Anthologies#
| Title |
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| Mid-life Confidential |
1994 |
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| The Eloquent Essay |
2000 |
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| Writers on Writing |
2001 |
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| The Best American Short Stories 2001 |
2001 |
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| Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction |
2007 |
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| The Maternal Is Political |
2008 |
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| Sisters |
2009 |
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| Hope Beneath Our Feet |
2010 |
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| To Eat with Grace |
2014 |
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| Way More than Luck |
2015 |
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| Plough Quarterly No. 4: Earth |
2015 |
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| Letters to a Young Farmer |
2017 |
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Children’s#
| Title |
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| Coyote’s Wild Home |
2023 |
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Greer Family Reading Order#
| Title |
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| The Bean Trees |
1988 |
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| Pigs in Heaven |
1993 |
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Non-Fiction#
| Title |
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| High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never |
1995 |
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| Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 |
1996 |
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| Small Wonder: Essays |
2002 |
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| Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands |
2002 |
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| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Season Eating |
2007 |
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Short Story Collections#
| Title |
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| Another America/Otra America |
1992 |
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| How to Fly |
2020 |
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Standalone Novels#
| Title |
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| Animal Dreams |
1990 |
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| The Poisonwood Bible |
1998 |
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| Prodigal Summer |
2000 |
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| The Lacuna |
2009 |
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| Flight Behavior |
2012 |
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| Unsheltered |
2018 |
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| Demon Copperhead |
2022 |
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Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist whose work spans literary fiction, environmental writing, and social commentary. The Poisonwood Bible (1998) is her most widely read novel, following a missionary family in the Congo. Demon Copperhead (2022) won the Pulitzer Prize, retelling Dickens’s David Copperfield in modern Appalachia.
Her earlier novels include The Bean Trees (1988) and its sequel Pigs in Heaven (1993), as well as Animal Dreams (1990) and Prodigal Summer (2000). She has also written non-fiction, including Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007) about a year of eating locally.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Barbara Kingsolver written?
Barbara Kingsolver has written 29 books across six series.
What was Barbara Kingsolver's first book?
Barbara Kingsolver’s first book is The Bean Trees, published in 1988.
What has Barbara Kingsolver won?
Kingsolver won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Demon Copperhead, a retelling of David Copperfield set in Appalachian coal country. She also won the Barbara Kingsolver Prize (no relation) and multiple other honors for The Poisonwood Bible and her other novels.