Where Am I Reading 2022

With Helpful Suggestions at the bottom.

Once again I want to track where I'm reading this year, and once again I'm too lazy to set up a google map for it. The list is an easier way to see which states I've been hitting and which I've been missing. I think I'll bold the ones I missed in 2021. And then I'll track which countries I'm reading in (sometimes it's a guess, since countries in the past had different borders), and I'm also giving myself suggestions in case I want to seek out a location.

***** My life went pretty crazy in the end of 2022, so I lost track. I think I'll skip 2023 and then start up again if I'm interested. ****

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Missed in 2021:

Alaska: Sweet Home Alaska

Connecticut: One For the Books

Delaware: Everything Blue

Iowa:

Kansas: On the Corner of Hope

Kentucky: Red White & Whole

Mississippi:

Missouri:

Nevada:

Ohio: A Spindle Splintered

South Carolina:

South Dakota:

Vermont: Chirp

-----------------------    2022 ----------------

Alabama: Freedom Walkers

Alaska: Sweet Home Alaska

Arizona: Canyon's Edge

Arkansas: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 

California: Light of Uncommon Stars

Colorado: The Real Thing

Connecticut: One For the Books

Delaware: Everywhere Blue

Florida: Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe

Georgia: Dear Justyce

10/10

Hawaii: 

Idaho: 

Illinois: Violets Are Blue

Indiana: 

Iowa: 

Kansas: On the Corner of Hope

Kentucky: Red White & Whole

Louisiana: Never Tell, 

Maine: The Scotsman Who Swept Me Away

Maryland: Finding Junie Kim

6/10

Massachusetts: Winter Tide

Michigan: Huda F Are You

Minnesota: Life's Too Short

Mississippi: 

Missouri: 

Montana: 

Nebraska: 

Nevada: 

New Hampshire: Tuck Everlasting

New Jersey: 

4/10

New Mexico: Me (Moth)

New York: In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers

North Carolina: The Edge of Anything,

North Dakota: 

Ohio: A Spindle Splintered

Oklahoma: Salt Magic

Oregon:

Pennsylvania: Harbinger

Rhode Island: 

South Carolina: 

6/10

South Dakota:

Tennessee: The Sentinel

Texas: Chunky

Utah: 

Vermont: Chirp

Virginia: 

Washington: Burn 

West Virginia: 

Wisconsin: 

Wyoming: 

4/10

Washington D.C.: 

30/51

World Reading:

North America (non-US): 2

Canada: My Body In Pieces

Mexico: 

Caribbean: 

Blackfoot: Borders

Asia: 3

Turkmenistan: 

Turkey: 

Kazakhstan: 

Japan: 

Afghanistan: 

China: Grandmaster of Cultivation

Thailand: 

India: Jasmin Throne

Vietnam: Fireheart Tiger

Korea: Phoenix Extravagant

Europe: 4

England: Straight

Wales: Framed

Scotland: When a Scot Ties the Knot

Germany: Black Butler 19

Ireland: Guest

Albania: 

Czech Republic:  

France: Heartstoppers 3

Italy: 

Russia: 

Africa: 2

Kenya: 

Egypt: A Master of Djinn

Nigeria: Ikenga

South America: 1

Argentina:

Ecuador: The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina

Oceania 1

Australia: Terra Nullius

Countries: 13

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Suggestions That I Think I Would Like: 

Alaska: Back Home

Arkansas:  

Colorado: Hidden Valley Road

Connecticut: Home for Goddesses and Dogs

Delaware: 

Hawaii:  

Indiana: 

Iowa: Amy had something for me 

Kansas:

Kentucky: 

Maryland: 

Massachusetts: 

Michigan: 

Minnesota:

Mississippi: 

Missouri: 

Nebraska:

Nevada: 

North Carolina: 

North Dakota: 

Ohio: 

Oklahoma:  Killers of the Flower Moon 

Pennsylvania: 

Rhode Island: 

South Carolina: 

South Dakota

Tennessee:  The Sentinel 

Utah

Vermont: 

Virginia: 

Washington D.C.: 

Where Am I Reading 2021

With Helpful Suggestions at the bottom.

Once again I want to track where I'm reading this year, and once again I'm too lazy to set up a google map for it. The list is an easier way to see which states I've been hitting and which I've been missing. I think I'll bold the ones I missed in 2020. And then I'll track which countries I'm reading in (sometimes it's a guess, since countries in the past had different borders), and I'm also giving myself suggestions in case I want to seek out a location.

I belatedly found an Official Challenge for this: 2021 Literary Escapes Challenge. I should wander over there to get some good ideas for my missing states.

Alabama: Almost American Girl, The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks

Alaska:

Arizona: Dead Heat, Displacement, Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything, Even If We Break

Arkansas: Race Against Time

California: Condor Comeback, Wild Sign, The Fold, Kobe Bryant, Kiyo Sato, Wild Sign, Land of the Cranes, Manson Family Murders, Efren Divided, OJ Simpson Murder Case, Parable of the Sower Graphic Novel, Life Sucks, Handful of Earth Handful of Sky, A Russian Cage, Cuckoo's Egg, Singled Out

Colorado: How to Raise a Honest Rabbit

Connecticut: 

Delaware: 

Florida: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Nickel Boys, 

Georgia: Taking on the Plastics Crisis, Reckless, High Cotton, Ring Shout,, Unbelonging

7/10

Hawaii: Forever Strong

Idaho: Walk Two Moons

Illinois: Nightshades, Outbreak

Indiana: You Should See Me In a Crown

Iowa: 

Kansas:

Kentucky: 

Louisiana: The Vanishing Half, Someplace to Be Flying, Louisiana Longshot, King and the Dragonflies, Gator Bait, Singled Out

Maine: Stowed Away, Echo Mountain

Maryland: Extraordinary Union, Beautiful Struggle (Young Reader)

7/10

Massachusetts: Lizzie Borden Ax Murders, Gardner Museum Heist, From the Desk of Zoe Washington, Show Me a Sign

Michigan: Sucker Punch, A Bollywood Affair, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry

Minnesota: Cat Tricks, Chaos on CatNet, Minn of the Mississippi, Future Home of the Living God

Mississippi: 

Missouri: 

Montana: Burn Bright

Nebraska: You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey

Nevada: 

New Hampshire: Kat & Mouse 2-4, Nos4A2

New Jersey: Murder at Veronica's Diner, We Are Not Broken

7/10

New Mexico: You Brought Me the Ocean

New York: Shadows In Death, Punching the Air, Class Act, The Son of Sam Killings, Faithless in Death, Wonder, Invisible Life of Addie LaRou, The City We Became, Riot Baby, American Fairytale, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, The Black Friend, Forgotten in Death, Princess for Christmas

North Carolina: Chiggers, The Twisted Ones

North Dakota: 

Ohio: 

Oklahoma: One Perfect Kiss, Black Birds in the Sky

Oregon: Playing With Fire, Thirteens

Pennsylvania: His Pretend Amish Bride, The Conductors

Rhode Island: Pucker

South Carolina: 

7/10

South Dakota

Tennessee: Fighting Words

Texas:  Elatsoe, Assassination of John F Kennedy, An Easy Death, Punching Bag

Utah: Switchback

Vermont: 

Virginia: They'd Better Call Me Sugar, Gift of the Magpie

Washington: Storm Cursed, Midnight Sun, Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear, Good Kind of Trouble, Field Guide to Getting Lost 

West Virginia: Apple Cider Slaying

Wisconsin: Switchback

Wyoming: Tempest

8/10

Washington D.C.: Ambushed, Taste of Blackberries, Notes from a YOung Black Chef

37/51

World Reading:

North America (non-US): 3

Canada: The Marrow Thieves, The Chai Factor, The Blue Castle, Emiko Superstar

Mexico: La Perdida

Caribbean: Crogan's Vengeance

Asia: 7

Turkmenistan: A Bride's Story 9 (probably)

Turkey: A Bride's Story 10 (probably), A Bride's Story 11 (definitely)

Kazakhstan: Laika

Japan: Yotsuba& 4, Meltdown, Explore the Future through Science Fiction

Afghanistan: A Long Time Until Now

China: Mulan: Before the Sword, Empress of Salt and Fortune

Thailand: A Wish in the Dark (magical)

Europe: 8

UK: The War That Saved My Life, Take a Hint Dani Brown, A Case of Possession, Silver in the Wood, Two Rogues Make a Right, The Talisman Ring, Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows, Northanger Abbey, Piranesi, Murder Must Advertise, A Murder in Time, Arcadia, Subtle Blood, Rattle His Bones, Black Butler 18, Patience & Esther, Castle of Adventure, The Lost Orphan, Thursday Murder Club, Secret Garden (Graphic Novel), Raven Black (Scotland), Year of Wonders, To the Hilt, Rat Race, Beowulf

Germany: Games of Deception, Be My Guest, Black Butler 19

Ireland: Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel

Albania: Unexpected Mrs Pollifax

Czech Republic: I Never Saw Another Butterfly 

France: White Bird, Ghost Talkers

Italy: From Scratch

Russia: Last Witnesses

Africa: 2

In Bibi's Kitchen (East African coast)

Kenya: When Stars Are Scattered

Egypt: The Buried Pyramid

South America: 1

Argentina: Furia

Countries: 21

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Suggestions That I Think I Would Like: 

Alaska: Back Home

Arkansas:  

Colorado: Hidden Valley Road

Connecticut: Home for Goddesses and Dogs

Delaware: 

Hawaii:  

Indiana: 

Iowa: Amy had something for me 

Kansas:

Kentucky: 

Maryland: 

Massachusetts: 

Michigan: 

Minnesota:

Mississippi: 

Missouri: 

Nebraska:

Nevada: 

North Carolina: 

North Dakota: 

Ohio: 

Oklahoma:  Killers of the Flower Moon 

Pennsylvania: 

Rhode Island: 

South Carolina: 

South Dakota

Tennessee:  The Sentinel 

Utah

Vermont: 

Virginia: 

Washington D.C.: 

Where Am I Reading 2020

I'm going to track where I read this year, because I like to know. I'm not sure I'm declaring this an actual challenge as I don't plan to work on filling in the gaps.

I'll track the states and also the countries.

I'm not officially declaring a goal, but I hope to read across a lot of different places. And it's fun to see where my books tend to cluster and where my characters avoid.





Alabama:
Alaska: The Great Alone
Arizona: Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, 
Arkansas: Grave Sight (graphic novel), They Called Us Enemy
California: Armstrong & Charlie, Redshirts, Grand Theft Horse, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Magic For Liars, The Ballad of Huck & Miguel, 13 Reasons Why, Middlegame, Parable of the Sower, Front Desk, Deadly Sexy, Parable of the Sower, March Fong Eu, Zodiac Killer
Colorado:
Connecticut: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Delaware: 
Florida: The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora, Beverly Right Here, Tacking Pythons
Georgia: Some Were In Time, Jubilee

7/10

Hawaii: On the Horizon, The Wind Gourd of La'amaomao
Idaho:
Illinois: Radium Girls 
Indiana: In the Dream House
Iowa:
Kansas:
Kentucky: Cleaning the Gold, Becoming Muhammad Ali
Louisiana: A Longer Fall (maybe?)
Maine: The Puffin Plan
Maryland: Star Spangled

7/10

Massachusetts: Allergic to Girls School and Other Scary Things, Hey Kiddo, Your Own Sylvia, History Smashers: Mayflower, Hopeful Heart, 
Michigan: One Good Dragon Deserves Another, That Can Be Arranged, Poisoned Water
Minnesota: The Cat Came Back, Don't Call Us Dead
Mississippi: The Affair, Heavy, John Lewis, 

Missouri: 
Montana:
Nebraska:
Nevada: Normal
New Hampshire: Books For Living, Kat & Mouse 1
New Jersey: All Boys Aren't Blue
7/10

New Mexico: 

New York: Archangel's War, Vendetta In Death, Gregor the Overlander, Shout, American Dreamer, Golden in Death, Tell the Wolves I'm Home, The Winter Sisters, Speak, Harbor Me, New Kid, LaGuardia, Angel's Blood, Ordinary Hazards, Meg Jo Beth & Amy, To Dance, Judgment in Death, Reunion in Death Skylark and Wallcreeper, Kiss No 8, My Name is Tami ... and I Believe in Miracles, Becoming Kid Quixote, 

North Carolina: The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, The Last Mirror on the Left
North Dakota: Walk the Wire
Ohio: Redemption, Cy Young, Many Lives of Eddie Rickenbacker
Oklahoma: Braiding Sweetgrass, Indian Removal Act and the  Trail of Tears, 
Oregon: Her Naughty Holiday
Pennsylvania: Fences, Amelia Rules! Superheroes
Rhode Island: 
South Carolina: The Parker Inheritance 
8/10

South Dakota

Tennessee: This Promise of Change, Who Give a Poop?

Texas: Fly Like a Girl, Honeybee, Free Lunch, Wolf Rebel

Utah

Vermont:
Virginia: 
Washington: Rare Encounters With Ordinary Birds, Youth to Power, Fledgling
West Virginia: Reaching For the Moon
Wisconsin:  Catfishing on Catnet, Little House in the Big Woods
Wyoming: 

Washington D.C.: The Fix, Marshmallow S'more Murder, History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote, 

5/11

34/51


Continents: 6/7

Asia: (5)

• China: The Poppy War (sorta), 
• India: Mangos, Mischief, and Tales of Friendship
• Japan: Giant Spider and Me Vol 2-3,
• Philippians (sorta): Trash
• Thailand: All Thirteen

Africa: (6)

• Alternate Africa: The Tropic of Serpents
• Alternate Egypt: The City of Brass, The Haunting of Tram 015
• Nigeria: LaGuardia
• Somalia: Call Me American
• Sudan:  Walk Toward the Rising Sun
• Somewhere off the west coast: Deep
• South Africa: It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime

South America: (2)

• Uruguay: Cantoras
• Brazil: The Light Brigade

Antarctica (1):

• Countdown Conspiracy

Oceania:

Europe: (9)

• Belgium: Once a Spy, The Prince and the Dressmaker
• Germany: Flowers In the Gutter, We Had To Be Brave
• Holland: Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
• Italy: A Farewell to Arms
• Poland: Spinning Silver (sorta), Surviving the Angel of Death
• Portugal: Plasitus Maritanus
• Sweden: The Deal of a Lifetime
• Turkey: Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant
• UK: A Little Light Mischief, Someone to Honor, Dogsbody, A Traitor to Memory, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Dangers of Temptation, The Duchess War, Witchmark, Cookie, The Heiress Effect, The Warden, Someone to Remember, Tooth and Claw (sorta), The Secret of Chimneys, Out of the Blue (Edinburgh), Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom, Slippery Creatures, The Gown, A Sporting Chance, More than Marmalade, The Sugared Game, Proper English, Harry Potter, The Professor's Daughter, Five Children and It, Give All to Love, Outlaw, Lady's Code of Misconduct

North America: (6)

• US (see above states)
• Canada: Funny You Don't Look Autistic, Surviving the City, This Place
• Mexico: The Pearl
• Cuba: Refugee
• Haiti: Hadriana In All My Dreams
• Dominican Republic: Clap When You Land 

29 Countries (counting Antarctica) 

Where Am I Reading 2018?

UPDATE:

So I kind of gave up once I switched to all middle-grade-fantasy-all-the-time, because I rarely made it back to earth. But I did OK even with just reading through September: 42/51.

I missed:
Alaska
Arkansas
Idaho
Indiana
Kansas
Maryland
South Carolina
West Virginia
Vermont.

*****************

I'm going to track where I'm reading again, although I admit in advance that I won't beat myself up if I miss a state. Or ten.

I found a blog hosting a challenge to do this, so I'll sign up so I can check out what other people are reading for tough states. Dollycas is hosting the 2018 Literary Escapes Challenge And I'm going to make a real effort to read the three states I missed two years in a row, and a bit of a push to read the ones I missed last year.






(Map generated by Visitedstatesmap.com: Mine

The US: (states I missed last year are in bold)

Delaware: I'll Be Your Blue Sky
North Dakota: Makoons
Utah: The Mountain Between Us

Alabama: Just Mercy, this is where it ends, Murder on a Bad Hair Day
Alaska:
Arizona: Dead Heat 
Arkansas: 
California: Faith, Treasured By Thursday, Bubonic Plague, Ralph S. Mouse, Runaway Ralph, California Bones, Rebel, Parasite, Once More With Feeling, Laughing Gas, One Crazy Summer, Symbiont, The Third Mushroom
Colorado: How to Raise an Honest Rabbit, The Winter Courtship Rituals of Fur-Bearing Critters, Blackbird Knitting in a Bunny's Lair, Knitter In His Natural Habitat, End Game
Connecticut: Ms Bixby's Last Day (I think), Fish in a Tree (very likely), The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker (for sure!), The Weight of Zero
Florida: Full of Beans, Tricks for Free
Georgia: Potions and Pastries, Aru Shah and the End of Time

Hawaii: Black Sands 
Idaho: 
Illinois:The Mortification of Flavia Munson
Indiana:
Iowa: A Game of Chance *, A Problematic Paradox
Kansas:
Kentucky: Mackenzie's Magic 
Louisiana: Strangers in Their Own Land
Maine: The Memory Thief, The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Toaff's Way
Maryland:

Massachusetts: The Borden Murders, The Firefly Code, The Penderwicks in Spring, The Penderwicks at Last, The Uncooperative Flying Carpet (supposedly!)
Michigan: The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha , Sparrow Hill Road
Minnesota: Breadcrumbs, Giant Pumpkin Suite, Omega Required, Earth to Dad
Mississippi: The March Against Fear
Missouri: Adventures of A Girl Called Bicycle
Montana: Burn Bright 
Nebraska: The Homesman, Worth Dying For
Nevada: Mackenzie's Mission
New Hampshire: Blood Brother, Game Change, The Glow of Death
New Jersey: Save Me a Seat, Creature of the Pines

New Mexico: Long Time Gone, The Truth About Martians, Storm Runner
New York: Ten Days a Madwoman, Discount Armageddon, Secrets in Death, Wood Sprites, Dark in Death, New York 2140, When You Reach Me, Yes Please, Auggie and Me, Game Masters of Garden Place, Lulu the Broadway Mouse, Dactyl Hill Squad, A Dastardly Plot
North Carolina: A Storm Too Soon
Ohio: Out of My Mind, Granted
Oklahoma: Sarah's Orphans, An Easy Death
Oregon: Beast, Good Bones Buried Bones, Bone Dry, The Hearts We Sold, Piecing Me Together
Pennsylvania: Fever 1793, Elfhome, Wolf Who Rules, Tinker, Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic
Rhode Island: Art of the Swap
South Carolina: 

