Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography

This is a bibliography of the science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin.

Fiction

Earthsea (fantasy)

Main article: Earthsea

Earthsea novels

• A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968 (Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, 1979)
• The Tombs of Atuan, 1971 (Newbery Medal winner)
• The Farthest Shore, 1973 (National Book Award winner)
• Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, 1990 (Nebula Award winner, 1990; Locus Fantasy Award winner, 1991)
• The Other Wind, 2001 (World Fantasy Award winner, 2002)

Note: The short story "Dragonfly" from Tales from Earthsea, 2001, is intended to fit in between Tehanu and The Other Wind and, according to Le Guin, is "an important bridge in the series as a whole".

Earthsea short fiction

Main article: Earthsea § Short stories

(Original publication; for reissue in collections, see main article)

• "The Word of Unbinding", Fantastic, January 1964
• "The Rule of Names", Fantastic, April 1964
• "Dragonfly", in Legends, ed. Robert Silverberg, 1998
• "Darkrose and Diamond", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct-Nov 1999
• Tales from Earthsea, short story collection, 2001 (winner of Endeavour Award):
  • "The Bones of the Earth"
  • "The Finder"
  • "On The High Marsh"
• "The Daughter of Odren", 2014

Earthsea nonfiction

• Earthsea Revisioned (Cambridge, MA: Children's Literature New England, 1993, ISBN 9780948845031), 26 pages, illustrated – "A lecture delivered under the title "Children, Women, Men and Dragons" at Worlds Apart, an institute sponsored by Children's Literature New England and held August 2–8, 1992, at Keble College, Oxford University, England." OCLC 29598010 – about unifying her later Earthsea writings with her earlier Earthsea writings

Hainish Cycle (science fiction)

Main article: Hainish Cycle

Hainish Cycle novels and short story cycles

• Rocannon's World, 1966
• Planet of Exile, 1966
• City of Illusions, 1967
• The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969 (winner of the Hugo Award, 1969 and Nebula Award, 1970)
• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, 1974 (Nebula Award winner, 1974; Hugo and Locus Awards winner, 1975)
• The Word for World is Forest, 1976 (winner of the Hugo Award for best novella)
• Four Ways to Forgiveness, 1995 (Four Stories of the Ekumen)
• Worlds of Exile and Illusion, 1996 (omnibus of Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions)
• The Telling, 2000 (Locus SF Award winner, 2001; Endeavour Award winner)

Hainish Cycle short stories

• "Dowry of the Angyar", 1964 (appears as "Semley's Necklace" in The Wind's Twelve Quarters; also used as the prologue of Rocannon's World)
• "Winter's King", 1969 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters)
• "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow", 1971 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters)
• "The Day Before the Revolution", 1974 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters; winner of the Nebula Award and Locus Award)
• "The Shobies' Story", 1990 (in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea)
• "Dancing to Ganam", 1993 (in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea)
• "Another Story OR A Fisherman of the Inland Sea", 1994 (in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea)
• "The Matter of Seggri", 1994 (in The Birthday of the World; winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award)
• "Unchosen Love", 1994 (in The Birthday of the World)
• "Solitude", 1994 (in The Birthday of the World; winner of the Nebula Award)
• "Coming of Age in Karhide", 1995 (in The Birthday of the World)
• "Mountain Ways", 1996 (in The Birthday of the World; winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award)
• "Old Music and the Slave Women", 1999 (in The Birthday of the World)

Poetry and stories of Orsinia

Main article: Orsinian Tales

• "Folksong from the Montayna Province," 1959
• Orsinian Tales, 1976, ISBN 978-0060763435
• "The Diary of the Rose", 1976 (in The Compass Rose)
• Malafrena, 1979, ISBN 978-0425046470
• "Two Delays on the Northern Line", 1979 (in The Compass Rose )
• "Unlocking the Air", 1996 (in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories)

Miscellaneous novels and story cycles

• Nine Lives, 1968 (first published in Playboy)
• The Lathe of Heaven, 1971 (made into TV movies, 1980 and 2002; Locus SF Award winner, 1972)
• The Eye of the Heron, 1978 (first published in the anthology Millennial Women)
• The Beginning Place, 1980 (also published as Threshold, 1986)
• Always Coming Home, 1985
• Lavinia, 2008 (Locus Fantasy Award winner, 2009)

Note: Le Guin has said that The Eye of the Heron might form part of the Hainish cycle.

