{"id":17966,"date":"2019-05-20T11:01:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T18:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17966"},"modified":"2019-05-20T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T18:08:40","slug":"le-guin-chronological-bibliography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2019\/05\/20\/le-guin-chronological-bibliography\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Guin chronological bibliography"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Ursula K. Le Guin\u2019s website includes a list of her \u201cmajor titles<\/a>,\u201d in several categories. Chaos Golubitsky created a chronological reordering of the novels, story collections, and nonfiction books from that list, and has given me permission to post it here.<\/p>\r\n

One complication for anyone looking for a complete-Le Guin-chronology list: this list doesn\u2019t include the poetry, translations, or kids\u2019 books (except for Fish Soup<\/cite>) from the major-titles list.<\/p>\r\n

Another complication: this ordering lists the short-story collections at their publication date as collections, which means the stories themselves are out of chronological order, which may give some inaccurate impressions about Le Guin\u2019s development as a writer. For example, she had eight short stories out (including \u201cSemley\u2019s Necklace\u201d) before Rocannon\u2019s World<\/cite>, so starting the chronological sequence with the novel misses some of her earlier development. Similarly, she had at least two Earthsea stories published before A Wizard of Earthsea<\/cite>.<\/p>\r\n

For a much more thorough bibliography, see Le Guin\u2019s ISFDB entry<\/a>, though that too is categorized rather than only chronological.<\/p>\r\n

Okay, enough disclaimers. Here\u2019s Chaos\u2019s list, with a few minor adjustments by me:<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Rocannon's World (1966, novel, Hainish Cycle)<\/li>\r\n
  2. Planet of Exile (1966, novel, Hainish Cycle)<\/li>\r\n
  3. City of Illusion (1967, novel, Hainish Cycle)<\/li>\r\n
  4. A Wizard of Earthsea (1968, novel, Earthsea)<\/li>\r\n
  5. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969, novel, Hainish Cycle)<\/li>\r\n
  6. The Tombs of Atuan (1970, novel, Earthsea) <\/li>\r\n
  7. The Lathe of Heaven (1971, novel)<\/li>\r\n
  8. The Farthest Shore (1972, novel, Earthsea)<\/li>\r\n
  9. The Word for World Is Forest (1972, novella, Hainish Cycle)<\/li>\r\n
  10. The Dispossessed (1974, novel, Hainish Cycle)<\/li>\r\n
  11. The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975, story collection)<\/li>\r\n
  12. Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (1976, short YA novel)<\/li>\r\n
  13. Orsinian Tales (1976, story collection, Orsinia)<\/li>\r\n
  14. Malafrena (1979, novel, Orsinia)<\/li>\r\n
  15. The Language of the Night (1979, essay collection)<\/li>\r\n
  16. The Beginning Place (1980, novel)<\/li>\r\n
  17. The Compass Rose (1982, story collection)<\/li>\r\n
  18. The Eye of the Heron (1983 (first standalone US edition), novel)<\/li>\r\n
  19. Always Coming Home (1985, sorta kinda novel)<\/li>\r\n
  20. Buffalo Gals (1987, story collection)<\/li>\r\n
  21. Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989, essay collection)<\/li>\r\n
  22. Tehanu (1990, novel, Earthsea)<\/li>\r\n
  23. Searoad (1991, story collection)<\/li>\r\n
  24. Fish Soup (1992, children's(?) book)<\/li>\r\n
  25. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994, story collection)<\/li>\r\n
  26. Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995, story collection, Hainish Cycle) (\u2026Later version is Five Ways to Forgiveness<\/cite>)<\/li>\r\n
  27. Unlocking the Air (1996, literary-fiction story collection)<\/li>\r\n
  28. Steering the Craft (1998, writing-advice book)<\/li>\r\n
  29. The Telling (2000, novel, Hainish Cycle)<\/li>\r\n
  30. Tales from Earthsea (2001, story collection, Earthsea)<\/li>\r\n
  31. The Birthday of the World (2002, story collection)<\/li>\r\n
  32. The Other Wind (2003, novel, Earthsea)<\/li>\r\n
  33. Changing Planes (2003, story collection)<\/li>\r\n
  34. Gifts (2004, YA novel, Annals of the Western Shore)<\/li>\r\n
  35. The Wave in the Mind (2004, essay collection)<\/li>\r\n
  36. Voices (2006, YA novel, Annals of the Western Shore)<\/li>\r\n
  37. Powers (2007, YA novel, Annals of the Western Shore)<\/li>\r\n
  38. Lavinia (2008, novel)<\/li>\r\n
  39. Cheek By Jowl (2009, essay collection)<\/li>\r\n
  40. The Wild Girls (2011, story\/poem\/essay\/interview collection)<\/li>\r\n
  41. Words Are My Matter (2016, essay collection)<\/li>\r\n
  42. No Time To Spare (2017, essay collection)<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17966"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17975,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17966\/revisions\/17975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}