About
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood, born in 1939 in Ottawa, Canada, is an acclaimed author, poet, and environmental activist. Known for her powerful, feminist, and dystopian works, Atwood's notable novels include "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985), the Man Booker Prize-winning "Oryx and Crake" trilogy (2003-2013), and "The Testaments" (2019). Her poetry collections, including "Power Politics" (1971) and "Morning in the Burned House" (1995), have garnered critical praise. Atwood has received numerous awards, including multiple Governor General's Awards, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Man Booker International Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her works have been widely translated and adapted for film and television. Critically acclaimed for her thought-provoking insights into social and environmental issues, Atwood is considered one of the most influential contemporary authors. Her works challenge societal norms and explore themes of power, oppression, and the future of humanity.
Book Series by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Handmaid's Tale | 1986 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Testaments | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
Angel Catbird Graphic Novels
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Angel Catbird, Volume 1 | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Angel Catbird, Volume 2: To Castle Catula | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| Angel Catbird, Volume 3: The Catbird Roars | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
Canongate's The Myths Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| A Short History of Myth ( By: Karen Armstrong) | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
| Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson ( By: David Grossman) | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Penelopiad | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| Weight ( By: Jeanette Winterson) | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Helmet of Horror ( By: Victor Pelevin) | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| Where Three Roads Meet ( By: Salley Vickers) | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| Binu and the Great Wall ( By: Su Tong) | 2006 | Buy on Amazon |
| Baba Yaga Laid an Egg ( By: Dubravka Ugreši?) | 2007 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Goddess Chronicle ( By: Natsuo Kirino) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
Hogarth Shakespeare Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Gap of Time ( By: Jeanette Winterson) | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Shylock is My Name ( By: Howard Jacobson) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Vinegar Girl ( By: Anne Tyler) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Hag-Seed | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| New Boy ( By: Tracy Chevalier) | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| Dunbar ( By: Edward St. Aubyn) | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| Macbeth ( By: Jo Nesbø) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
MaddAddam Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Oryx and Crake | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Year of the Flood | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| MaddAddam | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
Margaret Atwood Collections
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Circle Game | 1964 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Animals in that Country | 1968 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Journals of Susanna Moodie ( With: Charles Pachter) | 1970 | Buy on Amazon |
| Procedures For Underground | 1970 | Buy on Amazon |
| Power Politics | 1971 | Buy on Amazon |
| You Are Happy | 1974 | Buy on Amazon |
| Selected Poems | 1976 | Buy on Amazon |
| Dancing Girls and Other Stories | 1977 | Buy on Amazon |
| Two-Headed Poems | 1978 | Buy on Amazon |
| True Stories | 1981 | Buy on Amazon |
| Bluebeard's Egg | 1983 | Buy on Amazon |
| Murder in the Dark | 1983 | Buy on Amazon |
| Interlunar | 1984 | Buy on Amazon |
| Selected Poems II | 1986 | Buy on Amazon |
| Wilderness Tips | 1991 | Buy on Amazon |
| Good Bones | 1992 | Buy on Amazon |
| Poems 1976-1986 (Short Story) | 1992 | Buy on Amazon |
| Polarities. Selected Stories | 1994 | Buy on Amazon |
| Bones & Murder | 1994 | Buy on Amazon |
| Morning in the Burned House | 1995 | Buy on Amazon |
| Eating Fire | 1998 | Buy on Amazon |
| Moving Targets | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Tent | 2006 | Buy on Amazon |
| Moral Disorder and Other Stories | 2006 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Door | 2007 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Stone Mattress | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Freedom | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Dearly (Short Story) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| Old Babes in the Wood | 2023 | Buy on Amazon |
| Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023 | 2024 | Buy on Amazon |
Margaret Atwood Graphic Novels
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
Margaret Atwood Non-Fiction Books
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Survival | 1972 | Buy on Amazon |
| Days Of The Rebels | 1977 | Buy on Amazon |
| Second Words | 1982 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Canlit Foodbook | 1987 | Buy on Amazon |
| Margaret Atwood Conversations | 1990 | Buy on Amazon |
| Strange Things | 1995 | Buy on Amazon |
| Two Solicitudes | 1996 | Buy on Amazon |
| Story of a Nation | 2001 | Buy on Amazon |
| Negotiating with the Dead / On Writers & Writing | 2002 | Buy on Amazon |
| Curious Pursuits | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| Writing With Intent | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| Payback | 2007 | Buy on Amazon |
| Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| In Other Worlds | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| Dire Cartographies | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Burgess Shale | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
Margaret Atwood Picture Books
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Anna's Pet (Short Story) | 1980 | Buy on Amazon |
| Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut | 1995 | Buy on Amazon |
| Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
| Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery (Short Story) | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| A Trio of Tolerable Tales (Short Story) | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
Margaret Atwood Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Moral Disorder | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Bad News (Short Story) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| War Bears (Short Story) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| Two Scorched Men (Short Story) | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| My Evil Mother | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
| Cut and Thirst (Short Story) | 2024 | Buy on Amazon |
Margaret Atwood Other Novels
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Edible Woman | 1969 | Buy on Amazon |
| Surfacing | 1972 | Buy on Amazon |
| Lady Oracle | 1976 | Buy on Amazon |
| Up in the Tree | 1978 | Buy on Amazon |
| Life Before Man | 1979 | Buy on Amazon |
| Bodily Harm | 1981 | Buy on Amazon |
| Cat's Eye | 1988 | Buy on Amazon |
| For the Birds | 1990 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Robber Bride | 1993 | Buy on Amazon |
| Alias Grace | 1996 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Labrador Fiasco | 1996 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Blind Assassin ( By: Michael O'Brien) | 2000 | Buy on Amazon |
| Bottle | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Heart Goes Last | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
Margaret Atwood Anthologies
The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction.
2008
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Points of View | 1956 | Buy on Amazon |
| Women Writers at Work | 1989 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Best American Short Stories 1989 | 1989 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories | 1990 | Buy on Amazon |
| Colors of a New Day | 1990 | Buy on Amazon |
| Cries of the Spirit | 1991 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces | 1992 | Buy on Amazon |
| Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories | 1992 | Buy on Amazon |
| Ploughshares Winter 1993-94 | 1993 | Buy on Amazon |
| Minding the Body | 1994 | Buy on Amazon |
| First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | 1994 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | 1995 | Buy on Amazon |
| Ten | 1996 | Buy on Amazon |
| Sunrise to Sunset | 1997 | Buy on Amazon |
| Wild Women | 1997 | Buy on Amazon |
| Mistresses of the Dark | 1998 | Buy on Amazon |
| Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | 1998 | Buy on Amazon |
| Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium | 1999 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction | 1999 | Buy on Amazon |
| Ovid Metamorphosed | 2000 | Buy on Amazon |
| When The Wild Comes Leaping Up | 2002 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
| More Stories We Tell | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping | 2007 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories | 2007 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction. | 2008 | Buy on Amazon |
| Sisters | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| Crimespotting | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| Half-Minute Horrors | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Secret History of Science Fiction | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| I'm With the Bears | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| The World Split Open | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Loosed Upon the World | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Secret Loves of Geek Girls | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Imaginarium 4 | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Secret Loves of Geeks | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Freeman's Power | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
| Furies | 2023 | Buy on Amazon |
| Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering | 2024 | Buy on Amazon |
| Democracy | 2024 | Buy on Amazon |
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