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Moby Dick - MA

Results from the last thread.

>>20369578
new jersey

>>20369608
what about Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guantanamo Bay?

>>20369608
I don't recognize that iowa cover, what book is that?

>>20369608
>way of men
>posting that schlock to represent NC
>not Look Homeward, Angel
A pleb obviously made this

Indiana should be Slaughterhouse Five.

>>20369740
Why?

>>20369608
kind of stunned there's no hawaii literature

>>20369777
hawaii is not even a real place

>>20369777
Da Jesus Book

>>20369760
It's the biggest book to come from Indiana.

>>20369789
*ahem*

>>20369795
You have not even read it, fag

>>20369608
Why isn't Suttree the book for Tennessee? Seems like this list was made off of 4chan or at least not on /lit/. Also
>no Phillip Roth for New Jersey
Definitely some kind of reddit poll was conducted.

>>20369608
toni morrison unironically snubbed

>>20369844
agreed, Suttree for Tennessee and swap Lonesome Dove in for Texas

>>20369844
James Agee deserves to be Tennessee’s writer before Cormac Hackarthy does

>>20369836
And you didn't read Slaughterhouse Five

>>20369876
I am not the anon who recommended Slaughterhouse, you pseud

>>20369777
Kek

Florida

>>20369856
I had also considered this, but I never read A Death in the Family and I don't really care to read film reviews.

>>20369578
Montana.
>>20369844
it has People Mover and Call of the Arcade so clearly 4chan. The anon who made it just filled in the first thing people mentioned for a state, he was a third worlder if memory serves so had no ability to judge the responses. Think that image might actually be an early version, vaguely recall Twilight, CotA and People Mover got culled and some other tweaks, but that could have been a different thread.

>>20369608
Why Freedom for Wisconsin? It takes place in Minnesota. I'd put Morte d'Urban by J.F. Powers (NYRB) for Minnesota.

>>20369608
whats illinois? fall of the arcadia? I can't quite make it out

>>20370048
The Fault in Our Stars.

>>20369795
It’s an excellent pick, but also not very read. Hopefully the Dalkey reissue will bring it a wider audience, if not just by making it accessible to those that want to read it, but don’t want to shell out $80-100 for the privilege.

>>20370048
Call of the Arcade

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>>20369740
>>20369789
1. That's not even true, Indiana had a literal "golden age" of literature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Indiana_Literature
2. That book takes place in Europe, not Indiana.

>>20370129
Call of the Arcade is definitely better than Call of the Crocodile. I’m still puzzled why Croc is the more memed book.

>>20369608
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>>20369999
>Everyone in this thread pissing and moaning over the old chart rather than responding to the OP.

>>20369740
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>>20369795
This should be Indiana's novel. Read it if you haven't, it's very comfy. If you're from a small town you'll definitely resonate with it.
>Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life—from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. Shawnessy is the epitome of the place and period in which he lives, a rural land of springlike women,shady gamblers, wandering vagabonds,and soapbox orators. Yet here on the banks of the Shawmucky River, which weaves its primitive course through Raintree County,Indiana, he also feels and obeys ancient rhythms.

>>20369608
Oh wow that’s perfect haha.

>>20369608
What's the Californian novel?

>>20370150
Some of us have responded to OP. But OP needs to show some follow through and engage with those who have responded if he wants the thread to be anything other than people bitching about the old one.

Never read true grit, but I would think where the red fern grows would be the Arkansas book. Maybe you guys could shine some light on it.

>no rhode island
It's over RI-chad bros

>>20369578
Ohio is without a doubt Winesburg, Ohio.

>>20369578
Minnesota would be Sinclair Lewis, either Babbit or Mainstreet, I would vote for Mainstreet.

>>20369608
John Williams never lived in Kansas. Should be Naked Lunch, instead.

>>20370501
The original thread was more general, either set in the state or by an author from the state.

>>20370505
Should be Lonesome Dove, or Naked Lunch.

The Sot Weed Factor for Maryland

Came get Twilight the fuck out of there?
Put in Housekeeping please.
I’d like to more respectfully suggest Sometimes a Great Notion over Hard Rain Falling. I did love Hard Rain Falling but I loved Sometimes a Great Notion a little more.

Us Missouri chads have Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer

>>20370522
Between those two I would have to go for Naked Lunch, I love Lonesome Dove but it did not really have any influence, a fantastic novel that is thematically complex and speaks to all of us midwesterners, but sort of a literary dead end. Naked Lunch was a massive influence on both literature and culture in general.

>>20369846
Song of Solomon is on there

>>20370549
What little bit of Naked lunch that was set in recognizable USA was set in New York City.

There’s so many great Chicago novels they could have chosen for Illinois
The Jungle
Studs Lonigan
Native Son
The Man with the Golden Arm
And my personal vote The Adventures of Augie March

>>20370551
There is the South America bit as well with Dr Benway. Fairly certain a few others, but it has been 20 years since I read it. But OP's requirement is the author having lived there and he spent nearly two decades there.

>>20370146
Nobody has read either of them and the croc has a more aesthetically appealing cover and title.

>>20370566
Never mind, OP also wants it about the state.

>>20369777
Here’s a haole Hawaii book

>>20369608
I grew up in south dakota and read a book about the story of hugh glass that I believe was called "bear grizzly." That's my choice

>>20370561
An American Tragedy could be on there as well

My nomination for Connecticut

>>20369578
>1. Novel must be about that state.
I guess >>20369960 Should be switched to picrel. Not as good but more successful than So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away and still good and probably the best you will find meeting your criteria.

