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Alabama - To Kill a Mocking Bird / Truman Capote- A Southern Memory / James Agee /
Alaska - The snow child by Eowyn Ivey / The Yiddish Policemen's Union / Jack London / Heather Lende / Into the Wild /
Arizona - the almanac of the dead' by sicko / Pigs in Heaven / The Bean Trees /
Arkansas - I know why the caged bird sings- Maya Angelou / True Grit / Dee Brown- Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee / Ellen Gilchrist,
California - Armistead Maupin / Tales of the City (San Fran)/ Brett Easton Ellis (LA) / Amy Tan / Raymond Chandler / Phillip K Dick / The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy / Andre Dubus III /
Colorado - The Stand / Stephen King / Plainsong and Eventide by Kent Haruf / Susan Coolidge / The Shining /
Connecticut - John Irving / Wally Lamb / Julie Hecht -"Happy Trails To You / Ira Levin, the Stepford Wives /
Delaware - Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk /
Florida - To Have and Have Not / What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell / Carl Hiaasen / Karen Russell- Swamplandia / Janice Owens / Queen of the Underworld by Gail Godwin / Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Georgia - Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil / Gone with the Wind / The Colour Purple / Pat Conroy / Fannie Flagg's 'fried Green Tomatoes' / Sue Monk Kidd / Karin Slaughter /
Hawaii- The Descendants / Kaui Hemmings / In Search of Captain Zero / Susannah Moore / Tom Robbins / Democracy by Joan Didion /
Idaho - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson / The Stand /
Illinois- Saul Bellow / American Gods / Sara Paretsky / Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury /
Indiana - Laura Ingalls Wilder / Stone Diaries, Carol Shields / Meg Cabot / Snapper by Brian Kimberling / Gene Stratton Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost / TC Boyle
Iowa - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson / A thousand Acres / Bridges of Madison County /
Kansas - The Life and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley/ Laura Ingalls Wilder / Truman Capote- In Cold Blood / Frank L Baum / The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard /
Kentucky- Ann Patchett, The Patron Saint of Liars / Little Colonel series by Annie Fellows Johnston / The Man Who Fell to Earth
Louisiana - Twelve Bar Blues / The Awakening by Kate Chopin / Rebecca Well's 'YaYa' trilogy / Lalita Tadermy / James Lee Burke / Julia Reed / Tim Gatreaux /
Massachusetts - Little Women / The Crucible / Ethan Frome- Edith Wharton / Steven King -Cell / David Foster Wallace / Love Story-Erich Segal / Phillip Roth / Running with Scissors / Girl Interrupted / Thoreau/ Walden /
Maine- Elizabeth Strout / Amy & Isabelle / Steven King / Richard Russo / Cujo / Carrie / Norman Mailer
Maryland - Anne Tyler / Rabbit, Run by John Updike / Paul Auster / James Michener /
Massachusetts - John Irving / Emily Dickinson
Michigan - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenide
Minnesota - John Sandford / Lorna Landvik / Garrison Keiller / On the Banks of Plum Creek / The Summer Fletcher Greel loved me - Suzanne Kingsbury
Mississippi - William Faulker: the Sound and the Fury, As I lay Dying/ The Help / John Grisham / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Joshilyn Jackson / Eudora Welty / Let the Circle be Unbroken / Jonathan Raban -Old Glory /
Missouri- Curtis Settenfield / The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Laura Ingalls Wilder / Gone Girl / Daniell Woodrell / Stoner / Mark Twain /
Montana - Nothing but blue skies / The Horse Whisperer
Nevada - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas / Hunter S Thompson / Justin Cronin / Dean Koontz /
New Hampshire - Bill Bryson / John Irving / Anita Shreve /
New Jersey - The Plot Against America / Phillip Roth / Judy Blume / Janet Evanovitch
New Mexico - Tony Hillerman- The Blessing Way/ TC Boyles
New York State - Kate Christansen / Jonathon Dee / Sarah Schulman / Linda Fairstein / Tom Wolfe/ Great Gatsby/ Stuart Little / Farmer Boy / EB White / Jean Webster- Daddy Long Legs / Kate Seredy The Open Gate /
North Carolina - James Villas/ Cold Mountain
North Dakota - Louise Erdrich
Ohio - What Katy Did / Susan Coolidge / Beloved / Fannie Flagg's 'Standing in the Rainbow' / Susan Coolidge /
Oklahoma- The Grapes of Wrath /
Oregon - My Friend Flicka / Laura Ingalls Wilder / Breakheart Pass by Alistair Maclean / Steven King / One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest /
Pennsylvania- Rabbit, Run by John Updike / Joyce Carole Oats' Black Girl, white girl' / Oreo /
Rhode Island - The Witches of Eastwick / Barbara Delinsky 'The Vineyard' / The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri /
South Carolina- The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd / Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy / Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
South Dakota - History of Rachel Dupree /It's Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little /
Tennessee - Flight Behaviour /
Texas - Vermont God Little / Cormac McCarthy's All The Pretty Horses / Preacher by Garth Ennis /
Utah - The lonely polygamist / The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff / The Executioners Song / Wallace Stegner
Vermont - The Secret History / Dorothy Canfield Fisher / Pollyanna / Geoffrey Lent
Virginia- Barbara Kingsolver / Animal Vegetable Miracle / Adriana Trigiani / Patricia Cornwell / Rescue by Anita Shreve /
Washington State - Where'd Y'go Bernadette / Betty Macdonald (The Plague/ The Egg) / The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
West Virginia - Lawrence Hill / book of Negroes /
Wisconsin - Ann Packer / American Gods / Laura Ingalls Wilder / The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski / Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz / Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn / Crossing to Safety
Wyoming (Annie Proulx) / The Legend of Colton H Bryant by Alexandra fuller / Mary O Hara / Craig Johnsos
CITIES-
Baltimore- Rabbit, Run by John Updike / Ann Tyler
Boston- The Scarlet letter / Dennis LeHane / Tess Gerritsen / The Woman Upstairs / Claire Messud
Chicago - Native Son by Richard Wright / V I Warshawski novels by Sara Paretsky /
LA - Brett Easton Ellis / This Book Will Change Your Life /
NYC - Tom Wolfe / American Psycho / Catcher in the Rye / The Goldfinch / Sarah Schulman - Shimmer / The Privileges
Philadelphia - The Corrections
Pittsburgh - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Washington DC - Frances Parkinson Keyes Queen Anne's Lace / David Baldacci /
Atlanta - Karin Slaughter