Books set in North America
Canada
Various
Munro, Alice
- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Newfoundland
DeFede, Jim
- The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Grenfell, Wilfred T.
- Adrift on an Ice Pan
Nova Scotia
Palka, Kurt
- The Piano Maker
Ontario
Erdrich, Louise
- Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of my Ancestors
Khan, Ausma Zehanat
- The Unquiet Dead
- The Language of Secrets
Quebec
Thúy, Kim
- Ru
Mexico
Herrera, Yuri
- Signs Preceding the End of the World
McDougall, Christopher
- Born to Run
Sada, Daniel
- One Out of Two
Wariner, Ruth
- The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir
United States
Various States
Abbott, Karen
- Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- The Thing Around Your Neck
Bryson, Bill
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
- The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
Edin, Kathryn J. and H. Luke Shaefer
- $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Steinem, Gloria
- My Life on the Road
Vowell, Sarah
- Assassination Vacation
Williams, Terry Tempest
- The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
Alabama
Lee, Harper
- To Kill a Mockingbird
Stevenson, Bryan
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Alaska
Ivey, Eowyn
- The Snow Child
Kizzia, Tom
- Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Arkansas
Conley, Garrard
- Boy Erased: A Memoir
Schiffer, Vivienne
- Camp Nine
California
Cox, Lynne
- Grayson
DeWitt, Patrick
- The Sisters Brothers
Guinn, Jeff
- The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Ng, Fae Myenne
- Bone
Otsuka, Julie
- The Buddha in the Attic
Strayed, Cheryl
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Colorado
Adams, Taylor
- No Exit
Klebold, Sue
- A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Delaware
Henríquez, Cristina
- The Book of Unknown Americans
Florida
Danticat, Edwidge
- Brother, I'm Dying
Hurston, Zora Neale
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
Georgia
Berendt, John
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Jones, Tayari
- An American Marriage
Hawaii
Vowell, Sarah
- Unfamiliar Fishes
Idaho
Brelinski, Val
- The Girl Who Slept with God
Westover, Tara
- Educated: A Memoir
Illinois
Larson, Erik
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Indiana
Guinn, Jeff
- The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Iowa
McHugh, Laura
- Arrowood
Kansas
Capote, Truman
- In Cold Blood
Louisiana
Gaines, Ernest J.
- A Lesson Before Dying
Tidwell, Mike
- Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast
Maine
Finkel, Michael
- The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Nutt, Amy Ellis
- Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
Sullivan, J. Courtney
- Maine
Maryland
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Between the World and Me
Moore, Wes
- The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Massachusetts
Guerrero, Diane
- In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
Haigh, Jennifer
- Faith
Larson, Kate Clifford
- Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Oyeyemi, Helen
- Boy Snow Bird
Shapiro, B.A.
- The Art Forger
Steinberg, Avi
- Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Vowell, Sarah
- The Wordy Shipmates
Michigan
Flournoy, Angela
- The Turner House
Minnesota
Enger, Leif
- Peace Like a River
Erdrich, Louise
- Shadow Tag
Mississippi
Ward, Jesmyn
- Men We Reaped
Missouri
Flynn, Gillian
- Gone Girl
Montana
Krakauer, Jon
- Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Nebraska
Rowell, Rainbow
- Attachments
New Jersey
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Americanah
Díaz, Junot
- This Is How You Lose Her
New Mexico
Connors, Philip
- Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
New York
Groff, Lauren
- Arcadia
Torres, Justin
- We the Animals
New York City
Boyne, John
- A Ladder to the Sky
Danticat, Edwidge
- Brother, I'm Dying
DeLillo, Don
- Falling Man
García, Cristina
- Dreaming in Cuban
Hamill, Pete
- Forever
Kwok, Jean
- Girl in Translation
Mun, Nami
- Miles from Nowhere
Nović, Sara
- Girl at War
Samuelsson, Marcus
- Yes, Chef
Poughkeepsie
Rowe, Claudia
- The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
Rochester
Uwiringiyimana, Sandra
- How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
North Carolina
Pessl, Marisha
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics
North Dakota
Enger, Leif
- Peace Like a River
Erdrich, Louise
- The Round House
Oklahoma
Grann, David
- The Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Ohio
Ng, Celeste
- Everything I Never Told You - Little Fires Everywhere
Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
- Wench
Oregon
DeWitt, Patrick
- The Sisters Brothers
Pennsylvania
Bechdel, Alison
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Tennessee
Conley, Garrard
- Boy Erased: A Memoir
Kiernan, Denise
- The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Texas
Johnson, Donna
- Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir
Lawson, Jenny
- Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Utah
Otsuka, Julie
- When the Emperor Was Divine
Vermont
Tartt, Donna
- The Secret History
Virginia
Conklin, Tara
- The House Girl
Kingsolver, Barbara
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Washington, D.C.
Mastromonaco, Alyssa
- Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers To When You Work in the White House
Washington State
Alexie, Sherman
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
- Reservation Blues
Wisconsin
Larson, Kate Clifford
- Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
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