 Reading Wyoming Series
Create Your Own Series
Mix and match four books from the list below to create your own series. The series must have a justifiable theme, i.e. New Mexico (Death Comes for the Archbishop, Bless Me Ultima, House of Houses, House Made of Dawn).
Books That Endure: Classic Studies of Human Relationships
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
Canine Companions: Memoirs About the Relationship Between Dog and Man
Merle's Door by Ted Kerasote
Winterdance by Gary Paulsen
Travels with Lizbeth by Lars Eighner
My Dog Skip by Willie Morris
Classic Views of American Life: Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Fiction
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Community and the Western Landscape
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs by Wallace Stegner
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
River Song by Craig Lesley
Refuge, An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
Crime and the Cultural Landscape
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Devices and Desires by P.D. James
Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman
Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
Distant Neighbors: Twentieth-Century Mexican Literature
The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
The Nine Guardians by Rosario Castellanos
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Tula Station by David Toscana
Lovesick by Angeles Mastretta
Hectic Ethics by Francisco Hinojosa
Los de Abajo del Mariano Azuela
Balún Cann del Rosario Castellanos
Como Agua Para Chocolate del Laura Esquivel
Mal de Amores del Angeles Mastretta
Family Photographs: Relationships Among the Generations
Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley
Bone by Fae Myenne Ng
Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
Living Between Fences
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyer
Living With Violence: Conflict and Community in Contemporary Cultures
Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevich
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Many Americas
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled by Nancy Mairs
Always Running: La Vida Loca-Gang Days in L.A. by Luis Rodriguez
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olin Butler
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Mirror, Mirror--The American Family on Stage in the Twentieth Century
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
Buried Child by Sam Shepard
Fences by August Wilson
On The Road
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Junky by William S. Burroughs
Ordinary Lives: Memoirs of American Women
Bronx Primitive by Kate Simon
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
House of Houses by Pat Mora
All But the Waltz by Mary Clearman Blew
Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage by Madeleine L'Engle
Rural in America
The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry
A Painted House by John Grisham
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
The Egg and I by Betty McDonald
That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker
Women of Mystery
"F" is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton
The Shape of Dread by Marcia Muller
Tunnel Vision by Sara Paretsky
video: Women of Mystery: Three Writers Who Forever Changed Detective Fiction
Writing Wyoming
Deep West
Rising from the Plains by John McPhee
Close Range by Annie Proulx
What You See in Clear Water by Geoff O'Gara
Windmill: Essays from Four Mile Ranch by David Romtvedt
Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg Last Updated on 9/15/2009 4:11:39 PM | 
