New York Times Bestsellers
Margaret Atwood has placed 9 books on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 261 weeks on the charts. 2 titles reached #1.
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale Series
144 weeks on the Times Paperback Trade Fiction list · peaked at #1 · debuted Mar 1986 · 192 weeks across 3 NYT lists
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The Testaments
The Handmaid's Tale Series
16 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #1 · debuted Sep 2019 · 36 weeks across 3 NYT lists
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Reading Order
11 series · 114 books| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The Handmaid's Tale | 1986 | 🏆 Audie Award 2013🏆 Arthur C. Clarke Award 1987🏆 Los Angeles Times Book Prize 1986🏆 Governor General's Literary Awards 1985CBC Canada Reads 2002James Tiptree Jr. Award 1995Locus Award 1987Prometheus Award 1987+5 moreFull award history → 🎬 2 adaptations → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 2 | The Testaments | 2019 | 🏆 Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) 2020🏆 Booker Prize 2019🏆 Goodreads Choice Award 2019Locus Award 2020Audie Award 2020Prometheus Award 2020British Book Award 2020Scotiabank Giller Prize 2019Full award history → 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Angel Catbird Graphic Novels
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Angel Catbird, Volume 1 | 2016 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Angel Catbird, Volume 2: To Castle Catula | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Angel Catbird, Volume 3: The Catbird Roars | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong | 2004 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson by David Grossman | 2005 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | The Penelopiad | 2005 | Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 2006Mythopoeic Scholarship Award 2006Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 4 | Weight by Jeanette Winterson | 2005 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin | 2005 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | Where Three Roads Meet by Salley Vickers | 2005 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong | 2006 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 8 | Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugreši? | 2007 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 9 | The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino | 2013 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson | 2015 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson | 2016 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler | 2016 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Hag-Seed | 2016 | Women's Prize for Fiction 2017Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 5 | New Boy by Tracy Chevalier | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | Macbeth by Jo Nesbø | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
MaddAddam Series
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Oryx and Crake | 2003 | Orange Prize 2004Sunburst Award 2004Women's Prize for Fiction 2004Booker Prize 2003Scotiabank Giller Prize 2003Governor General's Literary Awards 2003Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 2 | The Year of the Flood | 2009 | CBC Canada Reads 2014Scotiabank Giller Prize 2009Goodreads Choice Award 2009Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 3 | MaddAddam | 2013 | 🏆 Goodreads Choice Award 2013Locus Award 2014Women's Prize for Fiction 2014Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Margaret Atwood Graphic Novels
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel | 2019 | 🏆 Audie Award 2013🏆 Arthur C. Clarke Award 1987🏆 Los Angeles Times Book Prize 1986🏆 Governor General's Literary Awards 1985CBC Canada Reads 2002James Tiptree Jr. Award 1995Locus Award 1987Prometheus Award 1987+5 moreFull award history → 🎬 2 adaptations → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Margaret Atwood Non-Fiction Books
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Margaret Atwood Picture Books
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Anna's Pet (Short Story) | 1980 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut | 1995 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes | 2003 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda | 2004 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery (Short Story) | 2011 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | A Trio of Tolerable Tales (Short Story) | 2017 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Margaret Atwood Short Stories/Novellas
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Moral Disorder | 2014 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Bad News (Short Story) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | War Bears (Short Story) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Two Scorched Men (Short Story) | 2021 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | My Evil Mother | 2022 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | Cut and Thirst (Short Story) | 2024 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Margaret Atwood Other Novels
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The Edible Woman | 1969 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Surfacing | 1972 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Lady Oracle | 1976 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Up in the Tree | 1978 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | Life Before Man | 1979 | Governor General's Literary Awards 1979Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 6 | Bodily Harm | 1981 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | Cat's Eye | 1988 | Booker Prize 1989Governor General's Literary Awards 1988Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 8 | For the Birds | 1990 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 9 | The Robber Bride | 1993 | 🏆 Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1994🏆 Canadian Authors Association Award 1994Governor General's Literary Awards 1994Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 10 | Alias Grace | 1996 | 🏆 Mikael Agricola -palkinto 1998🏆 Scotiabank Giller Prize 1996Dublin Literary Award 1998Orange Prize 1997Women's Prize for Fiction 1997Booker Prize 1996James Tiptree Jr. Award 1996Governor General's Literary Awards 1996Full award history → 🎬 Adapted for film/TV → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 11 | The Labrador Fiasco | 1996 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 12 | The Blind Assassin by Michael O'Brien | 2000 | 🏆 Puddly Award 2001🏆 Booker Prize 2000🏆 Hammett Prize 2000Dublin Literary Award 2002Orange Prize 2001Women's Prize for Fiction 2001Governor General's Literary Awards 2000Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | |
| 13 | Bottle | 2004 | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia | ||
| 14 | The Heart Goes Last | 2015 | 🏆 The Kitschies 2015Geffen Award 2019Goodreads Choice Award 2015Full award history → | Buy on Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy on Amazon Australia |
Margaret Atwood Anthologies
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About the Author
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays, including 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction.