2016 books by Arkansas authors or about the Natural State
Enter Helen
The Invention of Helen
Gurley Brown and the Rise of
the Modern Single Woman
Copyright © 2016
by Brooke Hauser
Harper Books
Nonfi ction
Down and Dirty
Down South
Copyright © 2016
by Roger Glasgow
Butler Center Books
Nonfi ction
Boy Erased: A Memoir
Copyright © 2016
by Garrard Conley
Riverhead Books
Nonfi ction
Notable Women of
Arkansas
Copyright © 2016
by Nancy Hendricks
Butler Center Books
Nonfi ction
Bare Bones: I’m Not Lonely
If You’re Reading This Book
By Bobby Bones
Copyright © 2016
by Austin Bones, Inc.
Dey St. Books
Nonfi ction
Mourner’s Bench: A
Novel
By Sanderia Faye
Copyright © 2015
by The University of
Arkansas Press
Fiction
A Rare Quality of Light:
40 Years of Wilderness
Photography
Copyright © 2015
by Tim Ernst
Cloudland Publishing
Nonfi ction
Inside the Arkansas
Legislature
Copyright © 2015
by Bill “Scoop” Lancaster
Xlibris
Nonfi ction
A Captive Audience
Edited by Ali Welky
Copyright © 2015
by Ali Welky
Butler Center Books
Young Adult Nonfi ction
Inclusion of books on this list does not constitute an endorsement by the Arkansas State Library or the Arkansas Center for the Book.
Foreign Devils
Copyright © 2015
by John Hornor Jacobs
Gollanze
Young Adult Fiction
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The Coming: A Novel
Copyright © 2015
by Daniel Black
St. Martin’s Press
Fiction
Stars of the Rock ‘N’
Roll Highway
Copyright © 2016
by Victoria Micklish
Pasmore
Plum Street Publishers, Inc.
Young Adult Nonfi ction
Soul Serenade: Rhythm,
Blues and Coming of Age
Through Vinyl
Copyright © 2016
by Rashod Ollison
Beacon Press
Nonfi ction
Petit Jean: A Wilderness
Adventure
Copyright © 2016
by William B. Jones
Illustrated by Gary Zaboly
Plum Street Publishers, Inc.
Young Adult Nonfi ction
Oil and Marble: A
Novel of Leonardo and
Michelangelo
Copyright © 2016
by Stephanie Storey
Arcade Publishing
Fiction
The Modern Arkansas
Table
Compiled and written by
Emily Van Zandt
Photography by Arshia Khan
Copyright © 2015
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
Inc.
WEHCO Publising
Nonfi ction
William’s Story: The Tale
of a Civil War Orphan
Copyright © 2015
by Nancy Dane
Illustrated by Ruth Cotner
NDB Publishing
Juvenile Fiction
Things Like the Truth:
Out of My Later Years
Copyright © 2016
by Ellen Gilchrist
University of Mississippi
Press
Nonfi ction
