Hi! This year I challenged myself to read a book set in each of the 50 states in the United States. I have a portion of them either read or have a book planned but there’s a few I’m struggling with. I’m using either books where they live or travel to the state. As far as genres go I mainly enjoy mystery, thriller, some romance, fantasy and historical fiction. I’m not really into nonfiction and horror but will read some! Thank you for any help 🙂
I’m looking for books for: Arkansas, Delaware, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
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The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. It starts of in New Hampshire, although the second half is set in Europe.
Curious, what are you reading for New Mexico?
Kansas — *The Wizard of Oz*
Oklahoma — *The Grapes of Wrath*
Montana — *Little Big Man* by Thomas Berenger
Mississippi — *Light in August*
Arkansas — *The Devil’s Town: Hot Springs During the Gangster Era* by Philip Leigh.
For Washington consider Where’d you go Bernadette?
It light and quick.
Arkansas – True Grit by Charles Portis
Kansas – The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, if that counts
Kansas – Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Mississippi – Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
Mississippi – most stories by William Faulkner
Mississippi – Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
Mississippi – The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Mississippi – The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
Missouri – Gone Girl and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Nevada – Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule
New Hampshire – The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
New Hampshire – many books by Anita Shreve
Oklahoma – The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Oklahoma – The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Oklahoma – The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, partly
Vermont – We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Vermont – It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Vermont – Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter
Wyoming – Close Range by Annie Proulx