Have you seen this book list?

 

I have been on vacation this week and have been deeply engrossed in Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. I will have a review of it before the weekend is over. 

I saw a very cool article about the most famous book from each state on the Business Insider website. Have you seen this list? How many have you read? Does the book for your state strike you as the best from your state? Is it indeed the most famous? I have read 28 of them. Half way across the country. How about you?

AL  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

AK   Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

AZ   The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

AR   A Painted House by John Grisham

CA  East of Eden by John Steinbeck

CO  The Shining by Stephen King

CT  Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

DE  The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani

FL  To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

GA  Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

HI  Hawaii by James Michener

ID  Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

IL  The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

IN  The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

IA  A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

KS  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

KY  Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LA  Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

ME  Carrie by Stephen King

MD  Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

MA  Walden by Henry David Thoreau

MI  The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

MN  Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
MO  Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
MT  A River Runs Through It by Norman McLean

MS  The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

NE  My Antonia by Willa Cather

NV  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

NH  The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

NJ  Drown by Junot Diaz

NM  Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford

NY  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

NC A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

ND  The Round House by Louise Erdrich

OH  The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

OK  Paradise by Toni Morrison

OR  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

PA  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

RI  My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

SC  The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

SD  A Long Way from Home by Tom Brokaw

TN  The Firm and The Client by John Grisham

TX  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

UT  The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

VT  Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

VA  Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

WA  Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

DC  The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

WV  Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

WI  Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
WY The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman