taina ([personal profile] itrytobe) wrote2024-06-19 04:46 pm
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Year of Le Guin

i have decided that 2024 will be my Year of Le Guin, in which i read as many books by Ursula K. Le Guin as i can. i have the following list of books i own or know i can get my hands on:

Year of Le Guin tbr
  • Earthsea 1-4
  • The Wind's Twelve Quarters
  • Les Dépossédés
  • Worlds of Exile and Illusion
  • Space Crone
  • Always Coming Home
  • Words Are My Matter
  • The Word for World is Forest
  • Five Ways to Forgiveness
  • Earthsea 5-6


i've read the Earthsea quartet in Finnish before, and have now read it in English.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a short story collection.
Les Dépossédés is the French translation of The Dispossessed, which i've read a few times in Finnish and in English. i'm currently buddy reading it with my partner.
Worlds of Exile and Illusion is an omnibus of the first three Hain Cycle novels: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions.
Space Crone is an essay collection. so is Words Are My Matter; i don't have the latter but can borrow it from my partner.
Always Coming Home is hard to describe, but i finished the audiobook last week.
i believe i have my grandfather's Finnish translation of The Word for World is Forest on my parents' attic, but if i can't find it, i can borrow the English version from my partner.
Five Ways to Forgiveness is a collection of Hain Cycle stories.
i know my parents have a Finnish translation of Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind somewhere, but i couldn't find it the last time i looked for it. however, my audiobook provider has both, so i can always listen to them.

there is actually a huge number of other short story collections, essay collections, blog posts and novels by Le Guin in Storytel's catalogue. i'll have to look how much overlap there is with the collections i already have on my tbr, and i don't know what i'll have time to listen to.