35 - A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter

[Jenn]

Sherwood Smith - author of Crown Duel/Court Duel, a YA duology that's often published just as Crown Duel. One of my favorite YA fantasies!

[Sarah]

I'm trying to decide between Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn or Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith!

[Quand]

Anybody have any ideas or recommendations for an author whose first and last names start with Q? It's my fav letter and I want to show it some love! 😋

[Jen]

I don't know if you guys are fans of the YouTube series My Drunk Kitchen, but Hannah Hart has a book called Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded about her life and it is INCREDIBLE. She's had a rough life, and as the book goes on, you start to feel honored that she's sharing so much with you. She's still hilarious, even while discussing some dark stuff.
If you aren't into autobiographies, she also has a cookbook! My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut

[Teri]

Quand wrote: "Anybody have any ideas or recommendations for an author whose first and last names start with Q? It's my fav letter and I want to show it some love! 😋"

Cool name - I can see why you love Q. Good luck with that search. I was interested and looked for a few minutes but there are no authors with double Q names that I could find. There's not many with single Q names, after all.

[Michelle]

I just found one on my to-read list that I just got. WooHoo! I'm a historical romance reader so I'm going with A Duke Changes Everything by Christy Carlyle

[Danielle]

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

[Nicci]

Shel Silverstein

[Debbie]

All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

[Debbie]

All the Missing Girls

[Sarah]

My pick I think will be between La Belle SauvageLa Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman or Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

[Vivian]

The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson

[Linda]

I'll be reading The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford ... it is on a list of classics I want to read.

[Darci]

I keep meaning to try the Lunar Chronicles, so I'll go with Cinder by Marissa Meyer.

[Mary-jo]

Nullifidian wrote: "Bjørnsterne Bjørnson
Maurice Maeterlinck
Ford Madox Ford
Walt Whitman"

Love your addition of Walt Whitman! That's ingenious!! Thanks!

[Mary-jo]

Chrissi wrote: "Some suggestions from my GR shelves:

Little Bee, Everyone Brave is Forgiven-Chris Cleave
Mr. Rochester-[author:Sarah Shoemaker|775615..."

Great choices; Thanks!

[Juliet]

I love Katherine Kerr 's Deverry books

[Errlee]

I read Snap by Belinda Bauer for this one - it was nominated for the Booker prize last year. It was a good solid thriller, although I'm a bit surprised by the nomination given the genre.

[Jennifer]

I'm planning on readingThe End of the Affair by Graham Greene.

[Angelina]

Would recommend anything by Ruth Rendell, as I’ve read them all and trying to try different authors going to see what’s in my library. Her last book I think was also published after her death.

[Angelina]

Errlee wrote: "I read Snap by Belinda Bauer for this one - it was nominated for the Booker prize last year. It was a good solid thriller, although I'm a bit surprised by the nomination given the g..."For anyone trying this author Blacklands is superb and The Beautiful Dead is good.

[Nicole]

I'm going to read The Valiant by Lesley Livingston for this one. It's been on my TBR for awhile and now I have a reason to pick it up.

[Shelby]

I just finished The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

[Lorna]

I will be reading All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward for this one.

[SadieReadsAgain]

I went with Special by Bella Bathurst for this. This book was as if someone took my early teenage years and acted them out on the island from Lord of the Flies. I knew girls like these, and parts of me was like these girls too. The close quarters that these girls inhabit acts as a catalyst to push the familiar bullying, mental health issues and experimentation typical of that age to much murkier depths. Bella Bathurst has a real talent for crafting characters, particularly their insecurities, jealousies, maliciousness and desperation to grow up and to be wanted. It is the characters that drive this book, although the setting of a residential school trip was such a clever way to tell the story. This was an uncomfortable read, but a compulsive one.

[Dalene]

I'm reading Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra Clare https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13541056-queen-of-air-and-darkness

[teal]

Thankfully, the author of the series I am in the middle of is Chelsea Cain! I just finished "Evil At Heart" (book #3 in the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series) and am using it for this prompt.

[Christina]

TealJ wrote: "Thankfully, the author of the series I am in the middle of is Chelsea Cain! I just finished "Evil At Heart" (book #3 in the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series) and am using it for this prompt."

Thank you for posting this! I loved books 1-3 and have 4-6 on my shelf! :)

[Amy]

Shay Stafford I am currently really enjoying her autobiography Memoirs of a Showgirl

[Hannah]

Rachel wrote: "Anthony Adeane - Out of Thin Air: The Peculiar Story of Iceland's Most Infamous Criminal Cases

Lisa Lutz - The Passenger

[author:M..."

The Passenger was so good!

[Rachel]

Some more I've found in my TBR:

Non Fiction options:

Why Did They Do It? by Cheryl Critchley (Non Fiction option)

The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eger

Fiction options:

The Other Hand by Chris Cleave

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

[Courtney]

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

[Anne]

Since I'm also trying to catch up on books from another online book club with the challenges my options for this prompt are:

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
A Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

I especially like that Naomi Novik qualifies since I loved Uprooted and would love to read her other books.

[Stéphanie]

I picked a book from my TBR shelf: The Sleeping Beauty Proposal by Sarah Strohmeyer.

Very fast read, a cute premise, and great humour.

[Alison]

Sara wrote: "Kevin Kwan

That's all I've got! Who else??"
Whisper me this by Kerry Anne King

[Irene]

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang is what I read last night to take a break from the series of heavy in my heart books and murder-y thrillers I had been reading as of late. I didn't realize until after it worked for the challenge!

I thought it was going to be a different book than what it was based on what I was told. That being said, it fit the fluffy romantic theme was going for after my latest stream of books. I was hoping for more of something along the lines of the Rosie Project. It had promise. It was just a lot of sex and I wasn't expecting that. I would give it 2.5/3 out of 5. But it was a light and fluffy read :)

[Kym]

I just finished Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo for this prompt - nice read.

[Beth]

"Cleopatra" by Stacy Schiff

[Jeremy]

I'm reading The Alienist by Caleb Carr for this one. It's deep, dark, and oh so haunting. I'm loving it so far.

[Beth]

I'm doing The Face On The Milk Carton
by Caroline B. Cooney

[Lindsay]

Either NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman or Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

[Isabela]

I’ve been meaning to read The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare

[Kirsten]

Joshilyn Jackson
The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
Maile Meloy

Planning on choosing from one of these 3!

[Simone]

I read Brene Brown "Braving the Wilderness" for that prompt. It happened to be the book of the month at our local book club.

[Ketutar]

I just found out about Silver Mirrors by A. A. Aguirre - (Is that Ann Aguirre? )
but I have both Naomi Novik and Rick Riordan on my to read list... :-D
Also Katherine Kurtz and Katharine Kerr

[Chelsea]

I just started “Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller!

P.S. for some reason my comments never give me the option to link books? Anyone have a solution? I use the mobile app for iPhone.

[SadieReadsAgain]

Chelsea wrote: "I just started “Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller!

P.S. for some reason my comments never give me the option to link books? Anyone have a solution? I use the mobile app for iPhone."

The app is hopeless, you can't link books or (I think) use any sort of html.

[Susan]

I recommend Naomi Novik's novel Uprooted for anyone that loves the fantasy genre. Compelling female character and some cool twists; I enjoyed reading it.

[Alix]

Falling for the Best Man Amanda Ashby. It's on my list for a February Challenge anyways

[Tiffiney]

I’m going with Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton