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Releasing: February 10, 2025
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I loved participating in this challenge last year so I'll be continuing participation in The Alphabet Soup challenge hosted by Dollycas in 2025.
You can sign up and find all of the info on Dollycas' blog post here. Like last year I'll be posting updates as I finish titles. I always try to plan out my books in advance, but if the Popsugar and Book Riot reading challenges have taught me anything, it is that I almost never read what is on the plan. Anything with a link has a review posted, so feel free to check out my thoughts.
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Letter | Title | Author |
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A | Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear | Seanan McGuire |
B | Breath of the Dragon | Shannon Lee & Fonda Lee |
C | The Crescent Moon Tearoom | Stacy Sivinski |
D | A Dragon of Black Glass | James Rollins |
E | Elevation | Stephen King |
F | Freaking Romance vol 2 | Snailords |
G | Get Lost with You | Sophie Sullivan |
H | Heartwood | Amity Gaige |
I | In the Veins of Drowning | Katie Cassidy |
J | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne |
K | The Kiss Lottery | Ilsa Madden-Mills |
L | Lightfall | Ed Crocker |
M | The Merger | Adriana Locke |
N | Not for the Faint of Heart | Lex Croucher |
O | Our Infinite Fates | Laura Stevens |
P | The Prince Without Sorrow | Maithree Wijesekara |
Q | The Queens of Crime | Marie Benedict |
R | Rebel Witch | Kristen Ciccarelli |
S | Spied | JM Miller |
T | Transmentation Transience | Darkly Lem |
U | Under the Same Stars | Libba Bray |
V | The Vine Witch | Luanne G. Smith |
W | Wash Day Diaries | Jamila Rowser |
X | ||
Y | Yellowface | R.F. Kuang |
Z | Zombie Apocalypse Running Club | Carrie Mac |
Month | Prompt | Title | Author |
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January | You are dropped on a deserted island for 7 days with water, flint to make a fire, and a tarp. You are allowed to bring 3 personal items. Choose your items and then find one of those items in the title of a book and read it to complete the challenge. | ||
February | Read a book with a word in the title from a Taylor Swift song title. | The Kiss Lottery | Ilsa Madden-Mills |
March | read a book with UP - DOWN - HIGH or LOW in the title. | Coming Up Roses | Staci Hart |
April | read a book with MURDER in the title. Homicide- Death - Kill are acceptable too | Board to Death | CJ Connor |
May | a book with something SWEET in the title | Sweet Escape | Meredith Wild and Jillian Liota |
June | read a book with a PREPOSITION in the title | A Fate Forged in Fire | Hazel McBride |
July | Read a book with 7 or more works in the title | The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant | Liza Tully |
August | read a book with a COLOR in the title | Hemlock & Silver | T. Kingfisher |
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You can sign up and find all of the info on Dollycas' blog post here.
I'll be posting updates as I finish titles. I always try to plan out my books in advance, but if the Popsugar and Book Riot reading challenges have taught me anything, it is that I almost never read what is on the plan. Anything with a link has a review posted, so feel free to check out my thoughts.
Letter | Title | Author |
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A | The Fourth Consort | Edward Ashton |
B | Let's Call a Truce | Amy Buchanan |
C | Babylonia | Costanza Cosati |
D | The Best Medicine | Krysta Dearson |
E | ||
F | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
G | Tequila Wars | Ted Genoways |
H | An Academy for Liars | Alexis Henderson |
I | Attack on Titan Volume 21 | Hajime Isayame |
J | How Long 'til Black Future Month? | N.K. Jemisin |
K | Penitence | Kristin Koval |
L | The Quarry Girls | Jess Lourey |
M | The Soccer of Success: How the Beautiful Game Can Help You Achieve Goals in Business | Ciarán McArdle |
N | The Man Made of Smoke | Alex North |
O | A Song for You and I | K. O'Neill |
P | The Deathly Grimm | Kathryn Purdie |
Q | ||
R | Arch-Conspirator | Veronica Roth |
S | This Wild Heart | Karla Sorensen |
T | The Arrival | Shaun Tan |
U | House of Crows Collection | Lisa Unger |
V | Space Opera | Catherynne M. Valente |
W | A Language of Dragons | SF Williamson |
X | Heavenly Tyrant | Xiran Jay Zhao |
Y | Onyx Storm | Rebecca Yarros |
Z |
I participated in this challenge in 2023 and 2024 and plan to do it again in 2025. It is being hosted by Socrates Book Reviews. I was able to review 94 books in 2024 between Netgalley and Edelweiss and this challenge is always great way to keep myself accountable and on top of reviews.
I currently have 40 outstanding ARCs on my TBR right now, 14 of those are 2025 releases.
I'm going to shoot for Platinum again this year. I haven't been able to get to 100 Netgalley reviews in a year quite yet. I do review for other sources but they aren't all on Netgalley and Edelweiss.
I'll link my reviews below as I post. To keep myself accountable, I'll be posting my tentative TBR based on release dates and approvals as the year goes on.
January - Link up to see what everyone else read and reviewed