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Margaret Atwood Books in Order

Margaret Atwood has written 89 books, published between 1964 and 2025. The first book is The Circle Game (1964) and the newest is Book of Lives (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
89
Published
1964–2025
Confirmed
79 of 89 titles
Pages on record
14,713 in 66 of 89 books
Reading time
245–368 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 14,713 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 66 of 89 titles with a page count on record.

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Margaret Atwood, born November 18, 1939, is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor. The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian novel from 1985, is the best-known Atwood work. Atwood's output includes 18 poetry books, 18 novels, 11 non-fiction books, nine short fiction collections, eight children's books and two graphic novels. The catalogue opens with The Circle Game (1964) and runs to Book of Lives (2025), with The Edible Woman (1969) and Surfacing (1972) along the way. Series include MaddAddam, Handmaid's Tale and Angel Catbird. Awards include two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Franz Kafka Prize and the Order of Canada.

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has been adapted into a television series, and her work explores themes of power, gender and society.

How many Margaret Atwood books are there?

Margaret Atwood has 89 books, released between 1964 and 2025. They include 3 series and 70 titles listed outside any series.

Margaret Atwood Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 89 Margaret Atwood books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Circle Game by Margaret Atwood (1964)
  2. Cover of The Animals in that Country by Margaret Atwood (1968)
  3. Cover of The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (1969)
  4. Cover of The Journals of Susanna Moodie by Margaret Atwood (1970)
  5. Cover of Procedures For Underground by Margaret Atwood (1970)
  6. Cover of Power Politics by Margaret Atwood (1971)
  7. Cover of Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (1972)
  8. Cover of You Are Happy by Margaret Atwood (1974)
  9. Cover of Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood (1976)
  10. Cover of Days Of The Rebels by Margaret Atwood (1977)
  11. Cover of Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood (1977)
  12. Cover of Up in the Tree by Margaret Atwood (1978)
  13. Cover of Two-Headed Poems by Margaret Atwood (1978)
  14. Cover of Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood (1979)
  15. Cover of Anna's Pet by Margaret Atwood (1980)
  16. Cover of Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood (1981)
  17. Cover of True Stories by Margaret Atwood (1981)
  18. Cover of Second Words by Margaret Atwood (1982)
  19. Cover of Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood (1983)
  20. Cover of Murder in the Dark by Margaret Atwood (1983)
  21. Cover of Interlunar by Margaret Atwood (1984)
  22. Cover of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, book 1 of the Handmaid's Tale series (1986)
  23. Cover of Selected Poems II by Margaret Atwood (1986)
  24. Cover of The Canlit Foodbook by Margaret Atwood (1987)
  1. 1
    The Circle Game1964 · 81 pages · confirmed 3/4
    196481
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  2. 2
    The Animals in that Country1968 · confirmed 2/4
    1968–
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  3. 3
    The Edible Woman1969 · 310 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1969310
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  4. 4
    The Journals of Susanna Moodie1970 · 70 pages · confirmed 3/4
    197070
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  5. 5
    Procedures For Underground1970 · 79 pages · confirmed 3/4
    197079
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  6. 6
    Power Politics1971 · 56 pages · confirmed 3/4
    197156
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  7. 7
    Survival1972 · confirmed 3/4
    1972–
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  8. 8
    Surfacing1972 · 199 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1972199
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  9. 9
    You Are Happy1974 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/4
    197496
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  10. 10
    Lady Oracle1976 · 346 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1976346
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  11. 11
    Selected Poems1976 · 240 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1976240
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  12. 12
    Days Of The Rebels1977 · 128 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1977128
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  13. 14
    Up in the Tree1978 · 32 pages · confirmed 3/4
    197832
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  14. 15
    Two-Headed Poems1978 · 115 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1978115
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  15. 16
    Life Before Man1979 · 317 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1979317
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  16. 17
    Anna's Pet1980 · 32 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198032
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  17. 18
    Bodily Harm1981 · 296 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1981296
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  18. 19
    True Stories1981 · 103 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1981103
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  19. 20
    Second Words1982 · 444 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1982444
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  20. 21
    Happy EndingsMargaret Atwood Short Stories/Novellas #11983 · confirmed 2/4
    1983–
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  21. 22
    Bluebeard's Egg1983 · 244 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1983244
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  22. 23
    Murder in the Dark1983 · 110 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1983110
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  23. 24
    Interlunar1984 · 103 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1984103
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  24. 25
    The Handmaid's TaleHandmaid's Tale #11986 · 311 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1986311
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  25. 26
    Selected Poems II1986 · 147 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1986147
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  26. 27
    The Canlit Foodbook1987 · 216 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1987216
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  27. 28
    Cat's Eye1988 · 477 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1988477
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  28. 29
    Margaret Atwood Conversations1990 · 265 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1990265
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  29. 30
    For the Birds1990 · 54 pages · confirmed 3/4
    199054
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Margaret Atwood series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Margaret Atwood books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Margaret Atwood Short Stories/Novellas

7 books

7 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

MaddAddam in order

3 books
  1. 1. Oryx and Crake
  2. 2. The Year of the Flood
  3. 3. MaddAddam

Angel Catbird Graphic Novels in order

3 books
  1. 1. Angel Catbird, Volume 1
  2. 2. To Castle Catula
  3. 3. The Catbird Roars

Naomi Alderman Short Stories/Novellas

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

European Studies in North American Literature and Culture in order

1 book
  1. 2. Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies

Canongate's The Myths in order

1 book
  1. 3. The Penelopiad

Hogarth Shakespeare in order

1 book
  1. 4. Hag-Seed

Standalone books

70 books

70 Margaret Atwood titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Margaret Atwood Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Margaret Atwood books run from The Circle Game (1964) to Book of Lives (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Margaret Atwood in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Margaret Atwood books in order?

You only need to read Margaret Atwood books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Margaret Atwood

Start with The Handmaid's Tale (1986), the first Handmaid's Tale book. The earliest catalogued title overall is The Circle Game (1964).

What is the newest Margaret Atwood book?

Book of Lives (2025) is the newest Margaret Atwood book released so far.

Is there a new Margaret Atwood book coming?

No next Margaret Atwood book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Margaret Atwood has won

Wikidata records 24 awards and 32 nominations for Margaret Atwood. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Booker Prize2019Wonfor The Testaments
  • Carl Sandburg Literary Award2018Won
  • Franz Kafka Prize2017Won
  • St. Louis Literary Award2017Won
  • Aurora Award for Best Graphic Novel2017Wonfor Angel Catbird
  • Raymond Chandler Award2017Won
  • Golden Wreath2016Won
  • Tähtivaeltaja Award2016Wonfor MaddAddam
  • PEN Pinter Prize2016Won
  • Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award2016Won
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize2012Won
  • Nelly Sachs Prize2009Won

Margaret Atwood at a glance

Still publishing
Margaret Atwood published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Margaret Atwood books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
14,713 pages across the 66 of 89 books with a recorded length, a median of 208 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Margaret Atwood books, 21 of 89, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
1 of the 89 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and 79 in at least three.

What the Margaret Atwood books are about

75 of the 89 Margaret Atwood books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: canadian poetry is tagged on 10 of 75. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.