Le Guin in 1995

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American author of speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches, translations, literary critiques, chapbooks, and children's fiction. She was primarily known for her works of speculative fiction. These include works set in the fictional world of Earthsea, stories in the Hainish Cycle, and standalone novels and short stories. Though frequently referred to as an author of science fiction, critics have described her work as being difficult to classify.[1]

Le Guin came to critical attention with the publication of A Wizard of Earthsea in 1968, and The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969. The Earthsea books, of which A Wizard of Earthsea was the first, have been described as Le Guin's best work by several commentators, while scholar Charlotte Spivack described The Left Hand of Darkness as having established Le Guin's reputation as a writer of science fiction.[2] Literary critic Harold Bloom referred to the books as Le Guin's masterpieces. Several scholars have called the Earthsea books Le Guin's best work.[3] Her work has received intense critical attention. As of 1999, ten volumes of literary criticism and forty dissertations had been written about her work: she was referred to by scholar Donna White as a "major figure in American letters".[1] Her awards include the National Book Award, the Newbery Medal, and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards.[1] Feminist critiques of her writing were particularly influential upon Le Guin's later work.[3]

Le Guin's first published work was the poem "Folksong from the Montayna Province" in 1959, while her first short story was "An die Musik", in 1961; both were set in her fictional country of Orsinia. Her first professional publication was the short story "April in Paris" in 1962, while her first published novel was Rocannon's World, released by Ace Books in 1966.[4][5][6][7] Her final publications included the non-fiction collections Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, and the poetry volume So Far So Good: Final Poems 2014–2018, all of which were released after her death.[5][8][9] This bibliography includes all of Le Guin's published novels, short fiction, translations, and edited volumes, and all collections that include material not previously published in book form, as well as any works mentioned in commentary about Le Guin's writings.

Fiction and poetry

Title Series or setting, where applicable Format Time of first publication First edition publisher/publication Notes Unique identifier Citations
A Wizard of Earthsea Earthsea Novel 1968 Berkeley, Parnassus Press Illustrated by Ruth Robbins. OCLC 1210 [5]
The Tombs of Atuan Earthsea Novel 1971 New York City, Atheneum Books Illustrated by Gail Garraty. A shortened version of The Tombs of Atuan was published in the Winter 1970 issue of Worlds of Fantasy. ISBN 978-0-689-20680-1 [5]
The Farthest Shore Earthsea Novel 1972 New York City, Atheneum Books Illustrated by Gail Garraty. ISBN 978-0-689-30054-7 [5]
Tehanu Earthsea Novel 1990 New York City, Atheneum Books Illustrated by John Jude Palencar. ISBN 978-0-689-31595-4 [5]
Tales from Earthsea Earthsea Collection 2001 New York City, Harcourt Illustrated by Kelly Nelson. Includes "The Finder", "Darkrose and Diamond", "The Bones of the Earth", "On the High Marsh", and "Dragonfly". ISBN 978-0-15-100561-1 [5][10]
The Other Wind Earthsea Novel 2001 New York City, Harcourt Illustrated by Cliff Nielsen. ISBN 978-0-547-54319-2 [5]
"The Word of Unbinding" Earthsea Short story January 1964 Fantastic magazine, vol. 13 Reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) [11]
"The Rule of Names" Earthsea Short story April 1964 Fantastic magazine, vol. 13 Reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975), The Unreal and the Real (2012) and The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (2018). [11]
"Dragonfly" Earthsea Novella 1998 Legends, edited by Robert Silverberg. New York City, Tor Books. "Dragonfly", later collected in 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". [11][12][13][14]
"Darkrose and Diamond" Earthsea Short story October – November 1999 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 97 Reprinted in Tales from Earthsea (2001) [15]
"The Daughter of Odren" Earthsea Short story September 2014 eBook, Harcourt First printed in The Books of Earthsea (2018). [16][17]
"Firelight" Earthsea Short story Summer 2018 The Paris Review, vol. 225 Reprinted in The Books of Earthsea. [18]
The Books of Earthsea Earthsea Collection 2018 New York City, Saga Press Illustrated by Charles Vess. Includes all Earthsea works, including novels, short stories, the essay "Earthsea Revisioned", and a new introduction. First print appearance of "The Daughter of Odren", first book printing of "Firelight". ISBN 978-1-4814-6558-8 [16][19]
Rocannon's World Hainish Cycle Novel 1966 New York City, Ace Books OCLC 9159033 [20]
Planet of Exile Hainish Cycle Novel 1966 New York City, Ace Books OCLC 36446381 [20]
City of Illusions Hainish Cycle Novel 1967 New York City, Ace Books OCLC 1012127541 [20]
The Left Hand of Darkness Hainish Cycle Novel 1969 New York City, Ace Books OCLC 181524 [20]
The Dispossessed Hainish Cycle Novel 1974 New York City, Harper & Row ISBN 978-0-06-012563-9 [20]
"The Word for World Is Forest" Hainish Cycle Novella 1972 Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison. Garden City, New York, Doubleday. Reprinted as a standalone volume in New York City by Berkley Books in 1976. ISBN 978-0-425-03279-4 [21][22][23]
Four Ways to Forgiveness Hainish Cycle Story cycle 1995 New York City, Harper Prism Includes "Betrayals", "Forgiveness Day", "A Man of the People", and "A Woman's Liberation". Reprinted in 2017 under the title Five Ways to Forgiveness, with "Old Music and the Slave Women" added. ISBN 978-0-06-105401-3 [24]
The Telling Hainish Cycle Novel 2000 New York City, Ace Books ISBN 978-0-441-01123-0 [20]
"The Dowry of Angyar" Hainish Cycle Short story September 1964 Amazing Stories, vol. 38 The first piece of Hainish Cycle fiction written by Le Guin. In later publications the story appears as "Semley's Necklace". It is also used as the prologue of Rocannon's World. Collected in The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Unreal and the Real. [25]
"Winter's King" Hainish Cycle Short story 1969 Orbit 5, edited by Damon Knight. New York City, G. P. Putnam's Sons. The story was published as a stand-alone eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017. ISBN 978-0-06-247099-7 [5][26]
"Vaster than Empires and More Slow" Hainish Cycle Novella 1971 New Dimensions 1, edited by Robert Silverberg. Garden City, New York, Doubleday. The story was published as a stand-alone eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017. ISBN 978-0-06-247099-7 [5][27][28]
"The Day Before the Revolution" Hainish Cycle Short story August 1974 Galaxy Science Fiction, vol. 35 The story was published as a stand-alone eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017. ISBN 978-0-06-247098-0 [5]
"The Shobies' Story" Hainish Cycle Short story 1990 Universe 1, edited by Terry Carr. New York City, Ace Books. Collected in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea and The Unreal and the Real [29][30]
"Dancing to Ganam" Hainish Cycle Short story September 1993 Amazing Stories, vol. 68 [31]
"Another Story" Hainish Cycle Novella August 1994 Tomorrow Speculative Fiction magazine Later published as "Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea". [31][32]
"The Matter of Seggri" Hainish Cycle Novella Spring 1994 Crank! magazine Collected in The Birthday of the World, The Unreal and the Real and The Found and the Lost. [31][33]
"Unchosen Love" Hainish Cycle Short story Fall 1994 Amazing Stories, vol. 69 [33]
"Solitude" Hainish Cycle Short story December 1994 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 87 Collected in The Birthday of the World and The Unreal and the Real. [33]
"Coming of Age in Karhide" Hainish Cycle Short story 1995 New Legends, edited by Greg Bear and Martin Greenberg. London, Legend Books. [34][35]
"Mountain Ways" Hainish Cycle Short story August 1996 Asimov's Science Fiction, vol. 20 [33]
"Old Music and the Slave Women" Hainish Cycle Novella August 1996 Far Horizons, edited by Robert Silverberg. New York City, Avon Eos. [33][36]
"Texts" Short story 1990 American Short Fiction, as part of the PEN Syndication Fiction Project. Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [37]
"Sleepwalkers" Short story 1991 Mississippi Mud. Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [37]
"Hand, Cup, Shell" Short story 1989 The New Yorker Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [37]
"Folksong from the Montayna Province" Orsinia Poem 1959 Prairie Poet Le Guin's first published work. [38]
"An die Musik" Orsinia Short story 1961 Western Humanities Review Le Guin's first published short story. [6]
"Imaginary Countries" Orsinia Short story Winter 1973 The Harvard Advocate Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [39]
"Betrayals" Short story 1994 The Blue Motel Reprinted in Four Ways to Forgiveness/Five Ways to Forgiveness and The Unreal and the Real (2012) [40]
"A Week in the Country" Orsinia Short story Spring 1976 The Little Magazine, vol. 9 Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [39]
"Brothers and Sisters" Orsinia Short story Summer 1976 The Little Magazine, vol. 10 Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [39]
"Two Delays on the Northern Line" Orsinia Short story November 1979 The New Yorker [39]
Orsinian Tales Orsinia Collection 1976 New York City, Harper & Row ISBN 978-0-06-076343-5 [41]
Malafrena Orsinia Novel 1979 New York City, Berkley Books ISBN 978-0-425-04647-0 [41]
The Complete Orsinia Orsinia Collection 2016 New York City, The Library of America An omnibus of Orsinian Tales and Malafrena, as well as some original material. ISBN 978-1-59853-493-1 [5]
Orsinia Orsinia Collection 2017 London, Victor Gollancz An omnibus of previously published Orsinian works, as well as some original material. ISBN 978-1-4732-1206-0 [5]
Gifts Annals of the Western Shore Novel 2004 New York City, Harcourt ISBN 978-0-15-205124-2 [5]
Voices Annals of the Western Shore Novel 2006 London, Orion Children's Books ISBN 978-0-15-206242-2 [5]
Powers Annals of the Western Shore Novel 2007 London, Orion Children's Books ISBN 978-0-15-206674-1 [5]
Catwings Catwings Children's book 1988 New York City, Orchard Books Illustrated by S. D. Schindler. ISBN 978-0-590-42833-0 [5][41]
Catwings Return Catwings Children's book 1989 New York City, Orchard Books Illustrated by S. D. Schindler. ISBN 978-0-8335-6635-5 [5][41]
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings Catwings Children's book 1994 New York City, Orchard Books Illustrated by S. D. Schindler. ISBN 978-0-439-55191-5 [5][41]
Jane On Her Own Catwings Children's book 1999 New York City, Orchard Books ISBN 978-0-531-30133-3 [5]
Always Coming Home Kesh/Always Coming Home Novel 1985 New York City, Harper & Row While described as a novel, this is a "collage" of tales, verse, drawings, and other material from a fictional future society in the Napa valley. ISBN 978-0-06-015456-1 [5][41]
"The Trouble with the Cotton People" Kesh/Always Coming Home Short story Winter 1984 The Missouri Review, vol. 7 [42][43]
"The Visionary" Kesh/Always Coming Home Short story Winter 1984 Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning, vol. 9 [42]
"Time in the Valley" Kesh/Always Coming Home Short story Winter 1985 The Hudson Review, vol. 37 [42]
The Lathe of Heaven Novel 1971 New York City, Scribner's Books ISBN 978-0-684-12529-9 [11]
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else Novel 1976 New York City, Atheneum Books Published in the United Kingdom as A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else. ISBN 978-0-15-205208-9 [5]
The Eye of the Heron Novel 1978 Millennial Women, edited by Virginia Kidd. New York City, Delacorte Press. Published as a standalone volume in London by Victor Gollancz in 1978. Le Guin has said that The Eye of the Heron "might" form part of the Hainish Cycle. ISBN 978-0-575-03211-8 [5][41]
The Beginning Place Novel 1980 New York City, Harper & Row Published in the United Kingdom as Threshold. [5]
Lavinia Novel 2008 Orlando, Harcourt ISBN 978-0-15-101424-8 [5]
Leese Webster Children's book 1979 New York City, Atheneum Books Illustrated by James Brunsman. ISBN 978-0-689-30715-7 [44]
The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune Children's book 1982 New Castle, Cheap Street Press Illustrated by Alicia Austin. ISBN 978-0-941826-00-6 [5]
Solomon Leviathan's Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World Children's book 1983 New Castle, Cheap Street Press Illustrated by Alicia Austin. ISBN 978-0-399-21491-2 [5]
A Visit from Dr. Katz Children's book 1988 New York City, Atheneum Books Illustrated by Ann Barrow. ISBN 978-0-689-31332-5 [41][44]
Fire and Stone Children's book 1988 New York City, Atheneum Books Illustrated by Laura Marshall. ISBN 978-0-689-31408-7 [44]
Fish Soup Children's book 1992 New York City, Atheneum Books Illustrated by Patrick Wynne. ISBN 978-0-689-31733-0 [44]
A Ride on the Red Mare's Back Children's book 1992 New York City, Orchard Books Illustrated by Julie Downing. ISBN 978-0-531-07079-6 [5]
Tom Mouse Children's book 2002 New York City, Roaring Brook Press Illustrated by Julie Downing. ISBN 978-0-7613-1599-5 [5]
Cat Dreams Children's book 2009 New York City, Orchard Books Illustrated by S. D. Schindler. ISBN 978-0-545-04216-1 [5]
"April in Paris" Short story September 1962 Fantastic magazine, vol. 11 Le Guin's first professionally published short story. Reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) [6][45]
"The Masters" Short story February 1963 Fantastic magazine, vol. 12 Reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) [11]
"Darkness Box" Short story November 1963 Fantastic magazine, vol. 12 Reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) [11]
"Selection" Short story August 1964 Amazing Stories, vol. 38 [11]
"Nine Lives" Novelette November 1969 Playboy, vol. 16 Collected in The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Unreal and the Real. [11]
"A Trip to the Head" Short story 1970 Quark/1, edited by Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker [11]
"Things" Short story 1970 Orbit 6, edited by Damon Knight Published as an eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017. ISBN 978-0-06-247086-7 [5]
"The Good Trip" Short story August 1970 Fantastic magazine, vol. 19 Published as an eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017. ISBN 978-0-06-247101-7 [5]
"The Field of Vision" Short story October 1973 Galaxy Science Fiction, vol. 34 Published as an eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017. ISBN 978-0-06-247091-1 [5]
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Short story 1973 New Dimensions III, edited by Robert Silverberg Collected in The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Unreal and the Real; offered as a standalone ebook by Harper Perennial. [11][46]
"Direction of the Road" Short story 1973 Orbit 12, edited by Damon Knight Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [47]
"The Stars Below" Short story 1974 Orbit 14, edited by Damon Knight Published as an eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017. ISBN 978-0-06-247089-8 [5]
"The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics" Short story 1974 Fellowship of the Stars, edited by Terry Carr. New York City, Simon & Schuster. Collected in The Compass Rose (1982), Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987), and The Unreal and the Real (2012). [48][49]
"Schrödinger's Cat" Short story 1974 Universe 5, edited by Terry Carr. New York City, Random House. [49]
"Intracom" Short story 1974 Stopwatch, edited by George Hay. Shrewsbury, New England Library. [49]
"The Eye Altering" Short story 1974 The Altered I, edited by Lee Harding. Melbourne, Norstrilia Press. [49]
"Mazes" Short story 1975 Epoch, edited by Roger Elwood and Robert Silverberg. New York City, Berkley Publishing Corporation. Collected in The Compass Rose and The Unreal and the Real. [49]
"The New Atlantis" Short story 1975 The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction, edited by Robert Silverberg. New York City, Hawthorn Books. [11][50]
