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Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023 (Collection) was the most recently released book by Margaret Atwood, on October 8th, 2024.

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Margaret Atwood Stats: The highest rated book by Margaret Atwood on Book Notification is Hag-Seed, the 4th novel in the Hogarth Shakespeare series. The second-highest rated book is The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale #2).

The most read book by Margaret Atwood on Book Notification is The Handmaid's Tale, the first novel in The Handmaid's Tale series. The second most read book is Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam #1).

Below is a complete list of Margaret Atwood books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series. The most popular series by Margaret Atwood is The Handmaid's Tale Series.

List of The Handmaid's Tale Books in Publication Order

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1
7.8
The Handmaid's Tale
1986
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2
8.6
The Testaments
2019
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List of Angel Catbird Graphic Novels in Publication Order

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1
8
Angel Catbird, Volume 1
2016
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2
Angel Catbird, Volume 2: To Castle Catula
2017
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3
Angel Catbird, Volume 3: The Catbird Roars
2017
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List of Canongate's The Myths Books in Publication Order

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1
4
A Short History of Myth (By: Karen Armstrong)
2004
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2
Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson (By: David Grossman)
2005
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3
8
The Penelopiad
2005
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4
6
Weight (By: Jeanette Winterson)
2005
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5
The Helmet of Horror (By: Victor Pelevin)
2005
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6
Where Three Roads Meet (By: Salley Vickers)
2005
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7
Binu and the Great Wall (By: Su Tong)
2006
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8
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (By: Dubravka Ugrešić)
2007
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9
The Goddess Chronicle (By: Natsuo Kirino)
2013
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List of Hogarth Shakespeare Books in Publication Order

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1
The Gap of Time ( By: Jeanette Winterson)
2015
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2
6
Shylock is My Name ( By: Howard Jacobson)
2016
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3
9.3
Vinegar Girl (By: Anne Tyler)
2016
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4
9
Hag-Seed
2016
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5
New Boy (By: Tracy Chevalier)
2017
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6
Dunbar ( By: Edward St. Aubyn)
2017
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7
6
Macbeth (By: Jo Nesbø)
2018
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List of MaddAddam Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8.1
Oryx and Crake
2003
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2
7.8
The Year of the Flood
2009
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3
8.5
MaddAddam
2013
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List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
6
The Edible Woman
1969
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2
6.7
Surfacing
1972
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3
6.7
Lady Oracle
1976
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4
4
Up in the Tree
1978
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5
Life Before Man
1979
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6
5.8
Bodily Harm
1981
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7
7
Cat's Eye
1988
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8
For the Birds
1990
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9
7.5
The Robber Bride
1993
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10
7.7
Alias Grace
1996
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11
The Labrador Fiasco
1996
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12
8.1
The Blind Assassin (With: Michael O'Brien)
2000
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13
Bottle
2004
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14
6.4
The Heart Goes Last
2015
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List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
10
Happy Endings
1983
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2
10
Moral Disorder
2014
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3
The Bad News
2018
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4
War Bears
2019
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5
8
Two Scorched Men
2021
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6
8.3
My Evil Mother
2022
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7
7
Cut and Thirst
2024
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List of Collections in Publication Order

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1
The Circle Game
1964
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2
The Animals in that Country
1968
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3
The Journals of Susanna Moodie (With: Charles Pachter)
1970
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4
Procedures For Underground
1970
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5
Power Politics
1971
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6
You Are Happy
1974
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7
Selected Poems
1976
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8
4
Dancing Girls and Other Stories
1977
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9
Two-Headed Poems
1978
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10
True Stories
1981
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11
Bluebeard's Egg
1983
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12
Murder in the Dark
1983
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13
Interlunar
1984
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14
Selected Poems II
1986
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15
Wilderness Tips
1991
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16
Good Bones
1992
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17
Poems 1976-1986
1992
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18
Polarities. Selected Stories
1994
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19
Bones & Murder
1994
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20
Morning in the Burned House
1995
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21
Eating Fire
1998
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22
Moving Targets
2004
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23
The Tent
2006
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24
7
Moral Disorder and Other Stories
2006
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25
The Door
2007
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26
The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie
2014
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27
10
Stone Mattress
2014
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28
Freedom
2018
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29
Dearly
2020
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30
8
Old Babes in the Wood
2023
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31
8
Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023
2024
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List of Graphic Novels in Publication Order

