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Barbara Kingsolver


USA flag (b.1955)

Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955 and grew up in eastern Kentucky. Her books include poetry, non-fiction and award-winning fiction, and in 1999 she was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for The Poisonwood Bible (recently voted Britain's favourite reading group book). She lives with her husband and daughter in southern Arizona and in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, General Fiction, Children's Fiction
 
New Books
November 2023

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Coyote's Wild Home
 
Series
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   1. The Bean Trees (1988)
   2. Pigs in Heaven (1993)
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Novels
   Animal Dreams (1987)
   The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
   Prodigal Summer (2000)
   The Lacuna (2009)
   Flight Behavior (2012)

     aka Flight Behaviour

   Unsheltered (2018)
   Demon Copperhead (2022) (with Barbara Kingsolver (AUTHOR))
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Collections
   Homeland (1989)
   Another America (poems) (1992)
   How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) (poems) (2020)
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Picture Books
   Coyote's Wild Home (2023) (with Lily Kingsolver)
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Non fiction
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Omnibus editions
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Series contributed to
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Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1999) : The Poisonwood Bible
Oprah's Book Club Best Book nominee (1999) : The Poisonwood Bible
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (1999) : The Poisonwood Bible
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1999) : The Poisonwood Bible
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (1999) : The Poisonwood Bible
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (2010) : The Lacuna
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2010) : The Lacuna
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel winner (2010) : The Lacuna
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2011) : The Lacuna
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2013) : Flight Behavior
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (2013) : Flight Behavior


Barbara Kingsolver recommends
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Soldier Sailor (2023)
Claire Kilroy
"Kilroy packs a stunning worldly wisdom into her beautiful prose."
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At the Edge of the Haight (2021)
Katherine Seligman
"What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it’s the richly layered details that drive home a lightning bolt of empathy. To read At the Edge of the Haight is to live inside the everyday terror and longings of a world that most of us manage not to see, even if we walk past it on sidewalks every day. At a time when more Americans than ever find themselves at the edge of homelessness, this book couldn’t be more timely."
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Outside Looking In (2019)
T C Boyle
"Boyle is a writer who chooses a large canvas and fills it to the edges."
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The Overstory (2018)
Richard Powers
"Monumental…The Overstory accomplishes what few living writers from either camp, art or science, could attempt. Using the tools of the story, he pulls readers heart-first into a perspective so much longer-lived and more subtly developed than the human purview that we gain glimpses of a vast, primordial sensibility, while watching our own kind get whittled down to size....A gigantic fable of genuine truths."
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And West Is West (2015)
Ron Childress
"A crackerjack story."
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (2010)
Heidi W Durrow
"A breathless telling of a tale we've never heard before. Haunting and lovely, pitch-perfect, this book could not be more lovely."

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