Select language, opens an overlay
  • General Recommendations
  • Staff-Created List

Omaha Reading Challenge 2024: Read a book by, about, or featuring a 20th century icon

The Omaha Public Library (OPL) Reading Challenge is back! OPL staff have created a series of reading challenges to push you outside of your reading comfort zone and into new literary realms. This list contains titles by, about, or featuring a 20th century icon. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

25 items

  • BookNew York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — FICTION Flattery 2023
  • BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — B King Eig 2023
  • BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2023. — 158.1 Schwarze 2023
  • BookNew York : Ecco Press, c2000, 2009 — FICTION Oates 2009
  • Dear Tolstoy Yours, Gandhi

    a Novel : Based on the True Correspondence

    Kis-Lev, Jonathan,
    Book[United States] : Goldsmith Press, LLC, [2016] — FICTION Kis-Lev 2016
  • BookNew York, NY : Harper Perennial, [2021] — FICTION Cantor 2021
  • BookNew York : Scribner, 2011. — FICTION King 2011
  • BookNew York : Random House, [2020] — FICTION Sittenfeld 2020
  • Girls Like Us

    Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation

    Weller, Sheila
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2008. — 780.922 Weller
  • BookNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — B Cobain Goldberg 2019
  • Althea

    the Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson

    Jacobs, Sally H., 1957-
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — B Gibson Jacobs 2023
  • Selenidad

    Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory

    Parédez, Deborah, 1970-
    BookDurham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009. — 782.42164 Paredez 2009
  • BookMarietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2013-2016] — 323.092 L674 bk. 3
  • BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — B Madonna Gabriel 2023