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Originally Posted by issybird
I think the difficulty with New York is deciding between the city and upstate as most representative. Other city choices might include something by Doctorow, Wouk, or John O'Hara. For upstate, maybe William Kennedy or even Dreiser's An American Tragedy. I think for states with a wealth of choices, they decided to go for the less obvious. Didion is a stretch for California.
Other state choices that occurred to me are Revolutionary Road for Connecticut and All the King's Men for Louisiana.
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East of Eden or
Cannery Row would have been possible choices for California, but I suppose that the list makers didn't want to repeat Steinbeck.