Reading About Nevada

Home means Nevada, home means the hills. Home means the sage and the pine. Out by the Truckee, silvery rills. Out where the sun always shines. Here is a land that I love the best, fairer than all I can see. Out in the heart of the golden west, home means Nevada to me!

Anywho...

Desperation by Stephen King

Prey by Michael Crichton

American Gods by Neal Gaiman has a brief mention of Las Vegas

Area 7 by Matthew Reilly

As well as probably 100 other books about Viva Lost Wages.

Interestingly enough, there was a book that was published by an elementary school class a couple of years ago. Can't think of it for the life of me, however.

One of the many books about Las Vegas - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Can't help but throw this one out there. :D

Some of Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays was memorably set in Nevada.

The First Sign of the Zodiac by Vicki Pettersson takes place in Las Vegas...well an alternate Las Vegas. Although the setting is there while reading this book I didn't always get the sense that it was Las Vegas. But it is the first book in a series so there was a lot of background bits and stuff...perhaps later books get more into the heart of life in the city.

Louis L'Amour comes up quite a bit, along with Positively Fifth Street and here's others...

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