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Nevada Barr

Born

in Yerington, Nevada, The United States

March 01, 1952

Website

http://www.nevadabarr.com/

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Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

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Nevada Barr is a mystery fiction author, known for her "Anna Pigeon" series of mysteries, set in National Parks in the United States. Barr has won an Agatha Award for best first novel for Track of the Cat.

Barr was named after the state of her birth. She grew up in Johnstonville, California. She finished college at the University of California, Irvine. Originally, Barr started to pursue a career in theatre, but decided to be a park ranger. In 1984 she published her first novel, Bittersweet, a bleak lesbian historical novel set in the days of the Western frontier.

While working in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Barr created the Anna Pigeon series. Pigeon is a law enforcement officer with the United States National Park Service. Each book i ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 199,018 ratings · 16,839 reviews · 66 distinct works • Similar authors

	Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 22,552 ratings — published 1993 — 45 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
	A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 13,003 ratings — published 1994 — 46 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
	Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, #6) 4.05 avg rating — 11,484 ratings — published 1998 — 29 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
	Ill Wind (Anna Pigeon, #3) 3.93 avg rating — 11,118 ratings — published 1995 — 43 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
	Firestorm (Anna Pigeon, #4) 4.01 avg rating — 10,363 ratings — published 1996 — 45 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
	High Country (Anna Pigeon, #12) 3.92 avg rating — 9,462 ratings — published 2004 — 56 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
	Winter Study (Anna Pigeon, #14) 3.87 avg rating — 9,407 ratings — published 2008 — 3 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
	Deep South (Anna Pigeon, #8) 3.97 avg rating — 9,159 ratings — published 2000 — 32 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
	Borderline (Anna Pigeon, #15) 3.93 avg rating — 8,721 ratings — published 2009 — 39 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 Rope (Anna Pigeon, #17) 3.88 avg rating — 8,669 ratings — published 2012 — 35 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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“perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her”
― Nevada Barr, 13½

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“Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still cared. Indifference was the most inhuman.”
― Nevada Barr, Endangered Species

tags: inspirational

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“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that thought and was ashamed. Cynicism was okay, bitterness a pain in the neck. The hairline difference between the two was hope and humor. The cynic had both, the embittered, nothing.”
― Nevada Barr

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I need your help deciding what book we should read for the first ever Night Shift Reads group read and chat. Pick the book you would most like to read and the book with the most votes will be our inaugural read. The other top choices will show up over the next several months.

All the Missing
Girls by Megan Miranda

13 votes 30.2%

The Ex by Alafair Burke

7 votes 16.3%

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

6 votes 14.0%

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

5 votes 11.6%

What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr

4 votes 9.3%

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

3 votes 7.0%

The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer

2 votes 4.7%

The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

2 votes 4.7%

Man of War (Eric Steele #1) by Sean Parnell

Man of War by Sean Parnell

1 vote 2.3%

The High Mountains
of Portugal by Yann Martel

0 votes 0.0%

43 total votes

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