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January 2011
Compiled by Dusty Gres of the Ohoopee Regional Library System ,
from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
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Alabama
Books:
To Kill a Mockingbird/ Harper Lee
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe/ Fannie Flagg
Southern Sisters mysteries/ Anne George
Alaska
Books:
Great Alone / Janet Daily
Alaska / James Michener
Ashana / E.P. Roesch
Northern Lights / Nora Roberts
Two Old Women / Velma Wallis
Authors:
Dana Stabenow
Arizona
Books:
These Is My Words / Nancy Turner
Filaree /
Marguerite Noble
Host /
Stephanie Meyer
Bean Trees /
Barbara Kingsolver
Joanna Brady series /
J.A. Jance
Navajo Indian series / Tony Hillerman
Authors
Barbara Kingsolver
J.A. Jance
Arkansas
Books:
A Painted House / John Grisham
Elkhorn Tavern / Douglas C. Jones
Arly Hanks mysteries / Joan Hess
California
Books:
East of Eden; Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck
Calico Palace / Gwen Bristow
Golden Days / Carolyn See
Tales of the City / Armistead Maupen
Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan
Farewell My Lovely; Long Goodbye / Raymond Chandler
Easy Rawlings series / Walter Mosley
Daughter of Fortune / Isabel Allende
Angle of Repose / Wallace Stegner
Authors
Robert Crais
Sue Grafton
T. Jefferson Parker
Colorado
Books:
Centennial / Jams Michener
Plainsong; Tie That Binds / Kent Haruf
Tallgrass / Sandra Dallas
The Little Britches series / Ralph Moody
Culinary mystery series / Diane Mott Davidson
Charlie Moon mystery series / James D. Doss
Authors
Stephen White
Tony Hillerman
Connecticut
Books:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Mark Twain
Captain from Connecticut / C.S. Forester
The Witch of Blackbird Pond / Elizabeth George Speare
Outsiders / Howard Fast
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit / Sloan Wilson
Authors:
Mark Twain
Wally Lamb
Stewart O'Nan
Thomas Tryon
Luanne Rice
Delaware
Books:
The Saint of Lost Things / Christopher Castellani
Contents Under Pressure / Lara Zeises
District of Columbia
Books:
District of Columbia / John Dos Passos
Florida
Books:
Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
Everglades: river of grass / Marjorie Stoneman Douglas
Deep Blue Goodbye / John D. MacDonald
The Arch McNally series / Lawrence Sanders
Cross Creek; The Yearling / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A Land Remembered / Patrick Smith
Skinny Dip; Stormy Weather / Carl Hiaasen
Barefoot Mailman / Theodore Pratt
Matthew Hope mysteries / Ed McBain
Killing Mister Watson / Peter Matthiessen
Red Grass River / James Carlos Blake
Authors:
Carl Hiaasen
John D. MacDonald
Harry Crews
Georgia
Books:
Gone With The Wind / Margaret Mitchell
Run With The Horsemen / Ferrol Sams
Deliverance / James Dickey
Cold Sassy Tree / Olive Ann Burns
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil / John Berendt
Authors:
Eugenia Price
Karin Slaughter
Tina McElroy Ansa
Erskine Caldwell
Conrad Aiken
Flannery O'Connor
Kathy Hogan Trocheck/Mary Kay Andrews
Hawaii
Books:
Hawaii / James Michener
Primitive Secrets (Storm Kayama series) / Deborah Turrell Atkinson
Moloka'i / Alan Brennert
Mahu (Kimo Kanapa) mysteries / Neil Plakcy
From Here to Eternity / James Jones
Authors:
O.A. Bushnell
Idaho
Books:
Country Called Home / Kim Barnes
Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson
Sheriff Bo Tully mysteries / Patrick McManus
Authors:
Pamela Aidan
Don Aslett
Vardis Fisher
Ernest Hemingway (though he wasn't born in Idaho, he called it home)
Anthony Doerr
Brady Udall
Kim Barnes
Carol Ryrie Brink
