Reading the States: Washington D.C.

State: WASHINGTON D.C.

Fiction:

- The Lost Symbol* by Dan Brown

- All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones

- Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones

- Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

- Along Came a Spider* by James Patterson

- The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

- My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
- You Are One of Them by Elliot Holt

- On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian C. Faulks

- Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
- Term Limits by Vince Flynn
- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
- Dupont Circle by Paul Kafka-Gibbons

Nonfiction:

- Inventing a Nation* by Gore Vidal

- Finding My Voice by Diane Rehm

- Competition 1792: Designing a nation's capitol by Jeanne F Butler

- 1776 by David McCullough

- Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis

- All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

- Washington Schlepped Here by Christopher Buckley

Authors Known for Writing in or about the State:

- Bob Woodward

Authors Who Lived Here:
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

- Jonathan Safran Foer

- Katherine Boo

- Justin Theroux

- Winston Groom

Great Bookstores:

Kramerbooks

Second Story Books

Politics and Prose

Capitol Hill Books

*Books I've Read

Photo by moi. 

Reading the States: Maryland

State: MARYLAND

Fiction:

- The Accidental Tourist* by Anne Tyler
- The Poe Shadow* by Matthew Pearl
- Chesapeake by James Michener
- Two Brothers 
- One North, One South by David H. Jones
- Kindred* by Octavia E. Butler
- Song Yet Sung by James McBride
- Timbuktu by Paul Auster

- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants* by Ann Brashares
- Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant* by Anne Tyler

Nonfiction:

- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks* by Rebecca Skloot
- The Other Wes Moore* by Wes Moore

- Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack by Charles Osgood 
- The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

Authors Known for Writing in or about the State:

- Anne Tyler
- Laura Lippman

- James Patterson

Authors Who Lived Here:
- Edgar Allan Poe
- James M. Cain
- Ann Brashares
- Nora Roberts
- H. L. Mencken
- Tom Clancy
- Frank Miller
- Emily Giffin
- Dashiell Hammett

Great Bookstores:
Second Story Books 

Ukazoo Books
The Book Center
Inklings Books
The Book Thing

*Books I've Read

Photo by moi.