Iowa

The Crossing should be New Mexico
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee should be South Dakota

I nominate this book for Rhode Island
Mainly because it’s the only book that I read that was set in Rhode Island

>>20370641
And I’ve said this before, that while I enjoyed the book, that front cover blurb is batshit insane

>>20370644
>that front cover blurb is batshit insane
fairly standard front cover blurb.

>>20370561
Call of the Arcade is way better than those books.

>>20370656
I’m glad Call of the Arcade got chosen over Call of the Crocodile. It’s was the better of the two F Gardner books I read by like a landslide.

>>20369578
a tale of two cites - texas

checkem

>>20369578
>2. Author must have lived in that state
Sufjan Stevens was still able to make a killer album despite having never lived in Illinois.

>>20369777
what about queen liluokalani's book?

>>20369608
>twilight is the representative for washington

Man what a bummer

>>20370467
the big sleep, oughta be cannery row

>>20370923
>and He takes and He takes and He takes

>>20370963
It slightly edged out the Tao Te Ching

>>20370923
He was the rare exception to the rule.

>>20371273
>oh my gooooooooOOOoooOOOooooOOOOOoooooddddd
>are you one of them?

>>20369608

Ah yes, I see People Mover is still being shilled by the 5 people who read it.

>>20369608
Is Invisible Man really more Alabama than To Kill a Mockingbird?

>>20370923
that’s probably why Michigan was better

>>20370923
What book is this?

>>20372755
It’s a better book.

>>20372851
It’s a phonographic recording not a book.

>>20372855
>not a book
Oh, okay. Doesn't that mean it's totally irrelevant to this thread and even board, though?

>>20372866
My sweet summer child

>>20372866
If that's the case then you're probably better off leaving.

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>>20369608
Flannery's great but Gone With the Wind is pretty damn Georgia as well.

>>20372851
In the case that you don't have any reading comprehension, anon clearly said "album."

Wisconsin should be Driftless by David Rhodes.

>>20369608
What the hell are Maine, Néw Hampshire and Vermont? I can’t see shit.

The Secret History should be Vermont
If we’re allowed plays Our Town should be New Hampshire. If novels only then it should be either Affliction By Russell Banks.
Maine, I don’t know. I’d hate to give it to Steven King but there isn’t really anybody else. Give it to The Body or The Shawshank Redemption though not one of his tawdry genre crap spooky stories.

>>20369578
>John Green
>Stephanie Meyer
The absolute state of /lit/.

>>20372837
Michigan is boringcore.

bump

>>20369608
What’s Louisiana?
It should be Confederacy of Dunces

Utah should be Monkey Wrench Gang

>>20369578
Deliverance by James Dickey for Georgia

>>20370582
that takes place in upstate new york anon

>>20372987
Maine could be The Country of Pointed Firs

In Cold Blood - Kansas

Florida

>>20373102
Did you expect anything different?

>>20374969
Killing Mister Watson for Florida

>>20369936
Can I read it somewhere for free?

Gone With The Wind - Georgia
A Confederacy of Dunces - Louisiana
The Big Sleep - California

>>20374969
>>20376279

Too stale, too male and too pale.
Read some good Florida lit crackers

>>20374424
Doesn't that take place mostly Arizona/Colorado?

>>20370546
Missouri should be The Glass Menagerie
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>>20376583
Louisiana should be A Streetcar Named Desire

>>20370487
Agreed. Though one could argue Beloved. Anything but Ready Player One, for fucks sake.

>>20369584
Infinite Jest is ma

>>20376729
Streetcar is not a novel

>>20374424
>>20376715

I've never read the Monkey Wrench Gang, but I agree that it shouldn't be Doctrine and Covenants which is not a novel, and isn't really about Utah. I think it should be the Giant Joshua

The Executioner’s Song is set in Utah but I doubt Mailer ever lived there

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>>20370495
these niggas know what's up

>>20374969
Russell Banks is not someone i ever expected to see recommended here, but i like it!

>>20376279
Matthiessen? Part of Shadow Country? I thought I was the only one who ever read that book here despite it winning a major award, but you know, lit doesn’t read. Have you read any of his nonfiction

>>20369578
Little House on the Prairie for KS

>>20372907
Gone with the wind, is THE Georgia book.

>>20381510
No it isn’t. Not even in the top 5.

>>20369608
NM is wrong, that book isnt really aboyt NM

it should be Bless Me Ultima or Death Comes For The Archbishop

>>20382872
or Edward Abbey

Brave Cowboy or Fire on the Mountain

>>20379691
Yes I’m a big fan of The Snow Leopard and The Tree Where Man Was Born.
I want to read In the Spirit of Crazy Horse soon but have a dozen books on my shelf that I need to read before I can buy anymore books

>>20369627
my family lived in paterson for many years. its a unique place. the silk city. america's first planned industrial city. home of several 9/11 hijackers and untold numbers of mobsters. i am even related by marriage to a local politician who was mayor for a while

New Jersey

>>20369578
Florida: the collected works of Carl Hiaasen

>>20369578
To kill a mocking bird
Alabama

>>20370580
Cool, same.

Are there any good books set by the Jersey shore? Preferably books about coming of age

>>20385203
There’s a part where the sister runs away to Wildwood and falls for a white boy.
But most of the book is set in Elizabeth, NJ or the Dominican Republic