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Their Word Is Law
A series of interviews with lawyer-authors make up the book reviewed in this episode.
Season 6
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Their Word Is Law

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Knife

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Like What You Do

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The Bass Reeves Trilogy

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson

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The Eighth Day

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Fatherland

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Go as a River

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The Works of Walter Mosley

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Boone

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A Calamity of Souls

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God of the Woods

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The Rule of Four

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Nowhere to Run

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Wichita Blues

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Tucker
The Joy of Reading
The reading lifestyle is featured in several selections by Ted.
Season 5
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The Joy of Reading

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The Works of Jeanette Walls

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Furious Hours

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The Works of Jane Smiley

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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

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Write for Your Life

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Crook Manifesto

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And Hell Followed with It

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Agatha Christie

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The Last Trial

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The Personal Librarian

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Lessons in Chemistry

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American Prometheus

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The Works of Richard Russo

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Harvard Yard

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The Old Lion

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The Tale of Despereaux

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The Book of Charlie

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The Day the World Came to Town

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Oath and Honor

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Pioneer Women

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Astor

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Goodbye Eastern Europe

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Brown v. Board

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Making History
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The Works of Herman Wouk
Ted reviews three books by author Herman Wouk.
Season 4
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The Works of Herman Wouk

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Overground Railroad

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Sandy Hook

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To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth

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The Rope

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A Sense of History

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Sitting Pretty

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Gods at Play

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The Works of Steve Martini

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Horse

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The American Revolution

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Path Lit by Lightning

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The Works of Candice Millard

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Marley & Me

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Life on the Mississippi

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The Fifties

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They Met at Wounded Knee

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J.C. Penney

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Forged in Crisis

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The Works of Edna Ferber

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The Civil War in Kansas

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The Works of David McCullough

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Shoe Dog

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Ted's 2022 Book List

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Half American

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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago
"The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago" by Robert E. Weems is reviewed.
Season 3
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The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago

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To Wake the Giant

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My Marathon

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Out of Order

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The Game

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The Soul of an Octopus

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The Secret Game

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Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Series

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The Works of Erik Larson

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These Truths

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The Searcher

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Ex Libris

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Fatal Discord

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Anxious People

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The Library Book

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The Zealot and the Emancipator

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Brain on Fire

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Budding Prospects

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Scalia Speaks

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Icons of Rock n' Roll, Part 1

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Icons of Rock n' Roll, Part 2

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Dreams of El Dorado

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A Promised Land

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My Flint Hills

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Ted's Book List 2020

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Circe
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather's "O Pioneers".
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O Pioneers!

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The Warmth of Other Suns

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The Naked and the Dead

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Bunts

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Life in a Jar

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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

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Leadership in Turbulent Times

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American Dialogue

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Where the Crawdads Sing

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Cherry

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Wicked Wichita

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The Shakespeare Requirement

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Three Women

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D-Day Anniversary

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Bookstores in Paris

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Lab Girl

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Space

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Robicheaux

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The Overstory

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Robin

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The Pioneers

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Murder in the Map Room

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A Girl Stands at the Door

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The Statesman and the Storyteller

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The Chisholm Trail
Engines of Change
Paul Ingrassia's "Engines of Change".
Season 1
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Engines of Change

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Dark Sacred Night

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Sapiens

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A Street Cat Named Bob

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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

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Heartland

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The Bully Pulpit

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Fly Girls

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Evicted

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Just Mercy

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Lilac Girls

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The Last Wild Places in Kansas

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The Saint of Wolves and Butchers

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Gorilla and the Bird / Beyond Cold Blood

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Revolution Song / Alexander Hamilton

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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

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The Age of Eisenhower Revisited

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The General vs The President / The Age of Eisenho

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The Firebrand and The First Lady

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The Berlin 1936 Olympics

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Wooden: A Coach's Life / Ali

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A Great Reckoning / Bear Town

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Avid Reader / The End of Your Life Book Club

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Some Were Paupers, Some Were Kings

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Gellhorn
Ted Ayres' Reading Lists
2023
- The Dead And Those About To Die by John C. McManus
- White Trash by Nancy Isenberg
- Can't we talk about something more PLEASANT? by Roz Chast
- The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- The Fifties by David Halberstam
- The American Presidency by Forrest McDonald
- Dead Watch by John Sandford
- The Goss Women by R. V. Cassill
- Bloody Genius by John Sandford
- What The Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
- Wealth And Poverty by George Glider
- Ancient Light by John Banville
- Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
- The War Within by Bob Woodward
- Dark Crossings by Gretchen Eick
- Win by Harlen Coben
- Marley And Me by John Grogan (WPL)
- Lessons by Ian McEwan (WPL)
- Life On The Mississippi by Rinker Buck
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- The 5 Languages Of Love by Gary Chapman
- What's So Funny? by Donald E. Westlake (WPL)
- Get Real by Donald E. Westlake (WPL)
- Bad News by Donald E. Westlake (WPL)
- The Great Air Race by John Lancaster
- Drowned Hopes by Donald E. Westlake (WPL)
- Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
- Showboat by Edna Ferber
- Cimarron by Edna Ferber
- So Big by Edna Ferber
- The Path Between Two Seas by David McCullough
- Hour Game by David Baldacci
- Storm Watch by C.J. Box
- The Lone Ranger Rides by Fran Striker
- Half American by Matthew F. Delmont
- A Noble Radiance by Donna Leon (WPL)
- The Secret Place by Tana French
- The Civil War In Kansas by Debra Goodrich Bisel
- Spifflicated by Mike Matson
- The Day The War Ended by Martin Gilbert
- Hang The Moon by Jeannette Walls
- The Body In The Bookcase by Katherine Hall Page (WPL)
- The Body In The Piazza by Katherine Hall Page (WPL)
- Walking On My Grave by Carolyn Hart (WPL)
- Don't Go Home by Carolyn Hart (WPL)
- The Body In The Bonfire by Katherine Hall Page (WPL)
- A Fine Line by William G. Tapley (WPL)
- A World Of Curiosities by Louise Penny (WPL)
- All That Is by James Salter [K106]
- The Wager by David Grann
- Bitterroot by James Lee Burke
- The Opposite Of Love by Helen Benedict
- The Scent Of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
- 2023 Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal edited by Paula Haas
- The Laws Of Our Fathers by Scott Turow
- Flashman At The Charge by George MacDonald Fraser
- The Last Chairlift by John Irving [K107]
- The Missing Heiress by Robert Goldsborough [K108]
- Gray Mountain by John Grisham (CG#142)
- The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls (CG#143)
- Death On Deadline by Robert Goldsborough (WPL)
- I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel (WPL)
- The Case Of The Borrowed Brunette by Erle Stanley Gardner (WPL)
- People VS Donald Trump by Mark Pomerantz (WPL)
- The Battered Badge by Robert Goldsborough (WPL)
- The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (WPL)
- Nero Wolfe Of West 35th Street by William S. Baring-Gould (WPL)
- Tolstoy And The Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch (WPL)
- The Woman In The Library by Sulari Gentill (WPL)
- The Brownstone House Of Nero Wolfe by Kenneth-Loren (Ken) Darby (WPL-WSUAL)
- Furious Hours by Casey Cep (WPL)
- The Case Of The Terrified Typist by Erle Stanley Gardner (WPL)
- Here's New York by E.B. White
- The Case Of The Lazy Lover by Erle Stanley Gardner (WPL)
- Rex Stout A Biography by John McAleer (WPL)
- The Case Of The Careless Kitten by Erle Stanley Gardner (WPL)
- Trouble At The Brownstone by Robert Goldsborough (WPL)
- God Save The Child by Robert B. Parker
- Death Of The Art Collector by Robert Goldsborough (WPL)
- The Case Of The Lonely Heiress by Erle Stanley Gardner (WPL) (CG#144)
- The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (CG#145)
- The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett (WPL)
- Perestroika In Paris by Jane Smiley
- Double Deuce by Robert B. Parker
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (WPL)
- The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler (WPL)
- Milo Talon by Louis L'Amour
- Her Forbidden Knight by Rex Stout (WPL)
- The Book Woman Of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson [K109]
- Changing Places by David Lodge
- Small World by David Lodge
- Write For Life by Anna Quindlan
