Spring Reading Challenge

The Hainish Cycle Series

9 primary works • 27 total works
Each book stands alone, although all books in the cycle are set in the same universe.

Works are not numbered as author says: "People write me nice letters asking what order they ought to read my science fiction books in — the ones that are called the Hainish or Ekumen cycle or saga or something. The thing is, they aren't a cycle or a saga. They do n…
Rocannon’s World
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3.78 · 25082 Ratings · 1886 Reviews · published 1966 · 90 editions
A world shared by three native humanoid races - th…

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    Planet of Exile
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    3.72     · 14725 Ratings · 1327 Reviews · published 1966 · 82 editions
    The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on We…

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    City of Illusions
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    3.95     · 11987 Ratings · 1210 Reviews · published 1967 · 5 editions
    He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, w…

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    The Left Hand of Darkness
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    4.10     · 226196 Ratings · 21699 Reviews · published 1969 · 304 editions
    A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left…

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    Winter's King
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    3.84     · 640 Ratings · 72 Reviews · published 2017 · 2 editions
    "Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adul…

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    The Word for World Is Forest
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    4.07     · 45540 Ratings · 5023 Reviews · published 1972 · 5 editions
    The award-winning masterpiece by one of today’s mo…

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    The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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    4.26     · 154520 Ratings · 14020 Reviews · published 1974 · 215 editions
    Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take act…

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    The Day Before the Revolution
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    3.95     · 2867 Ratings · 340 Reviews · published 1974 · 19 editions
    This Nebula and Locus Award winner focuses on the …

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    A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
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    4.04     · 3533 Ratings · 368 Reviews · published 1994 · 33 editions
    The winner of the Pushcart Prize, the Kafka Award,…

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    Four Ways to Forgiveness
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    4.20     · 4930 Ratings · 478 Reviews · published 1994 · 1 edition
    At the far end of our universe, on the twin planet…

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    The Telling
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    3.99     · 9345 Ratings · 927 Reviews · published 2000 · 67 editions
    Die junge Linguistin Sutty wird von der Ökumene de…

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    Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
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    4.07     · 1127 Ratings · 132 Reviews · published 2017 · 4 editions
    Ambientado en el universo ficcional de Hainish, do…

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    Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 1: Rocannon’s World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories
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    4.59     · 425 Ratings · 72 Reviews · published 2017 · 1 edition
    Beginning in the 1960s and 70s, Ursula K. Le Guin …

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    Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2: The Word for World Is Forest / Five Ways to Forgiveness / The Telling / Stories
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    4.56     · 290 Ratings · 43 Reviews · published 2017 · 1 edition
    This second volume of Le Guin’s complete Hainish n…

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    The Hainish Novels and Stories
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    4.72     · 119 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 1991 · 1 edition
    For the first time, all of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hai…

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    Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions
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    4.25     · 5436 Ratings · 535 Reviews · published 1966 · 48 editions
    THREE REMARKABLE JOURNEYS INTO THE STARS. These no…

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    Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness
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    4.18     · 569 Ratings · 43 Reviews · 1 edition
    Ace paperbacks boxed set of the first four novels …

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    Five Ways to Forgiveness
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    4.41     · 1558 Ratings · 224 Reviews · published 2017 · 13 editions
    Set in the same universe as Le Guin’s The Left Han…

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    Los mundos de Ursula K. Le Guin
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    4.28     · 123 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 1992 · 4 editions
    Recopilación de las novelas de la autora galardona…

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    Sześć światów Hain
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    4.49     · 195 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
    Po raz pierwszy w jednym tomie!

    „Sześć światów Hain…

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    Обширней и медлительней империй
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    4.19     · 16 Ratings · 2 editions
    То, что разумная жизнь самостоятельно зародилась н…

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    Толкователи
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    4.67     · 15 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    Этот сборник - еще несколько миров-жемчужин из оже…

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    Os Despojados, Vol. 1
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    4.28     · 79 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 1974 · 1 edition
    No seu romance mais ambicioso e profético, Ursula …

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    The Shobies' Story
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    3.81     · 179 Ratings · 28 Reviews · published 1991 · 2 editions
    The Nebula Award-winning author of The Left Hand o…

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    Coming of Age in Karhide
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    3.89     · 402 Ratings · 60 Reviews · published 1995 · 2 editions
    Madurar a Karhide és un relat eròtic ambientat a G…

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    Stara muzika i robinje
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    4.25     · 12 Ratings · 1 edition

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    Grenzwelten - 2 Romane:
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    4.04     · 203 Ratings · 30 Reviews · published 2000 · 9 editions
    Zwei große SF-Romane von Ursula K. Le Guin in voll…

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