How much do you know?
Take a literary trip through the 50 states by setting. Listed below are 50 books with their authors. Some books change settings, but the primary settings for each of these works are in a specific state. Test your knowledge and see how many books you can correctly match to their primary setting. How many have you read?
1. Pembroke by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
2. The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winter
3. The Interestingsby Meg Wolitzer
4. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
5. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
6. Chesapeake by James A. Michener
7. Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
8. Uncommon Grounds by Sandra Balzo
9. The Truth According to Us Annie Barrows
10. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
11. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
12. All the Best People by Sonja Yoerg
13. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
14. Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger
15. FlightBehavior by Barbara Kingsolver
16. The Personal History of Rachel Dupree by Ann Weisgarber
17. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
18. Two Cities by John Edgar Wideman
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
20. The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
21. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
22. American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett
23. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
24. The Round House by Louise Erdich
25. The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
26. The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
27. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
28. A River Runs Through it & other stories by Norman MacLean
29. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
30. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
31. Tomcat in Love by Tim O’Brien
32. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
33. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
34. The Man who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
35. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
36. The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper
37. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
38. Leaving Gee’s Bend by Irene Latham
39. The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by MohjaKahf
40. Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
41. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
42. I Know why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
43. The Border Legion by Zane Gray
44. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
45. Democracy by Joan Didion
46. The Shining by Stephen King
47. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
48. Dark Rooms by Lili Anolik
49. Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen
50. True Justice by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Answers: 1. Massachusetts 2. New Hampshire 3. New York 4. New Jersey 5. Rhode Island 6. Maryland 7. Wyoming 8. Wisconsin 9. West Virginia 10. Washington 11. Virginia 12. Vermont 13. Utah 14. Texas 15. Tennessee 16. South Dakota 17. South Carolina 18. Pennsylvania 19. Oregon 20. Oklahoma 21. Ohio 22. New Mexico 23. Nebraska 24. North Dakota 25. North Carolina 26. Nevada 27. Louisiana 28.Montana 29. Missouri 30. Mississippi 31. Minnesota 32. Michigan 33. Maine 34. Kentucky 35. Kansas 36. Alaska 37. Iowa 38. Alabama 39. Indiana 40. Arizona 41. Illinois 42. Arkansas 43. Idaho 44. California 45. Hawaii 46. Colorado 47. Georgia 48. Connecticut 49. Florida 50. Delaware
Quiz designed by Frances Joyce