Ursula K. Le Guin

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  • Bibliography:
    83 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1966
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Ursula K. Le Guin (88) Oct 21, 1929 - Jan 22, 2018

The best-selling Science Fiction and Fantasy author passed away at her home in Portland, Oregon, after a period of ill health.

Full Series List in Order

Annals of the Western Shore

1 - Gifts (Sep-2004)
2 - Voices (Sep-2006)
3 - Powers (Sep-2007)

Catwings

1 - Catwings (1988)
2 - Catwings Return (Apr-2003)
3 - Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (May-2003)
4 - Jane on Her Own (Mar-1999)

The Earthsea Cycle

1 - A Wizard of Earthsea (Nov-1968)
2 - The Tombs of Atuan (1970)
3 - The Farthest Shore (Sep-1972)
4 - Tehanu (1990)
5 - Tales from Earthsea (2001)
6 - The Other Wind (Sep-2001)

Hainish Cycle

1 - Rocannon's World (1966)
2 - Planet of Exile (1966)
3 - City of Illusions (1967)
4 - The Left Hand of Darkness (Mar-1969)
5 - The Dispossessed (May-1974)
6 - Word for World is Forest (Apr-1989)
7 - The Telling (Sep-2000)

Book List in Order: 83 titles

  • Planet of Exile

    • / Science Fiction
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    Hainish Cycle - 2

    The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on the planet Werel for ten orbits, each of which is sixty Earth years long. As Werel once again enters its fifteen-year-long winter, the lonely and dwindling human settlement is joined by the nomadic hilf...

  • Rocannon's World

    Hainish Cycle - 1

    This debut novel from preeminent science-fiction writer Ursula LeGuin introduces her brilliant Hainish series, set in a galaxy seeded by the planet Hain with a variety of humanoid species, including that of Earth. Over the centuries, the Hainish colo...

  • City of Illusions

    • / Science Fiction
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    Hainish Cycle - 3

    Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the Lea...

  • A Wizard of Earthsea

    The Earthsea Cycle - 1

    Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how...

  • The Left Hand of Darkness

    Hainish Cycle - 4

    On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and this is something that other cultures find incomprehensible. The Ekumen of Known Worlds has sent an ethnologist to study the inhabitan...

  • The Tombs of Atuan

    • / Epic Fantasy
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    The Earthsea Cycle - 2

    WHEN YOUNG TENAR is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away -- home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she ...

  • The Lathe of Heaven

    • / Science Fiction
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    With a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award-winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man’s dreams rewrite the future.During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George O...

  • The Farthest Shore

    The Earthsea Cycle - 3

    Arren, the Prince of Enlad.. . Ged, the Archmage of Roke.. . The young prince brought harsh news. There was no longer true magic in Enlad--the mages had forgotten their spells. The springs of wizardry were running dry ... With Arren, Ged set out t...

  • The Dispossessed

    Hainish Cycle - 5

    A TALE OF TWO PLANETS In her most ambitious and prophetic novel to date, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a stunning tour de force--the spellbinding story of Shevek, a brilliant physicist who single-handedly attempts to reunite two planets cut off fro...



  • The Wind's Twelve Quarters

    • / Science Fiction
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    A spellbinding collection of seventeen stories from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin. Magnificent heroes, compassionate heroines and magical creatures struggle for survival in diverse and distant worlds. They long for immortality, are consumed ...

  • The New Atlantis: A Novella

  • The Eye of the Heron

    • / Science Fiction
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    The savage, lawless prison world is called Victoria. The arriving exiles, sworn to nonviolence, are called the People of the Peace. Brutalized and dominated by the City criminals, the People would have broken vows and shed blood if not for one bold y...

  • Malafrena

    Malafrena is not a real place. Itale never dreamed of love, nor Piera of him. Estenskar did not live, only his poems. Only the dreams themselves are real, only their youth, only the wind called Freedom that swept through their lives like a storm unfo...

  • The Beginning Place

    From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Beginning Place.Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place" -- a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, u...

  • Edges

    13 original stories, including: The Ballad of Bowsprit Bear's Stead, by Damien Broderick; Omens, by Carol Emshwiller; Touch the Earth, by Scott Sanders; The Other Magus, by Avram Davidson; Peek-a-Boom, by Sonya Dorman; Suzanne Delage, by Gene Wolfe; ...

  • Interfaces

  • Gwilan's Harp

  • The Compass Rose

  • The Visionary



  • Always Coming Home

    Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any ever written. A rich and complex interweaving of sto...

  • King Dog

  • Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight

  • Catwings

    Catwings - 1

    Mrs. Jane Tabby could not explain why all four of her children had wings. But it meant that her dreams for her kittens would someday come true. Thelma, Harriet, Roger, and James could fly away from the dangerous city slum and find a safer place to li...

  • Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World

  • Fire and Stone

  • Word for World is Forest

    Hainish Cycle - 6

    The award-winning masterpiece by one of today's most honored writers, Ursula K. Le Guin!The Word for World is Forest When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced int...

