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I found a new state challenge. This is a list of the most famous book SET (takes place) in each of the 50 states! Here is the link .

This challenge is book specific but if you want to go "off list" and find your own I will allow that. If you decide to stick to the list and there is a book on it that you have already read then you can go ahead and count it as done or reread it if you choose; If you are like me you have a big enough TBR without having to reread books. If you are staying to list and just can't find one of the books, then you can go off list for some if you need to.

Have fun traveling the country through books.


If the link isn't working then the list is here:

ALABAMA: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
ALASKA: Into the Wild by John Krakauer
ARIZONA: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
ARKANSAS: A Painted House John Grisham
CALIFORNIA: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
COLORADO: The Shining by Stephen King
CONNECTICUT: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
DELAWARE: The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani
FLORIDA: To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
GEORGIA: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
HAWAII: Hawaii by James A Michener
IDAHO: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
ILLINOIS: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
INDIANA: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
IOWA: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
KANSAS: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
KENTUCKY: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LOUISIANA: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
MAINE: Carrie by Stephen King
MARYLAND: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
MASSACHUSETTS: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
MICHIGAN: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
MINNISOTA: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
MISSISSIPPI: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
MISSOURI: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
MONTANA: A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
NEBRASKA: My Ántonia by Willa Cather
NEVADA: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thomas
NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
NEW JERSEY: Drown by Junot Diaz
NEW MEXICO: Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford
NEW YORK:The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
NORTH CAROLINA: A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
NORTH DAKOTA: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
OHIO: The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
OKLAHOMA: Paradise by Toni Morrison
OREGON: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
PENNSYLVANIA: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
RHODE ISLAND: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
SOUTH CAROLINA: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
SOUTH DAKOTA: A Long Way from Home by Tom Brokaw
TENNESSEE: The Client by John Grisham
TEXAS: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
UTAH: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
VERMONT: PollyannaBY Eleanor H. Porter
VIRGINIA: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
WASHINGTON: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
WASHINGTON DC: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
WEST VIRGINIA: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
WISCONSIN: Little House in the Big Woods
WYOMING: The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman

TRACKING POST

ALABAMA: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
ALASKA: Into the Wild by John Krakauer
ARIZONA: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
ARKANSAS: A Painted House John Grisham
CALIFORNIA: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
COLORADO: The Shining by Stephen King
CONNECTICUT: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
DELAWARE: The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani
FLORIDA: To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
GEORGIA: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
HAWAII: Hawaii by James A Michener
IDAHO: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
ILLINOIS: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
INDIANA: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
IOWA: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
KANSAS: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
KENTUCKY: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LOUISIANA: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
MAINE: Carrie by Stephen King
MARYLAND: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
MASSACHUSETTS: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
MICHIGAN: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
MINNISOTA: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
MISSISSIPPI: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
MISSOURI: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
MONTANA: A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean {DNF 09/19}
NEBRASKA: My Ántonia by Willa Cather
NEVADA: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thomas
NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
NEW JERSEY: Drown by Junot Diaz
NEW MEXICO: Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford
NEW YORK:The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
NORTH CAROLINA: A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
NORTH DAKOTA: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
OHIO: The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
OKLAHOMA: Paradise by Toni Morrison
OREGON: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
PENNSYLVANIA: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
RHODE ISLAND: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
SOUTH CAROLINA: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
SOUTH DAKOTA: A Long Way from Home by Tom Brokaw
TENNESSEE: The Client by John Grisham
TEXAS: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
UTAH: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
VERMONT: Pollyanna BY Eleanor H. Porter
VIRGINIA: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
WASHINGTON: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
WASHINGTON DC: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
WEST VIRGINIA: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
WISCONSIN: Little House in the Big Woods
WYOMING: The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman

I am all in for this challenge. Maybe this will help me with the BBC challenge a little.

