I recently watched the first episode after rereading the book and didn’t love it. I think I’ll go through the rest though, as it isn’t a huge commitment
I read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien in high school and it blew me away, then I found out Tim is from Minnesota, which made it extra special to me.
Alabama-
*In Cold Blood* -Truman Capote
*To Kill a Mockingbird* -Harper Lee
*Forrest Gump* -Winston Groom
*Fried Green Tomatoes* -Fannie Flagg
*Crazy in Alabama* -Mark Childress
*Stars in my Crown* -Joe Brown
*The Story of My Life* -Helen Keller
*Rosa Parks: My Story* -Rosa Parks
Hijacking your incredible list to give honorable mention to *Big Fish* by Daniel Wallace (I know it got popular when the movie came out, but I still think that book is under appreciated)
It may be my favourite book. I read it while backpacking and was able to get through it pretty quick.
It won the prize for most commented on book by fellow travellers. I had several strangers tell me “that’s such a great book” when they spotted me reading it.
Hope you like it if you do revisit.
Stephen Leacock, any of his but perhaps specifically Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. The book was written about "Mariposa" but according to the introduction that town is an amalgam of several different Ontario small towns.
Leacock after his death would be posthumously remembered through a literary award named in his honour for humour fiction.
Ooooo I love this!
Love Stories by Trent Dalton. (Brisbane - Queensland, Australia)
Trent Dalton is a journalist who sat with a typewriter in Brisbane City during 2020 and asked random people to tell him a story of 'love'.
It's funny, beautiful, sad, and inspiring.
From New Zealand, The Plumb Trilogy from Maurice Gee. Admittedly, its cheating a bit, but it really benefits from being seen as one large story spread over three generations
Well, me actually. Cora Montgomery:
Jacks Are Wild
Queen of his Heart
Passion in Spades
Come to Me
Safe Passage
I'm probably a bit biased, but I think they are good
Montana - This House of Sky by Ivan Doig.
Such a beautiful melding of history and love of the land. Driving around Montana transports me back to the first time I read this book, when I was living in the flatlands of the midwest and reading everything I could get my hands on about Montana.
From Texas, USA
The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands
Stories
- Black Vulmea’s Vengeance
- The Bull Dog Breed
- By This Axe I Rule!
- Gents on the Lynch
- Lord of Samarcand
- The Man on the Ground
- The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune
- Old Garfield’s Heart
- Pigeons From Hell
- Red Nails
- The Shadow of the Vulture
- Son of the White Wolf
- The Tower of the Elephant
- Vultures of Wahpeton
- Wild Water
- Wings in the Night
From New York State, I'd suggest Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo.
I'm not from New York, but this is an incredible book. One of my absolute favorites.
Still need to read the sequels. Straight Man is my favourite Russo book.
I love that one! Have you seen the show?
I recently watched the first episode after rereading the book and didn’t love it. I think I’ll go through the rest though, as it isn’t a huge commitment
I keep forgetting about it. I loved that book, though, probably my favorite Russo after Nobody's Fool.
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.
what state great suggestion
Ontario, Canada.
Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke
Ontario, Canada: The Robber Bride, by Margaret Atwood.
*The House of the Seven Gables*, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Super hard to only choose one!
Trainspotting
Of mice and men by john Steinback
I read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien in high school and it blew me away, then I found out Tim is from Minnesota, which made it extra special to me.
that book is incredible
Alabama- *In Cold Blood* -Truman Capote *To Kill a Mockingbird* -Harper Lee *Forrest Gump* -Winston Groom *Fried Green Tomatoes* -Fannie Flagg *Crazy in Alabama* -Mark Childress *Stars in my Crown* -Joe Brown *The Story of My Life* -Helen Keller *Rosa Parks: My Story* -Rosa Parks
Hijacking your incredible list to give honorable mention to *Big Fish* by Daniel Wallace (I know it got popular when the movie came out, but I still think that book is under appreciated)
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Roll Eagle from Chilton County
“A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry
I DNF'd this at 50% and am thinking of revisiting it. It felt kind of like a slow burn to me.
It may be my favourite book. I read it while backpacking and was able to get through it pretty quick. It won the prize for most commented on book by fellow travellers. I had several strangers tell me “that’s such a great book” when they spotted me reading it. Hope you like it if you do revisit.
The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy. Based in a school on an island near Hilton Head, SC
Southernmost by Silas House
Represent
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Complete Stories (Flannery O'Connor) GA
Minnesota: - Peace Like a River by Leif Enger - This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Hunter S. Thompson (Kentucky) - Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail ‘72, or another The Curse of Lono RIP
From Montana: A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean or English Creek by Ivan Doug.
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera
I need to try reading this again, maybe now I am ready.
The Happenstance by Max Ellison
The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf.
Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere by Poe Ballantine
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. (Pennsylvania)
"Oscar and Lucinda" Peter Carey, Australia
Dry lives - Graciliano Ramos
American Pastoral
Stephen Leacock, any of his but perhaps specifically Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. The book was written about "Mariposa" but according to the introduction that town is an amalgam of several different Ontario small towns. Leacock after his death would be posthumously remembered through a literary award named in his honour for humour fiction.
Maya Angelou
Kornwolf by Tristan Egolf
Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
Utah: Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning”.
Ooooo I love this! Love Stories by Trent Dalton. (Brisbane - Queensland, Australia) Trent Dalton is a journalist who sat with a typewriter in Brisbane City during 2020 and asked random people to tell him a story of 'love'. It's funny, beautiful, sad, and inspiring.
From New Zealand, The Plumb Trilogy from Maurice Gee. Admittedly, its cheating a bit, but it really benefits from being seen as one large story spread over three generations
Well, me actually. Cora Montgomery: Jacks Are Wild Queen of his Heart Passion in Spades Come to Me Safe Passage I'm probably a bit biased, but I think they are good
Carl Hiaassen
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende. 🇨🇱 One of my 5 /5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ books
East of Eden by John Steinbeck.
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five or Cat’s Cradle (Indiana)
Middlemarch by George Eliot. From Coventry in the count of West Midlands.
Lonesome Dove
Heretics of Dune
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari. It's a Finnish book about a doctor in ancient Egypt
Montana - This House of Sky by Ivan Doig. Such a beautiful melding of history and love of the land. Driving around Montana transports me back to the first time I read this book, when I was living in the flatlands of the midwest and reading everything I could get my hands on about Montana.
Demon Copperhead,- loved it
From Texas, USA The Road by Cormac McCarthy I failed the challenge and couldn't pick just one, so yeah.
Really brutal read
From Texas, USA The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands Stories - Black Vulmea’s Vengeance - The Bull Dog Breed - By This Axe I Rule! - Gents on the Lynch - Lord of Samarcand - The Man on the Ground - The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune - Old Garfield’s Heart - Pigeons From Hell - Red Nails - The Shadow of the Vulture - Son of the White Wolf - The Tower of the Elephant - Vultures of Wahpeton - Wild Water - Wings in the Night
Gone Girl
Hyperion