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2004—If All of Rochester Read the Same Book…

Related Books of Interest

Youthful narrators/protagonists

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Literature of the American West/Midwest

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

The Best of Edward Abbey

The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy

A Can of Peas by Traci DePree

Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx

Crossing Open Ground by Barry Lopez

Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris

Fencing the Sky by James Galvin

In the Loyal Mountains by Rick Bass

Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor

Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor

Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams

A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West by Larry McMurtry

The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich

Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg

Westerns

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen

The Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry

The Bounty Hunters by Elmore Leonard

Desperadoes by Ron Hansen

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Gray

Shane by Jack Schaefer

Valdez Is Coming by Elmore Leonard

Cowboy Poetry and Western Ballads

A Cowful of Cowboy Poetry by Baxter Black, et. al.

American Ballads and Folk Songs by John A. Lomax

Coyote Cowboy Poetry by Baxter Black, et. al.

New Cowboy Poetry: A Contemporary Gathering edited by Hal Cannon


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"If All of Rochester Read the Same Book..."

2002: The Sweet Hereafter

2003: Kindred

2004: Peace Like a River

2005: Servants of the Map

2006: Name All the Animals

2007: Buffalo Soldier

2008: Hope and Other Dangerous Persuits

2009: Jim the Boy

2010: Bel Canto

2011: The Good Thief


 

Support for “If All of Rochester Read the Same Book…” comes from The New York State Council on the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts. Local support provided by Flower City Printing; The Fred and Floy Willmott Foundation; and Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor and Wilson, LLP.