This map from our pals over at Business Insider shows the most famous books set in each state. 

Ohio, apparently, is most known for the 1987 novel The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace.

Via BI: 

In Foster Wallace’s slightly altered view of Ohio in 1990, we follow our heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a telephone operator/secretary who manages a job with barely any purpose, a relationship with her much-older boss, and the task of finding her decrepit grandmother who, along with 25 other residents of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home, have managed to disappear without a trace.

If you haven’t yet read this book, pick it up now at your neighborhood bookstore. Then work your way across America with these other popular reads. 


This article appears in Sep 17-23, 2014.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

3 replies on “MAP: The Most Famous Book Set in Ohio”

  2. I love DFW but Broom is not very good. It also has as little to do with Ohio as a book set in Ohio can. I guess I should stop taking my literary suggestions from Business Insider.

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