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These are the books on this list that I have read:

📖 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
📖 Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
📖 Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
📖 Hawaii by James Michener
📖 Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
📖 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
📖 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
📖 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
📖 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
📖 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
📖 Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
📖 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
📖 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
📖 My Ántonia by Willa Cather
📖 The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
📖 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
📖 Paradise by Toni Morrison
📖 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
📖 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
📖 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
📖 A Death in the Family by James Agee
📖 Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

These are the ones for which I’ve only seen the movie adaptation, but I’d like to read some of these books, especially No Country For Old Men. In general, I want to read more Cormac McCarthy. Maybe this is a good time to confess that I’ve never read any Stephen King even though I’ve seen, and liked, many movies based on his books. I need to read some Stephen King:

🎬 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
🎬 The Shining by Stephen King
🎬 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
🎬 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
🎬 Carrie by Stephen King
🎬 A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
🎬 No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy

These are the ones I haven’t read yet but know I want to read:

📖 The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
📖 Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
📖 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
📖 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
📖 Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
📖 The Round House by Louise Erdrich
📖 The Secret History by Donna Tartt

These are the ones I haven’t read but might read:

📖 A Painted House by John Grisham
📖 The Saint of Lost Things" by Christopher Castellani
📖 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
📖 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
📖 Drown by Junot Díaz
📖 The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
📖 My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
📖 A Long Way From Home by Tom Brokaw
📖 The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
📖 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
📖 The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
📖 Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
📖 The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman

These are the ones I haven’t read and have no interest in reading:

📖 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
📖 A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Even though this is a list the most famous books set in each state, there are a few I never heard of.

And there are a few states that I feel like there must be a more famous book set in that state than the one they chose. For example, I agree with Amber that North Carolina should be Thomas Wolfe instead of Nicholas Sparks, either Look Homeward, Angel or You Can’t Go Home Again. And New Jersey doesn’t sound right. How famous is Drown by Junot Diaz? I’m thinking maybe one of Philip Roth’s novels for New Jersey?