TRACKING POST

ALABAMA: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
ALASKA: Into the Wild by John Krakauer
ARIZONA: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
ARKANSAS: A Painted House John Grisham
CALIFORNIA: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
COLORADO: The Shining by Stephen King
CONNECTICUT: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
DELAWARE: The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani
FLORIDA: To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
GEORGIA: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
HAWAII: Hawaii by James A Michener
IDAHO: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
ILLINOIS: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
INDIANA: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
IOWA: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
KANSAS: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
KENTUCKY: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LOUISIANA: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
MAINE: Carrie by Stephen King
MARYLAND: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
MASSACHUSETTS: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
MICHIGAN: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
MINNISOTA: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
MISSISSIPPI: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
MISSOURI: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
MONTANA: A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
NEBRASKA: My Ántonia by Willa Cather
NEVADA: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thomas
NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
NEW JERSEY: Drown by Junot Diaz
NEW MEXICO: Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford
NEW YORK:The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
NORTH CAROLINA: A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
NORTH DAKOTA: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
OHIO: The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
OKLAHOMA: Paradise by Toni Morrison
OREGON: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
PENNSYLVANIA: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
RHODE ISLAND: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
SOUTH CAROLINA: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
SOUTH DAKOTA: A Long Way from Home by Tom Brokaw
TENNESSEE: The Client by John Grisham
TEXAS: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
UTAH: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
VERMONT: PollyannaBY Eleanor H. Porter
VIRGINIA: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
WASHINGTON: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
WASHINGTON DC: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
WEST VIRGINIA: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
WISCONSIN: Little House in the Big Woods
WYOMING: The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman

Alaska down.

Can't say Into the Wild is a book I enjoyed but I think it is because I found the person the book was written about to be an idiot. Can't really figure out why someone would want to waste so much time on him.

The Bean Trees was an odd little book.

Okay, here goes.

ALABAMA: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
ALASKA: Into the Wild by John Krakauer
ARIZONA: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
ARKANSAS: A Painted House John Grisham
CALIFORNIA: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
COLORADO: The Shining by Stephen King
CONNECTICUT: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
DELAWARE: The Saint of Lost Things by Christopher Castellani
FLORIDA: To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
GEORGIA: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
HAWAII: Hawaii by James A Michener
IDAHO: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
ILLINOIS: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
INDIANA: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
IOWA: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
KANSAS: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
KENTUCKY: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LOUISIANA: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
MAINE: Carrie by Stephen King
MARYLAND: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
MASSACHUSETTS: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
MICHIGAN: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
MINNISOTA: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
MISSISSIPPI: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
MISSOURI: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
MONTANA: A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
NEBRASKA: My Ántonia by Willa Cather
NEVADA: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thomas
NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
NEW JERSEY: Drown by Junot Diaz
NEW MEXICO: Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford
NEW YORK:The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
NORTH CAROLINA: A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
NORTH DAKOTA: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
OHIO: The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
OKLAHOMA: Paradise by Toni Morrison
OREGON: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
PENNSYLVANIA: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
RHODE ISLAND: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
SOUTH CAROLINA: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
SOUTH DAKOTA: A Long Way from Home by Tom Brokaw
TENNESSEE: The Client by John Grisham
TEXAS: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
UTAH: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
VERMONT: PollyannaBY Eleanor H. Porter
VIRGINIA: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
WASHINGTON: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
WASHINGTON DC: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
WEST VIRGINIA: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
WISCONSIN: Little House in the Big Woods
WYOMING: The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman

8 read at the start of 2018.

Arkansas done!

I have 16 off this list! I was surprised I had that many.

I have had East of Eden sitting on my shelf for a month and haven't been in the mood to tackle it so I am taking it back to the library and going to try a different one.

I haven't finished any of these this year.

I read The Shining so I could read the next book after it(I didn't realize it was a sequel when I picked it up) and am happily surprised to get one off this list!

just one this year: Colorado

Vermont is off the list!

I didn't realize Carrie was on this list, but I finished the book and another one off this list!

Melissa wrote: "I didn't realize Carrie was on this list, but I finished the book and another one off this list!"

Dang, I forgot all about this challenge. lol

Lea Ann wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I didn't realize Carrie was on this list, but I finished the book and another one off this list!"

Dang, I forgot all about this challenge. lol"

lol, I have been slowing plucking away at it. But it is a good thing it is on the Ongoing list.