2009 50 States Book List

States are confirmed so far. (This sounds like the roll call of the States from the conventions this summer to me.) But here are the ones selected so far:

1. Alabama: Crazy in Alabama
2. Alaska: Cold Water Burning
3. Arizona And Die in the West
4. Arkansas: Arkansas Traveler
5. California: American Lightning
6. Colorado: The Worst Hard Time
7. Connecticut: God and Man at Yale
8. Delaware: Henry F. DuPont and Winterthur
9. District of Columbia: River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
10. Florida: The Orchid Thief
11. Georgia: Between Georgia
12. Hawaii: Letters from Hawaii
13. Idaho: Across Open Ground
14. Illinois: Sin in the Second City
15. Indiana: The Magnificent Ambersons
16. Iowa: Little Heathens
17. Kansas: Charlatan
18. Kentucky: Belonging - A Culture of Place
19. Louisiana: The Next Step in the Dance
20. Maine: The Beans of Egypt, Maine
21. Maryland: Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
22. Massachusetts: The Crazy School
23. Michigan: Cache of Corpses
24. Minnesota: Tall Pine Polka, by Lorna Landvik
25. Mississippi: The Optimist's Daughter
26. Missouri: A Ghost in the Little House
27. Montana:
28. Nebraska: Plains Song: For Female Voices
29. Nevada: Bringing Down the House
30. New Hampshire: Hotel New Hampshire
31. New Jersey: The Last Good Time
32. New Mexico: Death Comes for the Archbishop
33. New York: Falling Man
34. North Carolina: Down River
35. North Dakota: Dakota
36. Ohio: Knockemstiff
37. Oklahoma: Dreams to Dust
38. Oregon: The Sky Fisherman
39. Pennsylvania: Meet You in Hell
40. Rhode Island: Theophius North, by Thornton Wilder
41. South Carolina: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
42. South Dakota: The Grass Dancer
43. Tennessee: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
44. Texas: That Old Ace in the Hole
45. Utah: Refuge
46. Vermont: First Person Rural
47. Virginia: The Billionaire's Vinegar
48. Washington
49. Wisconsin: Loving Frank
50. West Virginia: Red Helmet
51. Wyoming: Devil's Gate

BONUS POINTS: State by State - A Panoramic Portrait of America, edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey.