NBRC 26 Alphabet 2: Animals: A to Z (Spell-it-Out)

[Jessie]

Reserved

[Andy]

Reading Challenge: A-Z Spellout
Duration: 1.1.16-

Pick an animal for each letter of the alphabet and read books with titles, character (first or last name), or authors (first or last name) that begin with letters that correspond to letter of the animal you choose.

*Trying to complete this using the shortest words possible

APE
✓A-안나라수마나라 1
✓P-President Dad, Volume 1
✓E-あかく咲く声 1


BAT
✓B-Bride of the Water God, Volume 1
✓A-A Thousand Nights
✓T-Tramps Like Us, Vol. 1


CAT
✓C-ちはやふる 1 Chihayafuru 1
✓A-管家葛格 (ぼくはね。) Volume 4
✓T-たいようのいえ 1 Taiyou no Ie 1


DUCK
✓D-Descender #1
✓U-Unspeakable
✓C-Crewel
✓K-キスよりも早く1 Kisu Yorimo Hayaku 1


EEL
✓E-Even the Giants
✓E-あかく咲く声 2
✓L-Lumberjanes #1


FISH
✓F-Merman in My Tub Vol. 1
✓I-If I Stay
✓S-So Much More
✓H-He's Dedicated to Roses, Vol. 1


GOAT
✓G-Gokusen 1
✓O-オレん家のフロ事情 Orenchi no Furo Jijou 5
✓A-Air: The Complete Series
✓T-たいようのいえ 2 Taiyou no Ie 2


HOG
✓H-HJ-Story: Volume 1
✓O-オレん家のフロ事情 Orenchi no Furo Jijou 4
✓G-The Gamer, Season 1


IBIS
✓I-iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World
✓B-Bookishly Ever After
✓I-iZombie, Vol. 2: uVampire
✓S-Significance


JACKAL
✓J-Jackie Rose
✓A-Altered
✓K-キスよりも早く1 Kisu Yorimo Hayaku 2
✓A-Attachments
✓L-A Little Something Different


KOALA
✓K-キスよりも早く1 Kisu Yorimo Hayaku 3
O-
✓A-Annarasumanara
L-
✓A-안나라수마나라 2


LAMB
L-
✓A-Air: 2
✓M-Monstress #1
✓B-Bride of the Water God, Volume 2


MOLE
✓M-My Life Next Door
✓O-オレん家のフロ事情 Orenchi no Furo Jijou 3
L-
✓E-入学編(上) - Enrollment Chapter (I)


NEWT
✓N-Namesake, Volume 1
✓E-入学編(下) - Enrollment Chapter (II)
✓W-The Wrong Side of Right
✓T-The Gentlemen's Alliance †, Vol. 1


OWL
✓O-オレん家のフロ事情 Orenchi no Furo Jijou 6
✓W-Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan
✓L-Lumberjanes #2The Phoenix Requiem



PIG
✓P-The Phoenix Requiem
✓I-Siren's Lament
✓G-Gokusen 2

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome to the challenge Dejah, Jessie and Andy

[Sam]

I'd like to participate.
Duration: 8/19/16-9/26/18

This is a Spell It Out challenge. Pick an animal for each letter of the alphabet and read books with titles, character (first or last name), or authors (first or last name) that begin with letters that correspond to letter of the animal you choose. As always, if a title starts with a, an, the, etc you may use the second word of the title.

Armadillo

A: Angelfall- Susan Ee- 9/30/16
R: Red-Headed Stepchild- Jaye Wells- 8/25/16
M: Mortal Ties- Eileen Wilks- 9/5/16
A: Artemis Fowl- Eoin Colfer- 10/23/16
D: Daughter of the Forest- Juliet Marillier- 9/1/16
I: I'll Walk Alone- Mary Higgins Clark- 10/28/16
L: The Lunatic Cafe- Laurell K. Hamilton- 8/25/16
L: A Local Habitation- Seanan McGuire- 8/31/16
O: Once Burned- Jeaniene Frost- 8/23/16

