UPDATE: 2020. OK, I still haven't read a book starting with X or Z. So I'm going to start tracking again, on the theory that tracking something makes it more likely to happen.
So, as I was idly sorting my TBR bookshelf, I checked to see if I had a book for each letter of the alphabet, title-wise. And surprise, I nearly did! (I have no unread books starting with the letter Z). Clearly I should join an
to inspire me to read some of these. I picked the
I'll start out only using books from my shelves, but I'll have no qualms about pulling in library books if I need them.
UPDATE: Well, it's 2015 and I didn't finish. I also didn't use any of my library reads. Instead, I'm going to continue on with the count, but mark the books from my shelves that I read in
So eventually I hope to finish, and in the meantime it will be a record of what I read that I own. And now 2016 will be in
. 2017,
B: (
Broken Homes) (Balanced on the Blade's Edge) Boy Who Dared, Blood and Betrayal, Big Nate Strikes Again, Bird Lake Moon, Big Nate on a Roll, Book Thief, Blake: Huts of America, Breakout, Bronze Gods, Blood Bound, Bet Me, Bone Crossed, But Can the Phoenix Sing?, Bearly Cooking, Black Wolves of Boston, The Body in the Library, Burn Bright, Buried Bones, Bone Dry, Beneath the Sugar Sky, Boys in the Boat, Beach Babe, Braiding Sweetgrass, Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry, Books for Living, By Immortal Honor Bound, Becoming Kid Quixote, Becoming Muhammad Ali, Bone Witch, Body Talk, Bride's Story 9, Breaking Through, Bears, Brave Heroes Bold Defenders, Blood & Germs, Bears, Be My Guest, Burn Bright, Beyond the Hundred Kingdoms, Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Bride's Story 10-12, Blue Castle, Black Butler 15-18, Bollywood Affair, Before the Sword (Mulan), Black Sun, Buried Pyramid, Beautiful Struggle (Young Reader) , Bi the Way, The Black Friend, Beowulf, Black Birds in the Sky, BurnC: Catching Fire, Cryoburn, Cathedral of the Wild, Cyrano de Bergerac, Cupcakes Trinkets and Other Deadly Magic, Child of the Ghosts, Castle in the Air, Castaway Planet, Cruel Miracles, Coraline, Child of Fire, Comrade Don Camillo, Cry Wolf, Collapsing Empire, Catfishing on Catnet, Crush, Cities in Layers, Clap When You Land, Can You Hear the Trees Talking, Changing the Equation, Cy Young, Cog Citizenship Race & the Law, Call Me American, The Constitution: Decoded Annotated and Explained, Condor Comeback, Case of Possession, The Chai Factor, Chiggers, Class Act, Copycat Crook, Children of Time, Case for Climate Capitalism, Crogan's Vengeance, Castle Waiting 1 & 2, Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows, Crown Duel, Consuming Fire, Curse of Chalion, Cat Tricks, Curse of the Night Witch, Chaos on Catnet, Crystal Singer, Consider Phlebas, City We Became, Castle of Adventure, Come Tumbling Down, Cuckoo's Egg, Covid-19 and Other Pandemics, Can We Talk About Consent, Conductors, Child of Fire
D: The Dragon and the George, Developing Standards-Based Report Cards, Decider, The Danger, Dead Heat, Day Shift, Dead Man Walking, Dog Warrior, Day Shift, Dragon Bones, Discount Armageddon, Decider, The Deal of a Lifetime, Don't Call Us Dead, Deadly Sexy, Dark Lord Clementine, Doughnut Fix, Dragon in the Library, Dead Heat, Displacement, Dramacon, Duke of Olympia Meets His Match, Dancing At the Pity Party, Dear Justyce
E: Ella Enchanted, Exo, Avatar the Lost Scrolls: Earth, Every Heart a Doorway, Elfhome, Eye of Truth, Elysium, Education Race & the Law, Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of Death and Dementia, Elatsoe, Efren Divided, Ember in the Ashes, Eva Evergreen, Emiko Superstar, Equal Rites, Encyclopedia Brown Carries On, Echo Mountain, Extraordinary Union, Easy Death, Empress of Salt and Fortune, Even If We Break, Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians, Explore the Future Through Science Fiction, Edge of Anything