"The Diary of the Rose" Short story 1976 Future Power, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann. New York City, Random House. Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [49]
"Gwilan's Harp" Short story 1977 Redbook Also released as an audiobook read by the author, published as a standalone book by Lord John Press in 1981, and collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012). ISBN 978-0-935716-11-5 [51][52][53][54]
"Ghost Story" Short story 1977 Encore, Magazine of the Arts vol. 1, issue 6, April-May 1977. Portland, Encore Publishing, Inc. Distributed to attendees of The Oregon Symphony and The Portland Opera. On the Table of Contents as "Three..." [55]
"May's Lion" Short story 1983 The Little Magazine, vol. 14, Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [56]
"The Silence of the Asonu" Short story 1998 Orion, under the title The Wisdom of the Asonu, Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [57]
"The Wife's Story" Short story 1982 The Compass Rose, Pendragon Press. Reprinted in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [58]
"Courtroom Scene" Short story 1977 Encore, Magazine of the Arts vol. 1, issue 6, April–May 1977. Portland, Encore Publishing, Inc. Distributed to attendees of The Oregon Symphony and The Portland Opera. On the Table of Contents as "Three..." [55]
"SQ" Short story 1978 Cassandra Rising, edited by Alice Laurance. New York City, Doubleday. [49]
"The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb" Short story Spring 1978 Antaeus No. 29 [49][55]
"The Pathways of Desire" Short story 1979 New Dimensions Science Fiction, Number 9, edited by Robert Silverberg. New York City, Harper and Row. [49]
"Malheur County" Short story Winter 1979 The Kenyon Review, vol. 1 [49][59]
"Where Does Time Go?" Short story October 1979 Omni, vol. 2 In the collection The Compass Rose, this was titled "Some Approaches to the Problem of Shortage of Time". [49][60]
"The White Donkey" Short story 1980 TriQuarterly No. 49 Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [49][61]
"Small Change" Short story 1981 Tor zu den Sternen, edited by Peter Wilfert. Munich, Goldmann Verlag. Collected in The Compass Rose (1982) and The Unreal and the Real (2012). [49]
"Sur" Short story February 1982 The New Yorker Collected in The Compass Rose (1982) and The Unreal and the Real (2012). [49][62]
"The Spoons in the Basement" Short story August 1982 The New Yorker [63][64]
"The Professor's Houses" Short story November 1982 The New Yorker [64][65]
"The Ascent of the North Face" Short story 1983 Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own, edited by Shawna McCarthy. New York City, Davis Publications. Collected in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994) and The Unreal and the Real (2012). [66][67]
"She Unnames Them" Short story January 1985 The New Yorker Collected in Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987) and The Unreal and the Real (2012). [68]
"Horse Camp" Short story August 1986 The New Yorker Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [69]
"Daddy's Big Girl" Short story January 1987 Omni [64][70][71]
"Half Past Four" Short story September 1987 The New Yorker Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012). [64][72]
"Legends for a New Land" Short story 1988 Mythlore, vol. 56 [73]
"Kore 87" Short story June 1988 Terry's Universe, edited by Beth Meacham. Tor, place of publication unknown. The story was later anthologized under the title "A Child Bride". [64][74]
"The Kerastion" Short story 1990 Westercon 1990 Program Book. [75][76]
"Newton's Sleep" Short story 1991 Full Spectrum 3, edited by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell. New York City, Doubleday. [77]
"First Contact with the Gorgonids" Short story January 1992 Omni, vol. 14. Collected in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea and The Unreal and the Real. [76][78]
"The Rock That Changed Things" Short story September 1992 Amazing Stories, vol. 67 [76][79]
