Remembering Ursula Le Guin

I don't remember what year I first read Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy (somewhere in the 70's), but I've re-read it many times since, and it was the gateway series to me discovering many more of Le Guin's books. There's little I can say about her writing or her ideas or her influence that others haven't said already and said better, except for the personal note that she gave me many hours of reading pleasure and was an influence on my desire to write and to write well.

One of the many retrospectives on her can be found in this New Yorker article, and Jenn Northington at BookRiot assembled a nice compilation and summary for some of my favorite Ursula Le Guin books as well as recommendations for new reading along similar lines.