Also by Margaret Atwood
Fiction
Oryx and Crake (2003)
The Blind Assassin (2000)
Alias Grace (1996)
The Robber Bride (1993)
Good Bones (1992)
Wilderness Tips (1991)
Cat's Eye (1988)
The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
Murder in the Dark (1983)
Bodily Harm (1981)
Life Before Man (1979)
Dancing Girls (1977)
Lady Oracle (1976)
Surfacing (1972)
The Edible Woman (1969)
For Children
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2004)
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
For the Birds (1990)
Anna's Pet [with Joyce Barkhouse] (1980)
Up in the Tree (1978)
Non-Fiction
Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1984-2002 (2004)
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)
Two Solicitudes: Conversations
[with Victor-Lévy Beaulieu] (1998)
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian
Literature (1996)
Second Words (1982)
Days of the Rebels 1815–1840 (1977)
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Poetry
Morning in the Burned House (1995)
Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976-1986
(1986)
Interlunar (1984)
True Stories (1981)
Two-Headed Poems (1978)
Selected Poems (1976)
rou Are Happy (1974)
Power Politics (1971)
Procedures for Underground (1970)
The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
The Animals in That Country (1968)
The Circle Game (1966)
Double Persephone (1961)
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