What's the most popular book set in your state?
Check out this list of the most popular books set in each US state, and get ready to be transported across the country, from the forests of Oregon, to the bayous of Louisiana, and more.
Methodology: The ProofreadingServices.com team pored over thousands of book descriptions, sorted them by state based on the main setting of the book (not where it was written or where it had the highest sales), and then sorted those results by their number of Amazon reviews, using reviews as a proxy for popularity. By "popularity," we mean not how loved the book is but how often it's read, though the two are frequently highly correlated. The result is one book set in each state.
| State | Title | Author | Year Published | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | fiction, thriller |
| Alaska | Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer | 1996 | biography |
| Arizona | The Host | Stephenie Meyer | 2008 | science fiction, thriller |
| Arkansas | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | 1969 | autobiography |
| California | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 1952 | fiction, romance |
| Colorado | The Shining | Stephen King | 1977 | fiction, horror |
| Connecticut | The Stepford Wives | Ira Levin | 1972 | science fiction, thriller |
| Delaware | Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk | 1996 | fiction, satire |
| Florida | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 1937 | psychological fiction |
| Georgia | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | historical fiction |
| Hawaii | The Descendants | Kaui Hart Hemmings | 2007 | domestic fiction |
| Idaho | The Stand | Stephen King | 1978 | science fiction, horror |
| Illinois | Divergent | Veronica Roth | 2011 | science fiction |
| Indiana | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | 2012 | fiction, romance |
| Iowa | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | 1991 | fiction, allegory |
| Kansas | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 1900 | fantasy, children's literature |
| Kentucky | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | fiction, serial |
| Louisiana | Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood) | Charlaine Harris | 2001 | fiction, fantasy |
| Maine | Carrie | Stephen King | 1974 | fiction, horror |
| Maryland | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Ann Brashares | 2001 | young adult fiction |
| Massachusetts | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | autobiography |
| Michigan | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 2002 | domestic fiction |
| Minnesota | Main Street | Sinclair Lewis | 1920 | domestic fiction |
| Mississippi | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | 2009 | historical fiction |
| Missouri | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 1876 | historical fiction, children's literature |
| Montana | A River Runs through It and Other Stories | Norman Maclean | 1976 | domestic fiction, autobiography |
| Nebraska | Eleanor & Park | Rainbow Rowell | 2012 | fiction, romance |
| Nevada | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | 1971 | fictional autobiography |
| New Hampshire | The Hotel New Hampshire | John Irving | 1981 | fiction, romance |
| New Jersey | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret | Judy Blume | 1970 | young adult fiction |
| New Mexico | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | science fiction, dystopian |
| New York | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | psychological fiction |
| North Carolina | A Walk to Remember | Nicholas Sparks | 1999 | romance, drama |
| North Dakota | The Round House | Louise Erdrich | 2012 | fiction, suspense |
| Ohio | Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | historical fiction |
| Oklahoma | The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton | 1967 | young adult fiction |
| Oregon | Wild | Cheryl Strayed | 2012 | autobiography, biography |
| Pennsylvania | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 2002 | psychological fiction |
| Rhode Island | My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult | 2003 | domestic fiction |
| South Carolina | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | 2001 | domestic fiction |
| South Dakota | 61 Hours | Lee Child | 2010 | fiction, thriller |
| Tennessee | The Client | John Grisham | 1993 | fiction, mystery |
| Texas | No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy | 2005 | psychological fiction, thriller |
| Utah | Under the Banner of Heaven | Jon Krakauer | 2003 | true crime |
| Vermont | Pollyanna | Eleanor H. Porter | 1913 | fiction, children's literature |
| Virginia | Flowers in the Attic | V.C. Andrews | 1979 | fiction, horror |
| Washington | Twilight | Stephenie Meyer | 2005 | young adult fiction, romance |
| West Virginia | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | 2010 | domestic fiction |
| Wisconsin | Little House in the Big Woods | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1932 | fiction, children's literature |
| Wyoming | Brokeback Mountain | Annie Proulx | 1997 | western fiction |
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