Margaret Atwood Books in Order

A memoir of sorts that weaves Atwood's personal history with reflections on writing, politics, and the people who shaped her. Moving between family, work, and public life, it reads like a series of vivid, honest snapshots.

A sweeping collection of poems from 1961 to 2023, mixing new work with selections from across Atwood's career. It is a powerful way to see her voice change over time while the obsessions, nature, power, myth, remain.

Three retired professors find their quiet routine disturbed when a friend goes missing, and they decide to investigate for themselves. Part mystery, part portrait of friendship and aging, this short story follows stubborn curiosity into danger.

A story collection that looks at aging, marriage, and what love turns into over decades. Atwood blends dark humor with tenderness, letting grief, desire, and memory brush up against the strange and the uncanny.

A grown daughter looks back on a childhood spent fearing her mother might be a witch, or something close to it. Part family story, part fairy-tale unease, this short fiction explores love, power, and the stories kids tell themselves.

A wide-ranging essay collection that pulls together Atwood on writing, politics, climate change, and the everyday absurdities of modern life. Curious and direct, it shows how her mind moves from a headline to a myth to a line of dialogue.

A poetry collection that reflects on love, grief, aging, and the strangeness of ordinary days. Atwood writes with wit and candor, moving from tender elegies to quick, unsettling observations.

In WWII-era Toronto, a young artist joins a comic-book studio and creates a Nazi-fighting bear heroine to boost morale. The graphic novel tracks how war, family pressure, and propaganda shape his art, and his mental health.

Set years after The Handmaid's Tale, this sequel uses multiple narrators, including Aunt Lydia and two young women shaped by Gilead in different ways. Secrets surface as cracks spread through the regime and its propaganda.

A fully illustrated adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale that follows Offred through the Republic of Gilead. The graphic format makes the novel's rituals, rules, and quiet acts of defiance feel immediate, without changing the core story.

An aging couple starts the day with disturbing news from the wider world, and the shock lands in the middle of their ordinary breakfast routine. This short story turns private tenderness and irritation into a lens on public tragedy.

A scholarly collection on Canadian and comparative North American studies, with essays that range across literature, culture, and critical theory. It includes academic readings of writers such as Margaret Atwood alongside wider discussions of the field.

A slim collection of Atwood pieces centered on the idea of freedom, from imagined dystopias to sharp moral choices. It is a quick, varied read that asks what we trade, what we keep, and what freedom really costs.

Angel Catbird and his half-cat crew head to Castle Catula to seek allies as the conflict between cats and rats escalates. Adventure, jokes, and odd science collide as they face new traps and shifting loyalties.

In the final Angel Catbird volume, the rat army pushes its plan for domination, and Angel Catbird ends up in serious trouble. His friends race to rescue him and stop Professor Muroid before the city becomes a rodent kingdom.

A nonfiction lecture that looks back at the surge of Canadian writing in the 1960s, using the Burgess Shale as a metaphor for sudden abundance. Atwood connects literary community, publishing, and national identity in plain language.

Three of Atwood's rhyming children's stories in one volume. With Rude Ramsay, Bashful Bob, and Wandering Wenda, it delivers silly wordplay, oddball villains, and gentle moral reversals that never feel preachy.

Felix, a theatre director pushed out of his job, plots a careful revenge by staging The Tempest inside a prison. As rehearsals blur art and life, the novel asks what it means to forgive, and what it means to let go.

Genetic engineer Strig Feleedus survives a lab accident and becomes a strange cat-and-bird hybrid. As he adjusts to new senses and new instincts, he is pulled into a pun-filled battle with rat villains and unlikely allies.

Stan and Charmaine sign up for Consilience, a program that trades freedom for security by making residents alternate months as prisoners. The bargain starts to rot from the inside, and their marriage becomes tangled in surveillance, desire, and moral compromise.

A compact selection of Atwood's writing advice and reflections on the craft. These essays consider where stories come from, how writers work, and why language and imagination matter, in a voice that is practical and funny.

A short nonfiction piece in which Atwood maps the thin line between utopia and dystopia. She reflects on "ustopia" and on how imagined societies, including her own, borrow from real history and present-day fears.

An illustrated edition of Atwood's poetic sequence spoken through the imagined voice of Susanna Moodie. The poems track arrival and dislocation in early Canada, while the artwork adds another layer to the book's shifting perspective.

Nine stories that mix dark humor with sharp emotional realism, many of them about aging, revenge, and the stories people tell themselves. From an Arctic cruise to domestic unease, Atwood keeps the surprises coming without warning.

A linked set of stories focused on a relationship tested by work, weather, and sudden disruptions. With a calm, precise voice, Atwood shows how domestic life, a farm, a trip, an illness, can become its own kind of moral drama.

After the plague, a small band of survivors and the bioengineered Crakers struggle to build a workable community. Old experiments still stalk the landscape, and every choice, about trust, science, and story, can reshape what comes next.

In a near-future economic crash, Stan and Charmaine consider joining the Consilience project, which promises safety at a steep price. This short installment sets up the seductive deal and the private worries behind it.

Wenda wanders into Widow Wallop's underground laundry, where lost children are put to work. Told in bouncy rhyme, this picture book turns chores into an adventure as Wenda plots an escape and outsmarts the Washery's rules.

A set of essays and talks about science fiction and fantasy, and why those genres matter. Atwood discusses how imagined worlds reflect real fears and desires, mixing literary criticism with personal reading history.

In the same broken world as Oryx and Crake, Toby and Ren try to outlast a devastating pandemic. Linked to the eco-minded God's Gardeners, they navigate violence, scarcity, and the hard work of staying human as society collapses.

A reproduced historical travel narrative credited to Margaret Eleanor Atwood, following journeys through Germany, Poland, and the Black Sea region. Written in a period voice, it offers observations on places, people, and politics along the route.

A late-career poetry collection that looks straight at time, grief, and the ordinary mysteries of living. Atwood's poems move between wry observation and sudden tenderness, finding doors in places that seem closed.

Based on a series of lectures, this nonfiction book explores the idea of debt in money, morality, and the natural world. Atwood moves from myth and fairy tale to economics and punishment, asking what we think must be paid back.

Short, surreal pieces, fables, and sketches that hover between dream and satire, often accompanied by the author's own drawings. The Tent turns modern anxieties into compact scenes that can be funny, eerie, or quietly brutal.

A linked set of stories that follows a couple through shifts in work, weather, love, and aging. Small domestic moments, a farm, a trip, a sudden emergency, become the stage for moral tests and quiet heartbreak.

A wide-ranging collection of essays, reviews, and occasional writing that spans decades. Atwood covers literature, politics, science, and the environment, tying it together with a brisk, skeptical voice and sharp humor.

Penelope, long stuck as a footnote in the Odyssey, finally tells her version of the story. With a chorus of the hanged maids, this witty retelling questions heroism, marriage, and what gets erased when legends are made.

A gathering of occasional writing, essays, reviews, and talks that shows Atwood's curiosity at full range. Literature, politics, science, and daily life all appear here, tied together by her plainspoken wit and sharp questions.

A collection of nonfiction pieces and commentary that shows Atwood thinking in public. These essays range across books, politics, and culture, with a reader's curiosity and a writer's precision about language and power.

A small-press collection of nine short stories that show Atwood in miniature. These pieces blend sharp observation with fable-like turns, moving quickly from the everyday into the uncanny.

A rhyming picture book about two extremely polite, shy characters who keep getting stuck saying "after you." Their courtship becomes a comedy of hesitation, until they finally risk being direct and honest.

A comic, rhyming picture book about Ramsay, a rude boy who bullies everyone in sight. When his Roaring Radishes finally push back, he learns that being loud and mean is not the same as being strong.

After a engineered plague, Snowman lives among the ruins, caring for the gentle Crakers and haunted by the past. His memories of Crake and Oryx reveal how love, science, and greed helped end the world.

A set of essays and lectures about what it means to write and to read, and how artists bargain with time. Atwood ranges from practical craft to myth and folklore, always interested in why stories survive.

An anthology of original stories that reimagine defining moments in Canadian history. With contributions from multiple writers, including Margaret Atwood, it uses fiction to question national myths and spotlight overlooked voices.

Iris Chase tells the story of her wealthy family and the sister she could never save, while a scandalous pulp novel unfolds inside her memoir. Layered narratives, love, and betrayal converge into a portrait of power and regret.

A selected-poems volume spanning three decades of Atwood's work. It gathers sharp, memorable pieces about politics, desire, myth, and the natural world, giving a fast way into her poetic range.

A book-length conversation between Margaret Atwood and Victor-Lévy Beaulieu. Moving between literature and politics, it digs into Canadian identity, language, and what writers owe to place and history.

A poetic retelling of an early 20th-century Labrador expedition that went disastrously wrong. Using shifting voices and documentary echoes, Atwood explores ambition, endurance, and how tales of exploration get written and remembered.

Based on a real Canadian murder case, this novel follows Grace Marks, a young servant accused of killing her employer and his housekeeper. As a doctor interviews her, the story probes memory, class, and the slippery line between truth and performance.

A revised anthology of Canadian short fiction, edited by Margaret Atwood, that broadens and updates the selection. It is a practical way to sample major writers and styles in one place, with a strong editor's eye.

A nonfiction collection focused on Canadian literature and the idea of the North as a powerful, sometimes threatening presence. Atwood blends close reading with cultural mythmaking, showing how place can shape stories and fears.

A rhyming picture book about Princess Prunella, a picky eater with very specific demands. A mysterious purple peanut upends her routine, turning snack time into a goofy lesson about stubbornness and surprise.

Poems that move through memory, family, loss, and ordinary domestic scenes, with the aftertaste of fire and ruin. Atwood balances plain speech with eerie turns, finding the uncanny inside the everyday.

A compact selection of Atwood short stories that highlights her range, from chilly realism to darkly funny myth riffs. These pieces focus on power, desire, and the small choices that can change a life in a single scene.

A small collection of short, sharp pieces that twist familiar stories into unsettling, witty new forms. Atwood mixes fable, satire, and dark comedy, showing how quickly the ordinary can turn strange.

Three women, each with her own history, are repeatedly haunted by Zenia, a brilliant, unreliable presence who steals men and reshapes narratives. This novel is a darkly funny study of friendship, rivalry, and the stories people need.

Brief fables, micro-stories, and retellings that twist myths and modern life into fresh shapes. Atwood's pieces are witty and sharp, often turning a familiar tale inside out to expose its hidden logic.

Stories that probe desire, betrayal, and the quiet violence of memory. Atwood sets sharp moral puzzles in ordinary lives, where a single decision can tilt a friendship, a marriage, or a whole sense of self.

A collection of interviews and conversations that follows Atwood across decades of work. She discusses her novels and poems, politics and feminism, and the everyday habits and ideas that shape a writing life.

A family-friendly introduction to birds that mixes clear facts with a sense of wonder. The book looks at how birds live, migrate, and adapt, inviting young readers to notice feathers, songs, and habitats in daily life.

A yearly anthology gathering standout American short stories from magazines, selected for the 1989 volume. With Margaret Atwood as guest editor, it offers a varied mix of voices and styles, plus an editor's introduction.

An anthology of Canadian short fiction in English edited by Margaret Atwood. The selection showcases different regions and styles, offering a snapshot of what Canadian storytelling can sound like at its best.

Artist Elaine Risley returns to Toronto for a retrospective and is flooded with memories of childhood. As she revisits a friendship that turned into cruelty, the novel traces how bullying, art, and identity echo across decades.

A literary food anthology associated with Canadian writing, mixing recipes, excerpts, and playful reflections on eating. Edited by Margaret Atwood, it treats the kitchen as a place where culture, memory, and storytelling meet.

In the theocratic Republic of Gilead, Offred is forced into servitude as a Handmaid, valued only for her fertility. Under constant surveillance, she clings to memories of her old life and tests the limits of quiet resistance.

A second volume of selected poems that extends the view into later decades of Atwood's work. It gathers poems that move between the domestic and the mythic, with a clear eye for power, aging, and the natural world.

