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Ursula K. Le Guin

Born

in Berkeley, California, The United States

October 21, 1929

Died

January 22, 2018

Website

http://www.ursulakleguin.com/

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult, Nonfiction

Influences

J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Phil ...more

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Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. She lived in Portland, Oregon.

She was known for her treatment of gender (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems (The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mi ...more

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Neil Gaiman Reads Ursula K. Le Guin��s Ode to Timelessness to His 100-Year-Old Cousin

How It Seems To Me
By Ursula K. Le Guin, read by Neil Gaiman

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s books

Average rating: 4.09 · 1,448,080 ratings · 106,565 reviews · 971 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 324,019 ratings — published 1968 — 318 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 187,985 ratings — published 1969 — 264 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia 4.25 avg rating — 128,543 ratings — published 1974 — 200 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 120,679 ratings — published 1971 — 180 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3) 4.13 avg rating — 115,908 ratings — published 1972 — 180 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lathe of Heaven 4.12 avg rating — 76,075 ratings — published 1971 — 119 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4) 4.04 avg rating — 51,785 ratings — published 1990 — 136 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 4.37 avg rating — 43,325 ratings — published 1973 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Word for World Is Forest 4.05 avg rating — 33,747 ratings — published 1972 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6) 4.19 avg rating — 28,500 ratings — published 2001 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Earthsea Cycle (6 books)
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Hainish Cycle (9 books)
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4.11 avg rating — 419,465 ratings

Annals of the Western Shore (4 books)
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3.89 avg rating — 21,572 ratings

Catwings (4 books)
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S.D. Schindler (Illustrator)

4.15 avg rating — 17,882 ratings

About Writing (4 books)
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Carl Howard Freedman

4.24 avg rating — 9,385 ratings

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Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote (1958) 142 pages - only the title story - last read Oct. 2016

55 votes, 20.1%

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende pub. 1982, 448 pages, Group read Sept. 2016

45 votes, 16.5%

The Iliad by Homer (-750) 683 pages. Last read July 2012.

44 votes, 16.1%

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot pub. 1860, pp. 579, last read June 2018

37 votes, 13.6%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett pub. 1952, 109 pp., last read June 2018

33 votes, 12.1%

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) 340 pp., last read Dec. 2018

31 votes, 11.4%

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 1826. 410pp (incl. material). Last read Aug. 2017.

28 votes, 10.3%

273 total votes

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