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I recently read The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose by Le Guin. I highly recommend it if you're a fan and haven't read it. It's basically a collection of short stories she's picked from across her career.
It's really interesting to see the ideas for characters from the Hainish cycle and Earthsea books in their early forms.
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Not very similar at all I wouldn't say. I really like The Dispossessed (and I'm not too bothered about the Culture series) but it's very heavy handed with the political messages. The Culture deals with it a fair bit more subtly and it's not the driving point of the narrative as it is in The Dispossessed.
On a related note, I've been re-reading the Earthsea series by Le Guin for the first time since I was a kid and I'm really enjoying it. Quite a lot darker than I remembered.