Unspecific:

• Wild - Jay Grifths
• Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
• Travels with Charley: In Search of America - John Steinbeck
• The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Guevara
• Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
• Blue Highways: A Journey Into America - William Least Heat-Moon
• Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails With America's Hoboe - Ted Conover

Mississippi

• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner

California:

• East of Eden - John Steinbeck
• Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
• Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• A Confederate General from Big Sur - Richard Brautigan
• Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
• White Oleander - Janet Fitch
• Sometimes You Get So Alone That It Makes Sense - Charles Bukowski
• Love Is a Dog From Hell - Charles Bukowski
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

Alaska:

• Coming into the Country - John McPhee
• The Call Of The Wild - Jack London

Nevada:

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Washington

• Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
• Reservation Blues - Sherman Alexie

Ohio:

• Beloved - Toni Morrison

Michigan

• The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

New York:

• The Art of Hearing Heartbeats - Jan-Phillip Sendker

Connecticut

• The Cruise of the Rolling Junk - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Kentucky

• Appalachia

Canada:

• Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels