Lists: Business Insider's Reading through the US (by author)

Business Insider published a list of the States' most famous authors, one from each state (plus DC). You can see the original feature here. I typed this in a simplified list form, and will proceed reading at least one book from each author accordingly.

This list also includes the suggested books from the original article, i.e. the book that the author is most known for. I may or may not deviate from these suggestions.

Started: January 2014
Last updated:
Completed:

1. Alabama // Harper Lee // to Kill a Mockingbird
2. Alaska // Marty Beckerman // The Heming Way
3. Arizona // Jeannette Walls // the Glass Castle
4. Arkansas // John Grisham // a Time to Kill
5. California // John Steinbeck // the Grapes of Wrath
6. Colorado // Ken Kesey // One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
7. Connecticut // Harriet Beecher Stowe // Uncle Tom’s Cabin
8. Delaware // Christopher Castellani // a Kiss from Maddalena
9. Florida // Carl Hiaasen // Hoot
10. Georgia // Flannery O’Connor // a Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories
11. Hawaii // Armine Von Tempski // Born in Paradise
12. Idaho // Vardis Fisher // Children of God
13. Illinois // Ernest Hemingway // the Old Man and the Sea
14. Indiana // Kurt Vonnegut // Slaughterhouse-Five
15. Iowa // Bill Bryson // a Short History of Nearly Everything
16. Kansas // William Inge // Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
17. Kentucky // Hunter S. Thompson // Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
18. Louisiana // Anne Rice // Interview with the Vampire
19. Maine // Stephen King // the Shining
20. Maryland // Nora Roberts // The Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy
21. Massachusetts // Nathaniel Hawthorne // the Scarlet Letter
22. Michigan // Jeffrey Eugenides // the Virgin Suicides
23. Minnesota // F. Scott Fitszgerald // the Great Gatsby
24. Mississippi // William Faulkner // the Sound and the Fury
25. Missouri // Mark Twain // the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
26. Montana // Maile Meloy // Liars and Saints
27. Nebraska // Nicholas Sparks // a Walk to Remember
28. Nevada // Charles Bock // Beautiful Children
29. New Hampshire // Dan Brown // the Da Vinci Code
30. New Jersey // Philip Roth // Portnoy’s Complaint
31. New Mexico // Rudolfo Anaya // Bless Me, Ultima
32. New York // Herman Melville // Moby Dick
33. North Carolina // Thomas Wolfe // Look Homeward, Angel
34. North Dakota // Louis L’Amour // the Walking Drum
35. Ohio // Sherwood Anderson// Winesburg, Ohio
36. Oklahoma // Ralph Ellison // Invisible Man
37. Oregon // Beverly Cleary // Ramona Quimby, Age 8
38. Pennsylvania // James Mishener // Tales of the South Pacific
39. Rhode Island // Cormac McCarthy // No Country for Old Men
40. South Carolina // Peggy Parish // Amelia Bedelia
41. South Dakota // Adam Johnson // Parasites like Us
42. Tennessee // Peter Taylor // a Summons to Memphis
43. Texas // Katherine Anne Porter // Flowering Judas and Other Stories
44. Utah // Thomas Savage // the Corner of Rife and Pacific
45. Vermont // Ralph Nading Hill // Contrary Country: a Chronicle of Vermont
46. Virginia // David Baldacci // the Camel Club
47. Washington // Rick Steves // Rick Steves’s Europe Through the Back Door
48. Washington, D.C. // Michael Chabon // the Yiddish Policemen’s Union
49. West Virginia // Pearl S. Buck // the Good Earth
50. Wisconsin // Laura Ingalls Wilder // Little House in the Big Woods
51. Wyoming // Patricia MacLachlan // Sarah, Plain and Tall