Every year I set out to read books with titles that begin with A – Z. I don’t include the artcles of title pages and sometimes bend the rules, specifically with harder letters like “X” or “Z”. Here is this year’s book list of The A – Z Challenge.

My rating system based solely on my opinion:
* – Trash, hated it. Bad writing, shallow characters, predictable. Stay away.
** – Didn’t like it. Won’t recommend
*** – It was okay. Probably recommend to someone if they like that specific genre or author. This may be just because I’m not into that specific genre, bad writing style, I didn’t like the ending, unnecessary length, wokeness, or there was a whiny character that annoyed me.
**** – Most books I liked will fall into this star rating. I would recommend, and I thoroughly enjoyed the book!
***** – Life changing. I now have a copy on my personal shelf

A – Augustine of Hippo – A Life by Henry Chadwick ***
B – Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart ***
C – Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff ****
D -Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver ****
E – Elektra by Jennifer Saint ***
F – Foster by Claire Keegan ****
G – The Good Lie by A.R. Torre ****
H – The Housemaid by Freida McFadden ****
I – Innocence by Dean Koontz ***
J – John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace by Jonathan Aitken *****
K – Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi *
L – Live Your Truth by Alisa Childers ****
M – Man Called Ove by Frerik Backman *****
N – Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo ****
O – Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen *****
P – Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell ****
Q – Quitters Inc by Stephen King ***
R – Relic by Preston and Child ***
S – Sour Grape by Jory John ****
T – Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris ***
U – Unseen Realm by Michael S. Heiser ***
V – Vuelta a Mexico by Judy Goldman ***
W – Weyward by Emilia Hart ****
X – The X-Files: Earth Children are Weird by Jason Rekulak ****
Y – You Are Not Your Own by Alan Noble ***
Z – Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You by Ray Bradbury ***

I love this challenge because it really helps get me into looking into different books I would never consider. It also helps me discover new authors and genres I didn’t even know existed!

Happy readings!