--- title: Mapping a Nation of Books description: Transport yourself across the country with 7 location-based yarns canonical: https://time.com/3935249/mapping-a-nation-of-books/ author: Daniel D'Addario article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-25T11:38:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:31:10.948Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Mapping a Nation of Books og:description: Transport yourself across the country with 7 location-based yarns og:url: https://time.com/3935249/mapping-a-nation-of-books/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mapping a Nation of Books twitter:description: Transport yourself across the country with 7 location-based yarns twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Mapping a Nation of Books  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Jun 25, 2015 11:38 AM UTC  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Jun 25, 2015 11:38 AM UTC CALIFORNIA Michael Hiltzik goes behind the laboratory revolution that brought us modern warfare in Big Science. MONTANA The Nez Percé War comes in for a brilliant (1,376 pages!) examination in William T. Vollmann’s The Dying Grass. HAWAII William Finnegan’s life story, Barbarian Days, includes years of youthful surfing in the Pacific. TEXAS From Today to yesterday: forecaster Al Roker recounts 1900’s Galveston hurricane in The Storm of the Century. MAINE Forget “Vacationland”: Ann Beattie’s short-story collection The State We’re In proves her subtle, dark mastery. NORTH CAROLINA Pulitzer winner David McCullough returns with The Wright Brothers, the Kitty Hawk boys. NEW YORK Stephanie Clifford’s Everybody Rise is a Manhattan-set class satire with the bite to satisfy postrecession readers. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3935249/mapping-a-nation-of-books/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3935249/mapping-a-nation-of-books/"},"headline":"Mapping a Nation of Books","datePublished":"2015-06-25T11:38:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:31:10.948Z","description":"Transport yourself across the country with 7 location-based yarns","url":"https://time.com/3935249/mapping-a-nation-of-books/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3935249/mapping-a-nation-of-books/","name":"Mapping a Nation of Books"}}]}] ```