Author guide
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author whose work spans more than twenty novels, numerous short stories, poetry, essays, and criticism. She is especially known for the Earthsea cycle and the Hainish universe, and her fiction often blends speculative storytelling with themes of language, power, ecology, gender, and social organization.
Outside the series
Standalone and other books
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A Wizard of EarthseaAmazon ↗novel · 1968
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The Left Hand of DarknessAmazon ↗novel · 1969
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The DispossessedAmazon ↗novel · 1974
- Roadside PicnicAmazon ↗
novel · 1972
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The Lathe of HeavenAmazon ↗novel · 1971
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The Tombs of AtuanAmazon ↗novel · 1970
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The Farthest ShoreAmazon ↗novel · 1972
- The Word for World Is ForestAmazon ↗
novella · 1972
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TehanuAmazon ↗novel · 1990
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Rocannon's WorldAmazon ↗novel · 1966
- Tales from EarthseaAmazon ↗
collection · 2001
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The Other WindAmazon ↗novel · 2001
- The Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasAmazon ↗
short_story · 1973
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Planet of ExileAmazon ↗novel · 1966
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City of IllusionsAmazon ↗novel · 1967
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LaviniaAmazon ↗novel · 2008
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Always Coming Home: A NovelAmazon ↗novel · 1985
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The TellingAmazon ↗novel · 2000
- The Princess and the GoblinAmazon ↗
novel · 1872
- No Time to Spare: Thinking About What MattersAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2017
- Earthsea: the First Four BooksAmazon ↗
collection · 1993
- Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of StoryAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1998
- Four Ways to ForgivenessAmazon ↗
collection · 1989
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GiftsAmazon ↗novel · 2004
- Changing PlanesAmazon ↗
collection · 2003
- The Language of the NightAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1979
- CatwingsAmazon ↗
unknown · 1988
- The Daughter of OdrenAmazon ↗
short_story · 2014
- A Fisherman of the Inland SeaAmazon ↗
collection · 1994
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PowersAmazon ↗novel · 2007
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VoicesAmazon ↗novel · 2006
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The Eye of the HeronAmazon ↗novel · 1978
- The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the ImaginationAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2004
- The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le GuinAmazon ↗
collection · 2016
- Winter's KingAmazon ↗
short_story · 2017
- Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, PlacesAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1989
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The Beginning PlaceAmazon ↗novel · 1980
- Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016, with A Journal of a Writer's WeekAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2016
- Five Ways to ForgivenessAmazon ↗
collection · 2017
- The Carrier Bag Theory of FictionAmazon ↗
essay · 1986
- Orsinian TalesAmazon ↗
collection · 1976
- The Compass Rose: Short StoriesAmazon ↗
collection · 1982
- The Rule of NamesAmazon ↗
short_story · 2017
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Very Far Away from Anywhere ElseAmazon ↗novel · 1976
- A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic NovelAmazon ↗
graphic_novel · 2025
- Legends 3Amazon ↗
anthology · 1998
- Catwings ReturnAmazon ↗
unknown · 1989
- Wild GirlsAmazon ↗
collection · 2011
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MalafrenaAmazon ↗novel · 1979
