It’s Sunday again, and it’s time for the ABC Book Challenge! I found it over at Me, Myself, and Books, but I think it was started by The Thrifty Bibliophile. Today’s letter is Z, plus the books that don’t start with letters. To be honest, I don’t have any books in “My Books” on Goodreads that start with Z (I didn’t have any that started with X either) but I found some.
It’s hard to believe that this will be my last ABC book challenge post. Perhaps I’ll revisit this challenge in five years, or maybe I’ll do this once in a decade… but who knows what ten years will bring? I can’t imagine things would change enough to do this next year, however, especially since this is a six-month commitment. It was fun to go through my TBR and books I read to see my favorites in every letter though.
So without further ado, here are the Z and non-letter books!
I heard about Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth years ago when it initially came out. I can’t remember whether this was a controversial book or not, but from reading the reviews, I’d probably disagree with the author on some points (I am a Christian) but I’m also of the opinion that you can learn things from people that disagree with you even if you don’t necessarily agree with everything a person says. For example, I’m sure I’d find the historical context in this book interesting.
Zia stuck out to me because it’s written by the author of Island of the Blue Dolphins. It’s the story of another native girl who, this time, is at a mission. This is supposed to be the story of the niece of the girl from the Island. Karana, the lady whom the original story was written about, couldn’t communicate with her “rescuers” and only lived for seven weeks after she rejoined civilization, so this story would have no basis in fact, but it might be an interesting read.
I have an ARC for 10 Things I Hate About Pinky, which is a story with fake-dating and is in the When Dimple Met Rishi Universe, so I hope to read this early in 2020.
My mom adores Stephen King books, although I haven’t read many in recent years. 11/22/63 sounds like an interesting blend of history with a Stephen King twist. Maybe I should use one of my Audible credits on this.
I’ve been saying I wanted to read 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance for years now. I enjoyed 1421 and The Lost Empire of Atlantis, both by the same author. For some reason, I never got around to reading this book. Maybe in 2020.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents is another book I’ve been meaning to read for a while. Perhaps 2020, the centennial of that important year, would be a good time to read this book.
The 5th Wave was one of my favorite books I read in 2016. I tore through this book, despite its monster length. Sadly, I didn’t like the other books in this trilogy as much as I loved the first book.
So that’s it! I hope you’ve found this tour through my My Books highlights on Goodreads to be semi-interesting. Thank you for reading!