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Books by Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1974 · read 2018-02-12
★★★★★
Anarchist SciFi by Ursula K. Le Guin. It's a bit slow, but the content made me forget all about that.
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The Word for World is Forest

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1972 · read 2018-02-21
★★★★☆
I enjoyed it a lot. While I would have liked to get to know the alien culture (and its language!) even better, I was given a lot of context. Also, the story is told as seen by an alien, a nice human anthropologist, and a horrible, vicious,
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The Farthest Shore

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1972 · read 2018-02-22
★★★★☆
4.5 stars, really.
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1973 · read 2018-02-02
★★★★☆
Infinitely referenced.
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The Other Wind

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 2001 · read 2018-04-29
★★★★☆
A good end to the series. The different roles and characters were great, and the explanations of humans vs dragons explained previous plots.
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The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1969 · last read 2024-06-19
★★★★☆
Wow! This is a fantastic, clever, wonderful scifi book. I loved the explicitly humanoid species (that are probably expanded on, especially their origin, in other parts of the series). I loved the mostly-androgynous species, their peculiarit
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City of Illusions

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1967 · read 2018-08-20
★★★★☆
City of Illusions is part of the Heinish Cycle, and a good one at that! This book starts out slow, and then meanders, and then reaches a good ending – that is cut way too short, in my opinion. As is common with Ursula K. le Guin, we see
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The Telling

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 2000 · read 2019-04-02
★★★★☆
And yet again, Ursula K. Le Guin makes me happy. In The Telling she explores a society changing following first contact with a wider galactical (pan-human) civilisation. Part of her Hainish Cycle, we see a world desparate to catch u
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A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1968 · last read 2023-02-15
★★★★☆
Deep wisdom, calm storytelling, and some love shining through: I love Earthsea a lot, and re-reading this book made me very happy. Apart from the near-lyrical style, I was also surprised to remember that the story is quite dense, and there
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The Daughter of Odren

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 2014 · read 2018-09-30
★★★★☆
With The Daughter of Odren, a novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, I've now finished the Earthsea Cycle. This novella is very bittersweet – predictable only in parts, only because it recalls fairytales, but still very human and very real
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A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1994 · read 2018-11-30
★★★★☆
I'm not a huge fan of short story collections – they're hard to rate, I don't like reading stories bunched together all that much, it's just not for me. So giving A Fisherman of the Inland Sea 4/5 stars means a lot – Ursula Le Guin alwa
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Four Ways to Forgiveness

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1994 · read 2018-10-02
★★★★☆
Four Ways to Forgiveness is part of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle, and gives us a bit of a backstory on the Hainish themselves, how the Ekumen was founded, and how worlds may come to join the Ekumen. The story is told in four parts, a
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The Tombs of Atuan

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1970 · read 2018-02-12
★★★★☆
Oh wow. This touched me, and the ending was perfect. It didn't follow all the fantasy rules, it followed Earthsea rules. ❤
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The Eye of the Heron

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1978 · read 2024-02-06
★★★★☆
Setting: On a planet with a human population at one just one point, exiles from earth who arrived in two waves: First a group of criminals from South America (many thousands, though their origin isn't commonly known among them), then decade
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Tehanu

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1990 · read 2018-03-04
★★★☆☆
I liked the non-male focus on regular lives a lot! Tenar and Tenahu are both really cool. But the story was weird … pacing, content, it felt irregular and all over the place for me. Story 2/5, setting 4/5.
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Gifts

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 2004 · read 2019-11-15
★★★☆☆
Gifts by Ursula Le Guin is one of the books that I will be able to remember clearly for its atmosphere for a long time, but I didn't actually particularly like it. It's good Fantasy, with a ton of character building and world building. Th
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The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1971 · last read 2023-07-26
★★★☆☆
I liked the premise of one person (well. -ish) changing the world via dreams, inclusing heavy retroactive changes. I liked the characterisations, and the overall themes, even if the pacing was a bit off. I even agree with the (Taoist) philo
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Planet of Exile

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1966 · read 2018-04-20
★★★☆☆
I definitely liked this one more than World of Rocannon. It shows us two alien cultures as seen by the other culture, and their interactions. It's short and simple, and its narrative arch is not very impressive, but it's okay or even good s
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Tales from Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 2001 · read 2018-04-03
★★★☆☆
A couple of short stories taking place in Earthsea. I enjoyed how all of them showed some characters we knew already (sometimes just in passing), but through the eyes of people who would count as "insignificant" in most stories.
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Rocannon’s World

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1966 · read 2018-03-03
★★☆☆☆
As opposed to most Le Guin books, this one did not work for me. I was distracted by the different species on the planet, and the pacing was off, and there's something I can't name. The ending nearly raised the book to 3/5, but not quite.
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The Day Before the Revolution

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1974 · read 2018-02-17
★★☆☆☆
Novella: recollections of a revolutionary. Very Zen.
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The Wild Girls

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 2011 · read 2018-07-13
★★☆☆☆
The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin contains a short story/novelly named like the book, two essays, a couple of poems, and an interview with the author. I liked the short story well enough, but it was like the remainder of the book: agree