Fiction by Place or Culture

Afghanistan

Try:
Milton Beardon ~ The Black Tulip
Daniel Bolger ~ Feast of Bones
Y.L. Harris ~ Hindu Kush
Anne Hart ~ New Afghanistan's TV Anchorwoman
Caroline Harvey ~ Legacy of Love / A Second Legacy
M.E. Hirsh ~ Kabul
Khaled Hosseini ~ The Kite Runner
Soniah Kamal ~ An Isolated Incident
Yasmina Khadra ~ The Swallows of Kabul
John Kruse ~ The Hour of the Lily
James Michener ~ Caravans
Robert Roper ~ Victory to the Moth
Joseph S. Salzburg ~ A Violation of Trust
Amina Shah ~ Tales of Afghanistan
Idries Shah ~ Kara Kush
Charles Edward Varney ~ The Jewel Carriers
Steven E. Wilson ~ Winter in Kandahar

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Africa

See Also Fiction set in Ancient Egypt

Try:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ~ Purple Hibiscus (Nigeria)
Chris Abani ~ Graceland (Nigeria)
Robin Cook ~ Sphinx
Gil Courtemanche ~ A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (Rwanda)
Lewis DeSoto ~ A Blade of Grass (South Africa)
David Freeman ~ One of Us (Egypt)
Damon Galgut ~ The Good Doctor (South Africa)
Laurent Gaude ~ The Death of King Tsongor
Moses Isegawa ~ Snakepit (Uganda)
M.M. Kaye ~ Death in Kenya
James Michener ~ Covenant
Ben Okri ~ The Famished Road / Songs of Enchantment (Nigeria)
Elizabeth Peters ~ Amelia Peabody series (Egypt)
Tracy Price-Thompson ~ A Woman's Worth (Kenya)
Robert Sedlack ~ The African Safari
Dan Sleigh ~ Islands
Alexander McCall Smith ~ (Botswana)
Wilbur Smith~ The Triumph of the Sun (Egpyt)
M.G.  Vassanji ~ The In-between World of Vikram Lall

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At Sea

Click here for books about War at Sea

Try:
Caroline Alexander ~ The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Andrea Barrett ~ The Voyage of the Narwhal
Philip Caputo ~ Voyage
William Carpenter ~ The Wooden Nickel
Bernard Cornwell ~ Sharpe's Trafalgar
Douglas Galbraith ~ Rising Sun
Nicholas Griffin ~ Requiem Shark
Ben Jones ~ The Rope Eater
Alexander Kent ~ Richard Bolitho Series
Matthew Kneale ~ English Passengers
Herman Melville
Patrick O'Brian
Arturo Perez-Reverte ~ The Nautical Chart

Links:
Nautical Fiction by Time Period
Nautical Fiction
The Nautical Fiction List
The United States Maritime Literature Award

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Australia

Try:
Emily Barr ~ Baggage
Peter Carey ~ Illywhacker / My Life as a Fake / True History of the Kelly Gang
Patricia Carlon
J.M. Coetzee ~ Elizabeth Costello
Robert Drewe ~ The Bodysurfers
Richard Flanagan ~ Death of a River Guide
Tom Gilling ~ The Adventures of Miles and Isabel
Kate Grenville ~ The Secret River
Janette Turner Hospital
Michael Jacobson ~ Windmill Hill
Shane Maloney
A.E. Martin ~ Sinners Never Die
Tamara McKinley ~ Matilda's Last Waltz / Summer Lightning / Wildflowers
Colleen McCullough ~ Morgan's Run / The Touch
Thomas Moran ~ What Harry Saw
Todd James Pierce ~ The Australia Stories
Nevil Shute ~ A Town like Alice
Tim Winton ~ Dirt Music

Links:
Australian Authors
The Commonwealth Writers Prize
The Miles Franklin Award

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Try:
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Margaret Atwood
John Bemrose ~ The Island Walkers
Saros Cowasjee ~ The Assistant Professor
David Bergen
David Cruise ~ Vancouver
Robertson Davies
Timothy Findley ~ The Piano Man's Daughter
Margaret Laurence
Ann-Marie MacDonald
David Macfarlane
W.O. Mitchell
Farley Mowat
James Sherrett ~ Up in Ontario

Links:
Canadian Authors Index
Governor General's Literary Awards

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General  ~ Dominican Republic  ~ El Salvador ~ Guatemala  ~ Haiti  ~ Honduras  ~ Nicaragua

See Also Cuba
See Also Puerto Rico

General

Julia Alvarez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dominican Republic

Julia Alvarez ~ In the Name of Salome / In the Time of the Butterflies
Edwidge Danticat ~ The Farming of Bones
Marie Vargas Llosa ~ The Feast of the Goat (Dominican Republic)
Mayra Montero ~ The Red of His Shadow
Viriato Sencion ~ They Forged the Signature of God

El Salvador

Claribel Alegria ~ Ashes of Izalco
Manlio Argueta ~ Cuzcatlan / One Day of Life / A Place Called Milagro de la Paz
Mario Bencastro ~ Shot in the Cathedral / Tree of Life
Sandra Benitez ~ Bitter Grounds / The Weight of All Things
Graciela Limon ~ In Search of Bernabe
Erin O'Sharnghnessy ~ Pasaquina
Alfonso Urias Quijada ~ The Better to See You
Marcos McPeek Villatoro ~ A Fire in the Earth

Guatemala

Mark Brazaitis ~ The River of Lost Voices / Steal My Heart
Omar S. Castaneda ~ Cunuman
Francisco Goldman ~ The Long Night of White Chickens
Norman Spencer Graham ~ Death in Guatemala
David L. Lindsey ~ Body of Truth
Sharon Rybak Portugal ~ The Fault at the Center
David Schweidel ~ Confidence of the Heart
Donley Watt ~ The Journey of Hector Rabinal

Haiti

Madison Smartt Bell ~ All Souls' Rising / Master of the Crossroads / The Stone that the Builder Refused
Alejo Carpentier ~ The Kingdom of this World
Edwidge Danticat ~ The Dew Breaker / Breath, Eyes, Memory / Krik? Krak!
Lilas Desquiron ~ Reflections of Loko Miwa
Daniel Easterman ~ The Night of the Seventh Darkness
C. Richard Gillespie ~ Papa Toussaint
Mayra Montero ~ In the Palm of Darkness
William Orem ~ Zombi, You My Love
Elizabeth Maul Schwartz ~ The Land of Mountains
Frances Temple ~ Taste of Salt

Honduras

Janet Lord ~ The Isabella Triangle
Roberto Quesada ~ The Ships
Antonia Reyes-Guerra ~ El Gringo
Joel Lee Sherman ~ Honduran Spring, Honduran Summer
Paul Theroux ~ The Mosquito Coast

Nicaragua

Rosario Aguilar ~ The Lost Chronicles of Terra Firma
Marie Jakober ~ Sandinista
Denis Johnson ~ The Stars at Noon
Alejandro Murguia ~ Living Like the Saints / Southern Front
Sergio Ramirez ~ To Bury our Fathers

Links:
Writers of the Caribbean

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China

Try:
Pearl S. Buck ~ Dragon Seed / The Good Earth / Peony
Lan Samantha Chang ~ Inheritance
Terrence Cheng ~ Sons of Heaven
Robert S. Elegant ~ Dynasty / From a Far Land / Manchu
Lisa Huang Fleischman ~ Dream of the Walled City
Kathryn Harrison ~ The Binding Chair
Yu Hua ~ To Live
Ma Jian ~ The Noodle Maker
Ha Jin ~ The Crazed / Waiting
Rui Li ~ The Silver City
Richard McKenna ~ The Sand Pebbles
Anchee Min ~ Becoming Madame Mao / Empress Orchid / The Last Empress
Nicole Mones ~ A Cup of Light / Lost in Translation
Andy Oakes ~ Dragon's Eye
Sa Shan ~ The Girl Who Played Go
Su Tong ~ My Life as Emperor
Gao Xingjian ~ One Man's Bible / Soul Mountain
Annie Wang ~ Lili
Lulu Wang ~ The Lily Theater
Ye Zhaoyan ~ Nanjing 1937

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Try:
Reinaldo Arenas
Jose Raul Bernardo ~ The Secret of the Bulls / Silent Wing / The Wise Women of Havana
James Coltrane ~ A Good Day to Die
Stephen Coonts ~ Cuba
Arnaldo Correa ~ Cold Havana Ground / Spy's Fate
Abilio Estevez ~ Distant Palaces / Thine is the Kingdom
Charles Fleming ~ After Havana
Cristina Garcia ~ The Aguero Sisters / Dreaming in Cuban / Monkey Hunting
Graham Greene ~ Our Man in Havana
Ernest Hemingway ~ The Old Man and the Sea
Oscar Hijuelos ~ Mambo Kings / A Simple Habana Melody
Guillermo Cabera Infante ~ Guilty of Dancing the Cha Cha Cha
Stephen Hunter ~ Havana
Pico Iyer ~ Cuba and the Night
Elmore Leonard ~ Cuba Libre
Pablo Medina ~ The Cigar Roller
Mayra Montero ~ The Messenger
Thomas Sanchez ~ King Bongo / Mile Zero
Carsten Stroud ~ Cuba Strait
Zoe Valdes ~ Cafe Nostalgia / Dear First Love / I Gave You All I Had

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England

See also Chick Lit
See Also Middle Ages Fiction

Try:
Kate Atkinson ~ Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Melvyn Bragg
Ben Elton ~ High Society
Josephine Cox
Julian Fellowes ~ Snobs
W. Somerset Maugham ~ Liza of Lambeth / Mrs Craddock
David Nicholls ~ A Question of Attraction
Richard Peck ~ London Holiday
Rosamunde Pilcher ~ The Shell Seekers
Edward Rutherford ~ The Forest / London / Sarum
Sylvia Smith ~ Appleby House
Nicola Thorne
Sue Townsend
Penny Vincenzi
Barnaby Williams ~ Death before Dishonour

Links:
The Commonwealth Writers Prize
Contemporary Writers in the UK

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France

See Also The French Revolution
See Also The Napoleonic Wars

Try:
Cara Black ~ Aimee Leduc Series
Elizabeth Bowen ~ The House in Paris
Guy de la Valdene ~ Red Stag
Joanne Dryansky ~ Fatima's Good Fortune
M.F.K. Fisher ~ The Boss Dog
Peter Gadol ~ Light at Dusk
Joanne Harris
Diane Johnson ~ L'Affair / Le Divorce
Peter Mayle ~ Hotel Pastis / A Good Year
Frances Paige ~ Bid Time Return
Gail Scott ~ My Paris
Linda Tatelbaum ~ Yes & No
Shay Youngblood ~ Black Girl in Paris
Eric Zencey ~ Panama

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Germany

Try:
James Carroll ~ Secret Father
Gaylord Dold ~ The Last Man in Berlin
Robert Ford ~ The Student Conductor
Gunter Grass ~ My Century
Robert Harris ~ Fatherland
Christoph Hein ~ Willenbrock
Thomas Hettche ~ The Arbogast Case
Binnie Kirshenbaum ~ Hester Among the Ruins
Kai Maristed ~ Broken Ground
Michael Pye ~ The Pieces from Berlin
Bernard Schlink ~ The Reader

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Greece

See Also Fiction set in Ancient Greece

Try:
Helen Benedict ~ The Sailor's Wife
Louis De Bernieres ~ Corelli's Mandolin
Judith Gould ~ The Greek Villa
Panos Karnezis ~ The Maze
Kapka Kassabova ~ Love in the Land of Midas
Edmund Keeley ~ Some Wine for Rememberance
Eugene Aubrey Stratton ~ Fit for Fate

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Holland

Try:
Tracy Chevalier ~ Girl with a Pearl Earring
Alexandre Dumas ~ The Black Tulip
Nicholas Freeling ~ Some Day Tomorrow
Rosalind Laker ~ The Golden Tulip
David Liss ~ The Coffee Trader
Deborah Moggach ~ Tulip Fever
Harry Mulisch ~ The Assault
Georges Simenon ~ Maigret in Holland
Jane Stevenson ~ The Winter Queen
Janwillen Van De Wetering ~ Amsterdam Cops series
Hans Warren ~ Secretly Inside

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India

Try:
Samina Ali ~ Madras on Rainy Days
Anita Rau Badami ~ Tamarind Woman
Kunal Basu ~ The Miniaturist
Anna Campion ~ Holy Smoke
Barbara Cleverly ~ Joe Sandilands Series
Kavita Daswani ~ For Matrimonial Purposes
Siddhartha Deb ~ The Point of Return
Anita Desai
William Garlington ~ Tara's Secret
Amitav Ghosh
Rumer Godden
Githa Hariharan ~ In Times of Siege
John Irving ~ Son of the Circus
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
H.R.F. Keating ~ Inspector Ghote Series
Jhumpa Lahiri
Bem Le Hunte
Yann Martel
Pankaj Mishra
Rohinton Mistry
Paul Mann ~ Season of the Monsoon
Susanna Moore ~ One Last Look
Bharati Mukherjee
V.S. Naipaul
Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
Paul Scott
Bapsi Sidhwa
Manil Suri
Meera Syal

Links:
The Sawnet Bookshelf

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Ireland

Try:
Sebastian Barry
Dan Binchy
Maeve Binchy
Clare Boylan
Lisa Carey
Annabel Davis-Goff
Dicey Deere ~ Torrey Tunet series
Roddy Doyle
Thomas Flanagan
Bartholomew Gill
James Joyce
Peter T. King
Morgan Llywelyn
Bernard MacLaverty
Robin Maxwell ~ The Wild Irish
Patrick McCabe
Alice McDermott
John McGahern
Edna O'Brien
Nuala O'Faolain
Sean O'Reilly ~ Love and Sleep
Nora Roberts ~ Born In Fire / Born in Ice / Born in Shame
Edward Rutherford ~ Dublin
Alice Taylor
William Trevor
Niall Williams

Links:
The Irish Reader
Irish Writers Online

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Italy

 See Also Fiction set in Ancient Rome
See Also Mysteries set in Ancient Rome

 Try:
Christopher Castellani ~ A Kiss from Maddalena
Peter Dickinson ~ The Tears of the Salamander
Michael Dibdin ~ The Aurelio Zen Series
Sarah Dunant ~ The Birth of Venus
Richard Paul Evans ~ The Last Promise
Simonetta Agnello Hornby ~ The Almond Picker
Gregory Maguire ~ Mirror Mirror
Valerie Martin ~ Italian Fever
Albert Noyer ~ The Secundus Papyrus
William Riviere ~ By the Grand Canal
D.L. Smith ~ The Miracles of Santo Fico
Sarah Woodhouse ~ Meeting Lily


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Japan

Try:
Jan Blensdorf ~ My Name if Sei Shonagon
James Clavell
Patrick Foss ~ The Bang Devils
Dale Furutani
Shirley Hazzard ~ The Great Fire
Kazuo Ishiguro ~ An Artist of the Floating World
Susan Johnson ~ Pure Silk
Don Lee ~ Country of Origin
Takashi Matsuoka ~ Cloud of Sparrows
James Michener ~ Sayonara
Lucia St. Clair Robson ~ The Tokaido Road
Laura Joh Rowland ~ Sano Ichiro Mysteries
Kerri Sakamoto ~ One Hundred Million Hearts
Susan Schaeffer ~ The Snow Fox
Hiroko Sherwin ~ Eight Million Gods and Demons
Robert Skimin ~ Chikara!
Randy Taguchi ~ Outlet
Jeff Talarigo ~ The Pearl Diver
Gerald Vizenor ~ Hiroshima Bugi
Akira Yoshimura ~ One Man's Justice


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Mexico

See Also Central America

Try:
Mariano Azuela ~ The Underdogs
Sandra Benitez ~ A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Harriett Doerr ~ Consider This, Senora / Stones for Ibarra
Laura Esquivel ~ Like Water for Chocolate
Graham Greene ~ The Power and the Glory
Malcolm C. Lowry ~ Under the Volcano
James A. Michener ~ Mexico
Cristina Rivers-Garza ~ No One Will See Me Cry
Frances Sherwood ~ Night of Sorrows
John Steinbeck ~ The Pearl

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Middle East

(Israel, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia)

Try:
Salar Abdoh ~ The Poet Game (Iran)
Turki al-Hamad ~ Adama
Muhsin al-Ramli ~ Scattered Crumbs (Iraq)
Hanan al-Shaykh ~ Women of Sand and Myrrh
John Briley ~ The First Stone
Henry Bromell ~ Little America
James Buchan ~ The Persian Bride
Larry Collins ~ The Road to Armageddon (Iran)
Nomi Eve
Linda Grant ~ When I Lived in Modern Times
Batya Gur
Masha Hamilton ~ Staircase of a Thousand Steps
Jonathan Kellerman ~ Buther's Theater
Soheir Khashoggi ~ Mirage
Jon Land
Amin Maalouf
Carol Magun ~ Circling Eden
Naguib Mahfouz
Hilary Mantel ~ Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Naveed Noori ~ Dakhmeh (Iran)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Amos Oz
Orhan Pamuk
Robert Rosenburg ~ An Accidental Murder
Jean Sasson
Meir Shalev ~ The Blue Mountain
Robert Stone ~ The Damascus Gate
Leon Uris ~ The Haj
Patricia Saffafian Ward ~ The Bullet Collection
Amy Wilentz
 

Israel

Try:
David Grossman
Yehoshua Kenaz ~ Infiltration
Ronit Matalon ~ Bliss
Edeed Ravel ~ Ten Thousand Lovers
A.B. Yehoshua ~ The Liberated Bride / Woman in Jerusalem

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Pakistan

Try:
Talat Abbasi
Cheryl Benard ~ Moghul Buffet
Tehmina Durrani ~ Blasphemy
Eric James Fullilove ~ Blowback
Hina Hag ~ Sadika's Way
David Hagberg ~ By Dawn's Early Light
Aamer Hussein ~ Hoops of Fire
Shah-Naz Hayat Khan ~ Topi
Sorayya Khan
Uzma Aslam Khan
Khadija Mastur ~ Cool, Sweet Water
Maniza Taqvi
Tahira Naqvi ~ Attar of Roses
Salman Rushdie ~ Shame
Sehba Sarwar
Kamila Shamsie ~ Kartography
Bapsi Sidhwa ~ The Bride
Shaukat Siddiqi ~ God's Own Land
Khushwant Singh ~ Train to Pakistan

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Poland

Try:
Nelson Algren
Jeffrey Archer ~ Kane & Abel
Alan Furst
Ian MacMillan ~ Village of a Million Spirits
James Conroyd Martin ~ Push Not the River
James Michener ~ Poland
Lilian Nattel ~ The River Midnight
Leslie Pietrzyk ~ Pears on a Willow Tree
Charles Powers ~ In the Memory of the Forest
Chava Rosenfarb
Jean Sasson
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Joseph Skibell
Andrzej Szczypiorski
D.M. Thomas
Leon Uris' Mila 18
John Warmus
Andrzej Zaniewski

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Puerto Rico

Try:
Evangeline Blanco ~ Caribe
Lori Marie Carlson ~ The Flamboyant
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Rosario Ferre
Cesar Iglesias ~ The Vanquished
Marnie Mueller ~ My Mother's Island
Esmerelda Santiago ~ America's Dream
James Stevens-Arce ~ Soulsaver
Steven Torres

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Russia

Try:
Boris Akunin ~ The Winter Queen
Tom Bradby ~ The White Russian
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Yori Druzhnikov ~ Angels on the Head of a Pin
Robert Harris ~ Archangel
Barth Landor ~ A Week in Winter
John Le Carre ~ The Russia House
Andrei Makine ~ Dreams of My Russian Summers / Music of a Life
David L. Robbins ~ The Last Citadel
Edward Rutherford ~ Russka
Barbara Scrupski ~ Ruslan
Katherine Shonk ~ The Red Passport
Leo Tolstoy
Vladimir Voinovich ~ Monumental Propaganda
Barnaby Williams ~ Revolution

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South America

Try:
Isabel Allende
Ana Maria Del Rio ~ Carmen's Rust (Chile)
Stephen Dobyns ~ After Shocks, Near Escapes (Chile)
Alberto Fuguet ~ The Movies of my Life (Chile)
Juana Manuela Gorriti ~ Dreams and Realities
Milton Hatoum ~ The Tale of a Certain Orient (Brazil)
Marie Vargas Llosa ~ Death in the Andes (Peru)
Jim Paul ~ Elsewhere in the Land of Parrots
Ricardo Piglia ~ Money to Burn (Argentina)
Marisol ~ The Lady, the Chef, and the Courtesan

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Spain

Try:
Radwa Ashur ~ Granada
Teresa De Luca ~ A Distant Thunder
Miguel De Unamuno
Maria Exposito Glass ~ Sun and Shade
Ernest Hemingway ~ For Whom the Bell Tolls
Julio Llamazares ~ The Yellow Rain
Sylvia Lopez-Medina ~ Siguiriya
James Michener ~ Iberia / The Miracle in Seville
V.S.Naipaul ~ Miguel Street
Rebecca Pawel
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Robert Wilson ~ Blind Man of Seville / The Vanished Hands

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United States

Links:
U.S. Literary Map Project

 Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware
Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky
Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri
Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York
New York City / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania
Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont
Virginia / Washington D.C. / Washington State / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming

Chicago / Hollywood / The South

Alabama

Try:
Robert E. Bell ~ The Butterfly Tree
Mark Childress ~ Crazy in Alabama
William Cobb
Pat Cunningham Devoto ~ My Last Days as Roy Rogers / Out of the Night that Covers Me
Fannie Flagg ~ Fried Green Tomatoes
Anne George ~ Southern Sisters Series
Suzanne Hudson ~ In a Temple of Trees
Harper Lee ~ To Kill a Mockingbird
Andrew Lytle ~ At the Moon's Inn / The Long Night
Michael Morris ~ A Place Called Wiregrass
Nancy Pickard ~ The Truth Hurts
Lynn Pruett ~ Ruby River
Howell Raines ~ Whiskey Man
Elise Sanguinetti ~ The Last of the Whitfields
Thomas Stribling ~ The Store
Daniel Wallace ~ Big Fish / Watermelon King
Lella Warren

Links:
Alabama Authors and Their Works

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Alaska

Try:
Tom Bodett
T.C. Boyle ~ Drop City
Max Brand ~ Sixteen in Nome
Liam Callanan ~ The Cloud Atlas
Edna Ferber ~ Ice Palace
Sue Henry ~ Alex Jensen Series
Stan Jones ~ Nathan Active Series
James Michener ~ Alaska
Elwood Reid ~ Midnight Sun
Nora Roberts ~ Northern Lights
Marcia Simpson
Dana Stabenow
John Straley ~ Cecil Younger series

Links:
Popular Alaskana Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography

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Arizona

Try:
Garrison Allen
Stella Pope Duarte ~ Let their Spirits Dance
Susan Elderkin ~ Sunset over Chocolate Mountain
Douglas Hirt ~ A Good Town
J.A. Jance ~ Joanna Brady Series
Murad Kalam ~ Night Journey
Barbara Kingsolver ~ Animal Dreams / The Bean Trees
Jayne Ann Krentz ~ Eye of the Beholder / Light in Shadow
Bentley Little
JoAnn Mapson ~ Loving Chloe
Linda Lael Miller ~ Don't Look Now
Marguerite Noble ~ Devil's Claw
Lisa Michaels ~ Grand Ambition
Donald Rawley ~ The Night Bird Cantata
Harriet Rochlin ~ On Her Way Home
Glendon Swarthout ~ Cadillac Cowboys
Nancy E. Turner ~ These is my Words
Betty Webb ~ Desert Noir
Joy Williams ~ The Quick and the Dead

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Arkansas

Try:
Earlene Fowler ~ Arkansas Traveler
John Grisham ~ A Painted House
Donald Harington ~ The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks / With
Charlaine Harris ~ Lily Bard Series
Joan Hess ~ Maggody series
Douglas C. Jones ~ Elkhorn Tavern
Norris Church Mailer ~ Windchill Summer
Bernice L. McFadden ~ Sugar / This Bitter Earth
April Reynolds ~ Knee-Deep in Wonder
Grif Stockely ~ Gideon Page Series

Links:
Arkansas Authors

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California

Try:
Rigoberto Gonzalez ~ Crossing Vines
Elizabeth F. Hailey ~ Home Free
Alice Hobart ~ The Cup and the Sword
Denis Johnson ~ Already Dead
Jack London ~ The Valley of the Moon
Frank Norris ~ The Octopus
Luis J. Rodriguez ~ Music of the Mill
Leslie Schwartz ~ Angels Crest
John Steinbeck ~ East of Eden / Grapes of Wrath

Hollywood

See Also Film Fiction

Try:
Steve Allen ~ Die Laughing
Peter Bart ~ Dangerous Company
Jack Bludis ~ The Big Switch
Steven Bochco ~ Death by Hollywood
D.L. Bruin ~ Ten Percent
Amanda Cockrell ~ Pomegranate Seed
Jackie Collins ~ Hollywood Divorces / Hollywood Wives
Hilary de Vries ~ So 5 Minutes Ago
F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ The Last Tycoon
David Freeman ~ It's all True
Ron Goulart ~ Groucho Marx Series
Jane Heller ~ Lucky Stars
Douglas McEwan ~ My Lush Life
Martha Sherrill ~ My Last Movie Star
M. Dion Thompson ~ Walk Like a Natural Man
Gore Vidal ~ Hollywood
Bruce Wagner ~ Still Holding
Nathaniel West ~ The Day of the Locust

Links:
California Authors
California Authors Directory
California Book Awards

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Colorado

Try:
Hal Borland ~ When the Legends Die
Margaret Coel ~ The Dream Stalker
Joanne Greenberg ~ Simple Gifts
Kent Haruf ~ Eventide / Plainsong / The Tie that Binds
Christine T. Jorgensen ~ Stella series
James Michener ~ Centennial
Barbara Samuel ~ No Place like Home
Jennie Shortridge ~ Riding with the Queen
Ann Zwinger ~ Beyond the Aspen Grove

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Connecticut

Try:
Maureen Howard ~ Natural History
Rick Moody ~ The Ice Storm
Thomas Tryon ~ The Wings of the Morning
John Updike ~ Marry Me
Richard Yates ~ A Good School / Revolutionary Road

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Delaware

Try:
Tom Coyne ~ A Gentleman's Game
David Taylor ~ Lights Across the Delaware

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Florida

Try:
Jesse Earl Bowden ~ Look and Tremble
Tim Dorsey
Connie May Fowler ~ River of Hidden Dreams
Carl Hiaasen
Jilliane Hoffman ~ Retribution
Zora Neale Hurston ~ Their Eyes were Watching God
John D. MacDonald ~ A Flash of Green
Peter Matthiessen ~ Killing Mister Watson
Susan Carol McCarthy ~ Lay that Trumpet in our Hands / True Fires
S.F. Mickle ~ Replacing Dad
Marjorie Rawlings ~ The Yearling
Patrick D. Smith ~ A Land Remembered
Joy Williams ~ Breaking and Entering

Links:
Florida Fiction

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 Georgia

Try:
Tina McElroy Ansa ~ Baby of the Family
John Berendt ~ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Olive Burns ~ Cold Sassy Tree
Erskine Caldwell ~ God's Little Acre / Tobacco Road
Pearl Cleage ~ What Looks Like Carzy on an Ordinary Day
James Dickey ~ Deliverance
Jim Grimsley ~ Dream Boy
Charlaine Harris ~ Aurora Teagarden Series
Ad Hudler ~ Southern Living
Terry Kay ~ To Dance with the White Dog
Carson McCullers ~ A Member of the Wedding
Delores Phillips ~ The Darkest Child
Eugenia Price ~ Lighthouse
Ferrol Sams ~ Run with the Horsemen
Anne Rivers Sidons ~ Peachtree Road
Deborah Smith ~ A Place to Call Home / Sweet Hush
Alice Walker ~ The Color Purple

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Hawaii

Try:
Deborah Turell Atkinson ~ Primitive Secrets
Alan Brennert ~ Moloka'i
James Jones ~ From Here to Eternity
Norman Katkov ~ Blood and Orchids
Susanna Moore ~ The Whiteness of Bones
Paul Theroux ~ Hotel Honolulu
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Richard Ziegler ~ Red Sun

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Idaho

Try:
Christina Adam ~ Love and Country
Kim Barnes ~ Finding Caruso
Carol Ryrie Brink ~ Buffalo Coat
Harold Coyle ~ Against All Enemies
Vardis Fisher ~ Dark Bridwell / In Tragic Light / Mountain Man
Wendell McCall ~ Dead Aim
Stephen E. McDonald ~ Bitterroot
Heather Parkinson ~ Across Open Ground
William Gilbert Roberts ~ Idaho Grown
Thomas Savage ~ The Sheep Queen
Stuart Woods ~ Heat

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Illinois

Try:
Martha Bergland ~ A Farm Under a Lake
Ray Bradbury ~ Dandelion Wine
Thomas E. Eno ~ Deep Waters
William Maxwell ~ So Long, See you Tomorrow
Sharon Rolens ~ Worthy's Town / What Else but Home
Thornton Wilder ~ The Eight Day

Chicago

Mysteries Set in Chicago
Science Fiction Set in Chicago

Try:
Saul Bellow ~ The Dean's December
James Carroll ~ Memorial Bridge
Ana Castillo ~ Peel My Love Like an Onion
Maxine Chernoff ~ American Heaven
James Conrad ~ Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago
Barbara Croft ~ Moon's Crossing
Michael Croft ~ Flight Dreams
Theodore Dreiser ~ Sister Carrie
Martin Duberman ~ Haymarket
Stuart Dybek ~ I Sailed with Magellan
Michael Allen Dymmoch ~ The Man Who Understood Cats
James T. Farrell ~ Studs Lonigan
Ardella Garland  ~ Details at Ten
Andrew Greeley
Jane Hamilton ~ Disobedience
E. Lynn Harris ~ And This too shall Pass
Yolanda Joe
Grace Mark ~ The Dream Seekers
Judy Markey ~ The Daddy Clock
Jacquelyn Mitchard ~ The Deep End of the Ocean
John R. Powers ~ The Junk-Drawer Corner-Store Front-Porch Blues
Shawn Shiflett ~ Hidden Place
April Sinclair ~ Coffee Will Make You Black
Harry Stein ~ Hoopla

Links:
Illinois Authors

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Iowa

Try:
Barbara Esstman ~ The Other Anna
Donald Harstad ~ Carl Houseman series
Peter Hedges ~ An Ocean in Iowa / What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Jim Heynen ~ The Boy's House
Beth Helms ~ American Wives
W.P. Kinsella ~ The Iowa Baseball Confederacy / Shoeless Joe
Patrick Moore ~ Iowa
Leslie Pietrzyk ~ A Year and a Day
Jane Smiley ~ A Thousand Acres
Robert James Waller ~ The Bridges of Madison County / Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend

Links:
Iowa Authors
Iowa Fiction

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Kansas

Try:
Truman Capote ~ In Cold Blood
Evan S. Connell ~ Mr. Bridge / Mrs. Bridge
J.M. Hayes ~ Prairie Gothic
Clayton L. Hogg ~ The Meridian Two
Langston Hughes ~ Not without Laughter
Rhoda Lerman ~ God's Ear
Laura Moriarty ~ The Center of Everything
Scott Phillips ~ Cottonwood
Martin Schenk ~ A Small Dark Place
Paulina Simons ~ Tully
Jeanne Williams ~ No Roof but Heaven
Vinita Hampton Wright ~ Velma Still Cooks in Leeway

Links:
Kansas Authors

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Kentucky

Try:
Harriette Arnow ~ The Dollmaker / The Hunter's Horn
Janice Holt Giles ~ Hannah Fowler
Lisa Kay Hauser ~ Turn Back Time
Bobbie Ann Mason ~ In Country
Ed McClanahan ~ The Natural Man
Derek Robinson ~ Kentucky Blues
James Still ~ River of Earth
Jesse Stuart
John Yount ~ Hardcastle

Links:
KYLIT

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Louisiana

Try:
John Ed Bradley ~ Restoration
James Lee Burke
George Washington Cable ~ The Grandissimes
Ernest J. Gaines ~ Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Lesson Before Dying
Shirley Ann Grau ~ Keeper of the House
Julie L'Enfant ~ The Dancers of Sycamore Street
Penn Williamson ~ Daman Rourke Series

Links:
Louisiana Authors Index
Louisiana Center for the Book

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Maine

Try:
Carolyn Chute ~ The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Sarah Orne Jewett ~ The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Beth Martin ~ The One True Ocean
Elisabeth Ogilvie ~ Summer of the Osprey
Richard Preston ~ The Boat of Dreams
Richard Russo ~ Empire Falls
Anne Rivers Siddons ~ Colony

Links:
Fiction Set in Maine
Maine Writers Index

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Maryland

Try:
Petrina Aubol ~ Drive Time
John Barth ~ The Sot-Weed Factor
Rachel Carson ~ Silent Spring
Patricia Gaffney ~ Flight Lessons
Barry Levinson ~ Sixty-Six
James Michener ~ Chesapeake
Anne Tyler ~ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Links:
Famous Marylanders: writers, poets, editors & newspaperpersons

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Massachusetts

Try:
Bob Flaherty ~ Puff
David D. Nolta ~ Grave Circle
Robert B. Parker
Jessica Shattuck ~ The Hazards of Good Breeding
Susan Richards Shreve ~ Queen of Hearts
Anthony Weller ~ The Siege of Salt Cove
Nancy Zaroulis ~ Massachusetts

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Michigan

Try:
Lorna J. Cook ~ Departures
Boyle T. Coraghessan ~ Road to Welville
Joseph Heywood ~ Woods Cop Series
Linda Howard ~ Mr Perfect
Henry Kisor ~ Season's Revenge
Elmore Leonard ~ Mr Paradise
Thomas Mallon ~ Dewey Defeats Truman
A.J. Verdelle ~ The Good Negress
Mildred Walker ~ Fireweed

Links:
Michigan Authors and Illustrators

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Minnesota

Try:
Richard Bausch ~ Mr. Field's Daughter
Rachel Coyne ~ Whiskey Love
Traci DePree ~ A Can of Peas
Leif Enger ~ Peace Like A River
Tami Hoag
Wayne Johnson ~ The Devil You Know
Marya Hornbacher ~ The Center of Winter
Garrison Keillor
Lorna Landvik
Chuck Logan ~ Absolute Zero
John Sandford
LaVyrle Spencer ~ Home Song
Barton Sutter ~ Cold Comfort
Robert James Waller ~ Border Music

