1. A.C. Pickett’s Private Journal of the U.S. Mexican War, Edited by Jo Blatti
2. All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell: The Civil War, Race Relations and the Battle of Poison Spring,
Edited by Mark K. Christ
3. Arkansas: An Illustrated Atlas by Tom Paradise
4. Arkansas Godfather: The Story of Owney Madden and How He Hijacked Middle America by
Graham Nown
5. Bandits, Bears and Backaches: A Collection of Short Stories Based on Arkansas History by Velma
Branscum Woody
6. The Barling Darling: Hal Smith in American Baseball by Billy D. Higgins with Hal Smith
7. Beyond Central, Toward Acceptance: A Collection of Oral Histories from Students of Little Rock
Central High, Edited by Mackie O’Hara and Alex Richardson
8. The Big Hat Law: Arkansas and Its State Police, 1935-2000 by Michael Lindsey
9. Big Woods Bird-An Ivory-Bill Story written by Terry Roberts Luneau, Illustrated by Trevor
Bennett
10. The Broken Vase: A Novel Based on the Life of Penina Krupitsky, a Holocaust Survivor by Phillip
H. McMath and Emily Matson Lewis
11. The Company We Keep: 50 Years of Creating Just Communities by Ruth D. Shepherd
12. Crisis of Conscience: Arkansas Methodists and the Civil Rights Struggle, edited by James T.
Clemons and Kelly L. Farr
13. Deep Down in the Delta: Folktales and Poems by Greg Alan Brownderville with Paintings by Billy
Moore
14. The Die is Cast: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861, edited by Mark K. Christ
15. Encyclopedia of Arkansas Music, edited by Ali Welky and Mike Keckhaver
16. Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany by Charles Portis; edited and with an introduction
by Jay Jennings, illustrations by Mike Reddy
17. From Carnegie to Cyberspace: 100 Years at the Central Arkansas Library System by Shirley
Schuette and Nathania Sawyer
18. The Good Ground of Central High: Little Rock Central High School and Legendary Coach Wilson
Matthews by George M. Cate
19. Hangin’ Times in Fort Smith: A History of Executions in Judge Parker’s Court by Jerry Akins
20. Homefront Arkansas: Arkansans Face Wartime by Velma B. Branscum Woody and Steven Teske
21. Lessons from Little Rock: A Memoir by One of the Little Rock Nine by Terrence Roberts
22. A Life on the Black River in Arkansas: The Memoir of a Farmer, Rural Entrepreneur and Banker
by E.R. Coleman with Mary Frances Hodges
23. A Little Rock Boyhood by A. Cleveland Harrison
24. Main Street Arkansas: The Hearts of Arkansas Cities and Towns-As Portrayed in Postcards and
Photographs by Ray Hanley and Steven Hanley
25. Natural State Notables: 21 Famous People from Arkansas by Steven Teske
26. Obliged to Help: Adolphine Fletcher Terry and the Progressive South by Stephanie Bayless
27. Open House: The Arkansas Governor’s Mansion and Its Place in History by John P. Gill
28. Pfeiffer Country: The Tenant Farms and Business Activities of Paul Pfeiffer in Clay County,
Arkansas, 1902-1954 by Sherry Laymon
29. Political Magic: The Travels, Trials and Triumphs of the Clintons’ Arkansas Travelers by Brenda
Blagg
30. Proudly We Speak Your Name: Forty-four Years at Little Rock Catholic High School by Michael J.
Moran
31. A Pryor Commitment: The Autobiography of David Pryor by David Pryor with Don Harrell
32. Race Relations in the Natural State by Grif Stockley
33. Ready, Booted and Spurred: Arkansas in the U.S.-Mexican War, edited by William A. Frazier and
Mark K. Christ
34. A Rough Introduction to This Sunny Land: The Civil War Diary of Private Henry A. Strong, Co. K,
Twelfth Kansas Infantry, edited by Tom Wing
35. Ruled by Race: Black/White Relations in Arkansas From Slavery to the Present by Grif Stockley
36. Salty Old Editor: An Adventure in Ink by Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder
37. Surprised by Death: A Novel of Arkansas in the 1840’s by George Lankford
38. Things Grew Beautifully Worse: Captain John O’Brien, 30th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A., edited by
Brian K. Robertson
39. Unvarnished Arkansas: The Naked Truth About Nine Famous Arkansas by Steve Teske
40. Voices of the Razorbacks: A History of Arkansas’s Iconic Sports Broadcasters by Hoyt Purvis and
Stanley Sharp
41. Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South by Shirley Abbott
42. Bookmaker’s Daughter by Shirley Abbott
43. Complete Collected Poems by Maya Angelou
44. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
45. Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804: A Social and Cultural History by Morris Arnold
46. The Rumble of a Distant Drum: The Quapaws and Old World Newcomers by Morris Arnold
47. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America by John Barry
48. Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
49. Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State by Brooks
Blevins
50. During Wind and Rain: the Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta, 1848-2006 by Margaret
Jones Bolsterli
51. Arkansas, 1800-1860: Remote and Restless by S. Charles Bolton
52. Bury My Heart at Wonded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
53. Civil War Arkansas, 1863 by Mark Christ
54. Sentinels of History: Reflections on Arkansas Properties on the National Register of Historic
Places by Mark Christ
55. Deep’n As It Come: The 1927 Mississippi River Flood by Pete Daniel
56. With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861-1874 by Tom DeBlack
57. The Governors of Arkansas: Essays in Political Biography by Timothy Donovan