"The Poacher" Short story 1993 Xanadu, edited by Jane Yolen. New York City, Tor Books. Collected in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) and The Unreal and the Real (2012). [80][81]
"In the drought" Short story 1994 Xanadu 2, edited by Jane Yolen. New York City, Tor Books. [80][82]
"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" Short story 1994 Rohnert Park, Pomegranate Artbooks A graphical version of the title story from Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences, illustrated by Susan Seddon Boulet. Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) ISBN 978-0-87654-071-8 [5]
"Ether OR" Short story November 1995 Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1995 issue. Also stylized as Ether, Or. Reprinted in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) and The Unreal and the Real (2012). [83][84]
"Olders" Short story December 1995 Omni, vol. 17 [85]
"The Lost Children" Short story January 1996 Thirteenth Moon, edited by Jacob Weisman. Tachyon Corporation, place of publication unknown. Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [86][87]
"The Island of the Immortals" Short story Fall 1998 Amazing Stories, vol. 70. [88][89]
"The Royals of Hegn" Short story February 2000 Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2000 issue. [90][89]
"The Birthday of the World" Short story January 2000 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, vol. 98 Le Guin has said that this story may or may not be a part of the Hainish Cycle. [33]
"The Flyers of Gy" Short story November 2000 Published online on Sci Fi Printed for the first time in Changing Planes (2002), where it was titled "The Fliers of Gy". Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012). [89][91]
"The Building" Short story 2001 Redshift, edited by Al Sarrantonio. New York City, New American Library. [89][92]
"The Wild Girls" Short story March 2002 Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2002 issue. Collected in The Unreal and the Real. [93][89]
"Social Dreaming of the Frin" Short story November 2002 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 103. [89][94]
"The Seasons of the Ansarac" Short story February 2003 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 104. [89][95]
"LADeDeDa" Short story March 2009 Nature, vol. 458. Written with Vonda McIntyre. [96]
"Elementals" Short story 2013 The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, edited by Rich Horton. Prime Books, place of publication unknown. [97]
"The Jar of Water" Short story Winter 2014 Tin House magazine, winter 2014 issue. Reprinted in a variant form, titled Jar of Water, in The Unreal and the Real. [98]
"Pity and Shame" Short story Summer 2018 Tin House magazine, Summer 2018 issue. [99]
Walking in Cornwall Chapbook 1976 Originally published privately. Published in 2008 in Maidstone, by Crescent Moon Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86171-104-5 [5][100]
The Water is Wide Chapbook 1976 Portland, Pendragon Press Collected in The Unreal and the Real (2012) [5]
Tillai and Tylissos Chapbook 1979 St. Helena, Red Bull Press Written with Theodora Kroeber. OCLC 166327228 [5][100][101]
In the Red Zone Chapbook 1983 Northridge, Lord John Press Written with Theodora Kroeber. ISBN 978-0-935716-21-4 [100]
A Winter Solstice Ritual Chapbook 1991 Ygor and Buntho Make Books Press, place of publication unknown Written with Vonda McIntyre. OCLC 71852715 [100]
No Boats Chapbook 1992 Seattle, Ygor and Buntho Make Books Press. Written with Vonda McIntyre. OCLC 71852716 [5]
Findings Chapbook 1992 Browerville, Ox Head Press OCLC 27185397 [5]
Blue Moon over Thurman Street Chapbook 1993 Portland, New Sage Press Illustrated by Roger Dorband. ISBN 978-0-939165-22-3 [5]
The Wind's Twelve Quarters Collection 1975 New York City, Harper & Row ISBN 978-0-06-100162-8 [5]
Dreams Must Explain Themselves Collection 1975 New York City, Algol Press. Includes one short story, an interview with Le Guin, a transcript of an acceptance speech and the essay the collection is titled after. ISBN 978-0-916186-01-2 [102][103]
