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.
| Hawaii | From Here to Eternity | James Jones |
| Heads by Harry | Lois Ann Yamanaka | |
| Shark Dialogues | Kiana Davenport | |
| Idaho | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson |
| Dark Bridwell | Vardis Fisher | |
| All over Creation | Ruth Ozeki | |
| Illinois | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow | |
| The Man with the Golden Arm | Nelson Algren | |
| Indiana | The Blue Guide to Indiana | Michael Martone |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington | |
| Raintree County | Ross Lockridge, Jr. | |
| Iowa | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley |
| Shoeless Joe | W.P. Kinsella | |
| Now Playing in Canterbury | Vance Bourjaily | |
| Kansas | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote |
| Mrs. Bridge | Evan S. Connell | |
| Garden of Sand | Earl Thompson | |
| Kentucky | The Memory of Old Jack | Wendell Berry |
| Trees of Heaven | Jesse Stuart | |
| Prodigal Summer | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| Louisiana | All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| The Moviegoer | Walker Percy | |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | |
| Maine | The Country of Pointed Firs | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| The Beans of Egypt, Maine | Carolyn Chute | |
| The Weight of Winter | Cathie Pelletier | |
| Maryland | Saint Maybe | Anne Tyler |
| Ten Indians | Madison Smartt Bell | |
| The Tidewater Tales | John Barth | |
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Part 1, Alabama to Georgia: https://academeblog.org/2013/10/21/the-best-novels-set-in-every-state-part-1-alabama-to-georgia/
I love these lists! Thank you! But one point of information: Mrs. Bridge is set in Kansas City, *Missouri*, not in Kansas.
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