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1
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
2019
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List of Picture Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Anna's Pet
1980
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2
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut
1995
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3
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes
2003
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4
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda
2004
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5
Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery
2011
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6
A Trio of Tolerable Tales
2017
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Survival
1972
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2
Days Of The Rebels
1977
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3
Second Words
1982
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4
The Canlit Foodbook
1987
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5
Margaret Atwood Conversations
1990
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6
Strange Things
1995
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7
Two Solicitudes
1996
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8
Story of a Nation
2001
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9
Negotiating with the Dead / On Writers & Writing
2002
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10
Curious Pursuits
2005
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11
Writing With Intent
2005
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12
8
Payback
2007
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13
Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine
2009
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14
In Other Worlds
2011
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15
Dire Cartographies
2015
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16
The Burgess Shale
2017
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17
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces
2022
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List of Margaret Atwood Anthologies in Publication Order

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Points of View
1956
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2
Women Writers at Work
1989
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3
The Best American Short Stories 1989
1989
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4
The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories
1990
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5
Colors of a New Day
1990
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6
Cries of the Spirit
1991
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7
The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces
1992
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8
Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories
1992
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9
Ploughshares Winter 1993-94
1993
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10
Minding the Body
1994
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11
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
1994
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12
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women
1995
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13
Ten
1996
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14
Sunrise to Sunset
1997
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15
Wild Women
1997
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16
Mistresses of the Dark
1998
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17
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
1998
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18
Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium
1999
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19
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
1999
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20
Ovid Metamorphosed
2000
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21
When The Wild Comes Leaping Up
2002
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22
The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War
2003
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23
The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
2004
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24
More Stories We Tell
2004
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25
The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping
2007
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26
The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories
2007
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27
The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction.
2008
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28
Sisters
2009
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29
First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors
2009
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30
Crimespotting
2009
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31
6
Half-Minute Horrors
2009
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32
The Secret History of Science Fiction
2009
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33
I'm With the Bears
2011
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34
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
2012
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35
The World Split Open
2014
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36
Loosed Upon the World
2015
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37
The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
2015
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38
First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner
2016
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39
Imaginarium 4
2016
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40
The Secret Loves of Geeks
2018
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41
Freeman's Power
2018
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42
Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
2019
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43
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
2022
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44
6
Furies
2023
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45
6
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering
2024
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46
Democracy
2024
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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood (Margaret Eleanor Atwood) was born on November 18th, 1939 and is currently 85 years old. Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Margaret Atwood is the author of the Margaret Atwood Collections series which currently consists of 31 novels. The Margaret Atwood Collections series started in 1964 with the novel The Circle Game. The most recently released novel in the Margaret Atwood Collections series was Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023 which was released in 2024. There are no upcoming novels for the Margaret Atwood Collections series.

Margaret Atwood (Margaret Eleanor Atwood) has also written the Non-Fiction Books series which has 17 books including Survival and Days Of The Rebels.

Margaret Atwood is a member of The Nielsen Bestseller Award's 21st Century Platinum Hall of Fame.

Margaret Atwood: Awards & Accolades

Margaret Atwood has won multiple awards including: The Helmerich Award, Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, in 1999, Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Awards, Imagination in Service to Society, in 2015, St. Louis Literary Award, Distinguished Figure in Literature, in 2017, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, in 2020 and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, in 2021. Margaret Atwood was also nominated for multiple awards including: The International Booker Prize, Outstanding Achievement in Fiction, in 2005, and the International Booker Prize, Outstanding Achievement in Fiction, in 2007.

Margaret Atwood has won many awards including:

  • The Handmaid\'s Tale won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Best Fiction, in 1986 as well as the Arthur C. Clarke Award - Best Science Fiction Novel in 1987, Audie Award - Best Fiction in 2013, Nielsen Awards - Gold Bestseller in 2018, Nielsen Awards - Platinum Bestseller in 2020.
  • The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women won the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 1996.
  • Alias Grace won the Scotiabank Giller Prize Awards, Giller Prize, in 1996.
  • The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize, Best Fiction Book, in 2000 as well as the Hammett Prize - Best Crime Novel in 2000.
  • Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury won the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in an Anthology, in 2012.
  • MaddAddam won the Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction, in 2013.
  • The Testaments won the Booker Prize, Best Fiction Book, in 2019 as well as the Goodreads Awards - Best Fiction in 2019.

