Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood has written at least 225 books. Their most popular book is The Handmaid's Tale with 3692 saves with an average rating of 4.09⭐.

Author Bio

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC is a Canadian writer. A prolific poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and activist, she has received national and international recognition for her writing.

ATWOOD, whose work has been published in over forty countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now a successful MGM-Hulu television series currently preparing its fourth season, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize; The Penelopiad; The Heart Goes Last; Hag-seed; and The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, published in September, 2019. She lives in Toronto some of the time.

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The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 3 in The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale
ByMargaret Atwood

1985 • 3,692 Readers • 224 pages 4.1

Oryx and Crake

#1 of 3 in MaddAddam

Oryx and Crake
ByMargaret Atwood

2002 • 963 Readers • 402 pages 3.9

The Testaments

#2 of 3 in The Handmaid's Tale

The Testaments
ByMargaret Atwood

2019 • 953 Readers • 320 pages 4

We

We
ByYevgeny Zamyatin,Bela Shayevich(translator)

1924 • 657 Readers • 256 pages 3.7

The Blind Assassin

The Blind Assassin
ByMargaret Atwood

2000 • 428 Readers • 650 pages 3.9

Alias Grace

Alias Grace
ByMargaret Atwood

1996 • 406 Readers • 636 pages 3.9

The Year of the Flood

#2 of 3 in MaddAddam

The Year of the Flood
ByMargaret Atwood

2009 • 362 Readers • 434 pages 4

MaddAddam

#3 of 3 in MaddAddam

MaddAddam
ByMargaret Atwood

2013 • 298 Readers • 416 pages 3.9

The Penelopiad

#2 of 14 in Canongate's The Myths

The Penelopiad
ByMargaret Atwood

2005 • 265 Readers • 199 pages 3.6

The Heart Goes Last

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The Heart Goes Last
ByMargaret Atwood

2013 • 212 Readers • 308 pages 3.2

Cat's Eye

Cat's Eye
ByMargaret Atwood

1988 • 205 Readers • 445 pages 3.8

My Evil Mother

My Evil Mother
ByMargaret Atwood

2019 • 173 Readers • 57m 3.8

Hag-Seed

11 Hogarth Shakespeare project

Hag-Seed
ByMargaret Atwood

2016 • 153 Readers • 322 pages 3.7

Dearly: New Poems

Dearly: New Poems
ByMargaret Atwood

2020 • 124 Readers • 124 pages 3.6

The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride
ByMargaret Atwood

1993 • 116 Readers • 528 pages 3.8

The Edible Woman

The Edible Woman
ByMargaret Atwood

1969 • 100 Readers • 368 pages 3.6

Fourteen Days

Fourteen Days
ByCharlie Jane Anders,Joseph Cassara,+32 more

2022 • 90 Readers • 363 pages 2.8

Stone Mattress

Stone Mattress
ByMargaret Atwood

2014 • 80 Readers • 288 pages 4

Chocky

Chocky
ByJohn Wyndham

1968 • 71 Readers • 177 pages 3.5

Old Babes in the Wood

Old Babes in the Wood
ByMargaret Atwood

2023 • 70 Readers • 272 pages 3.3

Surfacing

Surfacing
ByMargaret Atwood

1972 • 68 Readers • 206 pages 3.6

Cut and Thirst

Cut and Thirst
ByMargaret Atwood

2024 • 48 Readers • 35 pages 3

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
ByMarjorie M. Liu,Mariko Tamaki,+4 more

2015 • 38 Readers • 256 pages 3.1

Lady Oracle

Lady Oracle
ByMargaret Atwood

1976 • 35 Readers • 388 pages 3.1

Wilderness Tips

Wilderness Tips
ByMargaret Atwood

1991 • 34 Readers • 247 pages 3.8

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

2011 • 30 Readers • 208 pages 3.2

Inseparable

Inseparable
BySimone de Beauvoir

2020 • 30 Readers • 208 pages 4.5

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

2022 • 29 Readers • 496 pages 4

The Tent

The Tent
ByMargaret Atwood

2006 • 29 Readers • 155 pages 3.6

Angel Catbird, Vol. 1

#1 of 3 in Angel Catbird

Angel Catbird, Vol. 1
ByMargaret Atwood

2016 • 29 Readers • 124 pages 2.4

Furies

Furies
ByMargaret Atwood,Ali Smith,+13 more

2023 • 26 Readers • 291 pages 4

Bodily Harm

Bodily Harm
ByMargaret Atwood

1981 • 25 Readers • 306 pages 3.1

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Bluebeard's Egg
ByMargaret Atwood

1983 • 22 Readers • 244 pages 3.8

Life Before Man

Life Before Man
ByMargaret Atwood

1979 • 20 Readers • 361 pages 3.2

The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel

1 The Handmaid’s Tale

2019 • 20 Readers • 224 pages 4.4

Good Bones and Simple Murders

1994 • 20 Readers • 165 pages 3.8

Moral Disorder and Other Stories

2006 • 20 Readers • 255 pages 3.6

Negotiating with the Dead

Negotiating with the Dead
ByMargaret Atwood

2002 • 19 Readers • 198 pages 4

I'm Starved for You

#1 of 5 in Positron

I'm Starved for You
ByMargaret Atwood

2012 • 18 Readers • 64 pages 3.9

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

1987 • 18 Readers • 278 pages 3.2

Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales

2014 • 16 Readers • 265 pages 4

Half-Minute Horrors

Half-Minute Horrors
ByHolly Black,Joyce Carol Oates,+37 more

2009 • 16 Readers • 160 pages 3.3

Dancing Girls and Other Stories

1977 • 15 Readers • 256 pages 3.5

On Writers and Writing

On Writers and Writing
ByMargaret Atwood

2002 • 12 Readers • 256 pages 4

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

2007 • 11 Readers • 203 pages 4

A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers

A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers
ByJoyce Carol Oates(Editor),Aimee Bender(Contributor)

2023 • 11 Readers • 264 pages 3.8

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

1998 • 11 Readers • 402 pages

Morning in the Burned House

1995 • 9 Readers • 148 pages 3.7

Good Bones

Good Bones
ByMargaret Atwood

1992 • 8 Readers • 153 pages 3.8

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Happy Endings
ByMargaret Atwood

1983 • 7 Readers • 3 pages 3.5

The Big New Yorker Book of Cats

2013 • 7 Readers • 352 pages 4.5

The Secret History of Science Fiction

The Secret History of Science Fiction
ByJames Patrick Kelly,Lucius Shepard,+16 more

2009 • 7 Readers 4

My Best Stories

My Best Stories
ByAlice Munro

2006 • 6 Readers • 576 pages 4.5

A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf

2017 • 6 Readers • 365 pages

Moral Disorder

Moral Disorder
ByMargaret Atwood

2006 • 6 Readers • 257 pages 4

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

20 The University Center for Human Values Series

2015 • 6 Readers • 369 pages 4

Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary

2025 • 6 Readers

The Secret Loves of Geeks

The Secret Loves of Geeks
ByMargaret Atwood,Gerard Way,+2 more

2018 • 6 Readers • 204 pages 3.8

Global Dystopias

Global Dystopias
ByJunot Díaz(Editor),Adrienne Bernhard(Contributor)

2017 • 5 Readers • 209 pages 3

Choke Collar

#2 of 5 in Positron

Choke Collar
ByMargaret Atwood

2012 • 5 Readers • 51 pages 4.3

Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t

Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t
ByPhilip Larkin,William Shakespeare,+48 more

2018 • 5 Readers • 143 pages

Selected Poems: 1965-1975

Selected Poems: 1965-1975
ByMargaret Atwood

1976 • 5 Readers 4.5

Erase Me

#3 of 5 in Positron

Erase Me
ByMargaret Atwood

2012 • 5 Readers • 53 pages 4.7

The Door

The Door
ByMargaret Atwood

2007 • 4 Readers • 120 pages 4.5

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Freedom
ByMargaret Atwood

4 Readers • 133 pages

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

1972 • 4 Readers • 302 pages

A Trio of Tolerable Tales

A Trio of Tolerable Tales
ByMargaret Atwood,Dušan Petričić

2017 • 3 Readers • 52 pages

On Cats

On Cats
ByMargaret Atwood(Introduction by)

2021 • 3 Readers • 172 pages 1

I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet

I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet
ByMark Martin(Editor),Helen Simpson(Contributor)

2011 • 3 Readers • 209 pages 2.5

Dancing Girls

Dancing Girls
ByMargaret Atwood

1977 • 3 Readers • 303 pages

Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems

1961 • 3 Readers • 110 pages 5

The world split open

The world split open
ByMargaret Atwood,Wallace Stegner,+3 more

2014 • 3 Readers • 272 pages 5

The Martians Claim Canada

The Martians Claim Canada
ByMargaret Atwood

2017 • 3 Readers • 7 pages 4.3

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Two Scorched Men
ByMargaret Atwood

2021 • 3 Readers 2.5

Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems 1961-2023

2024 • 3 Readers • 608 pages

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The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women
ByA. Susan Williams(Editor),Richard Glyn Jones(Editor)

1995 • 3 Readers • 560 pages

Maddaddam Trilogy Box

Maddaddam Trilogy Box
ByMargaret Atwood

2014 • 3 Readers 5

Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes

1992 • 2 Readers • 120 pages

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Up in the Tree
ByMargaret Atwood

2006 • 2 Readers • 34 pages 2.5

40

40
ByCanongate Books

2013 • 2 Readers • 80 pages 2

The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories

1999 • 2 Readers • 667 pages 3

Angel Catbird, Volume 3: The Catbird Roars

#3 of 3 in Angel Catbird

2017 • 2 Readers • 104 pages 3

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2 Readers 3

Lost Classics

Lost Classics
ByMichael Ondaatje(Editor),Michael Redhill(Editor)

2000 • 2 Readers • 304 pages 4

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Flight #008
ByKathryn Cramer(Editor),Bruce Sterling(Contributor)

2017 • 2 Readers 5

Selected Poems 2: 1976 - 1986

1986 • 2 Readers 5

Eating Fire

Eating Fire
ByMargaret Atwood

1998 • 2 Readers • 368 pages

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Vulgo Grace
ByMargaret Atwood

1996 • 2 Readers 3

To Castle Catula

#2 of 3 in Angel Catbird

To Castle Catula
ByMargaret Atwood

2017 • 2 Readers • 102 pages 3

Sunrise to Sunset: An Anthology of Summer Reading

1 Reader • 166 pages

Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005

2005 • 1 Reader • 427 pages

In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination

2011 • 1 Reader • 255 pages

The Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future

2010 • 1 Reader • 128 pages

The Best American Short Stories 1989

1989 • 1 Reader

Strange Things

Strange Things
ByMargaret Atwood

1995 • 1 Reader • 126 pages

What's Your Story?

What's Your Story?
ByJ. K. Rowling(Contributor),Sebastian Faulks(Contributor)

2008 • 1 Reader • 20 pages 4

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1 Reader

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 43, December 2013

2013 • 1 Reader

The Guardian Review Book of Short Stories

The Guardian Review Book of Short Stories
ByLisa Allardice(Editor),William Trevor(Contributor)

2011 • 1 Reader • 128 pages