UK Book Club discussion

Looking forward to doing this one. I'm going to add to this list as and when I find a relevant book- any suggestions/recommendations welcome!

A- Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
B - Sejal Badani - The Storyteller's Secret
C-Mariah Carey - The Meaning of Mariah Carey
D- J M Darhower - Ghosted
E - Rachael English - The American Girl
F - Jennie Felton - The Stolen Child
G- Bryony Gordon - Glorious Rock Bottom
H- Stacey Halls - The Foundling
I - Laila Ibrahim - Yellow Crocus
J - Ana Johns - The Woman in the White Kimono
K- Lydia Kang- The Half Life of Ruby Fielding
L - Judithe Little - The Chanel Sisters
M- Jojo Moyes- The Giver of Stars
N - Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere
O- Delia Owens - Where the Crawdads Sing
P- Amanda Prowse- The Day She Came Back
Q - Kate Quinn- The Rose Code
R- Kiley Reid - Such A Fun Age
S - Asne Seierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul
T - Paige Toon - The Minute I Saw You
U - Lisa Unger - Confessions on the 7:45
V- Fiona Valpy - The Storyteller of Casablanca
W- Helga Weiss- A Young Girl's account of life in a concentration camp
X- Xinran - Miss Chopsticks
Y - Malala Yousafzai - We Are Displaced
Z- Chad Zunker - An Equal Justice

Start: 1st January 2021
End: 7th May 2024

2/26 done- letters W and M. My next read will be The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns (J).

Leanne wrote: "2/26 done- letters W and M. My next read will be The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns (J)."Good start Leanne

Just finished my 3rd book, and 3rd letter- The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns. 3 down, 23 to go!

Well done Leanne.

Thank you James. Going for a classic next- Little Women

8 down, 18 to go! Really enjoying this challenge so far :-)

You are doing well :) I'm getting close to the point of having awkward letters left to choose from...ha ha!

Ha ha! 'X' will be an interesting one!

Struggling with this one recently! All of the books I want to read don't have authors with the right surnames... any suggestions for books and authors with the surnames I need would be very welcome!

I did this challenge a while back. These are the books/authors I read:
A- Jane Austen & Seth Grahame Smith - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ***
B- Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 ****
C- Beatrice Colin - The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite ****
D- Guy Delisle - Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea ****
E- Kim Edwards - The Memory Keeper's Daughter ***
F- Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl ****
G- Neil Gaiman - Stardust ****
H- Neil Humphries - Notes from an Even Smaller Island **
I- Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go *****
J- Hillary Jordan - Mudbound *****
K - Ishmail Kadare - The Palace of Dreams **
L- John Adjvide Linqvist - Let the Right One In ***
M- Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall *****
N- David Nicholls - One Day ****
O- Joseph O'Neil - Netherland **
P- Annie Proulx - The Shipping News *****
Q- Qiu Xiaolong - Death of a Red Heroine ***
R- Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children ****
S- Kathryn Stockett - The Help ****
T- Scarlett Thomas - The End of Mr. Y ***
U- John Updike - The Witches of Eastwick ***
V- Salley Vickers - Miss Garnet's Angel **
W- David Wroblewski - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle ****
X- Xinran - The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices ***
Y- Taichi Yamada - Strangers **
Z- Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind *****

If you check out the 'completed A-Z challenges' thread there's loads of great suggestions too.

I did a female authors A-Z too:

A - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun ****
B - Karen Blixen - Out of Africa ***
C - Willa Cather - A Lost Lady ****
D - Emma Donoghue - Room ****
E - Sue Eckstein - Interpreters ****
F - Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves *****
G - Amy Greene - Bloodroot ****
H - Georgina Harding - Painter of Silence ****
I - Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea ****
J - Tove Jansson - The Summer Book ***
K - Hannah Kent - Burial Rites ****
L - Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singing ****
M - Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies *****
N - Irène Némirovsky - The Fires of Autumn ****
O - Téa Obreht - The Tiger's Wife ****
P - Michelle Paver - Dark Matter ****
Q - Sarah Quigley - The Conductor ***
R - Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea *****
S - Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood ***
T - Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch *****
U - Jane Urquhart - The Stone Carvers ****
V - Catherynne M. Valente - Palimpsest ***
W - Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ****
X - Xinran - Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet ***
Y - Hanya Yanagihara - The People in the Trees ****
Z - Jean Zimmerman - The Orphan Master **

Thanks Liz, I didn't think to check out the completed ones so will definitely do that! And from your list I've added Never Let Me Go and the Memory Keeper's Daughter to my pile, so that will be another two done - once I get around to reading them :-)

Ha ha! So many books, so little time ;)

Was just read your comments Leanne and looking at Liz's books and had to go look at what I had read to relize I had not finished this challenge no Z. Your doing great and the fun is looking for the books anyway.

Z is always tricky and X!

You're right Tania! I really enjoy looking for the books and inevitably end up adding loads to my tbr pile!

I can't offer any recommendations for Z I'm afraid. However I do have a book in mind for X which as Liz says is always a tricky one... I'm thinking I'll read The Autobiography of Malcolm X for that one. Very original I know! :-)

I haven't read anything for this challenge in a while but will be continuing on and completing the letter V with The Storyteller of Casablanca by Fiona Valpy.

Only 3 more to go! Nearly 2, as I'm three quarters of the way through the book that will give me E. I'm determined to finish this challenge sooner rather than later!

Only 3 to go! The end is in sight!

Finally finished this challenge with my last book, We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai. It only took 3 years! ;-)

Woo-hoo! Congratulations :)

Thank you. It's a relief to finish, I've got to say!

well done. where to go next on your challenges now?

Thanks Tania, I'm going to try and concentrate on my Around The World challenge a bit more now- yours is giving me lots of inspiration :-)