Alphabet Soup - Challenge Complete!

The Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge was hosted by Escape With Dollycas, and it is always one of my favorite challenges. The idea is to read a book for each letter of the alphabet - the title needs to start with that letter, although you can ignore any A's or The's at the beginning of the title. This challenge is fun because it truly is a challenge to come up with all the titles you need. Obviously, there are some difficult letters - Q and X, of course, among others. Although surprisingly, Z was the hardest letter for me this year. Here are the books I read for this challenge: 

A - Austenland by Shannon Hale
B - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
C - The Color of Rain by Michael & Gina Spehn
D - Dark Water by Robert Clark
E - Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
F - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
G - The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost by Rachel Friedman
H - The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I -  Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn
J - Jesus by Walter Wangerin
K - King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
L - The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
M - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
N - Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye by Zac Unger
O - The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
P - A Passion Most Pure by Julie Lessman
Q - The Queen of the Big Time by Adriana Trigiani
R - A Romance on Three Legs by Katie Hafner
S - Serving Victoria by Kate Hubbard
T - Travels in the Greater Yellowstone by Jack Turner
U - The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
V - Vienna Nocturne by Vivien Shotwell
W - The Wishing Thread by Lisa Van Allen
X - The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander
Y - A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro
Z - Zoobreak by Gordon Korman

It took me all year to complete my alphabet soup, but I made it!