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.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley)1
Wild Seasons: Gathering and Cooking Wild Plants of the Great Plains1
Strange Angels1
A Lantern in Her Hand (Puffin Classics)1
The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)1
My Antonia1
O Pioneers!1
One Of Ours1
Rain Dogs1
The Patient in Room 181
Nebraska: Stories1
In Reach (Flyover Fiction)1
Sing Them Home: A Novel1
A Perfect Evil (Maggie O'Dell Book 1)1
Dating Dead Men: A Novel (William Shakespeare's Star Wars)1
Goodnight, Nebraska (Vintage Contemporaries)1
The Home Place1
"Tell Me a Riddle" Tillie Olsen (Women Writers: Texts and Contexts)1
Nebraska Folklore (Second Edition)1
A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers1
Haven's Wake (Flyover Fiction)1
Best of Prairie Schooner: Fiction and Poetry1
Beyond the Veil of Stars1
The Meaning of Names1
The Swan Gondola: A Novel1
Bohemian Girl (Flyover Fiction)1
Hector's Bliss: Black Homesteaders at Goose Lake, Nebraska1
Ma Jeeter's Girls1
Sixteen Brides1
Mid Country; Writings From the Heart of America1
Take All to Nebraska1
Bag in the Wind1
Worth1
Savvy1
Prairie Friends (I Can Read Level 3)1
A Perfect Snowman1
Far Far Away1
'89 Walls1
Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska's Pioneer Days1
The House without a Christmas Tree (The Addie Mills Stories Book 1)1
Eleanor & Park1
Night of the Twisters1
The Rithmatist1
The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection1
Winter Thunder1
Sneakers.1
C is for Cornhusker: A Nebraska Alphabet (Discover America State by State)1
Little Nebraska (Little State)1
Standing Bear of the Ponca1
Pioneer Girl: A True Story of Growing Up on the Prairie1
Elsie's Bird1
Catalyst (Control Duology)1
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems1
Going North (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))1
Together Apart1
The Gift of the Sacred Dog (Reading Rainbow Book)1
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
Sister Sweet Ella1
The Red Umbrella1
Prairie Songs1
Room One: A Mystery or Two1
Dandelions1
A Guide to the Ghosts of Lincoln1
Simpson's Sheep Won't Go To Sleep!1
Billy and Blaze: A Boy and His Pony1
The Mystery Of Life: A Poetization Of "the Hako"--a Pawnee Ceremony...1
Cheyenne Line1
Potato Soup1
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Third Edition)1
Nebraska: This Place, These People1
Delights & Shadows1
Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry1
Forty Nebraska Poets1
Heartwood & Other Poems1
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
Divine Honors (Wesleyan Poetry Series)1
Lost in Seward County1
All My Grandmothers Could Sing: Poems By Nebraska Women1
Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence1
The Niobrara: A River Running through Time1
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan1
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
Lincoln in Black and White: 1910-1925 (Images of America)1
When I Was a Young Man: A Memoir by Bob Kerrey1
This Death by Drowning1
Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska1
The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays1
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (American Lives)1
The Children's Blizzard1
The Lewis and Clark Journals (Abridged Edition): An American Epic of Discovery1
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist1
A Harmony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol (Great Plains Photography)1
Nebraska: An Illustrated History, Second Edition (Great Plains Photography)1
The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska–Pine Ridge Border Towns (Plains Histories)1
Platte Valley chronicles: Tales from Nebraska's Pioneer Trails1
The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide1
The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie (Great Plains Photography)1
The Nebraska Sand Hills: The Human Landscape1
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux1
More Than Football: George Flippin's Stromsburg Years1
Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris, Second Edition1
History of Nebraska1
More Than Winning: The Story of Tom Osborne1
Omaha's Trans-Mississippi Exposition1
The Middle of Everywhere1
A State of Readers Nebraska's Carnegie Libraries1
Standing Firmly by the Flag: Nebraska Territory and the Civil War, 1861-18671
Nebraska's Post Office Murals: Born of the Depression, Fostered by the New Deal1
Cheyenne Autumn, Second Edition1
Old Jules1
Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky (Great Plains Photography)1
No Time on My Hands1
I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice1
Women Elders' Life Stories of the Omaha Tribe: Macy, Nebraska, 2004-20051
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
Being home: A collection of essays about the simple joys of family, nature, life beyond the big city, and the sacredness of the ordinary1
Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist1
It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here: Tales of the Great Plains1
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains1
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians1
An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians1
From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism1
Historic Railroads of Nebraska1
Ham, Eggs, and Corn Cake: A Nebraska Territory Diary1
The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska, Second Edition1
Dirty, Wicked Town (Omaha)1
Fort Robinson and the American West, 1874–18991
Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream1
The Cottonwood Tree: An American Champion1
Populism, Progressivism, and the Transformation of Nebraska Politics, 1885-19151
Mari Sandoz's Native Nebraska (NE) (Images of America)1
Tales of the 04 Ranch: Recollections of Harold J. Cook, 1887-19091
Mayor Helen Boosalis: My Mother's Life in Politics1
The Natural History of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1819-1820)1
All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life1
On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America (Natural History)1
Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989 (Women in the West)1
Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State1
Nebraska Place-Names (New Edition) by Lilian L. Fitzpatrick (1960-10-01)1
Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region (1919)1
Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen1
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
In Cold Storage: Sex and Murder on the Plains (Law in the American West)1
Backstage: Stories from My Life in Public Television1
Keith County Journal1
A Sea of Grass: The Tall Grass Prairie1