Most famous book set in every state?

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Anonymous wrote:I think if you are using setting as the criteria for the list, the story should have something to do with or inform you in some way about the setting. If the same story could happen anywhere, then why bother listing by location?

So many better choices for PA that actually have something to do with the setting. Love "The Lovey Bones," but didn't even register the location of the story. I mean, "The Catcher in the Rye" is more famous and also set in PA, but could have been anywhere.

On the other hand, "Fences," "Baker Towers," "Fever 1793," "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," "Out of this Furnace," "In the Valley of Decision," "The Signature of All Things," seem to have place as an important part of the story.

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A story that could be anywhere? Who cares. I don't register location on a lot of books unless they are important and become characters too.

For Maryland,
"Jacob Have I Loved"
is a standout. It's stayed with me and I've even looked up this island (it's based on a real one) in the Chesapeake Bay. This is a true Maryland story. Could only happen here.

https://amyrogershays.com/2019/06/03/newbery-review-60-jacob-have-i-loved-paterson-1981/

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Anonymous wrote:I would’ve picked A Streetcar Named Desire for Louisiana (New Orleans) and of course Steinbeck for CA. Also, no Mark Twain? I guess it’s hard when you have two great writers to choose from for Mississippi.

For Mark Twain, they have Tom Sawyer from Missouri.

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Anonymous wrote:I would’ve picked A Streetcar Named Desire for Louisiana (New Orleans) and of course Steinbeck for CA. Also, no Mark Twain? I guess it’s hard when you have two great writers to choose from for Mississippi.

Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn went to Missouri

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Anonymous wrote:I would’ve picked A Streetcar Named Desire for Louisiana (New Orleans) and of course Steinbeck for CA. Also, no Mark Twain? I guess it’s hard when you have two great writers to choose from for Mississippi.

I love A Streetcar, but it was a play by Tennessee Williams, not a book.

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Anonymous wrote:I would’ve picked A Streetcar Named Desire for Louisiana (New Orleans) and of course Steinbeck for CA. Also, no Mark Twain? I guess it’s hard when you have two great writers to choose from for Mississippi.

It's criminal not to put Steinbeck for Calfornia. Totally undermines the whole list.

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This list is AI-generated crap.

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Anonymous wrote:I would’ve picked A Streetcar Named Desire for Louisiana (New Orleans) and of course Steinbeck for CA. Also, no Mark Twain? I guess it’s hard when you have two great writers to choose from for Mississippi.

Missouri got Mark Twain.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it all fiction except for Tom Brokaw and the book about Matthew Shepherd? If you're including non-fiction books there are far better choices. All The President's Men for DC, for example.

Walden is also not a novel. The Scarlet Letter would be better for Massachusetts.

Abssolitely. Or house of seven gables. Or Moby Dick.

Massachusetts should be The Crucible.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it all fiction except for Tom Brokaw and the book about Matthew Shepherd? If you're including non-fiction books there are far better choices. All The President's Men for DC, for example.

Walden is also not a novel. The Scarlet Letter would be better for Massachusetts.

Abssolitely. Or house of seven gables. Or Moby Dick.

Massachusetts should be The Crucible.

A play.

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Anonymous wrote:Native Son by Richard Wright should be the Illinois book. It’s set in Chicago.

Alternatively, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury

A play.

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Anonymous wrote:I would’ve picked A Streetcar Named Desire for Louisiana (New Orleans) and of course Steinbeck for CA. Also, no Mark Twain? I guess it’s hard when you have two great writers to choose from for Mississippi.

Missouri got Mark Twain.

Missouri got Mark Twain because that’s where he’s from, and where his two most famous books are set. The Mississippi River forms the eastern boundary of Missouri.

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Anonymous wrote:I think if you are using setting as the criteria for the list, the story should have something to do with or inform you in some way about the setting. If the same story could happen anywhere, then why bother listing by location?

So many better choices for PA that actually have something to do with the setting. Love "The Lovey Bones," but didn't even register the location of the story. I mean, "The Catcher in the Rye" is more famous and also set in PA, but could have been anywhere.

On the other hand, "Fences," "Baker Towers," "Fever 1793," "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," "Out of this Furnace," "In the Valley of Decision," "The Signature of All Things," seem to have place as an important part of the story.

+1
A story that could be anywhere? Who cares. I don't register location on a lot of books unless they are important and become characters too.

For Maryland,
"Jacob Have I Loved"
is a standout. It's stayed with me and I've even looked up this island (it's based on a real one) in the Chesapeake Bay. This is a true Maryland story. Could only happen here.

https://amyrogershays.com/2019/06/03/newbery-review-60-jacob-have-i-loved-paterson-1981/

How could I have forgotten about “Jacob Have I Loved”? I know it’s considered YA, but boy does it have some themes that stay with you well into adulthood. And you’re right, the Maryland location is crucial to the story.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would’ve picked A Streetcar Named Desire for Louisiana (New Orleans) and of course Steinbeck for CA. Also, no Mark Twain? I guess it’s hard when you have two great writers to choose from for Mississippi.

Missouri got Mark Twain.

Missouri got Mark Twain because that’s where he’s from, and where his two most famous books are set. The Mississippi River forms the eastern boundary of Missouri.

I’m the first PP who brought up Twain. I always thought he was from Mississippi- learn something new every day!

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Anonymous wrote:FYI for those who don’t like the link…

Maryland is Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (I haven’t read this one and it doesn’t seem very famous)

Virginia is Bridge to Terabithia (I don’t remember that this was supposed to be Virginia, I do remember that The Great Gilly Hopkins was set in basically Takoma Park.)

DC is The Lost Symbol (EW there must be a better choice for this)

South Dakota should have been one of the Little House books once they end up there but they used Little House in the Big Woods for Wisconsin.

New Jersey (Drown by Junot Diaz) and California (Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion) both seem to need better choices than these. Almost everything Judy Blume wrote took place in Jersey so Are You There God It’s Me Margaret would be a good pick. California could be anything by Steinbeck, or The Joy Luck Club, or almost anything Raymond Chandler to be more famous.

Forgot to add DC’s should be The Exorcist. Also for my hottest take: the most famous book set in Virginia is Flowers in the Attic.

Maybe Virginia doesn’t want to be associated with childhood incest?

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Anonymous wrote:I read your title as “book set”. Like a book series favored in the state. Wrong lol.

Me too