F: Forbidden Rose, Fierce Reads Anthology, Flying Finish, Forged in Blood, Fire-Touched, Five Thousand Years of Slavery, Friendly Gables, Find Me, Firewing, Flowers of Adonis, Flag in Exile, Faro's Daughter, Fair Game, Frankenstein, Fledgling, Flowers of Vashnoi, A Farewell to Arms, The Fix, Front Desk, Fly Like a Girl, Free Lunch, Flowers in the Gutter, Flunked, Fearless Felines, Fledgling, Finder, Five Children and It, Future of Science is Female, Flight 3, Fold, Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom, Flight 4, Fugitive Telemetry, From the Desk of Zoe Washington, Faithless in Death, Flamer, Fake Dating the Prince, Fighting Words, From Scratch, Finna, Forever Strong, Future Home of the Living God, Fires of the Faithful, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Field Guide to Getting Lost, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry, Furia, Forgotten in Death, Fearing the Black Body
G: Great and Terrible Quest, General Theory of Love, Goblin Emperor X 2, Golden Leopard, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Galactic Derelict, Game of Cages, (George), Giant Pumpkin Suite, Ghosts Unveiled, The Gown, Grimoire Noir, Guardians of Liberty, Give All to Love, Games of Deception, Go With the Flow, Garden Museum Heist, Goblin Emperor, Gator Bait, Girl Who Drank the Moon, Gardens of the Moon, Galaxy and the Ground Within, Ghost Talkers, Good Kind of Trouble, Good Neighbors (Kin Kith Kind), Good Talk, Gift of the Magpie, The Guenevere Deception
H: Heart of a Woman, Heart of Steel, Horizon, How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, How to Tell if Your Cat Is Trying to Kill You, Howl's Moving Castle, Hild, Havoc, Here Lies the Librarian, Hunting Ground, Harmful to Minors, Heavy, Honeybee, How We Got to the Moon, Her Naughty Holiday, History Smashers: The Mayflower, History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote, Hopeful Heart, How Oliver Olson Changed the World, House in the Cerulean Sea, The Hobbit, A Handful of Earth A Handful of Sky, High Cotton, Hidden Land, How to Raise an Honest Rabbit, Harrow the Ninth, Handling Depression, His Pretend Amish Bride
I: If I'm Jewish and You're Christian What Are the Kids?, I Lived on Butterfly Hill, I Could Do Anything, In the Black, Iron Kissed, I Go By Sea I Go By Land, Innocent, Into the Fire, It's Trevor Noah, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time, Into the Deep, In the Dream House, Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears, Into The Volcano, Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, In the Red, I never saw another butterfly, In the Forest of Forgetting, In Bibi's Kitchen, In the Shadow of the Moon, Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
J: The Jury, The Just City, Julie of the Wolves, Judgment Day, Jubilee, Jane Against the World, John Lewis, Jukebox
K: The King's Name, Keep Me Forever, Knight-napped, King and Joker, Kenilworth, Kiss Number 8, Kat & Mouse 2-4, Kobe Bryant, Kiyo Sato, King and the Dragonflies, Knot of Shadows, Kiki Killari Breaks a Kingdom
L: Love Bites (My Sister the Vampire), Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Lost Enchantment, Last Holiday Concert, Lumberjanes, Laura's Wolf, Lock In, Little Plum, Liaden Universe Constellation Vol 3, The Long WInter, Little House In the Big Woods, Last Mirror on the Left, Lifting As We Climb, Lady's Code of Misconduct, Laika, Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion, Long Time Until Now, Lizzie Borden Ax Murders, Land of the Cranes, Life Sucks, Louisiana Longshot, Last Emperox, Last Dragon, Lost Orphan, Longer Fall, LGBTQ Rights & Activism, Last Witnesses, Light From Uncommon Stars
