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Books set in Pennsylvania:



The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (1st book in Last Survivors series)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr (1st book in Wicked Lovely series)
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire (1st book of Beautiful series)
Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Key of Light by Nora Roberts (1st book in Key Trilogy)
Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard (1st book in series)
Rabbit, Run by John Updike (1st book in Rabbit Angstrom quartet)
Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey (1st book in Jessica series)
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
The Shunning by Beverly Lewis (1st book in series)
The Covenant by Beverly Lewis (1st book in Abram's Daughters series)
Hidden Riches by Nora Roberts
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Straight Man by Richard Russo
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini (1st book in Elm Street Quilts series)
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
The Queen of the Big Time by Adriana Trigiani
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Stamped Out by Terri Thayer (1st book of Stamping Sisters Mystery series)

(1st in Series) by Sara Shepard - the rest of the series is also set in Pennsylvania

Crestmont by Holly Weiss

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

by David Liss

How to Murder a Millionaire by Nancy Martin

by Allen C. Guelzo

Out Of This Furnace by Thomas Bell

More Books Set in Pennsylvania:



American Rust by Philipp Meyer
Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards
Fundraising the Dead by Sheila Connolly (1st Museum Mystery)
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth by Tamar Myers (1st book of Penn. Dutch Mystery series)
The Caged Graves by Dianne K. Salerni
Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead (6th book of Vampire Academy series)
Evernight by Claudia Gray (1st book of Evernight series)
Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
The Key to the Golden Firebird by Maureen Johnson
Julie by Catherine Marshall
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
The Final Diagnosis by Arthur Hailey
She Can Run by Melinda Leigh
Die For Me by Karen Rose
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
Coal Run by Tawni O'Dell
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Choice by Suzanne Woods Fisher (1st book in Lancaster County Secrets series)
Hide in Plain Sight by Marta Perry (1st book in The Three Sisters Inn series)
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion by Allen C. Guelzo
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Donald B. Kraybill
Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
The Family Bones by Kimberly Raiser
The Angry Woman Suite by Lee Fullbright
Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa M. Klein

More books set in PA:



The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
Sister Mine by Tawni O'Dell
Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber
Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
Hemlock Grove by Brian McGreevy
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor
Silver Like Dust: One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories by Jennifer Haigh
My Stubborn Heart by Becky Wade
The Stolen Ones by Richard Montanari
The Blue Door by David Fulmer
Leaving Cecil Street by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
The Nanny Murders by Merry Jones
Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love by Larry Levin
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High by Tony Danza
This Side of Married by Rachel Pastan

More books set in Pennsylvania



The Girl Factory: A Memoir by Karen Dietrich
About Us by Chester Aaron
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
Always a Body to Trade by K.C. Constantine
Assault on the Senses by Michael P. Ferrari
The Awakening of Helena Richie by Margaret Deland
The Blank Page by K.C. Constantine
The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
The Centaur by John Updike
The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel by David Bradley
Christine by Stephen King
The Clue of the Screeching Owl by Franklin W. Dixon
Come Clean by Terri Paddock
The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
Dark Hollow by Brian Keene
Dead Man Falling by Randall Silvis
Duffy's Rocks by Edward Fenton
Dynasty Of Death by Taylor Caldwell
Edgar Huntly: Or Memoirs of a Sleepwalker by Charles Brockden Brown
Elizabeth Appleton by John O'Hara
The Fires of Spring: A Novel by James A. Michener
Funerals and Fly Fishing by Mary Bartek
Ghoul by Brian Keene
Good-bye, Billy Radish by Gloria Skurzynski
The Gown of Glory by Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Greenhorn on the Frontier by Ann Finlayson
Jonathan Troy by Edward Abbey
Kingdom of Simplicity by Holly Lynn Payne
Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown
Mickelsson's Ghosts by John Gardner
Modern Chivalry by Hugh Henry Brackenridge
The Novel by James A. Michener
Occasional Hell by Randall Silvis
Of the Farm by John Updike
The Paradise Bargain by Betina Krahn
Poison in Jest by John Dickson Carr
The Proud and the Free by Howard Fast
The Secret Room by Marion Eames
Snow Angels by Stewart O'Nan
Standing in the Light by Mary Pope Osborne
Steel Ghosts by Michael Paine
Swords of Steel: The Story of a Gettysburg Boy by Elsie Singmaster
Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale by David Wellington
When We Get There by Shauna Seliy
The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene
The Year My Parents Ruined My Life by Martha Freeman

More books set in PA:



The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
An American Plague by Jim Murphy
Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
Men In Blue by W.E.B. Griffin (1st book in Badge of Honor series)
Birdy by William Wharton
Blubber by Judy Blume
The Heads of Cerberus by Francis Stevens
Kelroy: A Novel by Rebecca Rush
Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley
Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli
Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen
Oreo by Fran Ross
Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral by Jessie Redmon Fauset
Third and Indiana by Steve Lopez
Two Cities: A Love Story by John Edgar Wideman

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