The 2024 list of Kansas Notable Books includes:

  • Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery by Todd Mildfelt and David Schafer
  • Daughter of Chaos by Sarah Edgerton from Tonganoxie
  • Doomed by Blooms by Anna St. John from Haysville
  • Grief Said “Have a Seat” by Amanda G. Elsbury (Wichita)
  • Henry, Like Always by Jenn Bailey (Leawood)
  • I’ve Been Fighting This War Within Myself by Antonio Sanchez-Day (Topeka) and edited by Brian Daldorph (Lawrence)
  • Into the Sunset: Emmett Dalton and the End of the Dalton Gang by Ian Shaw
  • The Jayhawks: The Story of the University of Kansas’ Beloved Mascot by Rebecca Ozier Schulte (Lawrence)
  • Kansas City’s Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home by Maggie Carr (Lawrence)
  • Orion O’Brien and the Spirit of Quindaro by Fran Borin (Mission Hills)
  • Proclaiming the Good News: Mennonite Women’s Voices 1972-2006 by Lois Y. Barrett and Dorothy Nickel Friessen
  • Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian (Topeka)
  • Roadside Geology of Kansas by James S Aber (Emporia), Susan E.W. Aber (Emporia), and Michael J. Everhart (Derby)
  • We’re Safe When We’re Alone by Nghiem Tran (Wichita)
  • Without Warning 

For more information about the Kansas Notable Books program click here, call the State Library of Kansas at 785-296-3296, or email infodesk@ks.gov

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