2017 LITERARY ESCAPES CHALLENGE--November 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 A  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--Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda

Oklahoma--Gone With The Wings by Leena Clover

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
Australia--The Secret Daughter by Kelly Rimmer