Katherine Howe

more photos (1)

Katherine Howe’s Followers (2,520)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
Kaity ✿
2,669 books | 363 friends

Michael...
17,436 books | 215 friends

Anne Pa...
148 books | 2,915 friends

Stephan...
604 books | 126 friends

Emily
670 books | 62 friends

Lauren ...
4,486 books | 216 friends

Sam
Sam
1,863 books | 401 friends

Kait
2,113 books | 1,161 friends

More friends…

Katherine Howe

Goodreads Author


Born
Houston, Texas, The United States
Website

Twitter

Genre

Influences
Edith Wharton, Matthew Pearl, Arthur Miller

Member Since
February 2012

URL


Katherine Howe is a #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer of historical fiction and nonfiction. Her best known books are The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, which debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list in 2009 and was named one of USA Today's top ten books of the year, and Conversion, which received the 2015 Massachusetts Book Award in young adult literature. In 2014 she edited The Penguin Book of Witches for Penguin Classics, a primary source reader on the history of witchcraft in England and North America. She co-authored the #1 bestselling Vanderbilt: the Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty with CNN's Anderson Cooper, which came out in September 2021. Their next bestselling collaboration, Astor: the Rise ...more

To ask Katherine Howe questions, please sign up.

Popular Answered Questions

Katherine Howe There are a lot of ways to answer that Alyssa. For me, a novelist friend overheard me musing that I wanted to do National Novel Writing Month, but I c…moreThere are a lot of ways to answer that Alyssa. For me, a novelist friend overheard me musing that I wanted to do National Novel Writing Month, but I couldn't that year. And he said, well, if you have an idea for a novel, you don't have to write it in *that* month. You can write it in any month and take as long as you want. That very obvious point exploded a little firework over my head. It pointed out that I didn't need the universe's permission to do what I wanted.

As far as advice goes, I'm sorry to say that there is no special trick. Writing a novel requires sitting down and writing a little bit each day until it's done. Some people outline, some don't (I definitely do). Some people set aside blocks of time, some use word count assignments (I've done both). The challenge lies in working a little bit every day, and forsaking other things one might wish, or need, to do. It means writing instead of going to the movies one night, or instead of taking a hike one gorgeous afternoon, or instead of cleaning the house right this minute. But the cool part is, one day, after a whole lot of days like that, you type the last word of the first draft and you look around the cafe where you're working, and nobody around you knows what just happened. But it did.(less)
Katherine Howe Thank you for asking, Melinda. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane was originally sold in the UK as "The Lost Book of Salem," so they are actually th…moreThank you for asking, Melinda. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane was originally sold in the UK as "The Lost Book of Salem," so they are actually the same book. Later it was re-released in the UK with the US title. It's not unusual for books to have different titles in different countries, particularly in foreign languages. Physick Book's title in Turkish, for instance, is "Galeyan," which translates roughly to "Effervescence."

Though it's not a sequel, my recent novel "Conversion" has two fleeting Physick Book character cameos, so they take place in the same world. Readers who enjoyed the witch perspective in Physick Book might enjoy the afflicted girls' perspective in "Conversion."(less)
Average rating: 3.71 · 168,395 ratings · 17,751 reviews · 17 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Physick Book of Deliver...

3.72 avg rating — 57,920 ratings — published 2009 — 80 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Conversion

3.30 avg rating — 10,210 ratings — published 2014 — 20 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The House of Velvet and Glass

3.35 avg rating — 7,938 ratings — published 2012 — 24 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Daughters of Temperance...

3.76 avg rating — 6,503 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
A True Account: Hannah Masu...

3.75 avg rating — 2,097 ratings — published 2023 — 11 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Appearance of Annie van...

3.52 avg rating — 2,127 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Penguin Book of Witches

3.54 avg rating — 1,568 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Penguin Book of Pirates

3.43 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
A True Account

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
MISS MUFFET! MISS MUFFET!

