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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