The Compass Rose Collection 1982 New York City, Harper & Row Contained two previously unpublished short stories; 'The Phoenix' and 'The Wife's Story'. ISBN 978-0-06-014988-8 [41]
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Collection 1987 Santa Barbara, Capra Press ISBN 978-0-87654-071-8 [41]
Searoad Collection 1991 New York City, HarperCollins ISBN 978-1-59030-084-8 [5]
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea Collection 1994 New York City, Harper Prism ISBN 978-0-06-105200-2 [5]
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories Collection 1996 New York City, HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-06-092803-2 [5]
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories Collection 2002 New York City, HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-06-621253-1 [5]
Changing Planes Collection 2002 New York City, Harcourt ISBN 978-0-15-100971-8 [5]
The Wild Girls Collection 2011 Oakland, PM Press ISBN 978-1-60486-403-8 [5]
The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Stories of Ursula Le Guin Collection 2012 Northampton, Small Beer Press Contained one short story previously unpublished in book form (Jar of Water, a variant of The Jar of Water (2014)). Initially published in two volumes: Where on Earth and Outer Space, Inner Lands. ISBN 978-0-15-100971-8 [5][104]
Wild Angels Poetry collection 1975 Santa Barbara, Capra Press. OCLC 747358131 [41]
Hard Words and Other Poems Poetry collection 1981 New York City, Harper & Row ISBN 978-0-06-012579-0 [41]
King Dog: A Screenplay Screenplay 1985 Los Angeles, Capra Press OCLC 603061230 [5]
Wild Oats and Fireweed: New Poems Poetry collection 1988 New York City, Perennial Library ISBN 978-0-06-055101-8 [41]
Going out with Peacocks and Other Poems Poetry collection 1994 New York City, Harper Perennial ISBN 978-0-06-055356-2 [41]
The Twins, The Dream: Two Voices/Las Gemelas, El Sueño: Dos Voces. Poetry collection 1997 Houston, Arte Publico Press Written with Diana Bellessi. Each author also translated the other's poems. ISBN 978-1-55885-179-5 [5][105]
Sixty Odd Poetry collection 1999 Boston, Shambhala Publications ISBN 978-1-57062-388-2 [105]
Incredible Good Fortune Poetry collection 2006 Boston, Shambhala Publications ISBN 978-1-59030-422-8 [5]
Four Different Poems Poetry collection 2007 Brattleboro, Longhouse Press OCLC 241297013 [5]
Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country Poetry collection 2010 Astoria, Raven Studios Illustrated with photographs by Roger Dorband. ISBN 978-0-9728609-4-9 [5]
Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems Poetry collection 2012 New York City, Houghton Mifflin Harcout ISBN 978-0-547-85820-3 [5]
Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014 Poetry collection 2015 Oakland, PM Press ISBN 978-1-62963-122-6 [5]
So Far So Good: Poems 2014–2018 Poetry collection October 2018 Port Townsend, Copper Canyon Press ISBN 978-1-55659-538-7 [106][107]
Rigel-9 Rock opera 1985 The Famous Charisma Label [108]

Non-fiction

Title Format Time of first publication First edition publisher Notes Unique identifier Citations
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie Essay collection 1973 Portland, Pendragon Press ISBN 978-0-914010-00-5 [109]
The Language of the Night Essay collection 1979 New York City, G. P. Putnam's Sons Edited by Susan Wood. ISBN 978-0-399-12325-2 [109]
Dancing at the Edge of the World Essay collection 1989 New York City, Grove Press Edited by Susan Wood. ISBN 978-0-8021-1105-0 [109]
Way of the Water's Going: Images of the Northern California Coastal Range Essay collection 1989 New York City, Harper and Row Featured text from Always Coming Home alongside photographs from Ernest Waugh and Allan Nicholson. ISBN 978-0-06-016157-6 [5]
Earthsea Revisioned Essay 1993 Cambridge, Green Bay Press Reproduction of a lecture given at Oxford University in 1992. ISBN 978-0-948845-03-1 [73]
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew Essay collection 1998 Portland, The Eighth Mountain Press ISBN 978-0-933377-46-2 [110]
The Wave in the Mind Essay collection 2004 Boston, Shambhala Publications ISBN 978-1-59030-006-0 [105]
