Ursula K. Le Guin Reading Order

4 books (1989–2008)

Start with Dancing at the Edge of the World, the first of 4 books in the About Writing Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Dancing at the Edge of the World 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Steering the Craft 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Wave in the Mind 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin(By: ) 2008Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1982–1983)

Start with The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World 1983Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2004–2007)

Start with Gifts and read in order.

#	Title
1	Gifts 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Voices 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Powers 2007Buy 🇺🇸

95 books (1970–2019)

Start with Orbit 6, the first of 95 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Orbit 6 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 1970Buy 🇺🇸
3	Fathers and Mothers 1973Buy 🇺🇸
4	Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 1973Buy 🇺🇸
5	Orbit 12 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader 1973Buy 🇺🇸
7	Stopwatch 1974Buy 🇺🇸
8	Wondermakers 2 1974Buy 🇺🇸
9	Fantastic Stories Special - 1975 Sword & Sorcery Annual 1975Buy 🇺🇸
10	Beyond Tomorrow 1976Buy 🇺🇸
11	Nebula Award Stories 11 1976Buy 🇺🇸
12	Nebula Award Stories Ten 1976Buy 🇺🇸
13	Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection 1977Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Altered I 1978Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories 1978Buy 🇺🇸
16	Edges 1980Buy 🇺🇸
17	Interfaces 1980Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980Buy 🇺🇸
19	TriQuarterly 49: Science Fiction 1980Buy 🇺🇸
20	What If? Volume 3 1982Buy 🇺🇸
21	Changes | Stories of Metamorphosis 1983Buy 🇺🇸
22	Great Fantasy 1983Buy 🇺🇸
23	Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own 1983Buy 🇺🇸
24	Over the Rainbow 1983Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 1983Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection 1985Buy 🇺🇸
28	Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr 1987Buy 🇺🇸
29	Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸
30	First Annual Collection 1988Buy 🇺🇸
31	Science Fiction Stories 1988Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats 1988Buy 🇺🇸
33	Through Other Eyes 1988Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 14 1989Buy 🇺🇸
35	Flights of Fancy 1993Buy 🇺🇸
36	Omni Best Science Fiction Three 1993Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales 1993Buy 🇺🇸
38	Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸
39	Crank! Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸
40	First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994Buy 🇺🇸
41	Seventh Annual Collection 1994Buy 🇺🇸
42	Asimov's Science Fiction, July 1995 1995Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women 1995Buy 🇺🇸
44	Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1996 1996Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology 1996Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Year's Best Science Fiction, Thirteenth Annual Collection 1996Buy 🇺🇸
47	Women Who Run with the Werewolves 1996Buy 🇺🇸
48	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸
49	Modern Classics of Fantasy 1997Buy 🇺🇸
50	Wild Women 1997Buy 🇺🇸
51	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 1998Buy 🇺🇸
52	More Amazing Stories 1998Buy 🇺🇸
53	Far Horizons 1999Buy 🇺🇸
54	The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology 1999Buy 🇺🇸
55	Explorers 2000Buy 🇺🇸
56	Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape 2001Buy 🇺🇸
57	Meditations on Middle-Earth 2001Buy 🇺🇸
58	Fifteenth Annual Collection 2002Buy 🇺🇸
59	The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature 2002Buy 🇺🇸
60	Raising Our Voices: An Anthology of Oregon Poets Against the War 2003Buy 🇺🇸
61	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Volume 104 Number 2, February 2003 2003Buy 🇺🇸
62	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸
63	In Lands That Never Were 2004Buy 🇺🇸
64	New Magics 2004Buy 🇺🇸
65	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection 2004Buy 🇺🇸
66	12 Short Stories and Their Making 2005Buy 🇺🇸
67	Galileo's Children 2005Buy 🇺🇸
68	The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2005Buy 🇺🇸
69	The Space Opera Renaissance 2006Buy 🇺🇸
70	The Wand in the Word 2006Buy 🇺🇸
71	The 2007 Rhysling Anthology 2007Buy 🇺🇸
72	The Best of the Best, Vol 2 2007Buy 🇺🇸
73	The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 2007Buy 🇺🇸
74	Gay City: Volume 2 2009Buy 🇺🇸
75	The Secret History of Science Fiction 2009Buy 🇺🇸
76	Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology 2010Buy 🇺🇸
77	Dragon Lords and Warrior Women 2010Buy 🇺🇸
78	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸
79	Alien Contact 2011Buy 🇺🇸
80	Lightspeed: Year One 2011Buy 🇺🇸
81	Like Water for Quarks 2011Buy 🇺🇸
82	Diverse Energies 2012Buy 🇺🇸
83	The Moment of Change 2012Buy 🇺🇸
84	Aliens: Recent Encounters 2013Buy 🇺🇸
85	Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology 2013Buy 🇺🇸
86	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸
87	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
88	The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women 2014Buy 🇺🇸
89	The World Split Open 2014Buy 🇺🇸
90	Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Visions 2015Buy 🇺🇸
91	Sisters of the Revolution 2015Buy 🇺🇸
92	PEN America Issue 21: Mythologies 2018Buy 🇺🇸
93	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen 2019Buy 🇺🇸
94	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition 2019Buy 🇺🇸
95	Think in Public 2019Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1972–1987)

