Margaret Atwood Reading Order

3 books (2016–2017)

Margaret Atwood's Angel Catbird is a complete three-book graphic novel series published between 2016 and 2017. The trilogy consists of Angel Catbird, Volume 1, followed by The Catbird Roars and To Castle Catula, and should be read in publication order. All three volumes were released within a single year, making this a tightly constructed narrative arc told through illustrated sequential art.

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

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

46 books (1989–2024)

Margaret Atwood's Anthologies series comprises 44 books of curated short fiction and literary collections published between 1989 and 2024, with new entries still being added. These volumes span diverse themes and styles, from flash fiction to fantasy to contemporary Canadian literature, and should be read in publication order to follow the chronological development of the selections. The series began with The Best American Short Stories 1989 and continues to showcase both established masterpieces and emerging voices in short-form fiction.

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

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

9 books (2004–2013)

Canongate's The Myths is a complete nine-book series published between 2004 and 2013, featuring retellings and explorations of classical and traditional myths by contemporary authors. The series includes contributions from Margaret Atwood, David Grossman, Victor Pelevin, Jeanette Winterson, and other acclaimed writers, each offering their own interpretation of mythological narratives. These books should be read in publication order, beginning with Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth and concluding with Natsuo Kirino's The Goddess Chronicle. The collection blends literary fiction with mythological tradition, presenting diverse cultural perspectives on timeless stories.

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

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

31 books (1964–2024)

Margaret Atwood's Collections series spans 31 works published from 1964 to 2024 and remains ongoing. This diverse non-fiction collection encompasses poetry, short story collections, and selected poems that should be read in publication order, beginning with The Circle Game. The series includes notable volumes such as The Journals of Susanna Moodie (with Charles Pachter), Dancing Girls and Other Stories, Bluebeard's Egg, and Wilderness Tips, offering readers a comprehensive view of Atwood's literary output across multiple genres and decades.

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

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

2 books (2012–2018)

The European Studies in North American Literature and Culture series is a two-book scholarly collection examining North American literature and cultural studies, published between 2012 and 2018. The series is now complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Thomas King: Works and Impact and followed by Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies. These volumes feature contributions from numerous international scholars and academics engaged in literary and cultural analysis of the North American region.

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.

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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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2019–2019)

7 books (2015–2018)

The Hogarth Shakespeare is a seven-book series published between 2015 and 2018, featuring retellings of Shakespeare's plays by contemporary authors. Each book adapts a different Shakespeare work for modern audiences, with entries by Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, Howard Jacobson, Anne Tyler, Edward St. Aubyn, Tracy Chevalier, and Jo Nesbø. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson.

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

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

3 books (2003–2013)

Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy consists of three novels published between 2003 and 2013, presenting a complete speculative fiction series that should be read in publication order. The three books are Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam, each building upon the narrative foundation established by its predecessor. This finished series offers a interconnected exploration of a transformed world told through multiple perspectives across the three volumes.

Start with Oryx and Crake and read in order.

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

1 book (2012–2012)

18 books (1972–2025)

Margaret Atwood's non-fiction series comprises 18 books published between 1972 and 2025, with the series still ongoing. These works should be read in publication order, beginning with Survival. The collection spans essays, interviews, lectures, and critical writings on literature, culture, mythology, and society, reflecting Atwood's perspectives as a celebrated author and cultural commentator.

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

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

6 books (1980–2017)

Margaret Atwood's Picture series consists of six illustrated children's books published between 1980 and 2017, with the series now complete. These whimsical tales, including titles like Anna's Pet, Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut, and Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, should be read in publication order to follow the author's intended sequence. The series combines Atwood's distinctive storytelling with vibrant illustrations, creating a collection of standalone yet interconnected stories for young readers.

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

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

8 books (1983–2024)

Margaret Atwood's Short Stories/Novellas series spans from 1983 to 2024 and remains ongoing, currently comprising eight books that should be read in publication order. The series begins with Happy Endings and includes collaborations such as The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home with Naomi Alderman, along with solo entries like Moral Disorder, The Bad News, War Bears, Two Scorched Men, My Evil Mother, Cut, and Thirst. These shorter works showcase Atwood's versatility across varied themes and narrative forms throughout four decades of publishing.

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

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

14 books (1969–2015)

Margaret Atwood's collection of 14 standalone novels spans from 1969 to 2015 and should be read in publication order, beginning with The Edible Woman. Each novel stands alone as an independent work, though reading them chronologically through Atwood's career offers insight into the evolution of her literary voice. The series is complete, encompassing the full scope of her fiction work during this period.

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

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

2 books (1986–2019)

Margaret Atwood's two-book series consists of The Handmaid's Tale, published in 1986, and its sequel The Testaments, released in 2019. The complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with the first novel. Both books are now available, making this an ideal time to experience the full narrative arc.

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

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1	The Handmaid's Tale 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Testaments 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible