Reading the States: Vermont

State: VERMONT

Fiction:
- Testimony* by Anita Shreve

- The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
- The Secret History* by Donna Tartt

- All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn

- Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner
- Bittersweet* by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

- Jip: His Story by Katherine Paterson

- Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez

- Where the Rivers Flow North by Howard Frank Mosher

- Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

- Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

- In One Person by John Irving

- Round Mountain by Castle Freeman

- In The Fall by Jeffrey Lent

- Witness by Karen Hesse
- Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
- Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris  
- Pollyanna* by Eleanor H. Porter

Nonfiction:
-  The Farm in the Green Mountains by Alice Herdan
- A Part of Myself by Carl Zuckmayer

- Wandering Home* by Bill McKibben
- An Odd Kind of Fame by Malcolm MacMillan 

Authors Known for Writing in or about the State:
- Chris Bohjalian
- Anita Shreve

- Archer Mayor

- Howard Frank Mosher

- Mary McGarry Morris

Authors Who Lived Here:
- Castle Freeman

- Annie Proulx

- Shirley Jackson
- Jamaica Kincaid

- Frank Miller

Great Bookstores:

Rivendell Books

Shiretown Books

Crow Bookshop

Phoenix Books

*Books I've Read

Photo by moi. 

Reading the States: Kansas

State: KANSAS

Fiction:
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz* by L. Frank Baum
- Still Life with Crows by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
- The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty
- Secrets of the Tsil Café by Thomas Fox Averill
- Little House on the Prairie* by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- West of Dodge by Louis L'Amour
- Doc* by Mary Doria Russell
- The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley

Nonfiction:
- In Cold Blood* by Truman Capote
- What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
- John Brown, Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds
- PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon

Authors Known for Writing in or about the State:
- Judith McCoy Miller

Authors Who Lived Here:
- William Stafford
- William Inge
- Amelia Earhart
- William S. Burroughs

Great Bookstores:
Rainy Day Books
Rivendell Books
Watermark Books

*Books I've Read

Photo by moi.