Recs if you like The Bean Trees...

The Primary Works section of the Reading List of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor

50 books - ones set in each state of America. I have put them in order alphabetically by state (not sure if it will change once created)

Gross girls, girlhood, and the like

Books in which the environment and setting of the American Southwest are an integral part of the narrative. Can include all genres.

discover the literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry of Appalachian author Barbara Kingsolver!