2023 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge

Raise your hand if you love a reading challenge!

I know it’s already February, but I’ve had the idea in the back of my mind that I really should join a reading challenge other than the usual Goodreads reading challenge (where, if you’re curious, I’ve said I’ll read 50 books this year).

I was clicking around the internet and trying to get ideas on what to write for my blog (even though there is a handful of reviews I could write but keep putting off) and came across the 2023 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge over on Helen’s Book Blog.

This challenge is hosted by Dollycas over at Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book and runs for the entire year.

The rules are super simple:

1. Read a book for each letter of the alphabet (where the first letter of the title – the main word – matches a letter)
2. Books must be over 50 pages long.
3. For Q, X, and Z, the letter can be for ANY word in the title.
4. Can be joined anytime.
5. Reviews are not mandatory.

The only two rules I’m adding for myself are that this is a FICTION challenge, so no nonfiction titles are allowed, and I can’t count any of the books I read with my kids.

So here we go with the 2023 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge! I’ll keep track of my progress here on this post, and I will link it above.

15 / 26

A – Anxious People by Fredrick Backman

B – The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

C – Cursed Luck (Cursed Luck, #1) by Kelley Armstrong

D – Dead of Winter by Darcey Coates

E –

F –

G – Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King & Richard Chizmar

H – Happy Place by Emily Henry

I – In the Dark by Loreth Anne White

J – Joyland by Stephen King

K –

L – Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Audiobook)

M – A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

N –

O –

P – Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

Q –

R –

S – Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger

T – The Tower (Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper, #9) by J. L. Bryan

U –

V – Verity by Colleen Hoover

W – What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall

X –

Y –

Z –

Other Challenges for 2023:

Stephen King Reading Challenge (ongoing)

The 2023 Bookish Books Reading Challenge