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Hawai‘i’s spirit can be found, and accessed more easily than ever, in our cultural repositories. Here are some resources.

Our hope with running a list like this is to cast a much-deserved spotlight on Hawai‘i’s best stories and authors.

Our first list—50 Essential Hawai‘i Books You Should Read in Your Lifetime—was one of our most popular stories ever, but it didn’t do justice to our flourishing regional literary scene. So here we go again: More of da kine, only bigger, broader, deeper.

HONOLULU’s first-ever list of the most iconic, trenchant and irresistible books about Hawai‘i, as voted by a panel of literary community luminaries.

Yes|!!| lucky we live Hawai‘i|!!| the only state with its own regional literature. But|!!| lately|!!| it’s only gotten harder to make a go of it for our diverse|!!| dedicated and ink-stained scribbling class. Is self-publishing the answer? Who’s writing the next Great Hawai‘i Novel? Why won’t New York pay attention to us? We push the envelope in search of answers to these and other burning questions.