These Posters Illustrate America's Most Iconic Books
Read a book set in a destination that you have visited or that you know perfectly, immerses you in the plot to the point that fiction becomes reality.
For this reason, in search of that feeling of nostalgia or familiarity that invades the reader when he has stepped on the stage where the events take place, Net Credit commissioned a study that based on user reviews of the Goodreads app, has managed to identify the best-ranked book in each state of USA.
Alaska
The method consisted in analyzing the lists of the most popular books in each state on Goodreads and select the five best rated of each of them. Next, that figure was reduced to a single literary piece which was chosen based on number of reviews, the overall rating and score within of the ranking.
At the same time, the team used Kindle data to find the best quotes of each reading, obtaining as a result a colorful map and wonderful posters that illustrate these appreciated literary pieces.
California
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1.Alaska: Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Drop everything and go on an adventure? The wildest state in North America, Alaska is the last hurdle to the young protagonist of this book (based on a true story), who gives away all his possessions and gets lost in the vast American landscapes.
Date: "The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and, therefore, there is no greater joy than having an infinitely changing horizon , so that each day has a new and different sun".
Delaware
2.California: Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The great migration of men, women and children caused by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl is the event around which this story of two unlucky friends who they fight for success.
Date: "They had walked single file down the path, and even out in the open, one stayed behind the other."
Illinois
3. Delaware: Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Delaware does not play a very important role in this dystopian storytelling starring two men dissatisfied with their lives. Nevertheless, the novel was an enormous success in the state. Fight clubs have not stopped appearing since this icon of literature was published.
Date: "Only after we have lost everything, are we free to do anything."
Iowa
4.Illinois: Beyond Time, Audrey Niffenegger
in what place of Chicago is not as important as the date in the development of Beyond time. Clare and Henry try to live a normal family life, despite his “chronic displacement disorder” (from time to time, his genetic clock is reset and does not keep up with time).
Date: "Our love has been the thread through the maze, the net under which you walk the tightrope, the only real thing in this strange life of mine you could trust."
Kansas
5. Iowa: The Bridges of Madison, Robert James Waller
With a prose that has been said to resemble that of the renowned writer Walt Whitman , Waller converted the covered bridges Iowa on the springboard that launched the love story between Francesca and Robert.
He quotes: "In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once , and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live."
Maryland
6. Kansas: The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
This novel has given life to one of the most iconic films in the history of cinema. Dorothy Gale is swept away by a tornado from her family farm, located in Kansas, to the magical land of Oz. The only way the American girl could get back home was by getting the ruby red shoes of the Wicked Witch of the West. And spoiler for that, to say the least peculiar, minority that she has not yet had the pleasure of seeing: she did it that way.
Date: “No matter how gloomy and gray our houses are, we, the people of flesh and blood, prefer to live there than in another country, however beautiful it may be. There is no place like home."
7. Maryland: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler
Baltimore is a frequent setting in Tyler's books, including his novel Dinner at Homesick Restaurant , which tells the story of Pearl, an 85-year-old man who remembers the failures and triumphs of her family.
She quotes: "Her growth of hers translated, therefore, into a gradual dimming of the light at her bedroom door, as if they took some glow with them as they moved away from it".
New Jersey
8. New Jersey: Drown, Junot Diaz
This collection of short stories by the author of Dominican and American roots Junot Díaz offers scenes experienced by immigrants in New Jersey who fight for the American dream amid cruelty, loss, and resilient humor.
Date: "Intuitively, knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
Ohio
9. Ohio: Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
Although the characters of Ready Player One are physically in Ohio They escape from reality immersing yourself in a virtual world called Oasis, where the protagonist Wade and his friends look for a series of clues to obtain definitive control of that fictional dimension.
Quote: "No one in the world ever gets what he wants and that's beautiful"
10. Wyoming: The Cold Dish, Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson uses the beautiful, mountainous expanses of Wyoming as the backdrop for the first case of the Sheriff Walt Longmire, who solves crimes while he deals with relations between the residents of Absaroka County and the neighboring Indian reservation.
Date: "I thought I knew a lot about him, but the truth is that he only colored the missing parts with the colors that I liked.
Do you miss any state? Have you lived a special story in some corner of USA What haven't we mentioned? Well, you can consult the rest of the books and quotes at this link.
Wyoming