Follow my progress on my Readable Road Trip google map!

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FIRST LEG – West Coast

1. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (California)

+ Bonus Wild by Cheryl Strayed (California-Oregon-Washington)

2. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey (Oregon)

3. Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (Washington)

4. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (Idaho)

5. Point of Direction by Rachel Weaver (Alaska)

6. Hawaii by James A. Michener (Hawaii)

SECOND LEG – Southwest

7. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Nevada)

8. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer (Utah)

9. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (Arizona)

10. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (New Mexico)

11. Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger (Texas)

THIRD LEG – Heartland

12. August: Osage County by Tracy Letts (Oklahoma)

13. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Kansas)

14. The Shining by Stephen King (Colorado)

15. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (Nebraska)

16. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (Wyoming)

FOURTH LEG – Home Sweet Home

17. A River Runs Through It by Norman McLean (Montana)

18. The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich (North Dakota)

19. The Power of Horses and Other Stories by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (South Dakota)

20. Spirit Car — Diane Wilson

21. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle — David Wroblewski

22. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller (Iowa)

+Bonus: American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinois, Virginia)

FIFTH LEG – Midwest Continued

23. Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver (Michigan)

24. So long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (Illinois)

25. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Indiana)

26. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (Ohio)

27. Kentucky — need suggestion!

28. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (Tennessee)

SIXTH LEG – Down South

29. The Slide by Kyle Beachy (Missouri)

30. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Arkansas)

31. Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (Louisiana)

32. Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner (Mississippi)

33. All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg (Alabama)

34. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Georgia)

SEVENTH LEG – Southeast

35. Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz (Florida)

36. South Carolina — need suggestion!

37. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (North Carolina)

38. Virginia — need suggestion!

39. Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam (West Virginia)

40. Maryland — need suggestion!

EIGHTH LEG – Northeast/New England

41. Delaware — need suggestion!

42. Pennsylvania — need suggestion!

43. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (New Jersey)

44. Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon (Connecticut)

45. Rhode Island — need suggestion!

46. One L by Scott Turow (Massachusetts)

47. New Hampshire — need suggestion!

48. Tinkers by Paul Harding (Maine)

49. October Light by John Gardner (Vermont)

50. A Good Fall by Ha Jin (New York)

NINTH LEG – Across America

I’m A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson

On the Road by Jack Kerouac