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Margaret Atwood Books in Order

11 series including Canongate's The Myths, Hogarth Shakespeare and more

★ 9 NYT bestsellers · 2 at #1 11 series 114 books Latest: Cut and Thirst (Short Story) (2024)

The earliest Margaret Atwood book we track dates to 1956, and the catalogue now runs to 114 books. Margaret Atwood's books make up 11 series, the largest of which — Canongate's The Myths — reaches 9 books. Cut and Thirst (2024) is the most recent addition we've catalogued.

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1 The Handmaid's Tale 2 Angel Catbird Graphic Novels 3 Canongate's The Myths 4 Hogarth Shakespeare 5 MaddAddam 6 Margaret Atwood Graphic Novels 7 Margaret Atwood Non-Fiction Books 8 Margaret Atwood Picture Books 9 Margaret Atwood Short Stories/Novellas 10 Margaret Atwood Other Novels 11 Margaret Atwood Anthologies

New York Times Bestsellers

9 books

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.

Cover of The Handmaid's Tale
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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Bestseller chart data from BestsellerStats.net — explore Margaret Atwood’s complete chart history, week by week.

Reading Order

11 series · 114 books

The Handmaid's Tale Series

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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 → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from 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 → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Angel Catbird Graphic Novels

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1 Angel Catbird, Volume 1 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Angel Catbird, Volume 2: To Castle Catula 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Angel Catbird, Volume 3: The Catbird Roars 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Canongate's The Myths Series

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1 A Short History of Myth ( By: Karen Armstrong) 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson ( By: David Grossman) 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 The Penelopiad 2005 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 2006Mythopoeic Scholarship Award 2006Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Weight ( By: Jeanette Winterson) 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 The Helmet of Horror ( By: Victor Pelevin) 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Where Three Roads Meet ( By: Salley Vickers) 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 Binu and the Great Wall ( By: Su Tong) 2006 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 Baba Yaga Laid an Egg ( By: Dubravka Ugreši?) 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 The Goddess Chronicle ( By: Natsuo Kirino) 2013 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Hogarth Shakespeare Series

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1 The Gap of Time ( By: Jeanette Winterson) 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Shylock is My Name ( By: Howard Jacobson) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Vinegar Girl ( By: Anne Tyler) 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Hag-Seed 2016 Women's Prize for Fiction 2017Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 New Boy ( By: Tracy Chevalier) 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Dunbar ( By: Edward St. Aubyn) 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 Macbeth ( By: Jo Nesbø) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

MaddAddam Series

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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 from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 The Year of the Flood 2009 CBC Canada Reads 2014Scotiabank Giller Prize 2009Goodreads Choice Award 2009Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 MaddAddam 2013 🏆 Goodreads Choice Award 2013Locus Award 2014Women's Prize for Fiction 2014Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Margaret Atwood Graphic Novels

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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 → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Margaret Atwood Non-Fiction Books

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1 Survival 1972 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Days Of The Rebels 1977 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Second Words 1982 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 The Canlit Foodbook 1987 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Margaret Atwood Conversations 1990 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Strange Things 1995 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 Two Solicitudes 1996 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 Story of a Nation 2001 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 Negotiating with the Dead / On Writers & Writing 2002 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10 Curious Pursuits 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11 Writing With Intent 2005 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12 Payback 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13 Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14 In Other Worlds 2011 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15 Dire Cartographies 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16 The Burgess Shale 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17 Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2022 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Margaret Atwood Picture Books

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1 Anna's Pet (Short Story) 1980 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut 1995 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes 2003 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery (Short Story) 2011 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 A Trio of Tolerable Tales (Short Story) 2017 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Margaret Atwood Short Stories/Novellas

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1 Moral Disorder 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 The Bad News (Short Story) 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 War Bears (Short Story) 2019 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Two Scorched Men (Short Story) 2021 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 My Evil Mother 2022 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Cut and Thirst (Short Story) 2024 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Margaret Atwood Other Novels

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1 The Edible Woman 1969 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Surfacing 1972 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 Lady Oracle 1976 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 Up in the Tree 1978 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Life Before Man 1979 Governor General's Literary Awards 1979Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Bodily Harm 1981 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 Cat's Eye 1988 Booker Prize 1989Governor General's Literary Awards 1988Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 For the Birds 1990 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 The Robber Bride 1993 🏆 Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1994🏆 Canadian Authors Association Award 1994Governor General's Literary Awards 1994Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from 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 → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11 The Labrador Fiasco 1996 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from 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 from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13 Bottle 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14 The Heart Goes Last 2015 🏆 The Kitschies 2015Geffen Award 2019Goodreads Choice Award 2015Full award history → Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia

Margaret Atwood Anthologies

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1 Points of View 1956 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
2 Women Writers at Work 1989 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
3 The Best American Short Stories 1989 1989 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
4 The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories 1990 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
5 Colors of a New Day 1990 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
6 Cries of the Spirit 1991 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
7 The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces 1992 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
8 Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories 1992 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
9 Ploughshares Winter 1993-94 1993 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
10 Minding the Body 1994 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
11 First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
12 The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women 1995 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
13 Ten 1996 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
14 Sunrise to Sunset 1997 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
15 Wild Women 1997 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
16 Mistresses of the Dark 1998 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
17 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 1998 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
18 Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
19 The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction 1999 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
20 Ovid Metamorphosed 2000 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
21 When The Wild Comes Leaping Up 2002 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
22 The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War 2003 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
23 The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
24 More Stories We Tell 2004 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
25 The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
26 The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories 2007 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
27 The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction. 2008 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
28 Sisters 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
29 FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
30 Crimespotting 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
31 Half-Minute Horrors 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
32 The Secret History of Science Fiction 2009 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
33 I'm With the Bears 2011 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
34 Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2012 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
35 The World Split Open 2014 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
36 Loosed Upon the World 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
37 The Secret Loves of Geek Girls 2015 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
38 First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
39 Imaginarium 4 2016 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
40 The Secret Loves of Geeks 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
41 Freeman's Power 2018 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
42 Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers 2019 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
43 Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes 2022 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
44 Furies 2023 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
45 Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering 2024 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
46 Democracy 2024 Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia
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.

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