The 150 Best Minnesota Books List…So Far
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A. T. Andreas. An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Minnesota. Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1874.
Margaret Culkin Banning. Mesabi. Harper and Row Publishers: New York, 1969.
Edward H. Bennett. Plan of Minneapolis: Prepared Under the Direction of the Civic Commission… Edited and Written by Andrew Wright Crawford. Minneapolis: Civic Commission, 1917.
B. W. “Bernie” Bierman Winning Football: Strategy, Psychology and Technique. New York: Whittlesey House, 1937.
Theodore C. Blegen. Minnesota: A History of the State. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1963.
Carol Bly. Letters From the Country. NY: Harper and Row, 1981.
Robert Bly. Silence in the Snowy Fields. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1962.
Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars, 1861-1865: Prepared and Published Under the Supervision of the Board of Commissioners Appointed by the Act of the Legislature of Minnesota of April16, 1889. St. Paul, Minnesota: Printed for the State by the Pioneer Press Company, 1890 -1893.
Edmund Boisgilbert, MD (Ignatius Donnelly) Caesar’s Column: a Story of the Twentieth Century. Chicago: Schulte and Company, 1890.
Francis Bosworth, et al. Broken Mirrors. Minneapolis: Avon Press, 1928.
Thomas Boyd. Through the Wheat. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.
Lloyd L. Brown. Iron City. New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1951.
Jonathan Carver. Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768. London: C. Dilly; H. Payne; and F. Phillips, 1781.
Ray P. Chase. Are They Communists or Catspaws: A Red Baiting Article. Anoka: N. p., 1938.
Bob Dylan. Tarantula. Hibbing, Minnesota: Wimp Press, [1970].
Robert Esbjornson. A Christian in Politics; Luther W. Youngdahl: A Story of a Christian’s Faith at Work in a Modern World. Minneapolis: T. S. Denison, 1955.
Wilford (Billy) H. Fawcett. Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang.Fawcett Publishing, 1921 – 1936
Federal Writers’ Project. Minnesota: A State Guide. Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration… New York: Viking Press, 1938.
Bob Firth (photography) and Bill Holm (essay). Landscape of Ghosts. Stillwater, Minnesota: Voyageur Press, 1993.
William Watts Folwell. History of Minnesota. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1921 – 1930.
Thomas Gifford. The Wind Chill Factor. New York: Putnam, 1975.
Willard Glazier. Down the Great River: Embracing an Account of the Discovery of the True Source of the Mississippi… Philadelphia: 1887.
Jon Hassler. Staggerford. New York: Atheneum, 1977.
Thomas Heggen. Mister Roberts. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946.
Father Louis Hennepin. Description de la Louisiane, Nouvellement decouverte au Sud’ Ouest de la Nouvelle France…Paris: Chez la Veuve Sebastien Hure, 1683.
C. L. Herrick. Mammals of Minnesota: A Scientific and Popular Account… Minneapolis: Harrison and Smith, State Printers, 1892.
William Hoffman. Those Were The Days. Minneapolis: T. S. Denison and Company,1957.
Florence Page Jaques. Canoe Country. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1938.
Vernon E. Johnson. I’ll Quit Tomorrow. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973.
Garrison Keillor. Lake Wobegon Days. New York: 1985.
Agnes Larson. History of the White Pine Industry in Minnesota. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1949.
Henrietta M. Larson. The Wheat Market and the Farmer in Minnesota, 1858 –1900. New York: Columbia University, 1926.
Sinclair Lewis. Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott. New York: 1920.
Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. New York: 1922.
Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. Why is Your Country at War and What Happens to You After the War and Related Subjects. Washington, D. C.: National Capital Press, 1917.
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. The Spirit of St. Louis. New York: Scribner’s, 1953.
Maud Hart Lovelace. Betsy-Tacy. New York: Crowell, 1940.
Maud Hart Lovelace. Emily of Deep Valley. New York: Crowell, 1950.
Conway MacMillan. Minnesota Plant Life. Saint Paul: Geological and Natural History Survey, 1899.
Thomas McGrath. Letter to an Imaginary Friend. Denver: Alan Swallow, 1962.
Edward D. Neill. The History of Minnesota; From the Earliest French Explorations to the Present Time. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1858.
J[oseph] N. Nicollet. Report Intended to Illustrate a Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River, Made by I.[sic]N. Nicollet, While in the Employ Under the Bureau of the Corps of Topographical Engineers. Washington: …. 1843.
Grace Lee Nute. The Voyageur. New York: Appleton, 1931.
Tim O’Brien. Going After Cacciato: A Novel. New York: Delacorte Press. 1978.
Sigurd F. Olson. Listening Point. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
Zebulon M. Pike. An Account of a Voyage Up the Mississippi River from St. Louis to its Source. Washington, D. C., 1807.
Robert Pirsig. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. New York: Morrow, 1974.
J. F. Powers. Morte D’Urban. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1962.
Richard S. Prosser. Rails to the North Star. Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1966.
Richard Realf. A Fragment of the Poem Symbolism. Minneapolis: Chemith Press, 1906.
Thomas S. Roberts. The Birds of Minnesota. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1932.
O[le] E[dvart] Rolvaag. Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927.
Arthur C. Rogers and Maud A. Merrill. Dwellers in the Vale of Siddem: A True Story of the Social Aspect of Feeble-Mindedness. Boston: R. G. Badger, c.1919. 80p.
Carl T. Rowan. South of Freedom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
Calvin Rutstrum. Way of the Wilderness: A Complete Camping Manual… Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Company, 1952.
Henry R. Schoolcraft. Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of this River; Embracing an Exploratory Trip Through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) Rivers. New York: Harper, 1834.
Charles Schulz. Happiness is a Warm Puppy. Determined Productions: San Francisco, 1962.
Mabel Seeley. The Chuckling Fingers. Garden City N.Y.: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran, 1941.
Arnold Sevareid. Canoeing with the Cree. New York: Macmillan, 1935.
Max Shulman. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Doubleday: New York, 1951.
Clifford D. Simak. The City. New York: Gnome Press, 1952.
E. V. Smalley. A History of the Republican Party from Its Organization to the Present Time; To Which is Added a Political History of Minnesota from a Republican Point of View… St. Paul: E. V. Smalley Publisher, 1896.
John Szarkowski. The Face of Minnesota. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1958.
Arthur Upson. Octaves in an Oxford Garden. Minneapolis: E. D. Brooks, 1902.
Thorstein Veblen. Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. New York: Macmillan Company, 1899.
Newton Horace Winchell. The Aborigines of Minnesota: A Report on the Collections of Jacob V. Brower, and on the Field Surveys and Notes of Alfred J. Hill and Theodore H. Lewis / Collated, Augmented and Described by N. H. Winchell. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1911.