- Nice Work by David Lodge
- Little Green by Walter Moseley [K109]
- The Valley Of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle (CG#l46)
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 by Arthur Conan Doyle (CG#147)
- Visitors To My Street by Bernard T. McCann
- Think by David Lodge
- Franklin D. Roosevelt And The New Deal by William E. Leuchtenberg
- Archie Goes Home by Robert Goldsborough (WPL)
- Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (WPL)
- The Case Of The Green-Eyed Sister by Erle Stanley Gardner (WPL)
- And Hell Followed With It by Bonar Menninger (WPL)
- The Harlem Renaissance by Stuart Kallen
- No Man's Land by David Baldacci
- The Case Of The Cautious Coquette by Erle Stanley Gardner (WPL)
- A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
- Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley (WPL)
- Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (WPL)
- The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie
- The Last Bookshop In London by Madeline Martin
- The Book Spy by Alan Hlad
- The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn by Colin Dexter (WPL)
- The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- The Body In The Library by Agatha Christie (WPL)
- Back Story by Robert B. Parker
- The World And All It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon (WPL)
- Kingdom Quarterback by Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd
- The Pacific Alone by Dave Shively
- Small Vices by Robert B. Parker (WPL)
- School Days by Robert B. Parker (WPL)
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
- Somebody's Fool by Richard Russo
- Mad Variations by Don Edwing
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (WPL)
- My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Bachman
- The Murder On The Links by Agatha Christie (WPL)
- The Last Trial by Scott Turow (WPL)
- Harvard Yard by William Martin (WPL) [CG#148]
- Heroes Of The Frontier by Dave Eggers (WPL)
- The Dizzy And Daffy Barnstorming Tour by Phil S. Dixon
- Now & Then by Robert B. Parker (WPL)
- First Family by David Baldacci
- Bad Business by Robert B. Parker
- The Bookwoman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson (WPL)
- The Case of the Howling Dog by Erle Stanley Gardner (WPL)
- The Case Of The Baited Hook by Erle Stanley Gardner (WPL)
- Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly
- J.T. by Jane Wagner
- The Exchange by John Grisham
- The Edge by David Baldacci
- One Nation Geoff Shandler, Executive Editor
- Possessing The Secret Of Joy by Alice Walker
- Due Process Of Law by John V. Orth
- For One More Day by Mitch Albom
- Murder In Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie (WPL)
- The Fix by David Baldacci (WPL)
- American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Walter J. Sherwin (WPL)
- Peril At End House by Agatha Christie (WPL)
- Dread Journey by Dorothy Belle Hughes (WPL)
- The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie (WPL) [CG#149]
- To Die But Once by Jacqueline Winspear (WPL)
- Murder In E Flat by Robert Goldsborough
- Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker
- The Judas Goat by Robert B. Parker
- The So Blue Marble by Dorothy Belle Hughes (WPL)
- Fadeaway Girl by Martha Grimes
2022
- Mercy by David Baldacci
- On Animals by Susan Orlean
- Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper and Kathleen Howe
- The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
- Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
- Lindbergh, A Biography by Leonard Mosley
- Go Farby by Jennifer Strong McConachie
- The Narratives of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas
- Americanah by Chimamandra Ngozi Adiche
- Better Off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child
- City On Fire by Don Winslow
- Three Ordinary Girls by Tim Brady
- The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
- Pearls Awaits The Jide by Stephan Pastis
- In Search Of History by Theodore H. White
- The Old Philosopher by Robert E. (Bob) Walterscheid
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- A Bookshop In Berlin by Francoise Frenkel
- Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
- Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk
- Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
- We, The House by Warren Ashworth and Susan Kander
