"The War in the Bathroom", "When it Happens", "The Man from Mars", "A Travel Piece", "Polarities", "The Resplendent Quetzal", "Under Glass", "Training", "The Grave of the Famous Poet", "Lives of the Poets", "Dancing Girls", "Hair Jewellery", "Giving Birth", "Rape Fantasies"

Days of the Rebels 1815–1840, history, 1977

Up in the Tree, children's book, 1978

Two-Headed Poems, poetry collection, 1978

Life Before Man, novel, 1979

Anna's Pet, children's book, with Joyce C. Barkhouse and illustrator Ann Blades, 1980

For the Birds, children's book, with Shelley Tanaka and illustrator John Bianchi, 1980

Bodily Harm, novel, 1981

True Stories, poetry collection, 1981

Second Words: Selected Critical Prose, criticism, 1982

Murder in the Dark, story and prose poem collection, 1983

First book appearance of "Autobiography", "Raw Materials", "Murder in the Dark", "Mute", "Making Poison", "Simmering", "She", "The Boys' Own Annual", "Women's Novels", "Worship", "Before the War", "Happy Endings", "Iconography", "Horror Comics", "Bread", "Liking Men", "Boyfriends", "The Page", "Strawberries", "The Victory Burlesk", "Him", "Fainting", "Hopeless", "A Parable", "Hand" "Everlasting", "Instructions for the Third Eye"

Love Songs of a Terminator, poetry collection, 1983

Bluebeard's Egg, story collection, 1983

First book appearance of "Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother", "Spring Song of the Frogs", "Hurricane Hazel", "Scarlet Ibis", "Loulou" (or "The Domestic Life of the Language"), "The Salt Garden", "Uglypuss", "The Sin Eater", "Betty", "The Sunrise", "Bluebeard's Egg", "Unearthing Suite", "Two Stories about Emma", "In Search of the Rattlesnake Plantain"

Snake Poems, poetry collection

Interlunar, poetry collection, 1984

The Handmaid's Tale, novel, 1985

Cat's Eye, novel, 1998

Wilderness Tips, story collection, 1991

"True Trash", "Hairball", "Isis in Darkness", "The Bog Man", ""Death by Landscape", "Uncles", "The Age of Lead", "Weight", "Wilderness Tips", "Hack Wednesday"

Good Bones, story and sketch collection, 1992

"Bad News", "The Little Red Hen Tells All", "Gertrude Talks Back", "There Was Once", "Unpopular Girls", "Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women", "The Female Body", "In Love with Raymond Chandler", "Stump Hunting", "Making a Man", "Epaulettes", "Cold-Blooded", "Men at Sea", "Alien Territory", "Adventure Story", "Hardball", "My Life as a Bat", "Theology", "An Angel", "Poppies: Three Variations", "Homelanding", "Third Handed", "Death Scenes", "Four Small Paragraphs", "We Want It All", "Dance of the Lepers", "Good Bones"

The Robber Bride, novel, 1993

Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut, children's book, with illustrator Maryann Kovalski, 1995

Morning in the Burned House, poetry collection, 1995

Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature, criticism, 1995

Alias Grace, novel, 1996

The Labrador Fiasco, story, 1996

The Blind Assassin, novel, 2000

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing, lectures, 2002

Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, children's book, with illustrator Dusan Petricic, 2003

Oryx and Crake, novel, 2003

Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982–2004, essay, criticism and memoir collerction, 2004

The Penelopiad, novella, 2005

Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda, children's book, with illustrator Dusan Petricic, 2006

The Tent, stories, vignettes, poems, drawings, 2006

First book appearance of "Orphan Stories", "Salome Was a Dancer", "Chicken Little Goes Too Far"

Moral Disorder, story collection, 2006

First book appearance of "The Bad News", "The Art of Cooking and Serving", "The Headless Horseman", "My Last Duchess", "The Other Place", "Monopoly", "Moral Disorder", "White Horse", "The Entities", "The Boys at the Lab"

The Door, poetry collection, 2007

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, lectures, 2008

The Year of the Flood, novel, 2009

Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery, children's book, with illustrator Dusan Petricic, 2011

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, criticism, 2011

MaddAddam, novel, 2013

Stone Mattress, story collection, 2014

First book appearance of "The Dead Hand Loves You", "Lusus Naturae", "I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth", "The Freeze-Dried Groom", "Alphinland", "Revenant", "Torching the Dusties", "Stone Mattress", "Dark Lady"

The Heart Goes Last, novel, 2015

On Writers and Writing, criticism, 2015

Hag-Seed, novel, 2016

Angel Catbird, graphic novel, with Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain, 2016

War Bears, graphic novel, with Ken Steacy, 2018

The Testaments, novel, 2019

Dearly, poetry collection, 2020

Burning Questions: Essays & Occasional Pieces 2004–2021, essay collection, 2022

Old Babes in the Woods, story collection, 2023

Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961–2023, poetry collection, 2024

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, memoir, 2025

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