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

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berkeley, california

The Bronx

Champion Ohio

Dharma Bums, or really anything by Kerouac
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.

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

You really suck at this.

East Atlanta zone 6

Las Vegas, Nevada

Santurce, Puerto Rico

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

Not part of the US, just a territory

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

Sometimes a Great Notion, or anything by Raymond Carver

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

Peal Bend

Rural West Virginia.

Washington, D.C.

The Rum Diary

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.

Cold Mountain, Child of God, Rocket Boys

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

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

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

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

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

my diary desu

A Walk on the Wild Side.

Confederacy of Dunces, obvs

low hanging fruit

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

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

the corrections kek

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

Stockton, CA
Maui, HI

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

IU student?

Delaware

Always wondered about that area

Plano

Lewiston, ID

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

profiles in courage

Because of Winn Dixie

Miami, Florida

Miami Blues
Train Dreams
Fight Club
Haha American Psycho I'd say
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

your momma's cooch

oh wait it's the phonebook

Tampa, Florida

>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

The Awakening.

East Tennessee.

>inb4 Suttree

Kansas City, Kansas

Menominee, WI

boston

Newark, NJ
Jersey City

>not part of the us
american education

Rock Hill, South Carolina

Minnesota

oklahoma mcdonalds.

Daytona, Florida

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

Ely, Nevada

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

American Pastoral

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.

An American Tragedy

Literally any of the other early cormac mccarthy novels

Tick Tock Clock from Mario 64

Naked Lunch

Central New York

Missouri

Suburbs of San Diego

Alaska

canada

twin cities mn

Donald Trump's boipucci

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

Area 51

Newton Massachusetts?

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