Every state is known for something. Work your way through the list of the Best Books Set in All 50 States.
Best Books Set In All 50 States
Alabama
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
Alaska
The Great Alone: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
Alaska by James A. Michener
by Jack London
Arizona
Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge
The Bean Trees (Greer Family #1) by Barbara Kingsolver
Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
In the Heart of the Canyon by Elisabeth Hyde
Arkansas
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
A Painted House by John Grisham
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
California
East Of Eden by John Steinbeck
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Colorado
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Shining by Stephen King
Centennial by James A. Michener
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
Connecticut
Last Night at the Lobster: A Novel by Stewart O’Nan
Bride Quartet series by Nora Roberts
Small Great Things: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
Dune Road: A Novel by Jane Green
Our Little Racket by Angelica Baker
Delaware
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
And Never Let Her Go by Ann Rule
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani
Florida
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Florida by Lauren Groff
Tourist Season by Carl Hiassen
Georgia
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Deliverance by James Dickey
Hawaii
Moloka’i and Daughter of Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
Honolulu by Alan Brennert
The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers by Sara Ackerman
East Wind, Rain by Caroline Paul
Idaho
Travelers Rest: A Novel by Keith Lee Morris
Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness by Pete Fromm
Idaho: A Novel by Emily Ruskovich
What Beauty There Is: A Novel by Cory Anderson
The Other Idahoans by Todd Shallat
Illinois
Native Son by Richard Wright
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Indiana
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Last Words by Michael Koryta
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
Come and Get Me by August Norman
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Iowa
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert Waller
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
Kansas
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mr Bridge And Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Gabriel's Story: A Novel by David Anthony Durham
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Kentucky
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
The Sugar Maple Grove by John E. Espy
Eden Hill by Bill Higgs
The Patron Saint Of Liars by Ann Patchett
Louisiana
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Maine
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Olive Kitteridge and Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Maryland
The Chesapeake Series by Nora Roberts
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Tess Monaghan Novel series by Laura Lippman
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Massachusetts
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Michigan
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Mentor and Her Muse by Susan Sage
The Dollmaker by Harriet Simpson Arnow
Minnesota
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Mississippi
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
My Dog Skip by Willie Morris
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Missouri
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen
Stoner by John Williams
A Good American by Alex George
Montana
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
Wind from an Enemy Sky by D’Arcy McNickle
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
Swift Dam by Sid Gustafson
The Big Sky by A. B. Guthri
Nebraska
The Prairie Trilogy: O Pioneers!; The Song of the Lark; My Antoniá by Willa Cather
Children Of The Corn by Stephen King
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
Outside Valentine by Liza Ward
Nevada
Better Luck Next Time: A Novel by Julia Claiborne Johnson
We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
The Desert Rose by Larry McMurtry
Leaving Las Vegas by: John O’Brien
The Delivery Man by Joe McGinniss
New Hampshire
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
New Jersey
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
On the Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark
New Mexico
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather
Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade
New York
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1) by Mario Puzo
Firestarter by Stephen King
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
North Carolina
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Last American Man by: Elizabeth Gilbert
North Dakota
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
The Dakota Trilogy by Debbie Macomber
The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
Paradise Valley by C.J. Box
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Indignation by Phillip Roth
Reading Blue Devils: A Novel by Jon Bennett
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Oklahoma
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Outsider by Stephen King
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
True Grit by Charles Portis
Oregon
Mink River by Brian Doyle
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Pennsylvania
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
An American Childhood by Anne Dillard
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Made to Break Your Heart by Richard Fellinger
Rhode Island
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
A Gilded Newport Mystery by Alyssa Maxwell
The Memory of Running by Russ McLarty
South Carolina
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Sullivan’s Island by Dorthea Benton Frank
The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe
South Dakota
Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt
Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen
The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers
Black Hills by Nora Roberts
Tennessee
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
The Firm by John Grisham
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington
Texas
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Texas by James Michener
The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
Utah
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Vermont
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian
Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben
Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher
Virginia
The Kitchen House: A Novel by Kathleen Grissom
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Big Stone Gap series by Adriana Trigiani
The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Washington
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
West Virginia
In An Empty Room: A Novel by Stephen Spotte
Snakehunter by Chuck Kinder
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by Glenn Taylor
Wisconsin
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskins
Wyoming
Open Season by CJ Box
Ridgeline by Michael Punke
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
Empire of Shadows by George Black
The Wake Up by Catherine Ryan Hyde
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