Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

My goal for 2018, along with reading all of these books, is to be more active on the boards. I started out strong last year, but life got in the way and I cut way back. Here's to a new year!!

1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
The Paying Guests

2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
Norse Mythology

3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
Falling to Earth

5. A book about or inspired by real events
The Emperor's Children

6. A book originally written in a language other than English
The Queue

7. A gothic novel
The Thirteenth Tale

8. An "own voices" book*
The Hate U Give

9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
The Eyes of Darkness

10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

11. A literary fiction
The Dollhouse

12. A book set in Africa or South America
Cutting for Stone

13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
Before We Were Yours

14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
The Burn Journals

15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
Illuminae

16. A narrative nonfiction
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

17. A book you expect to make you laugh
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

18. A book with a location in the title
Camino Island

19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors)
Before the Fall

20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

21. A book written in first person perspective
The Good Girl

22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
Commonwealth

23. A medical or legal thriller
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

24. A book with a map
Throne of Glass

25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

26. A book with a text only cover
Americanah

27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
Lilac Girls

28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
The Castle of Otranto

30. A short book
Dear Life: StoriesPnin

31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
Secret Daughter

32. An alternate history book
Life After Life

33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link)
Fangirl

34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link)
The Underground Railroad

35. A book featuring a murder
The Good Daughter

36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
America's First Daughter

37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
Hag-Seed

38. A science book or a science fiction book
The Thousandth Floor

39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
The Magician's Lie

40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list (link)
The Bad Beginning

41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
Landline

42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
Into the Water

43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
We Need to Talk About Kevin

44. A ghost story
Lincoln in the Bardo

45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
The Pillars of the Earth

46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
The Name of the Wind

47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
The House Girl

48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
Vanity Fair

49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists (link)
The Orphan's Tale

50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
The Invisible Bridge

51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
A Long Way from Chicago

52. A book published in 2018
The Golden Tower

Good list. I really enjoyed The Name of the Wind. More than i expected to. I've had book 2 on my shelf for a year now and have been avoiding it. Not sure why. Too many pages?

And i am Waiting for Into the Water... looking forward to getting my hands on it!

Good luck with the challenge!

Oh shoot! I should have added America's First Daughter! Great thought on that one! I may put it as the alternative one since I own it and it looks great!

Enjoyed Lilac Girls. The Constellation of Vital Phenomena was hard to read but good! I loved Henrietta Lacks!! That was fabulous! One of those books makes you go "wait, what???"

Happy reading!