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
Novels
Animal Dreams (1987)
The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
Prodigal Summer (2000)
The Lacuna (2009)
Flight Behavior (2012)
Unsheltered (2018)
Demon Copperhead (2022) (with Barbara Kingsolver (AUTHOR))
The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
Prodigal Summer (2000)
The Lacuna (2009)
Flight Behavior (2012)
Unsheltered (2018)
Demon Copperhead (2022) (with Barbara Kingsolver (AUTHOR))
Collections
Homeland (1989)
Another America (poems) (1992)
How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) (poems) (2020)
Another America (poems) (1992)
How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) (poems) (2020)
Picture Books
Non fiction
Mid-Life Confidential (1994) (with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Ridley Pearson and Amy Tan)
High Tide in Tucson (1995)
Holding the Line (1996)
Barbara Kingsolver: in Conversation (1998)
Small Wonder (2002)
Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands (2002)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007)
High Tide in Tucson (1995)
Holding the Line (1996)
Barbara Kingsolver: in Conversation (1998)
Small Wonder (2002)
Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands (2002)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007)
Omnibus editions
The Complete Fiction (1995)
Barbara Kingsolver Omnibus 1 (2001)
Barbara Kingsolver: Complete Fiction II (2002)
Unsheltered / Prodigal Summer / The Poisonwood Bible (2020)
Home Fire / The Poisonwood Bible (2022) (with Kamila Shamsie)
Animal Dreams / The Bean Trees / Pigs in Heaven (2023)
Barbara Kingsolver Omnibus 1 (2001)
Barbara Kingsolver: Complete Fiction II (2002)
Unsheltered / Prodigal Summer / The Poisonwood Bible (2020)
Home Fire / The Poisonwood Bible (2022) (with Kamila Shamsie)
Animal Dreams / The Bean Trees / Pigs in Heaven (2023)
Series contributed to
Awards
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Barbara Kingsolver recommends

Soldier Sailor (2023)
Claire Kilroy
"Kilroy packs a stunning worldly wisdom into her beautiful prose."

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."

Outside Looking In (2019)
T C Boyle
"Boyle is a writer who chooses a large canvas and fills it to the edges."

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."

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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