Christina Baker Kline's picture
155 followers

Christina Baker Kline


UK flag

Christina Baker Kline is a novelist, nonfiction writer, and editor. Her novels include The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines, and Sweet Water. She is co-author, with Christina L. Baker, of The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk about Living Feminism and editor of Child of Mine: Original Essays on Becoming a Mother; Room to Grow: 22 Writers Encounter the Pleasures and Paradoxes of Raising Young Children; and Always Too Soon: Becoming an Orphan at Any Age, also published by Seal Press. She is currently Writer in Residence at Fordham University.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical
 
Novels
   Sweet Water (1993)
   Desire Lines (1998)
   The Way Life Should Be (2007)
   Bird in Hand (2009)
   Orphan Train (2013) (with Christine Baker Kline)
     aka Orphan Train Girl
   A Piece of the World (2017)
   The Exiles (2020)
thumbthumbthumbthumb
thumbthumbthumb
 
Novellas and Short Stories
   The Scenic Route (2023)
thumb
 
Non fiction show
 
Christina Baker Kline recommends
thumb
Akmaral (2024)
Judith Lindbergh
"A gripping saga, a love story, and a convincing portrait of a time and people lost to history."
thumb
Library for the War-Wounded (2024)
Monika Helfer
"A poignant, captivating, beautifully woven family saga. As honest as Elena Ferrante, with the folkloric intensity of Tea Obreht."
thumb
A True Account (2023)
Katherine Howe
"This sweeping, ambitious novel secures Katherine Howe's place as one of today's best historical fiction writers. Combining a fast-paced, rollicking 18th-century story about a female pirate and a 20th-century mystery set in academia, Howe touches on identity, ambition, history, class, and culture. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, A True Account is a wild ride. I loved this book."

More recommendations 


Anthologies containing stories by Christina Baker Kline

Visitors also looked at these authors


About Fantastic Fiction       Information for Authors