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ⓘ About Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver is an acclaimed American author known for her novels, essays, and poetry. Her writing frequently examines themes of social justice, the natural world, and family bonds. She creates rich, believable characters who navigate complex situations, making her stories both thought-provoking and highly readable. Readers might recognize her from bestselling books like The Poisonwood Bible or her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Demon Copperhead. Her work has earned a remarkable number of prestigious awards. Kingsolver made history by winning the Women’s Prize for Fiction twice, a rare achievement for any writer. Beyond fiction, her nonfiction book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle chronicles a year of eating locally grown food.
All Book Series by Barbara Kingsolver
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
Series opener · book 1 of 5 · published 1995
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Book 2 of 5 · published 1996
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Season Eating
Latest in the series · book 5 of 5 · published 2007
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Series opener · book 1 of 28 · published 1955 Anthology · Flannery O'Connor
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine
Book 7 of 28 · published 1998 Anthology · Thom Jones
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
Book 9 of 28 · published 2011 Anthology · Alan Bennett
The Cheater's Guide to Love
Book 10 of 28 · published 2012 Anthology · Junot Díaz
Come Rain or Come Shine
Book 14 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Kazuo Ishiguro
Dante and the Lobster
Book 16 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Samuel Beckett
The Lydia Steptoe Stories
Book 19 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Djuna Barnes
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom
Book 20 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Sylvia Plath
The Forester's Daughter
Book 23 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Claire Keegan
Three Types of Solitude
Book 24 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Brian W. Aldiss
Intruders
Latest in the series · book 28 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Adrian Tomine
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Book 5 of 12 · published 2007
Letters to a Young Farmer
Latest in the series · book 12 of 12 · published 2017
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Barbara Kingsolver?
Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver is an acclaimed American author known for her novels, essays, and poetry. Her writing frequently examines themes of social justice, the natural world, and family bonds. She creates rich, believable characters who navigate complex situations, making her stories both thought-provoking and highly readable.
Which Barbara Kingsolver series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Greer Family series, the earliest of Barbara Kingsolver's multi-book series: it opens with The Bean Trees (1988) and runs to 2 books across 1988–1993, ending with Pigs in Heaven (1993).
How many books has Barbara Kingsolver written?
Barbara Kingsolver has 59 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1955 and 2026. 30 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Greer Family series with 2 books — and 29 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Barbara Kingsolver's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Barbara Kingsolver's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Greer Family (1988–1993, 2 books).
How are Barbara Kingsolver's books organised into series?
This guide splits Barbara Kingsolver's 59 books into 2 named series and 29 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Greer Family (2 books, 1988–1993); Faber Stories (28 books, 1955–2019).