Cheek by Jowl Essay collection 2009 Seattle, Aqueduct Press ISBN 978-1-933500-27-0 [5]
Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story Essay collection 2015 New York City, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 978-0-544-61161-0 [5]
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016 Essay collection 2016 Easthampton, Small Beer Press ISBN 978-1-61873-134-0 [5]
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters Essay collection 2017 New York City, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 978-1-328-66159-3 [5]
Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Other Essays 1972–2004 Essay collection 2018 London, Gollancz ISBN 978-1-4732-0594-9 [5]
"Fifteen Vultures, The Strop, and the Old Lady" Essay 1972 In Clarion II: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Criticism, edited by Robin Scott Wilson [111]
"Dreams Must Explain Themselves" Essay November 1973 Algol, vol. 21 [109]
"Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?" Essay Winter 1974 Pacific Northwest Library Association Quarterly, vol. 38 [109]
"The Child and the Shadow" Essay April 1975 Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, vol. 32 [109]
"Ketterer on The Left Hand of Darkness" Essay July 1975 Science Fiction Studies vol. 2 [109]
"American SF and The Other" Essay November 1975 Science Fiction Studies vol. 2 Drawn from Le Guin's statements at a panel on women in science fiction at a convention in Bellingham in 1973; later published in a special issue of Science Fiction Studies covering Le Guin's work.
"Is Gender Necessary?" Essay 1976 Aurora: Beyond Equality, edited by Vonda McIntyre and Susan Janice Anderson [109]
"Science Fiction and Mrs Brown" Essay 1976 Science Fiction at Large, edited by Peter Nicholls. A speech Le Guin gave in London in 1975; it was first published in the 1976 volume edited by Nicholls. [112][113]
"All Happy Families" Essay 1997 Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. 36 [34]
The Altered I: An Encounter with Science Fiction Chapbook 1976 Carlton, Nostrilia Press OCLC 655714119 [34]
The Art of Bunditsu Chapbook 1982 Seattle, Ygor and Buntho Make Books Press OCLC 318899045 [5]
Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction Chapbook 1991 Eugene, Writer's Notebook Press OCLC 43699224 [5]
Talking About Writing Chapbook 1992 Eugene, Writer's Notebook Press OCLC 32988295 [5]
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing Interview collection 2018 Portland, Tin House A series of interviews conducted by David Naimon. ISBN 978-1-941040-99-7 [5][114]
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview Interview collection February 2018 New York City, Melville House Edited by David Streitfeld ISBN 978-1-61219-779-1 [5][115]

Edited volumes

Title Time of first publication First edition publisher Notes Unique identifier Citations
Nebula Award Stories 11 1976 London, Victor Gollancz ISBN 978-0-575-02151-8 [5]
Edges 1980 New York City, Pocket Books Edited with Virginia Kidd. OCLC 1028957543 [105]
Interfaces 1980 New York City, Ace Books Edited with Virginia Kidd. OCLC 644488164 [105]
The Norton Book of Science Fiction 1993 New York City, W. W. Norton & Company Edited with Brian Attebery. ISBN 978-0-393-97241-2 [105]
Selected Stories of H. G. Wells 2004 New York City, Modern Library ISBN 978-0-8129-7075-3 [100]

Translations

Title Original author Year of publication First edition publisher Notes Unique identifier Citations
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu 1997 Boston, Shambhala Publications ISBN 978-1-57062-395-0 [116]
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral 2003 Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press ISBN 978-0-8263-2818-2 [105]
Kalpa Imperial Angélica Gorodischer 2003 Northampton, Small Beer Press ISBN 978-1-931520-05-8 [105]
Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony Gheorghe Săsărman 2013 Seattle, Aqueduct Press With Mariano Martín Rodríguez. ISBN 978-1-61976-025-7 [117][118]

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