April AlphaKIT: P, J

April AlphaKIT: P, J

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

April’s letters are: P, J.


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And, please do update the wiki with what you read this month:
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2026_AlphaKIT#April:_Letters:_P_and_J

I have a twofer in mind: "Plato: A Very Short Introduction" by Julia Annas

Current plans: Self-Portrait with Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka and Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time by Jennifer Wright.

I have a few plans.
🎯Currently Reading
✅ completed

✅Calling all Blessings by Beverly Jenkins
Deadly Combination by Joy Patrick
✅Death Times Seven by Anne Perry
✅Dungeons and Danger by Elizabeth Penny
Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody
🎯Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
Murder Most Pemberley by Jessica Berg
Murder Most Persuasive by Jessica Berg
✅Murder Once Removed by S.C. Perkins
Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts
Mysterious Arrangement by Joy Patrick
✅Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn
Treacherous Tide by Joy Patrick

My plans for these letters are The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters and An Obvious Fact by Craig Johnson.

I know I'll cover the J with Zeal by Morgan Jenkins. And that will work for the year-long Z as well. I'll have to determine my P once I fully settle on my April reading.

I am planning on reading Ridgeline by Michael Punke and Do the Creepy Thing by Graham Joyce

I read The Spice Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta.

For J, I plan The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

For an OLLI adult education course, I plan to read Plainsong by Kent Haruf.

I've finished An Obvious Fact by Craig Johnson.

For P, But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo

I have 3 Js and a P so far:
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
The Man by the Sea by Jack Benton
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
Prince of Chaos by Roger Zelazny

For P, and also covers Z:

>16 VivienneR: That sounds interesting but the first book in the series, Tainted, also sounds interesting so despite your comment I will wishlist them and read them in order :-)

>17 Robertgreaves: Good idea, Robert! I'm thinking of doing the same.

Starting "Full Plate" by Kim Fielding

Read another J, J is for Judgment by Sue Grafton

COMPLETED A Full Plate by Kim Fielding

For J, I read Jennifer Wright's Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time.

For J, The Death of Mountains by Jordan Kurella

Last night I started Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar

I just finished Educating Caroline by Patricia Cabot.

COMPLETED Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar

Starting Saturnalian Gifts by Ashley Gardner pen-name of Jennifer Ashley

For my first P book, I listened to an audio version of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

I have finished Une page d’amour by Émile Zola for P.

COMPLETED Saturnalian Gifts by Ashley Gardner, pen-name of Jennifer Ashley

Starting "Plato: A Very Short Introduction" by Julia Annas.

My first this month. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

I've finished 2 more Js, a P and a J + P:
Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard
Breakfast at the Beach House Hotel by Judith Keim
Pains and Penalties by S. E. Biglow
City of Others by Jared Poon

COMPLETED Plato: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas

Starting The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

I've finished Zeal: A Sweeping Multi-Generational Epic of Love, Legacy, and Cosmic Reconciliation from Reconstruction to Harlem by Morgan Jerkins. This also satisfies Yearlong Z

I've just posted May's thread here:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/383704#

Starting The Ampersand Papers by Michael Innes, pen-name of John I. M. Stewart

I just finished Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters, which works for both letters. Love it when that happens!

COMPLETED The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

For P, I finished Let's Play Dead by Sheila Connolly.

I have completed and really enjoyed both my AlphaKit books his month. Do the Creepy Thing by Graham Joyce and Ridgeline by Michael Punke.

COMPLETED The Ampersand Papers by Michael Innes, pen-name of John I. M. Stewart

J : The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

J: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Another J: Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessey

I have finished The noise of time by Julian Barnes for J.

Finished the last 2 books in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time series for 2xP.

Currently reading Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald and "The Christmas Present and Other Stories" by Grazia Deledda

COMPLETED The Christmas Present and Other Stories by Grazia Deledda

Another J : The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Another P: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu.

Starting "The Personal Librarian" by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

I have finished Erebus by Michael Palin for P.

One more P: "Dr. Werthless' by Harold Schechter and Eric Powell.

COMPLETED Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

This month I've read:

J
John Caldigate, Anthony Trollope
Cross Channel, Julian Barnes--currently reading

P
The Gipsy in the Parlor, Margery Sharp
A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett

P&J
Miss Pym Disposes, Josephine Tey

I read another book for P: Pearl and the Baker, a regency retelling of Hansel and Gretel by Sienna Peake.

I just finished another P book, The Deathly Portent by Elizabeth Bailey.

Yet another P with Alden Nowlan: Selected Poems.

COMPLETED The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

Starting "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" by Mitch Albom

Another P is finished: Peril at End House by Agatha Christie.

And one more for J: The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes

For P, i read A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint

>63 bookworm3091: I love that series

COMPLETED The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

Starting "The Porpoise" by Mark Haddon

One last for J: Unter dem Sternbild der Trauer by Juri Rytchëu.

For J, I read

I have finished one last P for this monh, The Procrastination Equation by Piers Steel.

In the end of the month I read my first and only book for J:

Schwarzes Herz by Jasmina Kuhnke

I also read another book for P:

The Tale of Two Bad Mice by Beatrix Potter