The State Library of Kansas hosts a list of the 150 Best Kansas Books. UPK is proud to claim credit for publishing 49 of these tomes, including:
1001 Kansas Place Names, by Sondra Van Meter McCoy and Jan Hults
The Autobiography of William Allen White, by William Allen White
Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era, by Nicole Etcheson
Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution, by Robert Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond and Leland B. Ware
Dying and Living on the Kansas Prairie: A Diary, by Carol Brunner Rutledge (out of print at this time)
The End of Indian Kansas: A Study of Cultural Revolution, 1854-1871, by H. Craig Miner and William E. Unrau
The Enduring Indians of Kansas: A Century and a Half of Acculturation, by Joseph B. Herring
Exodusters: Black Migrations to Kansas After Reconstruction, by Nell Irvin Painter (out of print at this time)
Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-Hand Account from Kansas, by Lawrence Svoboda
Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales from the Tallgrass Prairie, by Jim Hoy
Folklore from Kansas: Customs, Beliefs and Superstitions, William E. Koch (ed.)
Ghost Towns of Kansas: A Traveler’s Guide, by Daniel Fitzgerald
The Great Kansas Bond Scandal, by Robert Smith Bader
Guide to Kansas Architecture, by David H. Sachs and George Ehrlich
The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots, by Bob Gress and Pete Janzen
Haunted Kansas: Ghost Stories and Other Eerie Tales, by Lisa Hefner Heitz
Hayseeds, Moralizers, and Methodists: The Twentieth-Century Image of Kansas, by Robert Smith Bader
Home on the Range: A Century on the High Plains, by James R. Dickenson
Indian Orphanages, by Marilyn Irvin Holt
John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History, Virgil W. Dean (ed.)
Kansas: A History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000, by H. Craig Miner
Kansas and the West: New Perspectives, Rita Napier (ed.)
Kansas Archaeology, by Robert J. Hoard and William E. Banks
The Kansas Cookbook, by Frank Carey and Jayni Naas
Kansas Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils, Rex Buchanan (ed.)
Kansas in Color: Photographs Selected by Kansas! Magazine, Andrea Glenn (ed.) (out of print at this time)
Kansas Murals: A Traveler’s Guide, by Laura Jost and Dave Loewenstein
Kansas Quilts & Quilters, by Barbara Brackman and Jennie Chin (out of print at this time)
Kansas Wetlands: A Wildlife Treasury, Joseph T. Collins, Suzanne L. Collins and Bob Gress
A Kansas Year, by Mike Blair
Land of the Post Rock: Its Origins, History and People, by Grace Muilenburg and Ada Swineford
Living Landscapes of Kansas, paintings by Robert Sudlow
The Last Cattle Drive, by Robert Day
Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890-1940, by H. Craig Miner
Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas, by James R. Shortridge
Prohibition in Kansas: A History, by Robert Smith Bader
Roadside Kansas: A Traveler’s Guide to its Geology and Landmarks, by Rex C. Buchanan and James R. McCauley
Section 27: A Century on a Family Farm, by Mil Penner
Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858, by H. Craig Miner
Sod and Stubble: The Story of a Kansas Homestead, by John Ise
Sod-House Days: Letters from a Kansas Homesteader, 1877-1878, by Howard Ruede
Time, Politics, and Policies: A Legislative Year, by Burdett A. Loomis
A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education, by Paul E. Wilson
True Tales of Old-Time Kansas, by David Dary
West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kansas, 1865-1890, by H. Craig Miner
What Kansas Means to Me: Twentieth-Century Writers on the Sunflower State, Thomas Fox Averill (ed.)
Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas: A Field Guide, by Michael John Haddock
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Kansas Centennial Edition, by L. Frank Baum, Michael McCurdy, and Ray Bradbury
The WPA Guide to 1930s Kansas, by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Kansas, Introduction by James R. Shortridge