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What is your favorite book that’s set in the state where you live?

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Bruce

Escanaba in da moonlight

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Krysti

Centennial (though we share a bit of it with Colorado) , Longmire series, Death in Yellowstone, The White Indian Boy

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Mary

I have many favorites but one that comes to mind is Sullivan’s Island by Dorothea Benton Frank

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Christine

Moon over Manifest

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Cindy

Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner

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Ashley

An Ocean in Iowa

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Mary

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane.

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Denise

Devil in the White City

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KimQuestion author

I love Sarah Addison Allen – she’s from Asheville NC – and one of my very favorite books (and one I recommend to readers all the time) is “Garden Spells”. It’s set in a ficitonal town, but still in NC.

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Renee

I’m going to have to check this out!

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Jennifer

Jan Karon is another good NC writer. Her “Mitford” books are so uplifting.

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Eileen

I recently read Lost Lake and loved the characters.

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Renee

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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Stephanie

The Devil in the White City

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Kyra

Besides cheesy romance novels there are only two books that I know of set in Montana: A River Runs Through it and The Miseducation of Cameron Post. I must say the Miseducation is my favorite and I’m excited for the movie.

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Mary

Yada Yada Prayer Group and Devil in the White City

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Grace

The Orchid Thief

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Melanie

The Glass Castle

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Gretchen

Bastard Out of Carolina

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Alison

Handling Sin – in N.C.

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Jim

The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch.(Washington)

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Angela

The Outsiders.

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Wendy

Little Women

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Janet

I’m drawing a blank on the state?

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Wendy

@Janet Massachusetts

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Jane

Wish You Well by David Baldacci

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Melissa

I love this book!

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Sheri

Tales of the City.

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Julia

Elm creek quilters series

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Linda

The Bookseller also Centennial.

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Karyn

Arizona- These Is My Words, The Glass Castle (part of it), The Bean Trees

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Jyn

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

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Donna

The Grapes of Wrath and basically anything Steinbeck.

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Janice

The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg.

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Lisa

Where’d You Go Bernadette

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Lisa

I live in Antarctica. Wink

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Angie

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant, a short story by David Grubb called Fifty of the Blue (West Virginia)

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Curt

A Romantic Education by Patricia Hampl

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Julie

Changing Season – Steve Manchester

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Alisha

Simple Jess Pam Morsi this is such a good book. non typical hero. I wasn’t sure when I read it, but so glad I did

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Kim

Station Eleven

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Krissy

This book! ??

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Jennifer

Too many to choose from in California, but my favorite from the state I grew up in (Wisconsin) is The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.

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Janet

The Alphabet Series by Sue Grafton, set in Santa Teresa, a fictionalized version of Santa Barbara

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Paula

The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden (set in New Orleans, LA)

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Tanya

WV: Storming Heaven, The Unquiet Earth, Follow the River, and The Glass Castle

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Linda

The Devil in the White City which is set in Chicago where I live.

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Sophia

That’s on my TBR list!

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Linda

@Sophia It’s a great book which among other things, details some of the architectural history of Chicago. Luckily some of that architecture still stands today.

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Melanie

Forrest Gump and Boy’s Life.

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Carole

Monday Monday by Elizabeth Crook. Novel set around the UT tower shootings. Fiction take on the path of several lives. The historical accuracy blended with fiction made a good read.

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Cathy

That’s a great question! I live in Georgia and really haven’t read that many books set here. I remember reading a book called “Ecology if a Cracker Childhood” about 10 years ago that was interesting.

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Patti

Many of Anne Rivers Siddons’ books are set in Georgia. They are a bit formulaic, but I still enjoyed them. Not written by her, but recently read “The Twelve Mile Straight,” set in South Georgia. Disturbing, but a great read.

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Gretchen

Savannah-Saving Cee Cee Hunicutt and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil…Tybee has a wonderful fun book, Summer Breeze.

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Valerie

Picture book of the Calgary flood 5 years ago…interesting to see what the power of water can do…

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Jennifer

Maryland ?

Either Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by William Warner or Chesapeake by James Michener

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Susie

Gene Stratton Porter’s nature books and fiction books written in Indiana.

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Lesley

Time’s Witness, Michael Malone – set in North Carolina

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Pam

The Grapes of Wrath

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Kay

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts.

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Audrey

Under The Banner of Heaven. I live in Utah.

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Melissa

I really like that one, too! But I had to go with Executioner’s Song for my favorite Utah book.

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Lisa

On the Banks of Plum Creek: Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Betsy and Tacy Series: Maud Hart Lovelace, Duma Key: Stephen King (briefly)

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Sophia

News of the World by Paulette Jiles. Texas.

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Georgia

The Monkeewrench mysteries.

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Cathy

The Life We Bury-Eskens (Minnesota)

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Pam

“A Land Remembered” Patrick Smith for Florida

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Gretchen

One of The Best Books ever written about Florida!

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Sandra

The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien by Oscar Hijuelos a family saga about an Irish & Cuban American family in Pennsylvania.

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NAnnie

<3 Snow Falling On Cedars <3 (Washington State)

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Linda

Run, Rabbit and the other Rabbit books.

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Cheryl

Anatomy of a Murder (Michigan) by Robert Traver.

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Charlotte

The firm

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Suzanne

Mississippi Greg Iles The Bone Tree Trilogy
John Grisham Books

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Laird

Tangerine

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Sandra

which tangerine?

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Laird

@Sandra the one by Edward Bloor…I read it aloud to my fourth graders and he actually came and spent the day in my classroom talking to my students about what authors do.

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Tanya

I taught that book for several years with 7th graders. It was always. Favorite part of the year and my students still mention it when they see me out 10+ years later!

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Kristie

The only (fictional) Alabama book I can think of is To Kill A Mockingbird, and it is shoved down our throats so much that I really can’t stand it.

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Ami

Haha… so funny that my post immediately follows yours! ?

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Kristie

@Ami Great minds!!

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Ami

@Kristie ??

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Jean

I’m not from Alabama but I love Rick Bragg’s books. All Over But The Shoutin was awesome

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Kristie

@Jean I love those, too.

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Ami

To Kill a Mockingbird ?

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Melinda

Christy

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Tere

Texas by James Michener

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Kathleen

The Dollmaker, True North, The Feast of Love – Michigan

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Vicki

NATIVE SON by Richard Wright, DANDELION WINE by Ray Bradbury

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Gretchen

Just finished Dandelion Wine and feel sure I will read it more! So loved it!

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Monty

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It’s fantastic!

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Janet

I love this book! ?❤️

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Monty

@Janet Me too!

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Mel

Gone Girl, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Winter’s Bone .

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Lissa

The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler

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Denise

Sunburn

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Donna

The Outsiders in Oklahoma

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Jill

A Winters Tale

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Deb

“Leaphorn and Chee” Navajo police series by Tony Hillerman

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Penny

I have several of his books!! Love him.

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Melissa

The Executioner’s Song

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Stephanie

Great question! I really need to think about it!

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Lisa

this was a very different book but very enjoyable!

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Debbie

Anything by Gene Stratton Porter, Kurt Vonnegut, or Booth Tarkington. (Sorry, John Green!)—Indiana

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Amy

Tennessee: The Tall Woman by Wilma Dykeman;
Also, the Body Farm series by Jefferson Bass

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Paget

Little house on the prairie

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Paget

Kansas

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Debbie

Please post your state—I’m reading a book from each. Almost finished with all 50, but still compiling a list!

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Tanya

If you have a list, I would enjoy seeing it. I am in my second year of teaching American literature and have thought of using books from different states with students.

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Debbie

@Tanya —another woman after my own heart! I’m a former teacher. ❤️Message me on Messenger! It may be a couple of days before I get my notes in order, but I’d be glad to share!!

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Bethany

I would love your list too!

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Tanya

@Debbie Thank you!

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Debbie

@Tanya I just sent some info on messenger. Let me know if you have any probs accessing it.

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Angie

You should just share the list publicly; I want to see it too!

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Debbie

Angie Lisle Face palm! I sort of melded the lists from these two sites–https://www.southernliving.com/culture/books-to-read-all-50-states

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Bethany

@Debbie I sent you a message!

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Debbie

The other list is from mental http://floss.com/—search Google for their “Most Famous Book Set in Each State” article.

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Mandy

The Living by Annie Dillard

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Juliet

The Outsiders. Although Ready Player One is also on the list.

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Juliet

Oklahoma

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Jamie

A Confederacy of Dunces

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Ellen

Washington – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, Folly by Laurie King, Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown.

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Robyn

Ordinary Grace by Kent Krueger and most of the John Sanford books and, of course, Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods.

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Britney

The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy — SC

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Janet

I love this book! ?❤️

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Gretchen

One of my favorite books! When they made the movie “Conrack” my brother was involved in helping set up some filming.

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Janet

@Gretchen – Very cool!

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Gretchen

@Janet , I only wish I’d known it while it was happening! The scenes where they took all the kids trick or treating…maybe they said in Charleston…were actually filmed on St. Simons Island, and he was the president of the chamber of commerce in those days. He also got to know Eugenia Price during his time there after she wrote her trilogy. Very cool time to live there!

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Janet

@Gretchen – We love the Southeast and have visited St. Simons and Daufuskie islands. Beautiful places! Found both Ms. Price and Mr. Conroy’s gravesites ?

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Gretchen

@Janet, how exciting for you! The barrier islands and lowcountry have a unique beauty for sure.

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Dianne

So Big by Edna Ferber Illinois

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Ellen

True Grit

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Betsye

Nights in Rodanthe

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Jessica

The Diane Mott Davidson books

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Serena

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Gone with the Wind.

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Lois

I loved Wilma Dykeman’s works, but my favorite book set in Tennessee is probably A Widow of the South by Robert Hicks.

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Lois

Oh, I forgot Christy by Catherine Marshall!

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Amy

The River Why

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Theresa

I also loved The Brothers K

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Sandy

The Wizard of Oz

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Lisa

Kansas, Munchkinland or The Emerald City? ??

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Sandy

Depends on the mood ?

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Patricia

The Boys in the Boat

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Patricia

State of Washington!

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Stephanie

Hearts of Men (Wisconsin)

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Chris

All of Wally Lamb’s books. (Set in Connecticut)

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Monica

To the Stars Through Difficulties by Romalyn Tilghman

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Leigh

I’m sure there are others, but the most recent: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (Ohio)

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Annamary

A Knight of Another Sort by Gary De Neal. Tells the story of gangster Charlie Birger during Prohibition.

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Judy

Dust and Roses by Wes Brummer

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Thomas

Last of the Mohicans

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Robyn

Cannery Row.

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Carol

Gone With The Wind

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Chris

The Yearling

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Susan

Most books by Patricia Cornwall.

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Kimberly

A Land Remembered, by Patrick D. Smith (Florida)

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Meredith

I live in Louisiana- hard to choose… So many books take place in New Orleans lol…

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Sonia

I have never been to your home state but Anne Rice made me fall in love with New Orleans. I will someday go!

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Connie

True

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Arvid

I read this book by Yukio Mishima while attending UT Austin. I read it in translation.

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Jane

Ordinary Grace

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Mikenzie

The Fault in Our Stars

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Lindsay

A Walk to Remember

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Elaine

And Ladies of the Club

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Barb

Great question!

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Gwen

Snow Falling On Cedars, Hotel At The corner Of Bitter and Sweet, Hoys In The Boat, The Absolutely True Story of a Part-time Indian are all set in Washington State. The hotel at the Corner is still there. I have visited it. You can look down through a piece of plexiglass and view some things left behind in the hotel.

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Barb

The Razor’s Edge or Devil in the White City.

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Randi

The Outsiders and The Summer of the Monkys were the two books set in Oklahoma that stand out the most for me.

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Joni

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Sonia

East of Eden

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Marla

The Worst Hard Time which is about the Oklahoma & Texas panhandles during the dust bowl.

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Christine

NC. One Second After by William Forstchen

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Pam

Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

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Jackie

The Book of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring takes place in Wisconsin

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Judy

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

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Maryann

When Love Walked In

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Ellen

State name would also help if not familiar with the book or setting

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Cynthia

Centennial, James Michener

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Gina

A Confederacy of Dunces–Louisiana

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Patti

To Kill a Mockingbird (Alabama)

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Jan

All Over But The Shoutin by Rick Bragg (AL)

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Judy

Good book!

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Jan

@Judy I love all his books.

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Judy

@Jan that’s the only one I read of his but I’ll check out his others. Which one would you recommend?

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Jan

@Judy All Over But The Shoutin is the story of his mother. Ava’s Man is the story of his grandfather. The prince Of Frogtown is the story of his father. I would suggest either.

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Troy

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck set in Monterey, CA

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Jan

@Judy His newest book is more about his mother. The Best Cook In The World: Tales From My Momma’s Table. It’s on my next to read list.

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Heidi

The Human Comedy by William Saroyan. Read it around 10-11 years old. He is a well known California-Armenian author and won a Pulitzer prize and turned it down.

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Judy

@Jan ok thank you! I was visiting a friend in Atlanta and we visited a cute little independent bookstore and it was recommended to me by someone there. Thank you!

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Jan

@Judy happy reading!

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Judy

@Jan you too ?

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Cynthia

Or The Stand, Stephen King

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Barbara

East of Eden

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Carol

A Day No Pigs Would Die.

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Jenifer

Divergent series..Illinois

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Jodie

Any of Kathleen Earnst’s novels. Wisconsin

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Mary

A Land Remembered (Florida)

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Sharon

Robert Thornhill’s series set in Kansas City, MO.

