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Books set in Wisconsin:


The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Black House by Stephen King
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Tall, Dark & Dead by Tate Hallaway (1st book in series)
Never Enough by Denise Jaden
The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer

The Bird Sisters

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Come a Little Closer by Dorothy Garlock

Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting by Michael Perry

Old World Murder by Kathleen Ernst (first in a series set in Wisconsin)

Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry

A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold

Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry

Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay

The Mourning Hours by Paula Treick DeBoard

Believe it or not, a major portion of the spy/thriller THE OLD SPOOK takes place in Milwaukee! How can a spy novel be set in Milwaukee? You'll be pleasantly surprised. Available exclusively at Amazon.com

Geoff Herbach's series is set in Wisconsin.

More books set in Wisconsin:



American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Blood Country by Mary Logue (1st book in Claire Watkins series)
Buzz Off by Hannah Reed (1st book in Queen Bee series)
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (1st book in Dairy Queen series)
Dead Angler by Victoria Houston (1st Loon Lake Mystery)
Dead Center by David Rosenfelt (5th book in Andy Carpenter series)
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard (1st book in the Cappadora Family series)
Driftless by David Rhodes
The End of Always by Randi Davenport
Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
Rascal by Sterling North
Revival, Vol. 1: You're Among Friends by Tim Seeley (1st book in Revival series)
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
The Vanishing Season by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Vintage by Susan Gloss
What the Moon Said by Gayle Rosengren
Whistling In the Dark by Lesley Kagen
Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr
The Women by T.C. Boyle

More books set in Wisconsin:



Afraid by Jack Kilborn (1st book of Afraid series)
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
Better off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg
The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom
Blue Moon by Lori Handeland (1st book in Nightcreature series)
The Bone House by Brian Freeman (1st book of Cab Bolton series)
Boomerang Bride by Fiona Lowe
The Elegant Gathering of White Snows by Kris Radish
Envy the Night by Michael Koryta
Keeping the House by Ellen Baker
Laura Riders Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton
Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy (1st book of Monkeewrench series)
Murder on the Rocks by Allyson K. Abbott (1st Mack's Bar Mystery)
Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson
Orchard by Larry Watson
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
Red Weather by Pauls Toutonghi
A Scattered Life by Karen McQuestion
The Second Sister by Marie Bostwick
Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly
She's Not There by Marla Madison
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace by Michael Perry
When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes

More books set in Wisconsin:



All Together in One Place by Jane Kirkpatrick (1st book of the Kinship and Courage series)
The Bingo Queens of Oneida: How Two Moms Started Tribal Gaming in Wisconsin
Bird Lake Moon by Kevin Henkes
Bitter Sweet by LaVyrle Spencer
The Book of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring
Carry Me Home by Sandra Kring
Cheeseland by Randy Richardson
Dark Dude by Oscar Hijuelos
Dead People by Edie Ramer (1st book of Haunted Hearts series)
Dog Island by Ann M. Andrashie
The Driftless Area by Tom Drury
Drowning Instinct by Ilsa J. Bick
An Echo Through the Snow by Andrea Thalasinos
Falling Through the Earth by Danielle Trussoni
Frozen by Kate Watterson (1st book in Detective Ellie MacIntosh series)
How High the Moon by Sandra Kring
Huckleberry Hill by Jennifer Beckstrand (1st in the Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill series)
If You Could See Me Now by Peter Straub
In A Cream Packard by Edward Hackemer
It Happened in Wisconsin by Ken Moraff
Jewelweed by David Rhodes
The Katydid Effect by Edward Hackemer
Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
Limping through Life: A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir by Jerry Apps
Loving Mr. Daniels by Brittainy C. Cherry
The Mathematician's Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer
Memoir of the Sunday Brunch by Julia Pandl
Moon Over Madeline Island by Jay Gilbertson
Murder at the PTA by Laura Alden (1st book in Beth Kennedy series)
A Murder of Magpies by Sarah Bromley
Murder Over Easy by Marshall Cook (1st Monona Quinn Mystery)
A Promise for Miriam by Vannetta Chapman (1st book in the Pebble Creek Amish series)
The Recipe Box by Sandra Lee
Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts
Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson
Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
Still Life With Husband by Lauren Fox
Take Me Home by Dorothy Garlock
Tall, Dark & Dead by Tate Hallaway (1st book in Garnet Lacey series)
The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer (1st book in Teashop Girls series)
This Bright River by Patrick Somerville
The Turk and My Mother by Mary Helen Stefaniak
The Turtle Warrior by Mary Relindes Ellis
Uncommon Grounds by Sandra Balzo (1st Maggy Thorsen Mystery)
Wake-Robin Ridge by Marcia Meara
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
The Wheat Field by Steve Thayer (1st book in Pliny Pennington series)
Winter Cottage by Carol Ryrie Brink
Working Stiff by Annelise Ryan (1st Mattie Winston Mystery)
You're Not You by Michelle Wildgen

The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie

American Gods - Will Gaiman

The Finnish Girl by Dennis Frahmann (Finnish Americans in Wisconsin)