South Dakota: The Long Winter 
Tennessee: The Serpent King, The House in Poplar Wood
Texas: Clean Sweep, Sweep in Peace, One Fell Sweep, The Last Mile, Spinning, Lost in Outer Space
Vermont: 
Virginia: In the Shadow of Liberty, Crouching Buzzard Leaping Loon, The Good the Bad and the Emus, Gone Gull, Bone's Gift
Washington: A History of Murder, Shrill, Benedict Hall, The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell, The Rancher's Lady, Fledgling, Stone Mad, Boys in the Boat, The Turning, The Darkdeep 
West Virginia: 
Wisconsin: Amina's Voice
Wyoming: Mackenzie's Mountain, The Midnight Line

Washington D.C.: Alice Paul and the Fight For Women's Rights, The Nebula Secret

42/51

Continents: 5/7

Asia:
Japan: Sachiko
India: Prudence, Pashmina
China: Made in China, The New Super-Man (Rebirth) Vol 1; When the Sea Turned to Silver (fantasy China),
Afghanistan: The Breadwinner

Africa:
Zambia: Mrs. Pollifax On Safari
Angola: Binti: Home, Binti: Night Masquerade
Democratic Republic of Congo: How Dare the Sun Rise
Nigeria: Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Libya: Mackenzie's Pleasure 

South America:

Antarctica:

Oceania:
Australia: The Rosie Project, Girl Friday, Bob

Europe:
Mortal Engines (might wander into Asia a bit too)
England: Another Place in Time (2/5), The Body in the Library, Black Butler 11, Silent in the Sanctuary, London Rain, The Price of Meat, It Takes Two to Tumble, The Lawrence Browne Affair, The Ruin of a Rake, Decider, Once Upon a Marquess, Marry in Scandal, Kenilworth, Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook, The Corpse at the Crystal Palace, Royal Rabbits of London, Lady Rogue, Snow Witch
Scotland: Mackenzie Family Christmas: The Perfect Gift, Black Butler 14-15, Sweep, Esme's Wish???
Switzerland: Frankenstein, Strange Star
Greece (Crete): Bull, Circe
Germany: The Plot to Kill Hitler
France: Bruno and the Carol Singers, Book of Boy
Portugal: The Twisted Path
Poland: The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Ireland: The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven * 
Italy: The Boy, The Bird, and the Coffin-Maker
Denmark: Number the Stars

North America (non-US) :

Canada: (Saskatchewan) Laughing All the Way to the Mosque
(New B---) The Frame-Up
(Montreal) Flip the Silver Switch
(Ontario) Clara Voyant, Connect the Scotts
mid-Atlantic: All By Myself Alone, Black Butler 12-13, 
Cuba: My Brigadista Year
Mexico: The Wild Book


visited 20 states (8.88%)
Create your own visited map of The World

Off Earth: 

Fantasy World: A Promise of Fire, Mighty Jack and the Goblin King, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Shadow Magic, The Goblin's Puzzle, The Voyage to Magical North, Master of Crows, The Phantom Tollbooth, Beneath the Sugar Sky, Night's Master, Song of the Current, The Burning Page, Clockwork Boys, Whiskerella, The Wonder Engine, The Assassination of Brangwain Splurge, Encrypted, Eye of Truth, Rose Legacy, R Is For Rebel, Two Mates for the Dragon, The Last, The Turnaway Girls, The Door to the Lost, Money Jane, Stone Girl's Story

Space:  Forged in Blood, Arabella of Mars, Binti, The Collapsing Empire, A Call to Duty, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Arabella and the Battle of Venus, A Call to Arms, All Systems Red, Six Wakes, We Are Legion (We Are Bob), The Service of the Sword, Flowers of Vashnoi, Yanked!, Though Hell Should Bar the Way, For We Are Many, Cold Welcome, All These Worlds, A Call to Vengeance, A Wrinkle in Time, The Privilege of Peace, Alliance of Equals, Artificial Condition, A Closed and Common Orbit, If Tomorrow Comes, Vanguard, Rogue Protocol, On Basilisk Station, Ascendant, Voyage of the Dogs, The Land of Yesterday, Honor Among Thieves

Other:


Setting Left Unmentioned -- a HALL OF SHAME!
Ghost, 
Slacker
This Savage Song (some city in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, or Kentucky. That is an odd-shaped pseudo country!)
When the Moon Was Ours (well, not in Pakistan. Maybe the US or Canada. There's a river.)
Booked (did I miss it? It's not in Kentucky. Or Texas, probably. New York maybe?)
Adulthood Rites (although this book gets a pass, as it happens after humanity destroys Earth and aliens painstakingly take a few generations to make it habitable again)
Scythe
Pashmina (this may have been my inattention)
Terrible Twos
The Magical Misfits
Magic of Melrose Orchard
Buttheads From Outer Space
Big Foot and Little Foot series
Oculum



Peripatetic -- Never stayed in one place long enough for me to count
Tomorrow's Kin
Soupy Leaves Home
The Compleat Gentleman
PathFinders

Where Am I Reading 2017?

I'm going to track where I'm reading again, although I admit in advance that I won't beat myself up if I miss a state. I am going to make an effort to read something in the states I missed in 2016, though.

I may try to find a goodreads challenge with other people doing this, just to have company in my insanity.

The US: (states I missed last year are in bold)

Alabama: Ghost of a Potion
Alaska: Julie of the Wolves
Arizona: Dead Heat
Arkansas: 1824: The Arkansas War
California: Passing Strange
Colorado: Nothing to Lose
Connecticut: A Study in Charlotte
Delaware: 
Florida: Strands of Sorrow
Georgia: Sleep Like a Baby

Hawaii:
Idaho: A Family Under the Stars
Illinois: Best Man
Indiana: My Life Before Me, Superstar
Iowa: 
Kansas: Chasing Down a Dream
Kentucky: Run
Louisiana:
Maine: The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Maryland: Vinegar Girl

Massachusetts: Fair Game
Michigan: Unbound
Minnesota: Strawberry Shortcake Murder, Joanne Fluke 7/22/17
Mississippi: The Course of Empire
Missouri:
Montana: Cry Wolf
Nebraska: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making
Nevada: Partner
New Hampshire: A Week in the Woods
New Jersey:  Ms Marvel 3 & 4 & 5 & 6: Crushed, Final Days, Super Famous, Civil War

New Mexico: First Grave on the Right
New York: Apprentice in Death
North Carolina: The Enemy
North Dakota:
Ohio: Written in Red, Divided Family (def in Ohio, unlike the Red book)
Oklahoma: Make Me, Make Me Stay (def in OK, unlike the first book)
Oregon: Lust Killer
Pennsylvania: A Season of Daring Greatly
Rhode Island: 
South Carolina: Vanishing Time

South Dakota: In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
Tennessee: 
Texas: One Fell Sweep
Utah: To Stay Alive
Vermont: 
Virginia: Alpha
Washington: Hunting Ground
West Virginia: 1632
Wisconsin: 
Wyoming: Out of Range

Washington D.C.: The Innocent

41/51

Continents: 6/7

Asia:
North Korea: Every Falling Star
China: Three Body Problem
Malaysia: Ghost Bride
Japan: Flame in the Mist

Africa:
Ethiopia: A Coalition of Lions, The Sunbird

South America:
Brazil: Snow Hunters, Lost City of Z

Antarctica:

Oceania:
Australia: Tasmania: A Long Way Home
?? Wicked

Europe:
Norway: Guts and Glory, Woman in Cabin 10
England: A Shocking Delight, 
Wales: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,
Czech: Silence Fallen
France: The Salt Roads
"Germany" : League of Dragons, Salt to the Sea
Italy: The Wooden Prince, The Valiant
Scotland: The Stolen Mackenzie Bride
The Netherlands: Heretic
Greece: The Golden Mean
Sweden: A Man Called Ove
Russia: A Gentleman in Moscow
Denmark: Bright Candles
Turkey: Dare to Disappoint

North America (non-US) :
Canada: Hatchet, The Curse of the Viking Grave, Smoke and Mirrors, Third Degree
Haiti: The Salt Roads
Dominican Republic: Dominican Republic
Mexico: The Coyote's Bicycle


Off Earth: 

Fantasy: When Demons Walk, Steal the Dragon, Moon Rising, Dragon Bones, Dragon Blood, Ratpunzel

Space: Mars Evacuees, Boundary, Castaway Odyssey

Other:

50 States of Reading 2016

I've been doing BookJourney's Where Are You Reading? Challenge for several years now. Some years I make it through all fifty states and some years I don't, but each year it gives me a chance to read books I wouldn't have found otherwise, which is what I like. In 2015 year I kept up a comfortable pace, still having to do some concentrated reading at the end, but nothing too isolating. Also, I had a lot of fun and read some interesting stuff (a run of mystery series at the end, plus a fascinating account of the Mustang Ranch in Nevada). So I felt successful and I read some fun books.

So this year I'm starting again, but hoping to spend some more time outside the US. I'm even putting the foreign countries at the top. BookJourney isn't hosting this year, as she has scaled back her blogging after a family tragedy, so instead I'll hook myself to All About Books's Challenge Around the World.  I'm also going to try using a google map again, just to be pretty, but also because the other map program is getting harder to use for my purposes. To be fair, the people running the site never dreamed of my purposes, so I can't really blame them. But I'll have to be satisfied with fun pin points instead of coloring the world.

Also, I'm not sure I'm doing it right. Here's a link My Map. All about books doesn't want to count books that I started before 2016, but I'll star them and include them because that's how I track stuff.

Continents: 5/7
Asia:

• Japan: Twin Spica 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; Dreaming Spies, Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, The Reason I Jump
• Indonesia: The Heist, Year of Living Dangerously
• Iran: A Bride's Story 5, 6, Funny in Farsi
• Kazakhstan: Bride's Story 8
• Turkey: Bride's Story 7
• Burma: Crux
• China: Starry River of the Sky
• Vietnam: Listen Slowly
• Nepal: Touching My Father's Soul

Africa:

• Gabon: Tarzan Alive
• Botswana: The Miracle at Speedy Motors
• Zimbabwe: I Will Always Write Back
• Canary Islands: To Sail a Darkling Sea
• Nigeria: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
• Tunisia: Front Lines
• Kenya: The Crocodile's Last Embrace
• South Africa/Rhodesia: The Man in the Brown Suit
• Tanzania: Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall

South America:

• Chile: * I Lived on Butterfly Hill
• Argentina: Lights Out!

Antartica:
Oceania:

Europe:

• U.K., England: Silver City, Dick Francis's Refusal, Kat Incorrigible, Only a Kiss, Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy, Not Always a Saint, Hild, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Unnatural Causes, Shades of Milk and Honey, City's Son, The Magpie Lord, A Darker Shade of Magic, Only Beloved, A Case of Possession, Only a Promise, Death Cloud, Midnight Blue, Fires of Winter, Over Sea Under Stone, Counterpunch, Only Enchanting, Whisper of Magic, The Blackthorn Key, Coraline, Flight of Magpies, The Hollow Boy, Jackdaw, Sorcery and Cecelia, The Mislaid Magician, Three On the Run, Think of England, Lord Carew's Bride, The Proposal, The Countess Conspiracy, The Winter Garden Mystery, Styx and Stones, Die Laughing, Rattle His Bones, Murder on the Flying Scotsman, Scotsman of My Dreams, Song of the Sparrow, Requiem for a Mezzo, Little Plum, Faro's Daughter, Death at Wentwater Court, Dead in the Water, Sheer Folly, A Mourning Wedding, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Marvels, A Fashionable Indulgence, H Is For Hawk, The War that Saved My Life, Anthem for Doomed Youth, The Viscount Needs a Wife, A Gentleman's Position, A Seditious Affair, Mistletoe and Murder, Black Ship, Superfluous Women, Gunpowder Plot, Heirs of the Body, The Talisman Ring, Fall of a Philanderer, The Bloody Tower
• U.K., Ireland: Nory Ryan's Song, Pegeen
• U.K., Wales: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children: Graphic Novel
• Ireland: Dark Witch
• U.K., Scotland: Rob Roy
• France: Cyrano de Bergerac, Mortal Heart, The Grand Tour
• Italy: No Vulgar Hotel, Falling in Love, The Lion of Rora
• Germany: The Book Thief, Branded By the Pink Triangle
• Denmark: Courage and Defiance
• Russia: Symphony for the City of the Dead, Comrade Don Camillo
• Poland: Paper Hearts, The Last Wish, But Can the Phoenix Sing?
• Norway: Here There Be Monsters
• Finland??: The Time Traders
• Spain: Penric and the Shaman, Penric's Mission
• San Gabriel (fake country between Spain & Portugal):  Once a Soldier
• Austria: One False Note
• Greece: Flowers of Adonis

North America:

Mid-Atlantic: To Davy Jones Below

Canada:

• B.C: The Truth Commission, Cupcakes Trinkets and Other Deadly Magic, 
• Ontario: All the Rage (guessing), Lights Out!, Out of the Cold
• Quebec: Canadian Summer, Friendly Gables
• Alberta: Skim (probably)
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Caribbean: Under a Graveyard Sky, Islands of Rage and Hope

Alabama: The Darling Dahlia's and the Eleven O'Clock Lady, Marcb Book Two
Alaska: Bad Blood, The Great Death
Arizona: Left For Dead, Galactic Derelict
Arkansas:
California: *Laura's Wolf, Prisoner, , God Help the Child, Every Last Word, Becoming Naomi Leon, Everything Everything, All the Birds in the Sky, Heat of the Night, Funny in Farsi, Uncovering You: Contract, Farm City
Colorado: The Six
Connecticut: This Book Is Overdue, Beholding Bee, Positively
Delaware: 
Florida: A Stranger's Gift, Paper Towns, Find Me, Sunny Side Up
Georgia: Miracle at Augusta, Magic Shifts, All the Little Liars

