Reading adds depth to travel. There is a lot that can be read about anywhere a traveler goes. The books and poetry I've included here I read specifically in connection with the trip, either shortly before, during, or shortly afterwards. This page is a work in progress. I have a lot of reading that I haven't yet included in my posts, and eventually I hope to go back and fill in some of the gaps.
I like books that are specifically about a place I've visited, but I also like books--fiction and nonfiction--that use a place I've been to as the setting. When I'm reading, it is fun to recognize landmarks that I've seen or people I've learned about in my travels.
If you have a suggestion for a good book related to a specific place, see this post that tells about how to add your suggestions to the comments section of individual posts.
I like books that are specifically about a place I've visited, but I also like books--fiction and nonfiction--that use a place I've been to as the setting. When I'm reading, it is fun to recognize landmarks that I've seen or people I've learned about in my travels.
If you have a suggestion for a good book related to a specific place, see this post that tells about how to add your suggestions to the comments section of individual posts.
(JANUARY 2024 NOTE: I HAVEN'T UPDATE THIS PAGE IN ABOUT THREE YEARS. IT IS ON MY TO-DO LIST.)
Vienna: The Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O'Connor
The Year That Changed the World by Michael Meyer
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Mauthausen Concentration Camp:
The Choice by Dr. Edith Eger
Denmark
Finland
France
Paris: Eiffel's Tower by Jill Jonnes
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by T. E. Carhart
Saint-Malo: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Germany
Berlin: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Cologne: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Pforzheim/Munich: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Rhine River: "Lorelei" by Sylvia Plath and "The Lorelei" by Heinrich Heine
The Year That Changed the World by Michael Meyer
Ulm: Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Greece
Italy
Rome: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
Inferno by Dan Brown
Venice: Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
The Venus Fixers by Ilaria Dagnini Brey
Netherlands
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Amsterdam: Van Gogh: The Life by Stephen Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
Leiden: Poetry of the World
Norway
Spain
Barcelona: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Origin by Dan Brown
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Sweden
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Switzerland
United Kingdom
England: London: The Novel by Edward Rutherford
Isle of Man
Scotland
Wales
WESTERN EUROPE
AustriaVienna: The Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O'Connor
The Year That Changed the World by Michael Meyer
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Mauthausen Concentration Camp:
The Choice by Dr. Edith Eger
Denmark
Finland
France
Paris: Eiffel's Tower by Jill Jonnes
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by T. E. Carhart
Saint-Malo: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Germany
Berlin: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Cologne: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Pforzheim/Munich: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Rhine River: "Lorelei" by Sylvia Plath and "The Lorelei" by Heinrich Heine
The Year That Changed the World by Michael Meyer
Ulm: Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Greece
Italy
Rome: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King
Inferno by Dan Brown
Venice: Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
The Venus Fixers by Ilaria Dagnini Brey
Netherlands
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Amsterdam: Van Gogh: The Life by Stephen Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto
Leiden: Poetry of the World
Norway
Spain
Barcelona: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Origin by Dan Brown
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Sweden
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Switzerland
United Kingdom
England: London: The Novel by Edward Rutherford
Isle of Man
Scotland
Wales
Albania
Balkans
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarajevo: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Echoes from the Square by Elizabeth Wellburn
Logavina Street by Barbara Demick
Sarajevo: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Echoes from the Square by Elizabeth Wellburn
Logavina Street by Barbara Demick
Bulgaria
Croatia
Croatia
Czech Republic
The Year That Changed the World by Michael Meyer
Prague: Rusalka by Megan Richey Olsen
The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
Estonia
The Year That Changed the World by Michael Meyer
Prague: Rusalka by Megan Richey Olsen
The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
Estonia
Kosovo
What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam by John L. Esposito
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
A Single Frame (Documentary)
What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam by John L. Esposito
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
A Single Frame (Documentary)
Macedonia
Montenegro
Poland
His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time by Carl Bernstein
and Marco Politi
Gdansk: Death in Danzig
Warsaw:
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
Krakow:
The Cracow Ghetto Pharmacy by Tadeusz Pankiewicz
Schindler's List (movie) and Schindler's Ark (book)
Katyn (movie)
Auschwitz
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary
Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope by Wendy Holden
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Children of the Flames by Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila
Cohn Dekel
The Choice by Dr. Edith Eger
Romania
Poland
His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time by Carl Bernstein
and Marco Politi
Gdansk: Death in Danzig
Warsaw:
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
Krakow:
The Cracow Ghetto Pharmacy by Tadeusz Pankiewicz
Schindler's List (movie) and Schindler's Ark (book)
Katyn (movie)
Auschwitz
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary
Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope by Wendy Holden
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Children of the Flames by Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila
Cohn Dekel
The Choice by Dr. Edith Eger
Romania
Russia
Moscow: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
by Anya von Bremzen
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
St. Petersburg: Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri J. L. Nouwen
Yalta: Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Moscow: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
by Anya von Bremzen
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
St. Petersburg: Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri J. L. Nouwen
Yalta: Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Julian Alps: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Julian Alps: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Ukraine
Odessa: The Hare with Amber Eyes
Odessa: The Hare with Amber Eyes
Yalta: Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham
What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam by John Esposito
Egypt
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile movie
Letters from Egypt by Lucie Duff Gordon
Arabian Nights and Days: A Novel by Nahguib Mahfouz
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Egypt, BBC 2015 (Mini-series)
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler (also quoted here and here and here and here and here)
The Photographer's Wife by Robert Sole
Jordan
I Married a Bedouin by Marguerite van Geldermalsen
Israel
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (also quoted here, here, and here)
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
Thirteen Days in September by Steven Pressfield
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti
Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef
The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six-Day War by Steven Pressfield
Golda by Elinor Burkett
I Shall Note Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish
Exodus by Leon Uris
My Glorious Brothers by Howard Fast
The Life of Christ by Frederic William Farrar
Jesus the Christ by James Talmage
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler
Masada: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Masada TV mini-series
Morocco:
In Morocco by Edith Wharton (another reference here)
The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
Marrakech: A Year in Marrakech by Peter Mayne
Turkey
Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Inferno by Dan Brown
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
MIDDLE EAST
General: Walking the Bible by Bruce FeilerWhat Everyone Needs to Know about Islam by John Esposito
Egypt
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile movie
Letters from Egypt by Lucie Duff Gordon
Arabian Nights and Days: A Novel by Nahguib Mahfouz
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Egypt, BBC 2015 (Mini-series)
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler (also quoted here and here and here and here and here)
The Photographer's Wife by Robert Sole
Jordan
I Married a Bedouin by Marguerite van Geldermalsen
Israel
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (also quoted here, here, and here)
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
Thirteen Days in September by Steven Pressfield
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti
Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef
The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six-Day War by Steven Pressfield
Golda by Elinor Burkett
I Shall Note Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish
Exodus by Leon Uris
My Glorious Brothers by Howard Fast
The Life of Christ by Frederic William Farrar
Jesus the Christ by James Talmage
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler
Masada: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Masada TV mini-series
Morocco:
In Morocco by Edith Wharton (another reference here)
The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
Marrakech: A Year in Marrakech by Peter Mayne
Turkey
Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Inferno by Dan Brown
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
ASIA
China
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi
Silk Road: Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising
Power by Rob Gifford
Silk and Song, 3-book series by Dana Stabenow
The Monkey King: A Classic Chinese Tale for Children,
by David Seow and illustrated by Lak-Khee Tay-Audouard
The Journey to the West: Birth of the Monkey King by Kathryn Lin
Night Train to Turkistan by Stuart Stevens
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi
Silk Road: Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising
Power by Rob Gifford