Bison

B: Blood Song- Cat Adams- 8/27/16
I: I'll Be Seeing You: A Novel- Mary Higgins Clark- 10/7/16
S: Swan Lake- K.M. Shea- 8/30/16
O: Obsidian- Jennifer L. Armentrout- 9/25/16
N: Not His Dragon- Annie Nicholas- 9/7/16

Crocodile

C: Closer to the Chest- Mercedes Lackey- 10/11/16
R: The Rosie Project- Graeme Simsion- 9/22/16
O: Onyx- Jennifer L. Armentrout- 10/15/16
C: Caught Dead in Philadelphia- Gillian Roberts- 11/10/16
O: Owl and the Japanese Circus- Kristi Charish- 12/7/16
D: Deadly Remains- Katherine Bayless- 11/2/16
I: If Looks Could Kill- Kate White- 1/26/17
L: Let Me Call You Sweetheart- Mary Higgins Clark- 2/6/17
E: Echoes in Death- J.D. Robb- 2/8/17

Donkey

D: The Devil's Arithmetic- Jane Yolen- 11/23/16
O: Otherworld Secrets- Kelley Armstrong- 1/18/17
N: A Natural History of Dragons- Marie Brennan- 10/10/17
K: Kisses from Hell-Kristin Cast- 10/26/16
E: Eldest- Christopher Paolini- 8/7/17
Y: Your Money's Worth: Seattle Elementals, Book 1- Connie Suttle- 11/12/16

Elephant

E: The Eyre Affair- Jasper Fforde- 9/11/16
L: License to Ensorcell- Katharine Kerr- 10/4/16
E: Elizabeth's Legacy- Victor Kloss- 10/13/16
P: Poison Study- Maria V. Snyder- 9/19/16
H: Handle with Care- Jodi Picoult- 8/30/16
A: An Artificial Night- Seanan McGuire- 11/25/16
N: No Humans Involved- Kelley Armstrong- 10/19/16
T: Tales of the Otherworld- Kelley Armstrong- 9/4/16

[Sam]

Flamingo

F: Find Me When The Sun Goes Down- Lisa Olsen- 10/2/16
L: Little Face- Sophie Hannah- 10/29/16
A: After the Funeral- Agatha Christie- 12/19/16
M: My Familiar Stranger- Victoria Danann- 9/8/16
I: Ink and Bone- Rachel Caine- 12/14/16
N: Nightraven- Skye Knizley- 12/13/16
G: Grim Expectations- Amanda M. Lee- 10/12/16
O: One For The Money- Janet Evanovich- 9/26/16

Giraffe

G: God Touched- John Conroe- 10/22/16
I: The Iron King- Julie Kagawa- 5/5/17
R: The Rosie Effect- Graeme Simsion- 9/22/16
A: The Arrogant Architect- L.K. Collins- 3/6/17
F: Faefever- Karen Marie Moning- 10/27/16
F: The Flame of Olympus- Kate O'Hearn- 11/5/16
E: Evil Under the Sun- Agatha Christie- 2/28/17

Hyena

H: Hell To Pay- J.C. Diem- 9/5/16
Y: You Slay Me- Katie MacAlister- 10/6/16
E: Eight Cousins- Louisa May Alcott- 11/26/16
N: Never- K.D. McEntire- 11/27/16
A: All Through the Night- Mary Higgins Clark- 12/17/16

Iguana

I: Illuminae- Amie Kaufman- 10/25/17
G: A Girl Named Zippy- Haven Kimmel- 4/6/17
U: Unwritten & Underwater- Amanda M. Lee- 4/23/18
A: Archangel's Storm- Nalini Singh- 9/18/17
N: Doctor Who: Nuclear Time- Oli Smith- 2/22/18
A: At Bertram's Hotel- Agatha Christie- 9/19/17

Jaguar

J: Jack and the Beanstalk- Jenni James- 8/22/16
A: Apprentice in Death- J.D. Robb- 9/6/16
G: Ghostly Worries- Lily Harper Hart- 9/7/16
U: Unholy Ghosts- Stacia Kane- 10/14/16
A: A is for Alibi- Sue Grafton- 9/27/16
R: Reaper- K.D. McEntire- 8/24/16

[Sam]

Kangaroo

K: Kiss of Crimson- Lara Adrian- 10/3/16
A: Armageddon Rules- J.C. Nelson- 5/16/17
N: No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished- Rachel Aaron- 6/29/17
G: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making- Catherynne M. Valente- 3/5/17
A: Archangel's Kiss- Nalini Singh- 8/14/17
R: The Restorer- Amanda Stevens- 9/30/16
O: Owl and the City of Angels- Kristi Charish- 12/8/16
O: Outfoxed by Love- Eve Langlais- 12/22/16

Llama

L: Living with the Dead- Kelley Armstrong- 12/6/16
L: Love Bites- Lynsay Sands- 1/31/17
A: Angels' Blood- Nalini Singh- 1/21/17
M: Magic Binds- Ilona Andrews- 9/21/16
A: Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye- Victoria Laurie- 2/23/17

Mustang

M: Murder on the Orient Express- Agatha Christie- 10/16/16
U: Under a Silent Moon- Elizabeth Haynes- 12/1/16
S: Sorcerer's Legacy- Janny Wurts- 9/28/16
T: Tempting Evil- Keri Arthur- 10/24/16
A: All Hell Breaks Loose- J.C. Diem- 4/12/17
N: Nice Dragons Finish Last- Rachel Aaron- 6/13/17
G: Grave Seasons- Lily Harper Hart- 12/6/16

Newt

N: Nightfall Gardens- Allen Houston- 1/7/17
E: East- Edith Pattou- 12/24/16
W: Wish You Were Here- Rita Mae Brown- 9/11/16
T: Twice Tempted- Jeaniene Frost- 9/19/16

Otter

O: Off the Record- Amanda M. Lee- 4/14/17
T: Two for the Dough- Janet Evanovich- 1/12/17
T: A Tiger's Bride- Eve Langlais- 1/22/17
E: Elemental Flame- Phaedra Weldon- 7/9/17
R: Reckless- Selene Charles- 5/27/17

Panda

P: Prey- Rachel Vincent- 10/5/16
A: Archangel's Consort- Nalini Singh- 8/22/17
N: Never Buried- Edie Claire- 10/9/17
D: Deceiver's Bond- Katherine Bayless- 11/4/16
A: Archangel's Blade- Nalini Singh- 9/3/17

[Sam]

Quail

Q: The Quiche of Death- M.C. Beaton- 12/25/17
U: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman- P.D. James- 9/26/18
A: Archangel's Legion- Nalini Singh- 9/23/17
I: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows- Alan Bradley- 12/31/17
L: Lying Season- Karina Halle- 11/9/17

Rooster

R: Ritual Magic- Eileen Wilks- 10/22/16
O: One Fell Sweep- Ilona Andrews- 12/25/16
O: One Kick- Chelsea Cain- 1/15/17
S: Soulless- Gail Carriger- 10/1/16
T: Throne of Glass- Sarah J. Maas- 10/31/16
E: Eleventh Grave in Moonlight- Darynda Jones- 1/24/17
R: Reluctant Adept- Katherine Bayless- 11/5/16

Squirrel

S: Shifty Magic- Judy Teel- 10/12/16
Q: A Quick Bite- Lynsay Sands- 11/23/16
U: Unhidden- Dina Given- 1/24/17
I: The Invisible Library- Genevieve Cogman- 7/1/17
R: The Red Box- Rex Stout- 1/7/17
R: Red Rising- Pierce Brown- 2/1/17
E: Etched in Bone- Anne Bishop- 3/8/17
L: Late Eclipses- Seanan McGuire- 5/30/17

Turtle

T: The Thirteen Problems- Agatha Christie- 2/26/17
U: Unshapely Things- Mark Del Franco- 3/5/18
R: Rock Chick Regret- Kristen Ashley- 6/24/17
T: Touch of Frost- Jennifer Estep- 3/12/17
L: Lion in the Valley- Elizabeth Peters- 10/12/17
E: Ever the Hunted- Erin Summerill- 8/9/17

Unicorn

U: User Unfriendly- Vivian Vande Velde- 11/27/17
N: Nemesis- Agatha Christie- 11/26/17
I: In the Last Analysis- Amanda Cross- 9/12/17
C: Crimson Death- Laurell K. Hamilton- 12/11/16
O: Out of the Shadows- Kay Hooper- 1/29/17
R: Rose and Thorn: Black Rose Sorceress, Book 2- Connie Suttle- 4/26/17
N: Doctor Who: The Nightmare Of Black Island- Mike Tucker- 1/22/18

[Sam]

Vulture

V: Vampire Academy- Richelle Mead- 10/26/16
U: Undead and Unwed- MaryJanice Davidson- 3/11/17
L: Lover Eternal- J.R. Ward- 6/16/17
T: The Trouble With Witches- Amanda M. Lee- 11/24/16
U: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer- Michelle Hodkin- 6/5/17
R: Ready Player One- Ernest Cline- 3/14/17
E: Embraced by Darkness- Keri Arthur- 4/18/17

Walrus

W: Wicked Fog- Lily Harper Hart- 11/6/16
A: Angels' Flight- Nalini Singh- 9/10/17
L: Lover Awakened- J.R. Ward- 9/30/17
R: The Rose Mark- Connie Suttle- 4/15/17
U: Undead and Unemployed- MaryJanice Davidson- 10/31/17
S: The Second Book of Swords- Fred Saberhagen- 11/11/16

Xantus

X: X in Flight- Karen Rivers- 9/8/16
A: Awakening- S.J. Bolton- 12/30/16
N: The Neverending Story- Michael Ende- 2/10/17
T: The Trouble with Demons- Lisa Shearin- 9/14/16
U: Unbinding- Eileen Wilks- 11/14/16
S: Spellbinder- Melanie Rawn- 9/24/16

Yak

Y: You Belong To Me- Mary Higgins Clark- 1/2/17
A: All Around the Town- Mary Higgins Clark- 1/21/17
K: The Killing Dance- Laurell K. Hamilton- 11/16/16

Zebra

Z: Zombie Team Alpha- Steve R. Yeager- 10/18/16
E: Eragon- Christopher Paolini- 11/8/16
B: Broken- Kelley Armstrong- 9/3/16
R: Red Queen- Victoria Aveyard- 9/17/16
A: Anne of Green Gables- L.M. Montgomery- 11/26/16

[[deleted user]]

A few days behind schedule, but I finished!

Animal Alphabet Reading Challenge
Duration: August 10, 2014-August 10, 2016
Animals Completed: 26/26
Letters Completed: 169/169

A-The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Completed November 6, 2014)
a-Moloka'i by Alan Brennert (Completed January 20, 2015)
r-A Rope of Sand (Completed September 1, 2014)
d-Dead to the World (Completed September 16, 2014)
v-The Vespertine (Completed June 30, 2015)
a-Allegiant (Completed January 31, 2015)
r-Room (Completed September 21, 2014)
k-The Shining by Stephen King (Completed August 29, 2014)

B-Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick (Completed August 20, 2014)
e-Eragon (Completed October 24, 2014)
l-Lover Eternal (Completed September 21,2014)
u-UnEnchanted (Completed January 27, 2015)
g-The Giver (Completed October 16, 2014)
a-Artemis Fowl (Completed February 25, 2015)

C-Confessions of a Murder Suspect (Completed August 15, 2014)
h-The Hiding Place (Completed October 1, 2014)
i-Insurgent (Completed August 26, 2014)
m-The Magicians (Completed September 4, 2014)
p-666 Park Avenue by Gabriella Pierce (Completed August 11, 2014)
a-The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel. Completed February 28, 2015.
n-The Name of the Wind (Completed October 26, 2014)
z-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Completed November 21, 2014)
e-Tangled by Emma Chase (Completed November 21, 2014)
e-The Eye of the World Completed December 15, 2014.