Hawaii: Nursing Homes Are Murder
Idaho:
Illinois: Grave Peril, Bone Gap, White Night
Indiana: Here Lies the Librarian
Iowa: A Wanted Man
Kansas: Rain Is Not My Indian Name, World of Ptavvs
Kentucky: The Kentucky Cycle, Honor Girl
Louisiana: The Veil, Dead But Not Forgotten, Dead Man Walking, Royal Street, Blackbird Fly, Bayou Magic
Maine: Town in a Cinnamon Toast, Last Summer
Maryland: A Spool of Blue Thread, Oyster War

Massachusetts: Parallax, Soldier's Secret, The Secret Soldier, The Sword of Summer, Dog Warrior
Michigan: Bud, Not Buddy; Libriomancer, Nice Dragons Finish Last
Minnesota: Spilling Clarence
Mississippi: The Spies of Mississippi, Blake:Huts of America, Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy
Missouri: How It Went Down, Sisterland, Under the Same Stars
Montana: Missoula
Nebraska: Silver on the Road,
Nevada: Hotel Ruby
New Hampshire:
New Jersey: Airtight, No Normal, Memory Man, Generation Why

New Mexico: Prey For a Miracle, Hour of the Bees
New York: The Wednesday Wars, Time and Again, Bayard Rustin, Tell the Wind and Fire, Devoted in Death, The Walls Around Us, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Demigods & Magicians, Rapture in Death, The Case of the Murdered Muckraker, I Go By Sea I Go By Land, Fatal Fever
North Carolina: First Frost
North Dakota:
Ohio: Ready Player One, Bet Me
Oklahoma: Cross Your Heart
Oregon: Time and Again, The Golden Princess
Pennsylvania: The Eighth Day, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, George, The Way Home Looks Now, Project Elfhome
Rhode Island: Lemonade Mouth
South Carolina: The Thirteenth Unicorn

South Dakota: 61 Hours
Tennessee: Give Me Wings, Flight Behavior
Texas: Dumplin', Clean Sweep, House Arrest, Midnight Crossroad, Night Shift, Brown-Eyed Girl, Day Shift, Don't Call Me Hero
Utah: 
Vermont: Full Cicada Moon
Virginia: Blue Lily Lily Blue, Thomas Jefferson: Art of Power,  Moonshiner's Son, Summer Garden Murder, The Raven King
Washington: *Songs of Willow Frost, Zero to Five, Fire Touched, The One and Only Ivan, Moon Called, Karen Memory, Songs of a Gorilla Nation, Delancey, Blood Bound, Game of Cages, Iron Kissed, Bone Crossed, Bearly Cooking
West Virginia: 
Wisconsin:  Death at Gills Rock
Wyoming: Once a Rancher

Washington D.C.: *Waiting For the Party, Most Dangerous, Lock In, Inner Circle
41/51

Outer Space: Venus: Between Planets, Mercenary Instincts, Imperfect Sword, Venus on the Half-Shell, Radiance, Havoc, Aurora, Breakout, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Ancillary Justice, Star Nomad, Castaway Planet, Star Trek 2, In the Black, Flag in Exile, Dragonsinger, The Ruins of Karzelek, The Assassin's Salvation

Fantasy:
The Gospel of Loki, An Apprentice to Elves, Republic, Pillars of the World (maybe England, maybe New England), An Inheritance of Ashes (no idea where), The Fifth Season, William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily A New Hope, Hamster Princess 2: Of Mice and Magic, Updraft, The Spider's War, Castle in the Air, Mystic and Rider, Bronze Gods, Born of Fury, A Court of Thorns and Roses, Changes, Firewing, Eidolon, Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, Nine Princes of Amber, Jinian Star-Eye



There are also Mini Challenges. I'm definitely trying the 50 states one, and the continent one (see above) but I'll see how many others I do. Also, she suggests tracking when books go to multiple places, which I haven't tried yet but I might:

• Read one book for each ocean (the character travels across the ocean, no matter how)
• The mountaineering challenge: climb the Seven Summits
• Three Poles Challenge: visit North Pole, South Pole and Mount Everest
• Visit a certain number of extreme points of Earth
• Read a certain number of books set in capital cities 
• Read a certain number of books set in at least 5 different places (e.g. road trip books)
• Read a certain number of books that are set in two places from different continents
• Read a certain number of books within a 100km/1.5 Mile radius of where you live
• Visit a certain number of the most famous landmarks in the world
• A to Z challenge: Find a place for each letter in the alphabet
• Visit a certain number of countries.
• Read books from authors from a certain number of different countries.
• Read a certain number of books set in places you’ve visited yourself.