Most famous book set in every state?

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe iowas isn’t The Bridges of Madison County.
That ad masquerading as a website was ridiculous.

No way! That was chicklit schlock. A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer. You sound like you haven’t read it.

The list was “most famous”, not “best written”. As someone who has read neither book, I am unable to compare their relative merits, but am inclined to believe that chicklit schlock would probably be more popular and widely known (however undeservedly) than Pulitzer Prize winners.

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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.

Streetcar is a play so not eligible (otherwise the crucible would be a good pick for Massachusetts). And Twain is from Missouri not Mississippi. Wasn’t Twain the pick for Missouri?

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Anonymous wrote:AI hallucinated that list.

Probably but if so it did a decent job. At least half of the picks are pretty good picks.

Some states just have so many good picks. Like Massachusetts….. Little Women or Moby Dick or the Scsrlet Lette?

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Anonymous wrote:Alaska should be that Jack London book about the dog. Or maybe tjulie of the wolves.

Agree California should be Steinbeck or chandler.

Runner up for Florida is the yearling.

For Maryland what do we think about The collected works of Edgar Allen Poe?

For Minnesota, I wonder if Lake Woebegone would be a better pick.

I thought NJ would be a Philip Roth book.

There must be something better for Ohio! Cleveland?

Also feel like there’s probably something better for Rhode Island but I don’t know what.

It’s an interesting idea though and I feel like many of the states are right. But it also highlights how some states just do not have a lot of good literature placed there.

Well, I found out there's a Marilynne Robinson book I have not read.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AI hallucinated that list.

Probably but if so it did a decent job. At least half of the picks are pretty good picks.

Some states just have so many good picks. Like Massachusetts….. Little Women or Moby Dick or the Scsrlet Lette?

It seems to have been written by a young journalist, not a writing professor with a lifetime of reading experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland - Misty of Chincoteague?

My teacher (in Texas) read this to us, so I’ve always considered it a minor childhood classic, similar to Bridge of Terabithia, Tuck Everlasting, etc. Is it really somewhat obscure but I was just fortunate to have a teacher who found it and shared it with us, or would it be a good representative for this list?

That was widely read when I was a child.

Old Yeller would be another one for Texas.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually like this thread. I cannot be the author of this list missed so many good books for some of the states. Still don’t comprehend Brokaw for South Dakota.

he was born there? But agree that SD has more historical significance and books that are associated with its history and culture.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen. I've read some of his books although not that one.