jennyifer24's 50 state challenge

I'm excited to road trip by book around the country! I decided to count a couple of previously-read books (Texas and Virginia) to get a little head start.

visited 20 states (40%)
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Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Texas
Idaho
Alaska
North Carolina
New York
Massachusetts
Maine
Washington
Virginia
Nebraska
South Carolina
Wyoming
Tennessee
California
Georgia

Maine- The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw
Vermont
New Hampshire
Massachusetts- The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser
Connecticut
Rhode Island

New York- Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Washington DC
Virginia- Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
West Virginia

North Carolina
South Carolina- Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank
Georgia- Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Tennessee- March, Book One by John Lewis
Kentucky

Ohio
Michigan- Detroit Electric Scheme by D.E. Johnson
Indiana
Illinois- Fair Play by Deeanne Gist
Wisconsin- Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Minnesota

North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Kansas
Missouri- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Iowa- The Quickening by Michelle Hoover

Oklahoma
Texas- Friday Night Lights: A Town A Team and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
New Mexico
Arizona
Nevada
Utah
California There, There by Tommy Orange

Colorado
Wyoming- The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader
Montana
Idaho- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Washington- The Look of Love by Sarah Jio
Oregon
Hawaii
Alaska- Tide, Feather, Snow by Miranda Weiss

realized I have a tag called "reading the states". Oops, guess I've tried this before! I'm not add the books I had because I really don't remember them well. Might have to reread. Here are the two I had tagged.

West Virginia- Small Town Odds by Jason Headley
Montana- The Secret Life of Cowboys by Tom Groneberg

There is an older group on LT called Reading the States. They listed their reads on the threads for the individual states, rather than recording their own journeys around the country. Maybe you were over there at one point?

Could be...I'll have to head over there and check it out! Thanks!

Finally reading a book I feel like fits into a specific state for this challenge- The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw. This takes place (unsurprisingly) in Maine.

Apparently I read a lot of books set in Europe! And a lot that "travel" through many states.

Some new books! (finally!!)
sturlington has a great review system where each post includes features that made the book particular to each state. I'm going to steal that idea from now on :-)

Massachusetts- The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser
-Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Irish Mob, Whitey Bulger

Illinois- Fair Play by Deeanne Gist
-Chicago World's Fair, skyscrapers, West Side tenements, Jane Addams, Hull House

Missouri- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
-Mississippi River, Ozarks, St. Louis, small town, Hannibal and Mark Twain references

Idaho- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
-railroad, small towns, wilderness, forests and mountains

New York- Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann
-NYC, family owned shops, department stores, Flatiron Building, tenements

Alaska- Tide, Feather, Snow by Miranda Weiss
-long, dark winter, snow, Homer, salmon fishing, cold temperatures, snowshoeing, skiing, wilderness, survival, ocean, self-sufficiency

Washington- The Look of Love by Sarah Jio
-Pike Place Market, rainy weather, houseboats, Bainbridge Island, ferry

Nebraska- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
-University of Nebraska, Omaha, cold winters, ranches

South Carolina- Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank
-Charleston, Folly Beach, Heywards, Footlight Players, Porgy and Bess, seafood, ocean

Can't go wrong with Dottie Frank for South Carolina.

I loved her location descriptions. The setting is crucial to the story which makes me like the story more. I was always hungry reading about the restaurants too :-)

Wyoming- The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader
-ranching, desert, mountains, cold and snowy winters, rural setting, homesteading, focus on nature

Tennessee- March, Book One
-civil rights movement, sit-ins, John Lewis, Nashville, Fisk University