Happy first Friday of the month! Now that Memorial Day is behind us, and we are in the month of June, it feels like summer is finally here! (yay, yay, yay!)
Do you have any summer travel plans? I don’t know about you, but whenever I travel, which is as often as I possibly can, I make sure to bring along a book that will not disappoint.
So I thought it would be fun to come up with a travel themed reading list! Here are some books that are set in the states, that take place both in the past and the future. Some I have read, some I had to look up. Hope you enjoy!
Road trip, anyone?
Alabama: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Alaska: Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
Arizona: The Host, by Stephanie Meyer
Arkansas: Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls
California: The Selection Series, by Kiera Cass
Colorado: The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Connecticut: The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
Delaware: Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
Florida: Because of Winn Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
Georgia: Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Hawaii: The Girl From Everywhere, by Heidi Heilig
Idaho: Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
Illinois: Divergent, by Veronica Roth
Indiana: The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green
Iowa: A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley
Kansas: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
Kentucky: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Louisiana: A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
Maine: Skylark, by Patricia MacLachlan
Maryland: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
Massachusetts: Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Michigan: Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Minnesota: Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mississippi: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Missouri: Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
Montana: A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean
Nebraska: Eleanor and Park, by Rainbow Rowell
Nevada: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson
New Hampshire: The Hotel New Hampshire, by John Irving
New Jersey: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
New Mexico: Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
New York: Percy Jackson, by Rick Riordan
North Carolina: A Walk To Remember, by Nicholas Sparks
North Dakota: The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
Ohio: The Broom of the System, by David Foster Wallace
Oklahoma: Paradise, by Toni Morrison
Oregon: Wild, by Cheryl Strayed
Pennsylvania: Red Queen, by Victoria Aveyard
Rhode Island: My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
South Carolina: The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
South Dakota: By the Shores of Silver Lake, by Laura Inglalls Wider
Tennessee: Christy, by Catherine Marshall
Texas: No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
Utah: Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
Vermont: Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter
Virginia: Bridge To Terabithia, by Kate DiCamillo
Washington: Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer
West Virginia: Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Wisconsin: Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Wyoming: My Friend Flicka, by Mary O’Hara
What would you add to this list? Which ones have you read? Are any on your TBR list? I want to hear from you!
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This is an awesome list. I have read quite a few like “Where The Red Fern Grows”, Mark Twain novels, The Hunger Games, etc.
For me, for California, I would add “The Tortilla Curtain” by T.C. Boyle and any Stephen King novels for Maine.
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Glad you liked it! Thanks for the input, I’m going to have to look that one up!
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I’m soooo glad you included Little Women in the list. It’s one of my favorite books, by one of my favorite authors. I’m actually reading one of her books right now for my Louisa May Alcott challenge. Christy is another favorite of mine… as is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (which I just read this year!)
Tarissa
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A Louisa May Alcott challenge sounds fun! I’m glad I included some favorites in the list.
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Love Little Women and A walk to remember! Thanks so much for this list!
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I’m so glad you like it!
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