Illinois
Books:
Dandelion Wine / Ray Bradbury
The Jungle / Upton Sinclair
Spoon River Anthology / Edgar Lee Masters
Father Dowling mysteries / Ralph McInerny
Father Blackie Ryan mysteries / Andrew Greely
V.I. Warshawski mysteries / Sara Paretsky
Ordinary People / Judith Guest
Authors:
Raymond Chandler
William Diehl
Indiana
Books:
The Magnificent Ambersons / Booth Tarkington
Girl of the Limberlost / Gene Stratton-Porter
The Friendly Persuasion / Jessamyn West
Authors:
Gene Stratton-Porter
Booth Tarkington
Kurt Vonnegut
Michael Martone
James Alexander Thom
Theodore Dreiser
Iowa
Books:
Bridges of Madison County / Robert James Waller
Thousand Acres / Jane Smiley
State Fair / Phil Stong
Dewey: small town library cat / Vicki Myron
Little Heathens / Mildred Kalish
The Girls From Ames / Jeffrey Zaslow
Methland / Nick Riding
Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman mysteries / Donald Harstad
Shoeless Joe / W.P. Kinsella
Kansas
Books:
Dark Places / Gillian Flyn
Cottonwood; Ice Harvest; Walkaway / Scott Phillips
Persian Pickle Club / Sandra Dallas
In Cold Blood / Truman Capote
The Learning Tree / Gordon Parks
What Kansas Means to Me / Thomas Fox Averill, ed.
Virgin of Small Plains; Scent of Rain and Lightning / Nancy Pickard
Wonderful Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum
Kentucky
Books:
Jayber Crow / Wendell Berry
Feather Crown / Bobbie Ann Mason
Kentucky series / Fern Michaels
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come / John Fox
Authors:
Harriette Simpson Arnow
Janice Holt Giles
Harry M. Caudill
Wendell Berry
James Still
Jesse Stuart
Silas House
Barbara Kingsolver
Robert Penn Warren
Louisiana
Books:
All the King's Men / Robert Penn Warren
Dave Robicheaux mysteries / James Lee Burke
Midnight Bayou / Nora Roberts
Skip Langdon mystery series / Julie Smith
Cane River / Lalita Tademy
Plantation trilogy / Gwen Bristow
Landry saga / V.C. Andrews
Sookie Stackhouse series / Charlaine Harris
A Streetcar Named Desire / Tennessee Williams
Authors:
Francis Parkinson Keyes
Anne Rice
Maine
Books:
Empire Falls / Richard Russo
Country of the Pointed Firs / Sarah Orne Jewett
Chronicles of Arundel series /
Kenneth Roberts
The Beans of Egypt, Maine / Carolyn Chute
Peter Shandy mystery series / Charlotte MacLeod
Authors:
Stephen King
Maryland
Books:
Moon series; 43 Light Street series / Rebecca York
Chesapeake / James Michener
Mary's Land / Lucia St. Clair Robson
Authors:
Anne Tyler
Nora Roberts
Massachusetts
Books:
The Bostonians / Henry James
House of the Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little Women / Louisa May Alcott
Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton
April Morning / Howard Fast
Asey Mayo Cape Cod mystery series / Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Three Sisters Island trilogy / Nora Roberts
Rabbi David Small mysteries / Harry Kemelman
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane / Katherine Howe
Authors:
Robert Parker
Alice Hoffman
Dennis Lehane
Michigan
Books:
Starvation Lake; The Hanging Tree / Bryan Gruley
A Superior Death; Wolf Study / Nevada Barr
Stealing Buddha's Dinner / Bich Manh Nguyen
Anatomy of a Murder / Robert Traver
The Cat Who series / Lillian Jackson Braun
Ice Hunter; Woods Cop series / Joseph Heywood
What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day / Pearl Cleage
Authors:
Elmore Leonard
William X. Kienzle
Minnesota
Books:
Main Street / Sinclair Lewis
Prey series / John Sandford
Night Sins / Tami Hoag
Hannah Swensen mysteries / Joanna Fluke
Needlecraft mysteries / Monica Ferris
The Emigrant novels / Vilhelm Moberg
Authors:
Garrison Keillor
Jon Hassler
Mississippi
Books:
Mudbound / Hillary Jordan
Black Boy / Richard Wright
Sound and the Fury / William Faulkner
Optimist's Daughter; short stories / Eudora Welty
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Tennessee Williams
Authors:
Mark Twain
John Grisham
Missouri
Books:
Voice of Bugle Ann / MacKinlay Kantor
Winter's Bone / Daniel Woodrell
Mrs. Bridge; Mrs. Bridge / Evan S. Connell
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
Missouri series / Dorothy Garlock
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! / Fannie Flagg
Montana
Books:
Winter Wheat / Mildred Walker
A River Runs Through It / Norman Maclean
Calder series / Janet Dailey
The Big Sky / A.B. Guthrie
Blood Lure / Nevada Barr
The Horse Whisperer / Nicholas Evans
In the Moon of Red Ponies / James Lee Burke
The Surrounded / D'Arcy McNickle
Authors:
Ivan Doig
Thomas McGuane
Dorothy M. Johnson
Nebraska
Books:
Prairie trilogy: O Pioneers!; Song of the Lark; My Antonia / Willa Cather
Old Jules / Marie Sandoz
A Lantern in Her Hand / Bess Streeter Aldrich
Echo Maker / Richard Powers
Mystery of Hunting's End / Mignon Eberhart
This Is Not the Tropics / Ladette Randolph
Authors:
Loren Eisley
John Neihardt
Nevada
Books:
The ox-bow incident / Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Mr. Lucky / James Swain
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Hunter S. Thompson
Roughing It / Mark Twain
Authors:
James Swain
Will James
Frank Bergon
New Hampshire
Books:
A separate peace/ John Knowles
A gathering of days/ Joan Blos
Salem falls / Jodi Picoult
Authors:
John Irving
Barbara Delinsky
Anita Shreve
New Jersey
Books:
Stephanie Plum series / Janet Evanovich
The God Coast /
Nelson DeMille
Authors:
Harlan Coben
Wallace Stroby
Philip Roth
New Mexico
Books:
Death Comes for the Archbishop / Willa Cather
Bless Me Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya
New York
Books:
Long Trail Winding: new and collected upstate stories / Elisabeth Stevens
Last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn / Betty Smith
Authors:
Edith Wharton
North Carolina
Books:
Deborah Knott series / Margaret Maron
Cold Mountain / Charles Frazier
Mitford series / Jan Karon
Authors
Clyde Edgerton
Nicholas Sparks
Thomas Wolfe
Kaye Gibbons
Margaret Maron
Reynolds Price
North Dakota
Books:
Dakota series / Debbie Macomber
Tales of Burning Love; Tracks; Last Report on the Miracles at Little No
Horse / Louise Erdrich
Sundown; Yellow Moon / Larry Watson
Giants in the Earth / Ole Edvart Rolvaag
Ohio
Books:
Winesburg, Ohio / Sherwood Anderson
Awakening Land trilogy / Conrad Richter
Beloved; Sula; Bluest Eye / Toni Morrison
Farm; Green Bay Tree / Louis Bromfield
Embers / Laura Brickles
The Hollows / Kim Harrison
M.C. Higgins the Great / Virginia Hamilton
Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe
Milan Jacowich mysteries / Les Roberts
Authors
James Thurber
Toni Morrison
Virginia Hamilton
James Thurber
O. Henry
Rod Serling
R.L. Stine
Oklahoma
Books:
Outsiders / S.E. Hinton
Where the Heart Is / Billie Letts
Cimarron / Edna Ferber
Long After Midnight / Iris Johansen
Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck
Johnny Osage / Janice Hot Giles
Authors
Larry McMurtry
Oregon
Books:
Hearts of Horses; Jump-Off Creek / Molly Gloss
Lathe of Heaven / Ursula LeGuin
Sometimes a Great Notion / Ken Kesey
Authors
Craig Lesley
Pennsylvania
Books:
Rosato & Associates mysteries / Lisa Scottoline
Light in the Forest / Conrad Richter
The Centaur / John Updike
Amish series / Beverly Lewis
Authors
Pearl Buck
James Michener
David Poyer
Michael Chabon
Benjamin Franklin
Rhode Island
Books:
Ceremony / Robert Parker
Shadows in the Darkness / Elaine Cunningham
I, Roger Williams / Mary Lee Settle
The Witches of Eastwick / John Updike
Spartina; Compass Rose / John Casey
Rogue Island / Bruce DeSilva
Authors
Ann Hood
Peter Pezzelli
South Carolina
Books:
Death on Demand mysteries / Carolyn G. Hart
Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd
Mama Day / Gloria Naylor
Charleston / Alexandra Ripley
The Carolinian / Rafael Sabatini
Authors:
Pat Conroy
Anne Rivers Siddons
Dorothea Benton Frank
South Dakota
Books:
Giants in the Earth / Ole Edvart Rolvaag
High Plains Tango / Robert James Waller
Black Hills / Nora Roberts
Tennessee
Books:
Ride the River / Louis L'Amour
Hushed Were the Hills / Millie McWhirter
A Summons to Memphis / Peter Taylor
The Client / John Grisham
The Ballad of Frankie Silver / Sharon McCrumb
The Garden trilogy / Nora Roberts
Authors:
Wilma Dykeman
Alex Haley
James Agee
Robert Penn Warren
Texas
Books:
Texas / James Michener
Last Picture Show / Larry McMurtry
Goodbye to a River; Hardscrabble / John Graves
The Wind / Dorothy Scarbrough
Collected works of folklore/ J. Frank Dobie
Utah
Books:
Riders of the Purple Sage / Zane Grey
Desert Solitude / Edward Abbey
Vermont
Books:
Midwives; Water Witches / Chris Bohjalian
Northern Border; Stranger in the Kingdom / Howard Frank Mosher
Authors:
Robert Frost
Archer Mayor
Virginia
Books:
Prince Edward / Dennis McFarland
Spencer's Mountain / Earl Hamner
Wish You Well / David Baldacci
Tidewater Blood / William Hoffman
Fair & Tender Ladies; Oral History; Family Linen / Lee Smith
To have and to hold / Mary Johnston
The trail of the lonesome pine / John Fox, Jr.
The confessions of Nat Turner / William Styron
Chesapeake / James Michener
The Ballad series / Sharyn McCrumb
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him / Sharyn McCrumb
Devil Amongst the Lawyers; Jacob's Ladder / Donald McCaig
Sneaky Pie Brown mysteries / Rita Mae Brown
Chesapeake Bay saga / Nora Roberts
I Wish You Well / David Baldacci
Williamsburg series / Elsyth Thane
Follow the River / James Alexander Thom
Authors:
Patricia Cornwell
Katherine Paterson
David Baldacci
Ellen Glasgow
Washington
Books:
Virgin River series / Robyn Carr
The Living / Anne Dillard
Snow Falling on Cedars / David Guterson
Reservation Blues / Sherman Alexie
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas / Tom Robbins
The Brothers K / David John Duncan
Desolation Angels / Jack Kerouac
The Egg and I / Betty McDonald
West of Here / Jonathan Evison
Authors:
Debbie Macomber
Jayne Ann Krentz
West Virginia
Books:
Beulah quintet / Mary Lee Settle
Ring of Fire / Eric Flint
Missing May / Cynthia Rylant
The Courage Tree / Diane Chamberlin
Authors:
Homer Hickam
Keith Maillard
Breece D'J Pancake
Wisconsin
Books:
Little House in the Big Woods / Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caddie Woodlawn / Carol Ryrie Brink
Driftless / David Rhodes
Afraid / J.A. Korrath (Jack Kilborn)
Rascal / Sterling North
The Island / Gary Paulsen
Authors:
August Derleth
Jane Hamilton
Michael Perry
Wyoming
Books:
The Virginia / Owen Wister
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing / Marilyn Durham
My Friend Flicka / Mary O'Hara
Something Borrowed / Rebecca Hagan Lee
Wind River Reservation mysteries / Margaret Coel
Authors:
Annie Proulx
C.J. Box
Craig Johnson
Puerto Rico
Books:
Meaning of Consuelo / Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Balthazar Marten mysteries / M. J. Adamson
U.S. Virgin Islands
Books:
Precipice / Tom Savage
Rum and Razors / Donald Bain (Murder She Wrote mystery)
Crimes of Jordan Wise / Bill Pronzini.
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