58. From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedman’s Bureau in Arkansas, 1865-1869 by Randy
Finley
59. Caste and Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880-1920 by Fon Gordon
60. Finding the Lost Year: What Happened When Little Rock Closed Its Public Schools? By Sondra
Gordy
61. Town and Country: Race Relations and Urban Development in Arkansas, 1865-1905 by John
William Graves
62. Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks: A Novel by Donald Harington
63. Senator Hattie Caraway: an Arkansas Legacy by Nancy Hendricks
64. Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked the Nation by Elizabeth Jacoway
65. Arkansas in Modern America by Ben Johnson
66. Promises Kept: A Memoir by Sidney McMath
67. Arkansas and the New South 1874-1929 by Carl Moneyhon
68. The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas: Persistence in the Midst of Ruin by
Carl Moneyhon
69. Cavorting on the Devil’s Fork: The Pete Whetstone Letters of C.F.M. Noland by C.F.M. Nolan
70. True Grit by Charles Portis
71. Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas by Grif Stockley
72. Arkansas: A Narrative History by Jeannie Whayne
73. The Arkansas Delta: Land of Paradox by Jeannie Whayne
74. The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
75. The Wild Ass of the Ozarks: Jeff Davis and the Social Bases of Southern Politics by Raymond
Arsenault
76. Arkansas Politics and Government by Diane Blair and Jay Barth
77. A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
78. When the Century Was Young by Dee Brown
79. Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas by Mark Christ
80. The Battle for the Buffalo River by Neil Compton
81. Arkansas Odyssey by Michael Dougan
82. Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher by John Gould Fletcher
83. Collected Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
84. In the Land of Dreamy Dreams by Ellen Gilchrist
85. Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist
86. Cry From the Cotton: The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union and the New Deal by Donald Grubbs
87. Let Us build Us a City: Eleven Lost Towns by Donald Harington
88. Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Anthony Harkins
89. Dixie Association by Donald Hays
90. Dying Light; and Other Stories by Donald Hays
91. The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They
Shaped the Modern South by Donald Holley
92. Concentration Camps and the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow by
John Howard
93. The Barefoot Brigade by Douglas Jones
94. Elkhorn Tavern by Douglas Jones
95. The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
96. Capital County: Historical Studies of Pulaski County, Arkansas by Pulaski County Historical
Society
97. Faubus by Roy Reed
98. Looking Back at the Arkansas Gazette: An Oral History by Roy Reed
99. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Arkansas in the Civil War by Bobby Roberts and
Carl Moneyhon
100.
Sawmill: The Story of Cutting the Last Great Virgin Forest East of the Rockies by
Kenneth Smith
101.
Mysterious Benedict Society Series by Trenton Lee Stewart
102.
Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919 by Grif Stockley
103.
A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War by Daniel
Sutherland
104.
Negro Slavery in Arkansas by Orville Taylor
105.
As Rare As Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930-31 by Nan
Woodruff
106.
The Burden of Southern History by C. Vann Woodward
107.
State Books: Arkansas
By: Mari Kesselring-Child’s World
Anne Welsbacher-ABDO
Sarah Tieck-ABDO
Patricia Lantier-Gareth-Stevens Publishing
Rich Smith-ABDO
Rebecca Olien-Capstone
Shawndra Shofner-Creative Education, Inc.
Ellen Macaulay-Children’s Press
G.S. Prentzas-Children’s Press
Linda Jacobs Altman-Cavendish Square
David C. King-Cavendish Square
108.
Arkansas (Bilingual Library of the United States of America) by Vanessa Brown
109.
Arkansas Razorbacks by Alex Monnig
110.
Arkansas River by Tom Jackson
111.
Arkansas: Past and Present by Janey Levy
112.
Arkansas: The Natural State by Emily Rose Oachs
113.
Arkansas: The Natural State by Miriam Coleman
114.
Arkansas: The Natural State by Weigl Editors
115.
Arkansas: The Natural State by Karen Durrie
116.
Barbed Wires of Hate by Martha Purcell
117.
Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine by Eileen Lucas
118.
Fun and Simple Southern State Crafts: Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Arkansas
119.
Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
120.
Little Rock Nine and the Fight for Equal Education by Gary Jeffrey
121.
Little Rock Nine Stand Up for Their Rights by Eileen Lucas
122.
Remember Little Rock: The Time, The People, The Stories by Paul Robert Walker
123.
Sam Walton by Erika L. Shores
124.
Secret of the Stones: An African American Folktale from Arkansas by Robert D. San
Souci
125.
Cotton Fields by Enid H. Barber
126.
N is for the Natural State by Michael Shoulders
127.
Natural Numbers by Michael Shoulders
128.
Figler-My Imaginary Friend by Erica Taylor
129.
Mapping the Road to Change: Insights on Perceptions, Prejudice, & Acceptance. Oral
History Collected by Students of Little Rock Central High.
130.
Any of the Arkansas Books by Carole Marsh
131.
Wildflowers of Arkansas by Carl Hunter
132.
Trees, Flowers and Vines of Arkansas by Carl Hunter
133.
A Painted House by John Grisham
134.
Big Red’s Journey Through the Razorback State by Aimee Aryal
Many thanks to Dr. Kay Bland and Lloyd Harris for their contributions to this list.