D-Dorothy Must Die (Completed December 9, 2014)
e-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Completed January 25, 2015)
e-Existence (5/30/15)
r-Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (Completed November 25, 2014)

E-Ella Enchanted (6/9/15)
l-Life of Pi (Completed December 11, 2014)
e-The Eyre Affair (5/31/15)
p-The Paper Magician (Completed November 20, 2014)
h-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Completed January 3, 2015)
a-The Martian by Andy Weir (Completed March 5, 2015)
n-Neverwhere (Completed November 4, 2014)
t-Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Completed August 15, 2014)

F-Flowers for Algernon (Completed November 8, 2014)
r-Revival (Completed December 20, 2014)
o-The Outstretched Shadow (Completed October 30, 2014)
g-Gathering Blue (Completed October 22, 2014)

G-The Glass Magician (Completed November 27, 2014)
i-Interview with the Vampire Completed December 13, 2014.
r-I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (Completed January 19, 2015)
a-All the Light We Cannot See Completed March 22, 2015.
f-Fahrenheit 451 Completed January 2, 2015.
f-If I Stay by Gayle Foreman. Completed April 22, 2015.
e-Erin Morgenstern: The Night Circus (6/25/15)

H-The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. Completed January 1, 2015.
a-Adriana Trigiani: The Shoemaker's Wife (5/20/15)
r-The Raven Boys Completed January 22, 2015.
e-The English Patient Completed June 29, 2015.

I-The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Completed November 28, 2014)
b-Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff (Completed March 5, 2015)
i-Ian McEwan: Atonement Completed April 19, 2015.
s-The Secret Life of Bees (Completed September 11, 2014)

J-The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson (Completed November 28, 2014)
a-Kwame Alexander: The Crossover (6/3/15)
g-The Girl with All the Gifts Completed December 2, 2014.
u-Under a Painted Sky (7/11/15)
a-Anya Seton: Katherine (5/27/15)
r-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling. Completed February 9, 2015.

K-The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro. Completed February 12, 2015.
a-Amy Plum: Die for Me (6/1/15)
n-A Natural History of Dragons Completed January 31, 2015.
g-Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. Completed February 11, 2015.
a-Kate Atkinson: Life After Life (6/8/15)
r-Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Completed February 19, 2015.
o-Outlander Completed December 17, 2014.
o-Obsidian Completed April 26, 2015.

L-The Lies of Locke Lamora Completed December 28, 2014.
e-Ernest Cline: Ready Player One (7/20/15)
m-The Magician King (4/10/15)
u-Uprooted (12/25/15)
r-The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine. Completed February 21, 2015.

M-Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (5/31/15)
o-Odd Thomas (5/17/15)
n-Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman. Completed March 8, 2015.
g-Glass Houses Completed December 30, 2014.
o-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (5/18/15)
o-Brian O'Reilly: Angelina's Bachelors: A Novel with Food (6/7/15)
s-Silence (Completed October 7, 2014)
e-Emma Straub: The Vacationers (7/25/15)

N-The Next Thing on My List (6/20/15)
i-The Ice Queen (5/24/15)
g-The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. Completed March 12, 2015.
h-Laurell K. Hamilton: The Laughing Corpse Completed March 19, 2015.
t-Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce. Completed February 20, 2015.
i-Incubus Dreams (8/2/15)
n-Neil Gaiman: American Gods (6/28/15)
g-Robert Galbraith: The Cuckoo's Calling (4/30/15)
a-Douglas Adams: Mostly Harmless (6/22/15)
l-Lover Awakened Completed January 31, 2015.
e-Etiquette & Espionage (9/28/15)

O-One Hundred Years of Solitude Completed June 12, 2015.
s-Storm Front Completed January 9, 2015.
t-Touch of Death Completed April 12, 2015.
r-Rick Riordan: The Sea of Monsters Completed May 4, 2015.
i-Ian Sansom: The Case of the Missing Books (8/8/15)
c-Code Name Verity Completed November 17, 2014.
h-Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton Completed April 4, 2015.

