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Count me in. I recently began a challenge to read a book set in each of the fifty US states plus the District of Columbia. There are 39 left which I plan to read in 2025. Wherever possible I am choosing books from my TBR.

Alabama - Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 4/5
Alaska - Alaska by James Michener 4/5
Arizona - Tombstone Courage by J. A. Jance 2/5
Arkansas - True Grit by Charles Portis 4/5
California - Nightshade by Michael Connelly 4/5
Colorado - Plainsong by Kent Haruf 4/5
Connecticut - A Little Hope by Ethan Joella 4/5
Delaware - The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella 4/5
Florida - Flashback by Nevada Barr 3/5; Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen 4/5
Georgia - The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 4/5
Hawaii - Honolulu by Alan Brennert 4/5
Idaho - Educated by Tara Westover 5/5
Illinois - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson 4/5
Indiana - One Shot by Lee Child 3/5
Iowa - One Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 4/5
Kansas - The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas 2/5
Kentucky - The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes 3/5
Louisiana - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 4/5
Maine - Empire Falls by Richard Russo 5/5
Maryland - Chesapeake by James Michener 4/5
Massachusetts - Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese 3/5
Michigan - A Superior Death by Nevada Barr 3/5
Minnesota - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich 4/5
Mississippi - The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian 4/5
Missouri - Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain 4/5
Montana - The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig 4/5
Nebraska - 1922 by Stephen King 3/5
Nevada - The Horse by Willy Vlautin 3/5
New Hampshire - Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 4/5
New Jersey - Palisades Park by Alan Brennert 4/5
New Mexico - Shadow of the Solstice by Anne Hillerman 4/5
New York - The Street by Ann Petry 4/5
North Carolina - Serena by Ron Rash 4/5
North Dakota - The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich 3/5
Ohio - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 3/5
Oklahoma - Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate 3/5
Oregon - The Girls of Good Fortune by Kristina McMorris 3/5
Pennsylvania - A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella 4/5
Rhode Island - My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 4/5
South Carolina - Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison 4/5
South Dakota - The Personal History of Rachel Dupree by Ann Weisgarber 3/5
Tennessee - Christy by Catherine Marshall 3/5
Texas - Massacre at Goliad by Elmer Kelton 4/5; After the Bugles by Elmer Kelton 4/5
Utah - The Way of the Bear by Anne Hillerman 4/5
Vermont - The Secret History by Donna Tartt 4/5
Virginia - The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman 3/5
Washington - So Far Gone by Jess Walter 3/5
West Virginia - Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips 2/5
Wisconsin - Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder 4/5
Wyoming - One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow by Olivia Hawker 3/5
District of Columbia - The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu 3/5