Margaret Atwood Reading Order

3 books (2016–2017)

Start with Angel Catbird, Volume 1 and read in order.

#	Title
1	Angel Catbird, Volume 1 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Catbird Roars 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	To Castle Catula 2017Buy 🇺🇸

44 books (1989–2024)

Start with The Best American Short Stories 1989, the first of 44 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Best American Short Stories 1989 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Women Writers at Work 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Colors of a New Day 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	Cries of the Spirit 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories 1992Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	Ploughshares Winter 1993-94 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	Minding the Body 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women 1995Buy 🇺🇸
12	Ten 1996Buy 🇺🇸
13	Sunrise to Sunset 1997Buy 🇺🇸
14	Wild Women 1997Buy 🇺🇸
15	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 1998Buy 🇺🇸
16	Mistresses of the Dark 1998Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction 1999Buy 🇺🇸
18	Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium 1999Buy 🇺🇸
19	Ovid Metamorphosed 2000Buy 🇺🇸
20	When The Wild Comes Leaping Up 2002Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War 2003Buy 🇺🇸
22	More Stories We Tell 2004Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles 2004Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories 2007Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping 2007Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction. 2008Buy 🇺🇸
27	Crimespotting 2009Buy 🇺🇸
28	First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors 2009Buy 🇺🇸
29	Half-Minute Horrors 2009Buy 🇺🇸
30	Sisters 2009Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Secret History of Science Fiction 2009Buy 🇺🇸
32	I'm With the Bears 2011Buy 🇺🇸
33	Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2012Buy 🇺🇸
34	The World Split Open 2014Buy 🇺🇸
35	Loosed Upon the World 2015Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Secret Loves of Geek Girls 2015Buy 🇺🇸
37	First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner 2016Buy 🇺🇸
38	Imaginarium 4 2016Buy 🇺🇸
39	Freeman's Power 2018Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Secret Loves of Geeks 2018Buy 🇺🇸
41	Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers 2019Buy 🇺🇸
42	Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes 2022Buy 🇺🇸
43	Furies 2023Buy 🇺🇸
44	Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering 2024Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (2004–2013)

Start with A Short History of Myth(By: Karen Armstrong), the first of 9 books in the Canongate's The Myths series.

#	Title
1	A Short History of Myth(By: Karen Armstrong) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson(By: David Grossman) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Helmet of Horror(By: Victor Pelevin) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Penelopiad 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Weight(By: Jeanette Winterson) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Where Three Roads Meet(By: Salley Vickers) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Binu and the Great Wall(By: Su Tong) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	Baba Yaga Laid an Egg(By: Dubravka Ugrešić) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Goddess Chronicle(By: Natsuo Kirino) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

31 books (1964–2024)

Start with The Circle Game, the first of 31 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Circle Game 1964Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Animals in that Country 1968Buy 🇺🇸
3	Procedures For Underground 1970Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Journals of Susanna Moodie(With: Charles Pachter) 1970Buy 🇺🇸
5	Power Politics 1971Buy 🇺🇸
6	You Are Happy 1974Buy 🇺🇸
7	Selected Poems 1976Buy 🇺🇸
8	Dancing Girls and Other Stories 1977Buy 🇺🇸
9	Two-Headed Poems 1978Buy 🇺🇸
10	True Stories 1981Buy 🇺🇸
11	Bluebeard's Egg 1983Buy 🇺🇸
12	Murder in the Dark 1983Buy 🇺🇸
13	Interlunar 1984Buy 🇺🇸
14	Selected Poems II 1986Buy 🇺🇸
15	Wilderness Tips 1991Buy 🇺🇸
16	Good Bones 1992Buy 🇺🇸
17	Poems 1976-1986 1992Buy 🇺🇸
18	Bones & Murder 1994Buy 🇺🇸
19	Polarities. Selected Stories 1994Buy 🇺🇸
20	Morning in the Burned House 1995Buy 🇺🇸
21	Eating Fire 1998Buy 🇺🇸
22	Moving Targets 2004Buy 🇺🇸
23	Moral Disorder and Other Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Tent 2006Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Door 2007Buy 🇺🇸
26	Stone Mattress 2014Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie 2014Buy 🇺🇸
28	Freedom 2018Buy 🇺🇸
29	Dearly 2020Buy 🇺🇸
30	Old Babes in the Wood 2023Buy 🇺🇸
31	Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023 2024Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2012–2018)

Start with Thomas King: Works and Impact(By: Kathleen Flaherty,Helen Hoy,Robin Ridington,Marlene Goldman,James H. Cox,Eva Gruber,Aloys N.M. Fleischmann,Blanca Schorcht,Carter Meland,Doris Wolf,Favel,Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber,Julia Breitbach,Katja Sarkowsky,Linda Warley,Marco Ulm,Mark Shackleton,Marta Dvořák,Martin Kuester,Reingard M. Nischik,Renée Hulan,Stuart Christie,Suzanne Rintoul) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Thomas King: Works and Impact(By: Kathleen Flaherty,Helen Hoy,Robin Ridington,Marlene Goldman,James H. Cox,Eva Gruber,Aloys N.M. Fleischmann,Blanca Schorcht,Carter Meland,Doris Wolf,Favel,Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber,Julia Breitbach,Katja Sarkowsky,Linda Warley,Marco Ulm,Mark Shackleton,Marta Dvořák,Martin Kuester,Reingard M. Nischik,Renée Hulan,Stuart Christie,Suzanne Rintoul) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies(With: Aritha van Herk,Linda Hutcheon,Silvia Mergenthal,Marlene Goldman,Eva Gruber,Julia Breitbach,Katja Sarkowsky,Caroline Rosenthal,Michael Hutcheon,Shuli Barzilai,Bettina Mack,Claire Omhovere,Florian Freitag,Jutta Ernst,Sherrill Grace) 2018Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2019–2019)

7 books (2015–2018)

Start with The Gap of Time(By: Jeanette Winterson), the first of 7 books in the Hogarth Shakespeare series.

#	Title
1	The Gap of Time(By: Jeanette Winterson) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hag-Seed 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shylock is My Name(By: Howard Jacobson) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
4	Vinegar Girl(By: Anne Tyler) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dunbar(By: Edward St. Aubyn) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
6	New Boy(By: Tracy Chevalier) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
7	Macbeth(By: Jo Nesbø) 2018Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2003–2013)

Start with Oryx and Crake and read in order.

#	Title
1	Oryx and Crake 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Year of the Flood 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	MaddAddam 2013Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2012–2012)

18 books (1972–2025)

Start with Survival, the first of 18 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Survival 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	Days Of The Rebels 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	Second Words 1982Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Canlit Foodbook 1987Buy 🇺🇸
5	Margaret Atwood Conversations 1990Buy 🇺🇸
6	Strange Things 1995Buy 🇺🇸
7	Two Solicitudes 1996Buy 🇺🇸
8	Story of a Nation 2001Buy 🇺🇸
9	Negotiating with the Dead / On Writers & Writing 2002Buy 🇺🇸
10	Curious Pursuits 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Writing With Intent 2005Buy 🇺🇸
12	Payback 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	In Other Worlds 2011Buy 🇺🇸
15	Dire Cartographies 2015Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Burgess Shale 2017Buy 🇺🇸
17	Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2022Buy 🇺🇸
18	Book of Lives 2025Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1980–2017)

Start with Anna's Pet, the first of 6 books in the Picture series.

#	Title
1	Anna's Pet 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Trio of Tolerable Tales 2017Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1983–2024)

Start with Happy Endings, the first of 8 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Happy Endings 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home(With: Naomi Alderman) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Moral Disorder 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Bad News 2018Buy 🇺🇸
5	War Bears 2019Buy 🇺🇸
6	Two Scorched Men 2021Buy 🇺🇸
7	My Evil Mother 2022Buy 🇺🇸
8	Cut and Thirst 2024Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1969–2015)

Start with The Edible Woman, the first of 14 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Edible Woman 1969Buy 🇺🇸
2	Surfacing 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lady Oracle 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	Up in the Tree 1978Buy 🇺🇸
5	Life Before Man 1979Buy 🇺🇸
6	Bodily Harm 1981Buy 🇺🇸
7	Cat's Eye 1988Buy 🇺🇸
8	For the Birds 1990Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Robber Bride 1993Buy 🇺🇸
10	Alias Grace 1996Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Labrador Fiasco 1996Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Blind Assassin 2000Buy 🇺🇸
13	Bottle 2004Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Heart Goes Last 2015Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1986–2019)

Start with The Handmaid's Tale and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Handmaid's Tale 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Testaments 2019Buy 🇺🇸