June AlphaKIT: T, H

June AlphaKIT: T, H

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

June’s letters are: T, H.


"letter T" by Leo Reynolds is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse.


"letter H" by Leo Reynolds is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse.

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

My online reading group is reading "The Secret History" by Procopius in June.

I am considering You May Also Like by Tom Vanderbilt for another challenge, and it would also fit here.

Planning on Geoff Ryman's Him for my H, and The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949, edited by E. F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty for my T.

I am hoping to read Scrublands by Chris Hammer and An Elderly Lady Must Not be Crossed by Helene Tursten.

Here's what I'm hoping to read.
🎯Currently Reading
✅ completed

Berried to the Hilt
Campari Crimson by Andrighetti, Traci
Coffee, Kids, and a Kidnapping by Alyssa Helton
Death of a Tom Turkey
Harbor House
Hems & Homicide
Hollywood vs. Nazis
🎯Husbands
In His Eyes
Last Telegram of Mrs Hudson
Mai Tai Murder Cruise
My Father Always Finds Corpses by Lee Hollis
Thanks for Muffin by Victoria H
✅This weekend Doesn't End Well for Anyone
Wishful Thinking

I read The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton. Intended for June (T & H) but it was so hard to put down that I finished it in May, earlier than expected.

I have completed my read of An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten. This was a great read both funny, and enthralling. I have my fingers crossed that there will be more of this elderly lady to come!

Currently reading "Two for Joy" by M. E. Mayer

I read Yours from the Tower for letter “T.”

The Hot Flash Club and Heart of a Vicar for letter H.

COMPLETED Two For Joy by M. E. Mayer

I've completed my "H" read with Scrublands by Chris Hammer.

I have finished my first book for June which works for both letters: Tigerman by Nick Harkaway.

For H, I read Things Will Never Be the Same by Howard Waldrop.

For H, I read Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love by Brian Recker.

For T, I read Code To Zero by Ken Follett

I read my first book for H: Sidetracked by Henning Mankell.

For T I read Strangers in Time by David Baldacci. I thought I would like this one much more than I did.

For T: Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

July's thread is posted here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/384933

Another H: Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall.

Another T: A Terrible Intimacy by Melvin Patrick Ely.

I read The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949, edited by E. F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty.

I have finished Hatchet by Gary Paulsen for H.

edited for touchstone

My first T: Radio Sarajevo by Tijan Sila. This is an autobiographical novel by a Bosnian-German author.

The Boy from the Woods / Harlan Coben. 4 stars

Another H: I finished reading a poetry collection by Friedrich Hölderlin.

Starting "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells.

I have finally taken the plunge and read Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen, a poem bei Heinrich Heine. Poetry is not really my kind of writing, but this was surprising in a good way.

COMPLETED The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

Starting Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Howe.

I recently read Tana French's The Trespasser for T and Gail Eastwood's An Unlikely Hero for H.