Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

50. A Penguin Modern Classic - Invisible Man

Completed
37. A book you choose randomly - The Forgetting Time - read 2/1/2016
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia - The Girl Who Played with Fire - read 14/1/2017
5. A historical fiction - All the Light We Cannot See - read 17/1/2017
3. A book you meant to read in 2016 - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - read 28/1/2017
18. A really long book - Perdido Street Station - read 1/2/2017
17. A book with illustrations - The Edge Chronicles 1: The Curse of the Gloamglozer: First Book of Quint - read 4/2/2017
22. A book by an author you haven't read before - The Grapes of Wrath - read 19/2/2017
47. A past suggestion that didn't win - A book with a colour in the title - Redshirts - read 23/2/2017
28. A non-fiction book - Girl Up - read 28/2/2017
1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 - Rebel of the Sands - read 7/3/2017
19. A New York Times best-seller - The Girl on the Train - read 15/3/2017
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre - Celebromancy (fantasy > urban fantasy) - read 22/3/2017
32. A book with a long title - This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It - read 27/3/2017
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading - The Bees - read 3/4/2017
25. A book about a famous historical figure - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - read 10/4/2017
48. A banned book - A Clockwork Orange - read 20/4/2017
11. A category from another challenge - A book with a month or day of the week in the title (popsugar) - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - read 27/4/2017
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read - Fire Catcher - read 2/5/2017
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives - Before the Feast - read 14/5/2017
45. A book with a one-word title - Neverwhere - read 15/5/2017
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list - American Gods - read 17/5/2017
8. A book written by a person of color - The Color Purple - read 25/5/2017
16. A mystery - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - 8/6/2017
52. A book set in a fictional location - Gardens of the Moon - read 20/6/2017
26. An adventure book - A Natural History of Dragons - read 27/6/2016
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" - Burning Moon - read 2/7/2017
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors - A Short History of Nearly Everything (picked by Sir Terry Pratchett) - read 10/7/2017
41. A book with an unreliable narrator - Wuthering Heights - read 11/7/2017
33. A magical realism novel - Chocolat - read 26/7/2017
10. A dual-timeline novel - The Trouble with Goats and Sheep - read 4/8/2017
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title - Swallows and Amazons - read 7/8 2017
14. A book with a strong female character - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - read 19/8/2017
46. A time travel novel - Just One Damned Thing After Another - read 20/8/2017
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" - The Bonesetter's Daughter (based on having read Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells) - read 25/8/2017
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere - I'm Travelling Alone: - read 12/9/2017
24. A book written by at least two authors - The Silver Dream - read 15/9/2017
39. An epistolary fiction - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - read 27/9/2017
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf - The Dark River (from the thriller-loaded bookshelf of the house I stayed in on vacation) - read 28/9/2017
27. A book by one of your favorite authors - The Long Utopia - read 9/10/2017
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses - Anatomy of a Soldier (published by Faber and Faber) - read 11/10/2017
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty - The King's Traitor - read 18/10/2017
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature - Moriarty - read 22/10/2017
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere - City of the Beasts - read 2/11/2017
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books - All the Bright Places - read 5/11/2017
40. A book published in 2017 - The Nowhere Man - read 16/11/2017
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee - The Fifth Season - read 27/11/2017
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - Wonder - read 28/11/2017
51. A collection - Full Metal Magic - read 29/11/2017
12. A book based on a myth - Stormdancer - read 30/11/2017
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) - A Thousand Splendid Suns - read 12/12/2017
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list - The Picture of Dorian Gray - read 30/12/2017

Your list has a load of interesting titles! My TBR just keeps growing... :D

oh man don't even talk to me about TBR lists XD I think I had to source five or six books for this challenge, and I've not yoinked something from someone else's bookshelf yet -smh-

I'll be trying to get rid of a few of the BookCrossing books I've picked up...and then, most likely, promptly fill the space right back up again with something else. :P

I really enjoyed All the Light We Cannot See. The writing was tremendous. Happy reading!

One book down, 51 to go... going to have to pace myself a little I think.

I'm sure you'll be very happy later in the year to have read a few books in advance! And even if you finish the challenge before the end of the year, you could always tackle Popsugar, Book Riot or our rejected prompts challenge ;)

Hi Sophie! I'm already doing both Popsugar and Read Harder! Some of the books fit challenges from all three so... yeah, working on everything!

Do you count books for multiple prompts? That has to ease a bit the challenge of doing multiple challenges at once ;)

No, I only count each book once per challenge. So The Forgetting Time was task #40 on popsugar, task #2 on Book riot and task #37 here in ATY. And also counts as one for my Mount TBR books. And counted towards a challenge or two in the A Million More Pages group I'm a member of.

I read 221 books in 2016 so I'm not too concerned about quantity. It's getting them to fit the categories that might be more difficult!

Apparently I'm ahead of target. Not entirely sure how I managed that, given some of the doorstops I've read so far this year! Well, onwards ever onwards!