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Kelly Barnhill

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Born

in Minneapolis

Website

http://www.kellybarnhill.com

Genre

Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories

Influences

Borges, Marquez, Erdrich, The Brothers Grimm

Member Since

October 2014

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Kelly Barnhill is an author and teacher. She won the World Fantasy Award for her novella The Unlicensed Magician, a Parents Choice Gold Award for Iron Hearted Violet, the Charlotte Huck Honor for The Girl Who Drank the Moon, and has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the Andre Norton award, and the PEN/USA literary prize. She was also a McKnight Artist's Fellowship recipient in Children's Literature. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her three children and husband. You can chat with her on her blog at www.kellybarnhill.com ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 181,405 ratings · 29,712 reviews · 48 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Girl Who Drank the Moon 4.12 avg rating — 101,535 ratings — published 2016 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Women Were Dragons 3.86 avg rating — 46,571 ratings — published 2022 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ogress and the Orphans 4.28 avg rating — 7,017 ratings — published 2022 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witch's Boy 4.03 avg rating — 6,909 ratings — published 2014 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crane Husband 3.88 avg rating — 6,657 ratings — published 2023 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iron Hearted Violet by Kelly Barnhill (Goodreads Author), Iacopo Bruno (Illustrations) 3.88 avg rating — 3,529 ratings — published 2012 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mostly True Story of Jack 3.60 avg rating — 2,830 ratings — published 2011 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories 3.68 avg rating — 2,498 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch 3.86 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unlicensed Magician 4.13 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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On Wildness, Cracked Worlds, Monsters, and the Odd Nature of the Short Story

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(note: this essay originally appeared at Powells Books Blog.)

Once upon a time, I worked for the Park Service, minding a little ranger station on Marmot Lake — well above the treeline, about 30 miles into the backcountry from any direction. The station was not much of a station at all. Just a tent on a platform and a steel cache full of tools and gear, and even a sealed bottle of stov

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For avid readers, the turning of the calendar year always brings about the particular joys of anticipation. But before we all get swept up in...

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What book would you like to read for our October 2022 Group Read? The theme is Moon.

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Classic, Mystery, Victorian

21 votes 22.3%

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Urban Fantasy, Middle Grade

16 votes 17.0%

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
YA Fantasy, Mythology, Romance

13 votes 13.8%

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
YA Fantasy, Contemporary, Tearjerker

9 votes 9.6%

Cinder by Marissa Meyer
YA Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Fairy Tale Retelling

8 votes 8.5%

The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis
Mystery, Magical Realism, Family

7 votes 7.4%

The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
Magical Realism, Small Town Romance

7 votes 7.4%

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Sci-Fi, Dystopia, Plaque

6 votes 6.4%

Moon Above, Moon Below by William Peter Grasso
Historical Fiction, WW2, Adventure

4 votes 4.3%

The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah
Contemporary Romance, Magical Realism

3 votes 3.2%

94 total votes

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