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Recommended by Athena Bailey

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson is one of my very favorite books. This

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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek authentic piece of historical fiction and so wonderfully written

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Books By Kim Michele Richardson

GodPretty in the Tobacco Field
The Sisters of Glass Ferry
The Unbreakable Child
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Book Woman's Daughter
Junia
Liar's Bench

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Kim Michele Richardson’s compelling novel The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek was inspired by the ‘blue people’ of Kentucky and the brave Packhorse Librarians who championed literacy against bigotry and fear during the Great Depression. The work (and its sequel, The Book Woman’s Daughter) has left an indelible mark and is now part of the Common Reads program across the United States, a community program that brings together students on college and university campuses to read and discuss novels of significance. Richardson’s other books also explore historical aspects of Kentucky with richly drawn characters and emotionally evocative storytelling.

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Recommended Books From Kim Michele Richardson Fans

The Housemaid's Wedding: A Short Story
Doctored Evidence
Waxwork
Frozen: A Vera Stanhope Short Story
Red Bones
Children of the Storm
Nemesis: A Harry Hole Novel
If You Believe
The Unlikely Spy
Not in the Flesh
The Reaper
Mercy
The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders
The Five Bells and Bladebone
The Black Ascot
One Fine Day You're Gonna Die
The Hallmarked Man
Silent On The Moor
The Importance of Being Seven
Bleeding Hearts
Midnight Tango
When You See Me
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women
The Good Daughter: A Novel
The Last Bookstore In America
The Hyde Park Headsman
How to Solve Your Own Murder
Killing with Confetti
Twisted Prey
The Ghost Orchid: An Alex Delaware Novel
Open Season
Nineteen Minutes
Oryx and Crake
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Code to Zero
A Time of Love and Tartan
Too Close to Home
The Geometry of Holding Hands
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Life Before Man
The Singing of the Dead
Resurrection Row
The 4th Man: An FBI Profiler / Detective D. D. Warren Story
Cruel Intent
In the Presence of the Enemy
Beneath the Bleeding
Sharp Objects: A Novel
The Green Mill Murder
Deadly Appearances
Liar's Bench
The Night Hawks
World Without End
A Kind Man
Angel of Vengeance
Endangered
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Tricky Twenty-Two
The Ape who Guards the Balance
The Kingdom
These High
The Highwayman: A Longmire Story
Master and God
A Pale Horse
Rabid: A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
London Rules
Old Bones
The Potted Gardener
Knife: A Harry Hole novel
Six Years
Survival of the Fittest: An Alex Delaware Novel
Manitou Canyon
The Girl who Married a Lion
Cause of Death
The New Iberia Blues
Cold Betrayal
The Last Coyote
The Man from St. Petersburg
Borrower of the Night: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Old Babes in the Wood
Mary Higgins Clark and Elizabeth Peters Present More Malice Domestic
The Girl of His Dreams
Breathing Lessons
The Traitor Among Us
Keeping Faith
The Front
The Caretaker: A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
Murder on Vacation
Full Blast
A Christmas Hope: A Novel
The Girl in the Green Raincoat
The Ghost Walker
The One Thing More
Boar Island
Lady in the Lake
The Children Return
To Die For
The Scam
Above the Bay of Angels
Three Days in June
Forsaken Country
Dust
In Plain Sight
Battle Mountain
Blindsighted
Pitch Dark
So Sure of Death
The Bingo Palace
Blessing of the Lost Girls
Fall of Giants
Burying Ariel
The Various Haunts of Men
My Sister's Keeper
Locked In
Showstopper
The Hypnotist's Love Story
Death of a Butterfly
A Darker Reality
Hunting Shadows
Midnight Come Again
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Surfacing
The American Agent
The Wheel of Darkness
An Obvious Fact: A Longmire Mystery
Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation
Death of a Kingfisher
A Casualty of War
Breakdown: An Alex Delaware Novel
In This Bright Future: A DC Smith Investigation
An Unmarked Grave
Wait Till Next Year
Plum Lucky
The Next Accident
Vertigo 42: A Richard Jury Mystery
Talking God
The Old Success: A Richard Jury Mystery
The Torment of Others
Smoke in the Wind
J is for Judgment
The Narrows
Outlander
Daisy Darker
Northanger Abbey
Heirs and Graces
Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
A Christmas Resolution: A Novel
So Shall You Reap
Blood Will Tell
Dissolution
Catch Me When I Fall
The Dry
Wild Crimes
Moving Target
House of Death
Duma Key
Still Life
Missing Persons
The Mother Act
Jennie
The Silent Spirit
Jackdaws
Theft of an Idol
The Sacred Bridge: A Mystery Novel
The Accident
The Paris Library: A Novel
The Convict and Other Stories
The Job
The Four Winds
The Absent One
Death in the Cards
The Lincoln Lawyer
Bad Blood
The Bounty
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Tamarack County
How the Dead Speak
Hunter's Moon
Not Dead Yet
Last Lessons of Summer
Ill Wind
Sweet
Bruno and the Carol Singers: A Christmas Mystery of the French Countryside
Mercy Falls
The Dark Angel
The Truth According to Us
A Song of War
Deserves to Be Dead: MatchUp Collection
A False Mirror
An Irish Country Village
An Irish Country Yuletide
Pirate King
Noah's Compass
Hot to Trot: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
The Department of Sensitive Crimes
Trunk Music
Rage
The Old Wine Shades
The Imposter: A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
Girl in a Box
Uncharted Waters
Beneath the Surface
A New Kind of Country
Skinwalkers
Track of the Cat
Fingal O'Reilly
Turbo Twenty-Three
The Redbreast
A Heart Full of Headstones
An Unkindness Of Ravens
Heaven's Keep
Death Song
Look Both Ways
The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights
Uncommon Clay
Whisper to the Blood
Report for Murder
Explosive Eighteen
The Laws of Murder
A Taste of Life
Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose
Badlands
The Chalk Pit
W is for Wasted
The Samurai's Daughter
Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief
A Trio of Tolerable Tales
Look Alive Twenty-Five
Curious Pursuits
Moral Disorder and Other Stories
A Demon In My View
Divine Justice
Whispers of the Dead
Rather be the Devil
Death in the Vines
The Madness of Crowds
Unto Us a Son Is Given
Water Like a Stone
Murder on the Serpentine
One False Move
Blue Labyrinth
Trains and Lovers
The Catch
Girl Waits with Gun
The Train Now Departing
At the Reunion Buffet: An Isabel Dalhousie Story
Drums of Autumn
Cleanskin
The Silver Pigs
Union Jack
The Scorpion's Tail
Death Comes Knocking: Policing Roy Grace's Brighton
Royal Flush
Mindgame
On Writing
Paper Money
Hero: A Simon Serrailler Short Story
A Lethal Lesson
City of Jasmine
A Grave in the Woods
The Child's Child
Blood Moon: A Kate Burkholder Short Mystery
Road Rage
The Chase
I Was Anastasia
Killing Grounds
Coyote's Wild Home
C Is for Corpse
Death and the Underworld
Long Upon the Land
Sizzling Sixteen
The Summer That Never Was
Maisie Dobbs
Damage Control
Pandora's Boy
Smoke and Whispers
A Place of Hiding
The Hunting Party
Win
Bodily Harm
Gathering Prey
White Fire
Simply Lies
Empress of the Seven Hills
I Found You
The Patron Saint of Liars
The Maharani's Pearls: A Bess Crawford Story
The Surgeon: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
The Poisonwood Bible
Dead or Alive
The Huntress
The Stone Circle
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Long Time Gone
No More Dying Then
Vicious Circle
Terminal Freeze
Trial by Fury
The Birchbark House

“Being able to return to the books was a sanctuary for my heart. And a joy bolted free, lessening my own grievances, forgiving spent youth and dying dreams lost to a hard life, the hard land, and to folks’ hard thoughts and partialities.”

Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Grace Ellen McDowell
“The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a wonderful book. I especially loved knowing it’s based on real events and these book women existed as did the ‘blue people’.”

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