So I’m from Ohio, and surprisingly, I haven’t seen or read many books from Ohio. Curious to see what kinds of books pop up set in my home state, I googled “books set in Ohio.”
The following list is pulled from a couple different places in the top search categories. Perhaps you and I will read them sometime.
- The Outsider by Stephen King
- Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valez
- The Devil All the Time by Ray Pollock
- Winesbeg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Ohio by Stephen Markley
- The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey (one I actually read, a good read but the sequels aren’t as much)
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- Indignation by Philip Roth
- The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton (another great novel, haven’t read it in decades, need to read it again)
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- “…And Ladies of the Club” by Helen Hoover
- Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
Couple of links I grabbed from: http://www.bookglow.net/must-read-books-set-in-ohio/ & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Novels_set_in_Ohio
Some of these I knew of and others I didn’t or forgot about. I wish there were more books set in Ohio, it really is an interesting place to write about.