  • Tehanu

    The Earthsea Cycle - 4

    Once she'd been a priestess, quest-companion to a powerful mage, a student of high magic. Then she gave it all up to be a farmer's wife on Gont, content to lead a simple life. But Tenar was not born to live her days in peace, away from great events. ...

  • Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences

    Ursula K. Le Guin does hear the animals' voices, and as she shows us in this luminous collection of one novalla, ten stories and eighteen poems, they are magical, fascinating, and terrifying. In the title novella, a child survives a plane crash and e...

  • Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand

    Klatsland, south of Portland, Oregon, represents the best and worst aspects of an American life that has been almost destroyed by fast-food chains and freeways throughout the country. In 12 stories, the reader learns about different individuals and f...



  • The Language of the Night

  • A Ride on the Red Mare's Back

  • Fish Soup

    Best friends, the Thinking Man of Moha and the Writing Woman of Maho believe that it would be convenient to have a child who could run messages between them, but the magical children that they conujure up are not quite what they had expected...

  • A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

    A collection of stories highlight such objects of the imagination as a starship that sails on the wings of song, musical instruments that are played at funerals only, and orbiting arks designed to save a doomed humanity. Reprint....

  • Four Ways to Forgiveness

    At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into "assets" and "owners"; tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. It can be learning, it can be love, it can be compassion, ...

  • Unlocking the Air and Other Stories

    This collection of mainstream stories, written from the early eighties to the mid-nineties, is a stunning example of the virtuosity of the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin. Diffusing the traditional boundaries of realism, magical realism, and surrealis...

  • Worlds of Exile and Illusion

    Worlds of Exile and Illusion contains three novels in the Hainish Series from Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

    Her career as a novelist was launched by th...

  • The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990

    In the tradition of other groundbreaking Norton Collections, Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery's Norton Book of Science Fiction provides the first truly comprehensive and coherent look at the best of contemporary science fiction.

    Successf...

  • The Shobies' Story

  • Jane on Her Own

    Catwings - 4

    Jane has a city adventure in this fourth book in legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin’s bestselling Catwings chapter book series, now with a new look!Jane, the youngest of the Catwings, thinks that life on the farm is absolutely boring. Looking for a...



  • The Telling

    Hainish Cycle - 7

    From award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a highly anticipated addition to her acclaimed Hainish cycle, "a social anthropology of the future, fascinating and utterly believable" (Peter S. Beagle). Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka...

  • Tales from Earthsea

    The Earthsea Cycle - 5

    "In this stellar collection...Ursula K. Le Guin makes a triumphant return to the magic-drenched world of Earthsea."* Featuring the award-winning author's new Earthsea novella, two original stories, and two classic tales, as well as new maps and a spe...

  • The Masters

    Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered eleven of the finest writers in Fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series: from...

  • The Other Wind

    The Earthsea Cycle - 6

    "A superb novel-length addition to the Earthsea universe, one that, once again, turns that entire series on its head. Alder,; the man who unwittingly initiates the transformation of Earthsea, is a humble sorcerer who specializes in fixing broken pots...

  • Social Dreaming of the Frin

    in Year's Best Fantasy 3

    The door to fantastic worlds, skewed realities, and breathtaking other realms is opened wide to you once more in this third anthology of the finest short fantasy fiction to emerge over the past year, compiled by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell....

  • The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories

    For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebula Awards,...

  • Tom Mouse

    When a hobo cat tells Tom Mouse tales of travel, he boards a train headed for Chicago -- and an adventure in a world that's big and scary and exciting and beautiful. From a much-lauded and best-selling author, Tom Mouse is a tale of a mouse, a train,...

  • Catwings Return

    Catwings - 2

    James and Harriet return to the city in this second book in legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin’s bestselling Catwings chapter book series, now with a new look!As kittens, James, Thelma, Harriet, and Roger took advantage of their wings by flying awa...

  • Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings

    Catwings - 3

    Jane meets a new friend in this third book in legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin’s bestselling Catwings chapter book series, now with a new look!Fluffy, orange Alexander is the oldest, biggest, loudest, and strongest of all the Furby kittens. Every...

  • Changing Planes

    Sita Dulip has missed her flight. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she has found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the long lines at the toilets, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive pare...



  • Orsinian Tales

    A collection of Le Guin's historical fiction writings set in an imaginary central European nation -- complete with a newly researched chronology of her life and career In a career spanning half a century, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a bo...

  • Gifts

    Annals of the Western Shore - 1

    In this beautifully crafted novel, the first of the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts ...

  • Very Far Away from Anywhere Else

    A slender, realistic story of a young man's coming of age, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else is one of the most inspiring novels Ursula K. Le Guin ever published.Owen is seventeen and smart. He knows what he wants to do with his life. But then he meet...

  • Voices

    Annals of the Western Shore - 2

    In this second novel in the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin brings readers a haunting and gripping coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence, intolerance, and magic.Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with librar...

  • Powers

    Annals of the Western Shore - 3

    Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes "remembers" things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, bl...

  • Lavinia

    In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half...

  • Cheek by Jowl

    Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce the release of Cheek by Jowl, a collection of talks and essays on how and why fantasy matters, by Ursula K. Le Guin. In these essays, Le Guin argues passionately that the homogenization of our world makes the wor...

  • Cat Dreams

    The award-winning CATWINGS team, Ursula Le Guin and S. D. Schindler create their first magical picture book!

    Bestselling author Ursula K. Le Guin and acclaimed illustrator S. D. Schindler are together again with a sleepytime picture book for t...

  • The Wild Girls

    Ursula K. Le Guin is the one modern science fiction author who truly needs no introduction. In the half century since The Left Hand of Darkness, her works have changed not only the face but the tone and the agenda of SF, introducing themes of gender,...

  • Cat Stories

    Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe -- from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser. The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fanc...

  • The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth

    A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin -- selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time.The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin’s best sh...

  • The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands

    Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley’s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gi...

  • The Daughter of Odren

    The Daughter of Odren is a short story of betrayal and revenge set in the world of Earthsea, in which Weed, the daughter of Lord Garnet, waits for the day she will have her father back.For fourteen years, Weed, as she is called, the daughte...

  • April in Paris

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "April in Paris" is a sho...

  • Darkness Box

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Darkness Box" is a short...

  • The Day Before the Revolution

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Day Before the Revol...

  • Direction of the Road

    “Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” " Cincinnati EnquirerThe recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book ...

  • The Field of Vision

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Field of Vision" is ...

  • The Good Trip

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Good Trip" is a shor...

  • Nine Lives

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Nine Lives" is a short s...

  • The Rule of Names

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Rule of Names" is a ...

  • Semley's Necklace

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Semley's Necklace" is a ...

  • The Stars Below

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Stars Below" is a sh...

  • Things

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Things" is a short story...

  • A Trip to the Head

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "A Trip to the Head" is a...

  • Vaster than Empires and More Slow

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Vaster than Empires and ...

  • Winter's King

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "Winter's King" is a shor...

  • The Word of Unbinding

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Word of Unbinding" is a...

  • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

    The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Ones Who Walk Away ...

  • Five Ways to Forgiveness

    A companion to Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning Hainish novels -- including The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed -- Five Ways to Forgiveness tells the story of the planet Werel and its colony planet Yeowe, and how their societies are shape...

  • Dreams Must Explain Themselves

    Ursula K. Le Guin has won or been nominated for over 200 awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy and SFWA Grand Master Awards. She is the acclaimed author of the Earthsea sequence and The Left Hand of Darkness - which alon...

  • Dangerous People

    When it was first published in 1985, Ursula K. Le Guin’s ambitious and experimental novel Always Coming Home, a tapestry of interwoven stories, poems, histories, myths, and anthropological reports from the fictional Kesh society, included one chapt...

  • A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel

    Ursula K. Le Guin’s timeless and revered A Wizard of Earthsea is reimagined in a richly expansive graphic novel by acclaimed artist Fred Fordham, creator of stunning adaptations To Kill a Mockingbird and Brave New World.The magic of Earthsea is...

  • Firelight

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Award-Winning Books by Ursula K. Le Guin

Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
1988 Hugo Award -- Novelette
1988 World Fantasy Award -- Novella
Catwings
1989 Carolyn W. Field Award -- Children's
Changing Planes
2004 Locus Award -- Collection
The Compass Rose
1983 Locus Award -- Collection
The Dispossessed
1974 Nebula Award -- Novel
1975 Hugo Award -- Novel
1975 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
The Farthest Shore
1973 National Book Award -- Children's Book
Four Ways to Forgiveness
1996 Locus Award -- Collection
Gifts
2005 PEN Literary Award -- Children/Young Adult
The Lathe of Heaven
1972 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Lavinia
2009 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
The Left Hand of Darkness
1969 Nebula Award -- Novel
1970 Hugo Award -- Novel
2003 Spectrum Award -- Hall of Fame
The Other Wind
2002 World Fantasy Award -- Novel
Powers
2008 Nebula Award -- Novel
Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand
1992 Oregon Book Award -- Fiction
Tales from Earthsea
2002 Locus Award -- Collection
Tehanu
1991 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
1991 Nebula Award -- Novel
The Telling
2001 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands
2014 Oregon Book Award -- Fiction
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
1976 Locus Award -- Collection
A Wizard of Earthsea
1969 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Fiction & Poetry


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Ursula K. Le Guin has published 83 books.

The next book by Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Ursula K. Le Guin, Planet of Exile, was published in January 1966.

Yes. Ursula K. Le Guin has 4 series.
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