Lindsi from Do You Dog Ear? and I are hosting the Read the Alphabet challenge this year. Each month, you aim to read books that begin with specific letters. January is A and B, February is C and D, and so on. If you miss a letter, or a month, it’s okay! Submit reviews for any of the letters you hit and you’ll be entered to win a book of your choice! There will be four giveaways throughout the year, so you have a good shot at winning!
I know some people think of the alphabet and go “how am I supposed to find a book that begins with…?” so I thought I’d share some possible book ideas for those tricky letters! If there are any other letters that cause you trouble, let me know and I’d be happy to find some options for you. For now, here are some options for the letters Q, X, and Z.
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Books That Start With the Letter Q
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert’s Story by Debbie Tung
Questions for Ada by Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker (Author) and Julia Scheele (Illustrator)
Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe by Deborah Cadbury
Books That Start With the Letter X
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
Xo, Zach by Kendall Ryan
XX by Rian Hughes
The X’Ed-Out X-Ray Ron Roy (Author) John Steven Gurney (Illustrator)
The X-Files: Earth Children Are Weird: A Picture Book by Kim Smith
Xena: Warrior Princess, Volume 1: All Roads by Genevieve Valentine (Author) and Jenny Frison (Artist) and Ariel Medel (Artist)
Books That Start With the Letter Z
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien
The Z Was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
Zac and Mia by A.J. Betts
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Zombies vs. Unicorns, edited by Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black
The Zero by Jess Walter
Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
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Who knew there were so many Z titled books. Love that you included the Z was Zapped. Great alphabet book!!
Q would be a tough one, seems like, but you found some good ones! Quiet is one I kinda wanted to read, being an introvert myself. And the Tearling books! Forgot about ’em but I did read the first one a few years back…
Smart to give some ideas for these letters since they’re so hard!
Oooh you have some great books on this list!
X is always a hard one to find books for. This list is super useful. Thanks.
Great choices! Love the title Z for Zachariah! Last year, for Q I did Quintessence. X was just supposed to be an X in the title so I did The Poet X. I didn’t have a Z book!
Good idea starting with some of those hard letters first. I am jotting down those Xs (always the worst for me). I read Zac and Mia twice for my Z (lol, but it’s so good). Good luck!
Great recommendations! These letters are the hardest to think of.
These are all great recommendations! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
I would have thought that I’d never read a book that started with Q, but I have read Quiet Girl in a Noisy World. Great recs!
This is great! Some letter seem like there will never be a corresponding book lol but there always is!
I remember doing a thing where I needed to find a book from my shelf that matched my blog name. I thought W would be the hardest but it was F.
Karen @ For What It’s Worth
This sounds like a really fun way to read some of the books that have been waiting on my shelf!
This does sound like a fun challenge and I definitely appreciate the hints for the hardest letters.
I loved Quiet, and I hope to read Queenie one of these days! My kids and I loved the Z was Zapped too!
This is such a helpful list! One of the prompts in the Popsugar Reading Challenge is to read a book beginning with x, y or z as well, haha. I have the Queen of the Tearling in my TBR, I should read that one soon. Plus another rec for a X book – coming out this year – is XOXO by Axie Oh!
Okay this is just plain impressive! Q books I guess I get because there’s always “Queen of Whatever and Such” but X and Z, those are accomplishments ha. I checked my review list on my blog, and I have none for X and Z, which makes me really want to read some now hah.
I thought Q would be hard, but look at you go sharing all kinds of great books to read from Q to Z!
I just bought a copy of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking! My therapist recommended it to me 🙂