Barbara Kingsolver Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Barbara Kingsolver

This book kept me reading late into the night. It is beautifully written... A literary murder mystery (kind of), but that really doesn’t cover it. A nuanced exploration of all the innate or imposed biases that get in the way of truth: racism, sexism, cancel culture. And their dire costs.

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Barbara Kingsolver

…one of a thousand books that made me the writer I am, because I learned my craft entirely from reading. I can’t name one best teacher, but Munro is a standout. She taught me that the secret is in the sentences: every one has to be perfect.

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Barbara Kingsolver

[Pod] taught me countless facts about ocean life, but the knockout is this one: Humpback whales compose and sing very long songs that they send into currents of water that echo around the planet. Other whales hear and repeat their favorite songs, with some getting worldwide play.

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Barbara Kingsolver

This quietly heart-scorching novel took me one day to read, and I’ll be thinking about it forever. If you think these are dark times for civil rights... this book’s understated brilliance is to remind you that light-years of progress have happened in our lifetimes. And why we can’t go back.

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Barbara Kingsolver

If you’re wishing you could be in a faraway land right now, but would accept the alternative route to New Caledonia via a deliciously improbable plot, wonderful characters, sparkling sentences, and too many belly laughs to count: have I got a novel for you.

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Barbara Kingsolver

...my literary comfort food. In these books I know I won’t be upset or alarmed, just touched to my core. Berry’s people are my people and I love them.

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Barbara Kingsolver

...a history of the Panama Canal that I brought with me, obviously, on a trip through the Panama Canal. It’s wonderfully researched, and about a thousand pages long. The book lasted longer than the trip.

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Barbara Kingsolver

a vulnerable study of grief... I can’t say why I finally picked it up, 20 years after publication. But I did, and you should too... it leaves you convinced that we love best when we understand the inevitability of loss.

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Barbara Kingsolver

I grew up with no belief that I could be a writer, because I only knew regular people doing ordinary stuff. In my early 20’s, this novel bowled me over by showing me the most beautiful, funny, heroic thing I could possibly write about: ordinary lives.

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Barbara Kingsolver

I loved this book. Some novels ask you to work for it, others just say, “Kick off your shoes, come in, let me take you somewhere.” I needed the latter kind... There is plenty of sorrow in this story, maybe more than bliss, but it’s also funny and as endearing as a good friend.

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