Book description
Rebel Voices: Disruptive Stories from Trailblazing Women - a new Puffin Classics collection, celebrating International Women's Day 2023
'One of the literary greats of the 20th century' - Margaret Atwood
Earthsea: The First Four Books is a collection of one of the most beloved and influential fantasy works of all…
Why read it?
1 author picked Earthsea as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I found this new edition of Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea collection at the airport in Milano while travelling to a conference for statisticians. Usually, I am quite snobbish about fantasy genres, as I prefer space aliens to wizards and dragons. Strangely, I still picked up the book, and it was of uttermost comfort to me in processing difficult life events.
Set in the beautiful landscapes of Earthsea, Le Guin discusses super hard topics such as matters of living and dying, grief and hope, aging and personal achievements, and desires, and the potential loss of an inhabitable world.
If you love Earthsea...
Cyborg Fever
From Pulitzer Finalist Laurie Sheck (A Monster's Notes), a new speculative literary fiction in the spirit of Italo Calvino, Umberto Ecco and Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto that enacts an incisive and moving exploration into what it means to be human in the age of AI and increasing inhumanism.…
Want books like Earthsea?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 58 books like Earthsea.
Share your top 3 reads of 2025!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,298
readers submitted
so far, will you?
📚 If you like Earthsea, you might also like...
The Constant Tower
This is a multicultural epic fantasy with a diverse cast of characters. Sickly fifteen-year-old Prince Psal, the son of warrior-king Nahas, should have been named Crown Prince of all Wheel Clan lands. But his clan disdains the disabled.
When the mysterious self-moving towers that keep humans safe from the Creator's…
The Fatness
Keelan Cavanaugh is fat. That’s why the government put him in prison.
They placed him in a Calorie Reduction Centre (CRC), where trained staff work to help him and many others slim down. Well, that was the intention, anyway. The powers that be had decided chubby citizens must either go…
