Book around the States

1 Alabama

• The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Pulitzer)
  

2 Alaska
3 Arizona

• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

4 Arkansas
5 California

• The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

6 Colorado

• Centennial by James Michener
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf

7 Connecticut
8 Delaware

• Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler

9 Florida

• The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings (Pulitzer)

10 Georgia

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Pulitzer)
  
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Pulitzer)

11 Hawaii

• Molokai by Alan Brennert

12 Idaho
13 Illinois

• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

14 Indiana
15 Iowa

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Pulitzer)
• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Pulitzer)

16 Kansas

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum

17 Kentucky

• Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
• Clay's Quilt by Silas House
• A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
• The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
  
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

18 Louisiana

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Pulitzer)
• A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Pulitzer)
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

19 Maine

• Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Pulitzer)
• A Country of Pointed Firs by Jewett

20 Maryland

• The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler

21 Massachusetts

• The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Pulitzer)

22 Michigan

• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  

23 Minnesota

• Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik

24 Mississippi

• The Optimist's Daughter
• Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
  
• Daisy and the Miracle Man by Fanny Flagg

25 Missouri

• Finn by Jon Clinch
• Standing in the Rainbow by Fanny Flagg

26 Montana
27 Nebraska

• O Pioneers by Willa Cather
• One of Ours by Willa Cather (Pulitzer)
• T he Echo Maker by Richard Powers

28 Nevada
29 New Hampshire
30 New Jersey

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (only because it's a Pulitzer)
• Independence Day by Richard Ford (Pulitzer)

31 New Mexico

• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Pulitzer)

32 New York

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Pulitzer)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Pulitzer)
• His Family by Ernest Poole (Pulitzer)
• The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos (Pulitzer)
• Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Pulitzer)

33 North Carolina
34 North Dakota
35 Ohio
36 Oklahoma

• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

37 Oregon

• Honey in the Horn by Harold Lenoir Davis (Pulitzer)

38 Pennsylvania

• Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (Pulitzer)
• Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Pulitzer)
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (Pulitzer)

39 Rhode Island
40 South Carolina

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

41 South Dakota
42 Tennessee

• A Death in the Family by James Agee (Pulitzer)
• A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Pulitzer)

43 Texas

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Pulitzer)

44 Utah

• The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Pulitzer)

45 Vermont

• Second Glance by Jodi Picoult

46 Virginia

• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Pulitzer)
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Pulitzer)

47 Washington
48 West Virginia
49 Wisconsin
50 Wyoming

• An Unfinished Life