The Hainish Series

The Hainish Series is just a collective name on a number of novels and short stories that all take place in a fictive universe, the Hainish Universe.

Stories in the Hainish series

This is a list of the books in the Hainish series, roughly in chronological order, (in the stories, not by publication) In fact, the order in which you read them is not very important.

• The Dispossessed
• The Word for World is Forest
• Rocannon's World
• Planet of Exile
• City of Illusions
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• Four Ways to Forgiveness
• The Telling

There are also some short stories that take place in the Hainish Universe. They appear in various books with short stories. This is a list, but it's probably incomplete.

• The Compass Rose
  • The Eye Altering (not explicitly, but it fits in the Hainish Suite I guess)
    
    
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
  • The Shobies' Story
  • Dancing to Ganam
  • Another Story
    
    
• The Wind's Twelve Quarters
  • Semley's Necklace
  • Winter's King
  • Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
  • The Day Before the Revolution
    
    
• The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
  • some of the stories, e.g. Coming of Age in Karhide and Old Music and The Slave Women.

More information

Check out the Guides section -- there you'll find "companions" to some of the books in the Hainish series, a history of the hainish worlds, the Hainish Encyclopedia, and more.