Iowa


Gilead (Gilead, #1)
A Thousand Acres
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
The Bridges of Madison County
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1)
Lila (Gilead, #3)
The Weight of Silence
The Overnight Guest
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
Grasshopper Jungle
Ubik
Shoeless Joe
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeLooking for Alaska by John  GreenThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainTwilight by Stephenie MeyerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Around the US in 50 Books
804 books — 158 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
The United States of Books
69 books — 30 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill  BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonIn a Sunburned Country by Bill  BrysonThe Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill  BrysonNotes from a Small Island by Bill  Bryson
Best Bill Bryson Books
19 books — 107 voters
Little Dog, Lost by Marion Dane BauerThe Fast and the Furriest by Andy BehrensThe Year of the Book by Andrea ChengThe Ghost of Graylock by Dan PoblockiLiar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
Iowa Children's Choice 14-15
16 books — 2 voters

Hawaii by James A. MichenerIndiana by George SandStanding in the Light by Mary Pope OsborneLetters from Hawaii by Mark TwainStories of Hawaii by Jack London
Name of State (USA) in Title: D-I
257 books — 24 voters

Andrew  Smith
“ I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance floor. ”
― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle

Bill  Bryson
“ They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July. ”
― Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

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