M: My Real Children, Matilda, Matter for Men, Mouse Called Wolf, The Martian, Mercenary Instincts, Midnight Crossroad, Midnight Blue, Mystic and Rider, Moon Called, Moonshiner's Son, The Marvels, Mira's Last Dance, Mrs. Pollifax On Safari, Meg Jo Beth & Amy, Minor Mage, Me and White Supremacy, Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, Marshmallow S'more Murder, More Than Friends, Mating the Huntress, More than Marmalade, My Name is Tani...and I Believe in MIracles, March Fong Eu, Many Lives of Eddie Rickenbacker, Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Marriage Race and the Law, Marrow Thieves, Maybelle Goes to Tea, Murders of Tupac and Biggie, MIdnight Sun, Manson Family Murders, Medical Apartheid, Murder in Time, Minn of the Mississippi, Murder at Veronica's Diner, Murder Must Advertise, Meltdown, Monster and Boy, Monster's First Day of School, Maze Runner
N: Nory Ryan's Song, (Night Broken), NERDS, Nine Princes in Amber, The New Queer Conscience, Normal, Nightshades, Network Effect, Not So Normal Norbert, Northanger Abbey, Nickel Boys, Nine Tailors, Nos4a2, Neogenesis, Notes from a Young Black Chef, Navigating Minefields, Never Fall For Your Fiance
O: One Week Girlfriend, Old Men at Midnight, Bone 1: Out of Boneville, October Country, Over Sea Under Stone, 101 Famous Poems, The Ordeal of Change, One False Note, Out of the Cold, Out of Tune, Ordinary Hazards, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Out of the Blue, On the Horizon, Outlaw, One Giant Leap, O J Simpson Murder Case, Outbreak, One Perfect Kiss, One Good Deed
P: The Prize in the Game, Perdition, Pickwick Papers, Paddington At Large, Penric's Demon, Plague of Doves, Prisoner, Parallax, Penric and the Shaman, Project Elfhome, Penric's Mission, Penric's Fox, The Price of Meat, Parasite, Parable of the Sower, Polaris, Paladin's Grace, Proper English, Paladin's Grace, Poisoned Water, Plasticus Maritamus, Puffin Plan, Plain Janes, La Perdida, Punching the Air, Parable of the Sower Graphic Novel, Piranesi, Playing With Fire, Paladin of Souls, Paladin's Strength, Persephone Station, Patience & Esther, Pleasant Profession of Robert A Heinlein, Pucker, Police Defunding and Reform, Paladin's Hope, Punching Bag, Power of Style, Princess for Christmas, Perks of Being a Wallflower
Q: Quatrain, Quantum Universe
R: The Robe of Skulls, Return of Tarzan, Raven Boys, Radio Fifth Grade, Rogue, Return of Santa Paws, Royal Airs, Rob Roy, Republic, Ruins of Karzelek, River Marked, The Rancher's Lady, Rebel, Rare Encounters With Ordinary Birds, Reunion in Death, Reaching for the Moon, Radium Girls, Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh, Return of the Thief, Runaway Princess, Rhinos!, Reckless, Rival Magic, Rattle His Bones, Riot Baby, Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry, Ring Shout, Russian Cage, Raven Black, Race Against Time, Running on Empty, Red Madness, Rat Race, Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks, Reading and Learning to Read, Real Thing
S: The Second Spy, Shadows, Son of Neptune, Shadows and Dreams, Santa Paws to the Rescue, Sackett Brand, A Stranger's Gift, A Secret Soldier, Shades of Milk and Honey, Spilling Clarence, Starry River in the Sky, Star Nomad, Star Trek 2, Songs of the Gorilla Nation, Steal the Dragon, Sweep in Peace, Someone to Remember, Superheroes (Amelia Rules), Secret of Chimneys, Some Were in Time, Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Stamped, Slippery Creatures, Surviving the City, Skylark and Wallcreeper, Sporting Chance, The Sugared Game, Sky Gazing, She Represents, Surviving the Angel of Death, Star-Spangled, Sunset of the Sabertooth, Shadows In Death, Spies Lies and Disguise, Stolen Justice, Storm Cursed, Sal and Gabi Break the Universe, Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote, Sucker Punch, Swordheart, Silver in the Wood, Superman Smashes the Klan, Stonekeeper's Curse, Someplace to Be Flying, Switchback, Son of Sam Killings, Stars Beyond, Secret Country, Something That May Shock or Discredit You, Snapdragon, Show Me a Sign, Stowed Away, Sunshine, Shadowghast, Secrets of Star Whales, Subtle Blood, Secret Garden (Graphic Novel), Switchback, Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything, Singled Out, Shout of Honor, Straight
