Once again I am going to try to visit all 50 states plus various countries through challenges this year. The main state-based one is hosted by Lori on her blog EscapewithDollyCas in her Literary Escapes Challenge. Use the #LiteraryEscapes when reading books for this challenge.
I have decided to combine my tracking on this page to include the Book Girls Guide challenges for US states and world regions. They have targeted areas for each month and would also apply to this challenge so it just makes sense to streamline here. They include reading lists for each of the months on their site and will update each of the lists mid-month before that destination. So Feb lists will be updated mid Jan.
Jan Books Set in Antarctica and the Arctic / Books Set in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin
Feb Books Set in Western Europe / Books Set in Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington DC
Mar Books Set in Africa / Books Set in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota
Apr Books That Take Place On an Island / Books About Traveling Across America
May Books Set in Eastern Europe & Russia / Books Set in California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington
Jun Books Set in Australia and New Zealand / Books Set in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas
Jul Books Set in Asia: Southern Countries / Books Set in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
Aug Books Set in Asia: Northern Countries / Books Set in Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Nebraska
Sep Books Set on a Form of Transportation / Books Set in the U.S. Territories
Oct Books Set in the Middle East / Books Set in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee
Nov Books Set in North America / Books Set in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming
Dec Books Set in South America / Books Set in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
I have found a European based travel challenge on Rose City Reader which tracks how many European destinations you visit either through the author or the setting. I am trying for 4 Star
FIVE STAR (DELUXE ENTOURAGE): Read at least five books by different European authors or books set in different European countries.
#ERC2024
- FOUR STAR (HONEYMOONER): Read four qualifying books. <= Goal
- THREE STAR (BUSINESS TRAVELER): Read three qualifying books.
- TWO STAR (ADVENTURER): Read two qualifying books.
- ONE STAR (PENSIONE WEEKENDER): Read just one qualifying book.
Additionally, on Goodreads there is the Around the World in 80 books which has both US Roadtrip and Global challenges. The idea is to diversify where your books are set. There is a perpetual Global one that goes by Circumnavigation. My global tracker for 2023 is Tourist Travels which meant I could read any books in any order after starting with a US-based book. There are harder and easier challenges within this global option as well. They also host some prompt-based challenges called Magic Squares. Many of these prompts are different from most of the other challenges.
My Circumnavigation tracker At this point I have traveled to all 9 regions and 46 different countries since 2020.
These are the links to my 2024 travels
Tourist Travels 2024: I'm going for Frequent Flier
Here is my US Roadtrip for 2024
Literary Escape updates on FB
European reading updates
Book voyage and Read US FB page
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