Most famous book tied to every U.S. state 🇺🇸 Alabama — To Kill a Mockingbird 🇺🇸 Alaska — The Call of the Wild 🇺🇸 Arizona — The Bean Trees 🇺🇸 Arkansas — Where the Red Fern Grows 🇺🇸 California — The Grapes of Wrath 🇺🇸 Colorado — The Shining 🇺🇸 Connecticut — The Ice Storm 🇺🇸 Delaware — no single flagship novel 🇺🇸 Florida — Their Eyes Were Watching God 🇺🇸 Georgia — Gone with the Wind 🇺🇸 Hawaii — Hawaii 🇺🇸 Idaho — Housekeeping 🇺🇸 Illinois — Native Son 🇺🇸 Indiana — The Magnificent Ambersons 🇺🇸 Iowa — The Bridges of Madison County 🇺🇸 Kansas — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 🇺🇸 Kentucky — Beloved 🇺🇸 Louisiana — Interview with the Vampire 🇺🇸 Maine — Carrie 🇺🇸 Maryland — The Accidental Tourist 🇺🇸 Massachusetts — The Scarlet Letter 🇺🇸 Michigan — Middlesex 🇺🇸 Minnesota — Main Street 🇺🇸 Mississippi — The Sound and the Fury 🇺🇸 Missouri — Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 🇺🇸 Montana — A River Runs Through It 🇺🇸 Nebraska — My Ántonia 🇺🇸 Nevada — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 🇺🇸 New Hampshire — A Separate Peace 🇺🇸 New Jersey — The Great Gatsby (set on Long Island, linked to NJ) 🇺🇸 New Mexico — Bless Me, Ultima 🇺🇸 New York — The Great Gatsby 🇺🇸 North Carolina — Cold Mountain 🇺🇸 North Dakota — The Round House 🇺🇸 Ohio — Beloved (also linked to KY) / The Bluest Eye 🇺🇸 Oklahoma — The Grapes of Wrath (Dust Bowl) 🇺🇸 Oregon — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania — The Lovely Bones 🇺🇸 Rhode Island — The House of the Seven Gables (nearby) 🇺🇸 South Carolina — The Secret Life of Bees 🇺🇸 South Dakota — Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 🇺🇸 Tennessee — The Firm 🇺🇸 Texas — Lonesome Dove 🇺🇸 Utah — The Book of Mormon (religious text) / Riders of the Purple Sage 🇺🇸 Vermont — Ethan Frome 🇺🇸 Virginia — To Kill a Mockingbird (also AL) / Beloved 🇺🇸 Washington — The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 🇺🇸 West Virginia — The Glass Castle 🇺🇸 Wisconsin — Little House in the Big Woods 🇺🇸 Wyoming — The Virginian U.S. overall — The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Grapes of Wrath are the titles that travel farthest Note: One book per state by setting, author birth, or the title people most often attach to the place. Not a sales ranking. Several books are claimed by more than one state (Grapes of Wrath for California and Oklahoma; Beloved for Kentucky and Ohio). Some states have no single dominant novel. Source: Setting and literary association roundups; standard “books set in each state” lists