Kansas Notable Books 2012-2017

1.
Fast-Food Sonnets
Fast-Food Sonnets 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
2.
Ghost Sign: Poems from White Buffalo
Ghost Sign: Poems from White Buffalo 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
3.
Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future
Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future 3.90 avg rating — 233 ratings
4.
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill 4.11 avg rating — 16,990 ratings
5.
Hurt People
Hurt People 3.49 avg rating — 394 ratings
6.
Ioway Life: Reservation and Reform, 1837–1860 (Volume 275) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Ioway Life: Reservation and Reform, 1837–1860 (Volume 275) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
7.
The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes
The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes 4.35 avg rating — 103 ratings
8.
Lost and Gone Forever (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #5)
Lost and Gone Forever (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #5) 3.92 avg rating — 2,341 ratings
9.
The Memory of Lemon
The Memory of Lemon 3.57 avg rating — 992 ratings
10.
Mike Torrez: A Baseball Biography
Mike Torrez: A Baseball Biography 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
11.
A Nest of Hornets (Gideon Hawke #3)
A Nest of Hornets (Gideon Hawke #3) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
12.
Never Enough Flamingos
Never Enough Flamingos 4.13 avg rating — 113 ratings
13.
Phog: The Most Influential Man in Basketball
Phog: The Most Influential Man in Basketball really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings
14.
Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West
Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West 4.02 avg rating — 195 ratings
15.
The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century
The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
16.
Alphabet School
Alphabet School 3.47 avg rating — 174 ratings
17.
A Bitter Magic
A Bitter Magic 3.82 avg rating — 88 ratings
18.
Bottled: A Mom's Guide to Early Recovery
Bottled: A Mom's Guide to Early Recovery 4.04 avg rating — 194 ratings
19.
The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill: Growing Up Billy Cody in Bleeding Kansas
The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill: Growing Up Billy Cody in Bleeding Kansas 4.23 avg rating — 151 ratings
20.
Diary of a Waitress: The Not-So-Glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl
Diary of a Waitress: The Not-So-Glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl 3.88 avg rating — 462 ratings
21.
For the Sake of Art: The Story of Kansas Renaissance
For the Sake of Art: The Story of Kansas Renaissance it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
22.
Harvey Houses of Kansas: Historic Hospitality from Topeka to Syracuse
Harvey Houses of Kansas: Historic Hospitality from Topeka to Syracuse 3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings
23.
Kansas Trail Guide: The Best Hiking, Biking, and Riding in the Sunflower State
Kansas Trail Guide: The Best Hiking, Biking, and Riding in the Sunflower State really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
24.
Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds
Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
25.
The Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth
The Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth 3.64 avg rating — 181 ratings
26.
Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters
Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters 3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
27.
Sun and Moon
Sun and Moon 4.10 avg rating — 319 ratings
28.
To Leave a Shadow
To Leave a Shadow 3.76 avg rating — 42 ratings
29.
Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo: A Frontier Memoir
Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo: A Frontier Memoir 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
30.
While the Kettle's On
While the Kettle's On 4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
31.
Ad Astra: 161 Adventurers, Astronauts, Discoverers, Explorers, Pilots, Pioneers, Scientists (999 Kansas Characters: A Biographical Series)
Ad Astra: 161 Adventurers, Astronauts, Discoverers, Explorers, Pilots, Pioneers, Scientists (999 Kansas Characters: A Biographical Series)
by: Dave Webb
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
32.
Bluebird
Bluebird 3.83 avg rating — 238 ratings
33.
A Carol Dickens Christmas: A Novel
A Carol Dickens Christmas: A Novel 3.86 avg rating — 66 ratings
34.
Chasing Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests, and Thunderous Skies in Word & Image
Chasing Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests, and Thunderous Skies in Word & Image 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
35.
The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–1873 (Volume 273) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–1873 (Volume 273) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
36.
The Devil's Workshop (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #3)
The Devil's Workshop (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #3) 3.81 avg rating — 4,464 ratings
37.
Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska
Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
38.
Girl in Reverse
Girl in Reverse 3.63 avg rating — 560 ratings
39.
Kansas Relays
Kansas Relays 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
40.
Michael Pearce's Taste of the Kansas Outdoors Cookbook
Michael Pearce's Taste of the Kansas Outdoors Cookbook 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
41.
