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.
New Mexico | The Milagro Beanfield War | John Nichols |
The Woman at Otowi Crossing | Frank Waters | |
Bless Me, Ultima | Rudolpho Anaya | |
New York | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Underworld | Don DeLillo | |
Call It Sleep | Henry Roth | |
North Carolina | Look Homeward, Angel | Thomas Wolfe |
Kate Vaiden | Reynolds Price | |
Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | |
North Dakota | Love, Medicine | Louise Erdrich |
Born Brothers | Larry Woiwode | |
Sundown, Yellow Moon | Larry Watson | |
Ohio | Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
Beloved | Toni Morrison | |
Crooked River Burning | Mark Winegardner | |
Oklahoma | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
Paradise | Toni Morrison | |
True Grit | Charles Portis | |
Oregon | Trask | Don Berry |
Honey in the horn | H. L. Davis | |
Sometimes a Great Notion | Ken Kesey | |
Pennsylvania | The Rabbit Tetralogy | John Updike |
Appointment in Samarra | John O’Hara | |
Farragan’s Retreat | Tom McHale | |
Rhode Island | Spartina | John Casey |
Providence | Geoffrey Wollf | |
Outside Providence | Peter Farrelly | |
South Carolina | The Great Santini | Pat Conroy |
The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | |
Bastard Out of Carolina | Dorothy Allison |
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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/
Part 2: Hawaii to Maryland: https://academeblog.org/2013/10/22/the-best-novels-set-in-every-state-part-2-hawaii-to-maryland/#more-4715
Part 3: Massachusetts to New Jersey: https://academeblog.org/2013/10/27/the-best-novels-set-in-every-state-part-2-massachusetts-to-new-jersey/#more-4755
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