- America In Search Of Itself by Theodore H. White
- The Overground Railroad by Candacy Taylor
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
- Madhouse At The End Of The Earth by Julian Sa net on
- Hook by Randolph Horton
- Three To Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
- Voluntary Madness by Norah Vincent
- Doc by Mary Doria Russell
- South Of Broad by Pat Conroy
- Bone Deep by Charles Bosworth, Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz
- The Cat Who Saved Booksby Sosuke Natsukawa
- Another Kind Of Eden by James Lee Burke
- Humankind by Rutger Bregman
- Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent
- Our First Civil War by H.W. Brands
- Shadows Reel by C.J. Box
- Fears Of A Setting Sun by Dennis C. Rasmussen
- The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski
- Dream Town by David Baldacci
- Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
- The Witch Elm by Tana French
- The Miracle Of Dunkirk by Walter Lord
- Overboard by Sara Paretsky
- The Arraignment by Steve Martini
- Adirondacks Outlawsby Niki Kourofsky
- The Judge by Steve Martini
- Sandy Hook by Elizabeth Williamson
- To The Uttermost Ends Of The Earth by Phil Keith and Tom Glavin
- J.C. Penney by David Delbert Kruger
- The Roosevelts by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
- Sparring Partners by John Grisham
- Pappyland by Wright Thompson
- The Museum Of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
- The Jury by Steve Martini
- Shadow Of Power by Steve Martini
- Guardian Of Lies by Steve Martini
- The Rule Of Nine by Steve Martini
- The Enemy Inside by Steve Martini
- Surfing The Panther by Steve Martini and Linda Fairstein
- Boulder 1859-1919 by Mona Lambrecht and the Boulder History Museum
- Compelling Evidence by Steve Martini
- The Grand Assembly by Mary Galey
- The Lethal Elixer by Dennis Ross
- Likely Jo Die by Linda Fairstein
- The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye by David Lagercrantz
- The List by Steve Martini
- River Of The Gods by Candice Millard
- The Lonely Men by Louis L'Amour
- Cold Hit by Linda Fairstein
- Prime Witness by Steve Martini
- Undue Influence by Steve Martini
- The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci
- Celebrating Kansas Breweries by Michael J. Travis
- The Attorney by Steve Martini
- Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
- 42 Is Not Just A Number by Doreen Rappaport
- Double Tap by Steve Martini
- Letterman by Jason Zinoman
- Mardi Gras Beads by Doug MacCash
- Missouri Faces And Places by Wes Lyle and John M. Hall
- The Missing Piece by John Lescroart
- Trader Of Secrets by Steve Martini
- Blood Rag by Steve Martini
- The Second Man by Steve Martini
- A Game Of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin
- The Young Wives Club by Julie Pennell
- Yours Truly by James R. Hagerty
- Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Falade
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtin
- State of Denial by Bob Woodward
- Hell's Corner by David Baldacci
- Betrayed by Lisa Scottoline
- Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
- The Camel Club by David Baldacci
- Femininity by Susan Brownmiller
2021
- The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
- Bloody Genius by John Sandford
- Our Father; The Serial Rapist by Emily Schneider
- The Red Box by Rex Stout
- Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
- Jack by Marilynne Robinson
- Brain On Fire by Susannah Cahalan
- Hardwired by Meredith Wild
- Where There's a Will by Rex Stout
- Daylight by David Baldacci
- Scalia Speaks, edited by Christopher J. Scalia and Edward Whelan
- The Last Coincidence by Robert Goldsborough
2020
- A Time For Mercy by John Grisham
- Firewall by Henning Mankel
- The Sentinel by Lee Child and Andrew Child
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Budding Prospects by T. C. Boyle
- Shade by Pete Souza
- Flush by Carl Hiaasen
- Ex Libris by Michiko Kakutani
- A Man Was A Real Man in Them Days by Ruth White Burns and Rose Powers White
- Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout
- Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
- Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win by Jo Piazza
- The Mother Hunt by Rex Stout
- The Searcher by Tana French
- These Truths by Jill Lepore