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 3699 saves and an average rating of 3.91.

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

6 primary books9 released books

Authored 100% of series

Earthsea Cycle

Earthsea Cycle is a 9-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

9 primary books18 released books

Authored 94% of series

Hainish Cycle

Hainish Cycle is a 18-book series with 8 released primary works first released in 1966 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

#2
Planet of Exile
#3
City of Illusions
#4
The Left Hand of Darkness
#4.5
Winter's King
#5
The Word for World Is Forest

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: A Catwings Tale

Series

9 primary books6 released books

Authored 100% of series

Poetry

Poetry is a 6-book series with 9 released primary works first released in 1975 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

#1
Wild Angels
#3
Hard Words, and Other Poems
#5
Wild Oats and Fireweed: New Poems
#7
Going Out With Peacocks and Other Poems
#8
Sixty Odd

Series

6 primary 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, Tuncay Birkan, and Müge Gürsoy Sökmen.

Series

390 primary books64 released books

Authored 7% of series

LOA

LOA is a 64-book series with 390 released primary works first released in 19 with contributions by Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Washington Irving.

#1
Typee, Omoo, Mardi
#4
Uncle Tom's Cabin
#16
Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches
#18
Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry
#24
Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Uncollected Prose, Billy Budd, Sailor

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
Lo Irreal y lo Real: Relatos seleccionados, volumen 1
#2
The Unreal and the Real Volume 2: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin: Outer Space & Inner Lands

Series

7 primary books4 released books

Authored 100% of series

The Hainish Cycle

The Hainish Cycle is a 4-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1966 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

#6
The Dispossessed Paperback 12 Aug 1999
Un pescador del mar interior

Series

3 primary books

Authored 100% of series

Orsinia

Orsinia is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 1976 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Orsinian Tales
Malafrena
The Compass Rose: Short Stories

Series

6 primary books5 released books

Authored 20% of series

World's Best Science Fiction

World's Best Science Fiction is a 5-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1965 with contributions by Donald A. Wollheim, Robert Silverberg, and Larry Niven.

Series

8 primary books17 released books

Authored 7% of series

Brainship

Brainship is a 17-book series with 8 released primary works first released in 1969 with contributions by Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, and S.M. Stirling.

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

Series

9 primary books15 released books

Authored 7% of series

Temeraire

Temeraire is a 15-book series with 9 released primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by Liz Williams, Cecelia Holland, and Naomi Novik.

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

Series

3 primary books7 released books

Authored 14% of series

Doona

Doona is a 7-book series with 3 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

14 primary books22 released books

Authored 5% of series

Saga of the Skolian Empire

Saga of the Skolian Empire is a 22-book series with 14 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

31 primary books24 released books

Authored 4% of series

PM's Outspoken Authors

PM's Outspoken Authors is a 24-book series with 31 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

5 primary 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 primary 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

2 primary books

Authored 50% of series

Nebula

Nebula is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, and Brian W. Aldiss.

#1
Nebula 1
#2
Nebula 2

Series

1 primary book

Authored 100% of series

Чарівник Земномор'я

Чарівник Земномор'я is a 1-book series first released in 1968 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Series

20 primary books14 released books

Authored 5% of series

SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture is a 14-book series with 14 released primary works first released in -600 with contributions by Lao Tzu, لَو تسو, and هادي العلوي.

Series

9 primary books1 released book

Authored 100% of series

Hainli Döngüsü

Hainli Döngüsü is a 1-book series first released in 2000 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin and Kemal Baran Özbek.

Series

10 primary books1 released book

Authored 100% of series

Nebula Awards Showcases

Nebula Awards Showcases is a 1-book series first released in 1975 with contributions by Philip José Farmer, Robert Silverberg, and Gregory Benford.

#10
Nebula Award Stories Ten

Series

1 primary book

Authored 100% of series

Universe (Silverberg)

Universe (Silverberg) is a 1-book series first released in 1990 with contributions by Grania Davis, Richard Rein Smith, and Gregor Hartmann.

#1
Universe 1

Series

379 primary books1 released book

Authored 100% of series

Library of America

Library of America is a 1-book series first released in 2024 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin.

#379
Five Novels: The Lathe of Heaven / The Eye of the Heron / The Beginning Place / Searoad / Lavinia

Series

3 primary books1 released book

Authored 100% of series

Batı Sahili Yıllıkları

Batı Sahili Yıllıkları is a 1-book series first released in 2007 with contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin, Çiğdem Erkal İpek, and Emine Bora.

