Thanks to Bonnie for setting this wonderful challenge up!

The challenge:
The United States is a union of 50 states. “Book around the states” and find at least one excellent book for each state of the union. Plus one for D.C. The book should help us learn something ABOUT that state and not just be one written by somebody who lives there. There is no time limit to this challenge!

Below is a list of the 50 states. I will add each book, one at a time beside the applicaple state as I read them. I will cross them out when I have finished and have written my review. Click on each book, to see my reviews.

The 50 United States of America:
AL = ALABAMA: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
AK = ALASKA:Sometimes we’re always real same-same by Mattox Roesch
AZ = ARIZONA
AR = ARKANSAS
CA = CALIFORNIA
CO = COLORADO
CT = CONNECTICUT
DE = DELAWARE
FL = FLORIDA
GA = GEORGIA: Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig
HI = HAWAII : Hawaii by by James A. Michener
ID = IDAHO
IL = ILLINOIS
IN = INDIANA
IA = IOWA: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
KS = KANSAS
KY = KENTUCKY: Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvick
LA = LOUISIANA
ME = MAINE
MD = MARYLAND: Digging To America by Anne Tyler
MA = MASSACHUSETTS: Little Children by Tom Perrotta , The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
MI = MICHIGAN: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
MN = MINNESOTA: The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks
MS = MISSISSIPPI: Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
MO = MISSOURI
MT = MONTANA
NE = NEBRASKA
NV = NEVADA
NH = NEW HAMPSHIRE
NJ = NEW JERSEY
NM = NEW MEXICO
NY = NEW YORK: The Crazyladies of Pearl Street by Trevanian
NC = NORTH CAROLINA
ND = NORTH DAKOTA
OH = OHIO: Sula by Toni Morrison
OK = OKLAHOMA
OR = OREGON
PA = PENNSYLVANIA: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
RI = RHODE ISLAND
SC = SOUTH CAROLINA
SD = SOUTH DAKOTA
TN = TENNESSEE: Ringside 1925: Views From the Scopes Trial by Jen Bryant
TX = TEXAS
UT = UTAH
VT = VERMONT
VA = VIRGINIA: Animal, Vegetable, and Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
WA = WASHINGTON: Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
WV = WEST VIRGINIA
WI = WISCONSIN
WY = WYOMING

DC = DISTRICT of COLUMBIA





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