As a result the list contains mostly fiction novels, but covers almost every genre while proudly managing to avoid Gone With The Wind and getting titles as new as 2013’s Eleanor & Park mapped. The full list is below, for your perusal and debate:
Alabama: To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Alaska: Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer
Arizona: Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Arkansas: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
California (southern): The White Boy Shuffle, Paul Beatty
California (northern): Suicide Blonde, Darcey Steinke
Colorado: Angle Of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Connecticut: Nine Stories, “Uncle Wiggily In Connecticut,” J.D. Salinger
Delaware: The Good Lord Bird, James McBride
Florida: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Georgia: Cane, Jean Toomer
Hawaii: The Descendants, Kaui Hart Hemmings
Idaho: Train Dreams, Denis Johnson
Illinois: Native Son, Richard Wright
Indiana: The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
Iowa: Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Kansas: In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Kentucky: Beloved, Toni Morrison
Louisiana: All The King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
Maine: Carrie, Stephen King
Maryland: Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Patterson
Massachusetts: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Michigan: Split Images, Elmore Leonard
Minnesota: Betsy And Tacy Go Downtown, Maud Hart Lovelace
Mississippi: Long Division, Kiese Laymon
Missouri: Stoner, John Williams
Montana: Legends Of The Fall, Jim Harrison
Nebraska: Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
Nevada: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
New Hampshire: A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
New Jersey: American Pastoral, Philip Roth
New Mexico: Leave Her To Heaven, Ben Ames Williams
New York State: Foxfire: Confessions Af A Girl Gang, Joyce Carol Oates
New York City: Daddy Was A Number Runner, Louise Meriwether
North Carolina: Look Homeward Angel, Thomas Wolfe
North Dakota: The Round House, Louise Erdrich
Ohio: The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Oklahoma: The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
Oregon: No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
Pennsylvania: The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
Rhode Island: The Witches Of Eastwick, John Updike
South Carolina: Bastard Out Of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
South Dakota: Little Town On The Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Texas: Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Tennessee: Child Of God, Cormac McCarthy
Utah: The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer
Virginia: The Confessions Of Nat Turner, William Styron
Vermont: The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Wyoming: Close Range: Wyoming Stories “Brokeback Mountain,” E. Annie Proulx
Wisconsin: The Art Of Fielding, Chad Harbach
Washington: The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Sherman Alexie
Washington D.C.: You Are One Of Them, Elliot Holt
West Virgina: The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
