Bibliography

Publication information below indicates each book’s original publisher and, when different, current publisher. Additional in-print editions are listed on individual book pages.
For more detailed publication information, see the
Internet Science Fiction Database.
Out of print titles marked with an asterisk are available in a Library of America collected edition.

The Books of Earthsea:

A Wizard of Earthsea, Parnassus/Houghton Mifflin 1968; Clarion Books
The Tombs of Atuan, Atheneum 1971
The Farthest Shore, Atheneum 1972
Tehanu, Atheneum 1990
Tales from Earthsea, Harcourt 2001; Clarion Books
The Other Wind, Harcourt 2001; Clarion Books
The Books of Earthsea, Saga Press 2018

Novels of the Ekumen (or Hainish Cycle):

Rocannon’s World*, Ace 1966
Planet of Exile*, Ace 1966
City of Illusions*, Ace 1967
The Left Hand of Darkness, Walker 1969; Ace
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, Harper & Row 1974; Harper Perennial Modern Classics
The Word for World Is Forest, Putnam 1976; Tor Books
The Telling, Harcourt 2000; Harper Perennial (ebook)

*These three are available in one volume as Worlds of Exile and Illusion, Tor Books

The Annals of the Western Shore:

Gifts, Harcourt 2004; Clarion Books
Voices, Harcourt 2006; Clarion Books
Powers, Harcourt 2007; Clarion Books

Other Novels:

The Lathe of Heaven, Scribner 1971
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, Atheneum 1976; Clarion Books
Malafrena, Putnam 1979; out of print *
The Beginning Place, Harper & Row 1980; Tor Books
The Eye of the Heron, Harper & Row 1983; Tor Books
Always Coming Home | Music & Poetry of the Kesh (Music by Todd Barton), Harper & Row 1985; Harper Perennial
Lavinia, Harcourt 2008; Harper Perennial

Fiction Collections:

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Harper & Row 1975; Harper Perennial
Orsinian Tales, Harper & Row 1976; out of print *
The Compass Rose, Underwood-Miller 1982; out of print
Buffalo Gals, Capra 1987; out of print
Searoad, HarperCollins 1991; out of print *
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Harper Prism 1994; out of print
Four Ways to Forgiveness, Harper Prism 1995; coming 2025
Unlocking the Air, HarperCollins 1996; out of print
The Birthday of the World, HarperCollins 2002; Harper Perennial
Changing Planes, Harcourt 2003; Harper Perennial
The Wild Girls, PM Press 2011
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Short Stories, Small Beer Press 2012; Saga Press
The Found and the Lost: Collected Novellas, Saga Press 2016; out of print

Poetry:

Wild Angels, Capra 1974; out of print
Hard Words, Harper & Row 1981; out of print
Wild Oats and Fireweed, Harper & Row 1988; out of print
Blue Moon over Thurman Street, with Roger Dorband, NewSage 1993; out of print
Going out with Peacocks, HarperCollins 1994; out of print
Sixty Odd, Shambhala 1999; out of print
Incredible Good Fortune, Shambhala 2006; out of print
Finding My Elegy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012; out of print
Late in the Day, PM Press 2015
Out Here, Raven Press 2010
So Far So Good, Copper Canyon Press 2019
Collected Poems, Library of America 2023

 

Translations:

Lao Tzu: The Tao Te Ching: Book About the Way and the Power of the Way, Shambhala 1997
The Twins, The Dream/Las Gemelas, El Sueno, with Diana Bellessi, Arte Publico Press 1997
Kalpa Imperial, by Angelica Gorodischer, Small Beer Press 2003
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, U of New Mexico Press 2003

Essays, Criticism, Other:

Dancing at the Edge of the World, Grove 1989
The Language of the Night, G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1979; revised edition HarperCollins 1992; Scribner 2024
Steering the Craft, Eighth Mountain 1998; Harper Perennial
The Wave in the Mind, Shambhala 2004
Cheek by Jowl, Aqueduct 2009
Words Are My Matter, Small Beer Press 2017; Harper Perennial
No Time to Spare, Houghton Mifflin​ 2017; Harper Perennial
Conversations on Writing, with David Naimon, Tin House 2018

Books for Children:

The Catwings Books
Illustrated by S.D. Schindler
Catwings, Orchard 1998; Atheneum 2023
Catwings Return, Orchard 1989; Atheneum 2023
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, Orchard 1994; Atheneum 2023
Jane on Her Own, Orchard 1999; Atheneum 2023

Other Books for Children (out of print)
Leese Webster, illustrated by James Brunsman, Atheneum 1979
Cobbler’s Rune, illustrated by Alicia Austin, Cheap Street 1983
Solomon Leviathan’s Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World, illustrated by Alicia Austin, Philomel 1988
A Visit from Dr. Katz, illustrated by Ann Barrow, Atheneum 1988
Fire and Stone, illustrated by Laura Marshall, Atheneum 1989
Fish Soup, illustrated by Patrick Wynne, Atheneum 1992
A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back, illustrated by Julie Downing, Orchard 1992
Tom Mouse, illustrated by Julie Downing, Roaring Brook 2002
Cat Dreams, illustrated by S. D. Schindler, Scholastic 2010

Library of America Editions:

The Complete Orsinia, 2016
Hainish Novels & Stories, Volumes 1 & 2, 2017
Always Coming Home, 2019
Annals of the Western Shore, 2020
Collected Poems, 2023
Five Novels, 2024

Anthologies Edited:

Nebula Award Stories XI, Harper & Row 1977; out of print
Interfaces, with Virginia Kidd, Grosset & Dunlap/Ace 1980; out of print
Edges, with Virginia Kidd, Pocket Books 1980; out of print
The Norton Book of Science Fiction, with Brian Attebery, Karen Fowler, W. W. Norton 1993; out of print

Screenplay in Book Format:

King Dog, Capra 1985; Book View Cafe 2009

Chapbooks:

From Elfland to Poughkeepsie, Pendragon Press 1973
The Water Is Wide, Pendragon Press 1976
Walking in Cornwall, privately printed 1976; Crescent Moon 2008
Tillai and Tylissos, with Theodora Kroeber, Red Bull 1979
In the Red Zone, with Henk Pander, Lord John 1983
A Winter Solstice Ritual for the Pacific Northwest, with Vonda N. McIntyre, Ygor & Buntho Make Books Press 1991
No Boats, Ygor & Buntho Make Books Press 1992
The Art of Bunditsu, Ygor & Buntho Make Books Press 1993
Findings, Ox Head 1992
My Life So Far, by Pard, Book View Cafe 2016