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on WritingAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2018
- Space CroneAmazon ↗
collection · 2023
- Wonderful Alexander and the CatwingsAmazon ↗
unknown · 1994
- Changing Planes: StoriesAmazon ↗
collection · 2003
- Jane on Her Own: A Catwings TaleAmazon ↗
unknown · 1999
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Searoad: Chronicles of KlatsandAmazon ↗novel · 1991
- Vaster than Empires and More SlowAmazon ↗
short_story · 2017
- Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous CrewAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1998
- The Book of FantasyAmazon ↗
anthology · 1940
- So Far So GoodAmazon ↗
poem · 2018
- The New AtlantisAmazon ↗
collection · 1975
- Diverse EnergiesAmazon ↗
anthology · 2012
- Unlocking the Air and Other StoriesAmazon ↗
collection · 1996
- Finding My Elegy: New and Selected PoemsAmazon ↗
poem · 2012
- Buffalo Gals and Other Animal PresencesAmazon ↗
collection · 1987
- Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out TonightAmazon ↗
short_story · 1994
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy TalesAmazon ↗
anthology · 1998
- The Unreal and the Real Volume 2: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin: Outer Space & Inner LandsAmazon ↗
collection · 2012
- Meditations on Middle-EarthAmazon ↗
anthology · 2001
- The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories and SongsAmazon ↗
collection · 2016
- Dreams Must Explain ThemselvesAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1975
- Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative FictionAmazon ↗
anthology · 2001
- Nine LivesAmazon ↗
short_story · 1968
- Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014Amazon ↗
poem · 2015
- The Secret History of Science FictionAmazon ↗
anthology · 2009
- Year's Best SF 6Amazon ↗
anthology · 2001
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Paradises LostAmazon ↗novel · 2002
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual CollectionAmazon ↗
anthology · 1985
- The World Split Open: Great Authors on How and Why We WriteAmazon ↗
anthology · 2014
- Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of CatsAmazon ↗
collection · 2025
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2010Amazon ↗
anthology · 2010
- Wind's Twelve QuartersAmazon ↗
collection · 2022
- This Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the ApocalypseAmazon ↗
anthology · 2016
- Lightspeed: Year OneAmazon ↗
anthology · 2011
- The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science FictionAmazon ↗
anthology · 2005
- Direction of the RoadAmazon ↗
short_story · 1973
- Star Songs of an Old PrimateAmazon ↗
anthology · 1979
- Selected Stories of H.G. WellsAmazon ↗
anthology · 1927
- Year's Best Fantasy 3Amazon ↗
anthology · 2003
- Witches wicked, wild & wonderfulAmazon ↗
anthology · 2012
- Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf AnthologyAmazon ↗
anthology · 2010
- Ursula Le Guin Collection: Left Hand of Darkness, The Earthsea Quartet & The DispossessedAmazon ↗
omnibus · 2011
- The Time Machine: An InventionAmazon ↗
novel · 1895
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual CollectionAmazon ↗
anthology · 2001
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual CollectionAmazon ↗
anthology · 1999
- Year's Best SF 7Amazon ↗
anthology · 2002
- Beyond TomorrowAmazon ↗
anthology · 1976
- Lo Irreal y lo Real: Relatos seleccionados, volumen 1Amazon ↗
collection · 2012
- The Mammoth Book of the Best of the Best New SFAmazon ↗
anthology · 2005
- The Oxford Book of American Short StoriesAmazon ↗
anthology · 1992
- Elsewhere: Tales of FantasyAmazon ↗
anthology · 1981
- The Shobies' StoryAmazon ↗
short_story · 1991
- The Mammoth Book of FantasyAmazon ↗
anthology · 2001
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual CollectionAmazon ↗
anthology · 1995
- The World Is Waiting for You: Graduation Speeches to Live By from Activists, Writers, and VisionariesAmazon ↗
anthology · 2015
- Collected PoemsAmazon ↗
poem · 2018
- Conversations with Ursula K. Le GuinAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2008
- Annals of the Western Shore: Gifts / Voices / PowersAmazon ↗
collection · 2017
