Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Around The Year 2019

52/52

✔1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy - The Last Time I Lied
✔2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, What, Where, When, Why) - What She Doesn't Know
✔3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y - The Last Black Unicorn
✔4. A book with a criminal character (i.e. assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel etc) - Buried
✔5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare - Classic Love Poems
✔6. A book with a dual timeline - The Lies We Told
✔7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1 - The River
✔8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2 - Brian's Winter
✔9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres (romance/erotica, crime/mystery, religious/inspirational, science fiction/fantasy or horror) - Caroline's Child
✔10. A book featuring an historical figure - Folsom Untold: The Strange True Story of Johnny Cash's Greatest Album
✔11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals (title, cover, subject) - American Civil War: A History from Beginning to End
✔12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer - Ms. Mirage
✔13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list - Where the Crawdads Sing
✔14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term - Zodiac
✔15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country - The Silent Patient
✔16. A book told from multiple perspectives - The Wyoming Kid
✔17. A speculative fiction (i.e. fantasy, scifi, horror, dystopia) - Bridge to Terabithia
✔18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements - The Diamond Formula
✔19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR - Dr. Texas
✔20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country - American Indian Wars: A History From Beginning to End
✔21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes - Clara
✔22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover - The Third Man
✔23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old - All the Lies We Tell
✔24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New - The Electricity Fairy
✔25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed - In Pieces
✔26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue - Eleanor
✔27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list - Of Mice and Men
✔28. A book related to something cold (i.e. theme, title, author, cover, etc.) - Chilled
✔29. A book published before 1950 - The Art of War
✔30. A book featuring an elderly character - Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again
✔31. A children’s classic you’ve never read - Prince Caspian
✔32. A book with more than 500 pages - The Good Daughter
✔33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet - The Last Mrs. Parrish
✔34. A book with a person's name in the title - Alicia
✔35. A psychological thriller - The Other Woman
✔36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list - The Death of Mrs. Westaway
✔37. A book set in a school or university - The Secret School
✔38. A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel, etc) - I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses
✔39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life - Brian's Return
✔40. A book you stumbled upon - Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
✔41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards - You Think It, I'll Say It
✔42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character - The Perfect Child
✔43. A book related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) [fiction or nonfiction] - I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980
✔44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed (same topic, same era, book appeared in the show/movie, etc.) - If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
✔45. A multi-generational saga - Keridee
✔46. A book with a (mostly) black cover - Hidden
✔47. A book related to food (i.e. title, cover, plot, etc.) - Meredith
✔48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year - The Journey of Little Charlie
✔49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country - Miracle Creek
✔50. A book that includes a journey (physical, health, or spiritual) - Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
✔51. A book published in 2019 - Secrets Never Die
✔52. A book with a weird or intriguing title - Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge

49/50 Completed

✔1. A book becoming a movie in 2019 - The Woman in the Window
✔2. A book that makes you nostalgic - Alaskan Holiday
✔3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction) - This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today
✔4. A book you think should be turned into a movie - No Exit
✔5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
✔6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover - The People in the Woods
✔7. A reread of a favorite book - Where the Red Fern Grows
✔8. A book about a hobby - Before She Knew Him
✔9. A book you meant to read in 2018 - Known
✔10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title - Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture
✔11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover - Veiled
✔12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore - Lock Every Door
✔13. A book published posthumously - Who Was Susan B. Anthony?
✔14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie - Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?
✔15. A retelling of a classic - The Green-Eyed Prince
✔16. A book with a question in the title - What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
✔17. A book set on college or university campus - Lila
✔18. A book about someone with a superpower - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
✔19. A book told from multiple POVs - Not That I Could Tell
✔20. A book set in space - The Space Race: A History From Beginning to End
✔21. A book by two female authors - An Anonymous Girl
[ ]22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title
✔23. A book set in Scandinavia - Beartown
✔24. A book that takes place in a single day - A Spark of Light
✔25. A debut novel - The Book of Essie
✔26. A book that's published in 2019 - Wolfhunter River
✔27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature - The Last Battle
✔28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire - The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
✔29. A book with LOVE in the title - Who Loves It Most
✔30. A book featuring an amateur detective - Her Last Word
✔31. A book about a family - For Better and Worse
✔32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America - Crazy Rich Asians
✔33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title - Walk Two Moons
✔34. A book that includes a wedding - Promise, Texas
✔35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter - Lauren
✔36. A ghost story - The Turn of the Key
✔37. A book with a two-word title - Brian's Hunt
✔38. A novel based on a true story - The Tattooist of Auschwitz
✔39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game - Randomize
✔40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge - The Memory of Butterflies

2019 Popsugar Advanced Reading Challenge

✔41. A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book - The Great Famine: A History from Beginning to End
✔42. A "choose-your-own-adventure" book - Jump!
✔43. An "own voices" book - To All the Boys I've Loved Before
✔44. Read a book during the season it is set in - A Merry Little Christmas: A feel-good holiday romance
✔45. A LitRPG book {WILD CARD} - Yes, And
✔46. A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters - Where'd You Go, Bernadette
✔47. Two books that share the same title - Alone
✔48. Two books that share the same title - Alone
✔49. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom - Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
✔50. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent - Exalting Jesus in 1 & 2 Kings

