create your own visited states map.
We have suggested books for 23 of the 50 states, but there's a lot of blank space on this map! Don't stop now. Who can help fill in these blanks?
NOTE: This state map is too wide to fit here, so I'll post it at the bottom of this page so you can see ALL of the states in the east.
P.S.: As we continue to add books, I won't change THIS map, but I will update the map at the bottom of the page.
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Well, for Missouri there's Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn...
Washington- Snow Falling on Cedars
Oops, it's Oregon not Washington that needs one.... off to look some more.
Montana- A River Runs Through It
That's okay, Dawn, Snow Falling on Cedars is a great choice for Washington. And the others you suggested are also very good ones. Thanks
Rocket Boys, a memoir by NASA engineer Homer H. Hickam, Jr., is a good one for West Virginia. He paints a vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive.
Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve for Massachusetts (sp?). A lot of her other books are set in New England as well.
Neco, I haven't put this book up for Massachusetts because I keep finding sentences like this: "The time is the turn of the last century, the setting a rocky New Hampshire coastline resort area nicknamed Fortune's Rocks." The main character is the daughter of a Boston couple, but does it take place in Massachusetts or in New Hampshire?
Michigan- Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
West Virginia- From West Virginia with Love by Andrew Chafin
Nevada- Bittersweet by Nevada Barr
Bonnie, Anita Shreve (the novelist who wrote Fortune's Rock) lives in (or nearby) Boston and grew up in New England, I think. I have read the majority of her books, which are character driven stories that make one think about why people makes the choices they make and usually have lovely New England settings that feature into the story. I chose this particular book to recommend because not only does it have a complicated romance and complex characters, but the mill towns and factory girls of the early 1900s in New England play into the main story so I thought it shared something about the history of that area of New England. The majority of the book is set at the girl's family's summer home, which is in New Hampshire according to your post (I've read the book more than once but not recently enough to remember for sure), and also in Boston and a mill town in New England. So I'd go New Hampshire, if you use it.
Lol, this is actually the reason I didn't suggest The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates. I wasn't sure exactly where it was set. It's about a romance ended by a death on Niagara Falls back a few generations ago which leads into the 1950s and a legal battle involving industry pollution of the area. I felt like I saw learning about the history of the area, even though it's fiction.
Hi! I see that Missouri is not a Red" state. I read the cutest book set in that state. It is called "Bitsy's Bait and BBQ" by Pamela Morsi.
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