Literary Escapes Challenge--August Update

Challenge – Try to read 1 book set in each of the 50 states + the District of Columbia. (51 Points). If you complete the challenge you earn 50 Bonus Points. You also can earn Bonus Points for books set in Countries around the world. 1 Bonus Point for each country. (No repeats – only 1 point can be earned for each country.) Your books can be fiction or non-fiction and can be in any format, print, digital, audio. 


Alabama--To Kill  Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Alaska--(Finding Justice by Kathi Daley)

Arizona--(Sprinkle With Murder by Jenn McKinlay)

Arkansas--Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women Of Little Rock by David Margolick

California--Scheduled To Death by Mary Feliz

Colorado--Fatality By Firelight by Lynn Cahoon

Connecticut--Pick Your Potion by C.C. Dragon

Delaware--Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

District of Columbia--Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich

Florida--Child's Play by Merry Jones

Georgia--15 Minutes by Larissa Reinhart

Hawaii--Murder At Turtle Cove by Kathi Daley

Idaho--(Blue Heaven by C.J. Box)

Illinois--Life After by Katie Ganshert

Indiana--When The Grits Hit The Fan by Maddie Day

Iowa--(Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched The World by Vicki Myron)

Kansas--Brake Failure by Alison Brodie

Kentucky--A Ghostly Mortality by Tonya Kappes

Louisiana--A Fatal Romance by June Shaw

Maine--Telling Tails by Sofie Ryan

Maryland--Courtyard Corpse by Sherry Lodge

Massachusetts--The Witch And The Dead by Heather Blake

Michigan--My Perfect Imperfections by Jalpa Williby

Minnesota--(I Can See You by Karen Rose)

Mississippi--(Out Of Circulation by Miranda James)

Missouri--(30 Second Death by Laura Bradford)

Montana--Vangie Vale and the Murdered Macaron by R.L. Syme

Nebraska--(Composing Amelia by Alison Strobel)

Nevada--(Vanilla Beaned by Jenn McKinlay)

New Hampshire--It's Always The Husband by Michele Campbell

New Jersey--(The Plot Against America by Philip Roth)

New Mexico--(The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook)

New York--(The Christie Curse, by Victoria Abbott)

North Carolina--Purr M For Murder by T.C. LoTempio

North Dakota(Badlands by C. J. Box)

Ohio--Ill Will by Dan Chaon

Oklahoma--(The Girl In 6E by A.R. Torre)

Oregon--The Shadow by Kathi Daley

Pennsylvania--(Never Buried by Edie Claire)

Rhode Island--(Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult)

South Carolina--What She Inherits by Diane V. Mulligan

South Dakota--(These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder)

Tennessee--The Big Overnight by Libby Kirsch

Texas--Say Goodbye For Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Utah--(Bookman Dead Style by Paige Shelton)

Vermont--The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian

Virginia--(The Diva Takes The Cake by Krista Davis)

Washington--A Winter's Tail by Kathi Daley

West Virginia--(Miranda Warning by Heather Day Gilbert)

Wisconsin--Avery: The Case Against Steven Avery and What "Making a Murderer" Gets Wrong by Ken Kratz

Wyoming--(Open Season by C.J. Box)


International Settings
Canada--Holiday Hangover by Kathi Daley
Italy--A Portrait of Emily Price by Katherine Reay
Greece--Evanthia's Gift by Effie Kammenou
France--Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Egypt--Exodus 95 by Kfir Luzzatto
England--I Found You by Lisa Jewell