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A Reading List of Some Inductees' Works

Sandy  Asher
A Woman Called Truth (play)

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Linda  Bloodworth-Thomason
Designing Women (television series)
M*A*S*H (television series)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (television series)

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Wayne  Carson
Always on My Mind (song with lyrics)
The Letter (song with lyrics)

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Deborah  Chester
The Sign of the Owl (young adult novel)
The Salukan Gambit (sci-fi novel)
The King Betrayed (fantasy novel)

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Don  Coldsmith
Tallgrass (historical novel)
The Spanish Bit Series (novels of the west)

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Lori  Copeland
The Bride of Barren Flats (romance novel)
Hope (romance novel)

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Janet  Dailey

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Billie  Davis
I Was a Hobo Kid (autobiography)

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Debra  Dier
Surrender the Dream (romance novel)
Shadow of the Storm (romance novel)

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Charlie  Farmer
Ozark Adventures (non-fiction)
Unspoiled Beauty: A Personal Guide to Missouri Wilderness (outdoors)

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Dale  Freeman

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Robert Lee Frost
A Witness Tree (poetry)
Collected Poems (poetry)

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Theodor Seuss Geisel
How the Grinch Stole Christman (children’s book)
The Cat in the Hat (children’s book)

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James  Giglio
The Presidency of John F. Kennedy (history)
Truman in Cartoon and Caricature (history)

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Robert  Glazier

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Vicki  Grove
The Crystal Garden (young adult novel)
Rimwalker (young adult novel)

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C. W. Gusewelle
A Great Current Running (essays)
Quick as Shadows Passing (essays)

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David  Harrison
The Book of Giants (children’s book)

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Ernest  Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises (novel)
The Old Man and the Sea (novel)

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Langston  Hughes
The Weary Blues (poetry)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (novel)
I wonder and I Wander (autobiography)

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John K. Hulston

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Suzann  Ledbetter
The Toast Always Lands Jelly-Side Down (humor)
West of Bliss (mystery novel)
Nellie Cashman: Prospector and Trailblazer (biography)

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Katherine  Lederer
Many Thousand Gone (history)

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Constance  Levy
I’m Going to Pet a Worm Today (children’s poetry)
SPLASH, Poems of Our Watery World (children’s poetry)

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David  Lipman
Joe Namath (biography)
Bob Gibson (biography)

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Ellen Gray Massey
Bittersweet Earth (folklore)
Bittersweet Country (folklore)

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Edith  McCall
Conquering the Rivers (biography)
Sometimes We Dance Alone (non-fiction)

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Frank  McCourt

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William Least Heat Moon
Blue Highways (non-fiction)
River Horse (non-fiction)

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Johnny  Mullins
Blue Kentucky Girl (song with lyrics)
Company’s Comin’ (song with lyrics)

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John  Neihardt
Black Elk Speaks (non-fiction)
The Cycle of the West (epic poetry)

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Vance  Randolph
Ozark Folksongs (non-fiction)
Down in the Holler (non-fiction)

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Jory  Sherman
Grass Kingdom (novel of the west)
The Arkansas River (novel of the west)

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John Ernst Steinbeck
The Red Pony (novel)
The Grapes of Wrath (novel)

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Barbara Bradford Taylor
A Woman of Substance (romance novel)

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Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemons) Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (novel)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (novel)
Life on the Mississippi (autobiography)

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Robert  Vaughan
Andersonville (historical fiction novel)
A Distant Bugle (novel of the west)

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Michael  Wallis
Route 66: The Mother Road (non-fiction)
The Real Wild West (non-fiction)

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Margaret  Weis
Endless Catacombs (fantasy novel)
The Tower of Midnight Dreams (fantasy novel)

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Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little House Series (autobiographical novels)

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Lanford  Wilson
Talley’s Folly (play)
The Hot L. Baltimore (play)

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Harold Bell Wright
The Shepherd of the Hills (novel)
The Recreation of Brian Kent (novel)

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