The United States of Fiction

Pet dog Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska where he becomes increasingly feral as he adapts to the harsh conditions.

This intense story describes a world that has been invaded by an unseen enemy. It takes over the minds of human victims while leaving their bodies intact.

The first in a seven-volume series, this is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma.

The tale of two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States.

Set in perhaps the most famous haunted hotel in the world, this is a classical King scare fest.

When moving to the perfect neighbourhood really IS too good to be true

The setting for this book is never expressly stated although no one ever talks about anything to do with this story anyway.

The book is the tale of young Jody Baxter, a twelve year old boy living in the wild of Florida. When his father shoots a doe, Jody convinces him to let him take the faun.

The harrowing story of Celie, a poor black woman in the South who faces abuse, rape, and devastation before she finally learns to love herself.

A magnificent but brutal classic of a soldier's life, in which the author portrays the courage, violence and passions of men and women who live by unspoken codes and with unutterable despair.

Emma Lou Morgan lives in a world of scorn and shame in one of the first novels that seriously addresses race as a social issue. Emma doesn't have trouble because her skin is black, but because it's too black.

The first in a world bestselling series of YA novels where you must pick one of five factions to determine your role in the community.

A heartbreaking novel of teenagers who find love despite the odds stacked against them.

A book portraying the life of a successful Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, chaos ensues.

Kansas is the setting for this twisted novel about a grown woman who is the only survivor of a horrific massacre on her family years earlier.

A Sidney Sheldon novel whose title is a modern take on the Robert Burns poem To a Mouse.

Bon Temps may be a fictionally 'bloody' town but its location is definitely real.

In the King of Horror's home state which of his novels should we pick? I know, the one about the schoolgirl and the consequences of her crowning glory.

The classic coming-of-age story takes place in a few places across the world, but the four girls all hail from Maryland; it's also where Tibby is stuck working at Wallman's for the Summer.

Burroughs's memoir of his bizarre, twisted childhood, begins with his experience being sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist at the age of 12.

A 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American man living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood.

An autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her Little House series.

This incredibly moving novel gives an honest portrayal of African-American women working in white households in the deep South during the early 1960s.

You all hated the characters, the ending and everything about this book that topped our reading charts for weeks.

This book although entirely fictional sparked a fascination with the man who was a real life version.

the story of two teens falling in love for the first time. There's the boy who grew up in Omaha, and the new girl in school who finds comfort in him as she tries to fit in.

This classic captures the wild ride of Nevada's Sin City as Raoul Duke and his lawyer embark on a drug-filled weekend

When his girlfriend is murdered Ignatius is left with more than just a guilty conscience and the power to compel others to tell the truth no matter how horrible it may be.

A classic YA novel that captures the emotional roller coaster of adolescence for one New Jersey teen, Margaret Simon.

In this Judy Blume novel a girl named Davey finds herself starting a new life and coming to grips with her old one when her mother moves the family to New Mexico after her father is killed.

An emotive book that follows a young boy on a journey through NYC as he tries to track down the lock for a key that belonged to his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks.

A Nicholas Sparks story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner recently returned from the Second World War. Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other.

Written by a Native American author this political thriller follows what happens after a woman called Geraldine Coutts, has been attacked.

After they escape slavery and settle in Cincinnati Sethe and Denver both believe they are being haunted by Beloved, the young daughter that Sethe murdered while she was attempting to run away from her master.

Although it is never stated in the book, this novel is set in Tulsa, OK, in 1965 and follows the turbulent chain of events that is set off after two greasers kill a gang member who was attacking them.

Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of the institutional processes and the human mind as well as a critique of behaviorism and a celebration of humanistic principles.

According to the cover this is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.

The final novel by John Updike this is the sequel to a novel that is probably better known in its film format.

Set in 1964, the coming-of-age story by author Sue Monk Kidd acknowledges the predicament of loss and betrayal.

This is the 14th book in the Jack Reacher series, and the South Dakota location is the central plot point.

John Grisham's world-renowned novel, where the main character Mitch McDeere discovers that his new job in Memphis at the Bendini, Lambert & Locke firm isn't as glamorous as he thought.

A 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy where the main story occurs in the vicinity of the United States–Mexico border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country.

Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of new, Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God in this book of extremes of religious belief set within America's borders.

Set in a small town up in Vermont, this book follows the adventures of a young, orphaned girl who goes to live with her embittered aunt. Despite the string of misfortunes she faces, she always manages to let he optimism shine through.

Trapped in the attic of a grand old Virginia estate, called Foxworth Hall these children face an uncertain future.

A young woman named Bee is on the hunt for her missing mother, who disappears during a family vacation.

A Newbery Medal-winning children's novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor published in 1991. The 65th book by Naylor, it is the first in a quartet about a young boy and the title character, an abused dog.

In this sequel the story begins with a series of murders that has begun to plague the town of French Landing, Wisconsin. The murderer is dubbed "The Fisherman", due to a conscious effort by the killer to emulate the methods of serial killer Albert Fish.

Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist are two ranch hands living in Wyoming and share an attraction that blooms into a dangerous yet love-filled relationship.