These are my alternatives to the list created by Melia Robinson and Melissa Stanger for Business Insider. I am excluding works of nonfiction and listing my top three choices for each state. Titles included in the list compiled by Robinson and Stanger are indicated in boldface.
| Alabama | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Southern Discomfort | Rita Mae Brown | |
| Crazy in Alabama | Mark Childress | |
| Alaska | Drop City | T.C. Boyle |
| The Yiddish Policemen’s Union | Michael Chabon | |
| Why Are We in Vietnam? | Norman Mailer | |
| Arizona | The Bean Trees | Barbara Kingsolver |
| The Crossers | Philip Caputo | |
| Dance Hall of the Dead | Tony Hillerman | |
| Arkansas | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock | Jack Butler | |
| The Dog of the South | Charles Portis | |
| California | The Day of the Locust | Nathaniel West |
| Fat City | Leonard Gardner | |
| The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | |
| Colorado | Plainsong | Kent Haruf |
| The Mountain Lion | Jean Stafford | |
| Centennial | James Michener | |
| Connecticut | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates |
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Sloan Wilson | |
| The Ice Storm | Rick Moody | |
| Delaware | Our House | Henry Sidell Canby |
| For My Father | Charles Wertenbaker | |
| The Saint of Lost Things | Christopher Castellani | |
| Florida | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| The Watson Trilogy | Peter Matthiessen | |
| Stormy Weather | Carl Hiassen | |
| Georgia | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| Deliverance | James Dickey | |
| A Feast of Snakes | Harry Crews |
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