Margaret Atwood's worksNovelsThe Edible Woman. 1969. London: Virago, 1992.
Surfacing. 1972. London: Virago, 1991.
Lady Oracle. 1976. London: Virago, 1992.
Life Before Man. 1979. London: Vintage, 1996.
Bodily Harm. 1981. London: Virago, 1991.
The Handmaid's Tale. 1985. London: Virago, 1992.
Cat's Eye. 1988. London: Virago, 1990.
The Robber Bride. London: Bloomsbury, 1993.
Alias Grace. London: Bloomsbury, 1996.
The Blind Assassin. London: Bloomsbury, 2000.
Oryx and Crake. London: Bloomsbury, 2003.
The Year of the Flood. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
Short stories and shorter works
Dancing Girls and Other Stories. 1977. London: Vintage, 1996.
Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories. 1983. London: Vintage, 1996.
Murder in the Dark. 1983. London: Virago, 1994.
Good Bones. London: Virago, 1992.
Wilderness Tips. 1991. London: Bloomsbury, 1995.
The Penelopiad. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2005.
Moral Disorder. London: Bloomsbury, 2006.
The Tent. London: Bloomsbury, 2006.
PoetryDouble Persephone. Toronto: Hawkshead Press, 1961.
The Circle Game. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1966.
The Animals in That Country. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.
The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Procedures for Underground. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Power Politics. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971.
You Are Happy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Two-Headed Poems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
True Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Interlunar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Morning in the Burned House. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995.
Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965–1995. London: Virago, 1998.
The Door. London: Virago, 2007.
Non-fictionSurvival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972.
Days of the Rebels 1815–1840. Toronto: Natural Science of Canada, 1977.
Second Words: Selected Critical Prose. Toronto: Anansi, 1982.
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
Two Solicitudes: Conversations, with Victor-Lévy Beaulieu. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998.
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Moving Targets: Writing with Intent. Toronto: Anansi, 2004.
Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing 1970–2005. London: Virago, 2005.
Payback: Debt as Metaphor and the Shadow Side of Wealth. London: Bloomsbury, 2008.
Children's books
Up in the Tree. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1978.
Anna's Pet, with Joyce Barkhouse. Halifax, NS: Lorimer, 1980.
For the Birds, with Shelly Tanaka. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1990.
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut. New York: Workman Publishing, 1995.
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2003.
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2004.
Further reading sectionsThe Edible WomanBouson, J. Brooks.Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.
Friedan, Betty.The Feminine Mystique. 1963. London: Penguin Books, 1992.
Griffith, Margaret. ‘Verbal Terrain in the Novels of Margaret Atwood’, Critique 21.3 (1980): 85–93.
MacLulich, T. D. ‘Atwood's Adult Fairy Tale: Levi-Strauss, Bettelheim, and The Edible Woman’, in McCombs (ed.), Critical Essays, 179–97.
Palumbo, Alice M. ‘On the Border: Margaret Atwood's Novels’, in Nischik (ed.), Margaret Atwood, 73–86.
White, Roberta. ‘Margaret Atwood: Reflections in a Convex Mirror’, in Pearlman, Mickey (ed.), Canadian Women Writing Fiction. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993, 53–59.
Woodcock, George. ‘Margaret Atwood: Poet as Novelist’, in McCombs (ed.), Critical Essays, 90–104.
SurfacingBjerring, Nancy E. ‘The Problem of Language in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing’, Queen's Quarterly 83 (1976): 597–612.
Bouson, J. Brooks.Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.
Frye, Northrop.The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: Anansi, 1971.
Larkin, Joan. ‘Soul Survivor’, in McCombs (ed.), Critical Essays, 48–52.
Schaub, Danielle. ‘ “I am a Place”: Internalised Landscape and Female Subjectivity in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing’, in Schaub, Danielle (ed.), Mapping Canadian Cultural Space: Essays on Canadian Literature. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2000.
Lady OracleCawelti, John G.Adventure, Mystery, and Romance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
Howells, Coral Ann.Margaret Atwood. 2nd edn. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2005.
Russ, Joanna. ‘Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic’, Journal of Popular Culture 4 (1973): 666–91.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.The Coherence of Gothic Conventions, 1980. New York: Methuen, 1986.
Vincent, Sybill Korff. ‘The Mirror and the Cameo: Margaret Atwood's Comic/Gothic Novel, Lady Oracle’, in Fleenor, (ed.), The Female Gothic. Montreal: Eden Press, 1983, 153–63.
Life Before ManDavey, Frank.Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1984.
Howells, Coral Ann.Margaret Atwood. 2nd edn. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2005.
Irvine, Lorna. ‘Murder and Mayhem: Margaret Atwood Deconstructs’, Contemporary Literature 29.2 (1988): 265–76.
