Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin was born in 1929 and died in 2018., Ursula K. Le Guin has written at least 511 books. Their most popular book is A Wizard of Earthsea with 1932 saves with 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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A Wizard of Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
3.891,021 reads
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.06834 reads
The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.21504 reads
Roadside Picnic
Roadside Picnic
  • Arkady Strugatsky
  • Boris Strugatsky
  • Olena Bormashenko (Translator)
4355 reads
The Lathe of Heaven
The Lathe of Heaven
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.02335 reads
The Tombs of Atuan
The Tombs of Atuan
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.04422 reads
The Farthest Shore
The Farthest Shore
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4332 reads
Tehanu
Tehanu
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
3.9210 reads
The Word for World Is Forest
The Word for World Is Forest
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.04154 reads
Rocannon's World
Rocannon's World
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Stefan Rudnicki
3.64108 reads
Tales from Earthsea
Tales from Earthsea
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.02120 reads
The Other Wind
The Other Wind
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.05113 reads
Lavinia
Lavinia
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
3.6533 reads
The Books of Earthsea
The Books of Earthsea
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.3933 reads
Always Coming Home
Always Coming Home
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
3.6718 reads
Planet of Exile
Planet of Exile
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
3.7550 reads
City of Illusions
City of Illusions
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
3.8241 reads
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
3.9751 reads
The Telling
The Telling
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
3.9326 reads
The Earthsea Trilogy
The Earthsea Trilogy
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.2152 reads
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.0942 reads
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.322 reads
The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.0418 reads
Gifts
Gifts
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
3.8433 reads
The Earthsea Quartet
The Earthsea Quartet
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
4.224 reads
Legends
Legends
    3.6729 reads
    The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
    The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    412 reads
    Changing Planes
    Changing Planes
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    3.5727 reads
    The Daughter of Odren
    The Daughter of Odren
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    3.5915 reads
    Catwings
    Catwings
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    4.0935 reads
    A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
    A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    3.6712 reads
    Powers
    Powers
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    4.1322 reads
    The Day Before the Revolution
    The Day Before the Revolution
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    4.1111 reads
    The  wave in the mind
    The wave in the mind
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    4.1112 reads
    Voices
    Voices
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    3.8323 reads
    Epic: Legends of Fantasy
    Epic: Legends of Fantasy
    • Paolo Bacigalupi
    • Aliette de Bodard
    • Trudi Canavan
    • Orson Scott Card
    • Kate Elliott
    • Robin Hobb
    • N. K. Jemisin
    • Mary Robinette Kowal
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Juliet Marillier
    • George R.R. Martin
    • Michael Moorcock
    • Melanie Rawn
    • Patrick Rothfuss
    • Brandon Sanderson
    • Carrie Vaughn
    • Tad Williams
    3.757 reads
    The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
    The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    4.3910 reads
    Words Are My Matter
    Words Are My Matter
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    4.259 reads
    The Eye of the Heron
    The Eye of the Heron
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    3.7515 reads
    Dancing at the Edge of the World
    Dancing at the Edge of the World
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    3.55 reads
    Winter's King
    Winter's King
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    45 reads
    The Beginning Place
    The Beginning Place
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Maciej Buszewicz (Translator)
    4.138 reads
    The Language Of The Night: Essays On Fantasy And Science Fiction
    The Language Of The Night: Essays On Fantasy And Science Fiction
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    4.335 reads
    Orsinian Tales
    Orsinian Tales
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    3.9415 reads
    The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
    The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    33 reads
    Five Ways to Forgiveness
    Five Ways to Forgiveness
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    4.2910 reads
    The Compass Rose: Short Stories
    The Compass Rose: Short Stories
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    3.3911 reads
    Brave New Worlds
    Brave New Worlds
    • Cory Doctorow
    • Paolo Bacigalupi
    • Orson Scott Card
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    • M. Rickert
    • Geoff Ryman
    • Neil Gaiman
    • Bryan Talbot
    • J.G. Ballard
    • Carrie Vaughn
    • James K. Morrow
    • Alexander C. Irvine
    • Ray Bradbury
    • Harlan Ellison
    • Genevieve Valentine
    • Sarah Langan
    • Kim Stanley Robinson
    • Matt Williamson
    • Philip K. Dick
    • Heather Lindsley
    • Kurt Vonnegut
    • Robert Silverberg
    • Jeremiah Tolbert
    • Joe Mastroianni
    • Adam-Troy Castro
    • Tobias S. Buckell
    • Vylar Kaftan
    • Shirley Jackson
    • S.L. Gilbow
    • Joseph Paul Haines
    • C.C. Finlay
    • Caitlín R. Kiernan
    • Kate Wilhelm
    44 reads
    Malafrena
    Malafrena
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    3.677 reads
    The Word of Unbinding: A Story
    The Word of Unbinding: A Story
    • Ursula K. Le Guin
    45 reads
    Legends 3
    Legends 3
      4.210 reads
      Catwings Return
      Catwings Return
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      4.7512 reads
      Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
      Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      49 reads
      Wings of Fire
      Wings of Fire
      • George R.R. Martin
      • Todd Lockwood
      • Michael Swanwick
      • Roger Zelazny
      • Diana Wynne Jones
      • Mercedes Lackey
      • Elizabeth Moon
      • Harlan Ellison
      • Robert Silverberg
      • Barry N. Malzberg
      • S.P. Somtow
      • James P. Blaylock
      • Gordon R. Dickson
      • Nina Kiriki Hoffman
      • Margo Lanagan
      • Elizabeth A. Lynn
      • Pat Murphy
      • Robert Reed
      • Lucius Shepard
      • Jane Yolen
      • Charles de Lint
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      • Patricia A. McKillip
      • Peter S. Beagle
      • Garth Nix
      • Holly Black
      • Elizabeth Bear
      • Anne McCaffrey
      • Tanith Lee
      • C. J. Cherryh
      • Orson Scott Card
      • Naomi Novik
      51 read
      Changing Planes: Stories
      Changing Planes: Stories
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      4.335 reads
      Jane on Her Own
      Jane on Her Own
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      • S.D. Schindler
      4.179 reads
      Ursula K. Le Guin
      Ursula K. Le Guin
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      • David Naimon
      4.26 reads
      Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
      Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      3.839 reads
      The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
      The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      4.47 reads
      Cover 7

