Margaret Atwood: The Works

The booklist of an ardent Atwood admirer

Looking 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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