Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood (*1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, and essayist. She has published numerous collections of poetry, novels, collections of short fiction, graphic novels, children’s books, and books of non-fiction.
This bibliography does not include Atwood’s children’s books and graphic novels.
Novels and Short Fiction (in Chronological Order)
The Edible Woman (1969; London: Virago, 1980).
Surfacing (1972; London: Virago, 1979).
Lady Oracle (1976; London: Virago, 1982).
Dancing Girls and Other Stories (1977; London: Virago, 1984).
- ‘The Man from Mars’
- ‘Betty’
- ‘Polarities’
- ‘Under Glass’
- ‘The Grave of the Famous Poet’
- ‘Hair Jewellery’
- ‘When It Happens’
- ‘A Travel Piece’
- ‘The Resplendant Quetzal’
- ‘Training’
- ‘Lives of the Poets’
- ‘Dancing Girls’
- ‘The Sin Eater’
- ‘Giving Birth’
Life before Man (1979; London: Vintage, 1996).
Bodily Harm (1981; London: Vintage, 1996).
Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems (1983; London: Virago, 1994).
- ‘Autobiography’
- ‘Making Poison’
- ‘The Boys’ Own Annual, 1911′
- ‘Before the ‘War’
- ‘Horror Comics’
- ‘Boyfriends’
- ‘The Victory Burlesk’
- ‘Fainting’
- ‘Raw Materials’
- ‘Murder in the Dark’
- ‘Simmering’
- ‘Women’s Novels’
- ‘Happy Endings’
- ‘Bread’
- ‘The Page’
- ‘Mute’
- ‘She’
- ‘Worship’
- ‘Iconography’
- ‘Liking Men’
- ‘Strawberries’
- ‘Him’
- ‘Hopeless’
- ‘A Parable’
- ‘Hand’
- ‘Everlasting’
- ‘Instructions for the Third Eye’
Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories (1983; London: Vintage, 1996).
- ‘Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother’
- ‘Hurricane Hazel’
- ‘Loulou; or, The Domestic Life of the Language’
- ‘Uglypuss’
- ‘Two Stories about Emma’
- ‘The Whirlpool Rapids‘
- ‘Walking on Water‘
- ‘Bluebeard’s Egg’
- ‘Spring Song of the Frogs’
- ‘Scarlet Ibis’
- ‘The Salt Garden’
- ‘In Search of the Rattlesnake Plantain’
- ‘The Sunrise’
- ‘Unearthing Suite’
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985; London: Vintage, 1996).
Cat’s Eye (1988; London: Virago, 1990).
Wilderness Tips (1991; London Virago, 1992).
- ‘True Trash’
- ‘Hairball’
- ‘Isis in Darkness’
- ‘The Bog Man’
- ‘Death by Landscape’
- ‘Uncles’
- ‘The Age of Lead’
- ‘Weight’
- ‘Wilderness Tips’
- ‘Hack Wednesday’
Good Bones (1992; London: Virago, 1993).
- ‘Bad News’
- ‘The Little Red Hen Tells All’
- ‘Gertrude Talks Back’
- ‘There Was Once’
- ‘Unpopular Gals’
- ‘Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women’
- ‘The Female Body’
- ‘In Love with Raymond Chandler’
- ‘Stump Hunting’
- ‘Making a Man’
- ‘Epaulettes’
- ‘Cold-Blooded’
- ‘Men at Sea’
- ‘Alien Territory’
- ‘Adventure Story’
- ‘Hardball’
- ‘My Life as a Bat’
- ‘Theology’
- ‘An Angel’
- ‘Poppies: Three Variations’
- ‘Homelanding’
- ‘Third Handed’
- ‘Death Scenes’
- ‘Four Small Paragraphs’
- ‘We Want It All’
- ‘Dance of the Lepers’
- ‘Good Bones’
The Robber Bride (1993; London: Virago, 1994).
Good Bones and Simple Murders (1983; New York: Nan A. Talese, 1994).
- ‘Murder in the Dark’
- ‘Bad News’
- ‘Unpopular Gals’
- ‘The Little Red Hen Tells All’
- ‘Gertrude Talks Back’
- ‘There Was Once’
- ‘Women’s Novels’
- ‘The Boys’ Own Annual’
- ‘Stump Hunting’
- ‘Making a Man’
- ‘Men at Sea’
- ‘Simmering’
- ‘Happy Endings’
- ‘Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women’
- ‘The Victory Burlesk’
- ‘She’
- ‘The Female Body’
- ‘Cold-Blooded’
- ‘Liking Men’
- ‘In Love with Raymond Chandler’
- ‘Simple Murders’
- ‘Iconography’
- ‘Alien Territory’
- ‘My Life as a Bat’
- ‘Hardball’
- ‘Bread’
- ‘Poppies: Three Variations’
- ‘Homelanding’
- ‘The Page’
- ‘An Angel’
- ‘Third Handed’
- ‘Death Scenes’
- ‘We Want It All’
- ‘Dance of the Lepers’
- ‘Good Bones’
Alias Grace (1996; London: Virago, 1997).
