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Reading the States: Hawaii

Friday, March 23, 2012


State: HAWAII

Fiction:
- The Descendants* by Kaui Hart Hemmings
- Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
- Hawaii by James Michener
- The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore
- Sisterchicks Do the Hula* by Robin Jones Gunn,
- From Here to Eternity by James Jones
- Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers by Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Nonfiction:
- Unfamiliar Fishes* by Sarah Vowell
- Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands by Gavan Daws
- The Colony: the harrowing true story of the exiles of Molokai by John Tayman

Authors Who Lived Here:
- Allegra Goodman
- Lois Lowry
- David Gallaher

Great Bookstores in the State: 
Native Books

*Books I've Read

Photo by moi.