Countries, States and Provinces

Starting Jan 1, 2008 I am going to track my books geographically and see if I can read around the world. I've seen some people participating in challenges and projects similar to this but rather than join something I'm just going to keep track here. Fantasy, Sci-fi, alternate realities will not be included in this list.

Canada (6 provinces- as of Dec. 31, 2008)

British Columbia - A Ribbon of Shining Steel: The Railway Diary of Kate Cameron by Julie Lawson
Manitoba - Footsteps in the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott by Carol Matas
Ontario - Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Quebec - Up to Low by Brian Doyle
Saskatchewan - The Horseman's Graves by Jacqueline Baker
Nunavut Territory - Otherwise by Farley Mowat
Yukon Territory - The Shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert W. Service

United States (21 States - as of Dec. 31, 2008)

Alabama - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Arizona - If You Lived with the Hopi by Anne Kamma
California - Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Colorado - The Shining by Stephen King
Connecticut - Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Florida - Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Georgia - Indelible by Karin Slaughter
Illinois - The Beast of Chicago by Rick Geary
Indiana - In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd
Iowa - Home by Marilynne Robinson
Kansas - The Saga of the Bloody Benders by Rick Geary
Louisiana - Alligator Bayou by Donna Jo Napoli
Maine - Rage by Stephen King (Richard Bachman)
Maryland - Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman
Massachusetts - The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen
Mississippi - Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
New Jersey - The Fighting Ground by Avi
New York - The Loveliest Woman in America by Bibi Gaston
North Carolina - Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
North Dakota - The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Oklahoma - Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts
Ohio - The Side-Yard Superhero by Rick D. Niece
Pennsylvania - The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone
South Carolina - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
South Dakota - The Jumping-Off Place by Marian Hurd McNeely
Tennessee - Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass
Vermont - Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon
Virginia - Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
Wisconsin - The Birchbark Tree by Louise Erdrich
Washington - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Rest of the Word (13 countries - as of Dec. 31, 2008)

Afghanistan - The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Emmanuel Guibert & Didier Lefevre
Algeria - The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar
Australia - True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Brazil - The Lost City of Z by David Grann
China - Little Pear and His Friends by Eleanor Frances Lattimore
Czech Republik - Die for You by Lisa Unger
Egypt - Hand of Isis by Jo Graham
England - Kept: A Victorian Mystery by D.J. Taylor
Ethiopia - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
France - The Iron Staircase by Georges Simenon
Germany - Joseph and Chico: The Life of Pope Benedict XVI by Jeanne Perego
India - The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine
Ireland - Saint Patrick by Ann Tompert
Italy - Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda
Japan - The Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder
Korea - The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa
Nigeria - Free Agent by Jeremy Duns
Norway - Nemesis by Jo Nesbo
Papua New Guinea - The White Mary by Kira Salak
Paraguay - The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell
Poland - Regina's Closet: finding my grandmother's secret journal by Diana M. Raab
Russia - Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival by Owen Matthews
Scotland - Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George
Singapore - Empress of Asia by Adam Lewis Schroeder
South Africa - The Impostor by Damon Galgut
Switzerland - The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff
Wales - The Arthurian Omen by G.G. Vandagriff