Books & more

This is a list of books by Ursula K Le Guin. It should be pretty much complete, but there may be omissions. There are special entry pages for Le Guin's two major series, the Earthsea series and the Hainish series. Clicking on a book page will also show you several editions of that book. There is also some other things like stage adaptions of UKL's works.

Novels

• Always Coming Home (1985)
• The Beginning Place (1980) (aka Threshold)
• City of Illusions (1967)
• The Dispossessed: An Ambigous Utopia (1974)
• The Eye of the Heron (1978)
• The Farthest Shore (1972)
• The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
• The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
• Malafrena (1979)
• Planet of Exile (1966)
• The Other Wind (2001)
• Rocannon's World (1966)
• The Telling (2000)
• Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (1990)
• The Tombs of Atuan (1971)
• Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (1976) (reissued as A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else (1989))
• A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
• The Word for World is Forest (1976)

Collected novels

• Worlds of Exile and Illusion (1996), previously published as Three Hainish Novels (1978) contains Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions.
• The Hainish Series is not a book, but a common name for the three Hainish novels above, together with The Word for World is Forest, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and a number of short stories set in the same universe, for example all stories in Four Ways to Forgiveness.
• Five Complete Novels (1981) contains Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Word for World is Forest
• The Earthsea Trilogy (1977) contains A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore.
• The Earthsea Quartet (1993) contains the three novels in The Earthsea Trilogy and also Tehanu.
• The Eye of the Heron & The Word for World is Forest were published as a single volume.
• The Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed and The Wind's Twelve Quarters have been published together.

Collected Short Stories

• Changing Planes (2003)
• Tales from Earthsea (2000)
• The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (2002)
• Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987)
• The Compass Rose (1982)
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)
• Orsinian Tales (1976)
• Searoad (1995)
• Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996)
• The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975)
• Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
• Science Fiction Stories, forthcoming?

Also see: index of short stories and what collections they are collected in.

For Children

• Catwings Tales:
  • Catwings (1988)
  • Catwings Return (1989)
  • Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994)
  • Jane On Her Own (1999)
• Adventures in Kroy:
  • The Adventures of Cobbler's Rune (1982)
  • Solomon Leviathan's 931^st Trip Around the World (1983)
• Fire and Stone
• Leese Webster (1979)
• Tom Mouse and Ms. Howe (1998)
• A Visit from Dr. Katz (1988) (aka Dr Katz)
• Fish Soup (1992)
• A Ride on the Red Mare's Back (1992)

Poetry

• Going Out With Peacocks and Other Poems (1994)
• Hard Words, and Other Poems (1981)
• The Twins, the Dream / Las Gemelas, El Sueño With Diana Bellessi (1996)
• Sixty Odd: New Poems (1999)
• Walking in Cornwall: A Poem for the Solstice
• Wild Oats and Fireweed (1988)
• Wild Angels

Other Writing

• The Blind Geometer / The New Atlantis (1989) (with Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Fire and Stone (with Laura Marshall) (1989)
• Blue Moon over Thurman Street (1993)
• Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (1989)
• Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975)
• Edges, with Virginia Kidd (Editor)
• From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973)
• The Enchanted Landscape: Photographs 1940-1975, with Wynn Bullock
• In the Red Zone (1983) with Hank Pander
• The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction (1979), contains From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973) and Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975)
• Ursula K. Le Guin's The Phoenix & Gish Jen's The Water Faucet Vision, audio cassette
• Steering The Craft (1998)
• Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu (1997)
• The Way of the Water's Going: Images of the Northern California Coastal Range
• King Dog: A Screenplay (1985) (bound with Dostoevsky: A Screenplay, by Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher)
• No Boats ?? (1991 or 1992)
• Earthsea Revisioned Lecture notes (1993)
• Torrey Pines Reserve, 1980
• Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction, 1991
• Talk about Writing, 1991
• Findings, 1992

Special Editions

• The Shobies' Story, audio cassette
• The Lathe of Heaven, audio cassette
• The Lathe of Heaven, TV adaption
• Nine Lives, ?
• Always Coming Home, book and audio cassette
• Buffalo Gals, illustrated edition
• The Farthest Shore, audio cassettes
• Left Hand of Darkness, audio cassettes
• The Water is Wide, ?
• The Word for World is Forest, audio cassettes
• Gwilan's Harp, Limited Ed (300 signed copies), Lord John Press, 1981.
• The Art of Bunditsu: How to Arrange Your Bonzo -- A Form of Japanese Tabbist Meditation. Parody by Le Guin using the pen name Bunto Ursura. (1982)
• Napa: The Roots and Springs of the Valley (1989)
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1993) (included in The Wind's Twelve Quarters)

Theatre, radio, TV etc

• Sci-fi channel are reportedly working on adaption of both The Earthsea trilogy and The Left Hand of Darkness. (Read about it at scifi.com or comicsutra). (Spotted by The Ekumen)
• Intracom MP3: Mark Williamson taped a radio performance of Intracom back in the seventies. Now he turned in to a MP3 file and put it online on his website. You'll find it at http://www.geocities.com/mark_williamsonau/
• there is one play called King Dog: a screenplay, which I know little about except that it is supposed to be based on Hindu mythology
• There are some very short plays described in Always Coming Home
• a group called Lifeline Theater made a stage production of The Left Hand of Darkness. (see Inspired)
• A fan started making a script of A Wizard of Earthsea which you download here at Le Guin's World (see Inspired)
• There is, of course, the TV adaption of a Lathe of Heaven

Other appearances

• The Norton Book of Science Fiction : North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993)
• Legends: Stories by the Masters of Fantasy, by Robert Silverberg, ed.
• The Diaries of Adam and Eve, by Mark Twain et al.
• The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction by Robert Silverberg, ed. (1975)
• No use to talk to me, in The Altered I: An Encounter with Science Fiction with Lee John Harding (1976)
• Interfaces, Virginia Kidd, ed. (1980)
• Edges, Virginia Kidd, Ed. (1980)
• Gifts of Blood: The Collected Stories of Susan Petrey (1990)
• Home-Concealed Woman: The Diaries of Magnolia Wynn Le Guin
• The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na (1984) (contains excerpts from Always Coming Home)
• Nebula Awards Stories 11, ed. 1977
• Tillai and Tylissos, 1979 (with Theodora K. Quinn)
• Burning with a Vision by Thomas M. Disch, 1984 (contributor)
• Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts, 1986 (music by Elinor Armer, performed in 1986)

Books on (not by) Le Guin

• Dancing With Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics (Studies in English and American Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Donna R. White. Hardcover (March 1999) Camden House; ISBN: 1571130349

Disclaimer: This list is provided as-is and has been created by manually checking out bookshelves, checking the books listed in books we have, and searching the web. It may be incomplete, obsolete or just plain wrong. Some of the more obscure references were found on Pegasos.

Other pages in the Books section

• Short story index: index of short stories and the collections they appear in
• Cover gallery: images of book covers from around the world
• Publishers: list of publishing companies that have published works by Ursula Le Guin
• Other online bibiliographies, see Links > Bibliographies.

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