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Shauna

The Frontiersman -Ohio

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Jeanine

Bridges of Madison County — Iowa

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Patricia

The Yearling – Florida

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Bob

Winter’s Bones…living in the Missouri Ozarks, this book hits close to home.

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Judy

Empire Falls by Richard Russo for New York State.

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Kathy

I am from Georgia some have already been mentioned not sure if the Lighthouse Trilogy or other books by Eugenia Price has been noted.

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Janet

Love this series and her Florida Trilogy! ❤️?

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Debbie

OMG—how did I forget Eugenia!!! What a teller of tales! Thanks for reminding me!?

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Janet

@Debbie – She also has a Savannah series and Georgia Trilogy

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Debbie

@Janet —yes! I read them years ago and loved them! Probably out of print, but now in my TBRA (again!) list!

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Kathy

I have all of her books in my personal library, have read most of them again.

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Debbie

@Kathy —just added to my bucket list: visit St. Simons Island. ☺️

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Kathy

Jean Stratton Yes the islands including Jekyll and Cumberland would be interesting also. I was raised about 50 miles west of the coast and would go there often to visit relatives.

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Pat

Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver…

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Ginny

Can’t think of any in Michigan.

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Pat

Anatomy of a Murder is set in Marquette, MI

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Staci

The Color Purple

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Mary

Murder in Mackinac.

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Ginny

Thanks Pat&Mary.
I’ll check them out.
I’ve seen the A.of a Murder movie.

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Pat

Brown Dog Novellas by Jim Harrison..

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Ginny

@Pat . Thanks:)

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Wendy

Ginny Olson Cole In Nick Adams Stories by Hemingway – The End of Something. Haven’t read the others.

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Heidi

The Human Comedy by William Saroyan. Read it around 10-11 years old. He is a well known California-Armenian author and won a Pulitzer prize and turned it down.

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Wanda

To Kill A Mockingbird – Alabama

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Heidi

The Human Comedy by William Saroyan. Read it around 10-11 years old. He is a well known California-Armenian author and won a Pulitzer prize and turned it down.

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Sandra

.. Washington State, in the town of Port Orchard .. the “Cedar Cove” series by Debbie Macomber .. the author lives in Port Orchard, and she changed the town’s name to “Cedar Cove”, when she wrote the series.

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Stella

A Land Remembered – Florida

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Susan

Sweet Promised Land, laxalt/Nevada

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Michelle

A Land Remembered – Florida

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Stella

We wrote the same thing at the exact same time! ?

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Heidi

The Human Comedy by William Saroyan. A well known California-Armenian author who once won the Pulitzer prize. Read it around 10-11 years old.

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Lisa

Plainsong by Kent Haruf for Colorado

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Victoria

Love that book and Eventide.

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Lisa

Our Souls at Night is also really good. And, the movie, with Redford and Fonda wasn’t bad either (of course never as good as the book).

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Gretchen

The Scarlet Letter

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Emily

Tony Hillerman…

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Patty

Since not alot to choose from – ready player one- ohio

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Kristina

Gone with the Wind ♥️

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Bonnie

Gone with the wind!!

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Becky

The Guardian by Nicolas Sparks – NC

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Cathy

Living in Delaware, there isn’t many to choose from!

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Mary

The Halloween Tree.

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Lori

This Boy, by F. Mark Granato, CT

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Carol

Tonight in the Rivers of Pittsburgh, is the first of a great mystery trilogy.

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Judy

Here’s another I just thought of that’s pretty good!

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Rebecca

“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. Amazing.

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Debbie

Also Barracoon

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Rebecca

@Debbie As much as I love “Their Eyes Were Watching God” – and I used to read it once or twice a year – I have never read anything else by Zora Neal Hurston. I will check this out, thank you!

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Debbie

@Rebecca I actually loved it more than “Eyes.” The backstory: publishers insisted that Hurston anglicize the dialect of the gentleman dubbed “the last black cargo” of the slave trade. She refused, insisting that to anglicize his speech would detract immensely from the overall effect of the work. She was exactly right. Consequently, the manuscript lay dormant in the archives of Howard University until Deborah Plant recently approached Harper Collins about publishing the posthumous work. It is simply astounding. Very, very compelling.

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Rebecca

@Debbie Wow. I will definitely read this. Thank you again. And I think I will reread “Eyes” again. It’s been a few years and we just moved from South Florida to Central Florida and it is a world of difference here. I think I’ll pick up some other authors and novels that have Florida flavor. 🙂

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Kim

…and Ladies of the Club (Ohio)

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Theresa

The Art of Racing in the Rain. Washington

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Toni

The Shack, Oregon

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Trina

“The Witch of Blackburn pond “
Connecticut

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Jamie

Homecoming/Diceys Song (Maryland)

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Mary

Staggerford – set in Minnesota.

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Larissa

Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver.

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Lisa

Michael Shaara’s Killer Angels- Gettysburg, PA ??

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Valerie

The Life we Bury by Allen Eskens – MN

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Victoria

Kentucky – Clays Quilt, Parchment of Leaves and The Coal Tatooo by Silas House

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Laurie

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, WI & VT

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Becky

Crossing to Safety is one of my favorite books ever!

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Mags

And the Ladies of the Club, Helen Hooven Santmeyer. Ohio. It is a wonderful book!

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Mags

It’s long but completely absorbing. Expect to miss out on some sleep.

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Debbie

@Mags How did I ever miss this? Oh, wait! I was raising kids and reading Berenstain Bears (ad nauseum!!!)when it came out. ?

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KeithandHolly

11/22/63 by Stephen King—Texas

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Karen

Outsiders

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Betty

Gone With the Wind – Georgia!

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Melissa

Lonesome Dove.

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Baboo

Heart of Darkness

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Lynn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Gone Girl (Missouri) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Arkansas)

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Mariah

The Rescue by Nicholas sparks

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Debbie

In my “travels,” I got stuck in some areas—esp coal country—and had to make side trips to read articles online. Shout out to you folks in Appalachia. VA-Wish You Well (Baldacci), WV-Storming Heaven (Giardini), KY-The Time of Man (Roberts), regionally, Hillbilly Elegy.
Does it show that I love to talk about my American reading adventure? ?

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Michele

Little Fires Everywhere

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Ellen

Great fun to look at these. Thanks for including the state

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Cindy

Eatonville and Pahokee, FL Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Becky

To Kill A Mockingbird. Al.

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Kim

North Carolina, anything by Sharyn McCrumb.

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Linda

Arizona: Desert Wives (and/or Desert Wind) by Betty Webb….just read the whole Lena James series.

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Linda

Betty Webb is an investigative journalist turned novelist. “If Betty Webb had gone undercover and written Desert Wives as a piece of investigative journalism, she’d probably be up for a Pulitzer….” (The New York Times)

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Linda

But I also love the J. A. Jance Joanna Brady series set mainly in AZ

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Linda

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5659.Novels_Set_in_Arizona

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Eric

Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen Florida

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Sandy

Raney by Clyde Edgerton; NC

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Debbie

Happy Bicentennial to my “homeland,” Illinois. Ray Bradbury–Dandelion Wine, the precursor to Something Wicked This Way Comes. Sandra Cisneros: House on Mango Street.

