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Reading the States: Iowa

Friday, April 20, 2012

State: IOWA

Fiction:
- The Bridges of Madison County* by Robert James Walker
- A Thousand Acres* by Jane Smiley
- Gilead* by Marilynne Robinson
- The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson
- Shoeless Joe* by W. P. Kinsella
- The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
- The Princesses of Iowa by M. Molly Backes
- Back in the Game by Charles Holdefer

Nonfiction:
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid* by Bill Bryson
- Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World* by Vicki Myron
- Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
- Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding
- The Girls from Ames* by Jeffrey Zaslow
- Class A by Lucas Mann
- American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting by Steven Howard Biel

Authors Known for Writing in or about the State:
- Peter Hedges

Authors Who Lived Here:
- Bill Bryson
- Norman Maclean

Great Bookstores:

Literary Places to Visit:
Bridges in Madison County
*Books I've Read
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