Silk and Song, 3-book series by Dana Stabenow
The Monkey King: A Classic Chinese Tale for Children,
by David Seow and illustrated by Lak-Khee Tay-Audouard
The Journey to the West: Birth of the Monkey King by Kathryn Lin
Night Train to Turkistan by Stuart Stevens
Japan
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Kazakhstan: Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
by Christopher Robbins
Sri Lanka
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
A Year in Green Tea and Tuk Tuks by Rory Spowers
Thailand
by Christopher Robbins
Sri Lanka
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
A Year in Green Tea and Tuk Tuks by Rory Spowers
Thailand
AFRICA
Botswana
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency television series
Botswana: In the Footsteps of The No. Ladies' Detective Documentary
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by
Peter Allison
Ghana
Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War by Stanley Meisler
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
by Eric Metaxas
Kenya
The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley (Book and seven-episode miniseries
on DVD)
No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi
Born Free by Joy Adamson
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story by Dame Daphne Sheldrick
Echo: An Elephant to Remember (DVD) by Nature/PBS
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Weep Not, Child by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The Big Cat Diaries Series (DVD) by BBC
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson
Morocco
Morocco by Edith Wharton
The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
South Africa
The Covenant by James Michener
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Invictus (movie)
Playing the Enemy by John Carlin
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country (movie)
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Tanzania
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai
Lekuton
Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway in Africa by Christopher Ondaatje
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone by Martin Dugard
Zimbabwe
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency television series
Botswana: In the Footsteps of The No. Ladies' Detective Documentary
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by
Peter Allison
Ghana
Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War by Stanley Meisler
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
by Eric Metaxas
Kenya
The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley (Book and seven-episode miniseries
on DVD)
No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi
Born Free by Joy Adamson
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story by Dame Daphne Sheldrick
Echo: An Elephant to Remember (DVD) by Nature/PBS
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Weep Not, Child by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The Big Cat Diaries Series (DVD) by BBC
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson
Morocco
Morocco by Edith Wharton
The Spider's House by Paul Bowles
South Africa
The Covenant by James Michener
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Invictus (movie)
Playing the Enemy by John Carlin
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country (movie)
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Tanzania
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai
Lekuton
Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway in Africa by Christopher Ondaatje
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone by Martin Dugard
Zimbabwe
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Antigua
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Mexico
First Stop in the New World by David Lida
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Mexico
First Stop in the New World by David Lida
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Peru
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
Puerto Rico: The Pond by Manuel Zeno Gandia
St. Kitts: Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Puerto Rico: The Pond by Manuel Zeno Gandia
St. Kitts: Hamilton by Ron Chernow
St. Lucia: The poetry of Derek Walcott
NORTH AMERICA
UNITED STATES
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Alabama
King Cotton in Time of War by Horatio Alger (Poem)
Monroeville: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Mockingbird by Charles Shields
Scott, Atticus, and Boo by Mary McDonagh Murphy
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Montgomery: Rosa Parks, My Story by Rosa Parks
Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow
First White House of the Confederacy (DVD)
Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald by R.
Clifton Spargo
Beloved Infidel starring Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr (DVD)
Alaska
Denali: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; A Life on the Road by Charles Kuralt
Homer: The Wind Is Not a River by Brian Payton
Yukon: The Call of the Wild by Jack London; Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
Alabama
King Cotton in Time of War by Horatio Alger (Poem)
Monroeville: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Mockingbird by Charles Shields
Scott, Atticus, and Boo by Mary McDonagh Murphy
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Montgomery: Rosa Parks, My Story by Rosa Parks
Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow
First White House of the Confederacy (DVD)
Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald by R.
