Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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This is a year-long read-along devoted to the Hainish / Ekumen novels of Ursula K. Le Guin. We’ll be reading one book per month, discussing each title in a live group conversation, and taking our time with some of the most thoughtful science fiction ever written.

This project focuses on the novels only, read in order of publication. The sole exception is Four Ways to Forgiveness, which we are including even though it is a linked collection of novellas.

The Hainish Cycle — Novels (Publication Order)

Rocannon’s World (1966)

Planet of Exile (1966)

City of Illusions (1967)

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

The Word for World Is Forest (1972)

The Dispossessed (1974)

Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)

The Telling (2000)

You're welcome to join at any point and read at your own pace.

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