Stockholm Central Library (photo by English Mamma)
A book meme from My Book Barn via Diary of a (not so) single mum:
“For this meme, you list a favourite book that starts with each letter of the alphabet. If you don’t have a book for a letter (such as Z or X) than you can substitute a favourite book that simply has that letter in the title (ex. The Lost City of Z or Hot Six by Janet Evanovich). However, you can only do this a maximum of 3 times. (Z, X, and Q. But not Z, X, Q, and V.)
Books can be of any genre from fiction to non-fiction to poetry to textbooks. This is a difficult task to fulfill, because obviously some letters, like S and T, have many books that might be favourites, whereas others, like Q and X are unlikely to present you with difficulties making a choice.”
I love a good book-related challenge like this. Here are mine. I’ve tried to stick to the rules as much as possible, but I am also cheating a little and discounting the “The” from titles…
- A: A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
- B: The Book of Fathers – Miklos Vamos
- C: Captain’s Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
- D: Design Destinations Worldwide
- E: East of Eden – John Steinbeck
- F: Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
- G: The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- H: The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
- I: I, Claudius – Robert Graves
- J: Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- K: The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
- L: Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- M: Mapping the Edge – Sarah Dunnant
- N: Nefertiti – Joyce Tyldesley
- O: One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- P: Popular Music – Mikael Niemi
- R: Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
- S: Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl
- T: To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- U: Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
- V: Veronika Decides To Die – Paulo Coehlo
- W: Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Y: Young Stalin – Simon Sebag-Montefiore
- Z: Elizabeth – David Starkey
I also cheated a bit more in the end as well, as I skipped Q and X – I could find so few books with those letters in that I had read, let alone considered as favourites – sorry!
Try this out – it’s a challenge but it’s fun.
In brief: English, living in Sweden, with my Swedish/Hungarian husband and our sons, Little O and Baby E, and trying to juggle all the different aspects of my new life - the me I was before, the me I am now and the me that I would like to be... 
