in college. The ones I've read...
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Shining
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Carrie
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- The Sound and the Fury
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- My Antonia
- The Great Gatsby
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- The Lovely Bones
- The Secret Life of Bees
- A Death in the Family
- The Bridge To Terebithia
- Twilight
I made it 1/4 of the way through Walden by Henry David Thoreau before setting it aside and vowing to get back to it...some day.
I've watched the movie adaptions of another three books: Gone With the Wind, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and A River Runs Through It. The first two aired once a year on network TV when I was growing up, and at Mom's insistence, we all watched both every. Single. Time. I disliked both movies for the longest time...
OTOH, I've never even heard of the selection for Ohio: The Broom of the System. Nor have I heard of the author (there was maybe a half dozen books on the list that I've not read but read something else by the author). If the criteria for selection was "the book that best embodies the state it's set in", then maybe that was the right pick. But I would've guessed Ohio's pick would've been the better known Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (which I've read...it's a collection of short stories set in the titular title) or maybe Little Fires Everywhere (which I've also read, and really enjoyed, though part of my enjoyment came from knowing some of the RL places Celeste Ng used in the book).
ETA--Thanks for the link! I bookmarked it so I can go back some time and jot down the titles of a few of the books that sounded interesting.
