Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin is an American author that is best known for her fantasy and science fiction novels for children. The author has also produced poems and essays. Le Guin’s work has been commended for delving into alternative realities with differing ideas on gender, religion, and sexuality. +Biography Ursula was born in 1929 to a UC Berkley Anthropologist and a Writer by the names of Alfred Louis Kroeber and Theodora Kracaw.

The best place to start is the Wind's Twelve Quarters Short Stories/Novellas series, the earliest of Ursula K. Le Guin's multi-book series: it opens with April in Paris (1962) and runs to 13 books across 1962–2017, ending with Winter's King (2017). Ursula K. Le Guin's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Ursula K. Le Guin has 365 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1962 and 2026. 191 of them belong to 20 named series — the largest being the Wind's Twelve Quarters Short Stories/Novellas series with 13 books — and 174 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Ursula K. Le Guin's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Wind's Twelve Quarters Short Stories/Novellas (1962–2017, 13 books), Hainish Cycle (1966–2017, 10 books) and Earthsea Cycle (1968–2018, 7 books), plus 10 more.

This guide splits Ursula K. Le Guin's 365 books into 20 named series and 174 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Wind's Twelve Quarters Short Stories/Novellas (13 books, 1962–2017); Hainish Cycle (10 books, 1966–2017); Earthsea Cycle (7 books, 1968–2018); Catwings (5 books, 1988–2009); Annals Of The Western Shore (3 books, 2004–2007), plus 15 further series.