Bookish Sunday

Remember how I said I wouldn't inflict my book reading tastes on you? Well, I lied. I've been all over the internet for a  book meme but this was the only one I could find that won't take days to complete. (I guess I could just have written a regular post, but now that I'm halfway through the month, it seems like a tradition.) {There was one that had 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, but I'd only read an embarrassing 80-something--compare to the dude who has read 228. He however doesn't think much of the 1001-Before-You-Die lists.}

ABC Book Meme

For this meme, you list a favorite book that starts with each letter of the alphabet. If you don’t have a book for a letter (such as Z or X) then you can substitute a favorite 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. 


A: Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
B: Bone, Fae Myenne Ng {B was really hard to choose--many good books start with B}
C: Cloud Nine, Caryl Churchill
D: Dracula, Bram Stoker
E: Empire Falls, Richard Russo
F: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, Joyce Carol Oates
G: Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
H: The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
I: Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
J: Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta {heartbreaking}
K: K is for Killer, Sue Grafton {cop-out}
L: Lysistrata, Aristophanes
M: My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin
N: The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer (I know, he doesn't seem like he should be on this list {shrug})
O: Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
P: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Q: How to Make an American Quilt, Whitney Otto {I'm sure there are better ones that I'm not remembering}
R: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard
S: Subversive Stitch, Roszika Parker
T: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
U: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
V: V, Thomas Pynchon (though Vineland came close; you have to love a novel that begins with a defenestration) (or not, but I do)
W: White Noise, Don Delillo
X: {I'll come back to this; I seem to have used my X for F} Edited: Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaXy, Douglas Adams. I enjoyed these when I was in college, and once fell for a boy who showed me Betelgeuse and said something about Zaphod Beeblebrox. Apparently, I was easy.
Y: Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Z: Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates (I had to force myself to turn pages.)