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
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
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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I’m glad you have joined our Book around the States challenge. I notice Sula by Toni Morrison is on your list for Ohio, so I’m adding it to our list of books, okay? Thanks also for the other three reviews you shared with all who are working on this challenge.
Hi Teddy
123 You’ve been tagged.
Teddy, I am participating in this challenge, which is a lot of fun! Glad to see you joined too.
Jill =)
Sorry Bonnie,
I added some more books after I left the comment. I will be adding reviews for the other books I listed when I get the chance.
I’m also going to join the Books Around the World challenge soon.
I’m excited about the challenge Jill!
I’ve given you a little award, which you can pick up here:
http://bookbuddies3.blogspot.com/2008/02/you-make-my-day.html
I’m glad you’ll being doing Book around the World as well. That’s great!
Teddy, I am not participating in this challenge but I just wanted to say that I find your map and abbreviations very useful!
However it is making me lazy as I am not getting up to go and get my atlas so much!! My geography of the stated needed some support so thanks.
Julie
Oh Julie,
I wish I could take credit for the map, but Bonnie set up both the challenge and the map at http://bookaroundthestates.blogspot.com/
Thanks so much for your message however, because it made me realize I didn’t give Bonnie credit for it. I will go rectify that right now.