- Novels
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The Edible Woman (1969)
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Surfacing (1972)
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Lady Oracle (1976)
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Life Before Man (1979, finalist for the Governor General's Award)
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Bodily Harm (1981)
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The Handmaid's Tale (1985, winner of the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award and 1985 Governor General's Award, finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize)
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Cat's Eye (1988, finalist for the 1988 Governor General's Award and the 1989 Booker Prize)
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The Robber Bride (1993, finalist for the 1994 Governor General's Award and shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award)
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Alias Grace (1996, winner of the 1996 Giller Prize, finalist for the 1996 Booker Prize and the 1996 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 1997 Orange Prize for Fiction)
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The Blind Assassin (2000, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.)
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Oryx and Crake (2003, finalist for the 2003 Booker Prize and the 2003 Governor General's Award and shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction.)
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The Penelopiad (2005, nominated for the 2006 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and longlisted for the 2007 International Dublin Literary Award)
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The Year of the Flood (2009, Oryx and Crake companion, longlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award)
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MaddAddam (2013) (Third novel in Oryx and Crake trilogy)
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Scribbler Moon (written in 2014 as part of the Future Library project; will remain unpublished until 2114)[67]
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The Heart Goes Last (2015) (Winner of the 2015 Red Tentacle award)
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Hag-Seed (2016) (Longlisted for the 2017 Women Prize for Fiction)
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The Testaments (2019, joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize)[207]
- Short fiction collections
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Dancing Girls (1977, winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction)
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Murder in the Dark (1983)
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Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
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Wilderness Tips (1991, finalist for the Governor General's Award)
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Good Bones (1992)
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Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)
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The Labrador Fiasco (1996)
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The Tent (2006)
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Moral Disorder (2006)
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Stone Mattress (2014)
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Old Babes in the Wood (2023)
- Poetry collections
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Double Persephone (1961)
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The Circle Game (1964, winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award)
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Expeditions (1965)
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Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)
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The Animals in That Country (1968)
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The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
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Procedures for Underground (1970)
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Power Politics (1971)
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You Are Happy (1974) Includes the poem Song of the Worms
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Selected Poems (1976)
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Two-Headed Poems (1978)
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True Stories (1981)
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Love Songs of a Terminator (1983)
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Snake Poems (1983)[208]
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Interlunar (1984)
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Selected Poems 1966–1984 (Canada)
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Selected Poems II: 1976–1986 (US)
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Morning in the Burned House, McClelland & Stewart (1995)
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Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965–1995 (UK,1998)
- "You Begin." (1978) – as recited by Margaret Atwood; included in all three most recent editions of her "Selected Poems" as listed above (US, CA, UK)
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The Door (2007)
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Dearly (2020)[209]
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- E-books
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I'm Starved For You: Positron, Episode One (2012)
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Choke Collar: Positron, Episode Two (2012)
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Erase Me: Positron, Episode Three (2013)
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The Heart Goes Last: Positron, Episode Four (2013)
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The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home (2013) (with Naomi Alderman)[210]
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My Evil Mother (2022)
- Anthologies edited
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The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1982)
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The Canlit Foodbook (1987)
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The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1988)
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The Best American Short Stories 1989 (1989) (with Shannon Ravenel)
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The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (1995)
- Children's books
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Up in the Tree (1978)
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Anna's Pet (1980) (with Joyce C. Barkhouse)
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For the Birds (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
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Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
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Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
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Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2006)
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Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery (2011);[211] inspired a cartoon series called Wandering Wenda in 2016.
- Non-fiction
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
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Days of the Rebels 1815–1840 (1977)
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Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1982)
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Through the One-Way Mirror (1986)
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Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995)
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)
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Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982–2004 (2004)
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Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983–2005 (2005)
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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008)
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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011)
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On Writers and Writing (2015)
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Burning Questions: Essays & Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 (2022)
- Drawings
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Kanadian Kultchur Komix featuring "Survivalwoman" in This Magazine under the pseudonym, Bart Gerrard 1975–1980
- Others appear on her website.
- Comics
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Angel Catbird (#1–3), with Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain (2016)
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War Bears (#1–3), with Ken Steacy (2018)
- Television scripts
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The Servant Girl (1974)
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Snowbird (1981)
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Heaven on Earth (1987)
- Libretti
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The Trumpets of Summer (1964) (with composer John Beckwith)
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Frankenstein Monster Song (2004, with rock band One Ring Zero)[212]
- "Pauline", a chamber opera in two acts, with composer Tobin Stokes for City Opera Vancouver (2014)
- Audio recordings
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The Poetry and Voice of Margaret Atwood (1977)
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Margaret Atwood Reads "Unearthing Suite" (1985)
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Margaret Atwood Reading From Her Poems (2005)
- Margaret Atwood as herself in Zombies, Run, as a surviving radio operator in themes.
- Filmography
- She is credited as playing herself in all 26 episodes of The Wide World of Wandering Wenda in which she wears funny hats to match the various themes (2017)
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