October AlphaKIT - F and P

Welcome to AlphaKIT! Each month AlphaKIT selects two letters to help you select books to read. Use them in any way you choose!

October letters are F and P:

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Planning on Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy for F, and Peter David's Tigerheart (a re-read, which is relatively rare for me) for P.

My book club's choice for October is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky is quite seasonal.

I've got a few!

Currently Reading
✅ completed

✅Body at the Book Fair
Deadly Combination by Joy Patrick
✅Death by Chocolate Pumpkin Muffin
Diva Poaches a Bad Egg
Hems & Homicide by Elizabeth Penney
✅I Felt the Cheers
Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody
Kitchen Front
Murder Once Removed by S. C. Perkins
My Father Always Finds Corpses
Mysterious Arrangement by Joy Patrick
Newlyweds Can Be Knocked Off by Amanda Flower
Refiner’s Fire
Survival of the Fritters
Treacherous Tide by Joy Patrick
Witless Protection Program

I've penciled in Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller and World of Curiosities by Louise Penny for this month.

I am thinking of reading Sisters of the Great War by Suzanne Feldman an Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich.

I am planning to read Mary Poppins and Friends are Forever by Mike Martin.

I'm going to be reading Self-Driving by Betsy Fagin for my 'F' book, and Pre-Approved for Haunting as my 'P' book.

F: A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske.

Starting Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Another F: Sophie Blackall's lovely picture book Farmhouse.

COMPLETED Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

P: The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi.

COMPLETED Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

Finished A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

Starting "Philosophy of Science" by Samir Okasha

COMPLETED Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction by Samir Okasha

I just finished The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman for F.

Just completed The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth. Really impressive!

I have completed an F and a P:
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Phantastes by George MacDonald

F: The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde.

I have finished a book for F: Tintenherz by Cornelia Funke

I read Dinner Parties and Dangerous Enemies for P.

COMPLETED

The Spendthrift and the Swallow (novella)
Voices of the Dead (novel)
The Apple Falls Not Far (novella) and
The Death of Shame (novel)

All by Ambrose Parry

For P: Crescent City by Belva Plain.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/374633
November's Alphakit.

Just a heads-up that I have created the 2026 Category Challenge group: https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/24919/2026-Category-Challenge. Stop by to get a head start on planning next year's challenge!

(Cross-posted to a bunch of threads; sorry if you see this a thousand times!)

Also, I just finished Fake Skating by Lynn Painter, which works for both letters.

Can I get someone to take over the 2026 Alphakit? I keep ending up in hospital (like now) so don't want to worry about disappointing all of you.

Another one for F:
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
At the family gathering to hear Nana’s plans for her will, she surprised everyone. They were meeting at the family home called Seaglass on an island, cut off until the tide changed, a perfect set up for murder. And then they were bumped off, one at a time, as their secrets are revealed, offering shades of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. I’ve never been attracted to retellings, but Feeney’s book had me enthralled. I thought I had the mystery solved but in the end I was wrong.

This is going back on the shelf to revisit when the details begin to fade in my memory. It’s worth a second reading.

I have completed both my reads for October's AlphaKit. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett for "P", and Sisters of the Great War by Suzanne Feldman fo F. Both were excellent reads.

I have finished L’île de feu by Alexandre Dumas for F.

I have also finished Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock for P, and it was very entertaining!

I just completed Falling in a Sea of Stars by Kristen Britain.

I have finished La femme au collier de velours by Alexandre Dumas.

For F : The Cell by Colin Forbes

I'm going to choose author Faith Hunter for the F, and I truly do not have a P for this month. Ms. Hunter is the writer of the Jane Yellowrock series, and I finished #4 in the series this month.

Starting "The Final Girl Support Group" by Grady Hendrix

Another P: Pox Romana by Colin Elliott

>44 susanna.fraser: I'm going to be reading that next month for my online Reading Group

I just finished The Prisoner of Limnos by Lois McMaster Bujold. Such an enjoyable series!

Squeezed in a quick novella for F, When We First Met by Cara Bastone.

COMPLETED The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

My F and P books this month:

F:
The Children of the New Forest, Frederick Marryat (1847)

P:
Brave Companions: Portraits in History, David McCullough (1992)
Red Pottage, Mary Cholmondeley (1899)