Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

The 2018 List

1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list B is for Burglar
3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards (link) Little Fires Everywhere
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...) Kafka on the Shore
5. A book about or inspired by real events H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
6. A book originally written in a language other than English The Son Avenger]
7. A gothic novel The Blithedale Romance
8. An "own voices" book* You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc) C is for Corpse
10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published) Rock Opera: The Creation of Jesus Christ Superstar, from Record Album to Broadway Show and Motion Picture
11. A literary fiction In the Wilderness
12. A book set in Africa or South America We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc) Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire Waco: A Survivor's Story
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
16. A narrative nonfiction The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
17. A book you expect to make you laugh Notes from a Small Island
18. A book with a location in the title The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors) Let Me Die in His Footsteps
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends Modern Library in Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle: Remembrance of Things Past, Volumes I-VI
21. A book written in first person perspective The Stone Angel
22. A book you have high expectations or hope for The Woman in Cabin 10
23. A medical or legal thriller Defending Jacob
24. A book with a map Washington Times and Trails
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view Grendel
26. A book with a text only cover Disgrace

27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc) Strays: A Lost Cat, a Homeless Man, and Their Journey Across America
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water There is a Tide
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench) The Way the World Works
30. A short book Adrift on an Ice-Pan
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to Men Without Women
32. An alternate history book Fatherland
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link) Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link) (A book with a vegetable in the title): A Girl from Yamhill
35. A book featuring a murder The Blood of Emmett Till 36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee (link1, link2) Bel Canto
38. A science book or a science fiction book Wernher Von Braun: Rocket Engineer
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list (link) Valley of the Dolls
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials The Beautiful and Damned
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
44. A ghost story Ghost Stories of the Sea
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you Hell House
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air How Can One Sell the Air?: Chief Seatle's Vision
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own Love and Other Consolation Prizes
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth) Where You Once Belonged
49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists (link) Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer) Plainsong
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017
52. A book published in 2018 Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House