USA Fiction Challenge: State By State in 2014

Hosted by: Kerrie of Mysteries in Paradise
Dates: Throughout 2014 (or longer)

See the challenge announcement/sign-up page HERE

Guidelines (quoted from the challenge announcement/sign-up page):
"Read just one novel from each state - you choose whether the link is the setting or the author. You choose whether you confine yourself to a particular genre or not."

I'm signing up for this one knowing, going in, that I'll never finish it in one year.  So I'm going to consider it an ongoing challenge and just see how far I get.  Should be interesting.

Kerrie says it's OK to start reading for the challenge now, so I can get going. Here's my list of states, with a few possible titles (all from my TBR list).  During the year, I'll be tracking my progress and listing the books I've actually read, over on my challenge blog.

1. ALABAMA 
2. ALASKA 
3. ARIZONA 
4. ARKANSAS 
5. CALIFORNIA
   Tales of the City. Armistead Maupin
6. COLORADO 
7. CONNECTICUT 
8. DISTRICT of COLUMBIA 
9. DELAWARE 
10. FLORIDA 
11. GEORGIA 
12. HAWAII 
13. IDAHO 
14. ILLINOIS 
15. INDIANA 
16. IOWA 
17. KANSAS
    In Cold Blood. Truman Capote
18. KENTUCKY 
19. LOUISIANA 
20. MAINE
    The Burgess Boys. Elizabeth Strout
21. MARYLAND 
22. MASSACHUSETTS
    The Cranefly Orchid Murders. Cynthia Riggs
    Night Passage (Jesse Stone #1). Robert B. Parker
23. MICHIGAN 
24. MINNESOTA 
25. MISSISSIPPI 
26. MISSOURI 
27. MONTANA
    The Whistling Season. Ivan Doig
28. NEBRASKA
    My Antonia. Willa Cather
29. NEVADA 
30. NEW HAMPSHIRE 
31. NEW JERSEY 
32. NEW MEXICO 
33. NEW YORK
    The League of Frightened Men. Rex Stout
34. NORTH CAROLINA
    Guests on Earth. Lee Smith
35. NORTH DAKOTA
    Ancient Shores. Jack McDevitt
    The Beet Queen. Louise Erdrich
    Born Brothers. Larry Woiwode
36. OHIO 
37. OKLAHOMA 
38. OREGON
    The Quick and the Thread (Embroidery Mystery #1). Amanda Lee
39. PENNSYLVANIA
    Mickelsson's Ghosts. John Gardner
40. RHODE ISLAND
    The Ivory Tower. Henry James
    Theophilus North. Thornton Wilder
    The Witches of Eastwick. John Updike
    The Widows of Eastwick. John Updike
41. SOUTH CAROLINA
    The House on Tradd Street. Karen White
42. SOUTH DAKOTA 
43. TENNESSEE 
44. TEXAS
    Texas. James Michener
45. UTAH 
46. VERMONT
    The Secret History. Donna Tartt
47. VIRGINIA 
48. WASHINGTON
49. WEST VIRGINIA 
50. WISCONSIN 
51. WYOMING