Dates: Throughout 2014
Hosted by: Kerrie @ Mysteries in Paradise
Guidelines (quoted from the announcement/sign-up page):
- "Ever thought you would like to read your way across America? The USA Fiction Challenge asks you to do just that. Read just one novel from each state - you choose whether the link is the setting or the author. You choose whether you confine yourself to a particular genre or not."
- "You can also regard it as an ongoing challenge to be completed when and if you can."
✷ I don't expect to complete this in one year, so for me it will definitely be ongoing.
● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See the challenge announcement/sign-up page HERE.
● See my 2017 "Catch-up" post HERE.
MY READING LIST (books I've read, with links to reviews):
- ALABAMA
- ALASKA
- ARIZONA: Fear the Darkness (Brigid Quinn #2). Becky Masterman
- ARKANSAS
- CALIFORNIA: The Lady in the Lake. Raymond Chandler / The Case of the Velvet Claws (Perry Mason #1), Erle Stanley Gardner
- COLORADO
- CONNECTICUT: The Man Who Couldn't Miss (Stewart Hoag #10). David Handler (read in 2018)
- DISTRICT of COLUMBIA
- DELAWARE
- FLORIDA
- GEORGIA: Bloodless (Pendergast #20). Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (read in 2021)
- HAWAII
- IDAHO: Pines (Wayward Pines Series #1). Blake Crouch
- ILLINOIS: Anything Is Possible. Elizabeth Strout (read in 2017)
- INDIANA: The Suicide House. Charlie Donlea (read in Sep 2020)
- IOWA
- KANSAS: The Roanoke Girls. Amy Engel (read in 2017)
- KENTUCKY
- LOUISIANA
- MAINE: The Shape of Night. Tess Gerritsen (read in 2019)
- MARYLAND: Vinegar Girl. Anne Tyler (set in Baltimore; read in 2016)
- MASSACHUSETTS: Island Girls. Nancy Thayer / The Last September, Nina de Gramont
- MICHIGAN: The Virgin Suicides. Jeffrey Eugenides (read in 2020)
- MINNESOTA
- MISSISSIPPI
- MISSOURI: The Weight of Blood. Laura McHugh
- MONTANA: As Good As Gone. Larry Watson (set in fictional town of Gladstone)
- NEBRASKA: O Pioneers! (Great Plains Trilogy #1). Willa Cather (read in 2019)
- NEVADA: The Days of Anna Madrigal. Armistead Maupin (mostly set at the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert; read in 2014)
- NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Patience of a Dead Man. Michael Clark (read in Aug 2019)
- NEW JERSEY: Jack of Spades. Joyce Carol Oates
- NEW MEXICO
- NEW YORK: The Transcriptionist. Amy Rowland / Peter Pan Must Die. John Verdon / I Am No One. Patrick Flanery
- NORTH CAROLINA: Lovely In Her Bones. Sharyn McCrumb
- NORTH DAKOTA
- OHIO
- OKLAHOMA
- OREGON: Ramona Quimby, Age 8. Beverly Cleary (the "Ramona" books are set in Portland)
- PENNSYLVANIA: The Quilter's Apprentice. Jennifer Chiaverini
- RHODE ISLAND: The Forgotten Room. Lincoln Child / Newport, Jill Morrow
- SOUTH CAROLINA: Killing in a Koi Pond (Murder She Wrote #53). Terrie Farley Moran (read in 2021)
- SOUTH DAKOTA
- TENNESSEE: Devil Sent the Rain (Detective Billy Able #3). Lisa Turner (read in 2017)
- TEXAS: Noon Wine. Katherine Anne Porter (read in May 2018)
- UTAH
- VERMONT: The Night Sister. Jennifer McMahon
- VIRGINIA: The Litter of the Law (A Mrs. Murphy Mystery). Rita Mae Brown
- WASHINGTON: Miss Zukas and the Library Murders (Miss Zukas #1). Jo Dereske (read in February 2018)
- WEST VIRGINIA: Missing May. Cynthia Rylant (read in 2014)
- WISCONSIN: What We Keep. Elizabeth Berg
- WYOMING
POSSIBILITIES:
- ALABAMA
Burying the Honeysuckle Girls. Emily Carpenter
The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree (Darling Dahlias #1). Susan Wittig Albert
Go Set a Watchman. Harper Lee
The Grass Harp. Truman Capote
I Still Dream About You. Fannie Flagg
Rabbit Cake. Annie Hartnett - ALASKA
Bone White. Ronald Malfi
Drop City. T.C. Boyle
The Great Alone. Kristin Hannah
Icy Clutches (Gideon Oliver #6). Aaron Elkins
The Quality of Silence. Rosamund Lupton
The Snow Child. Eowyn Ivey
Terminal Freeze (Jeremy Logan #2). Lincoln Child
The Woman Who Married a Bear (Cecil Younger #1). John Straley
The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Michael Chabon
The Kate Shugak mystery series, by Dana Stabenow - ARIZONA ✓
- ARKANSAS
Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard #1). Charlaine Harris
Summer of My German Soldier. Bette Greene - CALIFORNIA ✓
Tales of the City. Armistead Maupin - COLORADO
All Seated on the Ground. Connie Willis
Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Katherine Anne Porter
The Sign of the Book. John Dunning - CONNECTICUT ✓
Ginger Pye. Eleanor Estes
Mister Blandings Builds His Dream House. Eric Hodgins
A Season in Purgatory. Dominick Dunne - DC: DISTRICT of COLUMBIA
Last of the Southern Girls. Willie Morris
Six Days of the Condor. James Grady
The Alex Cross series, by James Patterson
The Capital Crimes series, by Margaret Truman - DELAWARE
Hope Never Dies (Obama Biden Mysteries #1). Andrew Shaffer
I'll Be Your Blue Sky (Love Walked In #3). Marisa de los Santos
Still Life in Blood: A Delaware State Police Homicide Unit Mystery. Crystal Heidel
Sunburn. Laura Lippman - FLORIDA
The Deep Blue Good-by. John D. MacDonald
Duma Key. Stephen King
La Brava. Elmore Leonard
Strawberry Girl. Lois Lenski
The Florida "caper" novels by Carl Hiaasen - GEORGIA ✓
Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden #1). Charlaine Harris - HAWAII
Democracy. Joan Didion
The Koa Kane mystery series, by Robert McCaw
Murder She Wrote: Aloha Betrayed (#41 in series). Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain
The Secret of the Golden Pavilion (Nancy Drew #36). "Carolyn Keene" - IDAHO ✓
- ILLINOIS ✓
Anything Is Possible. Elizabeth Strout
Dream When You're Feeling Blue. Elizabeth Berg
Home Safe. Elizabeth Berg - INDIANA ✓
Ask the Right Question (Albert Samson #1). Michael Z. Lewin
The Friendly Persuasion. Jessamyn West
The Magnificent Ambersons. Booth Tarkington - IOWA
A Kiss Before Dying. Ira Levin - KANSAS ✓
Still Life With Crows. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - KENTUCKY
Fidelity: Five Stories. Wendell Berry
Hannah Coulter. Wendell Berry - LOUISIANA
Keepsake Crimes (Scrapbooking Mysteries #1). Laura Childs
Modern Baptists. James Wilcox - MAINE ✓
The Body in the Wake (Faith Fairchild Mysteries #25). Katherine Hall Page
Brandy and Bullets (Murder, She Wrote #4). Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain
The Burgess Boys. Elizabeth Strout
Generation Loss. Elizabeth Hand
Olive Kitteridge. Elizabeth Strout
Twisted Threads (Mainely Needlepoint #1). Lea Wait
The Weight of Water. Anita Shreve
The Whole Cat and Caboodle (Second Chance Cat Mystery #1). Sofie Ryan - MARYLAND ✓
Something by Anne Tyler - MASSACHUSETTS ✓
The Cranefly Orchid Murders. Cynthia Riggs
Night Passage (Jesse Stone #1). Robert B. Parker - MICHIGAN ✓
Dead Dancing Women (Emily Kincaid #1). Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
The Figure in the Shadows (Lewis Barnavelt #2). John BellairsThe Virgin Suicides. Jeffrey Eugenides - MINNESOTA
The Art of Mending. Elizabeth Berg
Framed In Lace (Needlecraft Mystery #2). Monica Ferris
Lake Wobegon Days. Garrison Keillor
Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956. Garrison Keillor
The Lighthouse Road. Peter Geye
Tapestry of Fortunes. Elizabeth Berg
Wintering. Peter Geye - MISSISSIPPI
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. Tom Franklin
Delta Wedding. Eudora Welty
Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood. Willie Morris
Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks Mystery #1). Miranda James
My Dog Skip. Willie Morris
The Ponder Heart. Eudora Welty
Taps: A Novel. Willie Morris - MISSOURI ✓
- MONTANA ✓
The Whistling Season. Ivan Doig - NEBRASKA ✓
My Antonia. Willa CatherO Pioneers! Willa Cather - NEVADA ✓
The Secret of the Forgotten City (Nancy Drew #52). Carolyn Keene
Thanksgiving. Michael Dibdin - NEW HAMPSHIRE ✓
Dashing Through the Snow. Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark
Murder is Binding (Booktown Mystery #1). Lorna Barrett
A Separate Peace. John Knowles - NEW JERSEY ✓
- NEW MEXICO
The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee #1). Tony Hillerman
The Book of Illusions. Paul Auster
Fire on the Mountain. Edward Abbey - NEW YORK ✓
The League of Frightened Men. Rex Stout - NORTH CAROLINA ✓
Guests on Earth. Lee Smith - NORTH DAKOTA
Ancient Shores. Jack McDevitt
The Beet Queen. Louise Erdrich
Born Brothers. Larry Woiwode - OHIO
...And Ladies of the Club. Helen Hooven Santmyer
Beloved. Toni Morrison
Sworn To Silence (Kate Burkholder #1). Linda Castillo
Winesburg, Ohio. Sherwood Anderson - OKLAHOMA
Where the Heart Is. Billie Letts - OREGON ✓
The Quick and the Thread (Embroidery Mystery #1). Amanda Lee - PENNSYLVANIA ✓
Mickelsson's Ghosts. John Gardner - RHODE ISLAND ✓
The Ivory Tower. Henry James
Theophilus North. Thornton Wilder
The Witches of Eastwick. John Updike
The Widows of Eastwick. John Updike - SOUTH CAROLINA ✓
The House on Tradd Street. Karen White - SOUTH DAKOTA
By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House Books #5). Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sleeping Giant (Themis Files #1). Sylvain Neuvel - TENNESSEE ✓
- TEXAS ✓
Durable Goods. Elizabeth Berg
Duane's Depressed. Larry McMurtry
Horseman, Pass By. Larry McMurtry
Texas. James Michener
Thyme of Death (China Bayles Mysteries #1). Susan Wittig Albert - UTAH
The 19th Wife. David Ebershoff
Artifacts of Death (Manny Rivera #1). Rich Curtin - VERMONT ✓
The Secret History. Donna Tartt - VIRGINIA ✓
- WASHINGTON
Miss Zukas and the Library Murders (Miss Zukas #1). Jo Dereske - WEST VIRGINIA ✓
- WISCONSIN ✓
- WYOMING
The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire #1). Craig Johnson
Open Season (Joe Pickett #1). C.J. Box
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