Order of Margaret Atwood Books
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist and poet. She writes in several genres, such as historical fiction and science fiction (and many of the sub-genres therein). Her novels, poetry and essays have been published in over 35 countries. She has been won many awards and been shortlisted for many more. Margaret lives in Toronto with fellow author Graeme Gibson.
Margaret Atwood became a published author in 1961 with the collection Double Persephone, which is now long since out-of-print. Below is a list of Margaret Atwood’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of The Handmaid’s Tale Books
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The Handmaid’s Tale |
(1986) |
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The Testaments |
(2019) |
Publication Order of Angel Catbird Graphic Novels
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Angel Catbird, Volume 1 |
(2016) |
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Angel Catbird, Volume 2: To Castle Catula |
(2017) |
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Angel Catbird, Volume 3: The Catbird Roars |
(2017) |
Publication Order of Canongate’s The Myths Books
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A Short History of Myth |
(2004) |
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Lion’s Honey: The Myth of Samson |
(2005) |
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The Penelopiad |
(2005) |
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Weight |
(2005) |
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The Helmet of Horror |
(2005) |
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Where Three Roads Meet |
(2005) |
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Binu and the Great Wall |
(2006) |
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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg |
(2007) |
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The Goddess Chronicle |
(2013) |
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Publication Order of Hogarth Shakespeare Books
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The Gap of Time |
(2015) |
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Shylock is My Name |
(2016) |
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Vinegar Girl |
(2016) |
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Hag-Seed |
(2016) |
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New Boy |
(2017) |
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Dunbar |
(2017) |
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Macbeth |
(2018) |
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Publication Order of MaddAddam Books
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Oryx and Crake |
(2003) |
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The Year of the Flood |
(2009) |
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MaddAddam |
(2013) |
Publication Order of Collections
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The Circle Game |
(1964) |
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The Animals in that Country |
(1968) |
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The Journals of Susanna Moodie |
(1970) |
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Procedures For Underground |
(1970) |
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Power Politics |
(1971) |
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You Are Happy |
(1974) |
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Selected Poems |
(1976) |
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Dancing Girls and Other Stories |
(1977) |
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Two-Headed Poems |
(1978) |
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True Stories |
(1981) |
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Bluebeard’s Egg |
(1983) |
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Murder in the Dark |
(1983) |
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Interlunar |
(1984) |
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Selected Poems II |
(1986) |
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Wilderness Tips |
(1991) |
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Good Bones |
(1992) |
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Poems 1976-1986 |
(1992) |
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Polarities. Selected Stories |
(1994) |
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Bones & Murder |
(1994) |
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Morning in the Burned House |
(1995) |
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Eating Fire |
(1998) |
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Moving Targets |
(2004) |
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The Tent |
(2006) |
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Moral Disorder and Other Stories |
(2006) |
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The Door |
(2007) |
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The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie |
(2014) |
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Stone Mattress |
(2014) |
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Freedom |
(2018) |
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Dearly |
(2020) |
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Old Babes in the Wood |
(2023) |
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Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023 |
(2024) |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
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The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel |
(2019) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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Survival |
(1972) |
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Days Of The Rebels |
(1977) |
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Second Words |
(1982) |
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The Canlit Foodbook |
(1987) |
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Margaret Atwood Conversations |
(1990) |
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Strange Things |
(1995) |
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Two Solicitudes |
(1996) |
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Story of a Nation |
(2001) |
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Negotiating with the Dead / On Writers & Writing |
(2002) |
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Curious Pursuits |
(2005) |
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Writing With Intent |
(2005) |
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Payback |
(2007) |
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Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine |
(2009) |
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In Other Worlds |
(2011) |
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Dire Cartographies |
(2015) |
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The Burgess Shale |
(2017) |
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces |
(2022) |
Publication Order of Picture Books
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Anna’s Pet |
(1980) |
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Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut |
(1995) |
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Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes |
(2003) |
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Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda |
(2004) |
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Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery |
(2011) |
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A Trio of Tolerable Tales |
(2017) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
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Moral Disorder |
(2014) |
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The Bad News |
(2018) |
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War Bears |
(2019) |
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Two Scorched Men |
(2021) |
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My Evil Mother |
(2022) |
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Cut and Thirst |
(2024) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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The Edible Woman |
(1969) |
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Surfacing |
(1972) |
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Lady Oracle |
(1976) |
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Up in the Tree |
(1978) |
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Life Before Man |
(1979) |
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Bodily Harm |
(1981) |
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Cat’s Eye |
(1988) |
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For the Birds |
(1990) |
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The Robber Bride |
(1993) |
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Alias Grace |
(1996) |
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The Labrador Fiasco |
(1996) |
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The Blind Assassin |
(2000) |
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Bottle |
(2004) |
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The Heart Goes Last |
(2015) |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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Points of View |
(1956) |
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Women Writers at Work |
(1989) |
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The Best American Short Stories 1989 |
(1989) |
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The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories |
(1990) |
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Colors of a New Day |
(1990) |
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Cries of the Spirit |
(1991) |
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The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces |
(1992) |
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Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories |
(1992) |
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Ploughshares Winter 1993-94 |
(1993) |
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Minding the Body |
(1994) |
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First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers |
(1994) |
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The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women |
(1995) |
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Ten |
(1996) |
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Sunrise to Sunset |
(1997) |
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Wild Women |
(1997) |
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Mistresses of the Dark |
(1998) |
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall |
(1998) |
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Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium |
(1999) |
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction |
(1999) |
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Ovid Metamorphosed |
(2000) |
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When The Wild Comes Leaping Up |
(2002) |
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The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War |
(2003) |
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The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles |
(2004) |
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More Stories We Tell |
(2004) |
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The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping |
(2007) |
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The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories |
(2007) |
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The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction. |
(2008) |
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Sisters |
(2009) |
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FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors |
(2009) |
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Crimespotting |
(2009) |
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Half-Minute Horrors |
(2009) |
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The Secret History of Science Fiction |
(2009) |
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I’m With the Bears |
(2011) |
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Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury |
(2012) |
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The World Split Open |
(2014) |
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Loosed Upon the World |
(2015) |
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The Secret Loves of Geek Girls |
(2015) |
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First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner |
(2016) |
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Imaginarium 4 |
(2016) |
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The Secret Loves of Geeks |
(2018) |
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Freeman’s Power |
(2018) |
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Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers |
(2019) |
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Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes |
(2022) |
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Furies |
(2023) |
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Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering |
(2024) |
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Democracy |
(2024) |
Notes: The Year of the Flood was also published as God’s Gardeners. Anna’s Pet was co-authored with Joyce Barkhouse. For the Birds was co-authored with Shelly Tanaka. Crimespotting was co-authored by Lin Anderson, Kate Atkinson, Chris Brookmyre, John Burnside, Isla Dewar, A.L. Kennedy, Denise Mina, Ian Rankin and James Robertson. I’m with the Bears also contains stories by Paolo Bacigalupi, T.C. Boyle, Toby Litt, Lydia Millet, Wu Mingi, David Mitchell, Nathaniel Rich, Kim Stanley Robinson and Helen Simpson. The World Split Open also includes contributions by Edward P. Jones, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marilynne Robinson and Wallace Stegner.