It's Lit: Books By Indiana Authors

Why quarantine alone when you can settle in with a good read?


We've gathered a list of books that have either been written by Indiana authors or are based in Indiana. From contemporary poetry collections to classic Kurt Vonnegut, we've got something just for you. Hunker down, Hoosiers!




Fiction


The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

The Desperate Hour by Joseph Hayes

Snapper by Brian Kimberling

Something Rising by Haven Kimmel

If She Wakes  by Michael Kortya

All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

An American Tune  by Barbara Shoup

Freckles  by Gene Stratton-Porter

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

This Brilliant Darkness by Red Tash

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Wide Game by Michael West

Grace and Box by Kim Howard




Nonfiction


How to Save Your Child from Ostrich Attacks, Accidental Time Travel, and Anything Else that Might Happen on an Average Tuesday by James Breakwell

Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana by James H. Madison

Where the Angels Lived by Margaret McMullan

A Conservationist Manifesto by Scott Sanders





Poetry


Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

The Anti-Grief by Marianne Boruch

Look Look Look by Callista Buchen

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

Metropolis Burning by Karen Kovacik

Poems from Prison by Etheridge Knight

Space Struck by Paige Lewis

Wider Than the Sky by Nancy Chen Long

Map to the Stars by Adrian Matejka

Riley Child Rhymes by James Whitcomb Riley




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