50 State Reading Challenge Update

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Alabama –To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Alaska – The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey and Upstream by Melissa Lion

Arizona – Through a Glass Deadly by Sarah Atwell

Arkansas – Basket Case by Nancy Haddock

California – The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani

Colorado - Candy Apple Dead by Sammi Carter

Connecticut - A Clue for the Puzzle Lady by Parenell Hall

Delaware - The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

Florida - Miss Dreamsville by Amy Hill Hearth

Georgia – Swan by Frances Mayes

Hawaii - Kaiulani by Ellen Emerson White

Idaho – Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Illinois – Down the Rabbit Hole by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Indiana - Acts of Violets by Kate Collins

Iowa – Dewey by Vicki Myron

Kansas - Leave No Stone Unturned by Jeanne Glidewell

Kentucky – Keeper of the Doves by Betsy Byars

Louisiana – Redemption by Frederick Turner

Maine - Murder She Wrote – a Fatal Feast by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain

Maryland – A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

Massachusetts – The Postmistress by Sarah Blake  

Michigan - Chocolate Cat Caper by Joanna Carl, Captured by Love by Jody Hedlund

Minnesota - Pontoon by Garrison Keillor

Mississippi – Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

Missouri – A Comedy of Heirs by Rett MacPherson

Montana - The Flood Girls by Richard Fifield

Nebraska

Nevada – The Cat and the King of Clubs by Carole Nelson Douglas

New Hampshire – Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

New Jersey – The Things we Keep by Sally Hepworth

New Mexico - Child of a Rainless Year by Jane Lindskold

New York – Murphy’s Law by Rhys Bowen

North Carolina – Bryson City Tales by Walt Larimore and Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

North Dakota

Ohio – The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

Oklahoma – Cimmaron by Edna Ferber

Oregon

Pennsylvania – A Coal Miner’s Bride by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Rhode Island - The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle

South Carolina – John Riley’s Daughter by Kezi Matthews

South Dakota - These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Tennessee – A Death in the Family by James Agee

Texas - Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything by Nancy Martin

Utah

Vermont – Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

Virginia – Or Give me Death by Ann Rinaldi

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin  - Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Wyoming - Crossfile Trail by Louis L’Amour