🗺️📚 The 50 States Reading Tour Challenge 2027☕✈️ The Spilled Ink and Coffee Show
Pack your imaginary suitcase, grab your coffee, and get ready to read your way across America!📖
The Fifty-State Shelf Tour challenges you to discover books set in all 50 U.S. states. Every book becomes a new stop on your literary road trip—It can be any genre and any format!
You can go for all 50, tackle a region, or just see how far your TBR can wander. No plane ticket required. ✈️😂
🎯 THE ACTUAL CHALLENGE
📚 Read a book set primarily in each U.S. state.
Your goal can be:
☕ 10 States — Casual Road Trip
🚗 25 States — Cross-Country Reader
🗺️ 50 States — Shelf Tour Champion
AFTER COMPLETING EACH STATE - send a brief postcard back home after you complete a region. Write a tiny postcards where the chaos keeps escalating, but you’re still trying to act like it’s a totally normal vacation. (POST YOUR POSTCARDS HERE IN THIS BLOG)
📍 THE SETTING RULE
The book should take place primarily in that state. If the story takes you there, it counts!
🗺️ YOUR 50-STATE BOOKISH ROAD TRIP
You’re road-tripping across the U.S., sending brief postcards back home after you complete a region. Write a tiny postcards where the chaos keeps escalating, but you’re still trying to act like it’s a totally normal vacation.
🌲 THE NORTHEAST
9 stops
Maine • New Hampshire • Vermont • Massachusetts • Rhode Island • Connecticut • New York • New Jersey • Pennsylvania
☕ Think cozy towns, big cities, old houses, questionable family secrets, and probably someone drinking coffee in a bookstore.
☀️ THE SOUTH
14 stops
Delaware • Maryland • Virginia • West Virginia • North Carolina • South Carolina • Georgia • Florida • Kentucky • Tennessee • Alabama • Mississippi • Arkansas • Louisiana
🌴 Southern drama, beach reads, small towns, big personalities, and enough family secrets to fill a library.
🌾 THE MIDWEST
12 stops
Ohio • Indiana • Illinois • Michigan • Wisconsin • Minnesota • Iowa • Missouri • North Dakota • South Dakota • Nebraska • Kansas
🚜 Small towns, big hearts, cornfields, lake life, and stories that sneak up and emotionally destroy you.
🌵 THE SOUTHWEST & ROCKIES
7 stops
Texas • Oklahoma • New Mexico • Arizona • Colorado • Utah • Nevada
🏜️ Desert adventures, mountain drama, cowboy energy, road trips, and absolutely no shortage of main-character moments.
🏔️ THE WEST & BEYOND
8 stops
Washington • Oregon • California • Idaho • Montana • Wyoming • Alaska • Hawaii
🌊 Mountains, forests, islands, big skies, Hollywood drama, and books that make you want to pack a bag immediately.
RACE TO🏆 YOUR FINISH LINE
