2026 Reading Challenge: A to Z

B – Bucky F*cking Dent by David Duchovny

B – Bog Queen by Anna North

C – Cursed Daughters by Okinyan Braithwaite

C – Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

D – Done and Dusted: Rebel Blue Ranch Novel by Lyla Sage

D – Dangerland! by Erin Singer

E – Elektra by Jennifer Saint

F – Fury (the) by Alex Michaelides

F – Familia by Lauren E. Rico

G – The Gods of the Woods by Liz Moore

G – Good Girl by Aria Aber

G – Good Girl (the) by Michelle Dunne

G – The Girls by Emma Cline

H – House with Good Bones (A) by T. Kingfisher

H – Home of the Drowned (the) by Elin Anna Labba

J – JAMES by Percival Everett

L -Last Gifts of the Universe (the) by Riley August

M- Maame by Jessica George

M – Ministry of Time (the) by Kaliane Bradley

N – No Place to Bury the Dead by Karina Saiz Borgo

O – The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

P – Porcupines by Fran Fabriczki 

P- People Watching by Hannah Bonam-Young

S – Smile of the Wolf by Tim Leach

S – Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

S – Swamp Story by Dave Barry

T- Things We Would Bear (the) by Rachyl Wood

V – Vigil by George Saunders

V – Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas

W – Wedding People (the) by Alison Espach

W – When Mikan Road was Ours by D.K. Furutani

2025 Reading Challenge: A to Z

A- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

B – The Beauty of the End: a Novel by Lauren Strientra

B – The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville

B – Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

B – The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley

B – Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

C- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

D – Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

E – Every Single Secret by Christina Dodd

E – (The) Eyes are the Best Part by Monika Kim

F – Fright Night by Maren Stoffels

F – Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

F The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brando Sanderson

G- Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

G- Ghosts, Lore & a House by the Shore: A Mother/Daughter Cozy Mystery by Nellie H. Steele

G – (The) Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez

H – Holly by Stephen King

H – The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco

H – How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

H – Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

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K- Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

L – Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

M – The Men Who Lived Forever by Dylan Scott Tuccillo

N –

O – Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

P – Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

P – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

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R –

S – Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg

S – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

S – Skellig by David Almond

T – Tiny Daggers by Caroline Corcoran

T – The Two Lives of Sara: A Novel by Catherine Adel West

U –

W – What you are looking for is in the library: a Novel by Michiko Aoyama

V – Voice like a Hyacinth by Mallory Pearson

V – The Virus by Stanley Johnson

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