Bodily HarmHansen, Elaine Tuttle. ‘Fiction and (Post) Feminism in Atwood's Bodily Harm’, Novel 19.1 (1985): 5–21.
Howells, Coral Ann. ‘Worlds Alongside: Contradictory Discourses in the Fiction of Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood’, in Kroetsch, Robert and Nischik, Reingard M. (eds.), Gaining Ground: European Critics on Canadian Literature. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1985, 121–36.
Howells, Coral AnnMargaret Atwood. 2nd edn. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2005.
Irvine, Lorna. ‘The Here and Now of Bodily Harm’, in Van Spanckeren and Castro (eds.), Margaret Atwood, 85–100.
Rubenstein, Roberta. ‘Pandora's Box and Female Survival: Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm’, in McCombs (ed.), Critical Essays, 259–275.
The Handmaid's TaleHammer, Stephanie Barbé. ‘The World as it will be? Satire and Technology of Power in The Handmaid's Tale’, Modern Language Studies 20.2 (1990): 39–49.
Kaler, Anne K. ‘ “A Sister Dipped in Blood”: Satiric Inversion of the Formation Techniques of Women Religious in Margaret Atwood's Novel The Handmaid's Tale’, Christianity and Literature 38.2 (1989): 43–63.
Ketterer, David. ‘Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: A Contextual Dystopia’, Science Fiction Studies 16.2 (48) (1989): 209–17.
Larson, Janet L. ‘Margaret Atwood and the Future of Prophecy’, Religion and Literature 21.1 (1989): 27–61.
Lauret, Maria.Liberating Literature: Feminist Fiction in America. London: Routledge, 1994.
LeBihan, Jill. ‘The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, and Interlunar: Margaret Atwood's Feminist (?) Futures (?)’, in Coral Ann Howells, and Lynette Hunter, (eds.), Narrative Strategies in Canadian Literature: Feminism and Post-Colonialism. New York: Taylor & Francis, 1991, 93–107.
Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl.Women's Movement: Escape as Transgression in North American Feminist Fiction. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.
Miner, Madonne. ‘ “Trust Me”: Reading the Romance Plot in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale’, Twentieth-Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 37.2 (1991): 148–68.
Rubenstein, Roberta. ‘Nature and Nurture in Dystopia: The Handmaid's Tale’, in Van Spanckeren and Castro (eds.), Margaret Atwood, 101–12.
Cat's EyeFoucault, Michel. ‘Panopticism’, in Alan Sheridan (trans.), Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1975. London: Penguin, 1991, 195–228.
Hite, Molly. ‘Optics and Autobiography in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye’, Twentieth Century Literature 41.2 (1995): 135–59.
Howells, Coral Ann.Margaret Atwood. 2nd edn. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2005.
Ingersoll, Earl G.Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood. Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press, 2006.
The Robber BrideBouson, J. Brooks. ‘Slipping Sideways into the Dreams of Women: The Female Dream Work of Power Feminism in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride’, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 6.3–4 (1995): 149–66.
Chernin, Kim.Womansize: The Tyranny of Slenderness, 1981. London: The Women's Press, 1989.
Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg. ‘Atwood's The Robber Bride: The Vampire as Intersubjective Catalyst’, Mosaic 30.3 (1997): 151–68.
Potts, Donna L. ‘ “The Old Maps are Dissolving”: Intertextuality and Identity in Atwood's The Robber Bride’, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 18.2 (1999): 281–98.
Alias GraceAtwood, Margaret. ‘In Search of Alias Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction’, Curious Pursuits. London: Virago, 2005, 209–29.
Howells, Coral Ann.Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Howells, Coral AnnMargaret Atwood. 2nd edn. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2005.
Hutchison, Lorna. ‘The Book Reads Well: Atwood's Alias Grace and the Middle Voice’, Pacific Coast Philology 38 (2003): 40–59.
Knelman, Judith. ‘Can We Believe what theNewspapers tell us? Missing Links in Alias Grace’, University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities 68.2 (1999): 677–86.
Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl.Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2007.
Howells, Coral AnnWomen's Movement: Escape as Transgression in North American Feminist Fiction. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.
March, Cristie. ‘Crimson Silks and New Potatoes: The Heteroglossic Power of the Object in Atwood's Alias Grace’, Studies in Canadian Literature 22.2 (1997): 66–82.
Murray, Jennifer. ‘Historical Figures and Paradoxical Patterns: The Quilting Motif in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace’, Studies in Canadian Literature 26.1 (2001): 65–83.
Stanley, Sandra Kumamoto. ‘The Eroticism of Class and the Enigma of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace’, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 22.2 (2003): 371–86.
Wilson, Sharon Rose.Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003.
The Blind AssassinBouson, J. Brooks. ‘ “A Commemoration of Wounds Endured and Resented”: Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin as Feminist Memoir’, Critique 44.3 (2003): 251–69.
Dancygier, Barbara. ‘Narrative Anchors and the Processes of Story Construction: The Case of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin’, Style 41.2 (2007): 133–52.
Howells, Coral Ann.Margaret Atwood. 2nd edn. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2005.
Ingersoll, Earl. ‘Waiting for the End: Closure in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin’, Studies in the Novel 35.4 (2003): 543–58.
Staels, Hilde. ‘Atwood's Specular Narrative: The Blind Assassin’, English Studies 2 (2004): 147–60.
Oryx and Crake and The Year of the FloodAtwood, Margaret. ‘Writing Oryx and Crake’, Curious Pursuits, 321–3.
Barzilai, Shuli. “Tell My Story”: Remembrance and Revenge in Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Shakespeare's Hamlet', Critique 50.1 (2008): 87–110.
Bouson, J. Brooks. ‘ “It's Game Over Forever”: Atwood's Satiric Vision of a Bioengineered Posthuman Future in Oryx and Crake’, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39 (2004): 139–56.
Cole, Amanda. ‘In Retrospect: Writing and Reading Oryx and Crake’, Philament: An Online Journal of the Arts and Culture 6 (July 2005): www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/issue6_contents.htm, accessed 15 August 2009.
DiMarco, Danette. ‘Paradice Lost, Paradise Regained: homo faber and the Makings of a New Beginning in Oryx and Crake’, Papers on Language and Literature 41 (2005): 170–95.
Halliwell, Martin. ‘Awaiting the Perfect Storm’, in Ingersoll (ed.), Waltzing Again, 251–64.
Howells, Coral Ann.Margaret Atwood. 2nd edn. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2005.
Wagner, Erica. ‘The Conversation: Margaret Atwood’, The Times [London], Review Section, 3, 15 August 2009.
PoetryBeyer, Charlotte. ‘Feminist Revisionist Mythology and Female Identity in Margaret Atwood's Recent Poetry’, Literature and Theology 14.3 (2000): 276–98.
Hönnighausen, Lothar. ‘Margaret Atwood's Poetry 1966–95’, in Nischik (ed.), Margaret Atwood, 97–119.
Johnston, Gordon. ‘ “The Ruthless Story and the Future Tense” in Margaret Atwood's Circe/Mud Poems’, Studies in Canadian Literature 5 (1980): 167–76.
Klappert, Peter. ‘I Want, I Don't Want: The Poetry of Margaret Atwood’, Gettysburg Review 3.1 (1990): 217–30.
Ladousse, Gillian Porter. ‘Gender and Language in Margaret Atwood's Poetry’, Commonwealth Essays and Studies 20.1 (1997): 10–16.
Oates, Joyce Carol. ‘My Mother Would Rather Skate Than Scrub Floors’, Ingersoll (ed.), Waltzing Again, 37–42.
Woolf, Virginia.A Room of One's Own, 1929. London: Penguin, 2002.
Contexts sectionBillingham, Susan, and Fuller, Danielle. ‘Can Lit(e): Fit for Export?’, Essays on Canadian Writing 71 (2000): 76–112.
Castro, Jan Garden. ‘An Interview with Margaret Atwood’, in Van Spanckeren and Castro (eds.), Margaret Atwood, 215–32.
Corse, Sarah M.Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Frye, Northrop.The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: Anansi, 1971.
Howells, Coral Ann ‘Conclusion’, in Klinck, Karl F.. (ed.), Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. Totonto: University of Toronto Press, 1965, 821–49.
Grace, Sherrill. Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1980.
Graves, Robert.The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth. London: Faber & Faber, 1948.
Hancock, Geoff. ‘Tightrope-Walking over Niagara Falls’, in Ingersoll (ed.), Waltzing Again, 90–118.
Irvine, Lorna. ‘A Psychological Journey: Mothers and Daughters in English Canadian Fiction’, in Davidson, Cathy N. and Broner, E. M. (eds.), The Lost Tradition: Mothers and Daughters in Literature. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1980.
Kertzer, Jonathan.Worrying the Nation: Imagining a National Literature in English-Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Kroetsch, Robert.The Lovely Treachery of Words: Essays Selected and New. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Loriggio, Francesco. ‘The Question of the Corpus: Ethnicity and Canadian Literature’, in Moss, John (ed.), Future Indicative. Literary Theory and Canadian Literature. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1987, 53–68.
Pache, Walter. ‘ “A Certain Frivolity”: Margaret Atwood's Literary Criticism’, in Nischik, (ed.), Margaret Atwood, 120–35.
Rosenthal, Caroline. ‘Canonizing Atwood: Her Impact on Teaching in the US, Canada, and Europe’, in Nischik (ed.), Margaret Atwood, 41–56.
Sandler, Linda. ‘A Question of Metamorphosis’, in Ingersoll (ed.), Waltzing Again, 18–36.
Staines, David. ‘Margaret Atwood in her Canadian Context’, in Howells (ed.), The Cambridge Companion, 12–27.
Templin, Charlotte. ‘Tyler's Literary Reputation’, in Salwak, Dale (ed.), Anne Tyler as Novelist. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994, 175–96.
Spanckeren, Kathryn, and Castro, Jan Garden (eds.). Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988.
Wilson, Sharon Rose.Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1993.
York, Lorraine.Literary Celebrity in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Criticism sectionAtwood, Margaret. ‘A Reply’, Signs 2.2 (1976): 340–1.
Bardolph, Jacqueline.Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.
Christ, Carol P. ‘Margaret Atwood: The Surfacing of Women's Spiritual Quest and Vision’, Signs 2.2 (1976): 316–30.
Gerstenberger, Donna. ‘Conceptions Literary and Otherwise: Women Writers and the Modern Imagination’, Novel: A Forum on Fiction 9.2 (1976): 141–50.
Kolodny, Annette. ‘Some Notes on Defining a “Feminist Literary Criticism” ’, Critical Inquiry 2.1 (1975): 75–92.
New, William H. ‘A Well Spring of Magna: Modern Canadian Writing’, Twentieth Century Literature 14.3 (1968): 123–32.
Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg (ed.). Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007.
Rigney, Barbara Hill.Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel: Studies in Brontë, Woolf, Lessing and Atwood. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
Sandler, Linda (ed.). Margaret Atwood: A Symposium, The Malahat Review, 41 January 1977.
Showalter, Elaine. ‘Women and the Literary Curriculum’, College English 32.8 (1971): 855–62.
Secondary sourcesBiographiesCooke, Nathalie.Margaret Atwood: A Biography. Toronto: ECW Press, 1998.
Sullivan, Rosemary.The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1998.
Selected recommended criticism and reference worksBouson, J. Brooks.Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.
Cooke, Nathalie.Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion. Greenwood, 2004.
Davey, Frank.Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1984.
Davidson, Arnold E. and Davidson, Cathy N.. The Art of Margaret Atwood. New York: MLA, 1981.
Fleenor, Juliann E. (ed.). The Female Gothic. Montreal: Eden Press, 1983.
Grace, Sherrill and Lorraine, Weir.Margaret Atwood: Language, Text and System. Vancouver: UBC, 1983.
Hengen, Shannon.Margaret Atwood's Power: Mirrors, Reflections and Images in Select Fiction and Poetry. Toronto: Second Story, 1993.
Hengen, Shannon, and Thomson, Ashley. Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Howells, Coral Ann (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Howells, Coral AnnContemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2003.
Howells, Coral AnnMargaret Atwood. 2nd edn. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2005.
Howells, Coral AnnPrivate and Fictional Words. London: Virago, 1987.
Howells, , Coral Ann, , and Lynette, Hunter (eds.). Narrative Strategies in Canadian Literature: Feminism and Post-Colonialism. New York: Taylor & Francis, 1991.
Ingersoll, Earl G.Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood. Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press, 2006.
Kroetsch, Robert, and Reingard, M. Nischik (eds.). Gaining Ground: European Critics on Canadian Literature. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1985.
Macpherson, Heidi Slettedahl.Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2007.
Howells, Coral AnnWomen's Movement: Escape as Transgression in North American Feminist Fiction. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.
McCombs, Judith (ed.). Critical Essays on Margaret Atwood. Boston: Hall, 1988.
McWilliams, Ellen.Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
Mendez-Egles, Beatrice.Margaret Atwood: Reflection and Reality. Edinburg, TX: Pan American University, 1987.
Mycak, Sonia.In Search of the Split Subject: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood. Toronto: ECW Press, 1996.
Nicholson, Colin (ed.). Margaret Atwood: Writing and Subjectivity. Houndmills: Palgrave, 1994.
Nischik, Reingard M. (ed.). Margaret Atwood: Works and Impact. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000.
Rao, Eleonora.Strategies for Identity: The Fiction of Margaret Atwood. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.
Rigney, Barbara Hill.Margaret Atwood. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1987.
Rosenberg, Jerome.Margaret Atwood. Boston: Twayne, 1984.
Stein, Karen.Margaret Atwood Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1999.
Tolan, Fiona.Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
Spanckeren, Kathryn, and Castro, Jan Garden (eds.). Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988.
Wilson, Sharon Rose.Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1993.
Howells, Coral Ann (ed.). Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations. Ohio State University Press, 2004.
, Wilson, , Sharon R.,Friedman, Thomas B. and Hengen, Shannon. Approaches to Teaching Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Other Works. New York: Modern Language Association, 1996.
Wynne-Davies, Marion.Margaret Atwood. Tavistock: Northcote Publishing, 2009.
York, Lorraine.Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fictions and Novels. Toronto: Anansi, 1995.
