While I'm doing this project I'm reading books that either take place in a red state or are about America thematically. Email me with recommendations! susannabluhm@gmail.com
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A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love - Caroline Kennedy (2001) +
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian - Sherman Alexie (2007) +
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013) +
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015) +
Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987) +
Blue Highways - William Least Heat-Moon (1982) +
The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henríquez (2014) +
Calling Me Home - Julie Kibler (2013) +
Call Them by Their True Names - Rebecca Solnit (2018) +
Educated - Tara Westover (2018) +
Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933) +
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin (1963)
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939) +
Heroes of the Frontier - Dave Eggers (2016) +
Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance (2016) +
How I Became a Ghost - Tim Tingle (2013) +
The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision - Linda S. Ferber (2009)
I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson (1999)
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (1952) +
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - James Agee (1941) +
Light in August - William Faulkner (1932)
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry (1985)
The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson (1989) +
My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George (1959) +
Native Son - Richard Wright (1940)
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander (2010)
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy (2005) +
O Pioneers! - Willa Cather (1913) +
On the Road - Jack Kerouac (1957) +
The Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett (1992) +
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo - Ntozake Shange (1982) +
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo (2018) +
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right - Arlie Russell Hochschild (2016)
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck (1962) +
The Turner House - Angela Flournoy (2015) +
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead (2016) +
The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O'Connor (1960)
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) +
Waking Up White - Debby Irving (2014) +
The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson (2010) +
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig (1974) +