Links:
Minnesota Author Biographies Project

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Mississippi

Try:
Ace Atkins
William Faulkner
Phil Hardwick
Lewis Nordan ~ Music of the Swamp / Wolf Whistle
Gary Penley ~ Jubal
Donna Tartt ~ The Little Friend
Eudora Welty
Steve Yarbrough

Links:
Mississippi Writers
The Mississippi Writers Page

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 Missouri

Try:
Barbara Esstman ~ Night Ride Home 
Fannie Flagg ~ Standing in the Rainbow
Dorothy Garlock ~ Edge of Town / High on a Hill / A Place Called Rainwater
Elaine Kagan ~ The Girls
MacKinlay Kantor ~ Bugle Ann Series
Jean Marcy
Ntozake Shange ~ Betsey Brown
Mary Troy ~ The Alibi Cafe

Links:
Missouri Authors Directory

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Montana

Try:
Mary Clearman Blew ~ Sister Coyote
Peter Bowen
Ivan Doig
Jasen Emmons ~ Cowboy Angst
Nicholas Evans ~ The Horse Whisperer
A.B. Guthrie Jr. ~ The Big Sky / The Way West
William Kittridge ~ The Last Best Place
Norman Maclean ~ A River Runs through It / Young Men and Fire
Thomas McGuane ~ The Cadence of Grass
Nora Roberts ~ Montana Sky
Russell Rowland ~ In Open Spaces
Mildred Walker ~ Winter Wheat
Larry Watson ~ White Crosses / Justice / Montana 1948
James Welch ~ Fools Crow / Winter in the Blood


Links:
Montana Center for the Book

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Nebraska

Try:
Bess Streeter Aldrich ~ Spring Came on Forever
Willa Cather
Dianne Gray ~ Holding Up the Earth
Ron Hansen ~ Nebraska
Jim Harrison ~ Dalva / The Road Home
Tom McNeal ~ Goodnight Nebraska
Wright Morris
Mari Sandoz
David Wiltse ~ The Hangman's Knot

Links:
Nebraska Center for Writers

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Nevada

Try:
Walter Van Tilburg Clark ~ The Ox-Bow Incident
Michael Dibdin ~ Thanksgiving
Judith Freeman ~ A Desert of Pure Feeling
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera ~ Luck of the Draw
Art Gibney ~ Skin of the Earth
Shaun T. Griffin ~ The River Underground
Robert Laxalt ~ A Man in the Wheatfield
Larry McMurty ~ The Desert Rose
Linda Lael Miller ~ The Last Chance Cafe / Megan
Bill Pronzini ~ Blue Lonesome
Brian Rouff ~ Dice Angel
Barbara Samuel ~ Lady Luck's Map of Vegas

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New Hampshire

Try:
Leonard Chang ~ Dispatches from the Cold
Barbara Delinsky ~ Lake News
Ernest Hebert
John Irving ~ The Hotel New Hampshire / A Prayer for Owen Meany
Jeffrey Lent ~ Lost Nation
Grace Metalious ~ Peyton Place
Bill Morrissey ~ Edson
May Sarton ~ Kinds of Love
Anita Shreve ~ Sea Glass

Links:
New Hampshire Authors

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New Jersey

Try:
Janet Evanovich ~ Stepanie Plum Series
Thomas Fleming ~ Liberty Tavern
Karen Swee ~ Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Murder
Joseph Tropiano ~ Big Night
John Updike ~ The Poorhouse Fair

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New Mexico

Try:
Richard Bradford ~ Red Sky at Morning
Jo-Ann Mapson ~ Blue Rodeo
Michael McGarrity ~ Kevin Kerney Series
Conrad Richter ~ The Lady
Barbara Samuel ~ A Piece of Heaven
Walter Satterthwait ~ Joshua Croft Series
Martin Cruz Smith ~ Stallion Gate

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New York

See Also New York City

Try:
Barbara Block ~ Robin Light Mysteries
James Brady ~ Gin Lane
Nancy Whitman Geary ~ Misfortune
William J. Kennedy ~ Albany series
Richard Russo ~ Nobody's Fool / The Risk Pool

Links:
New York State Writers Institute

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New York City

Try:
Charlotte Burley ~ Cosmopolitan Girls
Michelle Cunnah ~ 32AA
John Dos Passos ~ Manhattan Transfer
Elizabeth Gaffney ~ Metropolis
Eliot Greebee ~ By the time you finish this book, You might be dead
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor ~ After
Varley O'Connor ~ A Company of Three
David Prete ~ Say That to my Face
Adriana Trigiani ~ Lucia, Lucia
Edith Wharton ~ Age of Innocence / The House of Mirth

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North Carolina

Try:
Kay Gibbons ~ Virtuous Woman
Jack Riggs ~ When the Finch Rises
Thomas Wolfe ~ Look Homeward Angel

Links:
North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame

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North Dakota

Try:
Janet Dailey ~ Lord of the High Lonesome
Louise Erdrich
Debbie Macomber ~ Dakota series
Susan Power ~ The Grass Dancer
Carrie Young ~ Nothing to do but Stay / The Wedding Dress

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Ohio

Try:
Esther Royer Ayers ~ Flight of the Herons
Evie Yoder Miller ~ Eyes at the Window
Toni Morrison ~ Sula
Terry Reed ~ The Full Cleveland
Conrad Richter ~ The Town / The Trees
Helen H. Santmyer ~ And the Ladies of the Club

Links:
Central Ohio Fiction Writers

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Oklahoma

Try:
Dayna Dunbar ~ The Saints and Sinners of Okay County
Edna Ferber ~ Cimarron
Edward Lanham ~ The Stricklands
Billie Letts
Curtiss Ann Matlock ~ Valentine Sisters Series
Speer Morgan ~ Belle Starr
C.W. Smith ~ Buffalo Nickel

