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Read your way around the USA

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ScarerAndFuck · 18/10/2013 20:03

Just seen a list of the most famous books, one from every state in the USA.

I thought it might be interesting to share here in case anyone felt like a reading challenge with a difference.

The list is here

I've already read 20 of them, although two were for the same state as they were joint first on the list.

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octopusinastringbag · 27/10/2013 19:21

Bristol

octopusinastringbag · 27/10/2013 19:18

Shrewsbury

octopusinastringbag · 27/10/2013 19:15

Just finished this one that is set in Worcestershire quite good for the price (it was free!)

joanofarchitrave · 27/10/2013 19:04

Hertfordshire - Pride and Prejudice
Surrey - Emma
Shropshire - The Happy Prisoner by Monica Dickens
Wiltshire - Remains of the Day
Somerset - Persuasion (Bath)
West Yorkshire - Red Riding trilogy
Sussex - The Cazalet Chronicles

Ilovemyanyfucker · 27/10/2013 18:57

Ross and Cromarty - Winter Solstice - Rosamunde Pilcher. I absolutely love this book!!

tripfiction · 27/10/2013 14:03

BUCKS Anyone have any other ideas: Enigma by Robert Harris?

CAMBS Lots come to mind - please vote or suggest others:

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Engleby by Sebastian FAulks
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe

tripfiction · 26/10/2013 11:11

Fab list Ilovemyanyfucker and thank you PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline - REALLY useful list! It's such a shame that we can't do Bath, isn't it, it would be so much easier BasketzatDawn
So, how about this one which won the Man Booker 2011 - Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes????

PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline · 25/10/2013 21:08

Does this list help with Bristol?

Ilovemyanyfucker · 25/10/2013 19:45

Oxfordshire - Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora Thompson
Herefordshire - any of the Phil Rickman Merrily Watkins books - the first one is Wine of Angels.
Derbyshire - Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks

I have a friend who I'm seeing tomorrow who has read everything! I'll ask her for some ideas and will be back with a list.

HumpdaySelfieinaWitchesHat · 25/10/2013 19:39

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EBearhug · 25/10/2013 19:08

Surely there must be other books set in Bristol?

BasketzatDawn · 25/10/2013 19:03

Can't you do Bath instead, and include a Jane Austen?

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tripfiction · 25/10/2013 13:38

Where's everyone gone? Come on folks, we can do this.

Bristol Dare we go for Jeffrey Archer Only Time will tell???

EBearhug · 23/10/2013 21:37

EBearhug - which Roald Dahl for Bucks?

Well, I'm possibly rethinking that - because it was too late last night, and I was confused about whether it should be where the author's from or where the book is set.

tripfiction · 23/10/2013 09:49

BEDFORDSHIRE What about Reginald Hill 'Blood Sympathy'?

If everyone is happy with Berks Cocktail Time by P G Wodehouse we can move on to

BRISTOL Suggestions of famous books set in the city?

tripfiction · 23/10/2013 09:01

Thank you BasketzatDawn for Co Tyrone.

Yes, we could rethink Scotland. Might feel less overwhelming if we can pare it down a bit

EBearhug - which Roald Dahl for Bucks?

BEDFORDSHIRE: Can we use Bunyan, as Pilgrim's Progress seems to wander about the place?

BERKSHIRE: 3 Men in a Boat passes through. Cocktail Time by PG Wodehouse seems to be set there. Any thoughts anyone?

EBearhug · 23/10/2013 00:53

Oh, do they have to be set there, or the author from there? I have lost track, (because I should have gone to bed ages ago.)

EBearhug · 23/10/2013 00:51

Roald Dahl for Buckinghamshire.
John Bunyan for Bedfordshire.

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BasketzatDawn · 22/10/2013 23:02

Answering own question here. It's County Tyrone missed off list above. And Seamus H from Co Londonderry too, and of course he wrote poetry not prose - but we could put a collection of poems on list??

BasketzatDawn · 22/10/2013 22:51

Oh, I've been thinking about the Scottish part of this on and off today. I did intend to write it down, just haven't found the back of an envelope yetGrin. It's a lovely little project when so much rubbish going on elsewhere (the world and nearer home!). I agree with somebody above who suggests list of counties too long - certainly for Scotland many of these are historic, as they are for elsewhere too. I'll need to look some writers up as brain minced and can't recall names. Sad

BTW we have to have Jennifer Johnston for C Londonderry. No? I was also wondering why only 5 counties listed for NI when there are 6. I can't think which has been missed. Can we put lovely Seamus Heaney on list too?

I'll be back, but bedtime now. And tomorrow a busy day so the weekend maybe??

EBearhug · 22/10/2013 22:19

Work gets in the way, unfortunately.

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tripfiction · 22/10/2013 17:19

Thank you Belfastbloke. That is comprehensive. We can go alphabetically from now, might be easier. So, are we going to go for Hound of the Baskervilles for DEVON?

Next up:
BEDFORDSHIRE: to get the ball rolling I can suggest:
Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant
The Yips by Nicola Barker

Anyone any other ideas???????

(I've noted The Northern Clemency for Sheffield, tks to antimatter)

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