2024 Great Reads for Adults

Happy Memorial Day! Hope you are having a nice weekend and enjoying a good book.

Did you see the Library of Congress's recommendation list?

The 2024 Great Reads for Adults are:

• Alabama: R. Scot Duncan, “Southern Rivers: Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity”
• Alaska: Melinda Moustakis, “Homestead: A Novel”
• American Samoa: Karen Wheat, “Pictures of Change in Paradise in American Samoa”
• Arizona: Melissa L Sevigny, “Brave the Wild River”
• Arkansas: Eli Cranor, “Ozark Dogs”
• California: Rosanna Xia, “California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline”
• Colorado: Vauhini Vara, “The Immortal King Rao”
• Connecticut: Ned Blackhawk, “The Rediscovery of America”
• Delaware: Marisa de los Santos, “I'd Give Anything: A Novel”
• District of Columbia: Nikki Payne, “Pride and Protest”
• Florida: Rebecca Renner, “Gator Country: Deception, Danger and Alligators in the Everglades”
• Georgia: David Bottoms, “A Scrap in the Blessings Jar: New and Selected Poems”
• Guam: Oliver Sacks, “The Island of the Colorblind”
• Hawaii: Mindy Pennybacker, “Surfing Sisterhood Hawaii: Wahine Reclaiming the Waves”
• Idaho: Jenny Tinghui Zhang, “Four Treasures of the Sky”
• Illinois: Jonathan Eig, “King: A Life”
• Indiana: Kaveh Akbar, “Martyr!”
• Iowa: Chris Jones,“The Swine Republic: Struggles With the Truth About Agriculture and Water Quality”
• Kansas: Susan Jonusas,“Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier”
• Kentucky: Crystal Wilkinson, “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks”
• Louisiana: Maurice Carlos Ruffin, “The American Daughters”
• Maine: Marpheen Chan, “Moon In Full: A Coming of Age and Coming Out Story”
• Maryland: Susan Muaddi Darraj, “Behind You Is the Sea”
• Massachusetts: Tracy Kidder, “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People”
• Michigan: Dan Charnas,“Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, The Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm”
• Minnesota: Mona Susan Power,“Council of Dolls”
• Mississippi: Ellen Ann Fentress,“The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning
• Missouri: Desideria Mesa,“Bindle Punk Bruja”
• Montana: Debra Magpie Earling, “The Lost Journals of Sacajewea”
• Nebraska: Debora Harding, “Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime”
• Nevada: Kim Foster, “The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City”
• New Hampshire: Nancy Clark: “The Hills at Home”
• New Jersey: Darnell L. Moore, “No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America”
• New Mexico: Darynda Jones, “Bad Day for Sunshine”
• New York: J.D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye”
• North Carolina: David Joy, “Those We Thought We Knew”
• North Dakota: Jill Kandel, “The Clean Daughter: A Cross-Continental Memoir”
• Northern Marianas: Lino Olopai, “The Rope of Tradition: Reflections of a Saipan Carolinian”
• Ohio: Timothy G. Anderson and Brian Schoen (editors), “Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond”
• Oklahoma: Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer, “Otis W. Leader: The Ideal American Doughboy”
• Oregon: Kim Johnson, “Invisible Son”
• Pennsylvania: Leon Ford (with Jeffery Renard Allen),“An Unspeakable Hope: Brutality, Forgiveness and Building a Better Future for My Son”
• Puerto Rico: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, “A Woman of Endurance” (English version) / “Indómita” (Spanish version)
• Rhode Island: Vanessa Lillie, “Blood Sisters”
• South Caroline: Robert Maynor, “The Big Game Is Every Night”
• South Dakota: Trent Preszler, “Little and Often: A Memoir”
• Tennessee: Major Jackson, “Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022”
• Texas: Elizabeth Crook, “The Which Way Tree”
• U.S. Virgin Islands: Caldwell Trumbull, “The Lesson”
• Utah: Stacie Shannon Denetsosie,“The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories”
• Vermont: Kenneth M. Cadow, “Gather”
• Virginia: Mojgan Ghazirad, “The House on Sun Street”
• Washington: Matika Wilbur, “Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America”
• West Virginia: Marc Harshman, “Following the Silence”
• Wisconsin: Thomas Pecore Weso, “Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook”
• Wyoming: Michael Punke, “Ridgeline”

 

Happy Reading!