Barbara Kingsolver Books in Order

Taylor Greer leaves Kentucky in a beat-up car, determined to avoid pregnancy and a quiet life. But when a stranger leaves a small child in her care, she heads to Arizona. There, she finds an unexpected community and a new definition of family.

A collection of twelve short stories set in places ranging from the Caribbean to the American Southwest. These tales explore the bonds of family, the struggle to fit in, and the resilience of ordinary people facing difficult choices.

Codi Noline returns to her hometown of Grace, Arizona, to care for her father, who is losing his battle with Alzheimer's. While confronting her past, she gets involved in a local fight to save the town's water from a mining company's pollution.

In this collection of poetry, Kingsolver explores themes of war, exile, and social justice. The poems focus largely on the struggles of women in Central America and the U.S., blending political outrage with deep personal empathy.

The sequel to *The Bean Trees*. Taylor and her adopted daughter Turtle face a legal challenge from the Cherokee Nation. A young lawyer questions the adoption, forcing Taylor to confront the complexities of heritage and the Indian Child Welfare Act.

A collaborative tour chronicle by the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band of prominent writers who temporarily exchanged desks for stages. Anecdotes from the members and photographs by Tabitha King recount their first American rock-and-roll tour, its mishaps, friendships, and performances.

A collection of essays that use the metaphor of a transplanted hermit crab to explore how humans adapt. Kingsolver writes about family, nature, and community, mixing humor with observations on modern life and her background as a biologist.

A non-fiction account of the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983. Kingsolver documents the role of women—miners' wives and daughters—who held the picket lines for eighteen months, transforming their community and themselves in the process.

An evangelical Baptist minister takes his wife and four daughters to the Belgian Congo in 1959. As the country fights for independence, the family unravels. Narrated by the five women, this is a powerful story of cultural arrogance, guilt, and survival.

Three stories weave together in the mountains of southern Appalachia. A reclusive biologist, a young widow, and an elderly neighbor find their lives connecting over the course of a humid summer. A celebration of nature, biology, and human attraction.

Edited by John Loughery, this chronological anthology presents seventeen twentieth-century examples of classic and creative nonfiction. It ranges across arguments, personal narratives, open letters, anecdotes, and other essay forms, with work by writers including Orwell, Didion, King, Tan, Kingsolver, and Sagan.

Barbara Kingsolver serves as guest editor for this annual selection of twenty American short stories, with Katrina Kenison as series editor. The volume combines established and emerging writers, including Alice Munro, John Updike, Dorothy West, Ha Jin, and Andrea Barrett.

Edited by John Darnton, this volume gathers essays from The New York Times’s “Writers on Writing” series. Established authors reflect on the creative and practical work of writing, reading, literary influences, and the relationship between art and lived experience.

A collaboration with photographer Annie Griffiths Belt. Kingsolver provides the text for this celebration of America's last remaining wild places, from the tundra to the tallgrass prairies, urging readers to protect these disappearing landscapes.

Written in the aftermath of 9/11, these essays look for hope in dark times. Kingsolver reflects on everything from vegetable gardening to genetic engineering, arguing that community and connection to the land are vital for survival.

The true story of the Kingsolver family's attempt to eat only locally grown food for a year. They move to a farm in Virginia, grow their own vegetables, and raise animals, offering a funny and practical look at the local food movement.

Edited by Lex Williford and Michael Martone, this anthology surveys creative nonfiction published from 1970 onward. Fifty writers contribute memoir, reportage, personal essays, and cultural criticism, including David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver, Amy Tan, Cheryl Strayed, and John McPhee.

Edited by Shari MacDonald Strong, this collection of more than forty literary essays examines motherhood as a force in social and political life. Its contributors write about family, work, war, misogyny, activism, and the choices through which mothers seek change.

Edited by Jan Freeman, Emily Wojcik, and Deborah Bull, this anthology gathers stories, memoirs, and poems about sisterhood. Its selections trace bonds shaped by affection, rivalry, loyalty, cruelty, grief, and shared history from childhood through old age.

Harrison Shepherd grows up in Mexico in the 1930s, working for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Years later in the U.S., he becomes a target of anti-communist investigations. A sweeping historical novel about art, politics, and the power of words.

Edited by Martin Keogh, this environmental anthology brings together essays, meditations, and stories by activists, scientists, writers, and other contributors, including Barbara Kingsolver. It considers how people can respond to ecological crisis through practical action, community engagement, spiritual reflection, and sustained hope.

Dellarobia Turnbow, a restless farm wife in Tennessee, discovers millions of monarch butterflies nesting in her valley. The phenomenon attracts scientists and media, forcing her to confront the realities of climate change and her own unhappy marriage.

This Orion Magazine collection gathers essays and poems about food as a source of nourishment, culture, memory, and ecological connection. Contributors, including Barbara Kingsolver, explore foraging, gardening, cooking, animals, and the relationships linking eaters to land and to one another.

The fourth issue of Plough Quarterly considers how faith can shape care for the natural world. Essays, stories, art, interviews, and other pieces from scientists, farmers, writers, and artists examine environmental responsibility, agriculture, creation, and human relationships with the earth.

A collection of commencement speeches offers graduates—and readers facing new beginnings—reflections on courage, empathy, risk, luck, responsibility, and purposeful living. Barbara Kingsolver’s 2008 Duke University address appears alongside talks by writers, artists, business leaders, and other public figures.

This anthology offers letters and essays from farmers, chefs, writers, activists, and food-system thinkers to people beginning a life in agriculture. It addresses farming’s rewards and difficulties while considering soil, animals, community, livelihoods, and more sustainable ways of producing and eating food.

Two families live in the same house in Vineland, New Jersey, more than a century apart. In the 1870s, a science teacher champions Darwin; in 2016, a woman struggles with a crumbling foundation. A dual narrative about navigating chaotic times.

A collection of poems that offer instructions on everything from shearing sheep to accepting grief. Kingsolver reflects on family, the natural world, and the messy business of being alive.

A modern retelling of *David Copperfield* set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. The story follows a boy born into poverty as he navigates foster care, labor, and the opioid crisis. A raw, funny, and devastating look at institutional neglect.

A picture book that weaves together the stories of a young girl and a coyote pup. As they both explore the woods, they learn how to share the same habitat. Co-authored with Lily Kingsolver.

Set across past and present, the novel follows Livia Cable, whose quiet farm-country life is disrupted when an old lover calls. Remembering her former self as a gifted conservatory pianist, she must face the losses, ambition, and passion that altered her path.