Below is the list of books associated with states that NASAA Board Secretary Suzanne Wise developed to complement her orchestration of the 2017 Leadership Institute Opening Plenary Roll Call of the States. States & Books Alabama Arkansas To Kill a Mockingbird I Know Why the Caged Harper Lee Bird Sings Maya Angelou Alaska California The Call of the Wild Pocho Jack London José Antonio Villarreal American Samoa Colorado Alchemies of Distance Plainsong Caroline Sinavaiana Kent Haruf Arizona Connecticut The Bean Trees Revolutionary Road Barbara Kingsolver Richard Yates Delaware Hawaii The Saint of Lost Things Shark Dialogues Christopher Castellani Kiana Davenport District of Columbia Idaho Lincoln in the Bardo Housekeeping George Saunders Marilynne Robinson Florida Illinois Their Eyes Were Native Son Watching God Richard Wright Zora Neale Hurston Georgia Indiana The Color Purple The Friendly Persuasion Alice Walker Jessamyn West Guam Iowa Attitude 13: A Daughter A Thousand Acres of Guam's Collection of Jane Smiley Short Stories Tanya Chargualaf Taimanglo 2 Kansas Michigan The Wonderful Wizard of The Virgin Suicides Oz Jeffrey Eugenides L. Frank Baum Kentucky Minnesota The Sport of Kings Main Street C.E. Morgan Sinclair Lewis Louisiana Mississippi A Confederacy of Dunces Salvage the Bones John Kennedy Toole Jesmyn Ward Maine Missouri The Cider House Rules The Adventures of John Irving Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Maryland Montana Dinner at the Homesick A River Runs Through It Restaurant Norman Maclean Anne Tyler Massachusetts Nebraska Walden My Ántonia Henry David Thoreau Willa Cather 3 Nevada North Dakota Fear and Loathing in Las The Round House Vegas Louise Erdrich Hunter S. Thompson New Hampshire Northern Mariana Peyton Place Islands Grace Metalious Microchild: An Anthology of Poetry Valentine N. Sengebau New Jersey Ohio The Brief Wondrous Life The Broom of the System of Oscar Wao David Foster Wallace Junot Díaz New Mexico Oklahoma Bless Me, Ultima True Grit Rudolfo Anaya Charles Portis New York Oregon A Little Life One Flew Over the Hanya Yanagihara Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey North Carolina Pennsylvania Cold Mountain Century Cycle Charles Frazier August Wilson 4 Puerto Rico Utah A Perfect Silence The Executioner's Song Alba Ambert Norman Mailer Rhode Island Vermont The Witches of Eastwick The Secret History John Updike Donna Tartt South Carolina Virgin Islands The Secret Life of Bees How to Escape from a Sue Monk Kidd Leper Colony Tiphanie Yanique South Dakota Virginia Skins The Known World Adrian C. Louis Edward P. Jones Tennessee Washington Wise Blood Snow Falling on Cedars Flannery O'Connor David Guterson Texas West Virginia No Country for Old Men John Henry Days Cormac McCarthy Colson Whitehead 5 Wisconsin Wyoming American Dervish Close Range: Wyoming Ayad Akhtar Stories Annie Proulx 6 .