Series

1 primary 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

7 primary books11 released books

Authored 0% of series

Tales of Alvin Maker

Tales of Alvin Maker is a 11-book series with 7 released primary works first released in 1987 with contributions by Orson Scott Card and John Joseph Adams.

Series

24 primary books33 released books

Authored 0% of series

Pern

Pern is a 33-book series with 24 released primary works first released in 1967 with contributions by Anne McCaffrey, Karen Wynn Fonstad, and Robert Silverberg.

#0.1
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
#0.2
Dragonrider
#1
Dragonflight
#2
Dragonquest
#3
Dragonsong

Series

25 primary books47 released books

Authored 0% of series

Pern (Chronological Order)

Pern (Chronological Order) is a 47-book series with 25 released primary works first released in 1967 with contributions by Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey, and Todd J. McCaffrey.

Rescue Run
#1
Dragonsdawn
#11.5
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
#13
Dragonseye
#18
Dragon's Fire

Series

1 primary book

Authored 0% of series

Elsewhere

Elsewhere is a 1-book series first released in 1981.

#1
Elsewhere: Tales of Fantasy

Series

6 primary books8 released books

Authored 0% of series

The Uplift Saga

The Uplift Saga is a 8-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1980 with contributions by David Brin and Kevin Lenagh.

#1
Sundiver
#2
Startide Rising
#3
The Uplift War
#4
Brightness Reef
#5
Infinity's Shore

Series

40 primary books2 released books

Authored 0% of series

Nebula Awards Showcases

Nebula Awards Showcases is a 2-book series with 40 released primary works first released in 1983.

Series

80 primary books10 released books

Authored 0% of series

Science Fiction Stories

Science Fiction Stories is a 10-book series with 80 released primary works first released in 1971.

#9
Science Fiction Stories 9
#18
Science Fiction Stories 18
#30
Science Fiction Stories 30
#32
Science Fiction Stories 32
#54
Science Fiction Stories 54

Series

153 primary books26 released books

Authored 0% of series

Lightspeed Magazine

Lightspeed Magazine is a 26-book series with 153 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

18 primary books5 released books

Authored 0% of series

Annual World's Best SF

Annual World's Best SF is a 5-book series with 18 released primary works first released in 1972 with contributions by Donald A. Wollheim.

Series

16 primary books21 released books

Authored 0% of series

The Realm of the Elderlings

The Realm of the Elderlings is a 21-book series with 16 released primary works first released in 1982 with contributions by Robin Hobb.

#0.5
The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince
#2
Royal Assassin
#3
Assassin's Quest
#1
Ship of Magic

Series

11 primary books

Authored 0% of series

Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture is a 11-book series with 11 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

50 primary books8 released books

Authored 0% of series

Nebula Awards Showcases

Nebula Awards Showcases is a 8-book series with 50 released primary works first released in 1966 with contributions by George Zebrowski, Algis Budrys, and Isaac Asimov.

#3
Nebula Award Stories 3
#5
Nebula Award Stories 5
#14
Nebula Winners 14
#41
Nebula Awards Showcase 2007

Series

1 primary book2 released books

Authored 0% of series

The Wind's Twelve Quarters

The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a 2-book series with 2 released primary work first released in 1975.

Series

1 primary book

Authored 0% of series

Princess Irene and Curdie

Princess Irene and Curdie is a 1-book series first released in 1872 with contributions by George MacDonald.

#1
The Princess and the Goblin

Series

10 primary books8 released 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 8-book series with 10 released primary works first released in 1972 with contributions by Lester del Rey, Steven Utley, and Howard Waldrop.

Series

1 primary book

Authored 0% of series

Yeowe and Werel

Yeowe and Werel is a 1-book series first released in 1989.

#7
Four Ways to Forgiveness
#7
Η μέρα της συγχώρεσης
#7
Quatre chemins de pardon
#1
Cuatro caminos hacia el perdón

Series

2 primary books6 released books

Authored 0% of series

Jackaroo

Jackaroo is a 6-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2007 with contributions by Paul McAuley.

#1
Something Coming Through
#2
Into Everywhere

Series

2 primary books1 released book

Authored 0% of series

The Best of the Best

The Best of the Best is a 1-book series first released in 2007.

#2
The Best of the Best, Vol 2
#2
The Best of the Best, Volume 2

Series

4 primary books3 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

4 primary books

Authored 0% of series

Texas Pan American Literature in Translation

Texas Pan American Literature in Translation is a 4-book series with 4 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
La Cofradía del Mullo del Vestido de la Virgen Pipona