Short stories/fictions

  • Dancing Girls (1977) (Canadian, American and British editions are slightly different)
  • Murder in the Dark (1983)
  • Bluebeard’s Egg (1983) (Canadian and British editions are slightly different)
  • Wilderness Tips (1991)
  • Good Bones (1992)
  • Good Bones and Simple Murder (1994)
  • A Quiet Game (Juvenilia) (1997)
  • The Tent (2006)
  • Moral Disorder (2006)

Novels

  1. The Edible Woman (1969)
  2. Surfacing (1972)
  3. Lady Oracle (1976)
  4. Life before Man (1979)
  5. Bodily Harm (1981)
  6. The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
  7. Cat’s Eye (1988)
  8. The Robber Bride (1993)
  9. Alias Grace (1996)
  10. The Blind Assassin (2000)
  11. Oryx and Crake (2003)
  12. The Year of the Flood (2009)
  13. Madd Addam (forthcoming)

Poetry

Children’s Book

Non-Fiction

  1. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
  2. Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (1977)
  3. Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1982)
  4. Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995)
  5. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)
  6. Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982-2004 (2004)
  7. Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983-2005 (2005)
  8. Curious Pursuits (2005)
  9. Payback: Debt as Metaphor and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008)
  10. In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination (2011)