P-The Program (5/22/15)
e-Elizabeth Boyle: Along Came a Duke (11/27/15)
n-Narcissus in Chains (7/3/15)
g-Guilty Pleasures (3/9/15)
u-Unearthly (1/18/16)
i-John Irving: The Cider House Rules (8/27/15)
n-The Nightingale (7/17/15)

Q-Kate Quinn: Mistress of Rome (4/29/15)
u-Unbelievable (4/8/16)
a-Aimee Carter: Goddess Interrupted (8/9/15)
i-I've Got Your Number Completed September 17, 2015.
l-Lover Revealed Completed February 7, 2015.

R-The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Completed February 24, 2015.
a-Alice Walker: The Color Purple Completed September 4, 2015.
b-Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson. Completed April 6, 2015.
b-Bloody Bones (4/21/15)
i-Isaac Asimov: Foundation (11/22/15)
t-The Titan's Curse (5/18/15)

S-The Shadow of the Wind Completed January 17, 2015.
n-Celeste Ng: Everything I Never Told You (12/14/15)
a-Aimee Carter: The Goddess Test (6/24/15)
k-The King (4/24/15)
e-E. Lockhart: We Were Liars (2/1/16)

T-The Treachery of Beautiful Things (6/6/15)
u-Under the Never Sky (5/30/16)
r-Patrick Rothfuss: The Slow Regard of Silent Things Completed March 31, 2015.
t-Tiger's Curse (6/22/15)
l-Lover Unbound Completed February 17, 2015.
e-Elizabeth Peters: Crocodile on the Sandbank (2/17/16)

U-Utopia (8/6/16)
r-Rosamund Hodge: Cruel Beauty (4/30/15)
i-Iron Kissed (4/24/16)
a-Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (9/19/15)
l-Lover Enshrined Completed February 22, 2015.

V-V.E. Schwab: A Darker Shade of Magic (1/11/16)
i-Island of the Blue Dolphins (3/12/16)
p-Pretty Little Liars Completed March 31, 2015.
e-Elizabeth Peters: The Curse of the Pharaohs (2/23/16)
r-Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (5/7/15)

W-A Wizard of Earthsea (10/5/14)
h-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (3/10/15)
a-Affliction (11/18/15)
l-Lover Avenged (2/28/15)
e-Erika Johansen: The Queen of the Tearling (3/24/16)

X-Xenocide (6/30/16)
e-Equal Rites (7/1/16)
r-J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4/16/15)
u-Ursula K. Le Guin: The Tombs of Atuan (8/19/16)
s-The Shadows (4/26/15)

Y-Sonja Yoreg: House Broken (6/21/15)
a-Alex Flinn: Beastly (12/31/15)
k-Fallen by Lauren Kate (4/14/15)

Z-Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (10/1/14)
e-Cecilia Ekback: Wolf Winter (7/22/16)
b-Burial Rites (5/26/15)
r-Patrick Rothfuss: The Wise Man's Fear (3/30/15)
a-Anne of Green Gables (3/10/16)

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome to the challenge Sam and Kelsi :)

[[deleted user]]

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Welcome to the challenge Sam and Kelsi :)"

I was already participating, that was my completion post :)

[Sam]

I finished my first animal.

Bison

B: Blood Song- Cat Adams- 8/27/16
I: I'll Be Seeing You: A Novel- Mary Higgins Clark- 10/7/16
S: Swan Lake- K.M. Shea- 8/30/16
O: Obsidian- Jennifer L. Armentrout- 9/25/16
N: Not His Dragon- Annie Nicholas- 9/7/16

[Sam]

Finished my second animal.

Jaguar

J: Jack and the Beanstalk- Jenni James- 8/22/16
A: Apprentice in Death- J.D. Robb- 9/6/16
G: Ghostly Worries- Lily Harper Hart- 9/7/16
U: Unholy Ghosts- Stacia Kane- 10/14/16
A: A is for Alibi- Sue Grafton- 9/27/16
R: Reaper- K.D. McEntire- 8/24/16

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Kelsi wrote: "Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Welcome to the challenge Sam and Kelsi :)"

I was already participating, that was my completion post :)"

In that case: Congrats!!!! :)

[[deleted user]]

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Kelsi wrote: "Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Welcome to the challenge Sam and Kelsi :)"

I was already participating, that was my completion post :)"

In that case: Congrats!!!! :)"

Thanks!!