- The New Hugo Winners, Volume 2Amazon ↗
anthology · 1990
- ClarkesworldAmazon ↗
anthology · 2014
- Earthsea revisionedAmazon ↗
graphic_novel · 1993
- Sixty OddAmazon ↗
poem · 1999
- The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013Amazon ↗
anthology · 2013
- The Eye of the Heron / The Word for World Is ForestAmazon ↗
omnibus · 1991
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming HomeAmazon ↗
collection · 1985
- The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast DramatizationAmazon ↗
screenplay · 2016
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Annals of the Western ShoreAmazon ↗
collection · 2020
- Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony Fantastic TalesAmazon ↗
short_story · 2013
- Incredible Good Fortune: New PoemsAmazon ↗
poem · 2006
- From Elfland to PoughkeepsieAmazon ↗
essay · 1973
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2006Amazon ↗
anthology · 2006
- Universe 1Amazon ↗
anthology · 1990
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4Amazon ↗
anthology · 1975
- The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine/Wonders Hidden : Audubon's Early YearsAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1984
- The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary EcologyAmazon ↗
anthology · 1996
- Cassandra RisingAmazon ↗
anthology · 1978
- TimegatesAmazon ↗
anthology · 1997
- The Writer's Guide to Fantasy LiteratureAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2002
- The Best New Science Fiction: 9th Annual CollectionAmazon ↗
anthology · 1996
- Bestiary!Amazon ↗
anthology · 1985
- Wild AngelsAmazon ↗
poem · 1975
- Magical BeginningsAmazon ↗
anthology · 2003
- The Moment of ChangeAmazon ↗
anthology · 2012
- Isaac Asimov's UtopiasAmazon ↗
anthology · 2000
- Fantasy: The Best of 2001Amazon ↗
anthology · 2001
- New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and TomorrowAmazon ↗
anthology · 1994
- Words Are My Matter Talks, Essays, Introductions, Reviews and the Journal of a Writer's Week, 2000-2016Amazon ↗
nonfiction · 2016
- The Good StuffAmazon ↗
anthology · 1999
- A Larger RealityAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2025
- The Sixth Omni Book of Science FictionAmazon ↗
anthology · 1989
- The Mammoth Book of Best Short SF NovelsAmazon ↗
anthology · 2007
- The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-time GreatsAmazon ↗
anthology · 2001
- Poems from the Book of HoursAmazon ↗
collection · 1905
- Edges: Thirteen New Tales from the Borderlands of the ImaginationAmazon ↗
anthology · 1980
- Cat DreamsAmazon ↗
unknown · 2009
- Alien ZonesAmazon ↗
novel · 2014
- The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Boxed SetAmazon ↗
omnibus · 2017
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual CollectionAmazon ↗
anthology · 1996
- The Water is WideAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1976
- Nebula Award Stories 10Amazon ↗
anthology · 1975
- Going Out With Peacocks and Other PoemsAmazon ↗
poem · 1994
- Aliens: Recent EncountersAmazon ↗
anthology · 2013
- Edge of Awe: Experiences of the Malheur-Steens CountryAmazon ↗
anthology · 2019
- Nebula Award Stories 5Amazon ↗
anthology · 1969
- An Anthology Of Speculative FictionAmazon ↗
anthology · 1980
- Another world: A science fiction anthologyAmazon ↗
anthology · 1977
- Future Power: A Science Fiction AnthologyAmazon ↗
anthology · 1976
- Like Water for QuarksAmazon ↗
anthology · 2011
- The 1979 Annual World's Best SFAmazon ↗
anthology · 1979
- Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Reading AnthologyAmazon ↗
anthology · 1996
- Blood Out of a StoneAmazon ↗
novel · 2009
- Hard Words, and Other PoemsAmazon ↗
poem · 1981
- Wild Oats and Fireweed: New PoemsAmazon ↗
poem · 1987
- Out here poems and images from Steens Mountain CountryAmazon ↗
collection · 2010
- Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science FictionAmazon ↗
anthology · 1983
- ThingsAmazon ↗
short_story · 2017
- A Trip to the HeadAmazon ↗
short_story · 2017
- Through Other Eyes: Animal Stories by WomenAmazon ↗
anthology · 1988
- Magicats IIAmazon ↗
anthology · 1991
- Five Novels: The Lathe of Heaven / The Eye of the Heron / The Beginning Place / Searoad / LaviniaAmazon ↗
omnibus · 2024