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Jesse (pharmdad2007) | 10 comments The 2018 List

~~JANUARY~~

1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
√ A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips

2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
√ Dune by Frank Herbert

3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards
√ Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
√ House of Earth by Woody Guthrie

5. A book about or inspired by real events
√ Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

~~FEBRUARY~~

6. A book originally written in a language other than English
√ Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas

7. A gothic novel
√ The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

8. An "own voices" book
√ The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
√ Joe Gould's Teeth by Jill Lepore

~~MARCH~~

10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
√ The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman

11. A literary fiction
√ Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell (Emily Bronte)

12. A book set in Africa or South America
√ Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
√ The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

~~APRIL~~

14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
√ Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
√ If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

16. A narrative nonfiction
√ The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

17. A book you expect to make you laugh
√ Texts From Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg

18. A book with a location in the title
√ America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie

~~MAY~~

19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors)
√ Midnight in Peking by Paul French

20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
√ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (rated 5 stars by Nichole T)

21. A book written in first person perspective
√ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
√ The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder by Stephen Elliott

~~JUNE~~

23. A medical or legal thriller
√ Airframe by Michael Crichton

24. A book with a map
√ Going Solo by Rhoald Dahl

25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
√ The Last Mrs Parrish by Liv Constantine

26. A book with a text only cover
√ The Lamb by Christopher Moore

~~JULY~~

27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
√ A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
√ Old Man River by Paul Schneider

29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
√ Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

30. A short book
√ Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain

31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
√ Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

~~AUGUST~~

32. An alternate history book
√ Conclave by Robert Harris

33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link)
√ The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston (Ebola - 1977)

34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (A book with a title or author's last name that starts with Q, X, Y, or Z)
√ The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

35. A book featuring a murder
√ The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport

~~SEPTEMBER~~

36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
√ Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel

37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
√ The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

38. A science book or a science fiction book
√ The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett

39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
√ 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

~~OCTOBER~~

40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list
√ Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maughan

41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
√ Canada by Mike Myers

42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
√ Ghost Fleet by PW Singer and August Cole

43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
√ The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

44. A ghost story
√ 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

~~NOVEMBER~~

45. A book that intimidates or scares you
√ The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
√ Free Air by Sinclair Lewis

47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
√ Claudine at School by Colette

48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
√ Lust for Life by Irving Stone

~~DECEMBER~~

49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists
√ The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs

50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
√ The Body by Stephen King

51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
√ Florida by Lauren Groff

52. A book published in 2018
√ The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah


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