A poetry collection that shifts between the intimate and the political, lit by lunar imagery. These poems explore darkness, memory, and transformation, with Atwood's knack for making simple scenes feel charged.

A collection of short, experimental pieces, fables, and prose-poems that twist everyday life into something stranger. Atwood plays with myth, murder, and sudden reversals, creating miniature stories that land like jokes with teeth.

Stories about modern relationships, self-deception, and the gaps between how people act and what they mean. Atwood mixes realism with fairy-tale shadows, letting ordinary marriages and friendships turn unsettling.

An anthology of Canadian poetry in English edited by Margaret Atwood. It brings together voices across eras and regions, offering a curated map of themes, styles, and the changing language of a country.

A sharp collection of essays and criticism that ranges across literature, politics, and culture. Atwood writes as a curious, skeptical reader, interested in how stories shape identity, and how power hides in plain sight.

Poems that stare straight at politics, violence, and the stories people tell to live with them. Atwood blends stark imagery with irony and tenderness, turning private moments into witnesses for the public world.

Rennie, a journalist recovering from illness, travels to a Caribbean island hoping for distance and clarity. Instead she is pulled into local unrest and danger, forcing her to confront fear, complicity, and what courage costs.

A gentle children's story about a girl named Anna and the responsibilities that come with caring for an animal. Simple scenes and clear emotions turn everyday problems into a lesson about patience and kindness.

Set in Toronto, this novel follows three adults caught in shifting relationships, grief, and self-invention. Against a backdrop of museums and city routines, Atwood dissects how people narrate their lives to survive betrayal and loss.

A playful picture book about children, a tree, and the scramble that follows when someone wants in. With simple language and whimsical drawings, it captures the drama of small rivalries and quick alliances.

A poetry collection preoccupied with doubles, split selves, and competing stories. The poems move between intimacy and argument, observing how people can be two things at once, tender and cruel, certain and lost.

An illustrated history volume about Canada between 1815 and 1840, when reform movements and rebellions challenged the old order. Atwood's narrative works alongside archival images to make political conflict feel immediate and human.

Stories about women negotiating power in everyday scenes, apartments, offices, hotels, friendships. Atwood turns small moments into pressure points, mixing dry humor with sudden unease and moral bite.

A wide-ranging selection of Atwood's poems, chosen from across her early work. It highlights her recurring obsessions, nature, myth, gender, and power, in poems that can be funny, bleak, and startlingly direct.

Joan Foster lives multiple lives: secret poet, writer of Gothic romances, and master of reinvention. When blackmail and scandal close in, she tries to rewrite her own plot, with comic detours, impostures, and ghosts of the past.

A poetry collection that blends intimacy with the wild, including myth-inflected sequences and spare, searching lyrics. Atwood writes about love and betrayal, joy and threat, as feelings that can exist side by side.

In this influential work of literary criticism, Atwood argues that survival is a key pattern in Canadian writing. Blending close reading with cultural history, she offers a provocative guide to stories shaped by harsh landscapes and power.

When her father disappears, a young woman returns to an isolated Quebec island with friends and a lover. The search pulls her into memory and hallucination, and the wilderness forces a brutal reckoning with identity and guilt.

A poetry sequence that treats romance as a contest of leverage and vulnerability. These poems are direct and sharp, tracing how love can become negotiation, performance, and sometimes open conflict.

A sequence of poems spoken through the imagined voice of Susanna Moodie, a 19th-century settler and writer. The book traces arrival, disorientation, and the uneasy negotiation between wilderness, history, and identity.

A lean, early collection of poems that slips between city life and the natural world. Atwood explores what lies under ordinary surfaces, fear, desire, and the hard-to-name forces that shape how we see.

Marian MacAlpin seems to be doing everything right until her engagement sparks a strange revolt: she can no longer eat. As her body says no, the novel turns consumer culture and gender expectations into a dark, funny satire.

A poetry collection that looks at animals, landscapes, and human appetite as parts of the same system. Atwood's poems shift between curiosity and menace, asking what we take from the world, and what the world takes back.

An early poetry collection that moves between nature, myth, and social masks. These poems watch power at close range, in love, in language, and in the body, with a sharp eye for what people pretend not to see.