Progress

Since January, here's where I am so far in my challenge to read one book for every state in the U.S. Sadly, the 30 or so other books I've read so far this year either weren't set in America or were set in the same states over and over (California, quit it!)

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California: Free for All, by Don Borchert
Colorado: The Tie That Binds, by Kent Haruf
Connecticut
Delaware: Alice in the Know, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Florida: Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
Georgia
Hawaii: The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
Idaho
Illinois: Intensely Alice, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Indiana
Iowa: Dewey, by Vicki Myron
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana: Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris
Maine
Maryland: Three Willows, by Ann Brashares
Massachusetts: The Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah Vowell
Michigan: The Longest Trip Home, by John Grogan
Minnesota: Schulz and Peanuts, by David Michaelis
Mississippi
Missouri: In Search of Mockingbird, by Loretta Ellsworth
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
New Mexico
New York: Goldengrove, by Francine Prose
North Carolina: Fragile Things, by Neil Gaiman
North Dakota
Ohio: Dramarama, by E. Lockhart
Oklahoma: Take the Cannoli, by Sarah Vowell
Oregon: Twilight Director's Notebook, by Catherine Hardwicke
Pennsylvania: Sellevision, by Augusten Burroughs
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee: How to Build a House, by Dana Reinhardt
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Washington, D.C.: Dangerously Alice, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
West Virginia
Wisconsin: Dairy Queen, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Wyoming

Next up on the list is Gone With the Wind and In Cold Blood. Stay tuned, and I will finish up on my book reviews soon!