Clifton Spargo
Beloved Infidel starring Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr (DVD)
Alaska
Denali: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; A Life on the Road by Charles Kuralt
Homer: The Wind Is Not a River by Brian Payton
Yukon: The Call of the Wild by Jack London; Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
Arizona
California:
The Associates by Richard Rayner
The Associates by Richard Rayner
Redwoods State and National Parks: The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Valyermo St. Andrew's Abbey: Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
Yorba Linda: The Presidents Club by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
Pat and Dick by Will Swift
"Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven" (poem) by Hans
Ostrom
Valyermo: Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
Valyermo St. Andrew's Abbey: Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
Yorba Linda: The Presidents Club by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
Pat and Dick by Will Swift
"Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven" (poem) by Hans
Ostrom
Valyermo: Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy
Cross Creek: The Yearling, Cross Creek, Cross Creek Cookery by Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings
Key West: Ernest Hemingway
Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy
Cross Creek: The Yearling, Cross Creek, Cross Creek Cookery by Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings
Key West: Ernest Hemingway
Georgia
Atlanta: Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson
Savannah: A Good Hard Look by Anne Napolitano
Atlanta: Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson
Savannah: A Good Hard Look by Anne Napolitano
Hawaii
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Idaho
Illinois
Chicago: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Springfield: The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage by Daniel Mark Epstein
Chicago: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Springfield: The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage by Daniel Mark Epstein
Indiana
Iowa
West Branch: Herbert Hoover by William E. Leuchtenburg
West Branch: Herbert Hoover by William E. Leuchtenburg
Kansas
Abilene: Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
Topeka: Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone by ten children's authors
Wamego: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Finding Oz by Evan I Schwartz
Abilene: Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
Topeka: Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone by ten children's authors
Wamego: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Finding Oz by Evan I Schwartz
Kentucky
Louisville: The Greatest: Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Myers
Louisville: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Louisville: The Greatest: Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Myers
Louisville: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Louisiana
New Orleans: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers,
Maine
Maryland
Antietam: "Lincoln" by David Shumate
Annapolis: Roots by Alex Haley
Baltimore: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Antietam: "Lincoln" by David Shumate
Annapolis: Roots by Alex Haley
Baltimore: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Massachusetts
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer
Concord: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"A Mountain Grave" (poem) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer
Concord: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"A Mountain Grave" (poem) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
Independence: Truman by David McCullough
Kansas City: "In Flanders Field" (poem) by John McCrae
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Independence: Truman by David McCullough
Kansas City: "In Flanders Field" (poem) by John McCrae
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Montana
Nebraska
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Nevada
New Hampshire
Frost Place, Poetry by Robert Frost
New Jersey
Trenton: George Washington: The Crossing by Jack E. Levin
Trenton: George Washington: The Crossing by Jack E. Levin
New Mexico
Navajo Reservations: Anything by Tony Hillerman
Navajo Reservations: Anything by Tony Hillerman
Los Alamos: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Las Vegas and surrounding area: Appetite for America by Stephen Fried
Harlem: Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
Hyde Park: No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Franklin and Eleanor by Hazel Rowley
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Long Island: Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
The River of Doubt by Candace Millard
Hyde Park: No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Franklin and Eleanor by Hazel Rowley
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Long Island: Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
The River of Doubt by Candace Millard
Times Square: Hamilton the Revolution by Lin Manuel Miranda
North Carolina
Charlotte: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Charlotte: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
North Dakota (not yet)
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (and anything else by Erdrich)
Badlands: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands by Roger L. DiSilvestro
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (and anything else by Erdrich)
Badlands: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands by Roger L. DiSilvestro
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
South Dakota
Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt
Harney Peak Revealed by Bradley Saum
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris
Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Giants in the Earth by O. E. Rolvaag
Tennessee
Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt
Harney Peak Revealed by Bradley Saum
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris
Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Giants in the Earth by O. E. Rolvaag
Tennessee
Texas
God Save Texas by Lawrence Wright
Dallas: "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Presidents Club
"Lost in Paris" by Billy Collins
God Save Texas by Lawrence Wright
Dallas: "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Presidents Club
"Lost in Paris" by Billy Collins
Panhandle: West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Monticello: The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
Mount Vernon: Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark
Staunton: Wilson by A. Scott Berg
Monticello: The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
Mount Vernon: Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark
Staunton: Wilson by A. Scott Berg
Washington
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
Orcas Island: The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
Orcas Island: The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
West Virginia
Harpers Ferry: Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson
The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride
Harpers Ferry: Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson
The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride
Wisconsin
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Wyoming
Washington, D.C.
A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White, Jr.
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Killing Lincoln (Video), narrated by Tom Hanks
Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark
A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White, Jr.
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Killing Lincoln (Video), narrated by Tom Hanks
Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark
CANADA
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec
Still Life and the rest of the Inspector Gamache Series by Louise Penny
Yukon
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival by Velma Wallis
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Still Life and the rest of the Inspector Gamache Series by Louise Penny
Yukon
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival by Velma Wallis
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The is great. I also have similar list, but mine is one book per country and I choose local authors from each.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of reading a local author! I do that some of the time, but not consistently.
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