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Gold Diggers by Sanjena SathianSomething Missing by Matthew Dicks
[ATY 2023] Faceless Person on Cover
994 books — 128 voters
The Invisible Library by Genevieve CogmanCloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerrRead Dangerously by Azar Nafisi
[ATY 2023] Books are Important!
461 books — 152 voters

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam HigginbothamMigrations by Charlotte McConaghyDead Wake by Erik LarsonHow High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia NagamatsuBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Popsugar 2022 #31 - A book featuring a man-made disaster
193 books — 181 voters
Strange the Dreamer by Laini TaylorOlive, Again by Elizabeth StroutMaus I by Art SpiegelmanFeral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton
Popsugar 2022 #44 & #45 - A duology
458 books — 190 voters

The Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. HarrowThe Invisible Library by Genevieve CogmanThe End of Days by Jenny ErpenbeckAll Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
Popsugar 2022 #47 - A book featuring a parallel reality
130 books — 192 voters
Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz WilliamsBilly Summers by Stephen KingTranscription by Kate AtkinsonDisorientation by Elaine Hsieh ChouThe Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
Popsugar 2022 #46 - A book about someone leading a double life
172 books — 184 voters

Dominicana by Angie CruzAfterlife by Julia AlvarezSabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Popsugar 2022 #6 - A Book By a Latinx Author
249 books — 216 voters
All Systems Red by Martha WellsEarthlings by Sayaka MurataSawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
Popsugar 2022 #22 - A Book with a Character Who Is On the Ace Spectrum
149 books — 198 voters

The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Popsugar 2022 #3 - A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society
134 books — 191 voters
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Popsugar 2022 #26 - A book with a misleading title
138 books — 156 voters

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Popsugar 2022 #7 - A Book with an Onomatopoeia in its Title
268 books — 207 voters
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen
Popsugar 2022 #23 A Book with a Recipe in it
186 books — 213 voters

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire NorthThe Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế MaiOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonThe 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas JonassonHow the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
[ATY 2022] All 5 Vowels in Title and/or Author
827 books — 113 voters
The Good Son by You-Jeong JeongOther Minds by Peter Godfrey-SmithThe Psychology of Stupidity by Jean-François MarmionBeyond Words by Carl SafinaThe Feeling of What Happens by António Damásio
[ATY 2022] Psychology, Neuroscience, or the Mind
347 books — 100 voters

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John BoyneA Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
[ATY 2022] Page Count: Greater Than 440
382 books — 53 voters
Infinite Country by Patricia EngelA Girl Returned by Donatella Di PietrantonioKim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-JooRed at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
[ATY 2022] Page Count: Less Than 220
388 books — 61 voters

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghyDisappearing Earth by Julia PhillipsGold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye WatkinsFlight Behavior by Barbara KingsolverBarkskins by Annie Proulx
[ATY 2022] Earth Day
210 books — 102 voters
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas JonassonWe Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha IrbyFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggEvidence of Things Unseen by Marianne WigginsThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
[ATY 2022] 22 Letters in Title
681 books — 87 voters

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabRules of Civility by Amor TowlesKitchen by Banana YoshimotoWhat Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
[ATY 2022] Main Character Name Starts with A, T, or Y
382 books — 103 voters
Stoner by John WilliamsCatherine House by Elisabeth ThomasMy Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellThe Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
[ATY 2022] Academia or Teacher-Impacted
222 books — 103 voters

Ready Player Two by Ernest ClineKipper's Game by Barbara Ehrenreich
[ATY 2022] Related to a Game
153 books — 81 voters
The Survivors by Jane HarperThe Mercies by Kiran Millwood HargraveHurricane Season by Fernanda MelchorThunder & Lightning by Lauren RednissFalling to Earth by Kate Southwood
[ATY 2022] Related to Inclement Weather
268 books — 116 voters

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John MandelNine Stories by J.D. SalingerThree Junes by Julia GlassThe Great Glass Sea by Josh WeilThe Glass Room by Simon Mawer
[ATY 2022] Related to Glass
306 books — 101 voters
The Library Book by Susan OrleanA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Non-Fiction Books Without Subtitles
380 books — 23 voters

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghyRadioactive by Lauren Redniss
[ATY 2022] Women in STEM
354 books — 175 voters
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerrHow Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam ZhangFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggMigrations by Charlotte McConaghyGreat Circle by Maggie Shipstead
[ATY 2022] No Person on Cover
870 books — 75 voters

A Hanging at Cinder Bottom by Glenn TaylorPope Joan by Donna Woolfolk CrossMichelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross KingThe Stranger in the Woods by Michael FinkelThe Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
[ATY 2022] Related to a Tarot Card
445 books — 109 voters
The Pull of the Stars by Emma DonoghueThe Distant Marvels by Chantel AcevedoBeheld by TaraShea NesbitEnglish Passengers by Matthew KnealeTo The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
[ATY 2022] Historical Fiction
526 books — 113 voters

All Systems Red by Martha WellsMemoirs of a Polar Bear by Yōko Tawada
[ATY 2022] Non-Human Main Character
246 books — 107 voters
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggKitchen by Banana YoshimotoSweetbitter by Stephanie DanlerGingerbread by Helen OyeyemiPizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
[ATY 2022] Food and Drink
314 books — 99 voters