Books by Setting, One per State

Name the U.S. State (or federal district) each of the following books takes place in.
One per state!
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Book
Setting
The 19th Wife
Utah
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Missouri
The Bean Trees
Arizona
Bridge to Terabithia
Virginia
The Broom of the System
Ohio
Carrie
Maine
The Client
Tennessee
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Maryland
Drown
New Jersey
East of Eden
California
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Nevada
Gone With the Wind
Georgia
The Great Gatsby
New York
Hawaii
Hawaii
The Hotel New Hampshire
New Hampshire
Housekeeping
Idaho
Interview with the Vampire
Louisiana
Into the Wild
Alaska
The Jungle
Illinois
The Laramie Project
Wyoming
Little House in the Big Woods
Wisconsin
A Long Way From Home
South Dakota
The Lost Symbol
Washington, DC
The Lovely Bones
Pennsylvania
The Magnificent Ambersons
Indiana
Main Street
Minnesota
Book
Setting
My Antonia
Nebraska
My Sister's Keeper
Rhode Island
No Country for Old Men
Texas
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Oregon
A Painted House
Arkansas
Paradise
Oklahoma
Pollyanna
Vermont
Red Sky at Morning
New Mexico
Revolutionary Road
Connecticut
A River Runs Through It
Montana
The Round House
North Dakota
The Saint of Lost Things
Delaware
The Secret Life of Bees
South Carolina
Shiloh
West Virginia
The Shining
Colorado
The Sound and the Fury
Mississippi
A Thousand Acres
Iowa
To Have and Have Not
Florida
To Kill a Mockingbird
Alabama
Twilight
Washington
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Kentucky
The Virgin Suicides
Michigan
Walden
Massachussets
A Walk to Remember
North Carolina
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Kansas
 
 
AL
AK
AZ
AR
CA
CO
CT
DE
DC
FL
GA
HI
ID
IL
IN
IA
KS
KY
LA
ME
MD
MA
MI
MN
MS
MO
MT
NE
NV
NH
NJ
NM
NY
NC
ND
OH
OK
OR
PA
RI
SC
SD
TN
TX
UT
VT
VA
WA
WV
WI
WY
 
17 Comments
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Level 78
Oct 22, 2013
Very good quiz. Even knew some of them, even if from the movies they were turned into.
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Level 81
Oct 23, 2013
Thanks for taking the quiz and commenting. Glad you liked it. I scored 37 I think after I made it and took a little time so I would forget the answers I just typed in. And yeah, some of the more memorable and well-known settings of these books are because of the movies they were turned into, I agree.
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Level 86
Oct 22, 2013
Great idea!
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Level ∞
Oct 24, 2013
Nice quiz. Got 24 without any guessing. Missed "Hotel New Hampshire", haha. Should have gotten "Housekeeping" also.
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Level 81
Oct 26, 2013
I hope you at least got "Hawaii."
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Level 74
May 20, 2014
Fun quiz. My MIL grew up near the location of The Painted House so I knew that one for certain.
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Level 37
Aug 4, 2014
This was one of my favorite quizzes so far. Many years ago I set out to read one book that took place in each state. A few are on this list. Funny, I could never find a book for Delaware. btw I only got 30. And there was plenty of time. ;)
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Level 81
Aug 4, 2014
30 is good. The average is only 15.
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Level 71
May 4, 2015
Interesting quiz. I only got 11, so I learned a lot. A good and tricky clue for Michigan would be Stealing Buddha's Dinner which you would never expect to be set in Grand Rapids, MI.
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Level 49
May 22, 2015
For some reason I kept trying to place The Shining and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on the east coast. Really fun quiz.
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Level 81
May 23, 2015
Thanks. It's a little hard, I think, as is. Though still fun. It would be better if I was able to add one of those charts to the right with little boxes for each state so you knew which ones had been checked off. If that happened it would be pretty fun and accessible for anyone I think.
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Level 81
Dec 9, 2016
I still haven't figured out how to do that. But I made my own boxes that serve sort of the same purpose. Still would be easier if the boxes were filled in and then turned grey..
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Level 81
Dec 9, 2016
Quizmaster, any help with this?
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Level 69
Feb 26, 2016
I am deeply heartened that only 11% of JetPunkers read Dan Brown novels.
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Level 66
Sep 7, 2018
there maybe be more or less of that because they may not have known where that book to place after they read it or they just guessed randomly or cheated or something.

this probably makes no sense.

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Level 73
Sep 23, 2018
Very good quiz, and challenging. I've read several of these and still got them wrong, sigh.
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Level 58
Oct 29, 2024
Enjoyable but difficult! Some poignant selections such as Bridge to Terabithia and Housekeeping, which was made into a charming film. To be fair the only one I knew for sure was Twilight hahaha just guessed the rest.