Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published eighteen books of poetry, eighteen novels, eleven books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
In a future where women lose their rights and become reproductive tools, Offred navigates a frightening world, holding onto memories and forbidden desires in a fight for her identity.
In a world reshaped by genetic engineering after an apocalypse, Snowman, possibly the last human, navigates a desolate land, haunted by his past and the green-eyed Children of Crake, as he grapples with the destructive legacy of the man who altered life itself.
Fifteen years after Offred's uncertain fate, three women from within and without Gilead reveal the explosive truths and hidden rebellions that could finally shatter its totalitarian grip.
Decades after her sister's mysterious death, an older woman uncovers a complex story of forbidden love, family secrets, and a science fiction novel-within-a-novel, revealing a truth more shocking than any fiction.
In 19th-century Canada, a domestic servant convicted of a double murder claims amnesia, so a doctor must unravel her memory to learn if she is a killer, a victim, or mentally ill.
After a global flood, a trapeze dancer and a God's Gardener emerge from their shelters to navigate a world of gene-spliced creatures and violent gangs, searching for loved ones and a way forward.
In a future where economic collapse forces couples into a social experiment, a wife's affair with the man inhabiting their home during alternating prison terms uncovers a twisted scheme that threatens her husband's life.
Margaret Atwood reclaims the ancient myth of Odysseus's return through the eyes of Penelope and her twelve hanged maids, revealing untold truths and injustices behind the epic.
In a modern reimagining of a Grimm's fairy tale, three women grapple with the resurfacing specter of Zenia, a college acquaintance whose demonic manipulations have, at various times, plundered their husbands, careers, and peace of mind.
As Marian gets ready for a seemingly normal marriage, her body rebels, turning her fiancé and the wedding plans into a growing, unbearable nightmare of societal pressure.
On a remote Quebec island, a woman looking for her missing father finds her relationships breaking down and her identity changing as she faces the wild.
A bored housewife escapes her mundane life by secretly becoming a celebrated poet and a writer of lurid gothics, only to find herself entangled in a web of blackmail, illicit affairs, and mysterious plots that lead to her faked death in Italy.
