Reading Road Trip Challenge 2015 wrap-up

Reading Road Trip Challenge 2015

Thanks to She’s Got Books on Her Mind for hosting. I did a challenge similar to this in 2012 and managed to get all the states with some work. Since then, I’ve kept track of my states each year in my regular reading and usually get more than half without trying. Because I read a lot of series that are set in the same locale and many books set in England, I don’t have a ton of diversity, so I set my goal for the Wayfarer: 21-30. I got 27 states without doing anything different in my reading and some states got many hits.

Read at least one book set in all 50 states in the U.S.A. or set a lower goal. Reading Levels:
Hitchhiker: 10-20
Wayfarer: 21-30
Voyager: 31-40
Adventurer: 41-50

Alabama: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee
Arizona: Looking for Lost Bird, Yvette Melanson
Arkansas: Where the Wind Leads, Vinh Chung
California: The Saddlemaker’s Wife, Earlene Fowler
The Road to Cardinal Valley, Earlene Fowler
Sinner, Maggie Stiefvater
Connecticut: The Book of Life, Deborah Harkness
Georgia: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
Hawaii: Molok’ai, Alan Brennert
Illinois: Insurgent (Divergent #2), Veronica Roth
Indiana: A Girl of the Limberlost, Gene Stratton Porter
Louisiana: Dangerous Deception, Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (Dangerous Creatures #2)
Maine: Touch Blue, Cynthia Lord
Maryland: Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler
Massachusetts: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham
The House of Velvet and Glass, Katherine Howe
The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1), Rick Riordan
Minnesota:  On the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Eggs in a Casket (Cackleberry Club #5), Laura Childs
Four Souls, Louise Erdrich
Mississippi: Home to Holly Springs, Jan Karon
Montana: English Creek, Ivan Doig
The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
Work Song (Morrie Morgan #2), Ivan Doig
Sweet Thunder (Morrie Morgan #3), Ivan Doig
New Mexico: Rock with Wings (Navajo Mysteries #20), Anne Hillerman
New York: An Invisible Thread, Laura Schroff; The Diviners, Libba Bray
North Carolina: Jan Karon’s Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader: Recipes from Mitford Cooks, Favorite Tales from Mitford Books
At Home in Mitford (Mitford #1), Jan Karon
A Light in the Window (Mitford #2), Jan Karon
These High, Green Hills  (Mitford #3), Jan Karon
Miss Julia Lays Down the Law (Miss Julia #16), Ann B. Ross
Out to Canaan (Mitford #4), Jan Karon
A New Song (Mitford #5), Jan Karon
First Frost, Sarah Addison Allen
A Common Life: The Wedding Story (Mitford #6), Jan Karon
In This Mountain (Mitford #7), Jan Karon
Shepherds Abiding (Mitford #8), Jan Karon
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, Kaye Gibbons
Light from Heaven (Mitford #8), Jan Karon
Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Mitford #10), Jan Karon
Come Rain or Come Shine (Mitford #11), Jan Karon
North Dakota: Tracks, Louise Erdrich
Ohio: Calling Invisible Women, Jeanne Ray
Pennsylvania: Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
The Queen of the Big Time, Adriana Trigiani
South Carolina: Steeped in Evil (Tea Shop #15), Laura Childs
Gap Creek, Robert Morgan
South Dakota: By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Texas: Hangman’s Root (China Bayles #3), Susan Wittig Albert;
Rosemary Remembered (China Bayles #4), Susan Wittig Albert
Rueful Death (China Bayles #5), Susan Wittig Albert
Love Lies Bleeding (China Bayles #6), Susan Wittig Albert
Chile Death  (China Bayles #7), Susan Wittig Albert
Lavender Lies (China Bayles #8), Susan Wittig Albert
The Underneath, Kathi Appelt
Mistletoe Man (China Bayles #9), Susan Wittig Albert
Virginia: The Kitchen House, Kathleen Grissom
Owls Well That Ends Well (Meg Langslow #6), Donna Andrews
Big Stone Gap (Stone Gap #1), Adriana Trigiani
Big Cherry Holler (Big Stone Gap #2), Adriana Trigiani
The Dream Thieves (Raven Cycle #2), Maggie Stiefvater
Washington: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Daniel James Brown
Not read in 2015:
Alaska
Colorado
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Idaho
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Michigan
Missouri 
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming