Books

Top books set in every state

The Business Insider has a map showing the most famous books in every state. Click on the image below to see the full map.

State books

Some great picks here, but I can’t help but being a little disappointed in the book listed for my current home state, Minnesota. Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street? I mean, I know the guy won a Nobel and that this novel is on Modern Library’s 100 best list—but does anyone read Sinclair Lewis anymore?

Tim O’Brien might’ve been a good choice, except his most famous book, The Things They Carried, is only partially set in Minnesota. Louise Erdrich is another great Minnesota writer, and her novel Four Souls is set in Minneapolis-St. Paul. But while great, it’s hardly famous (in fact, a better-known Erdrich title, The Round House, is currently listed for North Dakota). If it were me, my Minnesota pick would probably be Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon Days, which was a bestseller when it was published and still has some fame due to the News from Lake Wobegon segment on Keillor’s radio show, A Prairie Home Companion.

What about you? Find your state and share your thoughts about the pick in the comments.

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3 thoughts on “Top books set in every state

  1. What does “most famous” even mean? I hate these maps and yet I’m a sucker for them. You win, Business Insider, for getting me to click on something so dumb. Also, you’re complicit in this, The Stake.

    • Particularly wonderful on this one: Business Insider.
      Anytime The Stake and Business Insider are complicit in the same activity, something strange is taking place.

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