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Marcia

The Raven’s Gift by Don Rearden, Alaska

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Linda

New Mexico/Arizona Anything Tony Hillerman….and even his daughter Ann Hillerman’s sequels.

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Mary

The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers….set in Northern California and back and forth re Yemen. Great book, author, real-life story…

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Catie

Diana Gabaldon is from my state but the books are set in Scotland.

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David

Great Santini

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Debbie

And The Water is Wide….unbelievable!

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David

Really almost all Conroy

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Linda

Absolutely love pat conroy

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Dessa

Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson!

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Bethany

Just finished Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson! It was amazing!

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Dessa

Have you read any of her others?

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Janet

Winter’s Bone

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Dee

Parchment of Leaves by Silas House, amazing portrait of Appalachia with real people, not stereotypes.

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Michael

I grew up in Jersey, so I’ll choose Fitzgerald’s first published work, This Side Of Paradise….some parts take place in NYC, where I live now….

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Tonya

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Missouri

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Robbie

Oklahoma: “Grapes of Wrath”, Woody Guthrie’s “Bound for Glory”, and “The Outsiders”. Two of my favorite Oklahoma authors are Billie Letts and Rilla Askew.

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Victoria

A Land Remembered, Florida.

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Jennifer

Too many to list. Lots of books sent in Chicago❤️

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Debbie

Devil in the White City is a great non-fic

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Alice

“Surface Tension” by Mike Mullin, based in my current town Indianapolis IN. new YA suspense book. Lots of familiar places.

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Gretchen

Georgia-
God, Mr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man, a fabulous memoir about Sapelo Island
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil-Savannah
Saving Cee Cee Hunnicut-Savannah
An Hour Before Daylight- very good memoir by Jimmy Carter of his rural boyhood in Plains.

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Shannon

Holes

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Nicki

“o pioneers” & “my antonia” by willa cather <3 also, parts of "the stand" by stephen king (nebraska)

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Sheilah

I Sailed With Magellan by Stuart Dybek – it’s a compilation of short stories all set in Chicago. One, “Lunch at the Loyola Arms,” is even set on a block I used to live on.

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Julie

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy by Kinsella.

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Becky

Because Bill Bryson grew up in my neighborhood in Des Moines Iowa and went to Roosevelt High School where my child went to school, his book “Thunderbolt Kid” is a favorite, though I like his book about living in England “Notes from a Small Island” even better.

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Debbie

LOVE “Thunderbolt Kid”

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Debbie

Haven’t seen HI weigh in. I’ll proxy: Moloka’i. I must’ve been the only one over 55 that had never heard of a leper colony in Hawaii. Great historical fiction. Blessings to you folks in HI….such a tragic last several weeks.

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Laurie

My book club read Moloka’i a few years ago. I really like the book.

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Amy

The Grapes of Wrath

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Peg

A Land Remembered

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Debbie

State?

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Peg

@Debbie Florida

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Wendy

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (Colorado)

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Debbie

Idaho: Educated, Tara Westover

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Desiree

Arizona-These is My Words

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Genevieve

Also check out A Beautiful Cruel Country by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce. It’s also set in S. AZ and is a memoir of the author’s childhood near Arivaca.

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Jude

The Secret Knowledge of Water by Craig Childs

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Dawn

Apparently, the only one I’ve read set in Pennsylvania is The Lovely Bones. I need to work on that!

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Jennifer

O’ Pioneers by Willa Cather –Nebraska

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Connie

Bridge to Terabithia, Virginia. It’s a children’s book. No equally wonderful adult novels set in Virginia come to mind.

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Laurice

NJ Any book by Harlan Coben

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Linda

I was wondering when I would see jersey pop
Up lol I’ve never read him before.

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Laurice

Great author

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Sheri

The Joy Luck Club

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Pat

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24611681-at-the-edge-of-the-orchard is set in NW Ohio when it was still the Great Black Swamp.

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Holly

A Gathering of Old Men – Louisiana

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Sandi

Gilead

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Aimée

Anything by Stephen King 😉

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Loisann

LuAnne Rice novels- CT

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Donna

Lonesome Dove until my book is published!

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Christina

The Outsiders

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Kay

To Kill a Mockingbird (AL)❣️

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Melissa

God’s in Alabama

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Linda

Ha!

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Bethany

Georgia:
When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
North Carolina:
The Serafina Series
Alabama:
Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
Texas:
News of The World by Paulette Jiles
Chicago:
Dear Mr. Knightley

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Patricia

Also Georgia: Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns and everything by Flannery O’Connor.

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Linda

Oh, girls! Think some more! SC has (RIP) the great Pat Conroy so take your pick: Prince of Tides, Lords of Disciple, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, I’ll stop there?

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Karli

Set mostly in Seattle, the J.A. Jance, J.P. Beaumont Mystery Series. Not high literature, but they are what comes to mind. Most of the books that have touched me deeply from our area are more from Oregon or British Columbia, and, of course, I can’t remember any of the titles. Sorry!

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Linda

I discovered J. P. Beaumont when I lived in the Pacific Northwest in 1987. At that point, he was suffering from “delusions of adequacy.” A phrase which hooked me, and I have read every single Jance book since then.

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Patricia

I’m originally from NYC, and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn has been a favorite since I first read it 50 years ago.

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Chrissy

I’m in Maryland – What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman.

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Christy

Roses

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Judy

BOTTOMLAND.

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Janice

So far, from Arizona, The Bean Trees, and
Animal Dreams
And the Lena Jones mysteries by Betty Webb and JA Jance’s Joanna Brady mysteries.

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LeiAnne

The monkey wrench gang by Edward abbey, plus the lazy b by Sandra day O’Connor. Epitaph a novel of the ok corral by Mary Doris Russell

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Janice

Wow, how could I forget that one.

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Bailey

A Painted House and Lions of Little Rock- Arkansas

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Jane

a tree grows in brooklyn

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Becky

JP Beaumont by Jance in WA and Rex Burns’ books in CO

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Alyssa

Shame on me! I haven’t read any for Iowa!! Suggestions anyone?

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Linda

Bridges of Madison county is the first that pops into mind. Not a favorite of mine, but probably the most beloved by many. https://bookriot.com/2015/03/12/5-great-books-set-iowa/

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Mandy

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley – She won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel.

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Alyssa

Yeah im good on that one lol

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Kevin

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

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Patti

Homer Price books by Robert McCloskey

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Cami

I am a Floridian so I am having a difficult time choosing something by Carl Hiaasen. Probably Stormy Weather, but maybe Star Island. Any of his novels that feature Skink as a leading character. Tourist Season is also a favorite.

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Becky

Love Hiaasen!

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Holly

Also John D McDonald’s Travis McGee novels. They’re a bit sexist, but still good mysteries.

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Amanda

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts. Tellico Plains is only a few miles from my town.

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Eileen

The first that came to my mind (New York): http://www.jenniferdonnelly.com/book/a-northern-light/

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Sandy

I don’t live there anymore, but I was born and grew up in Baltimore, I love The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler.

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Linda

Anyone heard about SC? Where can we find out?

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Linda

https://www.goodreads.com/places/1117-south-carolina

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Linda

@Linda Thanks, doll?❗️

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Linda

PRINCE OF TIDES

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Linda

@Linda Good one.

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Mandy

Yes and The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd. We have a lot of great books set in SC!

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Jen

Beach Music!

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Jann

the first that came to my mind was the Left Behind series

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Mary

A Prayer for Owen Meany.
( New Hampshire)

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Meredeth

Lonesome Dove!

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Ann

Gone With the Wind!!❤️

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Ann

Georgia!!

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Danielle

A guilty pleasure, but totally enjoyable because I can picture the setting and all of the places mentioned– the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series, in New Jersey.

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Anyte

hard to come up with one from Jersey- maybe one by Diaz-

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Shelley

The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin. Washington.

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Gail

The Polar Express from Rhode Island.

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Kathryn

Tongues of Angels -Reynolds Price -Blue Ridge Mt-NC

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Lindsay

I hope everyone puts the state with their title. I’m trying to read a book set in every state. Just a fun way to make sure I’m reading a variety!

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Estherjane

A Northern Light

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Mandy

South Carolina: Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy and The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

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Jen

I picked Pat Conroy for SC as well.

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Linda

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Long Winter.

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Jo

IL: Devil in the White City

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Jean

Lonesome Dove: Texas

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Kimberly

The serafina series!!!

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Brenda

https://www.amazon.com/Frontiersmen-Narrative-Allan-W-Eckert/dp/0945084919. One in a series that Eckert wrote. Almost entirely Ohio based

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Jane

Lonesome Dove.

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Camilla

Anything by Wally Lamb, “The Ice Storm” by Rick Moody, “Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (Connecticut)

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Missy

The Outsiders!

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Clancy

All the Garth Stein books take place in Washington State. It’s hard to pick my favorite, but A Sudden Light doesn’t require lots of tissues. Jamie Ford books for historical fiction in Washington.

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Dani

I will be adding these to my list!!

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Julie

The Bookseller

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Wendy

Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck

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Holly

The Bean Tree by Barbara Kingsolver, and a couple of J.A. Jance series for AZ.

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Jo

It’s a stretch, but The Wizard of Oz. Kansas

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Joni

The Stand! I’m not in Boulder, but it’s close! I always thought that was awesome! That book really influenced my life…and reading!??

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Meredeth

Great book!!

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Helen

Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon

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Karen

Shotgun Love Songs

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Mary

Middlesex-Michigan

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Linda

So many! The first I remember reading was Farmer Boy in the Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Almanzo lived in a small farmhouse outside of Malone, NY, on what is now Stacy Rd. Volunteers keep it going! http://almanzowilderfarm.com/

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Karen

“Misty of Chincoteague” (Virginia)

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Pam

I LOVED that book. Read it when I lived in Virginia.

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Lynn

Born in Kansas; living in California?

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Karen

Roots and Deliverance. In Virginia

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Gina

one of my favourite books. I live in ontario about an hour from MI

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Karen

Forgot James Mitchner’s Chesapeake, and Misty for Virginia

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Sheree

Hannah Fowler by Janice Holt Giles Kentucky

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Gina

meant to respond to Middlesex

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Cm

Ashes Underwater: The SS Eastland the Shipwreck that Shook the World. Michael McCarthy

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Jen

Beach Music – SC. Pat Conroy is one of my favorite authors.

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Debbie

News of the World or True Grit.

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Lou

so favor 2
Lonesome Dove that turned into a movie and
Little house on the
Prairie

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Marge

Snow Falling On Cedars…Washington State..

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Sally

Georgia: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.

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Linda

Great book

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Laurie

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

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Cathy

Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You, both by Celeste Ng, both set in Ohio. And both are beautifully written.

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Marsi

Wisconsin. I was going to say The Story of Edgar Sawtelle because it was very good, but truthfully it’s Little House in the Big Woods!

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Donna

I’ll try latter now – read Sawtelle already.

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Donna

I’ll try latter now – read Sawtelle already.

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David

Marsi – I second Little House in the Big Woods!

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Darby

The Bookmaker’s Daughter and True Grit Arkansas.

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Linda

Mine also, Marsi Feiber Plaunt! Our daughter worked at Old World Wisconsin for 4 years. They have a Laura Ingalls Wilder day, nice to see all the girls so interested in the activities.

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Tracey

On The Corner or Bitter and Sweet or The Orchardist-it’s a tie!

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Karen

Probably Old Yeller and/or Lonesome Dove.

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Diane

Killer Angles the battle of Gettysburg

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Vicki

Love this book too!

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Kathy

Anything be Dorothea Benton Frank!

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Leslie

Cider House Rules by John Irving

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Karla

Little Women.

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Roberta

I don’t remember its name but my dad had a book full of short stories about Detroit. I remember one was titled “The Boy who Bought the Tigers So He Could See a Game”. It was how Walter Briggs couldn’t afford to go to a Tiger baseball game as a boy so when he grew up and became rich, he bought the team. The bleachers were then where he gave paperboys free tickets to see the game. That was my favorite. I also read a Regency Romance set in Detroit. Can’t remember it’s name either.?

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Lisa

Raney by Clyde Edgerton, set in North Carolina.

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Rebecca

Prince of Tides

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Andrea

Centennial

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Marlise

And Ladies of the Club. Xenia, Ohio – my birth place.

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Emma

not much is set in Indiana

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Charlotte

Little Fires Everywhere. I also like Les Roberts Whiskey Island. They both take place in Cleveland Ohio.

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Carol

Ramona series

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Denise

Any of the James Lee Burke Robicheaux series!

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Brenda

Centennial by James Michner.

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Kara

The Awakening

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Billy

“One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign of 1864” by Gary Joiner.

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Debbie

I live in Savannah Georgia. It’s a toss up between Gone With the Wind and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

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Donna

I lived in your state for 33 yrs … mine would be Midnight In the Garden Of Good and Evil (loved both the book and the movie) 😀 #ReadOn

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Debbie

@Donna where do you live now?

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Donna

@Debbie, Military BRAT who spent many of my growing up years at Ft. Rucker, AL, so I’m back in “Sweet Home”. #LifeIs ?

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Denise

Prairie Silence

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Laurie

The Secret Life of Bees

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Colline

GWTW

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Amanda

The House With a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs

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Kathy

The Devil in the White City

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Andrea

Calico Joe

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Kay

Winesburg, Ohio

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Nancy

The Steven White’s, Dr. Alan Gregory series.

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Mary

In Cold Blood.

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Margaret

The Grapes of Wrath…California

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Diane

Moby Dick

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Laurie

The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Florida. Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer for the Novel.

