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Barbara Kingsolver Books in Order
Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Born in Annapolis, Maryland in 1955, she grew up in Carlisle, rural Kentucky, where her early life was deeply influenced by her family's experiences in Africa. Kingsolver earned degrees in Biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, laying the groundwork for her writing career. As a freelance writer, she honed her craft before transitioning to novel writing. Notable works include the critically acclaimed <i>The Poisonwood Bible</i> and <i>Animal, Vegetable, Miracle</i>. Kingsolver's writing often explores social justice, biodiversity, and the intricate relationships between humans, communities, and environments. Each of her books published since 1993 has achieved <i>New York Times</i> Best Seller status, with notable awards such as the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 for <i>The Lacuna</i> and the National Humanities Medal.
Bibliography verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Barbara Kingsolver's book series? Barbara Kingsolver has written 5 book series. The most notable is the Children's series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Barbara Kingsolver
- #1
Coyote's Wild Home(2023)
- #1
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor)(1955) - #2
The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman)(1968) - #3
Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain)(1982) - #4
Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann)(1983) - #5
Homeland(1989) - #6
Shanti (By: Vikram Chandra)(1997) - #7
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (By: Thom Jones)(1998) - #8
An Elegy for Easterly (By: Petina Gappah)(2009) - #9
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes (By: Alan Bennett)(2011) - #10
The Cheater's Guide to Love (By: Junot Díaz)(2012) - #11
Mrs Fox (By: Sarah Hall)(2014) - #12
Mostly Hero (By: Anna Burns)(2014) - #13
Mr Salary (By: Sally Rooney)(2016) - #14
Come Rain or Come Shine (By: Kazuo Ishiguro)(2019) - #15
The Victim (By: P.D. James)(2019) - #16
Dante and the Lobster (By: Samuel Beckett)(2019) - #17
Paradise (By: Edna O'Brien)(2019) - #18
Cosmopolitan (By: Akhil Sharma)(2019) - #19
The Lydia Steptoe Stories (By: Djuna Barnes)(2019) - #20
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom (By: Sylvia Plath)(2019) - #21
Terrific Mother (By: Lorrie Moore)(2019) - #22
The Country Funeral (By: John McGahern)(2019) - #23
The Forester's Daughter (By: Claire Keegan)(2019) - #24
Three Types of Solitude (By: Brian W. Aldiss)(2019) - #25
A River in Egypt (By: David Means)(2019) - #26
Fairy Tales (By: Marianne Moore)(2019) - #27
Ghostly Stories (By: Celia Fremlin)(2019) - #28
Intruders (By: Adrian Tomine)(2019)
- #1
The Bean Trees(1988) - #2
Pigs in Heaven(1993)
- #1
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never(1995) - #2Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983(1996)
- #3
Small Wonder: Essays(2002) - #4Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands(2002)
- #5
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Season Eating(2007) - #6
Mid-life Confidential(1994) - #7
I've Always Meant to Tell You(1997) - #8
The Eloquent Essay(2000) - #9
Writers on Writing(2001) - #10The Best American Short Stories 2001(2001)
- #11
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction(2007) - #12
The Maternal Is Political(2008) - #13
Sisters(2009) - #14
Hope Beneath Our Feet(2010) - #15
To Eat with Grace(2014) - #16
Way More than Luck(2015) - #17
Plough Quarterly No. 4: Earth(2015) - #18
Letters to a Young Farmer(2017)
- #1
Animal Dreams(1990) - #2
The Poisonwood Bible(1998) - #3Prodigal Summer(2000)
- #4
The Lacuna(2009) - #5
Flight Behavior(2012) - #6
Unsheltered(2018) - #7
Demon Copperhead(2022) - #8Another America/Otra America(1992)
- #9
How to Fly(2020)
About Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Born in Annapolis, Maryland in 1955, she grew up in Carlisle, rural Kentucky, where her early life was deeply influenced by her family's experiences in Africa. Kingsolver earned degrees in Biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, laying the groundwork for her writing career. As a freelance writer, she honed her craft before transitioning to novel writing. Notable works include the critically acclaimed <i>The Poisonwood Bible</i> and <i>Animal, Vegetable, Miracle</i>. Kingsolver's writing often explores social justice, biodiversity, and the intricate relationships between humans, communities, and environments. Each of her books published since 1993 has achieved <i>New York Times</i> Best Seller status, with notable awards such as the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 for <i>The Lacuna</i> and the National Humanities Medal.
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