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Margaret Atwood: The Works

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The booklist of an ardent Atwood admirer

BOOKSLooking ahead to Margaret Atwood Reading Month – a literary jolly hosted by fellow book bloggers Naomi and Marcie – I felt now might be the ideal time to post a comprehensive checklist of Atwood’s publications from 1961 to the present day. I do this partly to maintain some sort of structure in my otherwise muddled life; to a greater extent because I’m a listophile unable to control my record-keeping urges; but mostly (and most unrealistically) because I would dearly love to read everything this extraordinary author has ever written.

Margaret Atwood is a prolific writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. I have tended mainly to read her novels but would now like to tackle her other works (especially the short stories and essay collections) while continuing to make my way through her long fiction.

THE NOVELS

The Edible Woman (1969) ✓
Surfacing (1972) ✓
Lady Oracle (1976)
Life Before Man (1979)
Bodily Harm (1981) ✓
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) ✓
Cat’s Eye (1988) ✓
The Robber Bride (1993)
Alias Grace (1996) ✓
The Blind Assassin (2000) ✓
Oryx and Crake (2003) ✓
The Penelopiad (2005) ✓
The Year of the Flood (2009) ✓
MaddAddam (2013) ✓
The Heart Goes Last (2015)
Hag-Seed (2016)
The Testaments (2019) ✓

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Angel Catbird (2016)

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

Dancing Girls (1977)
Murder in the Dark (1983)
Bluebeard’s Egg (1985)
Wilderness Tips (1991)
Good Bones (1992)
The Tent (2006)
Moral Disorder (2006)
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014)

SMALL PRESS FICTION

Encounters with the Element Man (1982)
Unearthing Suite (1983)
Bottle (2004)
I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth (2012)

MISCELLANIOUS

Freedom: Vintage Minis (2018) ✓

CHILDREN’S FICTION

Up in the Tree (1978)
Anna’s Pet (with Joyce Barkhouse) (1980)
For the Birds (1990)
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2004)
Up in the Tree (facsimile reprint) (2006)
Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery (2011)

NON-FICTION

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (1977)
Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1982)
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995)
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002) ✓
Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982-2004 (2004)
Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing (2005)
Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983-2005 (2005)
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008)
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011)

POETRY

Double Persephone (1961)
The Circle Game (1964)
Kaleidoscopes Baroque: a poem (1965)
Talismans for Children (1965)
Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)
The Animals in That Country (1969)
The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
Procedures for Underground (1970)
Power Politics (1971)
You Are Happy (1975)
Selected Poems (1976)
Selected Poems, 1965-1975 (1976)
Marsh, Hawk (1977)
Two-Headed Poems (1978)
True Stories (1981)
Notes Towards a Poem that Can Never be Written (1981)
Snake Poems (1983)
Interlunar (1984)
Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986 (1986)
Selected Poems 1966-1984 (1990)
Margaret Atwood Poems 1976-1986 (1991)
Morning in the Burned House (1995)
Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995 (1998)
The Door (2007)

I apologise if there are titles missing from my list – I make no claims this is a complete Atwood bibliography. Please feel free to drop me a line with additions, amendments and suggestions.

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53 replies

  1. whatsnonfiction
    09/10/2018 • 3:52 pm

    Love her! Actually I haven’t even read any of her nonfiction, I’m gonna investigate your list! I really loved the Robber Bride (although it was ages ago that I read it) and recommend that one!

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  2. Belles-Lettres
    09/10/2018 • 4:19 pm

    I LOVE Margaret Atwood! I haven’t read a book of hers yet that I wasn’t amazed by, her writing is incredible X

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  3. Alexandra
    09/10/2018 • 4:26 pm

    You were not kidding when you said ‘prolific’. I think Atwood must be the epitome of prolific. I have to add, that outside of school ( a million years ago) I haven’t read Atwood, I don’t know quite why?

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  5. RoseMarie
    09/10/2018 • 5:41 pm

    Fantastic Paula, I’ve been a Margaret Atwood fan since high school. Just finished The MaddAddam Trilogy a couple months ago.

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  6. Mary Daniels Brown
    09/10/2018 • 6:17 pm

    Thanks for the list! My reading of Atwood’s work has been quite hit-or-miss, but I always have such good intentions of giving her her due.

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  7. Naomi
    09/10/2018 • 6:42 pm

    What a great photo of The Handmaid’s Tale and Hagseed!

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  8. Cathy746books
    09/10/2018 • 8:36 pm

    She’s so prolific, right? What a great list to have. I have Maddadam lined up to read next month.

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  9. Lisa (@TenaciousReader)
    10/10/2018 • 12:20 am

    I loved The Heart Goes Last, really need to read more of her books!

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  10. cricketmuse
    10/10/2018 • 12:58 am

    Her Gertrude soliloquy with Hamlet is one of her best.

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  11. ThoughtsBecomeWords
    10/10/2018 • 1:55 am

    Holey moley, Paula, I didn’t know she wrote children’s books. Thanks for that!

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  12. Kaggsysbookishramblings
    10/10/2018 • 6:32 am

    So much wonderful Atwood! I could happily spend a year just reading her (if I had a spare year…)

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  13. Readers' High Tea
    10/10/2018 • 8:50 am

    Wow, I had no idea Atwood wrote so many books, and that she also wrote poetry! I really need to read more of her creations, this list is truly inspiring!

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  14. joycesmysteryandfictionbookreviews
    10/10/2018 • 2:09 pm

    Thanks so much for compiling this extensive list.

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  15. Cecelia
    10/10/2018 • 2:31 pm

    I love Margaret Atwood! I had no idea she wrote children’s books!! I highly recommend The Edible Woman, it’s one of my favorite books.

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  16. Jackie B @ Death by Tsundoku
    11/10/2018 • 5:36 pm

    Thank you so much for this list! I had no idea Atwood had so many published poetry collections! The publication dates in all of these are quite intriguing, as well. I am interested that Atwood has jumped across these genres during her whole writing career. Do you own many of these?

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  17. Gayathri Lakshminarayanan
    11/10/2018 • 7:03 pm

    Wow, thanks for the extensive list. I have read only The Handmaid’s tale and Alias Grace and I have Hagseed and Stone Mattress collection with me. I should be reading it soon and I dunno what I am waiting for.

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  18. Laurie @ RelevantObscurity
    12/10/2018 • 6:55 am

    This list made me realize I never knew Atwood wrote children’s books!

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