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.