      The Rule of Names

      The Rule of Names
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      33 reads
      Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
      Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
      • Terri Windling
      • Deborah Eisenberg
      • Maria Flook
      • Patricia Foster
      • Vivian Gornick
      • Lucy Grealy
      • bell hooks
      • Fanny Howe
      • Fern Kupfer
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      • Carole Maso
      • Alice Adams
      • Jane Miller
      • Lydia Millet
      • Connie Rose Porter
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      • Francine Prose
      • Linda Gray Sexton
      • Midori Snyder
      • Fay Weldon
      • Joy Williams
      • Julia Alvarez
      • Margaret Atwood
      • Ann Beattie
      • Rosellen Brown
      • A.S. Byatt
      • Kathryn Davis
      • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
      00 reads
      Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century
      Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century
      • George R.R. Martin
      • Orson Scott Card
      33 reads
      Searoad
      Searoad
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      • Lena Fries-Gedin (Translator)
      01 read
      Space Crone
      Space Crone
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      00 reads
      Diverse energies
      Diverse energies
      • Paolo Bacigalupi
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      • Malinda Lo
      • Cindy Pon
      • Daniel H. Wilson
      • Greg Van Eekhout
      • Ellen Oh
      • Naomi Kanakia
      • K. Tempest Bradford
      • Ken Liu
      • Rajan Khanna
      42 reads
      The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
      The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
      • Edmond Hamilton
      • Leslie F. Stone
      • C.L. Moore
      • Stanley G. Weinbaum
      • Isaac Asimov
      • Clifford D. Simak
      • Theodore Sturgeon
      • Judith Merril
      • Fritz Leiber
      • Ray Bradbury
      • Arthur C. Clarke
      • Robert Sheckley
      • William Tenn
      • Alfred Bester
      • Avram Davidson
      • Cordwainer Smith
      • Robert A. Heinlein
      • J.G. Ballard
      • R.A. Lafferty
      • Harlan Ellison
      • Frederik Pohl
      • Philip K. Dick
      • Samuel R. Delany
      • Pamela Zoline
      • Robert Silverberg
      • Brian W. Aldiss
      • Ursula K. Le Guin
      • Frank Herbert
      • Stanisław Lem
      • James Tiptree Jr.
      • John Varley
      • Joanna Russ
      • Kate Wilhelm
      • Carol Emshwiller
      • William Gibson
      • Nancy Kress
      • Pat Cadigan
      • Bruce Sterling
      • Misha Nogha
      • Eileen Gunn
      • Nathaniel Hawthorne
      • Jules Verne
      • H. G. Wells
      • E. M. Forster
      • Octavia E. Butler
      00 reads
      The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century
      The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century
        03 reads
        The Wind's Twelve Quarters and the Compass Rose
        The Wind's Twelve Quarters and the Compass Rose
        • Ursula K. Le Guin
        2.673 reads
        Erdsee
        Erdsee
        • Ursula K. Le Guin
        3.634 reads
        Cover 5

