Hainish Cycle Reading Order

Rocannon's World

1966

Planet of Exile

1966

City of Illusions

1967

The Left Hand of Darkness

1969

Vaster than Empires and More Slow

1971

The Word for World is Forest

1972

The Dispossessed

1974

Four Ways to Forgiveness

1994

The Telling

2000

Five Ways to Forgiveness

2017