Reading the States: Missouri

State: MISSOURI

Fiction:
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* by Mark Twain
- Finn by Jon Clinch
- Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher by Lenore Hart    

- Sharp Objects* by Gillian Flynn
- This is Graceanne’s Book by P.L. Whitney
- Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
- Little Farm in the Ozarks by Roger Lea Macbride
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* by Mark Twain
- Stoner by John Williams
- Gone Girl* by Gillian Flynn

Nonfiction:

- Missouri, a Bicentennial History by Paul C. Nagel
- Jesse James, Last Rebel of the Civil War* by T. J. Stiles

- Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
- Truman by David McCullough
- On Her Own Ground by A'Lelia Bundle  

Authors Known for Writing in or about the State:
- Mark Twain
- Rett MacPherson

Authors Who Lived Here:

- Maya Angelou
- William S. Burroughs
- Langston Hughes
- Kate Chopin
- Jonathan Franzen
- A. E. Hotchner

- T.S. Eliot

Great Bookstores:

Left Bank Books 

Prospero’s Books
River Reader

*Books I've Read
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