Alphabet of Books

Starting in 2009, I’m reading one non-fiction book for every book in the alphabet, in alphabetical order. The idea was to read all 26 books in 2009, but that didn’t happen. So we’ll just see how long it takes.

This page is to keep track of all 26 books in one place.

• A – America’s Teenagers: Myths and Realities (American teenagers)
• B – The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution (the Boston Tea Party)
• C – The Corset: A Cultural History (corsets)
• D – A Single Voice (dating)
• E – Odds Are, You’re Going to be Exalted (exaltation)
• F – The Marrow of Human Experience (folklore)
• G – The Groom’s Survival Guide (grooms)
• H – The Secrets of Fashioning Ribbon Flowers: Heirlooms for the Next Generation (heirlooms)
• I – Communities of Practice (identity)
• J – The Book of Jasher (Jasher)
• K – The Story of my Life (Helen Keller)
• L – The Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet (letters)
• M – Taking Charge of Your Fertility (menstruation)
• N – A History of the Low Countries (Netherlands)
• O – Always Looking Up (optimism)
• P – The Divine Proportion (Phi)
• Q – To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions (quilting)
• R – Rocket Boys (rockets)
• S – Illuminating the Sermon at the Temple and Sermon on the Mount (Sermon on the Mount)
• T – The House of the Lord (temple)
  
• U – The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (ultimate unified theory of the universe)
• V – Thought and Language (Vygotsky)
  
• W – The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (words)
• X – Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (x-rays)
  
• Y – Born to Kvetch (yiddish)
  
• Z – Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (zero)

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