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ATWOOD RESUME

A project by Micaela Brody

I read my first book by Margaret Atwood in 2009 for my senior AP Literature term paper. We were to choose three books by one author and write something. Anything. I have never made a better uninformed impulse decision in my life.

What follows is what I've dubbed among my friends The Atwood Resume—everything I have read by Margaret Atwood in the years that followed.

17
novels
5
short story collections
1
nonfiction
3
books of poetry, plus countless individual poems
1
play, two separate performances

Read in 2009

for my AP Literature final term paper

Cat's Eye

novel

The Handmaid's Tale

novel

reread at least 2x

The Blind Assassin

novel

reread at least 6x

Morning in the Burned House

poetry

reread at least 6x

note poems like "Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing" reread countless times

Read between 2010–11

Oryx and Crake

novel first in the MaddAddam trilogy

Alias Grace

novel

The Robber Bride

novel

reread 2x

note Atwood revisited these characters in a short story in her collection, Stone Mattress.

The Edible Woman

novel

The Year of the Flood

novel second in the MaddAddam trilogy

reread 1x

Read in 2012

Lady Oracle

novel

finished on November 25, 2012

Read in 2013

Surfacing

novel

finished on June 12, 2013

MaddAddam

novel third in the MaddAddam trilogy

finished on October 21, 2013

Read in 2014

Bodily Harm

novel

finished on February 14, 2014

Wilderness Tips

short stories

finished on February 27, 2014

Stone Mattress

short stories

finished on September 21, 2014

note bought on the day of release

Bluebeard's Egg

short stories

finished on November 25, 2014

Read in 2015

The Penelopiad

novel

finished on August 6, 2015

note I have seen the play, adapted by Margaret Atwood, 2x.

The Heart Goes Last

novel

finished on October 7, 2015

note bought on the day of release

Read in 2016

Life Before Man

novel

finished on April 1, 2016

Moral Disorder

short stories

finished on June 27, 2016

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

nonfiction

finished on July 10, 2016

Dancing Girls

short stories

finished on November 11, 2016

Hag-Seed

fiction (The Tempest retelling)

finished on November 21, 2016

Read in 2019

The Testaments

novel

finished on September 23, 2019

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