Reading Wyoming Current Series

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

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 Canán 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

Other Worlds

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin

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