The Reading Challenge Group discussion

One of my favorites! This will run all year.
26 Books in one year, each beginning with a different letter of the alphabet. (Not counting articles like "a," "an" or "the") to create your own special Alphabet Soup.

For example:
A- And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
B- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
C- The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Etc.

You may use books that are from other challenges.
You may want to create a post with just the alphabet, then fill in books as you read them. Or create a "master list" of what you plan to read, then check them off as you finish each.

This thread is also the place to come for ideas on titles for letters that are trickier to find.

The letter X is always a special challenge. Here are some suggestions for dealing with this exasperating letter:
1) A book title that starts with X
Example: Xingu
2) A title in which X plays a prominent part
Example: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
3) A "number" title
Example: 1984

ABC Template

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This is always fun! We'll see what I can do!

ABC Challenge:
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✔ A: Adam Bede
✔ B: Brideshead Revisited
✔ C: The Case of The Endangered Witch: An adventurous paranormal cozy mystery
✔ D: The Diary of a Bookseller
✔ E: Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche
✔ F: Forbidden City
✔ G: Golden Gate
✔ H: Heartstopper: Volume Four
✔ I: Illuminae
✔ J: The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
✔ K: Kaikeyi
✔ L: Loveboat Reunion
✔ M: Maizy Chen's Last Chance
✔ N: The Next Thing You Know
✔ O: Out of My Heart
✔ P: Pandora's Menagerie
✔ Q: Quizás algo hermoso
✔ R: Rise of the Forgotten
✔ S: A Study in Scarlet
✔ T: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
✔ U: Under the Whispering Door
✔ V: The Valley of Fear
✔ W: The Wounded World
✔ X: 56 Days
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✔ Z: Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor

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Best old school challenge there is!

A- Anna Karenina
B- Body Positive Power: How learning to love yourself will save your life
C- The City We Became
D- The Dovekeepers
E- The Essex Serpent
F- For Whom the Bell Tolls
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H- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
I- Interior Chinatown
J-
K- Kindred
L- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
M- The Midnight Library
N- The Night Will Be Long
O- Orphan Train
P- The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida
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R- The Recent East
S- Sorrowland
T- Tropic of Cancer
U-
V- The Vine That Ate the South
W- Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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DURATION: 2/17-12/31/22 | COMPLETED: 9/26

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✓B. Baker's Coven. 3/6.
✓C. The Crêpes of Wrath. 2/26.
✓D. Disturbing the Dead: A Rachel Goddard Mystery #2. 2/19.
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✓G. The Great Witches Baking Show. 3/11.
✓H. The Heat of the Moon. 2/17.
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✓K. Knit or Dye Trying. 4/15.
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✓O. Of Spice and Men. 2/28.
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✓R. Risky Relics. 2/28.
✓S. A Spelling Mistake. 3/3.
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ABC Challenge

A - Anne of Green Gables
B - Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast
C - Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
D - Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
E - Eyes With Winged Thoughts
F - Fair Play
G - Gone to Dust
H - Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
I - I Wait for the Moon: 100 Haiku of Momoko Kuroda
J - Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
K - Klee Wyck
L - Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing
M - The Midnight Library
N - New Hampshire
O - One Italian Summer
P - Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir
Q - Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story
R - Raw Material: Working Wool in the West
S - The Shape of Water
T - Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku
U - Under the Sea Wind
V - Vincent
W - Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
X - 13th Balloon
Y - You & a Bike & a Road
Z - Zen Shorts

I want to do my ABC challenge! thanks

Good luck, Gulshan!

but how can I add link to the books I have read?

You can only add links using the desktop version. Above the box it says add book/author in green letters. Just click on there and look for the book you want to find. Many times there are different versions available if you click on that option once the title has come up.
I hope this is clear.

thanks so can I add books without ️links or is it not allowed

Gulshan, it's fine if you add the books without links.
Just be sure to include the author when you're listing the title, since sometimes there are books with the same title, but completely different authors.

I've managed to do A-X so far, but I still haven't come across any Y or Z books yet, lol.

eta: Okay, I might try reading Zeitoun and The Year of Magical Thinking

ABC Template

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C- The Colony by Audrey Magee
D- A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement by Anthony Powell
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I- The Ink Black Heart by Robert
Galbraith
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L- Life with Birds by Bronwyn Rennex
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N- Inge Simpson
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P- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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R- Rashōmon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
S- The Spanish Love Deception by
Elena Armas
T- The Trees by Percival Everett
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W- Wake Shelley Burr
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Good luck, Penelope! This is always a fun challenge, especially for those tricky letters!

Woo hoo! I finally completed it today with The Year of Magical Thinking

ABC Challenge:
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✔ A: Adam Bede
✔ B: Brideshead Revisited
✔ C: The Case of The Endangered Witch: An adventurous paranormal cozy mystery
✔ D: The Diary of a Bookseller
✔ E: Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche
✔ F: Forbidden City
✔ G: Golden Gate
✔ H: Heartstopper: Volume Four
✔ I: Illuminae
✔ J: The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
✔ K: Kaikeyi
✔ L: Loveboat Reunion
✔ M: Maizy Chen's Last Chance
✔ N: The Next Thing You Know
✔ O: Out of My Heart
✔ P: Pandora's Menagerie
✔ Q: Quizás algo hermoso
✔ R: Rise of the Forgotten
✔ S: A Study in Scarlet
✔ T: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
✔ U: Under the Whispering Door
✔ V: The Valley of Fear
✔ W: The Wounded World
✔ X: 56 Days
✔ Y: The Year of Magical Thinking
✔ Z: Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor

Way to go, Eileen!

Excellent!!! Great going!
I used the Joan Didion for my Y one year, too. Such an interesting memoir. :)

Thanks Rosemarie! Thanks Renee! Yes, I ended up enjoying the memoir much more than I was expecting. It was very sad, too, though. I started it while I was donating platelets and it kept making me think of all the ways things could go wrong in our bodies, lol.