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Stephmo's "Stephmo's 50 State Book Challenge"

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An informal challenge to read a fiction and nonfiction book set in all 50 states AND the District of Columbia.

  1. 1.
    Big Fish (movie tie-in): A Novel of Mythic Proportions
    by Daniel Wallace
  3. 3.
    30 Days of Night
    by Steve Niles
  4. 4.
    Into the Wild
    by Jon Krakauer
  5. 5.
    Stargirl (Readers Circle)
    by Jerry Spinelli
  6. 6.
    The Devil's Highway: A True Story
    by Luis Alberto Urrea
  7. 7.
    A Painted House
    by John Grisham
  8. 8.
    My Life
    by Bill Clinton
  9. 9.
    Wrack and Ruin: A Novel
    by Don Lee
  10. 10.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers
  12. 12.
    Columbine
    by Dave Cullen
  14. 14.
    The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
    by Stewart O'Nan
  15. 15.
    Mason & Dixon: A Novel
    by Thomas Pynchon
  16. 16.
    The Saint of Lost Things: A Novel
    by Christopher Castellani
  17. 17.
  18. 18.
    Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Jeff Lindsay
  20. 20.
    ?
    The Secret Life Of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd
  21. 21.
    MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL.
    by John. Berendt
  22. 22.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones
  23. 23.
  24. 24.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson
  25. 25.
    Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe (Quick Reads)
    by Danny Wallace
  26. 26.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger
  27. 27.
    The Jungle (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Upton Sinclair
  28. 28.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Booth Tarkington
  29. 29.
    Jesus Land: A Memoir
    by Julia Scheeres
  30. 30.
    Ubik
    by Philip K. Dick
  31. 31.
  32. 32.
    Mysterious Skin
    by Scott Heim
  33. 33.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  34. 34.
    The Patron Saint of Liars: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Ann Patchett
  35. 35.
    Trespassers Will Be Baptized: The Unordained Memoir of a Preacher's Daughter
    by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock
  36. 36.
    Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1)
    by Harris Charlaine
  38. 38.
    ?
    Cujo
    by Stephen King
  39. 39.
    The Lobster Chronicles: Life On a Very Small Island
    by Linda Greenlaw
  40. 40.
    Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
    by David Simon
  41. 41.
    Mystic River
    by Dennis Lehane
  43. 43.
    Middlesex

  45. 45.
    Lake Wobegon Days
    by Garrison Keillor
  46. 46.
    Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
    by Diablo Cody
  47. 47.
    The Little Friend
    by Donna Tartt
  49. 49.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  50. 50.
    In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore, Missouri
    by Harry N. MacLean
  51. 51.
    How to Be Lost: A Novel
    by Amanda Eyre Ward
  52. 52.
    Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History
    by Dave Walter
  53. 53.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  54. 54.
  55. 55.
    Desperation
    by Stephen King
  56. 56.
    Casino
    by Nicholas Pileggi
  57. 57.
    ?
  58. 58.
    Simple Gifts: Lessons in Living from a Shaker Village
    by June Sprigg
  59. 59.
    Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
    by Holly Black
  60. 60.
    Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in An Age of Innocence
    by Michael Capuzzo
  61. 61.
    The Milagro Beanfield War
    by John Nichols
  62. 62.
    The Roswell Incident
    by Charles Berlitz
  63. 63.
    The Nanny Diaries
    by Emma McLaughlin
  65. 65.
    ?
    Off for the Sweet Hereafter: A Novel
    by T. R. Pearson
  66. 66.
    Lunch at the 5 & 10
    by Miles Wolff
  67. 67.
    Downtown Owl: A Novel
    by Chuck Klosterman
  68. 68.
    Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
    by Chuck Klosterman
  69. 69.
    The Regulators
    by Richard Bachman
  71. 71.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
  72. 72.
    The Innocent Man
    by John Grisham
  74. 74.
  75. 75.
    American Rust: A Novel
    by Philipp Meyer
  77. 77.
    The Witches of Eastwick
    by John Updike
  79. 79.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  80. 80.
    My Losing Season
    by Pat Conroy
  81. 81.
    Deadwood
    by Pete Dexter
  83. 83.
    The Firm: A Novel
    by John Grisham
  85. 85.
    Vernon God Little
    by DBC Pierre
  86. 86.
    Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
    by H. G. Bissinger
  87. 87.
    The Executioner's Song
    by Norman Mailer
  88. 88.
    Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
    by Jon Krakauer
  89. 89.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt
  91. 91.
    The Known World
    by Edward P. Jones
  92. 92.
    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
    by Barbara Kingsolver
  93. 93.
    Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
    by David Guterson
  95. 95.
    The Madam : A Novel
    by Julianna Baggott
  96. 96.
    Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)
    by Homer Hickam
  97. 97.
    Black House
    by Stephen King
  99. 99.
    Close Range : Wyoming Stories
    by Annie Proulx
  100. 100.
    Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Dover Books on Americana)
    by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
  101. 101.
    Hard Revolution
    by George Pelecanos
  102. 102.
    All the President's Men
    by Bob Woodward
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Created by Stephmo on Aug 02, 2009.
 

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