As an official program of the Nebraska 150 Celebration and sponsored by Humanities Nebraska, the Nebraska 150 Book Selection Committee chose 150 notable Nebraska books to highlight for the Nebraska 150 Celebration. These books represent the best literature produced from Nebraska during the past 150 years and highlight the varied cultures, diverse experiences and the shared history of Nebraskans.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley)1
2
Wild Seasons: Gathering and Cooking Wild Plants of the Great Plains1
3
Strange Angels1
4
A Lantern in Her Hand (Puffin Classics)1
5
The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)1
6
My Antonia1
7
O Pioneers!1
8
One Of Ours1
9
Rain Dogs1
10
The Patient in Room 181
11
Nebraska: Stories1
12
In Reach (Flyover Fiction)1
13
Sing Them Home: A Novel1
14
A Perfect Evil (Maggie O'Dell Book 1)1
15
Dating Dead Men: A Novel (William Shakespeare's Star Wars)1
16
Goodnight, Nebraska (Vintage Contemporaries)1
17
The Home Place1
18
"Tell Me a Riddle" Tillie Olsen (Women Writers: Texts and Contexts)1
19
Nebraska Folklore (Second Edition)1
20
A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers1
21
Haven's Wake (Flyover Fiction)1
22
Best of Prairie Schooner: Fiction and Poetry1
23
Beyond the Veil of Stars1
24
The Meaning of Names1
25
The Swan Gondola: A Novel1
26
Bohemian Girl (Flyover Fiction)1
27
Hector's Bliss: Black Homesteaders at Goose Lake, Nebraska1
28
Ma Jeeter's Girls1
29
Sixteen Brides1
30
Mid Country; Writings From the Heart of America1
31
Take All to Nebraska1
32
Bag in the Wind1
33
Worth1
34
Savvy1
35
Prairie Friends (I Can Read Level 3)1
36
A Perfect Snowman1
37
Far Far Away1
38
'89 Walls1
39
Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days1
40
The House without a Christmas Tree (The Addie Mills Stories Book 1)1
41
Eleanor & Park1
42
Night of the Twisters1
43
The Rithmatist1
44
The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection1
45
Winter Thunder1
46
Sneakers.1
47
C is for Cornhusker: A Nebraska Alphabet (Discover America State by State)1
48
Little Nebraska (Little State)1
49
Standing Bear of the Ponca1
50
Pioneer Girl: A True Story of Growing Up on the Prairie1
51
Elsie's Bird1
52
Catalyst (Control Duology)1
53
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems1
54
Going North (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))1
55
Together Apart1
56
The Gift of the Sacred Dog (Reading Rainbow Book)1
57
A few great stories of the Santee people,: Told by many nineteenth century Santee and by Edna Peniska and Paul Robertson of the modern Santee1
58
Sister Sweet Ella1
59
The Red Umbrella1
60
Prairie Songs1
61
Room One: A Mystery or Two1
62
Dandelions1
63
A Guide to the Ghosts of Lincoln1
64
Simpson's Sheep Won't Go To Sleep!1
65
Billy and Blaze: A Boy and His Pony1
66
The Mystery Of Life: A Poetization Of "the Hako"--a Pawnee Ceremony...1
67
Cheyenne Line1
68
Potato Soup1
69
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Third Edition)1
70
Nebraska: This Place, These People1
71
Delights & Shadows1
72
Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry1
73
Forty Nebraska Poets1
74
Heartwood & Other Poems1
75
A Cycle of the West: The Song of Three Friends, The Song of Hugh Glass, The Song of Jed Smith, The Song of the Indian Wars, The Song of the Messiah1
76
Divine Honors (Wesleyan Poetry Series)1
77
Lost in Seward County1
78
All My Grandmothers Could Sing: Poems By Nebraska Women1
79
Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence1
80
The Niobrara: A River Running through Time1
81
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan1
82
Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting (Studies in War, Society, and the Militar) (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)1
83
Lincoln in Black and White: 1910-1925 (Images of America)1
84
When I Was a Young Man: A Memoir by Bob Kerrey1
85
This Death by Drowning1
86
Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska1
87
The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays1
88
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (American Lives)1
89
The Children's Blizzard1
90
The Lewis and Clark Journals (Abridged Edition): An American Epic of Discovery1
91
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist1
92
A Harmony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol (Great Plains Photography)1
93
Nebraska: An Illustrated History, Second Edition (Great Plains Photography)1
94
The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska–Pine Ridge Border Towns (Plains Histories)1
95
Platte Valley chronicles: Tales from Nebraska's Pioneer Trails1
96
The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide1
97
The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie (Great Plains Photography)1
98
The Nebraska Sand Hills: The Human Landscape1
99
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux1
100
More Than Football: George Flippin's Stromsburg Years1
101
Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris, Second Edition1
102
History of Nebraska1
103
More Than Winning: The Story of Tom Osborne1
104
Omaha's Trans-Mississippi Exposition1
105
The Middle of Everywhere1
106
A State of Readers Nebraska's Carnegie Libraries1
107
Standing Firmly by the Flag: Nebraska Territory and the Civil War, 1861-18671
108
Nebraska's Post Office Murals: Born of the Depression, Fostered by the New Deal1
109
Cheyenne Autumn, Second Edition1
110
Old Jules1
111
Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky (Great Plains Photography)1
112
No Time on My Hands1
113
I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice1
114
Women Elders' Life Stories of the Omaha Tribe: Macy, Nebraska, 2004-20051
115
People of the First Man: Life Among the Plains Indians in Their Final Days of Glory: The Firsthand Account of Prince Maximilian's Expedition Up the Missouri River, 1833-341
116
Being home: A collection of essays about the simple joys of family, nature, life beyond the big city, and the sacredness of the ordinary1
117
Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist1
118
It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here: Tales of the Great Plains1
119
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains1
120
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians1
121
An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians1
122
From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism1
123
Historic Railroads of Nebraska1
124
Ham, Eggs, and Corn Cake: A Nebraska Territory Diary1
125
The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska, Second Edition1
126
Dirty, Wicked Town (Omaha)1
127
Fort Robinson and the American West, 1874–18991
128
Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream1
129
The Cottonwood Tree: An American Champion1
130
Populism, Progressivism, and the Transformation of Nebraska Politics, 1885-19151
131
Mari Sandoz's Native Nebraska (NE) (Images of America)1
132
Tales of the 04 Ranch: Recollections of Harold J. Cook, 1887-19091
133
Mayor Helen Boosalis: My Mother's Life in Politics1
134
The Natural History of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1819-1820)1
135
All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life1
136
On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America (Natural History)1
137
Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989 (Women in the West)1
138
Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State1
139
Nebraska Place-Names (New Edition) by Lilian L. Fitzpatrick (1960-10-01)1
140
Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region (1919)1
141
Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen1
142
The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concepts and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art Generally, and on Appreciation1
143
In Cold Storage: Sex and Murder on the Plains (Law in the American West)1
144
Backstage: Stories from My Life in Public Television1
145
Keith County Journal1
146
A Sea of Grass: The Tall Grass Prairie1