        The Bones of the Earth

        The Bones of the Earth
        • Ursula K. Le Guin
        43 reads
        The Apocalypse Reader
        The Apocalypse Reader
        • H. G. Wells
        • Grace Aguilar
        • Steve Aylett
        • Robert Bradley
        • Dennis Cooper
        • Lucy Corin
        • Matthew Derby
        • Carol Emshwiller
        • Neil Gaiman
        • Jeff Goldberg
        • Theodora Goss
        • Nathaniel Hawthorne
        • Shelley Jackson
        • Ursula K. Le Guin
        • Stacey Levine
        • Kelly Link
        • Garielle Lutz
        • Rick Moody
        • Michael Moorcock
        • Josip Novakovich
        • Edgar Allan Poe
        • Colette Phair
        • Terese Svoboda
        • Lynne Tillman
        • Deb Olin Unferth
        • Allison Whittenberg
        • Diane Williams
        • Adam Nemett
        • David Elliott
        • Jared Hohl
        • Joyce Carol Oates
        • H. P. Lovecraft
        • Brian Evenson
        23 reads
        Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
        Unlocking the Air and Other Stories
        • Ursula K. Le Guin
        33 reads
        The Birthday of the World
        The Birthday of the World
        • Ursula K. Le Guin
        4.254 reads
        The Space Opera Renaissance
        The Space Opera Renaissance
          2.334 reads
          Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
          Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          51 read
          The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
          The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          52 reads
          Worlds of Exile and Illusion
          Worlds of Exile and Illusion
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          3.634 reads
          The Secret History of Science Fiction
          The Secret History of Science Fiction
          • James Patrick Kelly
          • Lucius Shepard
          • Connie Willis
          • Gene Wolfe
          • Jonathan Lethem
          • George Saunders
          • Michael Chabon
          • Steven Millhauser
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          • Don DeLillo
          • Margaret Atwood
          • Carter Scholz
          • Molly Gloss
          • T.C. Boyle
          • Karen Joy Fowler
          • Maureen F. McHugh
          • Thomas M. Disch
          • Kate Wilhelm
          41 read
          Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
          Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          3.674 reads
          Wild Girls
          Wild Girls
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          4.673 reads
          Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
          Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          4.52 reads
          A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel
          A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          52 reads
          The Future is Female! Women's Science Fiction Stories from the Pulp Era to the New Wave
          The Future is Female! Women's Science Fiction Stories from the Pulp Era to the New Wave
          • Leslie F. Stone
          • Judith Merril
          • Kit Reed
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          • James Tiptree Jr.
          • Leigh Brackett
          • Joanna Russ
          44 reads
          Vaster than Empires and More Slow
          Vaster than Empires and More Slow
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          3.674 reads
          Os Despossuídos
          Os Despossuídos
          • Ursula K. Le Guin
          4.54 reads
          The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women
          The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women
            42 reads
            Cats in Space...and Other Places
            Cats in Space...and Other Places
            • Anne McCaffrey
            • C. J. Cherryh
            • Arthur C. Clarke
            • David Drake
            • Jody Lynn Nye
            • Robert A. Heinlein
            • M.J. Engh
            • A.E. van Vogt
            • P.J. Beese
            • Cordwainer Smith
            • Greg Bear
            • Fredric Brown
            • S.M. Stirling
            • Fritz Leiber
            • Ursula K. Le Guin
            • Todd Hamilton
            • Judith R. Conly
            00 reads
            Hainish novels & stories
            Hainish novels & stories
            • Ursula K. Le Guin
            51 read
            Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
            Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions
            • Ursula K. Le Guin
            4.254 reads
            Lao Tzu
            Lao Tzu
            • Ursula K. Le Guin
            4.674 reads
            Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences
            Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences
            • Ursula K. Le Guin
            22 reads
            Cover 5

            The New Atlantis

            The New Atlantis
            • Ursula K. Le Guin
            33 reads
            I mów, że moja chwała z przyjaciół się bierze
            I mów, że moja chwała z przyjaciół się bierze
            • Stanisław Lem
            • Ursula K. Le Guin
            • Tomasz Lem (Translator)
            51 read
            The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
            The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
              32 reads
              The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection
              The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection
                44 reads
                The Locus Awards
                The Locus Awards
                • Neil Gaiman
                • John Varley
                • George R.R. Martin
                • Pat Murphy
                • Lucius Shepard
                • Terry Bisson
                • John Kessel
                • Connie Willis
                • John Crowley
                • Gene Wolfe
                • Greg Egan
                • Ursula K. Le Guin
                • Ted Chiang
                • Harlan Ellison
                • James Tiptree Jr.
                • Octavia E. Butler
                • Joanna Russ
                • Bruce Sterling
                52 reads
                The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology
                The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology
                  42 reads
                  Cover 8

                  Jiný vítr

                  Jiný vítr
                  • Ursula K. Le Guin
                  • Petr Kotrle (Translator)
                  51 read
                  A Ride on the Red Mare's Back
                  A Ride on the Red Mare's Back
                  • Ursula K. Le Guin
                  42 reads
                  Cover 5

                  Winter's King

                  Winter's King: A Story
                  • Ursula K. Le Guin
                  3.52 reads