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  • Katie Powner The best books about small towns with big hearts Book cover of A Piece of the Moon Book cover of The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland Book cover of At Home in Mitford Book cover of This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind Book cover of Lead Me Home
  • Harper Ford The best books with beautifully sad love stories Book cover of Ethan Frome Book cover of Atonement Book cover of Cold Mountain Book cover of The Blind Assassin Book cover of Wuthering Heights
  • Jennie Liu The best books about boys for middle graders whose reading is falling off Book cover of My Side of the Mountain Book cover of A First Time for Everything Book cover of Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Book cover of Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995 Book cover of Ghost
  • Jo Watson Hackl The best children’s books to inspire curiosity and exploration (and are great read-alouds too) Book cover of My Side of the Mountain Book cover of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Book cover of Gregor the Overlander Book cover of Holes Book cover of The Maze of Bones
  • Henry G. Brinton The best civil war novels and histories that expose the tensions of the world today Book cover of Cold Mountain Book cover of The Water Dancer Book cover of A Chain of Thunder Book cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War Book cover of Trouble The Water
  • Elizabeth Baines The best books about someone fighting to overcome the legacy of their parents’ past Book cover of All My Puny Sorrows Book cover of Austerlitz Book cover of The Gathering Book cover of Amongst Women Book cover of Wuthering Heights
  • Mary Stockwell The best books on the history of the American West Book cover of The European Discovery of America: Volume 1: The Northern Voyages A.D. 500-1600 Book cover of Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier Book cover of The Frontiersmen Book cover of The Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance Book cover of The Grapes of Wrath
  • Dan Henk The best speculative fiction novels (because any one genre is way too limiting) Book cover of Lucifer's Hammer Book cover of At the Mountains of Madness Book cover of Old Man's War Book cover of Watchmen Book cover of The Grapes of Wrath
  • Justin Martin The best fiction books for experiencing the vivid reality of the Civil War Book cover of The Red Badge of Courage Book cover of Cold Mountain Book cover of Gone With the Wind Book cover of The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Book cover of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
  • Mark Warren Mark Warren's favorite novels about a child’s immersion into wilderness Book cover of My Side of the Mountain Book cover of The Tongues of Angels Book cover of Lord of the Flies Book cover of Hatchet Book cover of Early Autumn
  • Martine Murray The best books in which the natural world is the lifeblood of the story Book cover of Moominpappa at Sea Book cover of Swallows and Amazons Book cover of Wildwood Book cover of My Side of the Mountain Book cover of The Secret Garden
  • Christine Carbo The best crime books that won’t have you skipping description (to get to plot) Book cover of Mystic River Book cover of Winter's Bone Book cover of The Secret History Book cover of Faith Book cover of Where the Crawdads Sing
  • Rae Meadows The best books that will take you into the heart of the Dust Bowl Book cover of An Owl on Every Post Book cover of The Grapes of Wrath Book cover of Letters from the Dust Bowl Book cover of An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion Book cover of Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field
  • Aimee Hoben The best novels about activism to inspire and mobilize Book cover of Prodigal Summer Book cover of Hot Season Book cover of The Monkey Wrench Gang Book cover of A Civil Action Book cover of Dress Coded
  • Jonell Joshua The best books that explore love, childhood, and profound family stories Book cover of Memories of Summer Book cover of Hey, Kiddo Book cover of Crying in H Mart Book cover of Becoming Book cover of All About Love: New Visions
  • Emily Grandy The best books to help reconnect with the natural world Book cover of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Book cover of Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape Book cover of Prodigal Summer Book cover of The Dolphin House Book cover of The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
  • Carl Vonderau The best thrillers that are as much about family as danger Book cover of Winter's Bone Book cover of A Perfect Spy Book cover of The Godfather Book cover of Razorblade Tears Book cover of The Silence of the Lambs
  • Amanda L. Van Lanen The best books that will change the way you think about food and agriculture Book cover of Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South Book cover of Harvesting History: McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery Book cover of Whose Names Are Unknown Book cover of 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement Book cover of What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
  • Tony Fry The best books to understand the current dynamics of the state of the world Book cover of States of Shock: Stupidity and Knowledge in the 21st Century Book cover of On the Universal: The Uniform, the Common and Dialogue between Cultures Book cover of The Ends of the World Book cover of The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia Book cover of In the Country of Last Things
  • Jeff Provine The best books showing the hidden struggles of Oklahomans Book cover of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Book cover of And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes Book cover of Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis Book cover of The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Book cover of The Grapes of Wrath
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