Recs if you like Winesburg, Ohio...

Marilyn Monroe was known as an avid reader with a deep love of literature. She took literature courses at UCLA, married a playwright, and was (in?)famously photographed reading Ulysses in a park. It's said that her divorce to Arthur Miller stemmed from an incident in which he insulted her intelligence. Supposedly, she amassed a 1000+ book collection at the height of her reading that she was very proud of. Here are the books known to be a part of her beloved personal library.

Books with seemingly disparate stories which are woven together

officially known as the Buckeye State, colloquially known as The Heart of It All, and affectionately (?) known as the Armpit of America, the state of Ohio (my home state) sets the scene (or at least some of the scenes) for all the books on this list. recommendations welcome! O-H!

I was almost a literary modernist