Missoula Reads

A Cast Away in Montana by Tim Schulz 

A Place Called Yellowstone by Randall R. Wilson 

Abby the Antelope by Eddie Vogel 

Accidental Demons by Clare Edge 

All This Divide by Jory Mickelson 

Antillia by Henrietta Goodman 

Back to the Trees and Caves by Jonathan Klein 

Becoming Little Shell by Chris La Tray 

Birding for Boomers by Sneed B. Collard 

Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World by Sally Thompson 

Chickie Jurin’s Zamboozie Stew by Heidi Destafano 

Clete by James Lee Burke 

Congress’s Cryptographer: A Novel of James Lovell & the American Revolution by Jean C. O’Connor 

Disturbing the Sleeping Buffalo by Sally Thompson 

Eavesdropping on Animals by George Bumann 

Echolocation by Sage Marshall 

Elk Love by Lynne Spriggs O’Connor 

Galloping Away by Robin Kolb 

Gravity’s Grace by Jana Branch 

Harbor Lights by James Lee Burke 

Hills Hide Mountains by Travis Klempan 

Hoof Beats by William Taylor 

Hush of the Land by Arnold “Smoke” Elser 

Let the Rivers Clap Their Hands by Rube Wrightsman 

Little Ships by Sandra Scofield 

Logging for the Company by Jack Losensky 

Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell 

Meanwhile, I Keep Dancing by Christie Goodman 

Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles 

No Ordinary Journey by Mary Barmeyer O’Brien 

Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers by Rebecca McCarthy 

Plot Against Native America by Bill Vaughn 

Red is the Fastest Color by Dave Carty 

Silence You by Jessie Close 

Smoke in Our Eyes by James Grady 

The Bat House by Michael B. Riley 

The Boy Who Promised Me Horses by David Joseph Charpentier 

The Entire Sky by Joe Wilkins 

The River View by Jamie Harrison 

The Salt of the Universe by Amy Leach 

These Creatures of a Day by Marc Beaudin 

Thinking Like a Wolf by Rick McIntyre 

Trail Magic by JoDean Nicolette 

Twisting in Air by Carol Bradley 

Undercurrents by Joan Maki 

Unlikely Hero by Rick McIntyre and David A. Poulson 

Unsinkable Cayenne by Jessica Vitalis 

We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons 

What Not to Forgive by Loring Walawander 

Wifwulf by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly 

With Every Great Breath by Rick Bass 

Woman Among Wolves by Diane Boyd 

Writings of Norman Maclean by Timothy P. Schilling 

Bunny by Mona Awad

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

Kill All Your Darlings by David Bell

The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

All the Girls Are So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

The Orchard by David Hopen

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret Place by Tana French

The Swallows by Lisa Lutz

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The Truants by Kate Weinberg

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

White Ivy by Susie Yang

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Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould

Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West

Sorrow & Bliss by Meg Mason

What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

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142 Ostriches by April Dávila

The Blessings by Elise Juska

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

Dial A for Aunites by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

The Human Zoo by Sabina Murray

The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs

The Lives of Others by Neel Makherjee

A Much Married Man by Nicholas Coleridge

Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber

Secrets of the Lighthouse by Santa Montefiore

Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow

The Son by Philipp Meyer

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingslover

What to Do About the Solomons by Bethany Ball

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

The Big Heist: The Real Story of the Lufthansa Heist, the Mafia, and Murder by Anthony M. DeStefano

Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby

Canada by Richard Ford

Cherry by Nico Walker

The Collector by Daniel Silva

Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

The Hunter by Richard Stark

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

To Have and to Heist by Sara Desai

Void Moon by Michael Connelly

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken

Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt

The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick

The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan

Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue Halpern

What You Are Looking For Is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama

What You Wish For by Katherine Center

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Appleseed by Matt Bell

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto

The Devourers by Indra Das

For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten

Grendel by John Gardner

His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng

When We Were Animals by Joshua Gaylord

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

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Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow

Spindles and Thorns by Melani Karsak

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

American Rapture by C.J. Leede

The Blonde Identity by Ally Carter

Defenestrate by Renee Branum

Expect Me Tomorrow by Christopher Priest

Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams

The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand

I’ll Be You by Janelle Brown

The Kids are Gonna Ask by Gretchen Anthony

The London House by Katherine Reay

The Lost Kings by Tyrell Johnson

Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic by Breanne Randall

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett