Read Across the USA 2023: Mid Year update

I’m going to admit that there are a couple of July books in here, because I’d coloured the map in for them before I remembered that I hadn’t taken the photo for this yet and I thought it would be confusing to have some states coloured in but no books next to them in the list – but there are only two from July (as I write this) so I was at 27 out of 51 by the halfway point of the and I’m now at 29. This is good news and I’m ahead of target, except that I know that I’ve ticked a lot of the easiest states off now, so (as usual) I need to put a bit of thinking in for some of the remaining ones.

Alabama

Alaska – Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Arizona – For Batter or Worse by Jenn McKinlay

Arkansas – A Crime of Poison by Nancy Haddock

California – A High End Finish by Kate Carlisle

Colorado – Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson

Connecticut – Better Late Than Never by Jenn McKinlay

Delaware

Florida – The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

Georgia – Wild Dances by William Lee Adams

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky – When in Rome by Sarah Adams

Louisiana

Maine – Happy Place by Emily Henry

Maryland –

Massachusetts – Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Michigan – In Farm’s Way by Amanda Flowers*

Minnesota – Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanna Fluke

Mississippi

Missouri – Diamond Girl by Julie Mulhern

Montana – Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

Nebraska – Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico – The Pot Thief who Studied Pythagoras by J Michael Orenduff

New York – Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

North Carolina – Death Knells and Wedding Bells by Eva Gates

North Dakota

Ohio – A Lie for a Lie by Emilie Richards

Oklahoma

Oregon – Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina – Full Blast by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes

South Dakota

Tennessee – A Very Merry Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams

Texas – Murder Served Neat by Michelle Hillen Klump*

Utah – Bookman, Dead Style by Paige Shelton

Vermont

Virginia – Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

Washington – Role Playing by Cathy Yardley

Washington DC – An Invitation to a Killer by G M Malliet*

West Virginia

Wisconsin – Winter’s Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch

Wyoming