T: Tarzan of the Apes, Thousand Pieces of Gold, Tinker, Tell the Wind and Fire, The Time Traders The Thirteenth Unicorn, The Time Machine, Touching My Father's Soul, Three on the Run, The Three-Body Problem, The Twisted Path, Tinker, Tooth and Claw, To Dance, The Tree that Time Built, This Book Is Anti-Racist, This Promise of Change, That Can Be Arranged, Thousand Beginnings and Endings, The Talk, Tracking Pythons, They Called Us Enemy, Trash, Tender Morsels, This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes, Throw Like a Girl Cheer Like a Boy, This Place, Teacher Torture, Take a Hint Dani Brown, Taking on the Plastics Crisis, Tale Dark and Grimm, Talisman Ring, Tempest, Two Rogues Make a Right, Twelfth Night, Temporary, Three Shadows, Thirteens, Thousand Darknesses, Thursday Murder Club, To the Hilt, Twisted Ones, They Better Call Me Sugar, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk, Thrill Seekers, Taste of Blackberries, Tuck Everlasting
U: Unspoken. Untold, Ultra, Uprooted, Uncovering You: Contract, Under the Same Stars, Under the Egg, Unspoken Name, Unexpected Mrs Pollifax, Uprooted, Uncompromising Honor, Under the Eye of the Storm, Unbelonging
V: Vanguard, Voices of Young Heroes, Vanishing Half, Vanished Seas, Vulva Owner's Manual on Birth Control. Valley of the Shadow
W: Who Stole Grandma's Million-Dollar Pumpkin Pie?, Welcome to the Ark, War for the Oaks, We Are Not Eaten By Yaks, World Outside, Wide Open, Why Pro-Life?, What the Dormouse Said, Wildflower, Wrong Way Around Magic, Waiting For the Party, Whisper of Magic, White Night, World of Ptavvs, Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, The War that Saved My Life, When Demons Walk, Wood Sprites, Wolf Who Rules, Wrinkle in Time, The Warden, We Are Power, Wind Gourd of La'amaomao, We Had To Be Brave, Who Gives a Poop, Women Win the Vote. Walk Toward the Rising Sun, Wolfpack (YA), Wolf Rebel, The War That Saved My Life, What the Eagle Sees, Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, Winter's Orbit, Walk Two Moons, Wild Sign, Who Killed Jimmy Olsen, Wonder, White Bird, When Stars Are Scattered, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, Whim of the Dragon, Witness for the Dead, A Wish in the Dark, What Fresh Hell Is This, We Are Not Broken, Wish
X
Y: Yonder Comes the Other End of Time, Yes Please, Your Own Sylvia, You Call This Democracy?, Youth to Power, You Too?, Yotsuba& 4, You Bring Me the Ocean, Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear, You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, You Should See Me in a Crown, Year of Wonders, You Can't Say That, You Don't Have to Be Everything
Z The Zodiac Killer
25/26: X
This blog has been quiet for a week while I vacation in Disneyland with my family. This is my fourth time there this decade, and I've been transformed from a skeptic to an enthusiast. Not only did I have fun with the rides and displays, but I also got to see my kids being awesome and amazing. They were patient. They didn't complain about all the walking. They (mostly) humored their little cousin. Even when they got sick, they (well, he, I'm talking about X now) handled it with patience and good humor, resting when he had to and enjoying what he could. I'm very proud of my kids and niblings!
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