Literary Travelogue of the United States Challenge

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1
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
76,592 members
1,420 reviews
½ 4.4
6 Members
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sturlington: Alabama
2
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
42,025 members
511 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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sturlington: Missouri
3
American Gods {original}
by Neil Gaiman
33,088 members
917 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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sturlington: Wisconsin
4
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
27,453 members
486 reviews
4
4 Members
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sturlington: Massachusetts
5
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
23,171 members
457 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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sturlington: Kansas
6
The Shining
by Stephen King
22,489 members
444 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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sturlington: Colorado
7
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
22,264 members
397 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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8
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
21,239 members
414 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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sturlington: Kansas
9
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
19,471 members
530 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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sturlington: Vermont
10
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
18,607 members
337 reviews
4
4 Members
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sturlington: Florida
11
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
9,007 members
177 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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sturlington: Louisiana
12
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
8,680 members
180 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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13
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
20,985 members
463 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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hipdeep: Louisiana
14
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
20,293 members
667 reviews
4
3 Members
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sturlington: Oklahoma
15
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
20,017 members
789 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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sturlington: West Virginia
16
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
17,506 members
434 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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sturlington: Alaska
17
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
13,324 members
279 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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merrystar: Nebraska
18
By the Shores of Silver Lake
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
9,474 members
64 reviews
4
3 Members
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19
Little Town on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
8,918 members
73 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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20
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,052 members
134 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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21
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,822 members
121 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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hipdeep: Ohio
22
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,364 members
181 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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sturlington: Colorado
23
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
33,469 members
460 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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sturlington: Oklahoma
24
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
22,961 members
434 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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merrystar: Georgia
25
Carrie
by Stephen King
14,191 members
280 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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26
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
14,097 members
190 reviews
4
2 Members
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sturlington: Nevada
27
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
12,977 members
228 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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28
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
11,286 members
788 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
10,817 members
206 reviews
4
2 Members
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sturlington: Connecticut
30
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
9,687 members
606 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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31
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
8,139 members
237 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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32
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates
6,689 members
241 reviews
4
2 Members
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sturlington: Connecticut
33
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
6,204 members
206 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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34
Jacob Have I Loved
by Katherine Paterson
5,439 members
72 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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sturlington: Maryland
35
Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
3,831 members
77 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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sturlington: North Dakota
36
Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
3,455 members
58 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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sturlington: New Mexico
37
The Witches of Eastwick
by John Updike
3,169 members
47 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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sturlington: Rhode Island
38
A Death in the Family
by James Agee
2,991 members
65 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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39
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
1,280 members
13 reviews
4
2 Members
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40
Election
by Tom Perrotta
932 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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sturlington: New Jersey
41
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
18,018 members
325 reviews
4.2
Member
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42
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
16,882 members
222 reviews
4
Member
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43
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
14,341 members
217 reviews
4
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44
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
14,014 members
383 reviews
4.2
Member
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sturlington: Minnesota
45
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger
11,535 members
109 reviews
4.1
Member
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46
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
11,403 members
380 reviews
3.9
Member
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47
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
11,198 members
266 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
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sturlington: Arizona
48
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
10,636 members
362 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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sturlington : Iowa; DNF
49
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
10,538 members
248 reviews
4
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50
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
10,336 members
228 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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51
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
8,804 members
130 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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sturlington: New York
52
Eleanor and Park
by Rainbow Rowell
8,747 members
622 reviews
4.1
Member
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53
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
8,589 members
186 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sturlington
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sturlington: Pennsylvania
54
Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
7,320 members
117 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
55
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
7,246 members
74 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
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sturlington: New Hampshire
56
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J. D. Vance
6,585 members
328 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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57
Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
6,001 members
159 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
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sturlington: Oregon
58
The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
5,714 members
106 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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sturlington : South Carolina
59
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
5,691 members
120 reviews
3.8
Member
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60
Midwives
by Chris Bohjalian
5,645 members
122 reviews
3.8
Member
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61
Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
5,475 members
207 reviews
4
Member
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62
The Accidental Tourist
by Anne Tyler
5,336 members
96 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
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sturlington: Maryland
63
Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
5,101 members
117 reviews
4
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sturlington: South Carolina
64
Inside Out and Back Again
by Thanhha Lai
4,631 members
539 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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65
True Grit
by Charles Portis
4,145 members
204 reviews
4.1
Member
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66
The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach
4,100 members
246 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
67
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
by Michael Chabon
4,031 members
64 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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hipdeep: Pennsylvania
68
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
3,790 members
219 reviews
4
Member
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69
Another Roadside Attraction
by Tom Robbins
3,588 members
40 reviews
3.9
Member
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70
Close Range
by Annie Proulx
3,394 members
70 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
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sturlington: Wyoming
71
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
by Norman Maclean
3,080 members
61 reviews
4.2
Member
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72
Summer of My German Soldier
by Bette Greene
2,956 members
47 reviews
3.8
Member
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73
Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion
2,854 members
59 reviews
3.8
Member
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74
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
2,666 members
36 reviews
3.9
Member
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75
Drown
by Junot Díaz
2,547 members
44 reviews
3.8
Member
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76
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
by Cory Doctorow
2,448 members
117 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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77
Betsy-Tacy
by Maud Hart Lovelace
2,405 members
51 reviews
4.1
Member
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78
Shoeless Joe
by W. P. Kinsella
1,929 members
43 reviews
4
Member
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79
House Made of Dawn
by N. Scott Momaday
1,853 members
36 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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80
Jayber Crow
by Wendell Berry
1,736 members
43 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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81
Train Dreams
by Denis Johnson
1,578 members
111 reviews
3.9
Member
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82
The Wapshot Chronicle
by John Cheever
1,557 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
steller0707
83
Doc
by Mary Doria Russell
1,384 members
174 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
Explanations
sturlington: Kansas
84
Legends of the Fall
by Jim Harrison
1,109 members
30 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
85
Townie
by Andre III Dubus
762 members
39 reviews
3.9
Member
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86
A Short History of a Small Place
by T.R. Pearson
538 members
8 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
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sturlington: North Carolina
87
Split Images
by Elmore Leonard
434 members
9 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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88
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
7,916 members
176 reviews
3.9
89
Native Son
by Richard Wright
7,561 members
98 reviews
3.9
90
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
6,758 members
158 reviews
3.8
91
Stoner
by John Williams
6,409 members
338 reviews
½ 4.3
92
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
6,026 members
109 reviews
½ 3.6
93
Animal Dreams
by Barbara Kingsolver
5,502 members
75 reviews
4
94
The Marriage Plot
by Jeffrey Eugenides
5,164 members
288 reviews
½ 3.5
95
The Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
4,593 members
69 reviews
4
96
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls
4,591 members
231 reviews
4
97
A Map of the World
by Jane Hamilton
4,458 members
58 reviews
½ 3.5
98
Look Homeward, Angel
by Thomas Wolfe
3,486 members
50 reviews
4
99
Moloka'i
by Alan Brennert
3,051 members
195 reviews
4.1
100
Independence Day
by Richard Ford
3,039 members
46 reviews
3.8