Start with The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1, the first of 16 books in the Best Science Fiction of the Year series.

#	Title
1	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 1 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 1974Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 1976Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 7 1978Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 8 1979Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 9 1980Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 1981Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 1982Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 1983Buy 🇺🇸
13	Best Science Fiction of the Year 13 1984Buy 🇺🇸
14	Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 1984Buy 🇺🇸
15	Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 1986Buy 🇺🇸
16	Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 16 1987Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1988–2009)

Start with Catwings, the first of 5 books in the Catwings series.

#	Title
1	Catwings 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Catwings Return 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	Jane on Her Own 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Cat Dreams 2009Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1996–2000)

Start with Tales of the Catwings and read in order.

#	Title
1	Tales of the Catwings 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	More Tales of the Catwings 2000Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2001–2001)

#	Title
1	Tales from Earthsea 2001Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1968–2014)

Start with A Wizard of Earthsea. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	A Wizard of Earthsea 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Tombs of Atuan 1970Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Farthest Shore 1972Buy 🇺🇸
4	Tehanu 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Other Wind 2001Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Daughter of Odren 2014Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1993–1993)

#	Title
1	Earthsea Revisioned 1993Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2001–2001)

Start with Dragonfly. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	Dragonfly 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Bones of the Earth 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Finder 2001Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2025–2025)

8 books (1966–2000)

Start with Planet of Exile, the first of 8 books in the Hainish Cycle series.

#	Title
1	Planet of Exile 1966Buy 🇺🇸
2	Rocannon's World 1966Buy 🇺🇸
3	City of Illusions 1967Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Left Hand of Darkness 1969Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Word for World is Forest 1972Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Dispossessed 1974Buy 🇺🇸
7	Four Ways to Forgiveness 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Telling 2000Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1980–2001)

Start with Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction(By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth), the first of 19 books in the Isaac Asimov's Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction(By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far(By: Isaac Asimov,Frederik Pohl,Carter Scholz,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Jack Williamson,Darrell Schweitzer,John Brunner,Juleen Brantingham,Martin Gardner,Richard Wilson,Milton A. Rothman,Elizabeth Anne Hull,Sharon Webb,Somtow Sucharitkul,Lee Weinstein,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre,William Tuning,Francis E. Izzo,Paul David Novitski,Lee Russell,Seth S. Horowitz,Tol E. Rant,S. Dale,Julie Flores,Tony Sarowitz) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
3	Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own(With: Connie Willis,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,Lee Killough,Mary Gentle,Mildred Downey Broxon,Shawna McCarthy,Sharon Webb,Leigh Kennedy,Stephanie A. Smith,Cherie Wilkerson,Julie Stevens,Sydney J. Van Scyoc,Cyn Mason,P.A. Kagan,P.J. MacQuarrie,Janet O. Jeppson,Beverly Grant,Hope Athearn) 1983Buy 🇺🇸
4	Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!(By: Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard,Scott Baker,Lillian Carl,Juleen Brantingham,Lee Killough,Ian McDowell,Daphne Castell,Sharon N. Farber,Richard Kearns,Shawna McCarthy,Leigh Kennedy,Gregg Keizer,Kristi Olesen) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Isaac Asimov's Aliens(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Isaac Asimov's Robots(By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite(By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
8	Isaac Asimov's War(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
9	Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	Isaac Asimov's Ghosts(By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
11	Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
12	Isaac Asimov's Christmas(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
13	Isaac Asimov's Camelot(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
14	Isaac Asimov's Detectives(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	Isaac Asimov's Solar System(By: Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	Isaac Asimov's Werewolves(By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
17	Isaac Asimov's Utopias(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
18	Isaac Asimov's Father Day(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	Isaac Asimov's Halloween(By: Isaac Asimov) 2001Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1998–1999)

