Around the USA in 52 Books discussion

Alabama
To Kill a Mockingbird
Alaska
Alaska
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
Travels in Alaska
Arizona
The Glass Castle
The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
Arkansas
The Earth Is Enough
California
Cannery Row
Colorado
Prayers for Sale
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Connecticut
Revolutionary Road
Delaware
Beloved
District of Columbia
American Notes for General Circulation: Revised Edition
Florida
Their Eyes Were Watching God
To Have and Have Not
Key West Tales
Georgia
Tobacco Road
Savannah, Immortal City, Volume 1: Civil War Savannah: An Epic IV Volume History: A City & People That Forged a Living Link Between America, Past & Pr
Hawaii
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen
Stories of Hawaii
Hawaii
Idaho
The Boys from Boise: Furor, Vice and Folly in an American City
Lake Overturn
Train Dreams
Illinois
Dandelion Wine
The Jungle
Indiana
The Stone Diaries (It claims to be set in Indiana and Canada)
The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana
Iowa
Gilead
Home
Kansas
Doc
Kentucky
The Kentuckians
The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon
The Southern Mandarins: Letters of Caroline Gordon to Sally Wood, 1924-1937
Louisiana
Vieux Carre
Tennesse Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire
Maine
Empire Falls
Colony
Off Season
The Maine Woods
The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine
Maryland
Chesapeake
An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
The Accidental Tourist
Massachusetts
The River King
The Handmaid's Tale
The Wapshot Chronicle
Michigan
A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach: One Woman's Trek of the Perimeter of Lake Michigan
Middlesex
Looking for Hickories: The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural Midwest
Minnesota
Lake Wobegon Days
anything by John Sandford
Silken Prey
Mississippi
As I Lay Dying
Absalom, Absalom!
Missouri
The Way West
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Montana
The Big Sky
Fair Land, Fair Land
Undaunted Courage
Nebraska
O Pioneers!
My Ántonia
Nevada
Roughing It
Sweet Promised Land: 50Th Aniversary Edition
New Hampshire
Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God
The Island Queen: Celia Thaxter of the Isles of Shoals
New Jersey
The Lightning Thief
Stephanie Plum series
New Mexico
Cities of the Plain
Death Comes for the Archbishop
New York
Washington Square
Open City
On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
The Catcher in the Rye
North Carolina
Time Is a River
North Dakota
Dakota
Indian Boyhood
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio
The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life
Oklahoma
Telegraph Days
The Grapes of Wrath
Oregon
Sometimes a Great Notion
Uneasy Alliance
Pennsylvania
An Echo in the Bone
The Mysteries of PittsburghThe Johnstown Flood
Rhode Island
Theophilus North
The Ivory Tower
The Vineyard
South Carolina
The Secret Life of Bees
South of Broad
Pawleys Island
The Land of Mango Sunsets
others by Dorothea Benton Frank
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
The Orchardist
West Virginia
Wyoming

Starting in the A's! That's the way!

I think alphabetical is a good way to go, although I've been a little less organized, adding books as I decide which ones might make good books.

Me, too. There's a bit of serendipity in the way I'm going about this task.

Left Kansas after reading Doc( completed was excellent) then realized I had not completed my list. Library bound!

Let us know what you find :-)

Finished Gone Girl for Missouri. The book was so-so but it was a decent book for Missouri. It was not my original choice for that state but as I read it I realized it fit quite well.

I was thinking about reading it for Missouri, but I'm not a big fan of thriller books. Does it have a lot of "icky" - as in blood and knives and stuff - scenes?

There is no body if that helps ....

Have not updated this in quite some time. I have recently finished The Orchardist for Washington state and Silken Prey for Minnesota. Would highly recommend both.

The Jungle is a really good choice for Illinois. Sums up so much about Chicago's place in US history.

The Jungle does look like a good choice. Thank you for the recommendation.