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  • Aug 15 2007

    Book around the States

    Published by 3M

    1 Alabama

    • The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
    • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Pulitzer)

    2 Alaska
    3 Arizona

    • Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

    4 Arkansas
    5 California

    • The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

    6 Colorado

    • Centennial by James Michener
    • Plainsong by Kent Haruf

    7 Connecticut
    8 Delaware

    • Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

    9 Florida

    • The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings (Pulitzer)

    10 Georgia

    • The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Pulitzer)
    • Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Pulitzer)

    11 Hawaii

    • Molokai by Alan Brennert

    12 Idaho
    13 Illinois

    • Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

    14 Indiana
    15 Iowa

    • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Pulitzer)
    • A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Pulitzer)

    16 Kansas

    • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum

    17 Kentucky

    • Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
    • Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
    • A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
    • The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
    • The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

    18 Louisiana

    • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Pulitzer)
    • A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Pulitzer)
    • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

    19 Maine

    • Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Pulitzer)
    • A Country of Pointed Firs by Jewett

    20 Maryland

    • The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler

    21 Massachusetts

    • The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Pulitzer)

    22 Michigan

    • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
    • Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
    • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

    23 Minnesota

    • Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik

    24 Mississippi

    • The Optimist’s Daughter
    • Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
    • Daisy and the Miracle Man by Fanny Flagg

    25 Missouri

    • Finn by Jon Clinch
    • Standing in the Rainbow by Fanny Flagg

    26 Montana
    27 Nebraska

    • O Pioneers by Willa Cather
    • One of Ours by Willa Cather (Pulitzer)
    • The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

    28 Nevada
    29 New Hampshire
    30 New Jersey

    • American Pastoral by Philip Roth (only because it’s a Pulitzer)
    • Independence Day by Richard Ford (Pulitzer)

    31 New Mexico

    • Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
    • House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Pulitzer)

    32 New York

    • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Pulitzer)
    • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Pulitzer)
    • His Family by Ernest Poole (Pulitzer)
    • The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos (Pulitzer)
    • Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Pulitzer)

    33 North Carolina
    34 North Dakota
    35 Ohio
    36 Oklahoma

    • Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

    37 Oregon

    • Honey in the Horn by Harold Lenoir Davis (Pulitzer)

    38 Pennsylvania

    • Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (Pulitzer)
    • Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Pulitzer)
    • The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (Pulitzer)

    39 Rhode Island
    40 South Carolina

    • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

    41 South Dakota
    42 Tennessee

    • A Death in the Family by James Agee (Pulitzer)
    • A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Pulitzer)

    43 Texas

    • Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Pulitzer)

    44 Utah

    • The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer (Pulitzer)

    45 Vermont

    • Second Glance by Jodi Picoult

    46 Virginia

    • The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Pulitzer)
    • The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Pulitzer)

    47 Washington
    48 West Virginia
    49 Wisconsin
    50 Wyoming

    • An Unfinished Life

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    One Response to “Book around the States”

    1. Ladytink_534 Says:
      November 20th, 2007 at 4:08 pm

      There’s a good book called Kavik the Wolf Dog that takes place mainly in Alaska. It’s by Walt Morey, the same man who wrote Gentle Ben.

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