random reading challenge
I saw a challenge on Goodreads and it appeals to me. The challenge is called Read Around the USA. The goal is to read a book set in every state in the US.
I plan on doing a variant of the challenge. My goal is to read a mystery set in every state. I read so many mysteries I figure I've got to be a third of the way there, & I can pick away at this list over the next 2-3 years. This post is to figure out my current standing. Here's an alphabetical list, by state. States in red have been read. States in black have not been read. Authors & titles in blue have been read, authors & titles in black are suggestions to myself.
Alabama Anne George (Murder on a Girls' Night Out to-read)
Alaska Dana Stabenow (Kate Shugak, Liam Campbell)
Arizona Tony Hillerman (Leaphorn & Chee); J.A. Jance (Joanna Brady)
Arkansas Charlaine Harris (Grave Sight to-read)
California Nevada Barr (Firestorm, High Country); Laurie R. King (Kate Martinelli); Walter Mosley (Easy Rawlins, Socrates Fortlow); Pat Welch (Helen Black); Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone); Abigail Padgett (Bo Bradley, Blue McCarron); Karen Kijewski (Kat Colorado); Dashiell Hammett; Leonard Chang (Allen Choice); Raymond Chandler; Dianne Day (Fremont Jones)
Colorado Nevada Barr (Ill Wind, Hard Truth); Michael Connelly (on to-read list)
Connecticut ??
Delaware ??
Florida Laurence Shames; Carl Hiaasen; Nevada Barr (Flashback)
Georgia Nevada Barr, Endangered Species; Charlaine Harris, Real Murders (1st in Aurora Teagarden series)
Hawaii ??
Idaho ??
Illinois Sara Peretsky (V.I. Warshawski)
Indiana ??
Iowa Maddy Hunter (Alpine for You), need to choose other author(s)
Kansas Charlene Weir (Susan Wren)
Kentucky Frankie Y Bailey (Death's Favorite Child to-read), Deborah Woodworth (to-read), Linda Y. Atkins (Absence of Reason)
Louisiana DJ Donaldson (Franklin & Broussard); David Fulmer (to-read); Greg Herren (to-read); Tony Fennelly (to-read); Nevada Barr (Burn to-read)
Maine Barbara Ross, Clammed Up
Maryland ??
Massachusetts Robert B. Parker (Spenser, Sunny Randall, Jesse Stone); Elise Title (to-read);
Michigan Elmore Leonard (Mr. Paradise); Nevada Barr (A Superior Death, Winter Study)
Minnesota Nevada Barr (Destroyer Angel to-read); PJ Tracy (Monkeewrench, Live Bait); William Kent Krueger (Iron Lake);
Mississippi Nevada Barr (Deep South, Hunting Season); Ace Atkins (The Ranger to-read)
Missouri ??
Montana Nevada Barr (Blood Lure); Sandra West Prowell (By Evil Means to-read); Christine Andreae (Smoke Eaters to-read); Karen Harper (Inferno)
Nebraska David Wiltse (Heartland to-read)
Nevada Todd Borg (Tahoe Deathfall to-read; James Swain (Grift Sense to-read)
New Hampshire ??
New Jersey Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum); Valerie Wilson Wesley (When Death Comes Stealing to-read); Kate Gallison (Bury the Bishop to-read)
New Mexico Nevada Barr (Blind Descent); Michael McGarrity (Kevin Kerney); Tony Hillerman (Leaphorn & Chee); Sarah Lovett (Dangerous Attachments to-read); Aimée Thurlo (Bad Faith to-read)
New York Nevada Barr (Liberty Falling); Julia Spencer-Fleming (Rev. Clare Fergusson); Harlen Coben (Myron Bolitar); Jeffery Deaver (Lincoln Rhyme); Carol Lea Benjamin (This Dog for Hire to-read)
North Carolina Kathy Reichs (Temperence Brennan); Margaret Maron (Deborah Knott); Joan Opyr (Shaken and Stirred to-read); Joyce Lavene (Pretty Poison to-read); Barbara Neely (Blanche on the Lam to-read)
North Dakota ??
Ohio Jennifer Crusie (romances with some mystery); Lisa Black (Takeover to-read); Elizabeth Becka (Trace Evidence to-read); Karen Harper (Fall from Pride to-read); Linda Castillo (Sworn to Silence to-read)
Oklahoma ??
Oregon Conrad Haynes (Professor Harry Bishop); Alafair Burke (Judgment Calls to-read); Phillip Margolin (Executive Privilege, Wild Justice to-read)
Pennsylvania Todd Ritter (Death Notice to-read); Judy Clemens (Till the Cows Come Home to-read)
Rhode Island Jan Brogan (A Confidential Source to-read); Alice Kimberly (The Ghost & Mrs. McClure to-read)
South Carolina Janet Evanovich & Charlotte Hughes (Holt & Swift); Michael Lee West (Gone with a Handsomer Man to-read); Fran Rizer (A Tisket, A Tasket, A Fancy Stolen Casket to-read)
South Dakota Lori Armstrong (Blood Ties to-read)
Tennessee James Sallis (Cypress Grove to-read); J.T. Ellison (to-read); Jefferson Bass (Carved in Bone to-read)
Texas Nevada Barr (Track of the Cat, Borderline); Joe R. Lansdale (Savage Season to-read); Lee Martin (Too Sane a Murder to-read);
Utah Nevada Barr (The Rope to-read); Michael Norman (The Commission to-read)
Vermont Anna Salter (Shiny Water to-read)
Virginia Patricia Cornwell (Kay Scarpetta); Frankie Y Bailey (Death's Favorite Child to-read)
Washington, D.C. Phillip Margolin (Executive Privilege to-read)
Washington J.A. Jance (J P Beaumont); Jo Dereske (Miss Zukas); Skye Kathleen Moody (Venus Diamond)
West Virginia Julia Keller (A Killing in the Hills to-read); John Billheimer (The Contrary Blues to-read)
Wisconsin Sandra Balzo (Uncommon Grounds to-read); Sarah Andrews (Em Hansen, Tensleep, not in lfpl system)
Wyoming Lise McClendon (The Bluejay Shaman to-read); C.J. Box (Open Season to-read)
It looks like I've read read mysteries for 23 of 50 states + D.C. Not bad!
I plan on doing a variant of the challenge. My goal is to read a mystery set in every state. I read so many mysteries I figure I've got to be a third of the way there, & I can pick away at this list over the next 2-3 years. This post is to figure out my current standing. Here's an alphabetical list, by state. States in red have been read. States in black have not been read. Authors & titles in blue have been read, authors & titles in black are suggestions to myself.
It looks like I've read read mysteries for 23 of 50 states + D.C. Not bad!