Short fiction

Collections

• The Compass Rose, 1982, ISBN 0-06-014988-4
• Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences, 1987, ISBN 978-0876540718
• Searoad, 1991, ISBN 978-1590300848
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, 1994, ISBN 0-06-105200-0
• Unlocking the Air and Other Stories, 1996 (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, 1997 ), ISBN 0-06-092803-4
• The Birthday of the World, 2002, ISBN 0-06-621253-7
• Changing Planes, 2003, ISBN 0-15-100971-6
• The Wild Girls, 2011, ISBN 978-1-60486-403-8
• The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories
  • Volume 1: Where on Earth, 2012, ISBN 978-1-61873-034-3
  • Volume 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands, 2012, ISBN 978-1-61873-035-0

List of short stories

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
The birthday of the world	2000

Poetry

• Wild Angels, 1974
• Hard Words, 1981
• Wild Oats and Fireweed, 1988
• Blue Moon over Thurman Street (with Roger Dorband), 1993
• Going out with Peacocks, 1994
• The Twins, the Dream (with Diana Bellessi), 1996
• Sixty Odd, 1999
• Incredible Good Fortune, 2006
• Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country (with Roger Dorband), 2010
• Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems, 2012

Books for children and young adults

The Catwings Collection

Main article: Catwings

• Catwings, 1988, ISBN 0590428330
• Catwings Return, 1989, ISBN 0833566350
• Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, 1994, ISBN 0439551919
• Jane on her Own, 1999, ISBN 0531301338

Annals of the Western Shore

Main article: Annals of the Western Shore

• Gifts, 2004 (PEN Center USA 2005 Children's Literature Award), ISBN 978-0152051242
• Voices, 2006, ISBN 978-0152062422
• Powers, 2007 (Nebula Award winner, 2008), ISBN 978-0152066741

Other books for children and young adults

• Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, 1976, ISBN 0-15-205208-9
• Leese Webster, 1979, ISBN 0-689-30715-2
• The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune, 1983, ISBN 978-0-941826-00-6
• Solomon Leviathan's Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World, 1984, ISBN 0-399-21491-7
• A Visit from Dr. Katz, 1988, ISBN 0-689-31332-2
• Fire and Stone, 1989, ISBN 0-689-31408-6
• Fish Soup, 1992, ISBN 0-689-31733-6
• A Ride on the Red Mare's Back, 1992, ISBN 0-531-07079-4
• Tom Mouse, 2002, ISBN 0-7613-1599-3
• Cat Dreams, 2009, ISBN 0-545-04216-X

Non-fiction

• "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie," chapbook, Pendragon Press, 1973 (ISBN 0-914010-00-X)
• The Language of the Night, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979 (ISBN 0-399-12325-3) (Hugo Award nominee, 1980)
• Dancing at the Edge of the World, Grove Press, 1989 (ISBN 0-8021-1105-X) (Hugo Award nominee, 1990)
• Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Mariner and the Mutinous Crew , The Eighth Mountain Press, 1998 (ISBN 0-933377-46-0)
• The Wave in the Mind, Shambhala Publications, 2004 (ISBN 1-59030-006-8) (Locus Award winner, 2005)
• Cheek by Jowl, Aqueduct Press, 2009 (ISBN 978-1-933500-27-0) (Locus Award winner, 2010)
• Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. (ISBN 978-0544611610)

Translations

• Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral. University of New Mexico Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8263-2818-0
• Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way
• Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was. Northampton: Small Beer Press, 2003. ISBN 1-931520-05-4

References

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