Margaret Atwood

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)
Margaret Atwood

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).

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).

Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories (1983; London: Vintage, 1996).

The Handmaid’s Tale (1985; London: Vintage, 1996).

Cat’s Eye (1988; London: Virago, 1990).

Wilderness Tips (1991; London Virago, 1992).

Good Bones (1992; London: Virago, 1993).

The Robber Bride (1993; London: Virago, 1994).

Good Bones and Simple Murders (1983; New York: Nan A. Talese, 1994).

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).

Moral Disorder (2006; London: Virago, 2007).

The Year of the Flood (London: Bloomsbury, 2009).

MaddAddam (2013; London: Virago, 2014).

Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales (2014; London: Virago, 2015).

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: Stories (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).