July AlphaKIT: G, U

July AlphaKIT: G, U

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

July’s letters are: G, U.


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

I have lots of G's but not much in the way of U's. However, I may be getting a copy of "Gunnar's Daughter" by Sigrid Undset

I am planning on reading Voyage to Santa Fe by Janice Holt Giles and The Investigation by Dorothy Uhnak.

I am hoping to get to Greenwood in July. Nothing on tap for U, but something will show up I'm sure.

I have a few to read.
🎯Currently Reading
✅ completed

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
🎯Death and the Librarian by Victoria Gilbert
Death on the Books by Victoria Gilbert
✅Ghostly Undertaking
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
✅Murder in a Lavender Daze by Darryl Wood Gerber
Survival of the Fritters by Ginger Bolton

I'm planning on reading Isola by Allegra Goodman and The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea.

Planning on The Deep Blue Good-By by John D. Macdonald and Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr..

I have finished one book for each letter last night: The gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye for G, and Unter Wölfen by Alex Beer for U.

I finished The Gift by Wanda Brunstetter.

I read Death in Captivity by Michael Gilbert.

I have finished another book for G: The Saint goes on by Leslie Charteris.

Next book for G is: Der falsche Abt by Frank Goyke.

Currently reading The Chinese Maze Murders by Robert van Gulik.

A second book for U is: Der Richter aus Paris by Ulrich Wickert.

I've finished my "G" book - Isola by Allegra Goodman.

Gilgi, eine von uns by Irmgard Keun fits for both letters.

For G, The Golden Road by William Dalrymple.

For G, I read The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins.

For G I read The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

I read The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion vol 4 and The Gift by Wanda Brunstetter.

Another G book, Bride by Mistake by Anne Gracie.

August's thread is up:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/385488

COMPLETED The Chinese Maze Murders by Robert van Gulik

I finally read a U book with The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen.

And I have finished another book for G: Entschlüsselte Geheimnisse by Karl-Heinz Göttert.

For U, I have read Unna by Juri Rytcheu.

I reread and enjoyed Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer.

For U, I read Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr..

For U, The Unclaimed by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans

I have completed both my reads for July with The Investigation by Dorothy Uhnak and The Heart of Horses by Molly Gloss.

I hit both letters with Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea.

COMPLETED Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset (The wiki seems to be out of order)

I have finished 3 Gs & 3 Us so far this month and am working on at least one more of each:

The Difference Engine by William Gibson & Bruce Stirling
Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix
Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons by Gerald Durrell
The Tale of Genji: Vol 1 by Murasaki Shikibu (in progress)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol 3 by Beth Brower
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol 4 by Beth Brower
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol 5 by Beth Brower
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol 6 by Beth Brower (in progress)

COMPLETED Rites of Passage by William Golding

I just read Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood.