Looking to go on vacation without leaving the comfort of your favorite reading spot? Why not take a road trip with these books.
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789 books ·
155 voters ·
list created February 21st, 2015
by Connie Crum (votes) .
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Alabama (Other Voices ...Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Three by Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Music for Chameleons
Alaska
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Arizona
Watch for Me on the Mountain
Arkansas
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
California
The Proud Breed
Colorado
Centennial
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
The Scarlet Ruse
Georgia
Chiefs
HawaiiHawaii
Idaho (Buck Rinker's book covers several states. I particularly liked the Idaho coverage.
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Illinois
Presumed Innocent
Indiana
Here Lies the Librarian
Iowa (The Don Harstad series)
Eleven Days
Kansas
The Learning Tree
Kentucky
Youngblood Hawke
Louisiana
In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
Maine
Maryland
The Sot-Weed Factor
MassachusettsEarly Autumn
Michigan
Northwest Passage
Minnesota
Ordinary Grace
Mississippi
A Time to Kill
Missouri
Stoner
Montana
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
Nebraska
These Were the Sioux
Nevada
Last Buckaroo
New Hampshire
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
New Jersey
Clockers
New MexicoThe Last Conquistador: Juan De Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest
New York
Manchild in the Promised Land
North Carolina
Down River
North Dakota
Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
Ohio
Tonight I Said Goodbye
Oklahoma
Summer of the Monkeys
Oregon
In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and Natural History
Pennsylvania
Dry Bones in the Valley
Rhode Island
Spartina
South Carolina
Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South
South DakotaBury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Tennessee
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Texas
Season of Yellow Leaf
Utah
The Never-Open Desert Diner: A Novel
Vermont
Tag Man
Virginia
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Washington
The Brothers K
West Virginia
Rocket Boys
Wisconsin
City of Baraboo
Wyoming
Shane
Flee
Evan Dara's "Flee" is the great Vermont novel of this century, and takes place in a fictionalized version of Burlington. Fans of David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and William Gaddis should take note.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - MissouriThe Snow Child - Alaska
It - Maine
To Kill a Mockingbird - Alabama
The Great Gatsby - New York
The Time Traveler's Wife - Illinois
Prodigal Summer - Kentucky
Flight Behaviour - Tennessee
Animal Dreams - Arizona
Cold Mountain - Virginia
All Families are Psychotic - Florida
The Grapes of Wrath - Oklahoma
In Cold Blood - Kansas
Peyton Place - New Hampshire
Little Fires Everywhere - Ohio
Gone with the Wind - Georgia
Peace Like a River - North Dakota
The Loop - Montana
My Ántonia - Nebraska
Eventide - Colorado
Shutter Island - Massachusetts
At the Edge of the Orchard - California
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Washington
Dandelion Wine - Iowa
Holes - Texas
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Connecticut
The Invention of Wings - South Carolina
The Virgin Suicides - Michigan
There aren't many Delaware books, but I've added And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer and Hope Never Dies
Little house on the prairie - Kansas and WisconsinBy the shores of silver lake - South Dakota
Farmer Boy - New York
Long Winter - South Dakota
Those Happy Golden Years - South Dakota
On the banks of Plum Creek - Minnesota
First four years - South DakotaLittle house in the big woods - Wisconsin
Little town on the prairie - South Dakota
Where the red fern grows - Oklahoma
Old Yeller - Texas
Sign of the Beaver - MaineVelvet Room - California
Chesapeake - Maryland and Virginia
Mangas Coloradas - New Mexico
Yearling - Florida
Girl of the Limberlost - Indiana
Power Broker RMATFONY - New York
Guys and Dolls - New York
The Chosen - New YorkFrostbite - Montana and Idaho and Spokane, Wa
Angle of Repose- Idaho and California
Last Town - Idaho
Reaper's Legacy - Idaho
Idaho - Idaho
Cover of NIght - IdahoMan who fell in love with the moon - Idaho
Woman on the run - Idaho
Diary of a Haunting - Idaho
Enders Hotel a Memoir - Idaho
Haunted Idaho GASPOTGS - Idaho
Haunted Idaho THLOBNMIFAP - Idaho
Growing Season How I Saved an AmericanFarm ABANL - Illinois
Night Watchman - North Dakota and Minnesota
HIdden Valley Road ITMOAAF - Colorado
Where the Crawdads Sing - North Carolina
Desert Solitaire - Utah
Chicago - Illinois
In open spaces - Montana
If you lived here you'd be home by now WWTTCLFALHOTP - Minnesota
Girl's Guide to Chicago - Illinois
Sun is a Compass AFTMJITAW - Alaska and
Washington
This tender land - Minnesota
Miracle Creek - Virginia
An American Summer LADIC - Illinois
West Virginia: Almost Heaven
June Bug
Trust Me
When Silence Sings
The Right Kind of Fool
The Promise of Jesse Woods
Under a Cloudless Sky
Unpretty
River Rocks: A West Virginia Adventure Novel
What Lies in the Hills: A West Virginia Adventure Novel
Redemption Mountain
Backroads Boss Lady HASTGBABTBBSTTHHFAF - Idaho and Texas
An Unexplained Death TTSOABATB - Baltimore, MD
Plainsong - Colorado
The Tie That Binds - Colorado
Nothing Daunted TUEOTSGITW - Colorado
Columbine - Colorado
Caddie Woodlawn - Wisconsin
Population 485 MYNOSAAT - WisconsinAmerican Gods - Chicago, Chattanooga, Wisconsin, Minnesota
Sand County Almanac ASHAT - Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon and Manitoba
Coincidence of Coconut Cake - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Westing Game - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From the Mixed-up Files OMBEF - Connecticut, and New York
City, NY
Crossing to Safety - Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Wisconsin,
Vermont
Limping through Life AFBPM - WisconsinWild Birds - San Francisco, Farallon Islands, CA, Oregon
Sometimes a Great Notion - Oregon
Listening for Coyote AWAOW - OregonEgg and I - Chicacum, Washington
Boys in the Boat NAATEQFGAT1936O - Washington state
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian - Washington
state
Obsession - Washington stateKing of Skid Row JBATTYOOM - Minneapolis, MN
Down and Out TLADOMSR - Minneapolis, MN
Skid Road AIPOS - Seattle, WA
Lost Bank TSOWMTBBFIAH - Seattle, WA
Opportunity, Montana BCBWATBOAAL - Opportunity, Montana
Counting Coup ATSOBAHOTLBH - Hardin, Montana
Cabin Two Brothers ADAFAIM - MaineGrizzly Years ISOTAW - Montana and Wyoming
Full Court Quest TGFFSISBCOTW - Montana
Bound Like Grass AMFTWHP - Montana
These Thousand Hills - MontanaThe Monkey Wrench Gang - Arizona and Utah
Death Comes for the Archbishop - New Mexico
Skinwalkers - Arizona, New Mexico, Utah
Green Glass Sea - New Mexico
Book of the Hopi - Arizona
If Mountains Die ANMM - New Mexico Weird Michigan - Michigan
Ghost Stories of Michigan - Michigan
Haunted Copper Country THAGSOMKP - Michigan
Women and the Lakes UGLMT - MichiganHaunted Lakes - Michigan
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Michigan
Station Eleven - Michigan
Maryland;Number One Chinese Restaurant
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
No One But Us
California:
The Wedding Date
The Proposal
By the Book
Secretly Yours
The Summer We Fell
Alaska - American Predator by Maureen CallahanCalifornia - Cookie Monsters by Erika J. Kendrick
Connecticut - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Florida - Summer Rental by Rektok Ross
Georgia - That Summer Feeling by Bridget Morrissey
Kentucky - The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Massachusetts - Exes and O's by Amy Lea
Michigan - Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Missouri - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Montana - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Nevada - Aces Wild by Amanda DeWitt
New York - Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel
Ohio - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Pennsylvania - Mothered by Zoje Stage
South Carolina - How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Vermont - Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
Virginia - None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney
Washington - A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley


















2. Animal Dreams - Arizona
3. The Valley of Amazement - California
4. Centennial - Colorado
5. Orange is the New Black - Connecticut
6. Silver Sparrow - Georgia
7. Along Came a Spider - Georgia
8. The Time Traveler's Wife - Illinois
9. Dewey - Iowa
10. Dead Until Dark - Louisiana
11. The Dark Half - Maine
12. The Dante Club - Massachusetts
13. Middlesex - Michigan
14. Cheaper by the Dozen - New Jersey
15. City of Bones - New York
16. The 5th Wave - Ohio
17. Oblivion's Altar - Oklahoma
18. When the Heart Cries - Pennsylvania
19. My Sister's Keeper - Rhode Island
20. The Red Badge of Courage - Virginia
21. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Washington
22. The Hunger Games - (district 12) West Virginia
23. Into the Wild - Alaska
24. When Things Come Back - Arkansas
25. Fight club - Delaware (supposedly)
26. Horns - New Hampshire
27. The White Room - Missouri
28. Honolulu - Hawaii
29. Mudbound - Mississippi
30. The Dry Grass of August - North Carolina
31. Strange Angels - South Dakota
32. One Thousand White Women - Nebraska
33. No Country for Old Men - Texas
34. Blue Highways - Continental US
35. Sweetheart - Oregon
36. The Book of Lies - Florida
37. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Kansas
38. Switched - Minnesota
39. Gone Girl - Missouri
40. Virals - South Carolina
41. The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Montana