Countries, States and Provinces

Starting Jan 1, 2008 I started to track my books geographically trying to read my way around the world. I've seen some people participating in challenges and projects similar to this but rather than join something I'm just keeping track here by myself. Fantasy, Sci-fi, alternate realities will not be included in this list, only realistic fiction.

Dec. 31, 2013 stats updated

Data continuously updated.

Canada  (13/13)
(6 provinces/territories- as of Dec. 31, 2008)
(7 provinces/territories- as of Dec. 31, 2009)
(11 provinces/territories - as of Dec. 31, 2010)
(11 provinces/territories - as of Dec. 31, 2011)
(12 provinces/territories - as of Dec. 31, 2012)
(13 provinces/territories - as of Dec. 31, 2013)
Tour 2  (9/13)
(3 provinces/territories - as of Dec. 31, 2013)
(8 provinces/territories - as of Dec. 31, 2014)
(9 provinces/territories - as of Dec. 31, 2015)

Alberta
Tour 1 - Ticket to Curlew by Celia Barker Lottridge
Tour 2 - All Fall Down: The Landslide Diary of Abby Roberts by Jean Little
British Columbia
Tour 1 - A Ribbon of Shining Steel: The Railway Diary of Kate Cameron by Julie Lawson
Tour 2 - Let's Kill Uncle by Rohan O'Grady
Manitoba
Tour 1 - Footsteps in the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott by Carol Matas
Tour 2 - Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz by Carol Matas
New Brunswick - The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay by Beverly Jensen
Newfoundland & Labrador
Tour 1 - Wilfred Grenfell: Adventurer to the North by Vernon Howard
Tour 2 - Winter of Peril : The Newfoundland Diary of Sophie Loveridge by Jan Andrews
Northwest Territories
Tour 1: Far North by Will Hobbs
Tour 2: Devil's Pass by Sigmund Brouwer
Nova Scotia
Tour 1: The Fossil Hunter of Sydney Mines by Jo Ann Yhard
Tour 2: Banished from Our Home: The Acadian Diary of Angélique Richard by Sharon Stewart
Ontario
Tour 1: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Tour 2: Night's Child by Maureen Jennings
Prince Edward Island - That Boy Red by Rachna Gilmore
Quebec
Tour 1: Up to Low by Brian Doyle
Tour 2: A Sea of Sorrows: The Typhus Epidemic Diary of Johanna Leary by Norah McClintock
Saskatchewan
Tour 1- The Horseman's Graves by Jacqueline Baker
Tour 2 - Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee
Nunavut Territory  - Otherwise by Farley Mowat
Yukon Territory
Tour 1 - The Shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert W. Service
Tour 2 - City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong

United States (48/50 +DC)
(21 States - as of Dec. 31, 2008)
(30 States - as of Dec. 31, 2009)
(36 States - as of Dec. 31, 2010)
(40 States - as of Dec. 31, 2011)
(41 States +DC - as of Dec. 31, 2012)
(43 States +DC - as of Dec. 31, 2013)
(47 States +DC - as of Dec. 31, 2014)
(48 States +DC - as of Dec. 31, 2015)


Delaware (And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer by Ann Rule)
Idaho  (????????? )


Alabama - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Alaska - The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush by Howard Blum
Arizona - If You Lived with the Hopi by Anne Kamma
Arkansas - The Christmas Star by Ace Collins
California - Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley
Colorado - The Shining by Stephen King
Connecticut - Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Delaware -
Florida - Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Georgia - Indelible by Karin Slaughter
Hawaii - Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs
Idaho -
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
Kentucky - Then Like the Blind Man: Orbie's Story by Freddie Owens
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
Michigan - All Aboard! Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine by Monica Kulling
Minnesota - Dead To You by Lisa McMann
Mississippi - Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Missouri - The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell
Montana - Let Him Go by Larry Watson
Nebraska - Lamb Bright Saviors Robert Vivian
Nevada - Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Troy Little
New Hampshire - Asylum by Madeleine Roux
New Jersey - The Fighting Ground by Avi
New Mexico - Burn by Ted Dekker & Erin Healy
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
Oregon - The Promises She Keeps by Erin Healy
Pennsylvania - The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone
Rhode Island - Colonial Comics: New England, 1620 - 1750 edited by Jason Rodriguez
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
Texas - The Texicans by Nina Vida
Utah - Rape Girl by Alina Klein
Vermont - Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon
Virginia - Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
Washington - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Washington, D.C. - Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? by Louis Sachar
West Virginia - The Devil all the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
Wisconsin - The Birchbark Tree by Louise Erdrich
Wyoming - Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen

Rest of the Word
(13 countries - as of Dec. 31, 2008)
(28 countries - as of Dec. 31, 2009)
(32 countries - as of Dec. 31, 2010)
(51 countries - as of Dec. 31, 2011)
(58 countries - as of Dec. 31, 2012)
(68 countries - as of Dec. 31, 2013)
(70 countries - as of Dec. 31, 2014)
(77 countries - as of Dec. 31, 2015)


  1. Afghanistan - The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Emmanuel Guibert & Didier Lefevre
  2. Algeria - The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar
  3. Antarctica - A Trip to the Bottom of the World with Mouse by Frank Viva
  4. Atlantic Ocean - Deadly Voyage: RMS Titanic by Hugh Brewster
  5. Australia - True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
  6. Bermuda - Double You by Shane Peacock
  7. Bolivia - Andreo's Race by Pam Withers
  8. Brazil - The Lost City of Z by David Grann
  9. Cambodia - The Mysteries of Angkor Wat: Exploring Cambodia's Ancient Temple by Richard Sobol
  10. Chile - The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
  11. China - Little Pear and His Friends by Eleanor Frances Lattimore
  12. Colombia - First Descent by Pam Withers
  13. Congo - Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War by Michel Chikwanine
  14. Curacao - The Cay by Theodore Taylor
  15. Czech Republik - Die for You by Lisa Unger
  16. Denmark - Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen
  17. East Germany - The Other Side of the Wall by Simon Schwartz
  18. Egypt - Hand of Isis by Jo Graham
  19. England - Kept: A Victorian Mystery by D.J. Taylor
  20. Ethiopia - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
  21. France - The Iron Staircase by Georges Simenon
  22. Germany - Joseph and Chico: The Life of Pope Benedict XVI by Jeanne Perego
  23. Greece - Shadow of Colossus by T.L. Higley
  24. Guadeloupe - The Zabime Sisters by Aristophane
  25. Guatemala - 9,000 Miles of Fatherhood by Kirk Millson
  26. Guernsey - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
  27. Honduras - Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure by Christopher S. Stewart
  28. Hong Kong - The Leopard by Jo Nesbo
  29. Hungry - The Puppet by Eva Wiseman
  30. Iceland - Close to Heel by Norah McClintock
  31. India - The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine
  32. Indonesia - The Remains of War: Surviving the Other Concentration Camps of World War II by G. Pauline Kok-Schurgers
  33. Indus Valley - In Defense of the Realm by Sanjay Deshpande
  34. Iran - Persia Blues Vol. 1: Leaving Home by Dara Naraghi
  35. Ireland - Saint Patrick by Ann Tompert
  36. Israel - The Photographer's Wife by Suzanne Joinson
  37. Italy - Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda
  38. Japan - The Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder
  39. Korea - The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa
  40. Lapland - Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo
  41. Latvia - The Hedgehog Boy by Jane Langton
  42. Lebanon - I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached
  43. Libya - Innocent War by Susan Violante
  44. Malta - Counting Churches: The Malta Stories by Rosanne Dingli
  45. Mexico - Irma Voth by Miriam Toews
  46. Monaco - Rally 'Round the Corpse by Hy Conrad
  47. Nepal - Peg and the Yeti by Kenneth Oppel
  48. Netherlands, The (Holland) - The Tulip Eaters by Antoinette van Heugten
  49. New Guinea - Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff
  50. New Zealand - The Two Linties by Clare Mallory
  51. Nigeria - Free Agent by Jeremy Duns
  52. North Korea - The Great Successor: A Political Cartoon by Ha Tae Keung
  53. North Pole - First Man: Reimagining Matthew Henson by Simon Schwartz
  54. Norway - Nemesis by Jo Nesbo
  55. Pacific Ocean - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
  56. Palestine - Jerusalem: The Story of a City and a Family by Boaz Yakin
  57. Papua New Guinea - The White Mary by Kira Salak
  58. Paraguay - The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell
  59. Philippines - Lola, A Ghost Story by J. Torres
  60. Poland - Regina's Closet: finding my grandmother's secret journal by Diana M. Raab
  61. Puerto Rico - San Juan Noir edited by Mayra Santos-Febres 
  62. Romania - Dracula (Dover Graphic Novel Classics) by John Green
  63. Russia - Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival by Owen Matthews
  64. Scotland - Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George
  65. Singapore - Empress of Asia by Adam Lewis Schroeder
  66. South Africa - The Impostor by Damon Galgut
  67. South Sea Islands - Best South Sea Stories edited by A. Grove Day
  68. Spain - The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  69. Sweden - The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
  70. Switzerland - The Apple and the Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff
  71. Tanzania (Tanganyika) - Maps and Shadows by Krysia Jopek
  72. Taiwan (Formosa) - Granny Han's Breakfast by Sheila Groves
  73. Thailand - The Life of Rice: From Seedling to Supper by Richard Sobol
  74. Tibet - The Boy Who Conquered Everest: The Jordan Romero Story by Katherine Blanc
  75. Turkey - Nearly Nonsense: Hoja Tales Fron Turkey by Rina Singh
  76. Uganda - Breakfast in the Rainforest: A Visit with Mountain Gorillas by Richard Sobol
  77. Ukraine - Legend of an Iron Tower and Other Fables... by Natalia Dobzhanska
  78. Vietnam - War Stories: An Enlisted Marine in Vietnam by Stephen G. MacDonald
  79. "West Africa" - Amaryllis in Blueberry by Christina Meldrum
  80. Wales - The Arthurian Omen by G.G. Vandagriff
  81. Yugoslavia - In the Company of Dolphins: A Memoir by Irwin Shaw

Comments

  1. I've sort of started to do this, but I need to find a system to keep track. Have fun with it!

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  2. I know what you mean Trish. I'm not sure how this list will be organized yet. Canada and US will be separate as I want to keep track of all the provinces and states. But for the rest of the world I'm still wondering whether to go alphabetical or by continent or what? It'll evolve as I add books to it, I'm sure.

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