Ursula K. Le Guin Reading Order

5 books (1989–2008)

This complete four-book series spans nearly two decades of Ursula K. Le Guin's essays and reflections on the craft of writing. Published between 1989 and 2008, the collection begins with Dancing at the Edge of the World and progresses through works examining narrative technique, creative consciousness, and conversations about the writing process. These volumes should be read in publication order to experience Le Guin's evolving perspectives on language, storytelling, and the writer's relationship to their art.

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

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

2 books (1982–1983)

This complete two-book fantasy series by Ursula K. Le Guin was published between 1982 and 1983. The books should be read in publication order, beginning with The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune followed by Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World.

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

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

3 books (2004–2007)

Ursula K. Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore is a complete fantasy trilogy published between 2004 and 2007. The three books—Gifts, Voices, and Powers—should be read in publication order to experience the interconnected stories set in this richly imagined world. Each novel explores different characters and regions while building on the larger mythology of the Western Shore.

Start with Gifts and read in order.

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1	Gifts 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Voices 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Powers 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

99 books (1970–2023)

This complete anthology series edited by Ursula K. Le Guin spans nearly five decades and contains 95 books published between 1970 and 2019. The collection encompasses science fiction, fantasy, western, and general speculative fiction across multiple themed and annual anthologies, including the notable Nebula Award Stories and Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year series. Read in publication order beginning with Orbit 6 to experience how Le Guin's editorial vision evolved over nearly 50 years of curating short fiction from various authors.

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

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1	Orbit 6 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Fathers and Mothers 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Orbit 12 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Stopwatch 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Wondermakers 2 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Fantastic Stories Special - 1975 Sword & Sorcery Annual 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Beyond Tomorrow 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Nebula Award Stories 11 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Nebula Award Stories Ten 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Altered I 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Edges 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Interfaces 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	TriQuarterly 49: Science Fiction 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	What If? Volume 3 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Changes | Stories of Metamorphosis 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Great Fantasy 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Over the Rainbow 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	First Annual Collection 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Science Fiction Stories 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Through Other Eyes 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 14 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Flights of Fancy 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Omni Best Science Fiction Three 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Crank! Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Seventh Annual Collection 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Asimov's Science Fiction, July 1995 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1996 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	The Year's Best Science Fiction, Thirteenth Annual Collection 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Women Who Run with the Werewolves 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Modern Classics of Fantasy 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	Wild Women 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	More Amazing Stories 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Far Horizons 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Explorers 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	Meditations on Middle-Earth 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	Fifteenth Annual Collection 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Raising Our Voices: An Anthology of Oregon Poets Against the War 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Volume 104 Number 2, February 2003 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	In Lands That Never Were 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	New Magics 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	12 Short Stories and Their Making 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67	Galileo's Children 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68	The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
69	The Space Opera Renaissance 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
70	The Wand in the Word 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
71	The 2007 Rhysling Anthology 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
72	The Best of the Best, Vol 2 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
73	The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
74	Gay City: Volume 2 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
75	The Secret History of Science Fiction 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
76	Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
77	Dragon Lords and Warrior Women 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
78	The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
79	Alien Contact 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
80	Lightspeed: Year One 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
81	Like Water for Quarks 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
82	Diverse Energies 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
83	The Moment of Change 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
84	Aliens: Recent Encounters 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
85	Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
86	The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
87	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
88	Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 90, March 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
89	The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
90	The World Split Open 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
91	Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Visions 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
92	Sisters of the Revolution 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
93	Women of Futures Past 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
94	PEN America Issue 21: Mythologies 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
95	The Paris Review, Summer 2018 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
96	The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
97	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
98	Think in Public 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
99	Gobshite Quarterly 2023, #41/42: 20th. anniversary issue 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

16 books (1972–1987)

The Best Science Fiction of the Year is a 16-book anthology series edited by Ursula K. Le Guin, published between 1972 and 1987. These volumes collect outstanding science fiction short stories and novellas from each year, providing a comprehensive survey of the genre's best work during this period. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with volume 1.

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

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

5 books (1988–2009)

Ursula K. Le Guin's Catwings series comprises five complete books published between 1988 and 2009, following a fantasy premise centered on felines with wings. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Catwings and continuing through Catwings Return, Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, Jane on Her Own, and concluding with Cat Dreams. This finished series spans more than two decades of releases from the acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author.

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

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

2 books (1996–2000)

The Catwings Collections is a complete two-book fantasy series by Ursula K. Le Guin, published between 1996 and 2000. Both Tales of the Catwings and More Tales of the Catwings should be read in publication order to follow the full narrative arc. This short series concludes with the second installment, making it an ideal choice for readers seeking a complete fantasy experience.

Start with Tales of the Catwings and read in order.

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1	Tales of the Catwings 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	More Tales of the Catwings 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2001–2001)

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1	Tales from Earthsea 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (1968–2018)

Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle consists of six fantasy novels published between 1968 and 2014, forming a complete series. While the books can be read in chronological order within the fictional world, publication order is recommended for new readers to experience the story as Le Guin intended. Begin with A Wizard of Earthsea and follow through The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, The Other Wind, and The Daughter of Odren, concluding with Firelight.

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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Tombs of Atuan 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Farthest Shore 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Tehanu 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Other Wind 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Daughter of Odren 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Firelight 2018

1 book (1993–1993)

#	Title
1	Earthsea Revisioned 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2001–2001)

This complete collection of three Earthsea short works by Ursula K. Le Guin was published in 2001 and should be approached in publication order rather than chronological order for new readers. The three pieces are Dragonfly, The Bones of the Earth, and The Finder, with Dragonfly serving as the recommended entry point. While the stories exist within a shared chronological timeline, beginning with publication order provides the most effective introduction to this fantasy series.

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

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

1 book (2025–2025)

9 books (1966–2000)

Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle is a nine-book science fiction series published between 1966 and 2000 that explores humanity's expansion across the galaxy through interconnected stories set in a shared universe. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Planet of Exile and concluding with The Telling. Each novel stands alone as a distinct narrative while contributing to the larger tapestry of Le Guin's imaginative far-future world.

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

#	Title
1	Planet of Exile 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Rocannon's World 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	City of Illusions 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Left Hand of Darkness 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Vaster than Empires and More Slow 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Word for World is Forest 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Dispossessed 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Four Ways to Forgiveness 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Telling 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

19 books (1980–2001)

Isaac Asimov's Anthology is a complete 19-book series of science fiction and fantasy anthologies published between 1980 and 2001, with each volume organized around different themes such as aliens, robots, war, cybernetics, ghosts, detectives, and the solar system. The series features stories from a diverse range of acclaimed writers including Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois, Tanith Lee, Connie Willis, and George R.R. Martin. These standalone anthologies should be read in publication order to follow the series chronologically. This collection showcases various subgenres and speculative themes across the science fiction and fantasy landscape.

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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Isaac Asimov's Aliens(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Isaac Asimov's Robots(By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite(By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Isaac Asimov's War(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Isaac Asimov's Ghosts(By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Isaac Asimov's Christmas(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Isaac Asimov's Camelot(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Isaac Asimov's Detectives(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Isaac Asimov's Solar System(By: Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Isaac Asimov's Werewolves(By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Isaac Asimov's Utopias(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Isaac Asimov's Father Day(By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Isaac Asimov's Halloween(By: Isaac Asimov) 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1998–1999)

The Legends anthology series consists of three volumes of short fiction published between 1998 and 1999, featuring contributions from renowned fantasy and science fiction authors. Each book showcases original stories set in established fictional worlds, with entries from acclaimed writers including Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Terry Pratchett, and Robert Jordan. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King.

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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Legends(By: Stephen King,Anne McCaffrey,Robert Silverberg) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Legends 3(With: Terry Pratchett,Tad Williams,Robert Jordan,Robert Silverberg) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

14 books (1973–2025)

Ursula K. Le Guin's non-fiction collection spans fourteen books published between 1973 and 2025, with new volumes continuing to emerge. These works, which should be read in publication order, compile her essays, speeches, and reflections on writing, philosophy, politics, and the craft of storytelling across science fiction and fantasy. The series includes collaborations with scholars and translators, collections of teaching stories, and explorations of her literary legacy, beginning with From Elfland to Poughkeepsie and concluding most recently with Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats.

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

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

3 books (1976–1979)

Ursula K. Le Guin's Orsinia series consists of two complete works published between 1976 and 1979, best read in publication order. The series should be started with Orsinian Tales, followed by Malafrena, offering Le Guin's exploration of fantasy and speculative fiction set within an imagined world.

Start with Orsinian Tales and read in order.

#	Title
1	Orsinia 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Orsinian Tales 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Malafrena 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

33 books (1984–2026)

The Outspoken Authors series is an ongoing anthology collection featuring 32 books of speculative fiction and essays published between 1984 and 2026. Edited by Eleanor Arnason and others, the series brings together works by acclaimed fantasy and science fiction authors across multiple genres including fantasy, science fiction, non-fiction, and western. Readers should follow the books in publication order to experience the series as intended. Each volume typically features collaborative or standalone pieces that showcase distinctive voices in speculative literature.

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

5 books (1988–1998)

The Picture series by Ursula K. Le Guin consists of five complete books published between 1988 and 1998. These works should be read in publication order, beginning with A Visit from Dr. Katz and continuing through Fire and Stone, A Ride on the Red Mare's Back, Fish Soup, and Tom Mouse. The series blends fantasy and adventure elements characteristic of Le Guin's imaginative storytelling.

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

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

22 books (1968–2019)

This collection gathers 19 short stories and novellas by Ursula K. Le Guin, published across five decades from 1968 to 2019. The series spans Le Guin's diverse literary interests, encompassing science fiction, fantasy, and other genres that showcase her imaginative range and philosophical depth. These works should be read in publication order to appreciate how Le Guin's craft evolved over her long career. The complete collection offers readers a comprehensive overview of one of speculative fiction's most celebrated authors working in shorter forms.

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

#	Title
1	Nine Lives 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Field of Vision 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Water is Wide 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Leese Webster 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Gwilan's Harp 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Visionary 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight(With: Susan Seddon Boulet) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Forgiveness Day 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Solitude (in F&SF) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Matter of Seggri (in Crank!) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Unchosen Love (Amazing Stories #591) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	A Man of the People (in Asimov's) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	A Woman’s Liberation (in Asimov's) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Ether OR 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Mountain Ways (in Asimov's) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Royals of Hegn 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Fliers of Gy 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Wild Girls(With: Eleanor Arnason) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Dangerous People 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

22 books (1975–2018)

Ursula K. Le Guin's Short Story Collections series spans 22 volumes published between 1975 and 2018, showcasing her work across fantasy, science fiction, and other genres. The series includes both short story collections and poetry volumes, with titles like The Wind's Twelve Quarters, The Compass Rose, Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences, and The Birthday of the World and Other Stories. These should be read in publication order to follow the chronological development of Le Guin's shorter works. The series is complete.

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

8 books (1971–2008)

Ursula K. Le Guin's collection of eight standalone novels spans from 1971 to 2008 and encompasses fantasy, science fiction, and other genres. These works should be read in publication order, beginning with The Lathe of Heaven. The series is complete, with each novel able to be enjoyed independently while offering distinct explorations of Le Guin's imaginative worlds. Reading them chronologically provides insight into the author's evolving themes and narrative styles across nearly four decades.

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

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

42 books (2005–2023)

The Last Interview is a 41-book series of compiled interviews published between 2005 and 2023, featuring conversations with influential writers, musicians, philosophers, and cultural figures across diverse fields. Each volume focuses on a single notable person and collects their most significant interviews, making them ideal for readers seeking insight into the perspectives and ideas of major thinkers and artists. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with Learning to Live Finally by Jacques Derrida, and appears to be complete or nearly complete as of 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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Roberto Bolaño(By: Roberto Bolaño) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Kurt Vonnegut(By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Jorge Luis Borges(By: Jorge Luis Borges) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Hannah Arendt(By: Hannah Arendt) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words(By: David Foster Wallace) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	James Baldwin(By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Ray Bradbury(By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Ernest Hemingway(By: Ernest Hemingway) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Gabriel García Márquez(By: Gabriel García Márquez) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Lou Reed(By: Lou Reed) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Nora Ephron(By: Nora Ephron) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Philip K. Dick(By: Philip K. Dick) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	David Bowie(By: David Bowie) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	J. D. Salinger(By: J.D. Salinger) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Jane Jacobs(By: Jane Jacobs) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Oliver Sacks(By: Oliver Sacks) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Christopher Hitchens(By: Christopher Hitchens) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Martin Luther King, Jr.(By: Martin Luther King Jr.) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Hunter S. Thompson(By: Hunter S. Thompson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Julia Child(By: Julia Child) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Kathy Acker(By: Kathy Acker) 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Anthony Bourdain(By: Anthony Bourdain,Helen Rosner) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Anthony Bourdain(By: Melville House,Helen Rosner) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Billie Holiday(By: Billie Holiday) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Graham Greene(By: Graham Greene) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Prince(By: Prince) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Ursula K. Le Guin 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Frida Kahlo(By: Frida Kahlo) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Marilyn Monroe(By: Melville House,Sady Doyle) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Ruth Bader Ginsburg(By: Melville House) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Toni Morrison(By: Toni Morrison) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Fred Rogers(By: Fred Rogers) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	John Lewis(By: Melville House) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Johnny Cash(By: Johnny Cash) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Shirley Chisholm(By: Shirley Chisholm) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The Last Interview(By: Fred Rogers) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Diego Maradona(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Janet Malcolm(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Kurt Cobain(By: Melville House) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Bell Hooks(By: bell hooks) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Octavia E. Butler(By: Melville House) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2012–2012)

This two-volume collection brings together Ursula K. Le Guin's short fiction across multiple genres, published in 2012 as a complete series. Volume 1, Where on Earth, and Volume 2, Outer Space, Inner Lands, should be read in publication order to experience her stories organized thematically. The series showcases Le Guin's range across fantasy, science fiction, and other genres through carefully curated selections spanning her career.

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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

13 books (1962–2017)

Ursula K. Le Guin's Wind's Twelve Quarters collection spans thirteen short stories and novellas published between 1962 and 2017, encompassing fantasy, science fiction, and other genres. The complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with "April in Paris" and concluding with "Winter's King." This collection showcases Le Guin's range across speculative fiction and other literary forms across more than five decades of her career.

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

9 books (2001–2009)

The Year's Best Fantasy series is a nine-book anthology collection edited by Ursula K. Le Guin that ran from 2001 to 2009. Each volume gathers outstanding fantasy stories selected from that year's publications, showcasing diverse voices and styles within the genre. The series is complete and should be read in publication order, starting with the first volume and progressing through Year's Best Fantasy 9 to experience the evolving landscape of fantasy literature across the decade.

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

18 books (1996–2013)

The Year's Best SF Anthology is a complete 18-book series of science fiction collections edited by Ursula K. Le Guin, spanning from 1996 to 2013. Each volume gathers outstanding short fiction from the year of its publication, making these anthologies valuable snapshots of contemporary science fiction writing across nearly two decades. Read in publication order beginning with the first Year's Best SF to experience the evolution of the genre over this period.

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