“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”

~ Margaret Atwood

Novels

The Edible Woman (1969)

Surfacing (1972)

Lady Oracle (1976)

Life Before Man (1979) - finalist for the 1979 Governor General's Award

Bodily Harm (1981)

The Handmaid's Tale (1985) - winner of the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 1985 Governor General's Award.

Cat's Eye (1988) - finalist for the 1988 Governor General's Award

The Robber Bride (1993) - finalist for the 1994 Governor General's Award

Alias Grace (1996) - winner of the 1996 Giller Prize and finalist for the 1996 Governor General's Award

The Blind Assassin (2000) - winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award

Oryx and Crake (2003) - finalist for the 2003 Governor General's Award

The Penelopiad (2005) - longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award

God's Gardeners

Poetry collections

Double Persephone (1961)

The Circle Game (1964) - winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award

Expeditions (1965)

Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)

The Animals in That Country (1968)

The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)

Procedures for Underground (1970)

Power Politics (1971)

You Are Happy (1974)

Selected Poems (1976)

Two-Headed Poems (1978)

True Stories (1981)

Love songs of a Terminator (1983)

Interlunar (1984)

Morning in the Burned House (1996)

"The Moment" from Morning in Burned House, online at CBC Words at Large

Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995 (1998)

The Door (2007)

Non-fiction

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)

Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (1977)

Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1982)

Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995)

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)

Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982-2004 (2004)

Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose--1983-2005 (2005)