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TALK – TALK ABOUT LITERATURE IN KANSAS BOOK DISCUSSIONS

To schedule a book series for your local library, senior center, historical society, or other Kansas nonprofit community organization, visit www.humanitieskansas.org. Questions? Abigail Kaup, [email protected], 785-357-0359.

The 1930s Civil Rights Revisited (NEW) All the King’s Men by by John Lewis The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West Book 1 • Book 2 • Book 3 Mules and Men by Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Citizen: An The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan American Lyric by Claudia Rankine The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Ad Astra: Working Hard in the Heartland Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Heartland: a Memoir of Working Hard and being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh The Civil War A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Chesnut African Experiences of Migration March by Geraldine Brooks Open City: A Novel by Teju Cole The March by E.L. Doctorow Heights by Miral al-Tahawy The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu Coming of Age in Rural America A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder by Ishmael Beah Good Land by Bruce Bair What Is the What by Dave Eggers Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes Winter After the Fact (NEW) Wheat by Mildred Walker The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brian Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Community: The Way We Live The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Bailey’s Cafe by Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Award Winners Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Alice McDermott by Fannie Flagg by The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols by Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Contemporary Immigration Before the Civil War Breath, Eyes, Memory by The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Caramelo by by Harbor by Lorraine Adams John Brown: The Legend Revisited by Typical American by Gish Jen Merrill D. Peterson Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Waterlily by Dearly (NEW) Ella Cara Deloria Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande Between Fences Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston by Roz Chast and James D. Houston Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese Fences by The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle Encountering Asia The Wire-Cutters by Mollie E. Moore Davis An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert Van Gulik Beyond the Border: Latino Immigration Experiences Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream: True Tales of by Mexican Migration by Sam Quinones The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea Entangled World I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Bel Canto by Anne Patchett Sánchez People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje Childhood Classics Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl The Exile’s Place Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling The Namesake by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis A Things I’ve Been Silent About by Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Brick Lane by Monica Ali Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor The Wind in the Willows by Food for Thought Living with the Land by by Pearl S. Buck Epitaph for a Peach by David Mas Masumoto Miriam’s Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen Kitchen by Elizabeth Ehrlich Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Secrets of the Tsil Café by Thomas Fox Averill by

Faiths in Fiction: World Faiths Middle Eastern Culture and Society Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Rifaat Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin Land by Donna Rosenthal Harp of Burma by Michio Takeyama My Prison, My : One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya Iran by Haleh Esfandiari Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany

Friends and Neighbors (NEW) The Modern Family (NEW) A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman The Burgess Boys by Five Skies by Ron Carlson Family Man by Elinor Lipman The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears LaRose by by Dinaw Mengestu Native American Mysteries Ghost Stories (NEW) DreadfulWater Shows Up by Hartley Goodweather Dance The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson for the Dead by Thomas Perry The Woman in Black by Susan Hill Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman The Ghost Walker by Margaret Coel

The Great Plains Spirit On the Lighter Side The Bones of Plenty by Lois Hudson How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life Great Plains by Ian Frazier by Mameve Medwed Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder O Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White Pioneers! by Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton and Other Tales by Roger Welsch That’s Funny: Books that Make Us Laugh Growing Up The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time I’m a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson by Mark Haddon In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of My Last Days as Roy Rogers by Southern Living by Bailey White The Mammy by Pat Cunningham Devoto Brendan O’Carroll The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Urban Indians Growing Up American Bone Game by Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Grass Dancer by Susan Power Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Tracks by Louise Erdrich Ruth Reichl by Westering by Hispanic Heritage: Mothers, Sisters, and Daughters A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird The Brand New Memory by Elias Miguel Muñoz Esperanza’s Last Cattle Drive by Robert Day Box of Saints by Letters of a Woman Homesteader by María Amparo Escandón Elinore Pruitt Stewart The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Wit and Grit: Women Characters in Contemporary Fiction (NEW) It’s a Hard Knock Life (NEW) A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman Women Around the World Kansas at 150 The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O’Brien It Happened in Kansas by Sarah Smarsh The House of the Spirits by Kansas Poems of William Stafford by Denise Low Now Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Let Me Fly by Marcia Cebulska None to Accompany Me by Nadine Gordimer Ordinary Genius by Thomas Fox Averill So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ

Literature with Kansas Connections World War II Generation The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert One Soldier’s Story by Bob Dole Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson by When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe Thomas Fox Averill