2015 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge
43 books read as of December 12, 2014 and with a week’s vacation to come, I’ll do well by my 2014 goal, even if I cheated with fiction.
Liz’s post got me thinking about a 2015 goal and I wasn’t sure where I was going since without the Bosch series, I don’t really have a prayer of repeating 2014’s numbers. Then I came across Sally’s 2015 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge post (with more info and registration here) and I decided that could be a lot of fun. I think it will also help me personally with reading new titles in the year they come out, which I haven’t been good with of late.
Rules:
It’s an alphabet challenge! The challenge is to read one book that has a title starting with every letter of the alphabet.
You can drop the A’s and The’s from the book titles. For those pesky Q, X AND Z titles the word with the challenge letter can be anywhere in the title.
Need some help finding titles to match the alphabet – Jandy’s Reading Room has a wonderful list to get you started.
Books can be read in any order and all formats – print – e-book – audio – are acceptable for this challenge!
Here is my list – many I have planned already from my TBR pile (in italics means I haven’t read them yet) – the rest I will update as I go. Maaaybe I’ll even get back on track with reviews, but in the mean time here’s a link to my books in the challenge on LT. I’ve tried for a good balance between fiction and non and I’ve also included a few that I really want to finish. A few are 2015 new releases and some have been on Mt. TBR way too long
- A
- B – Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies – Chris Kluwe
- C
- D – Devil’s Bridge - Linda Fairstein or Dogging Steinbeck – Bill Steigerwald
- E
- F
- G – Gone Girl – I WILL finish this book eventually
- H – Hangman’s Daughter – Oliver Pötzsch
- I – Israel: A History – Martin Gilbert
- J – Juju Rules - Hart Seely
- K – KNow It All - AJ Jacbobs (maybe third time will be a charm?)
- L - Lights Camera Travel – Lonely Planet
- M – Memoirs of a Vending Machine – James Pollard
- N – NYPD Red 3 – James Patterson
- O
- P – Private Vegas – James Patterson
- Q
- R
- S – Saturday NIght - Susan Orleans
- T
- U – Upstairs at the White House – JB West
- V
- W – Wicked - Gregory Maguire, What Would Jackie Do?
- X
- Y
- Z – Zappos Experience – Joseph Michelli