It's time once again to sign up for the Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge Author Edition. The 2025 challenge will run from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025. You can join anytime and you do not have to post a review of the book. Books can come from any genre.
Additional Rules:
1) Children’s Books and Novellas are acceptable but they need to be over 50 Pages.
2) You do not need to link up each spoonful.
3) Grab a notebook or make a page or a post or a GoodReads shelf where you will keep track of your spoonfuls.
4) Crossovers to other challenges are allowed and encouraged!
5) The challenge is to read one book that has an author whose first name, middle, or last name starts with every letter of the alphabet.
A – Make a list on your blog from A-Z. Throughout the year, as you go along, add the authors with the book you read to the list. Towards the end of the year, you can check and see which letters you are missing and find authors/books to fit.
OR
B – Make a list now of 26 books, picking one for each letter of the alphabet.
For example:
A – Donna Andrews – For Duck’s Sake: A Meg Langslow Mystery
B – Bailey Cates – Rituals and Rolling Pins (A Magical Bakery Mystery)
C – Harlan Coben – Nobody’s Fool
6) This challenge has been added to Storygraph. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/84d0f727-fbe2-4b96-891c-cf96b30bfef1
7) Books can be read in any order and all formats – print – e-book – and audio – are acceptable for this challenge!
8) Bloggers can grab the image above and make a post about the challenge to encourage others to join! Non-bloggers you can join too! Just keep track any way you wish. You can even set up a special shelf on Goodreads.com to help you keep track!
9) If you post about your books on Social Media please use this hashtag #AlphabetSoupAuthorChallenge.
10) Follow Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book as there may be special announcements made about the challenge.
11) There is also a very active group on Facebook where you can share your books read and converse with others taking part in the challenge.
12) Sign up using Google Forms. Sign Up Here.
