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Books set in Minnesota:



Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (1st book of Wolves of Mercy Falls series)
Rules Of Prey by John Sandford (1st book of Lucas Davenport series)
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke (1st book of Hannah Swenson series)
Dark Of The Moon by John Sandford (1st book of Virgil Flowers series)
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace (1st book of series)
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (1st book of Cork O'Connor series)
Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy (1st book in series)
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer (1st book of Riley Spartz series)
Staggerford by Jon Hassler (1st book in series)
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody

Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor

The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg

So Terrible a Storm: A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior by Curt Brown

Stork by Wendy Delsol

Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

Fugitives from Northwoods by Chris Bostic

Once Upon a Road Trip by Angela N. Blount

Starts in Minnesota, and visits 15 states + Ontario.

Once Upon an Ever After , the continuation, which takes place primarily in Minnesota.

Triple Play by Elizabeth Gunn (1st book in mystery series)

More books set in Minnesota:



10: 01 by Lance Olsen
The 37th Hour by Jodi Compton (1st book in Sarah Pribek series)
Abarat by Clive Barker (1st book in Abarat series)
Alex by Adam J. Nicolai
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag (1st book in Kovacs/Liska series)
Ava's Diary: The College Years by A. Vyctoria Abrams (1st in series)
Bay of Souls. Robert Stone by Robert Stone
Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles by Gerald Vizenor
Bingo Barge Murder by Jessie Chandler (1st Shay O'Hanlon Caper)
Bitter Melon: Stories from the Last Rural Chinese Town in America by Jeff Gillenkirk
Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson
Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles by Emma Bull
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich
Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
The Businessman: A Tale of Terror by Thomas M. Disch
The Case of the Greedy Lawyers by Carl Brookins
Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives by Sinclair Lewis
Ceremonies of the Spirit by Wendy Brown-Baez
Changing Habits by Debbie Macomber
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
Come in from the Cold by Marsha Qualey
County Lines by John Calvin Rezmerski
Crewel World by Monica Ferris (1st Needlecraft Mystery)
A Cry In The Night by Mary Higgins Clark
Dandelions in a Jelly Jar by Traci Depree
Duluth by Gore Vidal
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek
Edging Past Reality: A Collection of Short Stories by David Fingerman
The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg (1st book in series)
Frozen by Mary Casanova
Happy to Be Here by Garrison Keillor
Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen
The Heirs of Columbus by Gerald Vizenor
Holding On To Heaven by Keta Diablo
Honk the Moose by Phil Stong
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
Hot Pink by Susan Johnson
I Can See You by Karen Rose
The Icecutter's Daughter by Tracie Peterson (1st book of Land of Shining Water series)
Immoral by Brian Freeman (1st book in Jonathan Stride series)
Jake's Orphan by Peggy Brooke
The Janitor's Boy by Andrew Clements
Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary by Pamela Dean
Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota, New Yeovil, Minnesota 1873
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
Life Lessons by Kaje Harper (1st book in series)
The Long-Shining Waters by Danielle Sosin
May Day by Jess Lourey (1st Murder By-Month Mystery)
Mike Nelson's Death Rat!: A Novel by Michael J. Nelson
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Music of Failure by Bill Holm

More books set in Minnesota:



Necessary Roughness by Marie G. Lee
News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist by Laurie Hertzel
The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman
Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative by Ignatia Broker
Night Sins by Tami Hoag (1st book in Deer Lake series)
North Country: The Making of Minnesota by Mary Wingerd
North of Hope by Jon Hassler
North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader by Anne J. Aby
Northern Lights by Tim O'Brien
November of the Heart by LaVyrle Spencer
Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years
Old Rail Fence Corners: Frontier Tales Told By Minnesota Pioneers
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Once There Were Castles: Lost Mansions and Estates of the Twin Cities by Larry Millett
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz
Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir by Cheri Register
The Pact by Walter J. Roers
Pale Horse at Plum Run by Brian Leehan
Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Landvik
Penance by David Housewright (1st book in Holland Taylor series)
A Place In the Woods by Helen Hoover
Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow: Essays by Andy Sturdevant
Pretend You Don't See Her by Mary Higgins Clark

More books set in Minnesota:



Range Of Motion by Elizabeth Berg
Red Earth, White Earth by Will Weaver
Resort to Murder: Thirteen More Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Writers by Carl Brookins
Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life by David Treuer
Rival by Sara Bennett Wealer
Rufus at the Door & Other Stories by Jon Hassler
Runt by Marion Dane Bauer
Sacred Wilderness by Susan Power
Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye
Salvage by Con Riley
Sex & Violence by Carrie Mesrobian
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon by Larry Millett
The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani
Silence of the Loons: Thirteen Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Crime Writers
Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin
Singing Wilderness by Sigurd F. Olson
Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier
So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger
South Of Shiloh by Chuck Logan
Spilled Blood by Brian Freeman
The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Steering Toward Normal by Rebecca Petruck
Still Waters by Tami Hoag
Stillwater by Nicole Helget
Subterranean Twin Cities by Greg Brick
The Summer of Ordinary Ways: A Memoir by Nicole Lea Helget
Summit Avenue by Mary Sharratt
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg
Then Came Heaven by LaVyrle Spencer
These Granite Islands: A Novel by Sarah Stonich
Three Bird Summer by Sara St. Antoine
Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts Of The Minnesota Indian War Of 1863
Through No Fault of My Own: A Girl�s Diary of Life on Summit Avenue in the Jazz Age
Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn
Tomcat In Love by Tim O'Brien
Torch by Cheryl Strayed
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen (1st book in Spirit Bear series)
Tracker by Gary Paulsen
The Treasure of Alpheus WinterbornJohn Bellairs (1st Anthony Monday Mystery)
The Trickster of Liberty: Native Heirs to a Wild Baronage by Gerald Vizenor
The Troll Bridge by Jane Yolen
Turning Thirty-Twelve by Sandy James
The Turtle Catcher by Nicole Helget
Two Shots by Joe Albert
Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson (1st book in Undead series)
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 by Daniel James Brown
Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger
Until They Bring the Streetcars Back by Stanley Gordon West
Vacationland by Sarah Stonich
The View from Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik
A View of the Lake by Beryl Singleton Bissell
A View of the River by Kathleen Eagle
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
The Way Home by Cindy Gerard
The Weatherman by Steve Thayer
We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter
Welcome to the Great Mysterious by Lorna Landvik
Wheat that Springeth Green by J.F. Powers
Wishing for a Snow Day: Growing Up in Minnesota by Peg Meier
Witch Fire by Anya Bast (1st book in Elemental Witches series)
WLT: A Radio Romance by Garrison Keillor
The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy
Your Oasis on Flame Lake by Lorna Landvik

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger is one of my all time favorite books.
Set in a small town in Minnesota, the book follows a pastors family, as told through the eyes of Frank Drum as an older man, looking back on the summer when he was 13. This was the summer of 5 deaths in this small town, and how it changed his family and impacted the church. Frank also learns this summer that people aren't as they seem when you are a kid, and learns many town secrets.
Highly recommend this book. Absolutely loved it!

The Sixth Idea by P.J. Tracy

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