Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

I haven't lived in Florida for over 4 years, but it's still home base for me, and I'm having trouble finding something that interests me. I hear Paper Towns is partly in Orlando, so that might work. Does anyone know how much of the book is actually in Florida? Or any other recommendations? Thanks!

The Dexter series takes place in Miami, if that's your thing. Also, the Doc Ford series is set on Sanibel Island. I grew up in Fort Myers and am very nostalgic about Sanibel, so I love the Doc Fords.

Many Carl Hiaasen books are based in Florida. He's pretty funny.

Piers Anthony's Xanth books are loosely based on Florida. Lake Ogre Chobee, the Kiss Me river etc

I grew up in Florida and am also using the state for this challenge!

The two books I'm waffling between are Naked Came the Manatee by various Miami area writers and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow.

The first quarter-half of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children takes place in Englewood/Sarasota County, and I used that for the home town prompt last year.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is set in Florida. I believe it also counts for the Oprah Book Club challenge, and it is one of my favorite books set in Florida.

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell is a whimsical, fun YA novel about a girl who lives in the Everglades.

Elmore Leonard has quite a few books set in Miami, most, like Rum Punch, are murder mysteries or crime thrillers.

I haven't read Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang, but I watch the sitcom on ABC based off the memoir. I hear the show is very different, but I'm sure it gives a really interesting perspective on Floridian life in the 90s.

I read The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida for the place you want to visit prompt last year, choosing it for it's locale of Meknes, Morocco. Little did I know that a good chunk of the book is flashbacks set in the narrator's Florida hometown.

I've never read Stephen King's Duma Key, so I can't tell you if it's one of his good or not-do-good books, but I know several people who are a little obsessed with it as Stephen King snowbirds in my home town and Duma Key is supposedly heavily inspired by it.

If you like cozy mysteries with a pinch of romance and a dash of psychic energy, check out Woof at the Door by Laura Morrigan which takes place in Jacksonville.