The Blind Assassin (2000; London: Virago, 2001).
Oryx and Crake (2003; London: Virago, 2004).
The Penelopiad (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2005).
The Tent (London: Bloomsbury, 2006).
- ‘Life Stories’
- ‘Clothing Dreams’
- ‘Bottle’
- ‘Impenetrable Forest’
- ‘Encouraging the Young’
- ‘Voice’
- ‘No More Photos’
- ‘Orphan Stories’
- ‘Gateway’
- ‘Bottle II’
- ‘Winter’s Tales’
- ‘It’s Not Easy Being Half-Divine’
- ‘Salome Was a Dancer’
- ‘Plots for Exotics’
- ‘Resources of the Ikarians’
- ‘Our Cat Enters Heaven’
- ‘Chicken Little Goes Too Far’
- ‘Thylacine Ragout’
- ‘The Animals Reject Their Names and Things Return to Their Origins’
- ‘Three Novels I Won’t Write Soon’
- ‘Take Charge’
- ‘Post-Colonial’
- ‘Heritage House’
- ‘Bring Back Mom: An Invocation’
- ‘Horatio’s Version’
- ‘King Log in Exile’
- ‘Faster’
- ‘Eating the Birds’
- ‘Something Has Happened’
- ‘Nightingale’
- ‘Warlords’
- ‘The Tent’
- ‘Time Folds’
- ‘Tree Baby’
- ‘But It Could Still’
Moral Disorder (2006; London: Virago, 2007).
- ‘The Bad News’
- ‘The Art of Cooking and Serving’
- ‘The Headless Horseman’
- ‘My Last Duchess’
- ‘The Other Place’
- ‘Monopoly’
- ‘Moral Disorder’
- ‘White Horse’
- ‘The Entities’
- ‘The Labrador Fiasco’
- ‘The Boys at the Lab’
The Year of the Flood (London: Bloomsbury, 2009).
MaddAddam (2013; London: Virago, 2014).
Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales (2014; London: Virago, 2015).
- ‘Alphinland’
- ‘Revenant’
- ‘Dark Lady’
- ‘Lusus Naturae’
- ‘The Freeze-Dried Groom’
- ‘I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth’
- ‘The Dead Hand Loves You’
- ‘Stone Mattress’
- ‘Torching the Dusties’
The Heart Goes Last (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).
Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold (London: Hogarth, 2016).
The Testaments (London: Chatto & Windus, 2019).
‡My Evil Mother: A Short Story (Seattle: Amazon Original Stories, 2022).
Old Babes in the Wood (London: Chatto & Windus, 2023).
- ‘First Aid’
- ‘Two Scorched Men’
- ‘Morte de Smudgie’
- ‘My Evil Mother’
- ‘The Dead Interview’
- ‘Impatient Griselda’
- ‘Bad Teeth’
- ‘Death by Clamshell’
- ‘Freeforall’
- ‘Metempsychosis: Or, the Journey of the Soul’
- ‘Airborne: A Symposium’
- ‘A Dusty Lunch’
- ‘Widows’
- ‘Wooden Box’
- ‘Old Babes in the Wood’
Poetry (in Chronological Order)
†Double Persephone
†The Circle Game
†The Animals in That Country
†The Journals of Susanna Moodie
†Procedures for Underground
†Power Politics
†You Are Happy
†Selected Poems: 1965–1975
†Two-Headed Poems
†True Stories
†Interlunar
†Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976–1986
†Morning in the Burned House
*Eating Fire: Selected Poetry, 1965–1995 (London: Virago, 1998).
†The Door
Dearly (London: Chatto & Windus, 2020).
Non-Fiction (in Chronological Order)
†Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
†Days of the Rebels: 1815–1840
†Second Words: Selected Critical Prose
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995; London: Virago, 2004).
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002; London: Virago, 2003).
†Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982–2004
*Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing, 1970–2005 (London: Virago, 2005).
†Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983–2005
*Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (London: Bloomsbury, 2008).
*In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (London: Virago, 2012).
- ‘In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination’
- ‘Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy’
- ‘H. Rider Haggard’s She‘
- ‘The Queen of Quinkdom: The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin’
- ‘Arguing against Ice Cream: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben’
- ‘George Orwell: Some Personal Connection’
- ‘Ten Ways of Looking at The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells’
- ‘Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro’
- ‘After the Last Battle: Visa for Avalon by Bryher’
- ‘Brave New World by Aldous Huxley’
- ‘Of the Madness of Mad Scientists: Jonathan Swift’s Grand Academy’
- ‘Cryogenics: A Symposium’
- ‘Cold-blooded’
- ‘Homelanding’
- ‘Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet’
- ‘”The Peach Women of Aa’A” from The Blind Assassin‘
- ‘An Open Letter from Margaret Atwood to the Judson Independent School District’
- ‘Weird Tales Covers of the 1930s’
*Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004–2021 (London: Chatto & Windus, 2022).
Sigla
* = not yet read
‡ = Kindle book
† = not available
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