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