13 books from Huskers to add to your reading list
From poetry and memoirs to crime and romance, we’ve compiled a list of Husker-written books perfect for your next book club.
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
By Claire Jiménez
13-year-old Ruthy Ramirez vanished without a trace. But more than a decade later, as the family still feels the weight of her absence, one of her sisters spots a woman who she thinks might be her sister on a reality tv show.
The Titanic Survivors Book Club
By Timothy Schaffert
A remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books and second chances, following the Titanic librarian who opens a bookshop in Paris where he meets a secret society of survivors.
The Spirit of Nebraska
By Debra Kleve White
An in-depth look at where the Cornhusker fans’ spirit began and how it evolved. Learn the history behind the mascots, the Sea of Red, the Yell Squad, the Blackshirts and more.
Your Crib, My Qibla
By Saddiq Dzukogi
Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning, connecting the dead with the world of the living.
The Killer Inside Me
By Jim Thompson
Everyone in the small town loves Lou Ford. But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. The Killer Inside Me was once described as “one of the most blistering and uncompromising crime novels ever written.”
Short Hair Detention
By Channy Chhi Laux
As news reports announced that the Khmer Rouge was getting closer to taking control of Cambodia, Channy and her family were forced to relocate to Poipet, a border town to Thailand. From that point forward, Channy lived a life dictated by fear.
The Road to the Country
By Chigozie Obioma
Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt who must go to war to free himself. When his younger brother disappears as the country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
By Emily M. Danforth
When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she’d been kissing a girl. But relief doesn’t last, and she’s forced to move in with her aunt.
Birding While Indian
By Thomas Gannon
Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author’s life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains.
One Brilliant Flame
By Joy Castro
Key West, 1886. The booming cigar industry makes it the most prosperous city in Florida. As a rebel base for the anticolonial insurgency in Cuba, it’s also a tinderbox for six young friends with ambitious dreams. They all brim with secrets.
Landline
By Rainbow Rowell
TV writer Georgie McCool can’t actually visit the past; all she can do is call it, and hope it picks up. And hope he picks up — because once Georgie realizes she has a magic phone that calls into the past, all she wants is make things right with her husband, Neal.
Blue-Skinned Gods
By SJ Sindu
In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. He tries to be the god everyone tells him he is but over the next decade, his family unravels, and every relationship he relied on starts falling apart.
Nebraska: Poems
By Kwame Dawes
Dawes explores a theme constant in his work—the intersection of memory, home, and artistic invention — in these poems set against the backdrop of Nebraska’s discrete cycle of seasons.
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