Marylandia Update

 

Marylandia Collection: Update

Contributed by Jordan Farinelli, Collection Development Librarian

This summer, take a cross country road trip from the comfort of home. The following list of 51 books contains one book set in every state, plus Washington D.C. These books have mostly been published within the last 10 years, and are as diverse in subject matter and genre as the states they cover. Grab a map and your favorite road trip snacks, and read along. Happy trails!

• Alabama: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• BR 23443

• DB 100528

• Alaska: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

• DB 90090

• Arizona: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

• BR 22613

• DB 90287

• Arkansas: Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley

• DB 93106

• California: There There by Tommy Orange

• BR 22564

• DB 91321

• Colorado: The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

• DB 96162

• Connecticut: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

• DB 85761

• Delaware: The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

• DB 79170

• Florida: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

• BR 22817

• DB 95925

• Georgia: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

• BR 22197

• DB 90470

• Hawaii: Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

• DB 98952

• Idaho: Educated by Tara Westover

• BR 22656

• DB 90188

• DB 95267 (Spanish language)

• Illinois: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

• DB 91533

• Indiana: The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson

• DB 102560

• Iowa: Lila by Marilynne Robinson (3rd book in the Gilead series)

• BR 20575

• DB 79899

• Kansas: The Topeka School by Ben Lerner

• BR 22880

• DB 97054

• Kentucky: The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

• DB 96907

• Louisiana: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• BR 23212

• DB 99791

• Maine: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

• DB 99442

• DB 100622 (Spanish language)

• Maryland: Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

• BR 22891

• DB 96116

• Massachusetts: Writers & Lovers by Lily King

• BR 23292

• DB 98766

• Michigan: The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

• DB 93861

• Minnesota: The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

• DB 95922

• Mississippi: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

• BR 22096

• DB 89552

• Missouri: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

• BR 19868

• DB 74888

• DB 79986 (Spanish language)

• LP 16133

• Montana: Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson

• DB 79315

• Nebraska: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

• DB 77545

• Nevada: Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson

• DB 102215

• New Hampshire: The Fireman by Joe Hill

• BR 21654

• DB 84824

• New Jersey: Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

• BR 21718

• DB 86228

• New Mexico: American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett

• DB 78514

• New York: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• DB 81645

• North Carolina: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

• BR 22862

• DB 92245

• DB 100295 (Spanish language)

• North Dakota: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

• BR 23078

• DB 98896

• Ohio: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

• BR 22149

• DB 89018

• Oklahoma: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

• DB 87767

• Oregon: Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

• BR 22215

• DB 90345

• Pennsylvania: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

• BR 23303

• DB 97929

• DB 103013 (Spanish language)

• Rhode Island: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

• BR 20304

• DB 77581

• South Carolina: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

• DB 78079

• South Dakota: Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

• BR 23423

• DB 100989

• Tennessee: All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin

• DB 91537

• Texas: News of the World by Paulette Jiles

• BR 21741

• DB 86668

• Utah: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams

• DBC 6884

• Vermont: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

• DB 99512

• Virginia: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• BR 22881

• DB 96729

• Washington: Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

• DB 75351

• Washington, D.C.: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

• DB 86941

• West Virginia: Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam

• BR 16411

• DB 47833

• LP 6700

• Wisconsin: Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler

• DB 88963

• Wyoming: Dark Sky by C.J. Box (21st book in the Joe Pickett series)

• DB 102652

This list has been adapted from the Goodreads article, “Armchair Traveling.” Visit this link for the full article: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2053?rto=x_gr_e_nl_general&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=May182021&utm_content=Roadtrip.Reading&ref_=pe_3097180_576391690

Please note that all of these books are available for download on BARD, but some can only be mailed on a Books on Demand (BOD) cartridge. To have these books sent to you, please contact the reference desk. BOD, our new circulation system, significantly decreases the wait time for new books. For more information about BOD, see here: https://mdlbpd.blogspot.com/2021/03/books-on-demand-update.html

or, send an email to reference.desk@maryland.gov.