Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography

This is a bibliography of the science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin.

Contents 1 Fiction 1.1 Earthsea (fantasy) 1.1.1 Earthsea novels 1.1.2 Earthsea short fiction 1.1.3 Earthsea nonfiction 1.2 Hainish Cycle (science fiction) 1.2.1 Hainish Cycle novels and short story cycles 1.2.2 Hainish Cycle short stories 1.3 Poetry and stories of Orsinia 1.4 Miscellaneous novels and story cycles 1.5 Short story collections 1.6 Poetry 1.7 Books for children and young adults 1.7.1 The Catwings Collection 1.7.2 Annals of the Western Shore 1.7.3 Other books for children and young adults 2 Non-fiction 3 References

Fiction

Earthsea (fantasy)

Earthsea novels

• A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968 (Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, 1979)
• The Tombs of Atuan, 1971 (Newbery Medal winner)
• The Farthest Shore, 1973 (National Book Award winner)
• Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, 1990 (Nebula Award winner, 1990;^[1] Locus Fantasy Award winner, 1991^[2])
• The Other Wind, 2001 (World Fantasy Award winner, 2002^[3])

Note: The short story "Dragonfly" from Tales from Earthsea, 2001, is intended to fit in between Tehanu and The Other Wind and, according to Le Guin, is "an important bridge in the series as a whole".^[4]

Earthsea short fiction

• "The Word of Unbinding", 1975 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters; originally published in the January 1964 issue of Fantastic)
• "The Rule of Names", 1975 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters)
• "Dragonfly" (in Legends, ed. Robert Silverberg; also in Tales from Earthsea)
• Tales from Earthsea, short story collection, 2001 (winner of Endeavour Award)

Earthsea nonfiction

• Earthsea Revisioned, 1993, published lecture by Le Guin about unifying her later Earthsea writings with her earlier Earthsea writings. Delivered under the title "Children, Women, Men and Dragons" at Worlds Apart, an institute sponsored by Children's Literature New England and held from August 2 to 8, 1992 at Keble College, Oxford University, England.^[5]

Hainish Cycle (science fiction)

Hainish Cycle novels and short story cycles

• Rocannon's World, 1966
• Planet of Exile, 1966
• City of Illusions, 1967
• The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969 (winner of the Hugo Award, 1969^[6] and Nebula Award, 1970^[7])
• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, 1974 (Nebula Award winner, 1974^[8]; Hugo and Locus Awards winner, 1975^[9])
• The Word for World is Forest, 1976 (winner of the Hugo Award for best novella)
• Four Ways to Forgiveness, 1995 (Four Stories of the Ekumen)
• Worlds of Exile and Illusion, 1996 (omnibus of Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions)
• The Telling, 2000 (Locus SF Award winner, 2001^[10]; Endeavour Award winner)

Hainish Cycle short stories

• "Dowry of the Angyar", 1964 (appears as "Semley's Necklace" in The Wind's Twelve Quarters; also used as the prologue of Rocannon's World)
• "Winter's King", 1969 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters)
• "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow", 1971 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters)
• "The Day Before the Revolution", 1974 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters; winner of the Nebula Award and Locus Award)
• "The Shobies' Story", 1990 (in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea)
• "Dancing to Ganam", 1993 (in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea)
• "Another Story OR A Fisherman of the Inland Sea", 1994 (in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea)
• "The Matter of Seggri", 1994 (in The Birthday of the World; winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award)
• "Unchosen Love", 1994 (in The Birthday of the World)
• "Solitude", 1994 (in The Birthday of the World; winner of the Nebula Award)
• "Coming of Age in Karhide", 1995 (in The Birthday of the World)
• "Mountain Ways", 1996 (in The Birthday of the World; winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award)
• "Old Music and the Slave Women", 1999 (in The Birthday of the World)

Poetry and stories of Orsinia

• "Folksong from the Montayna Province," 1959^[11]
• Orsinian Tales, 1976
• "The Diary of the Rose", 1976 (in The Compass Rose)^[12]
• Malafrena, 1979
• "Two Delays on the Northern Line", 1979 (in The Compass Rose )
• "Unlocking the Air", 1996 (in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories)

Miscellaneous novels and story cycles

• The Lathe of Heaven, 1971 (made into TV movies, 1980 and 2002; Locus SF Award winner, 1972^[13])
• The Eye of the Heron, 1978 (first published in the anthology Millennial Women)
• The Beginning Place, 1980 (also published as Threshold, 1986)
• Always Coming Home, 1985
• Lavinia, 2008 (Locus Fantasy Award winner, 2009^[14])
• Direction of the Road, ?

Note: Le Guin has said that The Eye of the Heron might form part of the Hainish cycle.

Short story collections

• The Wind's Twelve Quarters, 1975
• The Compass Rose, 1982
• Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences, 1987
• Searoad, 1991
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, 1994
• Unlocking the Air and Other Stories, 1996
• The Birthday of the World, 2002, ISBN
• Changing Planes, 2003, ISBN
• The Wild Girls, 2011, ISBN 978-1-60486-403-8

Poetry

• Wild Angels, 1974
• Hard Words, 1981
• Wild Oats and Fireweed, 1988
• Blue Moon over Thurman Street (with Roger Dorband), 1993
• Going out with Peacocks, 1994
• Sixty Odd, 1999

Books for children and young adults

The Catwings Collection

• Catwings, 1988
• Catwings Return, 1989
• Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, 1994
• Jane on her Own, 1999

Annals of the Western Shore

• Gifts, 2004 (PEN Center USA 2005 Children's Literature Award^[15])
• Voices, 2006
• Powers, 2007 (Nebula Award winner, 2008^[16])

Other books for children and young adults

• Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, 1976, ISBN 0-15-205208-9
• Leese Webster, 1979, ISBN 0-689-30715-2
• The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune, 1983, ISBN 0-94-182600-6
• Solomon Leviathan's Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World, 1984, ISBN 0-399-21491-7
• A Visit from Dr. Katz, 1988, ISBN 0-689-31332-2
• Fire and Stone, 1989, ISBN 0-689-31408-6
• Fish Soup, 1992, ISBN 0-689-31733-6
• A Ride on the Red Mare's Back, 1992, ISBN 0-531-07079-4
• Tom Mouse, 2002, ISBN 0-7613-1599-3

Non-fiction

• "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie," chapbook, Pendragon Press, 1973 (ISBN 0-914010-00-X)
• The Language of the Night, Putnam Books, 1979 (ISBN 0-399-12325-3) (Hugo Award nominee, 1980)
• Dancing at the Edge of the World, Grove Press, 1989 (ISBN 0-8021-1105-X) (Hugo Award nominee, 1990)
• The Wave in the Mind, Shambhala Publications, 2004 (ISBN 1-59030-006-8) (Locus Award winner, 2005)
• Cheek by Jowl, Aqueduct Press, 2009 (ISBN 978-1-933500-27-0) (Locus Award winner, 2010)

Translations

• Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way

References

Notes

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