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Cindy

So sad.

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Laurie

@Cindy, agreed. It’s such a beautiful novel, which takes place in old Florida. I was torn between this one and A Land Remembered, by Patrick D. Smith.

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Marie

The Great Gatsby

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Mary

Giant

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Sharon

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippmann

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Linda

WHITE OLEANDER.

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Steffen

I’m originally from Wisconsin. Walkers by Graham Masterton scared the crap out of me because I knew every location in the book.

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Mary

Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series are set in New Jersey.

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Sheryl

The Chaperone

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Teri

I am from Alabama so…To Kill .a Mockingbird

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Crystal

Gone Girl, Missouri

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Debi

Peachtree Road…. Georgia

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Peter

The Music Man by Meredith Willson.

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Kathy

Iron Weed by Wm Kennedy (Upstate NY)

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Rosalie

The Corner of Bitter and Sweet

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Brenda

Used to live in Nebraska and really enjoyed Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos. Just read Language Arts by the same author set where I live now in Seattle. That was pretty good.

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Carole

Richard Peck’s YA books.

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Lydia

Thieving Forest. Ohio!

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Cori

I’m going to take some liberties here:. I grew up in Oregon, although I don’t live there now and Cathy Lamb’s stories are usually set there.

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Lisa

Anything Steinbeck:)

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Jo

A Land Remembered – Patrick Smith

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Rhonda

That’s a great one for FL! Also Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Jane

It’s not all in Texas, but the best book is Lonesome Dove

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Jacqueline

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston.

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Johanna

TheophilusNorth by Thornton wilder

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Eileen

The Great Gatsby, Ragtime, Charming Billy

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Bee

Virginia

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Patricia

Yes! Our book club in Williamsburg has it on their list for December!

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Nancy

Centennial by James Michener, Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas

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Nancy

Colorado

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Jan

J P Beaumont series by J A Jance. Beaumont is a detective in Seattle, Washington

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Roslyn

Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove, All the Pretty Horses

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Mark

Joanna Brady series by J .A. Jance

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Rhonda

Anything by Pat Conroy

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Patty

Michener’s “Texas”

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Cathy

Middlesex

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Angela

Gone with the Wind

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Carolyn

Snow Falling On Cedars

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Carolyn

Also…On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

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Jeff

Station Eleven (same state as Middlesex)

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Linda

A Land Remembered

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Terri

Yes, mine too!

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Gary

Lonesome Dove

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Karen

Clifford of Drummond Island (Michigan)

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Frances

Giant

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Kevin

Operation Ragnarok (set in Northcentral Pennsylvania)

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Tammy

Beach Music. Pat Conroy describes SC lowcountry beautifully

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Donna

I am a Native Californian living in a different state now but I love Valley of the Moon by Jack London, set in the Sonoma Valley, not far from my hometown.

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Beth

Christopher Moore writes about San Francisco often. I love his writing! So funny

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Nancy

The Grapes of Wrath

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Sheila

Little House in the Big Woods – WI

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Debbie

Lonesome Dove with Texas Rangers Gus McRae and Woodrow Call – together they’re the best man ever!

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Barbara

Gus ruined me for other men

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Maryann

Little women

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Bridget

Alas, Babylon

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Mary

I love that book!

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Kay

Laura Ingalls Wilder set of books

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Mary

My Antonia.

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Tamara

True Grit – Arkansas; Grapes of Wrath – Oklahoma

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Russ

Kings Row by Henry Bellamann. Later a movie starring Ronald Reagan. Set in Fulton MO (although not called that in the book) about 15 minutes from my house. It caused quite a stir in town and was banned from the library at one time. Great book.

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Kim

The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher (but, specifically, Blood Rites, which is book 6)

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Joey

Paloverde

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Barbara

Bonfire of the Vanities. New York.

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Lynn

The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner. (Utah)

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Hilaire

The only one I know of is To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Jean

Oh Promised Land by James Street. Also, Tap Roots and By Valour and Arms by the same author in the same series.

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Kimberly

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

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Cheryl

I love that book, set in Chicago, where my mom was born and raised.

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Megan

Loved that book! Curious to see how the movie turns out.

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Nawrie

All of Louisa May Alcott’s books!

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Cathie

Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey set on Oregon

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Cindy

“Shoeless Joe” by W. P. Kinsella (my home state of Iowa – Field of Dreams)

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Debbie

Just visited the North Woods of MN. Any suggestions for a book in that region and NOT Little House on the Prarie.?

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Jean

You should try the Allen Eskens books. He is a fantastic author and his Max Rupert series is fantastic.

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Debbie

Thank you, will check it out!

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Cindy

“In Cold Blood” (Kansas, present state of residence)

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Donna

The movie scared me “to death” when I was a kid ….LOVE Truman Capote …. neighbor to my Nelle Harper Lee. 🙂

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Philana

The Help – Mississippi

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Valerie

Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati — NY and as we have a home in FLA…A Land Remembered by Patrick Smith

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Sharon

Gone with the wind

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Sheryl

To Kill A Mockingbird

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Sheryl

@Hilaire are you from Alabama too?

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Hilaire

Yes, I don’t know of another book set here.

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Sheryl

@Hilaire Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannin Flag
Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
And A Walk Through Fire but I can’t recall the author.

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Hilaire

Fried Green Tomatoes is on my tbr. I’ve seen the movie. I guess I just didn’t remember.

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Daisy

Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Florida)

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Jennifer

A Death in the Family, set in Knoxville TN

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Donna

Although I am not a native (I am from California), I live in Utah now. Desert Solitaire: A Season In the Wilderness written by Edward Abbey when he was a Park Ranger at Arches National Park in Utah, is quite good.

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Suzanne

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton – Oklahoma

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Sandra

The Anne George Series

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Michelle

Lonesome Dove – TX

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Debbie

I have to post one for NJ/IL. “Radium Girls” will stop you in your tracks. True story of the early 1900s “dial painters”–unsuspecting young women in factories in Orange, NJ and Ottawa, IL tasked with painting radium-laced luminescent paint on watch dials. Compelling.

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Marilyn

Everything by Pat Conroy and Dorothea Benton Franks…South Carolina

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Lenore

Brighty of the Grand Canyon AZ from childhood

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Judith

Thanks for posting that book! I could only think of Twilight ?!

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Faith

A Lantern In Her Hand. Nebraska

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Cheryl

I loved that book, and also Miss Bishop, both by Bess Streeter Aldrich. My mother introduced me to her books.

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Barbara

Nelson DeMille books are set in NY – The Gold Coast and Plum Island and Night Fall and Wild Fire!

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Suzanne

The art forger. Boston

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Terrence

Catcher in the Rye-NY

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Karla

The Legend of Buddy Bush

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Gail

Gone With the Wind

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Julia

The soul brothers and sister lou

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Tammy

Silence of the Lambs

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Donna

??

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Sandra

The Widow of the South. great read of post Civil War.

