Missoula Reads

And It Will Be a Beautiful Life by Craig Lancaster

Aviary by Dierdre McNamer

Backtracking In Memory by Nancy Cooper Russell

Bison: Portrait of an Icon by Audrey Hall and Chase Ewald

Bitterroot Lake by Alicia Beckman

Blood is Not the Water by Mara Panich

Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana by Abraham Streep

Carry Me Home by Janet Fox

Center of Everything by Jamie Harrison

Commendable Discretion by J. Hoolihan Clayton

Dark and Light Verse by Allen Lee Ireland

Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven

Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World by Mary Clare and Gary Ferguson

Full Mag: Veteran Stories Illustrated by Brian Prahl, et al

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America by Ryan Busse

Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams

Hits, Heathens and Hippos by Marty Essen

Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John Maclean

In the Weeds by Mark Gibbons

Inside Passage by Keema Waterfield

Jack Horner, Dinosaur Hunter! by Sophia Gholz

Legend Keepers by Bruce Smith

Maddie McDowell and the Rodeo Robbery by Luann M. Rod

Montana History for Kids in 50 Objects by Steph Lehmann

Out of the Water by Ann Marie Stewart

Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male by Rick McIntyre

Remarkable Cause by Jean C. O’Connor

Ridgeline by Michael Punke

Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson

Secret Life: An Adaptation of a Story by Jeff VanderMeer by Theo Ellsworth

Sounds of Home by Debbie Boyle

Spring: A Mythic Memoir by Annie Connole

Stone Sister by Caroline Patterson

SunAlaska by Cinzia Dal Lago

We March at Midnight: A War Memoir by Ray McPadden

Wild Man by Charles Alexander

Years Beyond the River by David Axelrod

You Belong Here Now by Dianna Rostad

The Arm: Inside the Billion-dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Passan

Buddha’s Little Finger by Viktor Pelevin

Golden Arm by Carl Deuker

Hand Raised: The Barns of Montana by Chere Jiusto

Head Case: My Brain and Other Wonders by Cole Cohen

Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein

The Hundred-foot Journey by Richard C. Morais

Murder at Five Finger Light by Sue Henry

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert MacFarlane

One Foot in the Grove by Kelly Lane

Red Right Hand by Chris F. Holm

Sun on My Head: Stories by Geovani Martins

Traveling on One Leg by Herta Müller

Where the Trout are as Long as Your Leg by John Gierach

The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders by Marshall Browne

World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

For a current list of the library’s book chat bag selections, please visit https://www.missoulapubliclibrary.org/home/collections/book-kits/

Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer

The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke

The Explorers Guild by Kevin Costner and John Baird

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward

Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices by various authors

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst

Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza

The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

The City & the City by China Miéville

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris by Holly Tucker

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

Fifty Fifty by James Patterson

Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane

How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Life After Life by Jill McCorkle

Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire

Never Never by James Patterson

One Plus One by Jojo Moyes

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald

Time and Time Again by Ben Elton

Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green

After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau

American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

Family Life by Akhil Sharma

A Free Life by Ha Jin

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 by Jia Lynn Yang

Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

An instant classic is any recent publication (within the last ten years or so) that you believe will become an enduring classic.

No, you don’t have to read an atlas for this category (though you could, if you really wanted to). Any book that includes maps, is about maps, or features maps as an integral part of the plot will satisfy this category.

The Dewey Decimal call number for Natural Sciences is 500. It includes subjects such as Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Paleontology, Biology, Botany and Zoology.

Over the Rainbow books exhibit commendable literary quality and significant authentic LGBTQIA+ content. The books are reviewed and annual lists compiled by the American Library Association’s Rainbow Roundtable. For a complete list of longlisted titles, please visit https://www.glbtrt.ala.org/overtherainbow/archives/category/final-bibliographies.

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary explains that the picaresque novel “centers around a wandering individual of low standing who happens into a series of adventures among people of various higher classes, often relying on his wits and a little dishonesty to get by.” Now doesn’t that sound like fun?

All My Friends are Going to be Strangers by Larry McMurtry

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Baudolino by Umberto Eco

Candide by Voltaire

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The History of Thomas Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Ulysses by James Joyce

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball by Stefan Kanfer

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

A Field Guide to Redheads by Elizabeth Graeber

If This was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth by Barbara Learning

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Red: A History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey

The Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning, and Sexual Power of Red Hair by Marion Roach

The Rosie Project by Don Tillman

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

The Cold Song by Linn Ullmann

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón

My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci

My Friend Natalia by Laura Lindstedt

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

Purge by Sofi Oksanen

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

True by Riikka Pulkkinen

Valerie, or, The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg

We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen

Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason

The Dewey Decimal call number for Social Sciences is 300. It includes subjects such as Social Groups, Culture & Institutions, Political Science, Civil Rights, Economics, Law, and Social Welfare.

America 1844: Religious Fervor, Westward Expansion, and the Presidential Election that Transformed the Nation by John Bicknell

As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart by Clyde A. Milner II

The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States by William Loren Katz

The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin

City of Rocks: A Western Story by Michael Zimmer

Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World by Robert D. Kaplan

The Hunger by Alma Katsu

Inland by Téa Obreht

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen

Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion by Robert Morgan

Manifest Destinies: American’s Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth

New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story by Winifred Gallagher

One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough

The Removes by Tatjana Soli

Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival by Matthew P. Mayo

Visit https://taleaway.com/category/books/ and chose a book set in a faraway place.