50 States and at Least 50 Authors discussion

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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

My proposed list for 2017

Alabama - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe & Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Alaska - Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska by Seth Kantner
Arizona - Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Arkansas -A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris
California - The Pearl, Tortilla Flat, and East of Eden all by John Steinbeck plus The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
Colorado - Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Connecticut - Death of a Salesman and The Crucible both by Arthur Miller & Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Delaware - The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Florida - Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
Georgia - The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Hawaii - No Footprints in the Sand: A Memoir of Kalaupapa by Henry Nalaielua
Idaho - Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher
Illinois - For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Indiana - Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II by James H. Madison & Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Iowa - Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
Kansas - Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
Kentucky - A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
Louisiana - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire all by Tennessee Williams
Maine - Olive Kitteridge
Maryland - What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
Massachusetts - Walden by Henry David Thoreau plus Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, and An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
Michigan - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom & A Most Curious Murder by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Minnesota - Dealing with Dragons & Searching for Dragons & Calling on Dragons & Talking to Dragons all by Patricia C. Wrede plus Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Mississippi - The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Missouri - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Montana - This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig
Nebraska - Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Nevada - The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
New Hampshire - A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
New Jersey - Song of Solomon & Beloved by Toni Morrison
New Mexico - Relic by Douglas Preston
New York - I, Robot & Foundation & Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov & The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
North Carolina - Gap Creek by Robert Morgan & Ghosts of the North Carolina Shores by Micheal Rivers
North Dakota - Ghosts of North Dakota by Troy Larson
Ohio - Irish Stewed by Kylie Logan
Oklahoma - That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton & Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Oregon - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey & The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Pennsylvania - Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Underground Railroad by Judith Redline Coopey
Rhode Island - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
South Carolina - Plantation by Dorothea Benton Frank
South Dakota - The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
Tennessee - Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass
Texas - The Good Old Boys by Elmer Kelton
Utah - Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Vermont - Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Virginia - The Complete Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
Washington - Hild by Nicola Griffith
West Virginia - The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
Wisconsin - Dead Angler by Victoria Houston
Wyoming - Back Of Beyond by C.J. Box

As you can see - I am still looking for a representative author for several states and I have used several authors whose writing is already familiar to me.

Well it is Jan 1st 2018 and I did not complete this challenge on time SO before I read any books for any of my many 2018 challenges I WILL finish this one! Only a few to do yet.