon Editors' Picks -- Literature & Fiction
2019 Goodreads Choice Award -- Fiction
2019 Man Booker Prize -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Margaret Atwood has published 65 books.

Margaret Atwood does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cut and Thirst, was published in May 2024.

The first book by Margaret Atwood, The Animals in That Country, was published in January 1969.

Yes. Margaret Atwood has 3 series.
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