Wow – so wrapping up this challenge.. it was a lot harder then I thought it would be! I did well, I think though! Out of 50 states, I managed to read books with settings in 34 of them – the ones I’m missing? CT, DE, DC, HI, IN, ME, MI, NV, NJ (Should have read that Evanovich book), ND, PA, RI, SD, TN, UT, and WY.
My Book List:
- The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld (NY)
- The Lying Game by Sara Shepard (AZ)
- Fiddler’s Green by A.S. Peterson (GA)
- When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt (IL)
- The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen (WI)
- The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy (CA)
- Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond (OK)
- The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen (NC)
- The Four Ms. Bradwells by Meg Waite Clayton (VA)
- The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus by Sonya Sones (MA)
- Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon (VT)
- Caribou Island by David Vann (AK)
- Doc: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell (KS)
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (MN)
- The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy (SC)
- Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (FL)
- The Raising by Laura Kasischke (NH)
- Tender Graces by Kathryn Magendie (WV)
- The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown (OH)
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman (OR)
- Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans (ID)
- Clementine by Cherie Priest (KY)
- Little Black Dress by Susan McBride (MO)
- Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe McCall (TX)
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (MS)
- Ape House by Sara Gruen (IA)
- How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr (CO)
- Camp Nine by Vivienne Shiffer (AR)
- The Falling Away by T.L. Hines (MT)
- The Charlatan’s Boy by Jonathan Rogers (LA)
- A Watershed Year by Susan Schoenberger (MD)
- My Antonia by Willa Cather (NE)
- The Turquoise by Anya Seton (NM)
- Ganymede by Cherie Priest (WA)
Well done! I read a lot of kidlit and I let myself count them for this challenge, so when I needed to read a bunch of states fast I looked in that section of the library.