This list has been compiled for Business Insider [http://www.businessinsider.com/most-famous-book-in-every-state-2013-10]. I will offer an alternative list shortly.
| Alabama: | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Alaska | Into the Wild | Jan Krakauer |
| Arizona | The Bean Trees | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Arkansas | A Painted House | John Grisham |
| California | East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| Colorado | The Shining | Stephen King |
| Connecticut | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates |
| Delaware | The Saint of Lost Things | Christopher Castellani |
| Florida | To Have and Have Not | Ernest Hemingway |
| Georgia | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| Hawaii | Hawaii | James Michener |
| Idaho | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson |
| Illinois | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| Indiana | The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington |
| Iowa | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley |
| Kansas | The Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| Kentucky | Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Louisiana | Interview with a Vampire | Anne Rice |
| Maine | Carrie | Stephen King |
| Maryland | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Anne Tyler |
| Massachusetts | Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| Michigan | The Virgin Suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Minnesota | Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
| Mississippi | The sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| Missouri | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| Montana | A River Runs through It | Norman MacLean |
| Nebraska | My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| Nevada | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter Thompson |
| New Hampshire | The Hotel New Hampshire | John Irving |
| New Jersey | Drown | Junot Diaz |
| New Mexico | Red Sky at Morning | Richard Bradford |
| New York | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| North Carolina | A Walk to Remember | Nicholas Sparks |
| North Dakota | The Round House | Louise Erdrich |
| Ohio | The Broom of the System | David Foster Wallace |
| Oklahoma | Paradise | Toni Morrison |
| Oregon | One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| Pennsylvania | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold |
| Rhode Island | My Sister’s Keeper | Jodi Picoult |
| South Carolina | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd |
| South Dakota | A Long Way from Home | Tom Brokaw |
| Tennessee | The Client | John Grisham |
| Texas | No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy |
| Utah | The 19th Wife | David Ebershoff |
| Vermont | Pollyanna | Eleanor H. Porter |
| Virginia | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Patterson |
| Washington | Twilight | Stephenie Meyer |
| Washington, DC | The Lost Symbol | Dan Brown |
| West Virginia | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| Wisconsin | Little House in the Big Woods | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Wyoming | The Laramie Project | Moises Kaufman |
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