Links:
Oklahoma Book Awards
Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma
Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame

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Oregon

Try:
Robin Cody ~ Ricochet River
Diane Hammond ~ Going to Bend / Homesick Creek
Katy King ~ City of Suspects
Tom Lang ~ Coffee
Philip Margolin
Jim Patton ~ The Shake
Joel Redon ~ If Not on Earth, Then in Heaven / The Road to Zena
Clyde Rice ~ Nordi's Gift
Joyce Weatherford ~ Heart of the Beast
Kate Wilhelm ~ Barbara Holloway Series

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Pennsylvania

Try:
Jennifer Chiaverini ~ Elm Creek Series
James T. Farrell ~ The Financier
Fern Michaels ~ Late Bloomer
Evie Yoder Miller ~ Eyes at the Window
Tamar Myers ~ Pennsylvania Dutch Series
Brad Smith ~ Busted Flush
John Updike ~ Rabbit Run

Links:
Literary Map of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Authors

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Rhode Island

Try:
Luanne Rice ~ Dance with Me
Anita Shreve ~ Where or When
Edith Wharton ~ Age of Innocence

Links:
Literary Map of Rhode Island

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 The South

Try:
James Lee Burke
Olive Anne Burns ~ Cold Sassy Tree
Clyde Edgerton
William Faulkner
Fannie Flagg
Ernest J. Gaines
Ellen Gilchrist
Carolyn Haines
Jan Karon
Barbara Kingsolver ~ Prodigal Summer
Bev Marshall ~ Right as Rain
Sharon McCrumb
Larry McMurtry
Joan A. Mendlicott
Robert Morgan
Anne Rivers Siddons
Deborah Smith
Lee Smith
Adriana Trigiani
Augusta Trobaugh
Eudora Welty

Links:
Library of Southern Literature
The Southern Scribe

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South Carolina

Try:
William Baldwin ~ The Hard to Catch Mercy
Pam Durban ~ The Laughing Place
William Price Fox ~ Ruby Red
Dorothea Benton Frank
Nora Roberts ~ Carolina Moon
Anne Rivers Siddons ~ Low Country
Susan Straight ~ I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen

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South Dakota

Try:
Harold Adams ~ Carl Wilcox Series
Adam Johnson ~ Parasites Like Us
Dan O'Brien ~ Brendan Prairie / In the Center of the Nation
Barbara Oaks ~ Wild Flowers and how They Grew
O.E. Rolvaag ~ Giants in the Earth
Douglas Unger ~ Leaving the Land

Links:
South Dakota Literary Map

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Tennessee

Try:
Deborah Adams ~ Jesus Creek series
Madison Smartt Bell ~ Anything Goes / Soldier's Joy
Eugene Davis ~ From the Horse's Mouth
Cameron Judd ~ The Overmountain Men / The Border Men / The Canebrake Men
Cormac McCarthy
Sharon McCrumb
Helen Craig Smith ~ Forever the twain shall Meet
Peter Taylor ~ A Summons to Memphis / In the Tennessee Country

Links:
Tennessee Authors
Tennessee Writers Project

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Texas

Try:
Tracy Daugherty ~ Axeman's Jazz
Anne Estevis ~ Down Garrapata Road
Edna Ferber ~ Texas
Joe R. Lansdale ~ Sunset and Sawdust
Larry McMurtry ~ Some Can Whistle
Elizabeth Maul Schwartz ~ The Texicans

Links:
Texas Authors

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Utah

Try:
Steven M. Cannon ~ Glen Canyon
Thomas H. Cook ~ Tabernacle
Judith Freeman ~ Red Water
John Gates ~ Brigham's Day
John Linton ~ Vermillion Cliffs

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Vermont

Try:
Chris Bohjalian ~ Buffalo Soldier
Thomas Christopher Greene ~ Mirror Lake
Mary Hays ~ Learning to Drive
Robert Newton Peck ~ A Day no Pigs Would Die

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Virginia

Try:
Ellen Glasgow ~ Vein of Iron
Dennis McFarland ~ Prince Edward
Lee Smith ~ Fair and Tender Ladies
William Styron ~ The Confessions of Nat Turner
Adriana Trigiani ~ Big Stone Gap / Big Cherry Holler / Milk Glass Moon

Links:
Virginia Authors

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Washington D.C.

Try:
Henry Adams ~ Democracy
Thomas Mallon ~ Two Moons
Mark Merlis ~ Man About Town
Carly Phillips ~ The Heartbreaker
Gore Vidal ~ Washington D.C.

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Washington

Try:
Hazard Adams ~ Home
Annie Dillard ~ The Living
Deborah Donnelly ~ Carnegie Kincaid Series
David J. Duncan ~ The Brothers K
Earl Emerson ~ Thomas Black series
Jane Green ~ Seattle Green
David Guterson ~ East of the Mountains / Snow Falling On Cedars
J.A. Jance ~ J.P. Beaumont series
Robert Newman ~ The Fountain at the Center of the World
Jess Walter

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West Virginia

Try:
Denise Giardina ~ Storming Heaven / The Unquiet Earth
Davis Grubb ~ Fools' Parade
Brad Kessler ~ Lick Creek
Keith Maillard ~ The Clarinet Polka
Michael Palmer ~ Fatal
John Sayles ~ Union Dues

Links:
Literary Map of West Virginia
MountainLit

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Wisconsin

Try:
Anthony Bukoski
Ethan Canin ~ Blue River
William McPherson ~ Testing the Current
Mary Relindes Ellis ~ The Turtle Warrior
Steve Thayer ~ The Wheat Field

Links:
Wisconsin Center for the Book

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Wyoming

Try:
C.J. Box ~ Joe Pickett series
Marilyn Durham ~ The Man Who loved Cat Dancing
Stephen Grace ~ Under Cottonwoods
Jack Warner Schaefer ~ Shane
Owen Wister ~ The Virginian

Links:
Wyoming Center for the Book
Wyoming Authors

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