Music I Once Could Dance To
Music I Once Could Dance To it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
42.
The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning
The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning 3.52 avg rating — 359 ratings
43.
Railroad Empire across the Heartland: Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey
Railroad Empire across the Heartland: Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
44.
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit (Volume 47) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit (Volume 47) (Campaigns and Commanders Series) 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
45.
Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Essays
Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Essays 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
46.
Biting through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland
Biting through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland 3.76 avg rating — 62 ratings
47.
The Black Country (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #2)
The Black Country (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #2) 3.74 avg rating — 7,300 ratings
48.
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border 3.74 avg rating — 53 ratings
49.
Dragging Wyatt Earp: A Personal History of Dodge City
Dragging Wyatt Earp: A Personal History of Dodge City 4.05 avg rating — 55 ratings
50.
Echoes from the Prairie: A Collection of Short Memoirs
Echoes from the Prairie: A Collection of Short Memoirs 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
51.
Edmund G. Ross: Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist
Edmund G. Ross: Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
52.
The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird 3.95 avg rating — 37,226 ratings
53.
Navigating Early
Navigating Early 4.08 avg rating — 15,661 ratings
54.
Needle in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor and a Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other
Needle in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor and a Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
55.
Of Grave Concern (An Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery, #1)
Of Grave Concern (An Ophelia Wylde Paranormal Mystery, #1)
by: Max McCoy
3.41 avg rating — 464 ratings
56.
Teatime to Tailgates: 150 Years at the K-State Table
Teatime to Tailgates: 150 Years at the K-State Table really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
57.
The Thing About Luck
The Thing About Luck 3.68 avg rating — 5,334 ratings
58.
The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism
The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings
59.
Worth the Pain: How Meningitis Nearly Killed Me — Then Changed My Life for the Better
Worth the Pain: How Meningitis Nearly Killed Me — Then Changed My Life for the Better 4.58 avg rating — 33 ratings
60.
The Adventures of Beanboy (Beanboy, #1)
The Adventures of Beanboy (Beanboy, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 857 ratings
61.
Beyond Cold Blood: The KBI from Ma Barker to BTK
Beyond Cold Blood: The KBI from Ma Barker to BTK 3.59 avg rating — 54 ratings
62.
The Chaperone
The Chaperone 3.88 avg rating — 63,775 ratings
63.
The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History
The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History 4.35 avg rating — 694 ratings
64.
Eisenhower in War and Peace
Eisenhower in War and Peace 4.08 avg rating — 11,057 ratings
65.
Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854-1894
Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854-1894 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
66.
A Kansas Bestiary
A Kansas Bestiary
by: Jake Vail
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
67.
May B.
May B. 3.84 avg rating — 6,218 ratings
68.
This Ecstasy They Call Damnation
This Ecstasy They Call Damnation it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
69.
To the Stars Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices
To the Stars Through Difficulties: A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
70.
A Voice for Kanzas
A Voice for Kanzas 4.18 avg rating — 51 ratings
71.
Wide Open
Wide Open 4.10 avg rating — 281 ratings
72.
The Yard (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #1)
The Yard (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 16,922 ratings
73.
8 Wonders of Kansas Guidebook
8 Wonders of Kansas Guidebook 4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings
74.
The Afterlives of Trees
The Afterlives of Trees 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
75.
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart 3.82 avg rating — 8,131 ratings
76.
Bent Road
Bent Road
by: Lori Roy
3.50 avg rating — 3,986 ratings
77.
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President 4.22 avg rating — 81,277 ratings
78.
Doc
Doc really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,363 ratings
79.
The Door in the Forest
The Door in the Forest 3.56 avg rating — 161 ratings
80.
Liar's Moon (Thief Errant, #2)
Liar's Moon (Thief Errant, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 3,249 ratings
81.
My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas
My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas 3.74 avg rating — 58 ratings
82.
The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory
The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
83.
Osa and Martin: For The Love Of Adventure
Osa and Martin: For The Love Of Adventure 3.56 avg rating — 62 ratings
84.
Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History
Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History 3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings
85.
Rode
Rode 3.85 avg rating — 98 ratings
86.
Send Me Work: Stories
Send Me Work: Stories 3.92 avg rating — 38 ratings
87.
Tapped Out: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martial Arts
Tapped Out: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martial Arts 3.88 avg rating — 268 ratings