[Melissa]

Completed 11/21/2016

Animal Alphabet Challenge
3/1/15 - no deadline

A Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher, 3/5/15
P The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters, 3/28/15
E The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff, 3/3/15

B Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie, 3/18/15
I Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, 4/3/15
S Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See, 4/12/15
O The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, 3/13/15
N Nights in Rodanthe, Nicholas Sparks, 3/19/15

C Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein, 3/7/15
H The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom, 3/13/15
E The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern, 4/3/15
E Room, Emma Donoghue, 5/16/15
T Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson, Mitch Albom, 4/9/15
A Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson, 3/10/15
H The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah, 4/8/15

D Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier, 6/29/15
O When Calls the Heart, Janette Oke, 3/31/15
N North and South, John Jakes, 4/24/15
K Life After Life, Kate Atkinson, 5/12/15
E Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, 6/24/15
Y The Yellow House, Patricia Falvey, 6/20/15

E Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters, 7/7/15
L The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch, 4/3/15
E The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Erik Larson, 9/4/15
P The Storyteller, Jodi Picoult, 6/25/15
H The Silent Wife, ASA Harrison, 4/29/15
A The Red Tent, Anita Diamant, 4/25/15
N The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks, 7/20/15
T Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay, 5/13/15

F Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, Joanne Fluke, 5/2/15
L Still Alice, Lisa Genova, 5/20/15
A Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis, Alexis Coe, 4/22/15
M Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear, 5/20/15
I Identical, Ellen Hopkins, 4/7/15
N The Bat, Jo Nesbo, 8/9/15
G Home to Harmony, Philip Gulley, 5/6/15
O The Outsiders, SE Hinton, 4/2/15

G The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, 3/17/15
R Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys, 7/13/15
I If I Stay, Gayle Forman, 4/12/15
Z Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston, 5/26/15
Z #TripleX, Christine Zolendz, 11/3/15
L The Call of the Wild, Jack London, 7/10/15
Y Life of Pi, Yann Martel, 7/1/15
B The Art Forger, BA Shapiro, 5/6/15
E Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn, 9/6/15
A At the Water's Edge, Sara Gruen, 6/19/15
R Cold Black Earth, Sam Reaves, 8/18/15

H The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett, 7/7/15
Y I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai, 3/19/16
E Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell, 9/7/15
N Dance Upon the Air, Nora Roberts, 7/18/15
A The Martian, Andy Weir, 6/28/15

I Invisible Murder, Lene Kaaberbol, 5/28/15
G A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty, Joshilyn Jackson, 8/21/15
U Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him, Luis Carlos Montalván, 3/16/15
A And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini, 8/19/15
N We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction, Nic Scheff, 9/13/15
A The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley, 9/2/15

J Me Before You, Jojo Moyes, 3/24/15
A The Alienist, Caleb Carr, 8/6/15
C The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, 4/7/15
K Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline, 6/10/15
A Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, 8/15/15
L Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty, 7/16/15

K Can You Keep a Secret?, Sophie Kinsella, 6/13/15
O The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, 8/4/15
A Moloka'i, Alan Brennert, 9/23/15
L The Giver, Lois Lowry, 8/20/15
A The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan, 9/24/15

L What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty, 9/30/15
E The Heist, Janet Evanovich, 9/22/15
M The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough, 7/7/15
U Undead and Unwed, MaryJanice Davidson, 5/25/15
R Redemption, Karen Kingsbury, 9/5/15

M My Ántonia, Willa Cather, 4/7/15
U The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan, Jenny Nordberg, 7/17/15
S 11/22/63, Stephen King, 9/16/15
T Welcome to Harmony, Jodi Thomas, 8/8/15
A Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, 9/27/15
N Native Son, Richard Wright, 10/5/15
G Dark Places, Gillian Flynn, 7/19/15

