Travel the USA in 2019

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Travel the USA in 2019
Pack your bags books! If you're up for it, stick a pin in each state, time zone, or region you travel through in your 2019 reads.

Duration: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2019

Rules: All genres will be allowed, however please try to limit the number of books used in genres outside of PNR/UF/SciFi. Rereads are allowed. Anthologies are allowed and each story may be used individually, if the entire book is read. Just please be sure to list which story within the anthology (title of short/author/anthology name). Setting must be a place characters live or visit during the book. It cannot be mentioned once as the place of a character's birth, for instance.

Choose your challenge:
⓵ Read 50 books ~ one for each state
⓶ Read 18 books ~ three for each US time zone
⓷ Read 16 books ~ two for each "region"

States of the US
⓵ Read 50 books ~ one for each state

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

~ Members can use the USA map maker by bighugelabs (as shown above) if you'd like, but it's not required. The map maker allows you to color in each state as you "visit".

~ Some books on Goodreads include their place/setting, you can search places here . Sadly, they aren't searchable, so you have to do a lot of scrolling to find somewhere specific.

⓶ USA Time Zones
Read 18 books ~ three for each US time zone


~ A list of each state and its corresponding time zone can be found here
1. Eastern Time Zone: comprises roughly the states on the Atlantic coast and the eastern two thirds of the Ohio Valley
2. Central Time Zone: comprises roughly the Gulf Coast, Mississippi Valley, and Great Plains
3. Mountain Time Zone: comprises roughly the states that include the Rocky Mountains
4. Pacific Time Zone: comprises roughly the states on the Pacific coast, plus Nevada
5. Alaska standard time zone: comprises most of the state of Alaska
6. Hawaii-Aleutian standard time zone: includes Hawaii and most of the length of the Aleutian Islands chain

⓷ Regions of the US
Read 16 books ~ two for each "region"


1. New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont
2. Mideast: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
3. Great Lakes: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin
4. Plains: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota
5. Southeast: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia
6. Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
7. Rocky Mountain: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming
8. Far West: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington

[Suzanne]

SOS: Serious Overload of Series
Travel the USA in 2019
Duration: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2019

Progress: 8 out of 50

Rules: All genres will be allowed, however please try to limit the number of books used in genres outside of PNR/UF/SciFi. Rereads are allowed. Anthologies are allowed and each story may be used individually, if the entire book is read. Just please be sure to list which story within the anthology (title of short/author/anthology name). Setting must be a place characters live or visit during the book. It cannot be mentioned once as the place of a character's birth, for instance.

Choose your challenge:
⓵ Read 50 books ~ one for each state
⓶ Read 18 books ~ three for each US time zone
⓷ Read 16 books ~ two for each "region"

States of the US
⓵ Read 50 books ~ one for each state

Alabama = Redemption by Susannah Sandlin - **** - 3/19/2019 - 357 Pages
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California = Zodiac by Robert Graysmith - ***** - 3/29/2019 - 337 Pages
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware = The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer - ***** - 1/5/2019 - 416 Pages
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts = It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover - ***** - 4/9/2019 - 376 Pages
Michigan = The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs - ***** - 3/12/2019 - 179 Pages
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York = Purity in Death by J.D. Robb - ***** - 1/18/2019 - 355 Pages
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas = Texas Rain by Jodi Thomas - **** - 1/3/2018 - 374 Pages
Utah
Vermont
Virginia = The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater - ***** - 3/28/2019 - 439 Pages
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming