maine
- a good portion of stephen king's prodigious output
here's a silly project i work on when i'm bored, a big list of books organized by the state they're set in (this is what i do instead of "real" literary criticism). i have a few arbitrary inclusion criteria: must be mostly set in the same state, must have a fairly strong sense of place, must be relatively notable (e.g. have a wikipedia page) and with literary merit. the final call is, as always, based on vibes, and shouldn't be considered that definitive because i haven't even read a lot of these books (yet?). i'm also willing to relax the criteria a bit if it means getting a book in for a tough state... it's still a work in progress, and one day i hope to have at least one entry for every state, if possible. i've tried to avoid filling in the list just by doing something like searching "[state] books" on the internet (where's the fun in that?), so the selection is pretty biased based on my interests and research methods... i think it could definitely benefit from some more non-fiction or poetry.