Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin was born in 1929 and died in 2018. Their most popular book is A Wizard of Earthsea with 2146 saves and an average rating of 3.89.

Author Bio

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author who wrote more than 20 novels and 100 short stories. She's best known for her genre-bending speculative fiction, including the Earthsea fantasy series and the Hainish universe novels. Her early works, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and The Dispossessed (1974), established her as a major figure in science fiction.

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Authorship percentage indicates primary author status - excluding introductions, forewards and other contributions.

Series

9 primary books17 released books

Authored 100% of series

Hainish Cycle

Hainish Cycle is a 17-book series with 15 released primary works first released in 1966 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin and Stefan Rudnicki.

#1
Rocannon's World
#2
Planet of Exile
#3
City of Illusions
#4
The Left Hand of Darkness
#4.5
Winter's King

Series

6 primary books8 released books

Authored 100% of series

Earthsea Cycle

Earthsea Cycle is a 8-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1968 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

#0.4
The Rule of Names
#1
A Wizard of Earthsea
#2
The Tombs of Atuan
#3
The Farthest Shore
#4
Tehanu

Series

6 released books

Authored 100% of series

About Writing

About Writing is a 6-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1989 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin and Carl Howard Freedman.

Series

5 primary books4 released books

Authored 100% of series

Catwings

Catwings is a 4-book series with 4 released primary works first released in 1988 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

#1
Catwings
#2
Catwings Return
#3
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
#4
Jane on Her Own

Series

5 released books

Authored 100% of series

Orsinia

Orsinia is a 5-book series with 5 released primary works first released in 1976 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Orsinian Tales
Orsinian Tales: A Library of America eBook Classic
Malafrena
The Compass Rose: Short Stories
The Compass Rose

Series

5 primary books

Authored 100% of series

Poetry

Poetry is a 5-book series with 5 released primary works first released in 1975 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

#1
Wild Angels
#7
Going Out With Peacocks and Other Poems
#8
Sixty Odd
#9
Incredible Good Fortune: New Poems
#10
Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems

Series

65 primary books61 released books

Authored 7% of series

LOA

LOA is a 61-book series with 61 released primary works first released in 1820 with contributions by Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Jack London.

#1
Typee, Omoo, Mardi
#4
Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly ; The minister's wooing ; Oldtown folks
#6
Novels and Stories: The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories
#16
Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches
#18
Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry

Series

2 primary books1 released book

Authored 100% of series

The Wind's Twelve Quarters

The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a 1-book series first released in 1975 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

#2
The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 2

Series

3 primary books

Authored 100% of series

Annals of the Western Shore

Annals of the Western Shore is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 2004 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

#1
Gifts
#2
Voices
#3
Powers

Series

2 primary books

Authored 100% of series

The Unreal and the Real

The Unreal and the Real is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

#1
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth
#2
The Unreal and the Real Volume 2: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin: Outer Space & Inner Lands

Series

7 primary books15 released books

Authored 7% of series

Brainship

Brainship is a 15-book series with 13 released primary works first released in 1969 with contributions by Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, and Jody Lynn Nye.

#1
The Ship Who Sang
#1.4
The Ship That Returned
#2
PartnerShip
#3
The Ship Who Searched

Series

16 primary books19 released books

Authored 5% of series

The Realm of the Elderlings

The Realm of the Elderlings is a 19-book series with 16 released primary works first released in 1985 with contributions by Robin Hobb, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Aliette de Bodard.

#0.5
The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince
#1
Assassin's Apprentice
#2
Royal Assassin
#3
Assassin's Quest

Series

9 primary books14 released books

Authored 7% of series

Temeraire

Temeraire is a 14-book series with 10 released primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by Cecelia Holland, Naomi Novik, and Jonathan Stroud.

#0.5
The Dragon Book
#0.5
Vici
#1
His Majesty's Dragon
#1.5
Feast or Famine
#2
Throne of Jade

Series

10 primary books20 released books

Authored 5% of series

Saga of the Skolian Empire

Saga of the Skolian Empire is a 20-book series with 20 released primary works first released in 1995 with contributions by Catherine Asaro, James Patrick Kelly, and Harry Turtledove.

#1
Primary Inversion
#2
Catch the Lightning
#3
The Last Hawk
#5
Ascendant Sun
#6
Quantam Rose

Series

1 released book

Authored 100% of series

Hainish Hainish Cycle Series

Hainish Hainish Cycle Series is a 1-book series first released in 1994 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

Series

5 released books

Authored 20% of series

Women of Wonder

Women of Wonder is a 5-book series with 5 released primary works first released in 1975 with contributions by Sonya Dorman, Judith Merril, and Katherine McLean.

Series

1 released book

Authored 100% of series

Collected Works of Ursula K. Le Guin

Collected Works of Ursula K. Le Guin is a 1-book series first released in 2016 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Series

3 primary books

Authored 33% of series

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 1989 with contributions by Laini Taylor, Kim Newman, and Thomas Wharton.

#3
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection
#5
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection

Series

3 primary books7 released books

Authored 14% of series

Doona

Doona is a 7-book series with 7 released primary works first released in 1969 with contributions by Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye, and C. J. Cherryh.

