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Arkansas Books
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A Painted House (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.78 — 103,169 ratings — published 2001
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.30 — 586,574 ratings — published 1969
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.17 — 74,494 ratings — published 1968
The Lions of Little Rock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,805 ratings — published 2012
Where Things Come Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.80 — 21,333 ratings — published 2011
Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,841 ratings — published 1996
Come and Get It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.33 — 46,046 ratings — published 2024
The Witness (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.25 — 95,717 ratings — published 2012
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,871 ratings — published 2011
Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.70 — 17,845 ratings — published 1973
Grave Sight (Harper Connelly, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.87 — 66,497 ratings — published 2005
They Called Us Enemy (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.42 — 53,904 ratings — published 2019
The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,985 ratings — published 2020
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks (Stay More)
by (shelved 15 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.90 — 972 ratings — published 1975
Shakespeare's Champion (Lily Bard, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.84 — 18,055 ratings — published 1997
Shakespeare's Christmas (Lily Bard, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,229 ratings — published 1998
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes (Rose Gardner Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.94 — 33,188 ratings — published 2011
Lightning Bug (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.84 — 515 ratings — published 1970
Malice in Maggody (Arly Hanks, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,644 ratings — published 1987
Ozark Dogs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,300 ratings — published 2023
The Witch of Tin Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,647 ratings — published 2023
Eventide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,664 ratings — published 2020
With a Name like Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,125 ratings — published 2011
Shakespeare's Trollop (Lily Bard, #4)
by (shelved 10 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.89 — 15,726 ratings — published 2000
What's Done in Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,458 ratings — published 2021
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.62 — 21,801 ratings — published 2016
Arkansas Traveler (Benni Harper, #8)
by (shelved 9 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,883 ratings — published 2001
Don't Know Tough (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,853 ratings — published 2022
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,043 ratings — published 2017
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.18 — 16,479 ratings — published 1994
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,892 ratings — published 2002
The Dog of the South (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,991 ratings — published 1979
Shakespeare's Counselor (Lily Bard, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,384 ratings — published 2001
The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,421 ratings — published 2023
Don't Cry for Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.37 — 16,596 ratings — published 2022
Unplugged (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,139 ratings — published 2021
All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.49 — 9,307 ratings — published 2020
Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.28 — 10,605 ratings — published 2000
Cockroaches of Stay More (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.08 — 275 ratings — published 1989
Strangled Prose (Claire Malloy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,371 ratings — published 1985
The Merry Wives of Maggody (Arly Hanks, #16)
by (shelved 7 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.79 — 865 ratings — published 2009
Arkansas: A Narrative History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.58 — 64 ratings — published 2002
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.35 — 842,840 ratings — published 1978
Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.00 — 157,825 ratings — published 2023
Hooked on You (Maple Falls #1)
by (shelved 6 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,638 ratings — published 2021
Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.38 — 45 ratings — published 2014
After the Fall (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,426 ratings — published 2017
They Tell Me of a Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as arkansas)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,246 ratings — published 2005
A Lack of Temperance (Hattie Davish Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.36 — 611 ratings — published 2012
Calico Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as arkansas)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,371 ratings — published 2012
“Well, that night we had our show; but there warn’t only about twelve people there – just enough to pay expenses. And they laughed all the time, and that made the duke mad; and everybody left, anyway, before the show was over, but one boy which was asleep. So the duke said these Arkansaw lunkheads couldn’t come up to Shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy – and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy, he reckoned. He said he could size their style. So next morning he got some big sheets of wrapping paper and some black paint, and drawed off some handbills, and stuck them up all over the village. The bills said:
AT THE COURT HOUSE!
FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY!
The World-Renowned Tragedians
DAVID GARRICK THE YOUNGER!
AND
EDMUND KEAN THE ELDER!
Of the London and Continental Theatres,
In their Thrilling Tragedy of
THE KING’S CAMELEOPARD,
OR
THE ROYAL NONESUCH ! ! !
Admission 50 cents.
Then at the bottom was the biggest line of all, which said:
LADIES AND CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED.
“There,” says he, “if that line don’t fetch them, I don’t know Arkansaw!”
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AT THE COURT HOUSE!
FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY!
The World-Renowned Tragedians
DAVID GARRICK THE YOUNGER!
AND
EDMUND KEAN THE ELDER!
Of the London and Continental Theatres,
In their Thrilling Tragedy of
THE KING’S CAMELEOPARD,
OR
THE ROYAL NONESUCH ! ! !
Admission 50 cents.
Then at the bottom was the biggest line of all, which said:
LADIES AND CHILDREN NOT ADMITTED.
“There,” says he, “if that line don’t fetch them, I don’t know Arkansaw!”
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“My name is Matt Besser, and I'm an Arkansas Razorback. My father is a Jew from Little Rock, Ark., my mother was a Christian from Harrison, Ark., and somehow I'm an atheist now living in L.A. I am a Razorback living in the Razorback diaspora.”
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