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Book from the 50 States Reading List Alabama Maine Ohio To Kill a Mockingbird The Cider House Rules by John Irving Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance Alaska Maryland Oklahoma The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Patriot Games by Tom Clancy Killers of the Flower Moon by David Arizona Massachusett Grann These Is My Words by Nancy E. Still Alice by Lisa Genova Oregon Turner Michigan The Shack by William P. Young Arkansas Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Pennsylvania Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Beals Curtis The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara California Minnesota Rhode Island The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Ordinary Grace by William Kent My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult Colorado Krueger South Carolina Columbine by Dave Cullen Mississippi The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Connecticut Cemetery Road by Greg Iles Kidd Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Missouri South Dakota Delaware Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Beloved by Toni Morrison Montana Ingalls Wilder Florida The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Tennessee Marley & Me by John Grogan Evans The Blind Side by Michael Lewis Georgia Nebraska Texas Gone with the Wind by Margaret My Antonia by Willa Cather All the Pretty Horses by Corma Mitchell Nevada McCarthy Hawaii The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Utah The Winds of War by Herman Wouk Tilburg Clark My Story by Elizabeth Smart Idaho New Hampshire Vermont Educated by Tara Westover A Separate Peace by John Knowles The Secret History by Donna Tartt Illinois New Jersey Virginia The Devil in the White City by Erik One for the Money by Janet Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Larson Evanovich Shetterly Indiana New Mexico Washington The Fault in Our Stars by John Bomb by Steve Sheinkin The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Green New York Brown Iowa A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty West Virginia Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Smith The Glass Castle Kansas North Carolina Wisconsin In Cold Blood Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Kentucky Owens Wroblewski The Giver of Stars North Dakota Wyoming Louisiana LaRose by Louise Erdrich Open Season by C.J. Box An American Marriage by Tayari Jones .

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