Name a place in the US and I will pick for you a book exemplifying

berkeley, california

The Bronx

Champion Ohio

>>9499418
Dharma Bums, or really anything by Kerouac
>>9499421
kind of specific but great NYC books that are tangential to the bronx are Bonfire of the Vanities and Underworld. For more of the urban african american theme go with Invisible Man or anything by August Wilson.

>>9499423
I dunno where that is but google didn't help. If you want quaint midwest, Winesburg, OH. For gritty rust belt, Man with the Golden Arm. If thats the hillbilly part of Ohio then Child of God.

San Antonio, Texas

Kitsap county, Washington

>>9499449
You really suck at this.

East Atlanta zone 6

>>9499416
Las Vegas, Nevada

Santurce, Puerto Rico

>>9499416
Gary Indiana
Buffalo new York
Saginaw Michigan
Bay city Michigan
Lexington Michigan
Port Sanilac Michigan (the town my cottage is in. Make the trip from toronto every summer)

Quad Cities, IA/IL

>>9499471

Not part of the US, just a territory

>>9499457
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, by Steve Earle

>>9499461
Sometimes a Great Notion, or anything by Raymond Carver

>>9499466
campy vegas- Fear and Loathing, gangster vegas- The Cold Six Thousand, modern vegas- Air Guitar.

Peal Bend

>>9499416

Rural West Virginia.

Washington, D.C.

>>9499471
The Rum Diary

>>9499473
For rust belt, see above, with Man With the Golden ARm, or American Rust.
for outdoorsy midwest/michigan, Anatomy of a Murder (set in the UP)

keep in mind Im pulling novels out my ass necessarily set in the places you say. Anyone with google can do that. I'm picking places that exemplify the image, culture, and atmosphere in my mind and in the public conscious.

>>9499492
Cold Mountain, Child of God, Rocket Boys

>>9499466
OP's choices are bad. Go for Leaving Las Vegas.

Hrrm, two more: Anchorage, Alaska and Burlington, Vermont

>>9499516
Into the Wild

for VT, go with either A Separate Piece or something Stephen King, like Salem's lot. Say what you will about the man but one thing he does great, especially in his early novels, is capture the Spooky/quaint Andrew Wyeth-esque New England Aesthetic

Dallas, Texas

>>9499525
You're a fucking idiot. Why are you giving people recommendations? You clearly have absolutely no idea what you're talking about

>>9499526
Good one, my hometown. Modern, urban Texas doesn't have as many laureates good laureates but if you want a great read about the DFW area and how shitty it was in the 70's Seasons in Hell is a great, hilarious book about the early years of the Texas Rangers ballclub.

Also the Last Picture Show captures a bit of the feel of old Ft. Worth if that's what you're looking for.

new orleans, LA

>>9499493
my diary desu

>>9499533
A Walk on the Wild Side.

>>9499533
Confederacy of Dunces, obvs

>>9499543
low hanging fruit

>>9499546
If the question was Dublin and someone answered Dubliners, it would be just as low hanging, but just as accurate.

Honolulu, Hawaii
Salt Lake City, Utah

>>9499533
>>9499543
the correct answer is the moviegoer u plebs

providence

Portland, Maine.

Charlotte, NC

This place really sucks.

Bloomington, IN.
Be careful, Rust Belt or outdoorsy Midwest catch-all books need not apply

>>9499634
the corrections kek

>>9499624
Move to asheville or durham. Or better yet, leave the state

Stockton, CA
Maui, HI

>>9499685
Yeah, probably right except maybe could go for something more faggy. The Inner Circle, perhaps?

Inland Empire, California

If that's too broad, then:
Yucaipa, CA

>>9499634
IU student?

Delaware

Always wondered about that area

>>9499532

Plano

Lewiston, ID

>>9499416
SW Alaska. I've been here two years and can't really get a feel for it, or maybe something about Yupik people's.
If there isn't a good book about where I live, does that mean I need to write one?

Birmingham, Alabama
Come at me fucker, and it better not be some period piece garbage

Cape Cod, Massachusetts

>>9500208
profiles in courage

>>9500184
Because of Winn Dixie

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Miami, Florida

>>9500284
Miami Blues
>>9500086
Train Dreams
>>9499947
Fight Club
>>9500081
Haha American Psycho I'd say
>>9499849
For good LA desert books Less Than Zero is partially set in palm springs and does a good job of contrasting the desert and the city. Hickory Wind is about gram parsons but spends alot of time around joshua tree as well and explains the appeal it had to people like him.

For all the Hawaii people, From Here to Eternity

>>9499416
your momma's cooch

oh wait it's the phonebook

Tampa, Florida

>>9499471
>>9499502
>The Rum Diary
That would be better for Old San Juan, but desu I'm offended.

Better books would be Felices Días Tio Sergio or La Guaracha de Macho Camacho

>>9499533
The Awakening.

East Tennessee.

>inb4 Suttree

>>9499416
Kansas City, Kansas

Menominee, WI

boston

Newark, NJ
Jersey City

>>9499478
>not part of the us
american education

Rock Hill, South Carolina

>>9499416
Minnesota

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oklahoma mcdonalds.

>>9499416
Daytona, Florida

>>9499942
Former townie. Glad to be the hell out of there.

Ely, Nevada

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>>9499465

>>9502255
Winter in the Bone if we're talking plains minnesota, Anatomy of a Murder for the great lakes area.

>>9502179
American Pastoral

>>9502170
my second hometown.
All Souls: a Southie Family Story. I also thought that Infinite Jest did an excellent job characterizing the special sort of white trash that boston breeds.

>>9501392
An American Tragedy

>>9501329
Literally any of the other early cormac mccarthy novels

Tick Tock Clock from Mario 64

>>9502835
Naked Lunch

Central New York

Missouri

Suburbs of San Diego

>>9499416
Alaska

canada

>>9502820
twin cities mn

>>9499416
Donald Trump's boipucci

>>9503297
art of the deal

Los Angeles

Huntsville, Alabama

Northern California

Detroit MI

I can think of like three books that if you pick them I'm going to beat you up

>>9499416
Area 51

Newton Massachusetts?

>>9499461
fuck dude which town also >>9499484
I happen to own both of those things.