Famous Books by State

Saw an interesting article about each state’s most famous book. I’ve read a few of the books and heard of several others. Many I have no desire to read.

www.businessinsider.com/most-famous-book-set-in-every-state-map-2013-10

Here is what they came up with:

AL: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

AK: Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer

AZ: The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver

AR: A Painted House, by John Grisham

CA: East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

CO: The Shining, by Stephen King

CT: Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates

DE: The Saint of Lost Things, by Christopher Castellani

FL: To Have and Have Not, by Ernest Hemingway

GA: Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

HI: Hawaii, by James Michener

ID: Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson

IL: The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

IN: The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington

IA: A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley

KS: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L Frank Baum

KY: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LA: Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice

ME: Carrie, by Stephen King

MD: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, by Anne Tyler

MA: Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

MI: The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides

MN: Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis

MS: The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner

MO: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

MT: A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean

NE: My Antonia, by Willa Cather

NV: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S Thompson

NH: The Hotel New Hampshire, by John Irving

NJ: Drown, by Junot Diaz

NM: Red Sky at Morning, by Richard Bradford

NY: The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald

NC: A Walk to Remember, by Nicolas Sparks

ND: The Round House, by Louise Erdrich

OH: The Broom of the System, by David Foster Wallace

OK: Paradise, by Toni Morrison

OR: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey

PA: The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold

RI: My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult

SC: The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd

SD: A Long Way From Home, by Tom Brokaw

TN: The Firm and The Client, by John Grisham

TX: No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy

UT: The 19th Wife, by David Ebershoff

VT: Pollyanna, by Eleanor H Porter

VA: Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson

WA: Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer

DC: The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown

WV: Shiloh, by Phillis Reynolds Naylor

WI: Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

WY: The Laramie Project, by Moises Kaufman