Kansas recognizes notable authors for literary contributions

Story by 49 News Report

4:25 p.m. Tuesday, September 2, 2008

A list of the top 15 most notable books in Kansas was released today.

A committee of the Kansas Center For the Book is responsible for identifying the titles to forward to the State Librarian for final decision. This year’s Kansas Notable Books selection committee included representatives from academic, public and regional libraries, authors, booksellers, publishers, and the media.

The alphabetical list by title of the 2008 Kansas Notable Books follow:

  1. American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China, by Matthew Polly
  2. The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians, Brad Sneed, illustrator
  3. Can I Keep My Jersey? 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond, by Paul Shirley
  4. The Curse of Catunkhamun, by Tim Raglin
  5. The Farther Shore, by Matthew Eck
  6. From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White, by Beverley O. Buller
  7. Hellfire Canyon, by Max McCoy
  8. Hunger for the Wild: America’s Obsession with the Untamed West, by Michael L. Johnson
  9. The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007, by Albert Goldbarth
  10. A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution, by David A. Nichols
  11. The Middle of Somewhere, by J. B. Cheaney
  12. The Rest of Her Life, by Laura Moriarty
  13. Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep, by Michael J. Everhart
  14. Storm Chaser: A Photographer’s Journey, by Jim Reed
  15. Writing in an Age of Silence, by Sara Paretsky

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