The following novels by Margaret Atwood were also nominated for these awards:

  • The Handmaid's Tale: Booker Prize, Best Fiction Book (1986). Otherwise Award, Retrospective Award (1995). Audie Award, Best Audio Drama (2005). Audie Award, Audiobook of the Year (2018). Audie Award, Best Original Work (2018).
  • Cat's Eye: Booker Prize, Best Fiction Book (1989).
  • The Robber Bride: Otherwise Award, Best Science Fiction (1993).
  • Alias Grace: Booker Prize, Best Fiction Book (1996). Women's Prize, For Fiction (1997). Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, Best Crime Novel (1997).
  • The Blind Assassin: Audie Award, Best Female Narrator (2001). Women's Prize, For Fiction (2001). Audie Award, Best Audio Drama (2006).
  • Oryx and Crake: Booker Prize, Best Fiction Book (2003). Scotiabank Giller Prize Awards, Giller Prize (2003). Audie Award, Best Male Narrator (2004). Women's Prize, For Fiction (2004).
  • The Penelopiad: Mythopoeic Award, Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (2006).
  • The Year of the Flood: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2009). Goodreads Awards, Best Fiction (2009).
  • Stone Mattress: Goodreads Awards, Best Fiction (2014).
  • The Heart Goes Last: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2015).
  • The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel: Goodreads Awards, Best Graphic Novels and Comics (2019).
  • The Testaments: Alex Awards, Best Book (2020). Audie Award, Audiobook of the Year (2020). British Book Awards, Fiction Book of the Year (2020).
  • Cut and Thirst: Edgar Award, Best Short Story (2025).

Margaret Atwood: TV/Movies Based on Books

The Handmaid's Tale is the most famous adaptation of Atwood's work. The show aired on Hulu and was an instant success. It received 13 Emmy nominations in its first season and won eight of them. It was the first Hulu show and the first show from an streaming service to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series. The series also won multiple Golden Globe Awards. The series stars Elisabeth Moss as Offred. She won the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series award at the 2017 Primetime Emmy Awards for her role.

Atwood's 2011 children's book, Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery, was made into a television show for CBC in 2017. The show was called The Wide World of Wandering Wenda and featured animated characters.

The third Atwood novel to be adapted for television was Alias Grace. The show aired on CBC Television and Netflix in 2017. It starred Sarah Gadon as Grace Marks and Edward Holcroft as Dr. Simon Jordan. It was a miniseries and aired for six episodes.

Margaret also saw her short stories turned into an anthology series called The Atwood Stories in 2003. The series took six of Atwood's short stories and dramatized them. Actors appearing on the show include David Sutcliffe, Emily Hampshire, Roberta Maxwell, and Christian Campbell.

Atwood's 1972 novel, Surfacting was turned into a film in 1981. It was directed by Claude Jutra.

Before it was a series, The Handmaid's Tale was a film in 1990. The film was directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starred Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, and Robert Duvall.

A non-fiction book by Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, was turned into the 2012 documentary, Payback. The film was directed by Jennifer Baichwal and featured appearances from Raj Patel, ecologist William E. Rees, historian Karen Armstrong, and the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour.

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Margaret Atwood: F.A.Q

When was Margaret Atwood Born? How old is Margaret Atwood?

Margaret Atwood was born on November 18th, 1939. Margaret Atwood is currently 85 years old.

Where was Margaret Atwood Born?

Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and is Canadian.

What awards has Margaret Atwood won?

Margaret Atwood has won the following awards: Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award at the Helmerich Award (1999), Imagination in Service to Society at the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Awards (2015), Distinguished Figure in Literature at the St. Louis Literary Award (2017), Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2020) and the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2021).

What book awards has Margaret Atwood won?

The Handmaid's Tale: Los Angeles Times Book Prize Best Fiction (1986), Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Science Fiction Novel (1987), Audie Award Best Fiction (2013), Nielsen Awards Gold Bestseller (2018), Nielsen Awards Platinum Bestseller (2020).
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women: World Fantasy Award Anthology (1996).
Alias Grace: Scotiabank Giller Prize Awards Giller Prize (1996).
The Blind Assassin: Booker Prize Best Fiction Book (2000), Hammett Prize Best Crime Novel (2000).
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury: Bram Stoker Awards Superior Achievement in an Anthology (2012).
MaddAddam: Goodreads Awards Best Science Fiction (2013).
The Testaments: Booker Prize Best Fiction Book (2019), Goodreads Awards Best Fiction (2019).

What was the first book Margaret Atwood wrote?

The first book written by Margaret Atwood was The Circle Game, published in 1964.

What was the most recent book Margaret Atwood wrote?

Her most recently released work was Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023 on October 8th, 2024.

Will there be any more books by Margaret Atwood?

Margaret Atwood does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.

How many books has Margaret Atwood written?

Margaret Atwood has written 86 books across 12 series, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 2 books in The Handmaid's Tale Series
  • 3 Angel Catbird Graphic Novels
  • 1 book in the Canongate's The Myths Series
  • 1 book in the Hogarth Shakespeare Series
  • 3 books in the MaddAddam Series
  • 14 Standalone Novels
  • 7 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 31 Collections
  • 1 Graphic Novels
  • 6 Picture Books
  • 17 Non-Fiction Books

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