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Indiana Great Books list by Nancy N. Conner, Ph.D

Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser (b. Terre Haute, IN)

The Hoosier Schoolmaster
by Edward Eggleston (b. Vevay, IN)

Belly Songs and Other Poems
by Etheridge Knight (hometown, Indianapolis)

Alive and Dead in Indiana
by Michael Martone (b. Fort Wayne, IN)

The House of a Thousand Candles
by Meredith Nicholson (b.
Crawfordsville, IN)

Poetical Works
by James Whitcomb Riley (b. Greenfield, IN)

Girl of the Limberlost
by Gene Stratton-Porter (b. Wabash, IN)

Panther in the Sky
by James Alexander Thom (b. Gosport, IN)

Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt Vonnegut (b. Indianapolis, IN)

Ben Hur
by Lew Wallace (b. Brookville, IN)


Dr. Nancy Conner, a graduate of UCLA but married into Hoosierdom, is currently grants director and webmaster of the Indiana Humanities Council. She notes that only one of the above writers was not born in Indiana, and that Etheridge Knight is generally considered to be an Indiana poet since he lived here much of his life.Humanities Council Website