#1
Decision at Doona
#2
Crisis on Doona
#3
Treaty at Doona (Doona, #3)
#8.5
The Girl Who Heard Dragons
The Fleet

Series

25 primary books24 released books

Authored 4% of series

PM's Outspoken Authors

PM's Outspoken Authors is a 24-book series with 24 released primary works first released in 1984 with contributions by Kim Stanley Robinson, Gary Phillips, and Eleanor Arnason.

#2
The Lucky Strike
#3
The Underbelly
#4
Mammoths of the Great Plains
#5
Modem Times 2.0
#6
Wild Girls

Series

2 primary books

Authored 0% of series

Jackaroo

Jackaroo is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2007 with contributions by Paul McAuley.

#1
Something Coming Through
#2
Into Everywhere

Series

1 primary book0 released books

Authored 0% of series

The Best of the Best

The Best of the Best is a 0-book series first released in 2007 .

Series

3 released books

Authored 0% of series

Texas Pan American Literature in Translation

Texas Pan American Literature in Translation is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 1941 with contributions by Gabriela Mistral and Alicia Yánez Cossío.

Selected Poems
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
The Potbellied Virgin

Series

3 released books

Authored 0% of series

Latin American and Latino Art and Culture

Latin American and Latino Art and Culture is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 1941 with contributions by Gabriela Mistral, Martha Menchaca, and Clements Robert Markham.

Series

7 primary books

Authored 0% of series

Best Science Fiction Stories of the year (Del Rey/Dozois)

Best Science Fiction Stories of the year (Del Rey/Dozois) is a 7-book series with 7 released primary works first released in 1972 with contributions by Lester del Rey, Steven Utley, and Howard Waldrop.

Series

2 primary books

Authored 0% of series

New Dimensions

New Dimensions is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 1971 .

Series

6 primary books

Authored 0% of series

Nebula Awards Showcases

Nebula Awards Showcases is a 6-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1966 with contributions by R.A. Lafferty, Jack Vance, and Frederik Pohl.

#2
Nebula Award Stories Number Two / 2
Nebula Award Stories 3
#5
Nebula Award Stories 5
#14
Nebula Winners 14
#47
Nebula Awards Showcase 2013

Series

1 primary book0 released books

Authored 0% of series

Yeowe and Werel

Yeowe and Werel is a 0-book series first released in 1989 .

Series

2 primary books

Authored 0% of series

The Diogenes Club

The Diogenes Club is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 1994 with contributions by Kim Newman.

Series

9 released books

Authored 0% of series

Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture is a 9-book series with 9 released primary works first released in 1899 with contributions by Rainer Maria Rilke, Volker Max Langbehn, and Stuart Taberner.

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
The Book of Hours
Poems from the Book of Hours
Das Stunden-Buch
O Livro de Horas

Series

20 primary books22 released books

Authored 0% of series

Lightspeed Magazine

Lightspeed Magazine is a 22-book series with 22 released primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by John Joseph Adams, George R.R. Martin, and David Brin.

#21
Lightspeed Magazine, August 2012
#25
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2012
#36
Lightspeed Magazine, May 2013
#41
Lightspeed Magazine, October 2013
#46
Lightspeed Magazine, March 2014

Series

3 primary books4 released books

Authored 0% of series

The Black Magician Trilogy

The Black Magician Trilogy is a 4-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 1999 with contributions by Trudi Canavan.

#0.5
The Magician's Apprentice
#1
The Magicians' Guild
#2
The Novice
#3
The High Lord

Series

6 primary books7 released books

Authored 0% of series

The Uplift Saga

The Uplift Saga is a 7-book series with 7 released primary works first released in 1980 with contributions by David Brin and Kevin Lenagh.

#1
Sundiver
#2
Startide Rising
#3
The Uplift War
#1
Brightness Reef
#2
Infinity's Shore

Series

24 primary books43 released books

Authored 0% of series

Pern (Chronological Order)

Pern (Chronological Order) is a 43-book series with 43 released primary works first released in 1967 with contributions by Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey, and Karen Wynn Fonstad.

#1
Dragonsdawn
#11.5
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
#13
Dragonseye
#16
Dragon's Kin
#19
Dragon's Fire

Series

20 primary books29 released books

Authored 0% of series

Pern

Pern is a 29-book series with 20 released primary works first released in 1967 with contributions by Anne McCaffrey, Karen Wynn Fonstad, and Todd McCaffrey.

#0.1
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
#0.2
Dragonrider
#1
Dragonflight
#2
Dragonquest
#1
Dragonsong

Series

7 primary books9 released books

Authored 0% of series

Tales of Alvin Maker

Tales of Alvin Maker is a 9-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1987 with contributions by Orson Scott Card and John Joseph Adams.

#1
Seventh Son
#2
Red Prophet
#3
Prentice Alvin
#4
Alvin Journeyman
#5
Heartfire: Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 5

Series

6 primary books8 released books

Authored 0% of series

Galactic Center

Galactic Center is a 8-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1977 with contributions by Gregory Benford.

#0.5
The Galactic Center Companion
#1
In the Ocean of Night
#2
Across the Sea of Suns
#3
Great Sky River
#4
Tides of Light

Series

2 primary books

Authored 0% of series

The Forever War

The Forever War is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 1946 with contributions by Joe Haldeman.

#1
The Forever War
#2
Forever Free

Series

13 primary books19 released books

Authored 0% of series

The Elric Saga

The Elric Saga is a 19-book series with 19 released primary works first released in 1963 with contributions by Michael Moorcock, Tad Williams, and David M. Honigsberg.