Suggest me a book similar to “The Dispossessed”

Keep going with her work!! They’re all distinct, so none will be exactly like The Disposessed, but it’s all truly outstanding.

She was writing and publishing over a 60 year period. All of her work is good, all of it has her distinctively LeGuin voice and focuses, and different periods of her work have somewhat different flavors. And if a particular piece doesn’t hit the spot it’s very worth revisiting it 10 or 15 years down the line. Her work tends to shapeshift with the reader because of how she writes implicit and explicit threads into it, and be different stories in different periods of my life.

So the short answer is: whatever catches your eye that she’s written, with the two notes that her first three published novels, while good, are not as good as the rest of it; and that that you’ll get somewhat different feels (while continuing to explore similar themes in continuously growing ways) in diffederent decades.

If you want more guidance than that, however, some routes you could take next include:

– The Hainish work with the most direct tie-ins to The Disposessed: The Day Before the Revolution, The Shobies Story (probably best to Read Left Hand of Darkness as well as the Disposessed before this one). Fisherman of the Inland Sea

– Other Hainish novels and collections from the 1970’s, 80’s, and 90’s: all of the above plus Left Hand of Darkness, Winter’s King, The Word for World is Forest, Four (or Five) Ways to Forgiveness, Solitude, The Matter of Seggri, The Telling,

– Non-Hainish explorations of ambiguous utopia, dystopia, and revolution: Unlocking The Air, The Ones that Walk Away from Omelas, Always Coming Home (fictional ethnography), A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be (essay), On Common and Institutional Saints (essay)

– Other works of the same era, and therefore a similar mouth-feel: Lathe of Heaven, Left Hand of Darkness, the first three Earthsea books, The Word for World is Forest, Paradise Lost.

– Earthsea – all 6 books. Shevek definitely has some temperamental similarities with Ged, though Ged is the less reliable narrator and Earthsea is more psychological.

– Plankton’s favorites over 23 years (though this may not be ideal given you’re neither me nor every age between 16 and
39 simultaneously), The Dispossessed, Lathe of Heaven, Directions of the Road, The Telling, Earthsea, her Hainish novellas (Fisherman of the Inland Sea, The Matter of Seggri, and Solitude in
particular ), Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Always Coming Home, Earthsea (all 6, the second and third life stage I read it in) her essays in general, Lavinia (as it was in my
mid 30’s – it fell flat for me in my 20’s), Buffalo Gals Won’t You Come Out Tonight, The Telling (as it is in my late 30’s ), Author of the Acacia Seeds. Yes, I’ve deliberately read everything she’s published, most of it multiple times. I’ve never been driven to do that with any other author.