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Here is where I've traveled from January 2022- March 2025. 50/50 States

**I decided that if a book is set in multiple states or countries, I will only count it in one state or country; however, I can choose which place it will count for.

Alabama - The Target, Feedback, He Started It
Alaska - Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors, The Call of the Wild
Arizona - Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, Robot Visions (the short story Feminine Intuition took place in Flagstaff and that was one of the few short stories that took place on earth that I hadn't already read, The Brothers Hawthorne
Arkansas - My Soul Sings, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
California - Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars, Daughter of the Deep, Malibu Rising, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, The Positronic Man, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, The Love Hypothesis, I'm Glad My Mom Died, Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There, Carrie Soto Is Back, Lessons in Chemistry, Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide, The Christian Family, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, The Woman in Me, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, Bloodsucking Fiends, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Fed, You Suck, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond, Bite Me, The Scarecrow of Oz, The Friend Zone, Shattered: Struck Down, but not Destroyed
Colorado - Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, Sadie, Wayward, Columbine, End Game
Connecticut - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Before I Fall, Hell Bent
Delaware - Fight Club
Florida - Camino Winds, Bright Young Women, Camino Ghosts, A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy
Georgia - An American Marriage, Amari and the Great Game, The Break-Up Book Club, Flawless Execution: Use the Techniques and Systems of America's Fighter Pilots to Perform at Your Peak and Win the Battles of the Business World, The Sequel, Ring Shout
Hawaii - The Color of Air, Daughter of Moloka'i
Idaho - Cloud Cuckoo Land, Frostbite
Illinois - Farewell Summer, Summer Morning, Summer Night, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, Heroic Hearts
Indiana - The Anthropocene Reviewed, Robot Dreams (much of the short stories took place off planet; but Franchise was definitely set in Indiana), Somebody's Daughter
Iowa - The Overnight Guest
Kansas - Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Kentucky - The Queen's Gambit, Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity
Louisiana - Dead Until Dark, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead, From Dead to Worse, A Touch of Dead, Dead and Gone, Dead in the Family, Dead Reckoning, Deadlocked, Dead Ever After, The Green Mile
Maine - Olive, Again, Happy Place
Maryland - The Shape of Water, The Cocktail Waitress, Kindred, Vox
Massachusetts - The Ugly Truth, Cabin Fever, The Third Wheel, Hard Luck, The Long Haul, Old School, The Blue Bistro, Double Down, The Getaway, The Meltdown, Wrecking Ball, The Deep End, Big Shot, The Crucible, Family of Liars, Diper Överlöde, It Starts with Us, A Summer Affair, The Castaways, Beautiful Day, The Perfect Couple, The Love Season, On Air with Zoe Washington, No Brainer, Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts, Small Mercies, The Woggle-Bug Book, Love, Theoretically, The Island, For You and Only You, Hot Mess, Swan Song
Michigan - Firekeeper's Daughter, Warrior Girl Unearthed, Funny Story
Minnesota - The Unhoneymooners, Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
Mississippi - A Time for Mercy, Club Dead, The Little Friend, The Guilty, Ford County
Missouri - Sparring Partners, James
Montana - The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, Vampire Academy
Nebraska - The Lincoln Highway, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Nevada - The Battle for Las Vegas: The Law vs. The Mob, In the Lives of Puppets
New Hampshire - Our Town
New Jersey - Stay Close, The Collectors, Beaches, Hidden Pictures, Check & Mate, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
New Mexico - The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
New York - Sweet Sanctuary, We Are the Brennans, The Caves of Steel, Robots and Empire, Closing Time, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, The Housemaid, The Measure, The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship between a Boy and a Baseball Legend, Death of a Salesman, Jazz, When to Rob a Bank, Amari and the Night Brothers, The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure, The Housemaid's Secret, Chain-Gang All-Stars, Where She Went, The Chalice of the Gods, 2061: Odyssey Three, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, Mornings on Horseback, The God of the Woods
North Carolina - A Good Neighborhood, Book Lovers, The Last Song
North Dakota - Fly Away
Ohio - Sula, Winesburg, Ohio, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Holly
Oklahoma - The Nineties; there was a lot to unpack here, but the chapter on the Oklahoma City Bombing and its relationship to the Clinton presidency is what I expect to remember most, Paradise
Oregon - Red Clocks, If I Stay
Pennsylvania - Long Bright River, Wanderers, Bossypants, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Daughters of Lancaster County
Rhode Island - The Wedding People
South Carolina - Charleston: The Brief History of a Remarkable City, How to Sell a Haunted House, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, Smoke Screen
South Dakota - Finding Dorothy
Tennessee - The Blind Side, Suttree, Deadline, From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
Texas - Broken, The Last Thing He Told Me, The Complete Robot, The Switch, Starfish, Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental, Living Dead in Dallas, The Inheritance Games, The Hawthorne Legacy, The Final Gambit, The Bodyguard
Utah - Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
Vermont - Before and Again, The Secret History, Home Before Dark, The Plot
Virginia - The Mysterious Island, Demon Copperhead, Divine Justice, Bridge to Terabithia
Washington - Midnight Sun, Jar of Hearts, The Last House on Needless Street, Remarkably Bright Creatures, Blackout, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy, You Love Me, Coyote Lost and Found
West Virginia - Missing May
Wisconsin - Klara and the Sun, American Melancholy: Poems (Harlow's Monkeys is set in Madison, Wisconsin), Feed
Wyoming - The Rest of the Robots (Only Let's Get Together was set in Wyoming)

Bonus:
Washington DC - All the President's Men, The Camel Club, Stone Cold, Hell's Corner, The Innocent, Bullseye - an Original Will Robie / The Camel Club Short Story, Yellowface

These are my favorite books by state. I read many of these books years ago.

Alabama - To Kill a Mockingbird - 5 stars
Alaska - Into the Wild - 4 stars
Arizona - The Host - 4 stars
Arkansas - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 5 stars
California - Double Indemnity - 5 stars
Colorado - The Shining - 4 stars
Connecticut - The Witch of Blackbird Pond - 4 stars
Delaware - The Underground Railroad - 4 stars
Florida - Their Eyes Were Watching God - 4 stars
Georgia - Gone with the Wind - 5 stars
Hawaii - Everything, Everything - 4 stars
Idaho - The Last Town - 4 stars
Illinois - Dark Matter - 5 stars
Indiana - The Fault in Our Stars - 5 stars
Iowa - Lila - 5 stars
Kansas - In Cold Blood - 4 stars
Kentucky - The Memory Keeper's Daughter - 4 stars
Louisiana - Twelve Years a Slave - 5 stars
Maine - The Institute - 4 stars
Maryland - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - 5 stars
Massachusetts - John Adams - 5 stars
Michigan - Firekeeper's Daughter - 4 stars
Minnesota - Betsy-Tacy - 5 stars
Mississippi - The Help - 5 stars
Missouri - Gone Girl - 5 stars
Montana - Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town - 4 stars
Nebraska - The Lincoln Highway - 5 stars
Nevada - The Passage - 4 stars
New Hampshire - Our Town - 4 stars
New Jersey - A Beautiful Mind - 5 stars
New Mexico - The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing - 4 stars
New York - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - 5 stars
North Carolina - Necessary Lies - 5 stars
North Dakota - Fly Away - 3 stars
Ohio - Ready Player One - 5 stars
Oklahoma - The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - 4 stars
Oregon - The Nightingale - 5 stars was rated higher, but Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike was primarily set in Oregon, whereas The Nightingale was primarily set in France
Pennsylvania - The Killer Angels - 5 stars
Rhode Island - My Sister's Keeper - 4 stars
South Carolina - The Invention of Wings - 5 stars
South Dakota - Forgiving - 5 stars
Tennessee - A Death in the Family - 4 stars
Texas - No Country for Old Men - 4 stars
Utah - Escape - 4 stars
Vermont - The Night Sister - 4 stars
Virginia - Gods and Generals - 5 stars
Washington - The Art of Racing in the Rain - 4 stars
West Virginia - The Glass Castle - 4 stars
Wisconsin - Little House in the Big Woods - 4 stars
Wyoming - Brokeback Mountain - 3 stars

Some good selections there. I'll keep an eye on your list as I try to visit my states.

