2012 Where Are You Reading Challenge

Challenge host: Book Journey
Challenge time frame: January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012
Challenge commitment: Try to read a book set in each of the 50 states (bonus points for a drawing are available for reading in other countries, as well)

Sheila, the challenge host, has a really cool Google map where she keeps track of her reading. I had been considering this challenge for a while, but the map looked complicated and time-consuming, and kept me from joining. Then, I read in the challenge sign-up post that participants can choose to simply keep a list of the 50 states and add titles of books as they go. That sounded more up to my speed, so I decided to jump in.

United States
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California – Dust and Decay by Jonathan Maberry; Pretty by Jillian Lauren; Fear by Michael Grant
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana – The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Iowa – These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf
Kansas – Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Kentucky – That Distant Land: The Collected Stories by Wendell Berry; The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry; Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland – The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman; Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Massachusetts – Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult; The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Michigan
Minnesota – The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
Mississippi – A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire – While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York – Promises to Keep by Jane Green; The Replacement Wife by Eileen Goudge
North Carolina – The Last Child by John Hart
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Other countries:

Argentina – The Innocent by Taylor Stevens

Canada – Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

England – A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd; I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters; The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons; Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson; The Midnight Gate by Helen Stringer; An Impartial Witness by Charles Todd; Ninepins by Rosy Thornton; The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella

Equatorial Guinea – The Informationist by Taylor Stevens

France – The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson

Ireland – The Last Storyteller by Frank Delaney; Half-Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer; The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey

Japan – Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner

Sweden – The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler

Other worlds:

Outer space – A Million Suns by Beth Revis