Madison Books – Written by Madisonians

• The First Wisconsin Cavalry at the capture of Jefferson Davis (1898) – Henry Harnden – pdf
• The Locomotive God – William Ellery Leonard (1927) – Professor of English at the UW
• Don't Look Behind You – Samuel Rogers (1944) – The author was a professor at the UW. The story takes place in a town with many similarities to Madison.
• United Artists: The Company Built By the Stars – Balio (1976) – Balio worked for the UW and Persuaded United Artists to donate their film library years ago
       & United Artists: The Company that Changed the Film Industry – Balio (1986)
  
• Blood Knot – Bruce Algozin (1982)
• Madlands – Allen Kirsch (1994)
• The Chimney Sweeper – John Peyton Cooke (1995) – Cooke put the Skeleton Story and the drifter-murderer story together and fashioned a novel. +
• Classic Wisconsin Weekends – Michael Bie (2002)
       & It Happened in Wisconsin – Michael Bie (2007)
  
• From Generation to Generation – Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky () Story of the Madison Jewish community's first 100 years
       & Intimates and Ultimates – Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky () A collection of Swarsensky's speeches and essays
• Vampire Cabbie – Fred Schepartz (2007) – About a 1000 year old vampire forced to drive a taxi in Madison.
• Save Me, Julie Kogon – Allen Ruffchance (2007)

• Into the Story – () – A collection of reporting that contains several Madison reminiscences.
• They marched into the sunlight – (2003)
• Clemente – () Biography of the late baseball star Roberto Clemente.
• When Pride Still Mattered – () Vince Lombardi biography.