Bill wrote: "Some good selections there. I'll keep an eye on your list as I try to visit my states."

Thanks, Bill! It's official, I finally read a book (by accident) set partially in North Dakota, so my state challenge is finally done. So many years. Over a long long period, I have read books that I rated at least three stars in every state now. I'm still looking for my personal best book set in each state. Last year, I picked up 30 states, hopefully 2022 will take me some fun places also.

I started Post #1 over for January, I already have regrets. I got 30 states in 2021, we'll see what happens in 2022.

January books - 9/50
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars - Mostly California
The Ugly Truth and Cabin Fever - Massachusetts
A Good Neighborhood - North Carolina
The Queen's Gambit - Mostly Kentucky (some New York, Mexico, Paris and Soviet Union)
Stay Close - New Jersey
Broken - Texas
Farewell Summer - Illinois
Sweet Sanctuary - New York
Cabin Fever - Massachusetts
We Are the Brennans - New York
The Rest of the Robots - short stories from Virginia, Wyoming, New York, and Massachusetts, I'm counting Wyoming since that's the one I think will be most difficult to get!

February books - 12/50

The Caves of Steel - New York
My Soul Sings - Arkansas
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman - Arizona (also Washington State & Afghanistan)
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Colorado
People We Meet on Vacation - I'm counting this book for Croatia, because it was bugging me to have the same book on my Around the World Challenge for both Croatia and Malta. So, I'm not going to count it for a State also, although the book is about a travel writer, so there are sections about Ohio, California (Palm Springs and San Francisco), New York, Florida (Sanibel Island), Tennessee (Nashville), Colorado (Vail), Canada (Vancouver Island in British Columbia), Italy (Tuscany region) and Croatia (Dubrovnik and Brac).
Daughter of the Deep - California
The Third Wheel - Massachusetts
Summer Morning, Summer Night - Illinois

March books - 14/50

Klara and the Sun - Wisconsin
A Time for Mercy - Mississippi
Hard Luck - Massachusetts
Malibu Rising - California

April books - 16/50

The Long Haul - Massachusetts
The Anthropocene Reviewed - Indiana - I'm counting this because there was a lot of discussion about the author's home, the Indianapolis Speedway, etc.
The Mysterious Island - Virginia - Well, the mysterious island is in the middle of nowhere (probably closest to the Cook Islands on a map) but the first part of the story takes place in Richmond, Virginia, so I will use that. :-)

You're doing great, quite a whirl wind tour of the US

Bill wrote: "You're doing great, quite a whirl wind tour of the US"

Thanks, I like this challenge because it seems to counterbalance my series books. Most series tend to set in the same place, with the exception of books about spies and detectives and stuff, so doing both at the same time keeps me getting through my series, but also traveling a little bit also! :-)

Lea wrote: "Bill wrote: "You're doing great, quite a whirl wind tour of the US"

Thanks, I like this challenge because it seems to counterbalance my series books. Most series tend to set in the same place, wit..."

That seems like a good plan.

Total states 18/50 (for detail see message #1)

May books below:

Old School - Massachusetts
The Blue Bistro - Massachusetts
Robots and Empire - Mostly off planet, but four or five chapters were set in New York City
The Blind Side - Tennessee
Long Bright River - Pennsylvania
Double Down - Massachusetts

Total states 20/50 (for detail see message #1)

June books below:

Washington State - Midnight Sun, Jar of Hearts, The Last House on Needless Street - Apparently once I got to Washington State, I couldn't leave. :-) (I hadn't read any books from Washington State in 2022 thus far, and then I read three.)
Illinois - The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
Bonus: Washington DC - All the President's Men
Massachusetts - The Getaway
Florida - Camino Winds
Texas - The Last Thing He Told Me So I already have both California and Texas covered so far this year and this book is set equally in both. Since the most interesting parts of the book are set in Austin Texas, I'm going to put this book in Texas. :-)
Massachusetts - The Meltdown

Total states 26/50 (For year to date information, see message #1)

July books below:

Maryland - The Shape of Water
California - Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Colorado - Sadie
New York - Closing Time
Massachusetts - Wrecking Ball, The Deep End
Texas - The Complete Robot (This is a compilation of short stories, many of which I'd already read in other compilations. The only short story that I hadn't already read that was set on Earth was set in Dallas, Texas, so that's what I will use. I've already been to Texas a few times this year, but to San Antonio and Austin, not to Dallas.)
Georgia - An American Marriage - The book was also set in Louisiana, it was hard to decide which state to pick. But Georgia was the nickname of one of the MC and it seemed like most of the action was in Georgia, although some of the key pieces to the book happened in Louisiana.
Nebraska - The Lincoln Highway - replaced Fangirl on my best state list. I really enjoyed this book.
Connecticut - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Maine - Olive, Again
Oregon - Red Clocks

Kudos on all of your progress with this list, Lea!

You know, most folks take the full 5-8 years to complete it. LOL

Alondra wrote: "Kudos on all of your progress with this list, Lea!

You know, most folks take the full 5-8 years to complete it. LOL"

LOL, I might take that long...we'll have to see. I certainly have visited Massachusetts and California enough for all of us, but I'm going to have to make some effort for Rhode Island. :-)

Lea wrote: "Alondra wrote: "Kudos on all of your progress with this list, Lea!

You know, most folks take the full 5-8 years to complete it. LOL"

LOL, I might take that long...we'll have to see. I certainly ..."

H.P. Lovecraft writes a lot in Rhode Island.... *giggles*

Alondra wrote: "H.P. Lovecraft writes a lot in Rhode Island.... *giggles*"

Well, that solves Rhode Island then. And no doubt I can read Stephen King for Maine. Now, I just have to work on West Virginia. :-)

Total states 28/50 (For year to date information, see message #1)

August books below:

New States -
New Mexico - The Crossing
Delaware - Fight Club

Returning to Previously Visited States -
Indiana - Robot Dreams (much of the short stories took place off planet; but Franchise was definitely set in Indiana)
Massachusetts - Big Shot
Arizona - Robot Visions (the short story Feminine Intuition took place in Flagstaff and that was one of the few short stories that took place on earth that I hadn't already read

Total states 30/50 (For year to date information, see message #1)

September books below:

New states -
Vermont - Before and Again
Michigan - Firekeeper's Daughter - I rated this book 4 stars and enjoyed it more than Beach Read which had previously been on my master list for best read for Michigan, so I replaced it on that list.

Returning to Previously Visited States -
Wisconsin - American Melancholy: Poems (Harlow's Monkeys is set in Madison, Wisconsin)
California - The Final Girl Support Group
Indiana - Somebody's Daughter
Texas - The Switch (there is some of the book in New Mexico, too, but I felt like we were in Texas most of the book)
New Mexico - Cities of the Plain

You are doing fantastic with this Lea!

〰️Beth〰️ wrote: "You are doing fantastic with this Lea!"

Thanks, Beth. The remaining states are the ones that will likely be harder to get, but I can probably pick off a few more this year.

Total States 31/50 (For year-to-date information, see message #1)

October books below:

New states -
Ohio - Sula

Returning to previously visited states:
Vermont - The Secret History, Home Before Dark
Texas - Starfish

Total States 32/50 (For year-to-date information, see message #1)

November books below:

New states -
Idaho - Cloud Cuckoo Land

Returning to previously visited states:
Texas - Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental (This was in a lot of different places, so I picked Texas because both NASA and Enron had chapters dedicated to them and both had operations in Texas.)
Maryland - The Cocktail Waitress
California - Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, The Positronic Man
Nebraska - You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Massachusetts - The Crucible, Family of Liars

You're doing really well with this challenge.

Bill wrote: "You're doing really well with this challenge."

Thanks! So far, I haven't really been trying, but I fear I'm going to have to make more of an effort next year, since the "easy" states have already been picked off. But you never know? If someone would have told me I'd read 3(!!!) books in Vermont before I'd read a single book set in Louisiana, I would not have believed it!

