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Literary Travelogue of the United States Challenge

Type: Preset list created by sturlington

Description: Source: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/literary-travelogue-challenge

Members: 6 participating members (show all)

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1
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
69,835 members, 1,346 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

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sturlington (1): Alabama

2
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
38,630 members, 489 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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sturlington (2): Missouri

3
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
25,087 members, 448 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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sturlington (3): Massachusetts

4
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
21,163 members, 426 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

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sturlington (4): Kansas

5
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
20,258 members, 379 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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sturlington (5): Ohio

6
The Shining
by Stephen King
20,224 members, 417 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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sturlington (6): Colorado

7
The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
18,870 members, 419 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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sturlington (7): Kansas

8
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
16,829 members, 316 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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sturlington (8): Florida

9
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
8,464 members, 168 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

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sturlington (9): Louisiana

10
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
8,335 members, 175 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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sturlington (10): Maine

11
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
31,361 members, 875 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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sturlington (11): Wisconsin

12
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
19,724 members, 431 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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hipdeep (1): Louisiana

13
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
17,695 members, 643 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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sturlington (12): Oklahoma

14
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
16,763 members, 480 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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sturlington (13): Vermont

15
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
16,076 members, 418 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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sturlington (14): Alaska

16
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
12,420 members, 261 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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merrystar (7): Nebraska

17
By the Shores of Silver Lake
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
8,496 members, 59 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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Little Town on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
7,816 members, 68 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
5,731 members, 131 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

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sturlington (15): Iowa

20
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,464 members, 117 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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hipdeep (2): Ohio

21
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,062 members, 166 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

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sturlington (16): Colorado

22
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
30,754 members, 425 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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sturlington (17): Oklahoma

23
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
21,272 members, 415 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

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merrystar (1): Georgia

24
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
18,523 members, 757 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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sturlington (43): West Virginia

25
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
13,247 members, 180 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

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sturlington (18): Nevada

26
Carrie
by Stephen King
12,865 members, 261 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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sturlington (19): Maine

27
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
11,665 members, 206 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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sturlington (42): Ohio

28
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
9,571 members, 192 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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sturlington (20): Connecticut

29
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
9,074 members, 586 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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sturlington (21): Maine

30
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
7,403 members, 218 reviews
4.54 stars (4.54 stars)

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sturlington (22): Texas

31
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates
6,381 members, 241 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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sturlington (23): Connecticut

32
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
5,756 members, 187 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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sturlington (24): Idaho

33
Jacob Have I Loved
by Katherine Paterson
4,941 members, 64 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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sturlington (25): Maryland

34
Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
3,561 members, 73 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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sturlington (26): North Dakota

35
Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
3,133 members, 54 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

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sturlington (27): New Mexico

36
The Witches of Eastwick
by John Updike
2,942 members, 41 reviews
3.31 stars (3.31 stars)

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sturlington (28): Rhode Island

37
A Death in the Family
by James Agee
2,786 members, 61 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
1,202 members, 13 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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Election
by Tom Perrotta
848 members, 28 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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sturlington (29): New Jersey

40
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
16,999 members, 311 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
15,618 members, 211 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
12,840 members, 201 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
12,737 members, 362 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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sturlington (30): Minnesota

44
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
10,941 members, 100 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
10,431 members, 765 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
10,088 members, 355 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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sturlington (0): Iowa; DNF

47
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
9,928 members, 239 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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sturlington (31): Arizona

48
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
9,699 members, 373 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
9,624 members, 227 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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sturlington (32): Texas

50
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
8,273 members, 124 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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sturlington (33): New York

51
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
7,898 members, 175 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

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sturlington (34): Pennsylvania

52
Eleanor and Park
by Rainbow Rowell
7,663 members, 590 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
6,956 members, 70 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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sturlington (35): New Hampshire

54
Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
6,429 members, 112 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
5,647 members, 155 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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sturlington (36): Oregon

57
Midwives
by Chris Bohjalian
5,411 members, 117 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
5,398 members, 101 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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sturlington (0): South Carolina

59
The Accidental Tourist
by Anne Tyler
5,163 members, 89 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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sturlington (37): Maryland

60
Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
5,147 members, 196 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Bastard out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
4,820 members, 114 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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sturlington (38): South Carolina

62
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
by Michael Chabon
3,870 members, 62 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

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hipdeep (4): Pennsylvania

63
The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach
3,838 members, 240 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Inside Out and Back Again
by Thanhha Lai
3,721 members, 520 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

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True Grit
by Charles Portis
3,691 members, 182 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
3,557 members, 212 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Another Roadside Attraction
by Tom Robbins
3,464 members, 37 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

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Close Range
by Annie Proulx
3,246 members, 70 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

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sturlington (41): Wyoming

69
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
by Norman Maclean
2,854 members, 57 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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Summer of My German Soldier
by Bette Greene
2,734 members, 42 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion
2,517 members, 52 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
2,516 members, 32 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Drown
by Junot Díaz
2,373 members, 41 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
by Cory Doctorow
2,347 members, 111 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

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Betsy-Tacy
by Maud Hart Lovelace
2,105 members, 47 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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Shoeless Joe
by W. P. Kinsella
1,807 members, 39 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

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The Wapshot Chronicle
by John Cheever
1,472 members, 17 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

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Train Dreams
by Denis Johnson
1,408 members, 101 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Doc
by Mary Doria Russell
1,303 members, 170 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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sturlington (40): Kansas

80
Legends of the Fall
by Jim Harrison
1,023 members, 25 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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Townie
by Andre III Dubus
716 members, 38 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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82
A Short History of a Small Place
by T.R. Pearson
520 members, 7 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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sturlington (39): North Carolina

83
Split Images
by Elmore Leonard
402 members, 8 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

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84
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
9,110 members, 205 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)
85
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
7,411 members, 165 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)
86
Native Son
by Richard Wright
7,010 members, 87 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)
87
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
6,404 members, 151 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)
88
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
5,702 members, 101 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)
89
Stoner
by John Williams
5,494 members, 310 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)
90
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
5,426 members, 114 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)
91
Animal Dreams
by Barbara Kingsolver
5,222 members, 69 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)
92
The Marriage Plot
by Jeffrey Eugenides
4,907 members, 274 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)
93
A Map of the World
by Jane Hamilton
4,274 members, 58 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)
94
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls
4,257 members, 224 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)
95
The Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
4,028 members, 62 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)
96
Look Homeward, Angel
by Thomas Wolfe
3,232 members, 41 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)
97
Independence Day
by Richard Ford
2,889 members, 43 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)
98
Moloka'i
by Alan Brennert
2,841 members, 186 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)
99
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
by Miranda July
2,835 members, 87 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)
100
The Monkey Wrench Gang
by Edward Abbey
2,694 members, 48 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)
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