AlphaKIT: YEARLONG X and Z

Welcome to the 2023 AlphaKIT and to a brand new year of reading..
This is an unofficial challenge for the 2023 Category Challenge Group. X and Z, being harder to match is a yearlong piece of this challenge.

There are no rules. Just have fun and enjoy reading.
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Please remember to update the wiki with your reading: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2023_AlphKIT#Yearlong_Letters:_X_and_Z

And one for here:

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari and Hannah Lucinda Smith

Wiki updated, review in my thread.

I just finished Tokyo Rose--Zero Hour

If you're looking for a very informative read that also checks off your Z, I highly recommend

Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman

And if you read it this month (Feb) it can double as a J

I've finished Aunt Bessie Considers by Diana Xarissa

I read From the desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks for Z.

Starting Autumn in Carthage by Christopher Zenos

COMPLETED Autumn in Carthage by Christopher Zenos

I just finished Poison by Bridget Zinn, an enjoyable light YA fantasy.

I read Tofylis, or The Marriage of Zosė by Žemaitė, which is a short Lithuanian classic.

And another one for Z: Zurück zur ersten Liebe, written by Teresa Zukic.

>1 majkia: the letters are missing, again. :sigh:

I have two Zs:
Nine Princes in Amber and The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny

I finished The Last Days of St. Pierre by Ernest Zebrowski.

Z: The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Saad Z. Hossain.

I've finished my "Z" book for this year - An Unequal Defense by Chad Zunker.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

Got my X with Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon.

I read Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld.

Starting The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

(ETA) DNF

Still looking for a book for X. So thought I would just type 'X' into the search on Kindle Unlimited. Wow, that brought out all the erotica and associated titles! Not sure why I didn't think of that before I started searching!
Did find a short biography of Malcolm X though, so that will be my read for X.

>21 JayneCM: LOL.

I read Aunt Bessie Decides by Diana Xarissa for X.

Fo anyone still looking for a 'Z', I read Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us about Health and the Science of Healing, and it was absolutely fantastic. Also compulsively readable--not at all dense--and shorter than it looks on first glance since there's a good portion of space at the end devoted to bibilography, notes, etc. Full review written up for anyone interested.

I've gone ahead and posted the first alphakit for 2024 : https://www.librarything.com/topic/355714
and the yearlong thread : https://www.librarything.com/topic/355713

Have fun planning!

Just under the wire: Praying with Jane Eyre by Vanessa Zoltan (2023).

>25 majkia: thank you!

Finished a Z: Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo.

I am getting a little creative here and counting Lauren Layne's An Ex for Christmas as my X book, since "ex" and "X" are pronounced the same!