Total States 33/50 (For year-to-date information, see message #1)

December books below:

New states -
Louisiana - Dead Until Dark

Returning to previously visited states:
Massachusetts - Diper Överlöde
California - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Pennsylvania - Wanderers. We went a lot of different places in this book, but the start was in Pennsylvania, so I will count that one.
Maryland - Kindred

Missing States for 2022

Alabama
Alaska
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Montana
Nevada - really?!?
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
South Dakota
New Hampshire
Utah
West Virginia

Clearly I need to take up reading Westerns. :-)

Total States since January 2022 35/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 6/50

January 2023

New States:
Montana - The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise - This book was in multiple states, and it didn't appear to be in any one state more than another, so I decided to pick the state of my favorite scene - a violin concert - in Billings, Montana
Alaska - Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors - There's a whole section dedicated to Alaska and it's the first section.

Returning to previously visited states:
California - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Connecticut - Before I Fall
Texas - Living Dead in Dallas
Massachusetts - It Starts with Us

USA General: Call Us What We Carry, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, I Am Quiet: A Story for the Introvert in All of Us

Total States since January 2022 35/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 9/50

February 2023

New States:
NONE

Returning to previously visited states:
California - The Love Hypothesis, I'm Glad My Mom Died, Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There
Pennsylvania - Bossypants
Mississippi - Club Dead
New York - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Total States since January 2022 - 35/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 11/50

March 2023

New States:
NONE

Returning to previously visited states:
North Carolina - Book Lovers
Colorado - Wayward (I was super tempted to use Missouri, since there were a few chapters set there, but definitely most of the book was set in Colorado, with an honorable mention to Georgia, and my favorite parts are in Colorado, so I'll use that state...again.)

Total States since January 2022 - 35/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 12/50

April 2023

New States:
NONE

Returning to previously visited states:
Texas - The Inheritance Games
Alaska - The Call of the Wild
Louisiana - Dead as a Doornail
Washington DC - The Camel Club

Total States since January 2022 - 38/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 16/50

May 2023

New States:
South Carolina - Charleston: The Brief History of a Remarkable City
Nevada - The Battle for Las Vegas: The Law vs. The Mob
Missouri - Sparring Partners
I read Homegoing, which is a fantastic book. Part of the book is set in Ghana and the rest of the book is set in several spots in the USA, primarily Alabama, but also New York and California. I was going to count it for Alabama, but I already have a 5-star book for Alabama, so I'm going to count it for Ghana and now have a 5-star book in Ghana. I was most drawn to the portion of the story that was set in Ghana anyway.

Returning to previously visited states:
New York - The Housemaid
Louisiana - Definitely Dead
Texas - The Hawthorne Legacy
New Jersey - The Collectors

Total States since January 2022 - 38/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 17/50

June 2023

New States:
None

Returning to previously visited states:
Virginia - Demon Copperhead
Texas - The Final Gambit
Louisiana - All Together Dead
Massachusetts - A Summer Affair
California - Lessons in Chemistry
Bonus:
Washington DC - Stone Cold

Total States since January 2022 - 38/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 18/50

July 2023

New States:
None

Returning to previously visited states:
Massachusetts - The Castaways
Louisiana - From Dead to Worse, A Touch of Dead
New Jersey - Beaches
Virginia - Divine Justice
Ohio - Winesburg, Ohio

Total States since January 2022 - 38/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 18/50

August 2023

New States:
None

Returning to previously visited states:
California - Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
Texas - The Bodyguard
Washington D.C. - Hell's Corner
Massachusetts - Beautiful Day, The Perfect Couple
New Jersey - Hidden Pictures
Louisiana - Dead and Gone
New York - The Measure

Total States since January 2022 - 38/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 18/50

September 2023

New States:
None yet

Returning to previously visited states:
New York: The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship between a Boy and a Baseball Legend, Death of a Salesman
California: The Christian Family
Washington DC: The Innocent
Colorado: Columbine
Louisiana: Dead in the Family
North Carolina: The Last Song

Total States since January 2022 - 41/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 21/50

