Read Across America

In honor of Dr. Seuss' Read Across America

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Texas by James Michener
Hawaii by James Michener
M is for Mayflower: A Massachusetts Alphabet by Margot Theis Raven
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

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Division Street : America, by Studs Terkel
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration, by Isabel Wilkerson
America eats! : on the road with the WPA : the fish fries, box supper socials, and chitlin feasts that define real American food, by Pat Willard
Opera in America: A Cultural History, by John Dizikes
America: a Prophecy, by William Blake

New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb
Only in America by Harry Golden
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America by William Least Heat-Moon
A Journey into Steinbeck's California by Susan Shillinglaw
Alaska by James A. Michener

On to Oregon by Honoré Morrow
Ride with Me, Mariah Montana by Ivan Doig
Naar Nebraska by Veronica Hazelhoff Naar=To
Arkansas Traveler by Earlene Fowler
Hiking Vermont by Larry B. Pletcher

American Rust by Philipp Meyer
America and Americans by John Steinbeck
A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
The Complete American Cocker Spaniel by Norman A. Austin
Wildlife in America by Peter Matthiessen

Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
Assembling California by John McPhee
Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
Hatteras Blues: A Story From the Edge of America by Tom Carlson
River Horse: Across America by Boat by William Least Heat-Moon

The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
I Am America and so Can You! by Stephen Colbert
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting In Iraq by Steve Fainaru

Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Utah Blaine by Louis L'Amour
An Ocean in Iowa by Peter Hedges
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade by Rob MacGregor
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho by Jon Katz

Our Town by Thornton Wilder
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence by Fox Butterfield
Oh Pioneers by Willa Cather
Montana Man by Barbara Delinsky
Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

Texas by James Michener
We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run by Jim Kjelgaard
Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
My Great Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

1824: the Arkansas War
by Eric Flint

Alaska by Dale Brown

Massachusetts Beautiful
by Wallace Nutting

The Maine Woods by Henry Thoreau

Haunted Wisconsin by Michael Norman

A Maryland Bride in the Deep South by Priscilla Bond
Oklahoma Bride by Carol Finch
Tennessee Bride by Rosanne Bittner
Kentucky Bride by Hannah Howell
Hope: Bride of New Jersey by Amelia C. Adams

Baja Oklahoma by Dan Jenkins

Dakota Home by Debbie Macomber
Chesapeake by James A. Michener
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Montana Man by Barbara Dekinsky

Stars fell on Alabama by Carl Carmer

New Hampshire Beautiful by Wallace Nutting

Weird Maryland: your Travel Guide. . .
by Matt Lake

Montana by Joe Montana

Ernest Hemingway in Idaho: a Guide
by Marsha Bellavance-Johnson

Washington Square by Henry James
I'll Take Manhattan by Judith Krantz
Carolina Moon by Nora Roberts
A Journey into Steinbeck's California by Susan Shillinglaw
Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath

Nevada (From Sea to Shining Sea)
by Suzanne Williams

The Girl from Montana
by Grace Livingston Hill

The Gentleman from Indiana
by Booth Tarkington

The Illinois by James Gray

The Salt Rivers of the Massachusetts Shore
by Henry Howe

The Kentucky Derby: How the Run for the Roses Became America's Premier Sporting Event by James C. Nicholson
Four Dead in Ohio: Was There a Conspiracy at Kent State
by William A. Gordon
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
by James H. Merrell
Green Grass of Wyoming by Mary O'Hara

Hiking Minnesota by John Pukite

Wyoming! by Noel Gerson

Capote in Kansas: a Ghost Story
by Kim Powers

H is for Hoosier: an Indiana Alphabet

Everyday Life in the Massachusetts
Bay Colony by George Francis Dow

Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit
Spandau Phoenix by Greg Isles
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch

Notes on Arizona Birds
by John Patrick Hubbard

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurʻs Court"
by Mark Twain

Missouri Bittersweet by Mackinlay Kantor

Massachusetts (Thirteen Colonies) by Lydia Bjornlund

Struggling with Iowaʻs Pride:
Labor Relations in Rural Midwest by Wilson Warren

Francois Valle and His World: Upper Louisiana Before Lewis and Clark by Carl J. Ekberg*
Why Stop?: a Guide to Texas Roadside Historical Markers by Betty Dooley Awbrey
Route 66: the Mother Road by Michael Wallis
The Americans by John Jakes
Looking For Alaska by John Green

*Fun Fact: Francois Valle was an ancestor on both my parents' sides. He was a founder of Ste. Genevieve MO, the oldest town west of the Mississippi. This book is on my "to buy" list.