Reading the States: South Dakota

State: SOUTH DAKOTA

Fiction:
- Walk Two Moons* by Sharon Creech
- Little Town on the Prairie* by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Jumping-Off Place by Marian Hurd McNeely
- Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still by Kent Nelson
- Deadwood by Pete Dexter
- You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
- Yonnondio by Tillie Olsen
- Black Hills by Dan Simmons
- Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria

Nonfiction:
- The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall III
- South Dakota's Mathis Murders by Noel Hamiel
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
- Looking for History on Highway 14 by John E. Miller
- Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town by John E. Miller
- Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey by Philip L. Gerber
- The Children's Blizzard* by David Laskin
- A Long Way from Home by Tom Brokaw
- Great White Fathers by John Taliaferro
- On the Rez by Ian Frazier

Authors Who Lived Here:
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- J. A. Jance
- Mary Brave Bird

Great Bookstores:
Hole in the Wall Books (Wall Drug)
Zandbroz
Prairie Pages

*Books I've Read

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Reading the States: Ohio

State: OHIO

Fiction:
- Beloved* by Toni Morrison
- Wineburg, Ohio* by SherwoodAnderson
- And the Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer
- Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner
- Songs for the Missing by Stewart O'Nan
- Walk Two Moons* by Sharon Creech
- Middle C by William H. Gass
- Eligible* by Curtis Sittenfeld 
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Nonfiction:
- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio* by Terry Ryan
- The Frontiersmen by Allan W. Eckert
- What Moves at the Margins by Toni Morrison 

Authors Known for Writing about the State:  
- Conrad Richter
- Louis Bromfield
- Les Roberts

Authors Who Lived Here:
- Toni Morrison
- James Thurber
- William H. Gass
- Zane Grey
- Sharon Creech

- John Scalzi

- Joan Slonczewski

- Bonnie Pryor

- Margaret Haddix

- Natalie Babbit

- R.L. Stine

- James Thurber

- Chris Crutcher

Great Bookstores:
Blue Manatee Children's Bookstore
Visible Voices Books 

Beehive Books

*Books I've Read

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