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Barbara Kingsolver Complete Bibliography

Browse books by Barbara Kingsolver in publication order, including standalone books, complete series lists, reading order, and publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 46 books / 6 series

American author best known for *The Poisonwood Bible* and *Demon Copperhead*. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, her works have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. This page provides Barbara Kingsolver’s books in order, including both chronological publication order and series reading order.

Books by Barbara Kingsolver in Publication Order

1955 A Good Man Is Hard To Find(By: Flannery O'Connor) POoFSB / 1 Buy
1968 The Inner Room(By: Robert Aickman) POoFSB / 2 Buy
1982 Daughters of Passion(By: Julia O'Faolain) POoFSB / 3 Buy
1983 Giacomo Joyce(By: Richard Ellmann) POoFSB / 4 Buy
1988 The Bean Trees POoGFB / 1 Buy
1989 Homeland POoFSB / 5 Buy
1990 Animal Dreams POoSN / 1 Buy
1992 Another America/Otra America POoSSC / 1 Buy
1993 Pigs in Heaven POoGFB / 2 Buy
1995 High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never POoNB / 1 Buy
1996 Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 POoNB / 2 Buy
1997 Shanti(By: Vikram Chandra) POoFSB / 6 Buy
1998 The Poisonwood Bible POoSN / 2 Buy
1998 Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine(By: Thom Jones) POoFSB / 7 Buy
2000 Prodigal Summer POoSN / 3 Buy
2002 Small Wonder: Essays POoNB / 3 Buy
2002 Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands POoNB / 4 Buy
2007 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Season Eating POoNB / 5 Buy
2009 The Lacuna POoSN / 4 Buy
2009 An Elegy for Easterly(By: Petina Gappah) POoFSB / 8 Buy
2011 The Shielding of Mrs Forbes(By: Alan Bennett) POoFSB / 9 Buy
2012 Flight Behavior POoSN / 5 Buy
2012 The Cheater's Guide to Love(By: Junot D’az) POoFSB / 10 Buy
2014 Mrs Fox(By: Sarah Hall) POoFSB / 11 Buy
2014 Mostly Hero(By: Anna Burns) POoFSB / 12 Buy
2016 Mr Salary(By: Sally Rooney) POoFSB / 13 Buy
2018 Unsheltered POoSN / 6 Buy
2019 Come Rain or Come Shine(By: Kazuo Ishiguro) POoFSB / 14 Buy
2019 The Victim(By: P.D. James) POoFSB / 15 Buy
2019 Dante and the Lobster(By: Samuel Beckett) POoFSB / 16 Buy
2019 Paradise(By: Edna O'Brien) POoFSB / 17 Buy
2019 Cosmopolitan(By: Akhil Sharma) POoFSB / 18 Buy
2019 The Lydia Steptoe Stories(By: Djuna Barnes) POoFSB / 19 Buy
2019 Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom(By: Sylvia Plath) POoFSB / 20 Buy
2019 Terrific Mother(By: Lorrie Moore) POoFSB / 21 Buy
2019 The Country Funeral(By: John McGahern) POoFSB / 22 Buy
2019 The Forester's Daughter(By: Claire Keegan) POoFSB / 23 Buy
2019 Three Types of Solitude(By: Brian W. Aldiss) POoFSB / 24 Buy
2019 A River in Egypt(By: David Means) POoFSB / 25 Buy
2019 Fairy Tales(By: Marianne Moore) POoFSB / 26 Buy
2019 Ghostly Stories(By: Celia Fremlin) POoFSB / 27 Buy
2019 Intruders(By: Adrian Tomine) POoFSB / 28 Buy
2020 How to Fly POoSSC / 2 Buy
2022 Demon Copperhead POoSN / 7 Buy
2023 Coyote's Wild Home POoCB / 1 Buy
2026 Partita POoSN / 8 Buy

Complete Barbara Kingsolver Series Reading Order / browse all ->

Greer Family Reading Order 2 books / 1988-1993
01 The Bean Trees 1988 Buy
02 Pigs in Heaven 1993 Buy
Faber Stories Reading Order 28 books / 1955-2019
01 A Good Man Is Hard To Find(By: Flannery O'Connor) 1955 Buy
02 The Inner Room(By: Robert Aickman) 1968 Buy
03 Daughters of Passion(By: Julia O'Faolain) 1982 Buy
04 Giacomo Joyce(By: Richard Ellmann) 1983 Buy
05 Homeland 1989 Buy
06 Shanti(By: Vikram Chandra) 1997 Buy
07 Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine(By: Thom Jones) 1998 Buy
08 An Elegy for Easterly(By: Petina Gappah) 2009 Buy
09 The Shielding of Mrs Forbes(By: Alan Bennett) 2011 Buy
10 The Cheater's Guide to Love(By: Junot D’az) 2012 Buy
11 Mrs Fox(By: Sarah Hall) 2014 Buy
12 Mostly Hero(By: Anna Burns) 2014 Buy
13 Mr Salary(By: Sally Rooney) 2016 Buy
14 Come Rain or Come Shine(By: Kazuo Ishiguro) 2019 Buy
15 The Victim(By: P.D. James) 2019 Buy
16 Dante and the Lobster(By: Samuel Beckett) 2019 Buy
17 Paradise(By: Edna O'Brien) 2019 Buy
18 Cosmopolitan(By: Akhil Sharma) 2019 Buy
19 The Lydia Steptoe Stories(By: Djuna Barnes) 2019 Buy
20 Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom(By: Sylvia Plath) 2019 Buy
21 Terrific Mother(By: Lorrie Moore) 2019 Buy
22 The Country Funeral(By: John McGahern) 2019 Buy
23 The Forester's Daughter(By: Claire Keegan) 2019 Buy
24 Three Types of Solitude(By: Brian W. Aldiss) 2019 Buy
25 A River in Egypt(By: David Means) 2019 Buy
26 Fairy Tales(By: Marianne Moore) 2019 Buy
27 Ghostly Stories(By: Celia Fremlin) 2019 Buy
28 Intruders(By: Adrian Tomine) 2019 Buy
Children's Reading Order 1 book / 2023
01 Coyote's Wild Home 2023 Buy
Standalone Reading Order 8 books / 1990-2026
01 Animal Dreams 1990 Buy
02 The Poisonwood Bible 1998 Buy
03 Prodigal Summer 2000 Buy
04 The Lacuna 2009 Buy
05 Flight Behavior 2012 Buy
06 Unsheltered 2018 Buy
07 Demon Copperhead 2022 Buy
08 Partita 2026 Buy
Non-Fiction Reading Order 5 books / 1995-2007
01 High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never 1995 Buy
02 Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 1996 Buy
03 Small Wonder: Essays 2002 Buy
04 Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands 2002 Buy
05 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Season Eating 2007 Buy
01 Another America/Otra America 1992 Buy
02 How to Fly 2020 Buy

Where to start with Barbara Kingsolver

What is the best order to read Barbara Kingsolver books?

Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series, follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.

Are standalone books and series both included?

Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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