Hello fellow book nerds!
I’m a girl who loves a challenge so here I go again. I’m going to compete in the Where Are You Reading Challenge organized on Sheila on Book Journey. The challenge is to read a book from every state, but I’m more interested in seeing where books I normally read are set. I hope you choose to participate as well! I’ll be updating this page for each book I read to fill in the states and foreign countries. Ping-back here if you decide to join and be sure to link to Sheila’s challenge page as well.
Alabama: Looking for Alaska by John Green
Alaska
Arizona: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
These Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner
Arkansas
California: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffnbaugh
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Colorado: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida: Paper Towns by John Green
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois: Divergent by Veronica Roth
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine: Cabin Pressure by Josh Wolk
Maryland
Massachusetts: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Michigan: Annie’s Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg
Minnesota: The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Mississippi
Missouri: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Montana: Canada by Richard Ford
Nebraska: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Nevada
New Hampshire: Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
New Jersey: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
New Mexico
New York: Just Kids by Patti Smith
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
North Carolina: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina: Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas: The Geography of Memory by Jeanne Murray Walker
Utah
Vermont: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Virginia
Washington: The Compound by S.A. Bodeen
West Virginia
Wisconsin: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Wyoming:
Foreign Countries:
Afghanistan: And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Australia: I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Canada: The Maze Runner by James Dashner (guess)
Democratic Republic of the Congo: O, Africa! by Andrew Lewis Conn
Egypt: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
England (UK): The Last Enchantments by Charles Finch
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
India: Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
The Space Between us by Thrity Umrigar
Italy: Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King
Japan: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
North Korea: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Samoa: Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
Saudi Arabia: A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
Scotland (UK): Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Harry Potter y la Orden del Fénix por J.K. Rowling
Spain: The Creation of Eve by Lynn Cullen
Syria: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
Ukraine: The City and the City by China Mieville (guess)
Vietnam: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Wales (UK): Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Taking On a World of Words 
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