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Barbara Kingsolver's Reading List

The author, most recently, of the novel “Unsheltered” loves “fiction that educates me on the sly, especially about something I didn’t realize I wanted to know. I’m open to any kind of arcana.”

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By the Book: Barbara Kingsolver (2018)

NYT By the Book column (2018-10-25).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · Buy on Amazon
"The spectacular Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie."
The Shepherd's Life
James Rebanks · Buy on Amazon
"The Shepherd's Life, by James Rebanks, who makes a convincing case for a farm in the Lake District as center of the universe."
This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein · Buy on Amazon
"I'll nominate This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein, and The Overstory, by Richard Powers, in two different categories of greatness."
Cover of The Overstory
The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018 · Buy on Amazon
"I'll nominate This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein, and The Overstory, by Richard Powers, in two different categories of greatness."
My Antonia
Willa Cather · Buy on Amazon
"When I finally broke down and read My Antonia, I rued my foolishness and all our lost years. Willa and I have made up."
Cover of Independent People
Independent People
Halldor Laxness · 1934 · Buy on Amazon
"Ann Patchett launched our friendship with Independent People, by Halldor Laxness, and has continued to give me my favorite book of nearly every year since."
Children of Violence
Doris Lessing · Buy on Amazon
"The game-changer for me was Doris Lessing's Children of Violence series, a five-novel bildungsroman stretching from colonial Rhodesia to postwar London. All the windows in my brain blew out. I skipped school to read these books straight through."
Cover of Middlemarch
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · Buy on Amazon
"I'd start with George Eliot because Middlemarch is my favorite book, and she's said to have been sort of magical as a conversationalist."
Cover of King Leopold's Ghost
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild · 1998 · Buy on Amazon
"Adam Hochschild's monumentally disquieting King Leopold's Ghost, which needs to be relocated — that's not a bedtime story."

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