Series
Earthsea Cycle
Ursula K. Le Guin · 5 novels · 2 novellas · 3 novelettes · 7 short stories · 1 collection · 1964–2018
The Earthsea Cycle, also known as Earthsea, is a series of high fantasy books written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1970), and The Farthest Shore (1972), the series was continued in Tehanu (1990), and Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind. In 2018, all the novels and short stories were published in a single volume, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, with artwork by Charles Vess.
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A curated way into the series.
✦ Curated by the Loreful team
Six volumes carry the story of Earthsea, and they read in the order they appeared. The shorter pieces around them are left out — early standalone tales, extracts, and stories already collected inside one of the volumes — with two exceptions: the two late tales Le Guin wrote after The Other Wind, the later of which closes the list.
- Omnibus editions(6 editions)
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Earthsea Cycle at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1960s3
- 1970s2
- 1980s2
- 1990s3
- 2000s6
- 2010s2
Shape
5 novels · 2 novellas · 3 novelettes · 7 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:fantasywizardssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedreflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book16 of 18 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthseadarkest
- The Rule of Namesbrightest
- Tales from Earthseacalmest
- The Word of Unbindingmost intense