Start with Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(By: Diana Gabaldon,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(By: Diana Gabaldon,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Legends(By: Stephen King,Anne McCaffrey,Robert Silverberg) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Legends 3(With: Terry Pratchett,Tad Williams,Robert Jordan,Robert Silverberg) 1999Buy 🇺🇸

14 books (1973–2025)

Start with From Elfland to Poughkeepsie, the first of 14 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	From Elfland to Poughkeepsie 1973Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dreams Must Explain Themselves 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Language of the Night 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	Way of the Water's Going 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed(With: Laurence Davis,Peter Stillman) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Cheek by Jowl 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	Coyote's Song: The Teaching Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin(With: Richard D. Erlich) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
8	Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	Words Are My Matter 2016Buy 🇺🇸
10	No Time to Spare 2017Buy 🇺🇸
11	Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing(With: David Naimon) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
12	Space Crone 2024Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin 2025Buy 🇺🇸
14	Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1976–1979)

Start with Orsinian Tales and read in order.

#	Title
1	Orsinian Tales 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	Malafrena 1979Buy 🇺🇸

32 books (1984–2026)

Start with The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel), the first of 32 books in the Outspoken Authors series.

#	Title
1	The Presidential Papers(By: John H. Kessel) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Human Front(By: Ken MacLeod) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lucky Strike(By: Kim Stanley Robinson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Left Left Behind(By: Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Mammoths of the Great Plains(By: Eleanor Arnason) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Underbelly(By: Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	Modem Times 2.0(By: Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow(By: Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Wild Girls(With: Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Report from Planet Midnight(By: Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
11	Surfing the Gnarl(By: Rudy Rucker) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	New Taboos(By: John Shirley) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials(By: Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Science of Herself(By: Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Raising Hell(By: Norman Spinrad,Eleanor Arnason) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Gypsy(By: Carter Scholz,Eleanor Arnason) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
17	My Life, My Body(By: Marge Piercy) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
18	Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be(By: Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
19	Fire.(By: Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
20	Totalitopia(By: John Crowley) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Atheist in the Attic(By: Samuel R. Delany,Eleanor Arnason) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
22	Thoreau's Microscope(By: Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
23	A City Made of Words(By: Paul Park) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	Talk Like a Man(By: Nisi Shawl) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Beatrix Gates(By: Rachel Pollack) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
26	Big Girl(By: Meg Elison) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
27	Planetbreaker’s Son(By: Nick Mamatas) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
28	Utopias of the Third Kind(By: Vandana Singh) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
29	Night Shift(By: Eileen Gunn) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Collapsing Frontier(By: Jonathan Lethem) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
31	Not What I Intended(By: Nancy Kress) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
32	She is Here(By: Nicola Griffith) 2026Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1988–1998)

Start with A Visit from Dr. Katz, the first of 5 books in the Picture series.

#	Title
1	A Visit from Dr. Katz 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fire and Stone 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Ride on the Red Mare's Back 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Fish Soup 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	Tom Mouse 1998Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1968–2019)

Start with Nine Lives, the first of 19 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Nine Lives 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Field of Vision 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 1973Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Water is Wide 1976Buy 🇺🇸
5	Leese Webster 1979Buy 🇺🇸
6	Gwilan's Harp 1981Buy 🇺🇸
7	Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World 1983Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na 1984Buy 🇺🇸
9	Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight(With: Susan Seddon Boulet) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
10	Forgiveness Day 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	Solitude (in F&SF) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Matter of Seggri (in Crank!) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
13	Unchosen Love (Amazing Stories #591) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
14	A Man of the People (in Asimov's) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
15	A Woman’s Liberation (in Asimov's) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
16	Ether OR 1995Buy 🇺🇸
17	Mountain Ways (in Asimov's) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Wild Girls(With: Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
19	Dangerous People 2019Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (1975–2018)