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Eileen

The Air We Breathe, set in Saranac Lake NY.

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Cecily

The Winter Garden, eastern Wa.

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Angela

Cold Mountain

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Cheryl

“Grapes of Wrath”

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Sunny

Catcher in the rye

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Mary

Charlotte’s Web

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Megan

A river runs through it

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Dee

Yes??????

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Michal

Into the Wild by Kim Barnes (Idaho)

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Ariana

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya- New Mexico

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Leslie

To Kill a Mockingbird!

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Jules

Dave Barry’s Best State Ever.

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Karen

Point of Origin

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Carol

Martin Marten

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Dori

Cannery Row

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Cheryl

When the Legends Die, by Hal Borland, about a young Ute Indian man, partly set in Colorado.

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Donna

To Kill a Mockingbird ?

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Maureen

Can anyone recommend a book set in New York (NOT NYC)?

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Karla

Massachusetts.

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Michael

Even though part of it takes place in NYC, it’s a wonderful novel….

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Sheri

Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates

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Sue

My favorite is City of Light, Lauren Belfer, set in Buffalo NY

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Maureen

Thank you!

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Lucille

An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser, Maureen Doherty

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Amanda

Clara and Mr Tiffany (I know it takes place in NYC but in a very different time)

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Louanne

The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart is set in a rural area near a tiny un-named town near NYC.

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Jan
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Myra

Grapes of wrath

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Darby

Arkansas, Maya Angelou, Helen Gurley Brown, Ellen Gilchrist, Dee Brown (I Left My Heart at Wounded Knee), and John Gould Fletcher Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, who lived up the hill on our country road.

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Jennifer

The Adventures of Daniel Boone

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Cheryl

And Passage by Connie Willis is set in Denver. She is a science fiction writer who lives in Colorado, so several of her stories are set in this state.

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Faith

I liked centennial but where I’m from I loved the elm creek series

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Nancy

One for the Money

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Kathy

Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood

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Jennifer

Cornbread Mafia

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Jennifer

Midnight In The Garden of Good & Evil

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Kim

Shoeless Joe

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Jeanine

This was my second choice for Iowa.

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Kim

What was your first choice?

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Jeanine

@Kim Bridges of Madison County.

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Kim

@Jeanine I completely forgot about that one! ?

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Sandra

The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill @Bryson

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Angela

Have it but have not read it yet !

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Christine

Enemy Woman – set in Missouri

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Sarah

A Parchment of Leaves

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Amy

Lovely Bones

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Angela

Gap Creek

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Judi

East of Eden

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Bonnie

Rainey.

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Kim

The Best Cook in the World

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Betty

That’s a no brainer for this AlabamIan: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

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Donna

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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Katy

Flowers in the attic.

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Sherry

The Unquiet Grave by Sharyn McCrumb.

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Laurie

Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis (post-apocalyptic, but realistic, Ohio!)

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Sarah

Gone with the wind

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Charon

News of the World, the audio is wonderful

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Shirley

A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith. Great historical novel about Florida.

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Cindy

Lonesome Dove or The Son

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Charlotte

Eli The Good by Silas House; set in Kentucky. All of his books are very good!

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Jeff

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

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Brenda

Is that Washington?

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Jeff

Yep

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Brenda

Guess I’d better read it then ☺

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Sonia

Anything by Anne Tyler (Maryland)

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Susan

The Monkey Wrench Gang

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Jennifer

Driftless

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Heidi

South of Broad

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Dave
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Elisabeth

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

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Julie

“Old yeller” Texas

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Ruth

Hoot by Carl Hiassen for FL. Or The Everglades: River of Grass by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas.

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Carol

Love the Cork O’Connor Series by Wm. Kent Krueger

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Lora

Shepard of the hills

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Cheryl

From the Ozarks in Missouri.

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Lora

I grow up there and have seen the outdoor play many times. My late husband bought me an early copy, that I just cherish.

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Cheryl

I was born and raised in Kansas City and spent lots of time in the Ozarks as a child and teenager.

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Lora

Funny, I grew up in the Ozarks and now live in Blue Springs, just outside of KC Mo

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Jessica

Lonesome Dove

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Denise

I looked up books based in Wyoming. Since I’m not a fan of westerns, I have to say none.

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Stacey

My Friend Flicka comes to mind.

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Denise

@Stacey I liked it, but I didn’t love it. It’s not one I would read again.

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Carleen

Girl of the Limberlost

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Mary

Cheaper by the Dozen

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Stacey

A book I read years ago and would like to read it again: Bluegrass-Kentucky

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Alicia

Well, a Blanton recommended it, I best go look it up. Do you know the author?

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Stacey

@Alicia Borden Deal. I worked in a public library in the early 1980’s. I found this on the shelf and really liked it.

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Blake

Wizard of OZ!

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Shanta

Beloved-mostly set in Ohio

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Shanta

Or The Bluest Eye also by Toni Morrison

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Sally

A TIME TO KILL, THE HELP, MY DOG SKIP, anything by William Faulkner or Eudora Welty.
I’m sorry, I’m from Mississippi. People from my state can spin a yarn.

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Jessica

Mississippi is a dramatic state! ?

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Jean

yes they can. some older books would be the James Street books.

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Sally

I grew up in Kentucky. A very important novel is set there, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.

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Karen

Love finds you in Branson, Mo

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Shauna

The Stand by Stephen King much of which was set in Colorado.

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Cheryl

And The Shining was inspired by King’s visit to the Stanley Hotel in Colorado.

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Shauna

@Cheryl Yes, I was just at the Stanley Hotel last week. Anyone who is a fan of him should go visit. I liked the Shining but The Stand is in my top 5 favorite books.

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Donna

I read Hillbilly Elegy last year. The author’s family moved from Kentucky to Ohio-this book is about the white middle class today. I have a special interest in Kentucky because my sister married a fellow from KY and lived the last 30 years of her life there. When I was in high school in the early 1960’s, we read Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which is an abolitionist novel set in a Kentucky plantation. It was written in the 1850’s. Our class read this book at the height of the Civil Rights injustices. Those are the two books I know of personally that were set in Kentucky. I know there must be many, many more. Although I am a Californian, I have been to KY several times and I lived there once for a year. I last visited in 2014. It is a beautiful state and I love it!

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Renee

A Painted House by John Grisham

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Theresa

Ghostbread by S Livingston: about ppl in Rochester, NY: I loved it!

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Cyndi

The Stranger Beside me, by Ann Rule

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Heidi

Actually surprised Uncle Toms Cabin wasn’t in the top 100 reads.

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Ryanne

Necropolis by @Tim

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Kathleen

“The Milagro Beanfield War” by John Nichols.

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Shannon

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

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Megan

Devil in the White City.

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Glenda

Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter

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Kimberly

The Time Travelers Wife

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Ruby

Any thing written by Sandra @Dallas

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Virginia

All the Light We Cannot See. By Anthony Doer

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Brenda

There aren’t many; but probably a short story in which a perpetually dieting teen & family stop at the restaurant in Santa Claus, AZ. “Cliff and the Calories” by Heinlein. Quite hard to find.

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Laurie

I love Mink River set in Oregon, but Ken Kesey’s books would probably be favorites of many more readers.

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Amy

Many of Jane Kirkpatrick’s books are set in Oregon where she (and I) live. Wonderful stories based on true historical women.

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Tina

The Girls from Ames.

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Ellen

The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks – (Tennessee)

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Lora

I have that book, and love it. My mom and I are planning on visiting Franklin next summer

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Ellen

I grew up in Franklin so it was all very familiar to me.

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Alicia

I’ve read both,it’s been since high school though for Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I enjoyed reading a Hillybilly Elegy.

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Caitlyn

Before we were yours

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Ellen

I read that one recently and enjoyed it.

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Jill

Winter’s Bone

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Leslie

Anatomy of a Murder

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Leslie

Big Two Hearted river

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Natalie

Anything by Joseph Heywood (MI)

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Janis

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

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Mari

The Art Forger (Mass)

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Rose

The Last Ballad

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Ali

اassassin

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Achs

Roth’s American Pastoral

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Pam

One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline

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Moira

Lives of girls and women by Alice Munro Ontario, Canada

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Deborah

@Desiree….I haven’t read that book …but I am now

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Maggie

I just read The American Cafe by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe, set in northeast Oklahoma. It was very good. I checked out her two other books yesterday.

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Randy

Cold Sassy Tree!

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Donna

Galveston

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Anne

True North by Jim Harrison

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Vicki

Richard Pecks books

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Mary

Lots of excellent books set in NC, but Cold Mountain comes in on the top 10 list.

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Nora

Plainsong

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Kay

The Last Cattle Drive – set in Kansas

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Shelley

I live in Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain’s, birth state, Missouri. Can’t top it. Though we put out many other great authors.

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Angel

Little House on the Prairie in WI

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Pat

All the books by Janet Evanovich (Trenton), Harlen Coban and David Rosenfelt (North Jersey)

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Krista

East of the Mountains by David Guterson (WA State)

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Sally

Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.

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Elizabeth

Cannery Row?

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Charlotte

Destiny of the Republic was about James Garfield from Ohio

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Maryann

Snow falling on Cedars by David Guterson. (WA)

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Krista

@Maryann, have you read his other book East of the Mountains? Also set in WA 🙂 I think I like the former better but both are very good!!

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Maryann

@Krista yes I have read both. Good writer. I enjoy all his writing.

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Connie

Oh, my–I’d forgotten how much I loved that book!!!

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Ellen

I forgot to add that one to my response to question. Great book!

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Karen

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O’Toole, The Movie Goer by Walker Percy: Louisiana.

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Cindy

News of the World by Paulette Giles about TEXAS

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Maryann

Interesting little book

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Diana

Connor Westphal mysteries by Penny Warner

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Chris

Which state?

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Diana

@Chris California

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Chris

@Diana thank you!

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Donna

@Heidi me too.

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Roberta

After realizing I really didn’t have an answer for this, I decided to look for a book set in Detroit while visiting my sister. We found a small bookstore in old town Northville and inside was an author signing his books. One of his books was about 5 John/Jane Does in the Detroit morgue. So I bought it. ?

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Donna

Let us know if you like it.

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Christina

Books by Jeffrey Eugenides are set in Detroit and the metro area.

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Christina

Also, Northville is a cool place. Awesome bookstores as well as in Plymouth.

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Roberta

The book is Awaiting Identification by R. J. Fox.

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JoEllen

Station Eleven

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JoEllen

Michigan

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Roberta

Is that a name of a novel about Michigan?

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JoEllen

Station Eleven is mostly set in Michigan

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Wanda

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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Christi

Great question! A Land Remembered. Florida history.

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Sandra

How about Carl Hiaasen?

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Beatriz

New Mexico: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

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Cathy

Love

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Beatriz

Me too

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Connie

Oh, absolutely!!!

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Kevin

“Erasure” by Percival Everett (California)

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Mary

“Lonesome Dove” by Larry McMurtry (Texas)

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Ellen

Read this as a selection in a book group! Not one I would have probably picked on my own and I ended up loving it!!!

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Mary

@Ellen book clubs are the best for broadening your horizons. I found some of my favorite titles that way.

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Mari

People of the lakes

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Jennifer

Tony Hillerman, JA Jance and Barbara Kingsolver for AZ. Can’t choose just one!

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Sandra

Love Tony Hillerman

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Liz

just finished reading Sister Mine by Tawni O’Dell, set in coal region of PA

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Billie

John Steinbeck.

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Joelle

YES! Went to camp in Carmel and now I understand Cannery Row. YES!

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Gayle

The Orphan Train, Kansas

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Joelle

Anything Updike…

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Cindy

Penrod

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Marie

A Land Remembered. Historical fiction about a family of FL pioneers.

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Jennifer

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtrey and Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson (Texas).

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Linda

Bless Me Ultima (Albuquerque, NM)???

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Jennifer

Have you read the rest in the series?

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Linda

@Jennifer yes, I like to read series (in sequence) and stories that take place where I live and places I have lived or been to.

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Beth

Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (California)

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Sherri

I loved this book. Parts of it have stuck with me even though I read it years ago.

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Beth

I loved it too. I need to read it again, I’ve forgotten so much.

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David

I liked it – well not quite all of it – but I liked The Circle better. I have great admiration for his efforts with 826 valencia.

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Sherri

I found this book fascinating. It’s historical non-fiction about Florida.

“In Last Train to Paradise, Standiford celebrates this crowning achievement of Gilded Age ambition, bringing to life a sweeping tale of the powerful forces of human ingenuity colliding with the even greater forces of nature’s wrath.”

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Janet

Yes, fascinating true story of Henry Flagler! Another good one during that time is The Storm of the Century by Willie Drye about the hurricane of 1935

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Sherri

@Janet I’ll have to check that one out!

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Rachel

Mystic River

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Arlene

These Is My Words by Nancy Turner. Arizona

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Jan

Snow Falling on Cedars

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Linda

That was a great book!

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Carole

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn!

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Colleen

Ready Player One

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Colleen

(Ohio)

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Becky

Housekeeping

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Deena

Anything by Heather Gudenkauf.

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Lori

Centennial

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Donna

Great book! Any novel by Michener is fabulous!

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Donna

I also love The Source and Hawaii by him. My friend named her baby, Kerith, after one of characters in The Source. Her baby is almost 40 years old now!

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Dianne

Dawn McKenna books set in Appalach area of Florida.

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Nancy

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

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Donna

One of my most favorite books!

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Barbie

I LOVE that book!!!

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Ellen

Love this question and all the responses!

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Donna

@Shelley mine, too!

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Sherry

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb.

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Donna
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Penny

Giant (Ferber) and Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)…Texas

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