Nebraska

Here's a place to talk about fiction/nonfiction set in Nebraska.

O! Pioneers by Willa Cather is set in Nebraska during the 19th century. I haven't read it, but I think her My Antonia may also be set here.

Gleaned from an old challenge:

It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here by Roger Welsch ("twenty-eight tales of the Great Plains")
All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life by Loren Eiseley, memoir, "traces the odyssey that led to his search for early postglacial man"
Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris, fiction (National Book Award)
Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene (WWII homefront, North Platte canteen)

I just finished Sean Doolittle's The Cleanup, which takes place in Omaha. It's a fantastic, hard-boiled thriller, with an amazingly fast-paced plot and beautiful, spare writing. It's also full of details about the weather and locality.

RidgewayGirl's recommendation of The Cleanup led me to try it and it did not disappoint!

Right you are sjmccreary about My Antonia. Just finished reading O Pioneers!, but I seem to remember liking My Antoniaand Death Comes for the Archbishop (New Mexico Territory) better. Vivid descriptions of the land, immigrant life, and pioneer hardships.

#6 Mariesansone, if My Antonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop are better than O Pioneers! then I need to find them at once! (Plus I don't think I know any other NM books off the top of my head...) Just finished O Pioneers! and loved it.

If you want something lighter for Nebraska, Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park and Fangirl are both set there. These are YA books; Eleanor & Park is a bit more sobering due to bullying and domestic abuse. It's a lovely romance between high school misfits in the 1980s. Fangirl is a more contemporary college romance about a shy college freshman who writes fanfiction in the "Simon Snow" (i.e. Harry Potter) universe.