NPR Books Presents Titles for All 50 States and a Bonus Becky Outside the Box Recommendation

NPR Books always has excellent Summer Reading Content. On June 1st they unveiled this fun list, compiled by literary experts from every state. From the introduction to the piece:

Traveling this summer? Here are book picks for all 50 states (and then some)

As the summer travel season kicks off, many of us look forward to exploring new places on trips away from home. To help with this, NPR asked poets laureate, state librarians, bookstore owners and other literary luminaries from all 50 states — plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico — to recommend quintessential reads that illuminate where they live.

Here are more than 100 recommendations for you — whether you want to read about somewhere you're heading, a place you hope to go someday, or somewhere you live and want to get to know better.

(And you can let us know what books you think best represent your home state here.)

As usual, NPR has excellent visual presentation to go along with the fun and usefulness of the content itself. You can make this available to patrons to use on their own or use it to help them find a great read.

Finally, I have a favorite suggestion for armchair travel leisure reads as well. I LOVE reading guidebooks about places I may never go to, one I am going to as well. In  particular, I greatly enjoy guidebooks by Moon or Lonely Planet as they provide excellent content about the history and customs of the locales they are covering. I seek them out whenever wanderlust strikes me.  Here is a review of one of my all time favorites.