Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Voting is now open!

The entire Around the Year challenge list is generated by the group members. We enjoyed the process so much in the past two years that we are creating another list for 2018.

The Process:
The topics for the 2018 RC list will be determined through around 13 mini-polls. Each user will vote for their favorite 4 topics in each mini-poll). Suggestions for each poll will be opened until 15-20 suggestions are received+seconded. Then a poll will be opened for voting for four days so you can select your 4 favorite suggestions. The process has been unpredictable this year but we are striving for a completed list in November.

The Rules:
- Voting ends September 22
- One vote per poll per member

Poll Entries:
- A book in which a main character has your dream job (fiction or nonfiction)
- A book that is connected (e.g. title, cover, content) to a word or phrase "born" in the same year as you
- A book published or set before 1900
- A suggestion from the AtY 2018 Polls, that didn't win but made the close-call or polarizing list
- A book related to social justice (fiction or nonfiction)
- A book about or inspired by real events (fiction or nonfiction)
- A book with a celestial body as a part of the title or as part of the author name
- A book set in a country you would like to visit but have never been to
- A book written by a person of your opposite sex.
- A book read/referenced by a fictional character
- A book recommended by a famous person
- A book recommended by one of Goodreads' 100 Most Popular Reviewers
- A book with a title that rhymes (rhyming words or based on nursery rhyme)
- A book with a character that has a great name
- A book related to your favorite animal [fiction or real] (i.e. in title, on the cover, about, main character, etc.)
- A book that's perfect to be read aloud and shared (eg. poetry, children's books, plays, classics)
- A book you have high expectations or hope for
- A book set in the 22nd Century (2101-2202)
- A book about twins (fiction or non-fiction)
- A book adapted into a live performance piece (as opposed to tv/movie adaptations)

Helpful Links:
- Goodreads Top 10 Most Popular Reviewers: https://www.goodreads.com/user/best_r...
- Words or phrases "born" in the same year as you: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words...
- Celestial body: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
- Rhymes: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
- Books related to social justice: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
- Referenced by fictional characters: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
- Recommended by a famous person: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
- Character with a great name: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
- Perfect to be read aloud and shared: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
- Adapted into a live performance piece: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Survey Link

Well, a good group all around for me, so it'll be interesting to see what wins. I wasn't sure about the word from the year you were born thing, but after looking at the options I gave it a vote. "McMansion", "tighty-whities", and "velociraptor" were probably my favorites.

The bottom for me were more the things I wasn't very inspired by rather than anything I absolutely hated.

This one was kind of hard for me. There weren't any that I absolutely loved, or absolutely hated, but I did have eight or nine in the running for my top four spots, and five or six in the running for the bottom. It was especially hard narrowing down the top four, so if a few of my top eight or so make it, I think I'll be pretty happy with the results. Can't wait until Friday!

Lots I don't like ,so bottom will be hard choice, and most just middle of the road.

I just had more of a look at the words and/or phrases "born" in the same year as me and 'arm candy', 'man cave', and 'woo-woo' may be my favourites but also the year I was born is the year that the word 'polyamory' became an actual word. Also 'website'! I didn't realise that wasn't a word until 1992!

I actually had a lot in my top I would love, it was really hard to narrow it down to 4. There were two I really didn't want, but 6 in total in my bottom, so I had to narrow that down a bit too. I don't think there were any in-between prompts for me though.

I was kind of in the same space as Nicole, where nothing really jumped out to me as exciting & have to have it. I really liked the 4 I ended up with. I'm feeling a little voter's remorse & wishing I'd voted for the "word birthday" topic because I think it would be really awesome for nonfiction, though I think I would have a hard time trying to fit it into a fiction book.

I voted for social justice, which is a topic that never much interested me in the past, but I find that I've enjoyed most of the social justice books I've read, and largely find them very enriching.

I also voted for a recommendation from a famous person because again it fits that recommendation element without requiring me to talk to anyone, and I think it would be interesting to search out. I like seeing what you all are reading, so it would be interesting to see what celebrities are reading too.

I also liked the book you have high hopes for. I think this would be a good fit into the challenge, and it would be interesting to see what books get other group members hyped.

Voting was hard this time, because there were a lot of categories I liked. I'd be happy with most of them, really.

My bottom choices were ones that I wasn't inspired by/didn't come up with many options for.

I had 3 very clear top choices, and 3 very clear bottom choices. For each list, I also had a few that I was choosing between for my fourth pick. It was actually harder to find a fourth bottom pick since most were prompts that I could live with if chosen, even if I wasn't super interested in them. Not that many of the others jumped out at me as something I had to have.

I'm excited for a book adapted into a live performance as I'm an Adelaide state theatre subscriber and see 7-9 plays per year. the 2018 program has sense and sensibility and That eye, That eye, which are both adapted from books. I plan to read the books before the plays anyway, so this winning would help me!

Francesca wrote: "I just had more of a look at the words and/or phrases "born" in the same year as me and 'arm candy', 'man cave', and 'woo-woo' may be my favourites but also the year I was born is the year that the..."

Francesca, the word website wasn't a word until 1992, because the first webpage wasn't online until Aug 1991. Here it is.

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/The...

It was in Unix, which looked similar to DOS (black screen with white text, no image s or graphics).

I found a listopia of books with twins if it helps. I read a really good twins book this year, so I'm not sure what I'd read if the topic gets through, but there's a few that are interesting and some already on my TBR that I didn't realise had twins so I'm sure I'd find something if it gets through. I can't remember if I voted for it,!
The book I read was
Here is the list of twins books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

The read-a-thon is taking my mind off the wait for the vote!

I was thinking that same thing too. We are all so focused on the read-a-thon that there hasn't been much discussion on the mini poll.