October 2023

New States:
Hawaii - The Color of Air
Oklahoma - The Nineties
Kansas - Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer

Returning to previously visited states:
Mississippi - The Little Friend
New York - Jazz
Louisiana - Dead Reckoning
Connecticut - Hell Bent
Washington DC - Bullseye - an Original Will Robie / The Camel Club Short Story
Massachusetts - The Love Season

Total States since January 2022 - 42/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 26/50

November 2023

New States:
Alabama - The Target

Returning to previously visited states:
Arkansas - Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Arizona - The Brothers Hawthorne
Maryland - Vox
Massachusetts - On Air with Zoe Washington
Illinois - SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
New York - When to Rob a Bank
Lousiana - Deadlocked

Total States since January 2022 - 42/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2023 States 29/50

December 2023

New States:
None yet

Returning to previously visited states:
New York - Amari and the Night Brothers, The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure
Washington - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Massachusetts - No Brainer
Georgia - Amari and the Great Game
Mississippi - The Guilty
Louisiana - Dead Ever After
Tennessee - Suttree

Total States since January 2022 - 42/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2024 States 7/50

January 2024

New States:
None

Returning to previously visited states:
1. Massachusetts - Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts, Small Mercies
2. New York - The Housemaid's Secret
3. Michigan - Warrior Girl Unearthed
4. Kentucky - Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity
5. Colorado - End Game
6. Ohio - The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
7. Kansas - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

BONUS - Washington DC - Yellowface

Lea, I think you only have about 7 or 8 to go!! Woot!! 🥳🥳

Yes! I have eight states left. Of those eight states, I do know I have three books that are on my shelves right now that I just need to squeeze in somehow. I'm not sure about the other five, we'll see!

Iowa - I was given a book set in Iowa last year, I should just read that!
Minnesota - One of the books on my list is partially set in Minnesota!
New Hampshire -
North Dakota -
Rhode Island - I was given a book set in Rhode Island last year, I should just read that!
South Dakota -
Utah -
West Virginia - There's a children's book I want to read.

I got off count somewhere, I have only seven states to go! :-)

Edit: Oops, my mistake was thinking that I had gotten off count somewhere. My original tally was correct, 8 states to go.

Lea wrote: "I got off count somewhere, I have only seven states to go! :-)"

Congrats on the progress, Lea!!

Total States since January 2022 - 43/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2024 States 12/50

February 2024

New States:
43. West Virginia - Missing May

Returning to previously visited states:
8. Oregon - If I Stay
9. California - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, The Woman in Me
10. Hawaii - Daughter of Moloka'i
11. Louisiana - The Green Mile
12. West Virginia - Missing May
New York - Chain-Gang All-Stars
Massachusetts - The Woggle-Bug Book

Total States since January 2022 - 43/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2024 States 13/50

March 2024

New States:
None

Returning to previously visited states:
California - Parable of the Sower
New York - Where She Went
13. South Carolina - How to Sell a Haunted House

Total States since January 2022 - 44/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2024 States 16/50

April 2024
New States:
14. Minnesota: The Unhoneymooners

Returning to previously visited states:
Hawaii - The Honeymoon Crashers
15. Florida: Bright Young Women
California: Parable of the Talents, Bloodsucking Fiends, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Fed
16. Wisconsin - Feed (I could have picked a lot of different states with this one, so I picked the state that had my favorite scene in it, the one I thought was the most pivotal.)
Ohio - Holly

Total States since January 2022 - 45/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2024 States 19/50

May 2024
New States:
New Hampshire - Our Town

Returning to previously visited states:
Minnesota - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
Massachusetts - Love, Theoretically
California - You Suck
17. Georgia - The Break-Up Book Club
18. New Hampshire - Our Town
California - San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats
Michigan - Tom Lake
19. Tennessee - Deadline
California - Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
New York - The Chalice of the Gods

Total States since January 2022 - 45/50 (See message #1 for specific books)
Total 2024 States 21/50

June 2024
New States:
None

Returning to previously visited states:
20. New Jersey: Check & Mate
California - Bite Me
21. Washington - Blackout