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The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
Who and what the author reads
When Barbara Kingsolver arrived at KET to participate in a live call-in program on May 31, 2001, she brought with her a list she’d prepared to answer one of the questions she is most frequently asked: What other authors do you read, and what are your favorite books? Here’s the list she gave us:
Fiction Books
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- I Loved You All by Paula Sharp
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman
(recommended for high school students)
- My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
(recommended for high school students)
- The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
- Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
(recommended for high school students)
- Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth: A Novel by Donna M. Gershten
Non-Fiction Books
- A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- Biodiversity: Exploring Values and Priorities in Conservation by Dan L. Perlman, Glenn Adelson, Edward Osborne Wilson
- Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds by Christopher Cokinos
- This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader by Joan Dye Gussow
- Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal by Nancy Mairs
Authors
- Fenton Johnson
June 1999 bookclub@ket selection: Scissors, Paper, Rock
- Doris Lessing
- Jane Austen
- William Faulkner
- John Nichols
- Margaret Atwood
Other Kentucky Authors
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