N Girl at War, Sara Novic, 5/8/16
E Finding Rebecca, Eoin Dempsey, 10/30/15
W A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson, 3/9/15
T Trail of Broken Wings, Sejal Badani, 11/21/15

O O Pioneers!, Willa Cather, 4/5/15
R Remember, Karen Kingsbury, 9/7/15
A All Fall Down, Jennifer Weiner, 10/13/15
N Night Film, Marisha Pessl, 7/12/16
G A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, 10/10/15
U The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce, 8/4/15
T Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: A George Smiley Novel, John le Carre, 3/6/16
A August: Osage County, Tracy Letts, 10/21/15
N The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, Nadia Hashimi, 7/29/16

P Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir, Bill Clegg, 8/16/15
R The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion, 9/13/15
A The Truth According to Us, Annie Barrows, 10/22/15
I The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd, 8/17/15
R Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury, 9/20/15
I In the Woods, Tana French, 8/30/15
E Where We Belong, Emily Giffin, 11/5/15
D Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Vicki Myron, 9/23/15
O The Hangman's Daughter, Oliver Potzsch, 7/20/15
G Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, 7/18/15

Q Black and Blue, Anna Quindlen, 6/26/15
U Fragile, Lisa Unger, 11/12/15
A The Time Keeper, Mitch Albom, 11/2/15
I I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith, 8/5/15
L A Fatal Grace, Louise Penny, 3/7/16

R Return, Karen Kingsbury, 9/20/15
H Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford, 7/16/15
I Yellow Crocus, Laila Ibrahim, 10/23/15
N Saving Sara, Nicola Marsh, 8/15/16
O The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson, 11/13/15
C Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote, 5/28/15
E The Life We Bury, Allen Eskens, 4/15/16
R The Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan, 10/12/15
O The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman, 3/25/16
S The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton, 10/17/15

S The Pigeon Pie Mystery, Julia Stuart, 10/26/15
T The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama, 3/3/16
A What Happens At Christmas, Victoria Alexander, 11/19/15
L The Cruelest Month, Louise Penny, 3/31/16
L The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz, 4/5/16
I The Inn at Rose Harbor, Debbie Macomber, 11/29/15
O One Plus One, Jojo Moyes, 5/2/16
N When the Moon is Low, Nadia Hashimi, 9/21/16

T Child 44, Tom Rob Smith, 4/2/16
U Us, David Nicholls, 5/5/16
R The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, 10/24/15
T A Muddied Murder, Wendy Tyson, 4/4/16
L Keep Me Posted, Lisa Beazley, 4/22/16
E Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel, 6/27/16

U The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett, 7/22/16
R A Red Herring Without Mustard, Alan Bradley, 12/14/15
R The Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith, 3/16/16
A The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, Alan Bradley, 12/8/15
C The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger, 7/10/15
A All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, 1/27/16

V Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese, 6/11/15
I In the Unlikely Event, Judy Blume, 2/18/16
P The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins, 12/9/15
E Ready Player One, Ernest Cline, 5/25/16
R Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs, 3/18/16

W Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson, 7/9/15
A I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Alan Bradley, 12/17/15
R The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, Kate Andersen Brower, 3/21/16
T Tumbledown Manor, Helen Brown, 4/11/16
H The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien, 7/17/15
O Outlander, Diana Gabaldon, 6/3/16
G A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin, 10/17/15

X The Nest, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, 11/16/16
A Speaking from Among the Bones, Alan Bradley, 12/31/15
N The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, 12/5/16
T Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin, 4/22/16
H The Best Man, Kristan Higgins, 10/3/15
U The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, 11/18/16
S Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple, 12/21/15

Y You Will Know Me, Megan Abbott, 11/4/16
A The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, Alan Bradley, 1/4/16
K The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett, 7/29/15

Z Zoo, James Patterson, 11/1/15
E Modern Lovers, Emma Straub, 11/21/16
B Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery, Bill Clegg, 8/17/15
R Ruby Red, Kerstin Gier, 3/25/16
A As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, Alan Bradley, 1/15/16

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Congrats Melissa! :)