Reading the States: North Dakota

State: NORTH DAKOTA

Fiction:
- The Plague of Doves* by Louise Erdrich
- River Friendly, River Wild by Jane Kurtz
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Nonfiction:
- The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall III
- Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains by Rachel Calof
- Grand Forks* by Marilyn Hagerty 

Authors Who Lived Here:
- Louise Erdrich
- Louis L'Amour

Great Bookstores:
Zandbroz Variety 

Main Street Books

*Books I've Read 

*Photo by moi.

Reading the States: Minnesota

State: MINNESOTA

Fiction:
- Peace Like a River* by Leif Enger
- Shiver* by Maggie Stiefvater
- Freedom* by Jonathan Franzen
- Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik          
- Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor
- Main Street* by Sinclair Lewis 

- In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
- On the Banks of Plum Creek* by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Weatherman by Steve Thayer
- Orphan Train* by Christina Baker Kline
- Betsy and Tacy* by Maud Hart Lovelace
- War for the Oaks by  Emma Bull
- Kitchens of the Great Midwest* by J. Ryan Stradal 

Nonfiction:

- Under a Flaming Sky* by Daniel James Brown

- Minnesota: A History by William E. Lass
- The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
- How to Talk Minnesotan by Howard Mohr
- Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich

- The Music of Failure by Bill Holm

Authors Known for Writing in or about the State:
- Garrison Keillor
- John Sandford (Prey series)
- Jon Hassler

Authors Who Lived Here:

- Sinclair Lewis 

- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Louise Erdrich
- Leif Enger
- Al Franken

Great Bookstores:

Birchbark Books
Common Good Books 

Mager’s & Quinn
Wild Rumpus
Sixth Chamber Used Books

*Books I've Read

Photo by moi.