50 States Challenge - 2011

The goal of this challenge is to read books that are set in each of the fifty states. Your books can be of any genre and any format (ie. paperback, ebook, audiobook, etc.). No short stories. Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are fine. You can list your books in advance or list them as you read them.


This challenge is hosted by Book Obsessed...  you can sign up here. 


For the record, I am going to list my books as I read them....  even if I have more than one book per state.  I'm kind of looking at it as sort of study... as in Do I naturally gravitate toward books set in certain places? sort of study.  I'm sure by the end of summer I'll have to start hunting down certain states!!


** - This book takes place evenly between two states.  I will read another book set in one of the states.


                                                                                                       30/50

1. Alabama                                                                      
2. Alaska
3. Arizona   Spooky Little Girl
4. Arkansas  Today The World is Watching You
5. California  Twenty Boy Summer
6. Colorado  Hybrid
7. Connecticut  Revolutionary Road
8. Delaware
9. Florida
10. Georgia  Paper Woman
11. Hawaii   Bet Your Bones
12. Idaho
13. Illinois Turn of Mind
14. Indiana
15. Iowa  Softly and Tenderly** , These Things Hidden
16. Kansas   The Ice Harvest
17. Kentucky
18. Louisiana  Dead Reckoning
19. Maine  Cost
20. Maryland  The Kingdom of Childhood
21. Massachusetts  Fenway 1912
22. Michigan  The Virgin Suicides
23. Minnesota  Shiver
24. Mississippi
25. Missouri
26. Montana  Montana 1948
27. Nebraska  The Coffins of Little Hope
28. Nevada
29. New Hampshire  A Separate Peace
30. New Jersey
31. New Mexico
32. New York - The Age of Innocence
33. North Carolina - The Midwife's Confession
34. North Dakota
35. Ohio  I am Number Four
36. Oklahoma  The Outsiders
37. Oregon  The Day Before
38. Pennsylvania  Better Together
39. Rhode Island
40. South Carolina
41. South Dakota
42. Tennessee  Softly and Tenderly**
43. Texas
44. Utah
45. Vermont  House Rules
46. Virginia  My Name Is Memory
47. Washington  Stay
48. West Virginia
49. Wisconsin  Carry Me Home
50. Wyoming