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Katherine Howe…

Talking to Shelf Awareness

In which I confess my affection for the Great Illustrated Classics.

https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue...
6 likes ·   •  1 comment  •  flag
Share on Twitter
Published on November 27, 2023 11:32 Tags: historical-fiction, literary-fiction, women-s-fiction
The Physick Book of Deliver... The Daughters of Temperance...
(2 books)
by
3.73 avg rating — 64,420 ratings

Related News

Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day, according to early...
37 likes · 1 comments
Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day. To create our...
36 likes · 12 comments
Granite Harbor
Katherine Howe is currently reading
by Peter Nichols (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 

Katherine’s Recent Updates

Katherine Howe is now friends with BookishCorgi
139721101
Katherine Howe rated a book it was amazing
A Poetics of Postmodernism by Linda Hutcheon
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katherine Howe rated a book it was amazing
Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katherine Howe rated a book it was amazing
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katherine Howe has read
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katherine Howe rated a book it was amazing
Kingfisher Seven by Shawn Klomparens
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katherine Howe rated a book it was amazing
Weirdo by Sara  Pascoe
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katherine Howe rated a book it was amazing
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katherine Howe has read
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
Rate this book
Clear rating
Katherine Howe rated a book it was amazing
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Naomi Wood
Rate this book
Clear rating
More of Katherine's books…
Quotes by Katherine Howe  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.”
Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

“Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.”
Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

“She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.”
Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

Polls

Best Fiction

The Help
 
  1125 votes 17.3%

The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
 
  654 votes 10.0%

Her Fearful Symmetry
 
  321 votes 4.9%

Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)
 
  316 votes 4.9%

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
 
  309 votes 4.7%

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
 
  292 votes 4.5%

The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
 
  275 votes 4.2%

Fool
 
  232 votes 3.6%

The Magicians (The Magicians #1)
 
  228 votes 3.5%

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
 
  226 votes 3.5%

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
 
  224 votes 3.4%

Juliet, Naked
 
  206 votes 3.2%

Cutting for Stone
 
  187 votes 2.9%

The Little Stranger
 
  146 votes 2.2%

South of Broad
 
  144 votes 2.2%

The Story Sisters
 
  141 votes 2.2%

Pygmy
 
  138 votes 2.1%

Let the Great World Spin
 
  134 votes 2.1%

This is Where I Leave You
 
  130 votes 2.0%

Little Bee
 
  126 votes 1.9%

Brooklyn
 
  119 votes 1.8%

Drood
 
  107 votes 1.6%

The Children's Book
 
  104 votes 1.6%

A Reliable Wife
 
  103 votes 1.6%

A Gate at the Stairs
 
  96 votes 1.5%

The Weight of Silence
 
  91 votes 1.4%

That Old Cape Magic
 
  77 votes 1.2%

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
 
  70 votes 1.1%

Await Your Reply
 
  69 votes 1.1%

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
 
  62 votes 1.0%

The School of Essential Ingredients
 
  61 votes 0.9%

6513 total votes
More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
Get free books :-): Barnes & Noble First Look Book Disscussion Group 3 502 Mar 10, 2009 09:04PM  
Mystery/Thriller ...: Updated June 2009 Releases 7 65 May 17, 2009 08:28PM  
“In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.”
Katherine Howe, The House of Velvet and Glass

“But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.”
Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

“Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.”
Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

“She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.”
Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

“...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger. This...person -- she had a favorite food. She had friends and people she disliked. We don't even know how she died...I guess that's why I like preservation better than history. In preservation I feel like I can keep some of it from slipping away.”
Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

130327 Penguin Loves YA Book Club — 1285 members — last activity Nov 13, 2015 07:48PM
Welcome to the Penguin Teen book club! Every month we choose a title and host a guided discussion along with giveaways, spoiler threads and author Q&A ...more
140779 All About YA — 1953 members — last activity Aug 07, 2025 01:21AM
If you're looking for the perfect YA group on Goodreads, look no further! In All About YA, we cover pretty much everything that deals with the wonder ...more



No comments have been added yet.