Challenge: Name a work of fiction set in every state and province!!!!!

[XemaSab]

California: Cannery Row

Let's see if we can fill in all the states and provinces with a book or play set in each one! :bounce:

[BreweryYardRat]

1. Ok.

Florida: Triggerfish Twist (part of a series by Tim Dorsey)

[sakabatou]

2. CSI: The Graphic Novel - Nevada

[XemaSab]

3. Washington: East of the Mountains

by David Guterson

[FuzzySlippers]

28. Snow Falling on Cedars

[FuzzySlippers]

4. New York: The Great Gatsby

[XemaSab]

22. New York: Bonfire of the Vanities

[CornField]

41. New York: American Psycho

[FuzzySlippers]

5. Minnesota: Main Street

[XemaSab]

24. Minnesota: Lake Wobegone Days

[Love Bug]

113. Minnesota: "War for the Oaks" by Emma Bull

[FuzzySlippers]

6. Ohio: And Ladies of the Club

[Jara sang]

50. Ohio: Winesburg, Ohio

[XemaSab]

7. Wisconsin: Caddie Woodlawn

[dragonlady]

55. Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder (subsequent books would apply in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Missouri).

[hfojvt]

62. almost any book by Clifford Simak

takes place in Millville, Wisconsin - his hometown - for example "All Flesh is Grass" and "Time and Again" both excellent books.

[FuzzySlippers]

8. Prince Edward Island: Ann of Green Gables

[FuzzySlippers]

9. Newfoundland: The Shipping News

[FuzzySlippers]

11. Iowa: The Bridges of Madison County

:puke:

[FuzzySlippers]

56. Iowa: A Thousand Acres

[SeattleGirl]

10. Georgia: Gone With the Wind

[XemaSab]

30. Georgia: A Man In Full

[Orsino]

106. Georgia: Michael Bishop's *Ancient of Days* n/t

[XemaSab]

12. Idaho: Angle of Repose

(partly)

[FuzzySlippers]

13. Mississippi: Absalom, Absalom!

[XemaSab]

21. Mississippi: The Little Friend

[Rowdyboy]

103. Mississippi: "The Ponder Heart" by Eudora Welty

"A Time to Kill" by John Grisham

I'm currently reading "The Little Friend" and, IMHO, it is EXCELLENT! I feel like I know all these old women-they're the same generation as my great aunts and strongly remind me of them. Her dialog and background detail is incredibe. The book is a sheer pleasure.

[begin_within]

14. "The United States House of Representatives (sic)"

[begin_within]

16. California: East of Eden

[XemaSab]

19. California: The Human Comedy

[XemaSab]

38. California: Day of the Locust

[Sequoia]

116. That is such an awesome novel!

When we had those Rodney King Riots that late April and I saw the South Central fires burning in the distance (viewed from near LAX) this book sprang to mind. I used to have dreams about Los Angeles in flames. Afterwards I went to the areas near Korea Town where I once worked and saw places I used to frequent that had burned down. Awful times, those.

[FuzzySlippers]

15. Louisiana: A Confederacy of Dunces

[FuzzySlippers]

59. Louisiana: A Streetcar Named Desire

[yellowdogintexas]

127. Louisiana: All the King's Men

[XemaSab]

17. Arizona: The Bean Trees

[XemaSab]

27. Arizona: Blood Meridian

[FuzzySlippers]

18. Nebraska: My Antonia

[CornField]

20. Oklahoma: Grapes of Wrath

[XemaSab]

23. Oklahoma: Where the Red Fern Grows

[Nicole]

44. Oklahoma: Oklahoma

[Nicole]

46. Oklahoma: Twister

[CBGLuthier]

82. Oklahoma: The Outsiders

:-)

[Nye Bevan]

25. CT: The Stepford Wives

[FuzzySlippers]

26. New Hampshire: The World According to Garp

[Lavender Brown]

85. NH: A Separate Peace

[XemaSab]

29. Maine: Pet Semetary

[XemaSab]

31. Massachusetts: The Crucible

[FuzzySlippers]

Massachusetts: The Scarlet Letter

[CornField]

32. Arkansas: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

[norml]

33. Yukon Territory: The Call of The Wild

http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/CallOfTheWild/

[Jara sang]

34. Hawai'i: Hotel Honolulu

[Jara sang]

35. American Samoa: Rain

[XemaSab]

36. Colorado: The Shining

[momophile]

91. Colorado: The Stand

[momophile]

92. Colorado: Mork and Mindy!

[momophile]

95. Colorado: South Park

[yellowdogintexas]

125. Colorado: Centennial

[FuzzySlippers]

37. Kentucky: Uncle Tom's Cabin

[FuzzySlippers]

39. Illinois: Native Son

[billyskank]

40. !!!

:hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

42. Georgia: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

set in Savannah.

[Jara sang]

49. 'Midnight' is non-fiction

:hide:

[MissHoneychurch]

57. Ok, but it reads like a fiction

[Kurovski]

43. Illinois: So Big

[Jara sang]

45. Texas: All the Pretty Horses

[Nicole]

47. Texas: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

[justabob]

132. Texas: Giant

Giant by Edna Ferber

[CornField]

48. Kansas: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

[xmas74]

101. In Cold Blood.

The mayor of the town I grew up in (Missouri) was a deputy in Kansas and responded to the killings.

When I became friends w/ his daughter he told us a few stories about the case.

[FuzzySlippers]

51. South Carolina: The Prince of Tides

[norml]

52. Kansas: In Cold Blood

[applegrove]

53. Nova Scotia - BAROMETER RISING

[FuzzySlippers]

54. Alabama: To Kill a Mockingbird

[MissHoneychurch]

58. Georgia: East is East

by T. C. Boyle

[FuzzySlippers]

60. Missouri: Tom Sawyer

[EstimatedProphet]

104. Missouri: King's Row

[dragonlady]

61. Michigan: Anatomy of a Murder

In the U.P.

[hfojvt]

63. I almost forgot

I think Janet Dailey and the Wagons West series both wrote books featuring each of the fifty states, although Wagons West may have just done every state but the original 13 colonies. Also Louis L'Amour's Sackett books probably cover quite a few states.

[FuzzySlippers]

64. Here are some states we haven't heard from:

Vermont, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Michigan, Indiana, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, Oregon, Tennessee, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and New Jersey, not to mention all the missing provinces.

[xmas74]

100. South Dakota

has a couple of the Little House books.

[MissHoneychurch]

65. Tennessee: Walk in My Soul

by Lucia St.Clair Robson

[yellowdogintexas]

126. Tennessee: The Firm

[u4ic]

66. The Stone Angel - Manitoba

[u4ic]

67. I Heard the Owl Call My Name - B.C.

[u4ic]

68. Alberta - Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love

A play by Brad Fraser

[FuzzySlippers]

70. Finally a Canadian shows up.

[u4ic]

74. oops wrong place

[Lisa]

120. Alberta: Obasan

(although the wartime memories are from BC)

[u4ic]

69. Quebec - Les Belle Soeurs

play by Michel Tremblay

[Jara sang]

71. Wyoming: Close Range : Wyoming Stories

[FuzzySlippers]

72. Rhode Island: The Age of Innocence (in part)

[Jara sang]

73. North Carolina: Cold Mountain

[MissHoneychurch]

75. Of course

*slams forhead*

why didn't I think of it

[FuzzySlippers]

76. New Jersey: Portnoy's Complaint

[CornField]

83. And all of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series -- which are a hoot!

[u4ic]

77. Ontario - Cat's Eye

Margaret Atwood

[u4ic]

78. Saskatchewan - Who Has Seen the Wind

W.O. Mitchell

[u4ic]

79. NWT: Never Cry Wolf

Farley Mowat

[Jara sang]

80. Virginia: Seven Days in May

[Calliope]

117. Virginia

Confessions of Nat Turner

[Nye Bevan]

81. North Dakota: Fargo

[LynneSin]

84. Pennsylvania: In Her Shoes

:D

[miss_american_pie]

90. Pennsylvania: Back Roads

[LynneSin]

86. DELAWARE: Fight Club

I'm stretching my mind to find a work of literature based in Delaware and I overlooked a major one - The Fight Club. They don't come out and say it's in Delaware but they mention (and it's in the movie) about how new fight clubs are cropping up in Delaware City, Newark & New Castle - all cities near Wilmington, DE - a city that has like 60% of all banks incorporated in the city because of our tax laws.

[CornField]

87. Indiana: Illusions (Reluctant Messiah)

[yellowdogintexas]

124. Indiana: Raintree County.

[libertad]

88. Florida: Their Eyes Were Watching G*d

by Zora Neale Hurston

[terrya]

89. Illinois - "Sister Carrie"

[GirlinContempt]

93. Manitoba "The Primrose Path"

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

94. North Carolina: The Handmaiden's Tale

the film was shot at the Duke U. campus (does it count?)

[CornField]

96. New Mexico: The Woman Who Knew Too Much

Cordalia Morgan mystery series

[Canadian Socialist]

97. Quebec - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

and pretty much all Mordecai Richler's works.

[taterguy]

98. Oregon: Sometimes a Great Notion

[Canadian Socialist]

99. Manitoba: The Stone Angel

and A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence... I went to the same university as her! My claim to fame (in a roundabout manner).

[applegrove]

114. Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand. In memory

of her who relinquished her past... as I gained my stubborn one.

[KitchenWitch]

102. Washington State: Rain Falling on Cedars

[Ptah]

105. Montana: A river Runs Through It. n/t

[cedahlia]

107. Maryland: The Accidental Tourist

I don't think anybody did MD yet...did they??

[XemaSab]

110. Maryland: The Sum of All Fears

[GoddessOfGuinness]

130. MD: Chesapeake

James Michener

[XemaSab]

108. Vermont: The Secret History

[XemaSab]

109. Alaska: No Night is Too Long

By Barbara Vine/Ruth Rendell

[Lisa]

118. Alaska: Icy Clutches

A crime novel by Aaron Elkins (which also visits some of the same places as the Rendell book).

[Momgonepostal]

111. Utah: The Great Brain series

[BigMcLargehuge]

112. NH - Peyton Place

[ohiosmith]

115. British Columbia: Headhunter

[Lisa]

119. New Brunswick: For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down

http://www.mcclelland.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771034879

[CrownPrinceBandar]

121. October Sky: WV

[Lisa]

122. Nunavut: White Dawn

(Although the territory of Nunavut didn't officially exist until many decades after the story, which takes place on Baffin Island, was written.)

[SoCalDem]

123. Hawaii....Michener's "Hawaii"

[yellowdogintexas]

128. Nevada: The entire Midnight Louis Mystery series,

I recommend it, esp for Cat Lovers

[yellowdogintexas]

129. Florida: all of Carl Hiaasen's wonderful novels.

[astonamous]

131. I love Carl Hiaasen. I picked up one of his books because of

the title. "Skinny Dip". Normally I don't read mystery or crime stories, but his characters are funny and the stories are always very entertaining.

[CBHagman]

133. New Jersey: Cheaper by the Dozen

Montclair, to be exact.

That took a lot of digging in the old memory.