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We Remember September 11 - Adults

8/16/2021

Nonfiction focused on history, facts of the day, or specific aspects of the events, causes, and locations of 9/11:

Out of the Blue, Richard Bernstein, print
Understanding September 11, Mitch Frank, print
The Only Plane in the Sky, Garrett M. Graff, print | ebook | eaudio
American Ground, William Langewiesche, print
The Cell, John Miller, et al., print
New York September 11, print
The 9/11 Commission Report, print
Why America Slept, Gerald Posner, print
Once More to the Sky, Scott Raab & Joe Woolhead (Coming in August)
Touching History, Lynn Spencer, print
What We Saw, Joe Klein, print
The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright, print | ebook | eaudio
Fall and Rise, Mitchell Zuckoff, print

Nonfiction focused on personal stories, people's actions on 9/11, and impact on day-to-day life:

Because We Are Americans, print
The Day the World Came to Town, Jim DeFede, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
102 Minutes, Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn, print | ebook | eaudio
Thunder Dog, Michael Hingson, large print | ebook | eaudio
Love, Greg & Lauren, Greg Manning, print
9/11: Inside the Pentagon, dvd
Ordinary Heroes, Joseph Pfeifer (Coming in September)
Last Man Down, Richard Picciotto, print
The Red Bandanna, Tom Rinaldi, print | ebook | eaudio
Middletown, America, Gail Sheehy, print
Report from Ground Zero, Dennis Smith, print

Nonfiction focused on the Afghan War, soldiers, and veterans:

The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden, Mark Bowden, print | ebook
Shooting Ghosts, Thomas J. Brennan & Finbarr O’Reilly, print
Un-American, Erik Edstrom, print
American Cipher, Matt Farwell, print
Shoot Like a Girl, Mary Jennings Hegar, print
Hell and Back Again, dvd
War, Sebastian Junger, print | ebook | eaudio
Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer, print | ebook | eaudio
Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell, print | ebook | eaudio
The American War in Afghanistan, Carter Malkasian, print
My Share of the Task, Stanley A. McChrystal, print | ebook
No Easy Day, Mark Owen, print | ebook | eaudio
Restrepo, dvd
The Outpost, Jake Tapper, print | eaudio
The Wrong War, Bing (Francis J.) West, print | ebook
The Afghanistan Papers, Craig Whitlock, print

Fiction, Graphic Novel, and Drama:

Windows on the World, Robert Mailer Anderson, et al., print
Come From Away, cd
Flight 93, dvd
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, print | audio | ebook
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, blu
Redeployment, Phil Klay, print | ebook | eaudio
The Looming Tower (series), dvd
The Usual Rules, Joyce Maynard, print
The Good Life, Jay McInerney, print
The Stringer, Ted Rall, print
12 Strong, dvd | blu
The Submission, Amy Waldman, print | eaudio
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, dvd

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We Remember September 11 - Kids & Teens

8/16/2021

Children's:

Nine, Ten: a September 11 Story, Nora Raleigh Baskin, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
America Is Under Attack, Don Brown, print
Cows for America, Carmen Agra Deedy, print
The Breadwinner Trilogy, Deborah Ellis, print | ebook
Saved by the Boats: the Heroic Sea Evacuation of September 11, Julie Gassman, print
Ground Zero, Alan Gratz, print | ebook
Fireboat: the Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey, Maira Kalman, print
Messages to Ground Zero, Shelley Harwayne, print
A Nation Challenged, ed. Nancy Lee, et al., print
What Were the Twin Towers?, Jim O’Connor, print | ebook
Towers Falling, Jewell Parker Rhodes, print | ebook
This Very Tree: a Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth, Sean Rubin, print
I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001, Lauren Tarshis, print | ebook
Nasreen’s Secret School, Jeanette Winter, print

Teen:

In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers, Don Brown, print
Hope and Other Punchlines, Julie Buxbaum, print
An Emotion of Great Delight, Tahereh Mafi, print | ebook | eaudio
The Memory of Things, Gae Polisner, print

Adult books that may be appropriate for children and teens:

American Heroes, print
Understanding September 11, Mitch Frank, print
New York September 11, print
9-11: A Tribute, print

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Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

(LINKcat links from 2021 through 4/2022 may be broken.)

For lists before 2021:
Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.

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