Start with The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1, the first of 22 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	Wild Angels 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 2 1978Buy 🇺🇸
4	Hard Words and Other Poems 1981Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Compass Rose 1982Buy 🇺🇸
6	In the Red Zone 1983Buy 🇺🇸
7	Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences 1987Buy 🇺🇸
8	Wild Oats and Fireweed 1988Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Fisherman of the Inland Sea 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	Blue Moon Over Thurman Street(With: Roger Dorband) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems 1994Buy 🇺🇸
12	Unlocking the Air and Other Stories 1996Buy 🇺🇸
13	Sixty Odd 1999Buy 🇺🇸
14	Science Fiction Stories 2002Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Birthday of the World and Other Stories 2002Buy 🇺🇸
16	Incredible Good Fortune 2006Buy 🇺🇸
17	Walking in Cornwall 2008Buy 🇺🇸
18	Finding My Elegy 2012Buy 🇺🇸
19	Late in the Day: Poems, 2010-2014 2015Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Found and the Lost 2016Buy 🇺🇸
21	Five Ways to Forgiveness 2017Buy 🇺🇸
22	So Far, So Good 2018Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1971–2008)

Start with The Lathe of Heaven, the first of 8 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Lathe of Heaven 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	Very Far Away from Anywhere Else / A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Eye of the Heron 1978Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Beginning Place / Threshold 1980Buy 🇺🇸
5	Always Coming Home 1985Buy 🇺🇸
6	Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	Changing Planes 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	Lavinia 2008Buy 🇺🇸

41 books (2005–2023)

Start with Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida), the first of 41 books in the The Last Interview series.

#	Title
1	Learning To Live Finally(By: Jacques Derrida) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Roberto Bolaño(By: Roberto Bolaño) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Kurt Vonnegut(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Jorge Luis Borges(By: Jorge Luis Borges) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hannah Arendt(By: Hannah Arendt) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words(By: David Foster Wallace) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	James Baldwin(By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
8	Ray Bradbury(By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	Ernest Hemingway(By: Ernest Hemingway) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
10	Gabriel García Márquez(By: Gabriel García Márquez) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
11	Lou Reed(By: Lou Reed) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Nora Ephron(By: Nora Ephron) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
13	Philip K. Dick(By: Philip K. Dick) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
14	David Bowie(By: David Bowie) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
15	J. D. Salinger(By: J.D. Salinger) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
16	Jane Jacobs(By: Jane Jacobs) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
17	Oliver Sacks(By: Oliver Sacks) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
18	Christopher Hitchens(By: Christopher Hitchens) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
19	Martin Luther King, Jr.(By: Martin Luther King Jr.) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
20	Hunter S. Thompson(By: Hunter S. Thompson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
21	Julia Child(By: Julia Child) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
22	Kathy Acker(By: Kathy Acker) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
23	Anthony Bourdain(By: Melville House,Helen Rosner) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
24	Billie Holiday(By: Billie Holiday) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
25	Graham Greene(By: Graham Greene) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
26	Prince(By: Prince) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
27	Ursula K. Le Guin 2019Buy 🇺🇸
28	Frida Kahlo(By: Frida Kahlo) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
29	Marilyn Monroe(By: Melville House,Sady Doyle) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
30	Ruth Bader Ginsburg(By: Melville House) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
31	Toni Morrison(By: Toni Morrison) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
32	Fred Rogers(By: Fred Rogers) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
33	John Lewis(By: Melville House) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
34	Johnny Cash(By: Johnny Cash) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
35	Shirley Chisholm(By: Shirley Chisholm) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Last Interview(By: Fred Rogers) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
37	Diego Maradona(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
38	Janet Malcolm(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	Kurt Cobain(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
40	Bell Hooks(By: bell hooks) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
41	Octavia E. Butler(By: Melville House) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2012–2012)

Start with The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 1: Where on Earth and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 1: Where on Earth 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands 2012Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1962–2017)

Start with April in Paris, the first of 13 books in the Wind's Twelve Quarters Short Stories/Novellas series.

9 books (2001–2009)

Start with Year's Best Fantasy, the first of 9 books in the Year's Best Fantasy series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best Fantasy 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year's Best Fantasy 2 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best Fantasy 3 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best Fantasy 4 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best Fantasy 5 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Year's Best Fantasy 6 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best Fantasy 7 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Year's Best Fantasy 8 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best Fantasy 9 2009Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1996–2013)

Start with Year's Best SF, the first of 18 books in the Year's Best SF Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year's Best SF 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best SF 3 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best SF 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Year's Best SF 6 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best SF 7 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best SF 9 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	Year's Best SF 10 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Year's Best SF 12 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	Year's Best SF 13 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	Year's Best SF 14 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	Year's Best SF 15 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Year's Best SF 16 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Year's Best SF 17 2012Buy 🇺🇸
18	Year's Best SF 18 2013Buy 🇺🇸