Challenge host: Book Journey
Challenge duration: January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013
Commitment: Try to read a book from all 50 states; bonus points for settings outside the US
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona – The Host by Stephenie Meyers; Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
Arkansas
California – Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry; The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; Icons by Margaret Stohl; The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida – Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh; 3500: An Autistic Boy’s Ten-Year Romance with Snow White by Ron Miles
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho – Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa – The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Kansas
Kentucky – Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland – Countdown by Deborah Wiles
Massachusetts – Fox Forever by Mary E. Pearson; The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Michigan – What We Saw At Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Minnesota
Mississippi – As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska – My Antonia by Willa Cather
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York – Dark Magic by James Swain; Brooklyn Bones by Triss Stein; Time and Again by Jack Finney; Sophia’s War by Avi; The Original 1982 by Lori Carson; Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight; Farewell, Dorothy Parker by Ellen Meister; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
North Carolina – The Lion Is In by Delia Ephron; A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
North Dakota
Ohio – Level 2 by Lenore Applehans; The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania – Dirty Blonde by Lisa Scottoline; The Turncoat by Donna Thorland
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont – Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Cambodia – Temple of a Thousand Faces by John Shors
Canada – Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
England – The Map of the Sky by Felix J. Palma; Me Before You by Jojo Moyes; Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton; The Blood Binding by Helen Stringer; Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton; Bleak House by Charles Dickens; Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton; Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage by M.C. Beaton; London Falling by Paul Cornell; Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death by M.C. Beaton; The Last Camellia by Sarah Jio; The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce; Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Greenland – Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
Ireland – A Parachute in the Lime Tree by Annemarie Neary; A Dublin Student Doctor by Patrick Taylor
Isle of Man – Safe House by Chris Ewan
Italy – The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Morocco – Garment of Shadows by Laurie R. King
Portugal – Pirate King by Laurie R. King
Spain – Small Damages by Beth Kephart
