Ursula K. Le Guin has written fiction and nonfiction works for audiences including children, adults, and scholars. Her most notable works are listed here.

Earthsea fantasy series[79]
[Main article: Earthsea]
A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968 (named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1979)
The Tombs of Atuan, 1971 (Newbery Silver Medal Award)
The Farthest Shore, 1972 (National Book Award)[75]
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, 1990 (Nebula Award;[80] Locus Fantasy Award)[81]
Tales from Earthsea, 2001 (short stories)
The Other Wind, 2001 (World Fantasy Award, 2002)[82]
Hainish science fiction series[19]
[Main article: Hainish Cycle]
Rocannon's World, 1966
Planet of Exile, 1966
City of Illusions, 1967
The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969 (Hugo Award;[83] Nebula Award)[84]
The Dispossessed, 1974 (Nebula Award;[85] Hugo Award; Locus Award)[86]
The Word for World Is Forest, 1976 (Hugo Award, best novella)
Four Ways to Forgiveness, 1995 (Four Stories of the Ekumen)
The Telling, 2000 (Locus SF Award;[87] Endeavour Award)
Miscellaneous
The Lathe of Heaven, 1971 (Locus SF Award)[88]
The Wind's Twelve Quarters, 1975
Orsinian Tales, 1976
The Eye of the Heron, 1978 (first published in the anthology Millennial Women)
The Beginning Place, 1980 (also published as Threshold, 1986)
The Compass Rose, 1982
Always Coming Home, 1985
Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand, 1991
Annals of the Western Shore, 2004–2007 (Powers, the third volume, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel)
Lavinia, 2008 (Locus Fantasy Award)[89]

Catwings, 1988, ISBN 0590428330
Catwings Return, 1989, ISBN 0833566350
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, 1994, ISBN 0439551919
Jane on her Own, 1999, ISBN 0531301338

Wild Angels, 1974
Hard Words, 1981
Wild Oats and Fireweed, 1988
Blue Moon over Thurman Street (with Roger Dorband), 1993
Going out with Peacocks, 1994
The Twins, the Dream (with Diana Bellessi), 1996
Sixty Odd, 1999
Incredible Good Fortune, 2006
Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country (with Roger Dorband), 2010
Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems, 2012
Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014, 2015, ISBN 978-1-62963-122-6

From Elfland to Poughkeepsie," chapbook, Pendragon Press, 1973 (ISBN 0-914010-00-X)
"Science Fiction and Mrs Brown"[27]
The Language of the Night, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979 (ISBN 0-399-12325-3) (Hugo Award nominee, 1980)
Dancing at the Edge of the World, Grove Press, 1989 (ISBN 0-8021-1105-X) (Hugo Award nominee, 1990)
Earthsea Revisioned (Cambridge, MA: Children's Literature New England, 1993, ISBN 9780948845031), 26 pages, illustrated – "A lecture delivered under the title "Children, Women, Men and Dragons" at Worlds Apart, an institute sponsored by Children's Literature New England and held August 2–8, 1992, at Keble College, Oxford University, England." OCLC 29598010 – about unifying her later Earthsea writings with her earlier Earthsea writings[28]
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Mariner and the Mutinous Crew , The Eighth Mountain Press, 1998 (ISBN 0-933377-46-0)
The Wave in the Mind, Shambhala Publications, 2004 (ISBN 1-59030-006-8) (Locus Award winner, 2005)
Cheek by Jowl, Aqueduct Press, 2009 (ISBN 978-1-933500-27-0) (Locus Award winner, 2010)
Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. (ISBN 978-0544611610)
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer’s Week, Small Beer Press, 2016 (ISBN 1618731343) (winner of the Hugo Award for Best Related Work)
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 (ISBN 978-1328661593)

Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral. University of New Mexico Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8263-2818-0
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way. Shambala Publications, 1998. ISBN 978-1570623950
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was. Northampton: Small Beer Press, 2003. ISBN 1-931520-05-4 [29]
Gheorghe Sasarman: Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony. Aqueduct Press, April 2013. ISBN 978-1619760257[30]