2008 Kansas Notable Books:

• American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China - Matthew Polly
• The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians - Brad Sneed, illustrator
• Can I Keep My Jersey? 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond - Paul Shirley
• The Curse of Catunkhamun - Tim Raglin
• The Farther Shore - Matthew Eck
• From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White - Beverley O. Buller
• Hellfire Canyon - Max McCoy
• Hunger for the Wild: America’s Obsession with the Untamed West - Michael L. Johnson
• The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 - Albert Goldbarth
• A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution - David A. Nichols
• The Middle of Somewhere - J. B. Cheaney
• The Rest of Her Life - Laura Moriarty
• Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep - Michael J. Everhart
• Storm Chaser: A Photographer’s Journey - Jim Reed
• Writing in an Age of Silence - Sara Paretsky