50 States

Media Tip: 50 States

50 States - 50 Books

Our library present books and movies concerning each one of the U.S. States. This is the perfect opportunity to get to know well known and lesser known states through the classics as well new releases.

This project was inspired by an article of the Business Insider from April 2016: The Most Famous Book That Takes Place in Every State.

We have expanded the project as we not only introduce one book per state but rather multiple forms of media (books, movies, television shows).

You are unsure whether a book / film is the right one for you? Click on the cover and read someone else's review on it.

	Alabama			Alaska

Harper Lee		John Green	Dave Eggers		Eowyn Ivey
To Kill a Mockingbird	Sweet Home Alabama	Looking for Alaska	Heroes of the Frontier	Into the Wild	The Snow Child
LEE	DVD SWE	YA GRE	EGG	DVD INT	IVE

	Arizona			Arkansas

Sherman Alexie	Garrick Bailey und Roberta Glenn Bailey	Jerry Spinelli		Maya Angelou	Curtis Sittenfeld
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven	A History of the Navajos	Stargirl	True Grit	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Rodham
ALE	970.1 BAI	Teens SPI	POR, DVD TRU	813.5 ANG	SIT

	Colorado			Connecticut

Alice Walker	Marilynne Robinson		Mark Twain		Richard Yates
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart	Home	BlacKkKlansman	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Gilmore Girls	Revolutionary Road
WAL	ROB	DVD BLA	TWA	DVD TV GIL	YAT

	Delaware			Florida

	Christina Henríquez	Andrew Shaffer		Carl Hiassen	Tom Wolfe
Fight Club	The Book of Unknown Americans	Hope Never Dies!	Dexter	Bad Monkey	Back to Blood
DVD FIG	HEN	SHA	DVD TV DEX	HIA	WOL

	Georgia			Hawaii

	Angie Thomas	Alice Walker
The Walking Dead	The Hate U Give	The Colour Purple	The Descendants	50 First Dates	Hawaii 5-0
DVD TV WAL	YA THO	WAL	DVD DES	D 208 FIF	DVD TV HAW

	Idaho			Illinois

	Tara Westover	Emily Ruskovich		Mark Twain	Michelle Obama
My Own Private Idaho	Educated	Idaho	Blues Brothers	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Becoming
D MYO	920 WES	RUS	DVD BLU	Teens TWA	920 OBA

	Indiana			Iowa

John Green	Jennifer Niven	Pete Buttigieg	Marilynne Robinson		Clare Vanderpool
The Fault in Our Stars	All the Bright Places	Shortest Way Home	Gilead	The Bridges of Madison Country	Moon Over Manifest
YA GRE	NIV	977.2 BUT	ROB	DVD BRI	Teens VAN

	California			Kansas

			Truman Capote	Frank Baum	John Edwards Williams
OC California	Das Streben nach Glück	La La Land	In Cold Blood	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Butcher’s Crossing
DVD TV OCC	D PUR	DVD LAL	364.1 CAP	Teens Bau	WIL

	Kentucky			Louisiana

	Jojo Moyes	Kim Edwards
Justified	The Giver of Stars	The Memory Keeper's Daughter	True Blood	An Interview with the Vampire	12 Years a Slave
DVD TV JUS	MOY	EDW	DVD TV TRU	DVD INT	DVD TWE

	Maine			Maryland

	Morgan Callan Rogers	Elizabeth Strout		Octavia E. Butler	Dan Brown
Under the Dome	Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea	The Burgess Boys	The Wire	Kindred	Digital Fortress
DVD TV UND	ROG	STR	DVD TV WIR	E-Book	BRO

	Massachusetts			Michigan

	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Louisa May Alcott		Toni Morrison
Mona Lisas Smile	The Scarlett Letter	Little Women	8 Mile	Song of Solomon	Gran Torino
D MON	HAW	ALC	DVD EIG	MOR	DVD GRA

	Minnesota			Mississippi

	William Kent Krueger	John Sandford		Tom Franklin	Kathryn Stockett
Fargo	Trickster’s Point	Deadline	Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?	Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter	The Help
DVD FAR	KRU	SAN	DVD OBR	FRA	STO

	Missouri			Montana

	Gillian Flynn			James Welch	Tim Richmond
Winter’s Bone	Gone Girl	Ride with the Devil	A River Runs Through It	Fools Crow	Last Best Hiding Place
DVD WIN	FLY	DVD RID	DVD RIV	WEL	770 LAS

	Nebraska			Nevada

Rainbow Rowell	Willa Cather	Willa Cather		Joe Hill	Mark Twain
Eleanor and Park	My Antonia	O Pioneers	Independence Day	Full Throttle	Roughing It
TEENS ROW	CAT	CAT	D IND	HIL	TWA

	New Hampshire			New Jersey

Thornton Wilder	John Irving	Regina Porter		Bruce Springsteen
Our Town	The Hotel New Hampshire	The Travelers	American Hustle	Born to Run	Garden State
428.6 WIL	IRV	POR	DVD AME	782.42 SPR	DVD GAR

	New Mexico			New York

	Cormae McCarthy	Rudolfo A. Anaya		F. Scott Fitzgerald
Breaking Bad	The Crossing	Heart of Aztlan	How I Met Your Mother	The Great Gatsby	Breakfast at Tiffany's
DVD TV BRE	MCC	ANA	DVD TV HOW	FIT	DVD BRE

	North Carolina			North Dakota

	Nicholas Sparks	Nicholas Sparks	Louise Erdrick	Leif Enger	David Baldacci
The Choice	Dear John	See Me	LaRose	Peace Like a River	Walk the Wire
DVD CHO	SPA	SPA	ERD	ENG	BAL

	Ohio			Oklahoma

	Toni Morrison	Celeste NG		David Grann	John Grisham
Glee	Beloved	Everything I Never Told You	Thelma and Louise	Killers of the Flower Moon	The Innocent Man
DVD TV GLE	MOR	NG	D THE	970.1 GRA	GRI

	Oregon			Pennsylvania

	Wm. Paul Young	Gayle Forman		Stephen Chbosky
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	The Shack	If I Stay	Philadelphia	Perks of Being a Wallflower	How to Get Away With Murder
DVD ONE	YOU	YA FOR	DVD PHI	CHB	LINK

	Rhode Island			South Carolina

	Jeffrey Eugenides	Mary Gordon	Sue Monk Kidd	Jacqueline Woodson	Dorothea Benton Frank
Me Myself and Irene	The Marriage Plot	There Your Heart Lies	The Secret Life of Bees	Brown Girl Dreaming	The Hurricane Sisters
DVD MEM	EUG	GOR	KID	Y 811 WOO	FRA

	South Dakota			Tennessee

	Mary Crow Dog			William Gay
The Revenant	Lakota Woman	Deadwood	Iron Man 3	Provinces of Night	The Client
DVD REV	970.1 CRO	DVD TV DEA	DVD IRO	GAY	DVD CLI

	Texas			Utah

	Ben Fountain	Stephen King	Norman Mailer		Edward Abbey
Dallas Buyers Club	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	11/22/63	The Executioner’s Song	127 Hours	Desert Solitaire
DVD DAL	FOU	KIN	MAI	DVD ONE	818 ABB

	Vermont			Virginia

Sinclair Lewis	Bernie Sanders			William Styron	Angie Kim
It Can't Happen Here	Our Revolution	Baby Boom	Hidden Figures	The Confessions of Nat Turner	Miracle Creek
LEW	920 SAN	DVD BAB	DVD HID	STY	KIM

	Washington			West Virginia

	Stephenie Meyer		Jeanette Walls	Annie Barrows	Jaimy Gordon
Grey’s Anatomy	Twilight	Sleepless in Seattle	The Glass Castle	The Truth According to Us	Lord of Misrule
DVD TV GRE	YA MEY	D SLE	362.82 WAL	BAR	GOR

	Wisconsin			Wyoming

Matthew Desmond	Laura Ingalls Wilder	Nickolas Bulter		Annie Proulx	Jack Schaefer
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City	Little House in the Big Woods	Shotgun Lovesongs	Brokeback Mountain	Close Range: Wyoming Stories	Shane
339.4 DES	Teens WIL	BUT	DVD BRO	PRO	Teens SCH