2019 Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

24/24

✔1. An epistolary novel or collection of letters - Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
✔2. An alternate history novel - I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937
✔3. A book by a woman and/or AOC (Author of Color) that won a literary award in 2018 - The Poet X
✔4. A humor book - Scrappy Little Nobody
✔5. A book by a journalist or about journalism -Candace
✔6. A book by an AOC set in or about space - Chasing Space
✔7. An #ownvoices book set in Mexico or Central America - Islandborn
✔8. An #ownvoices book set in Oceania - Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain
✔9. A book published prior to January 1, 2019, with fewer than 100 reviews on Goodreads - Return to Promise
✔10. A translated book written by and/or translated by a woman - An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
✔11. A book of manga (WILD CARD) - Speed Grieving
✔12. A book in which an animal or inanimate object is a point-of-view character - The Dog Under The Bed
✔13. A book by or about someone that identifies as neurodiverse - The Princess Diarist
✔14. A cozy mystery - Cupcakes and a Murder: A Rainey Daye Cozy Mystery, book 10
✔15. A book of mythology or folklore - Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose: One Hundred Best-Loved Verses
✔16. A book by an AOC - Emergency Skin
✔17. A business book - Heidi
✔18. A novel by a trans or nonbinary author - Two Henrys
✔19. A book of nonviolent true crime -Identity Thief
✔20. A book written in prison - King of Dreams
✔21. A comic by an LGBTQIA creator - Before Her
✔22. A children’s or middle grade book (not YA) that has won a diversity award since 2009 - What Was the Holocaust?
✔23. A self-published book - The Tale of Mrs Westaway
✔24. A collection of poetry published since 2014 - Wade in the Water: Poems

2019 Pingel Sisters

47/52

{ } 1. A Book With More Than 500 Pages
✔2. Book You Haven’t Read by Author You Love - On the Night She Died
✔3. Goodreads winner in 2018 - There There
✔4. You Can Read in a Day - Ninth and Nowhere
✔ 5. Book About a Difficult Topic - My Boy, Their Son
✔ 6. Recommended by a Friend - Someone We Know
✔7. Book That Will Make You Cry - A Wedding Thing
✔8. Book Published in 2019 - Whisper of Bones
✔9. Book Becoming Movie in 2019 - Everything, Everything
✔10. A Genre You Don’t Usually Read - The Last Conversation
✔11. Children’s Classic - Goldilocks and the Three Bears
✔12. Cover With Your Favorite Color - All the Lovely Pieces
{ }  13. Bought at a Thrift Store
✔14. Young Adult Fiction - The Upside of Falling Down
✔15. First Book in a Trilogy - Bad Therapist
✔16. Second Book in a Trilogy - Nightcrawlers
✔17. Third Book in a Trilogy - The Two Million Dollar Intern
✔18. Dystopian Novel - Ark
✔19. Award-Winning Book - Elevation
✔ 20. A Book from the Rory Gilmore Challenge - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
{ } 21. Published the Decade Before You Were Born - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
✔ 22. Historical Fiction From A Favorite Time Period - We Are All Welcome Here
 { } 23. Classic You’ve Never Read
 { } 24. A Book That Will Keep You Up All Night
✔ 25. 2018 bestseller - Cottage by the Sea
✔ 26. Nonfiction Book about Science - What Is Climate Change?
✔ 27. Listen to an Audiobook - After Anna
✔ 28. Set in Your Home State - Durable Goods
✔ 29. You Once Started But Never Finished - Who Was John F. Kennedy?
✔ 30. With a One Word Title - Parable
✔ 31. A Fairy Tale Retelling - Emma and the Blue Genie
✔ 32. Celebrity Book Club Pick - Whisper Network
✔ 33. A Book You Read in High School - Othello
✔ 34. Business or Personal Finance Book - Leadership: Theory and Practice
✔35. Autobiography or Memoir - Educated
✔36. Book Set in Another Country - Cross Her Heart
✔37. Reread a Favorite Book - Bred in the Bone
✔ 38. Book by a Local Author - Things You Save in a Fire
✔ 39. Banned Book - The Snowy Day
✔ 40. Narrative Nonfiction - Black Sheep
✔ 41. On Your To-Read List the Longest - A Merciful Fate
✔ 42. A Book About Travel - Where Is Walt Disney World?
✔ 43. Popular Book You’ve Never Read - Verity
✔ 44. True Crime - Above Suspicion: An Undercover FBI Agent, an Illicit Affair, and a Murder of Passion
✔ 45. Nonfiction Bestseller - High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
✔ 46. Science Fiction - Summer Frost
✔ 47. A Book You Own But Haven’t Read - The Winter Sister
✔ 48. Recommended by a Local Librarian - What Is the Constitution?
✔ 49. 2019 New Release - A Merciful Promise
✔ 50. The First Book in a Series - Jaws
✔51. Prettiest cover - All the Secrets We Keep
✔52. An Inspirational Story - Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff

2019 Mrs. Darcy Challenge

12/12

✔1. A Book You've Been Meaning to Read - A Merciful Silence
✔2. A Book about a topic that fascinates you - The Visitor
✔3. A Book in the backlist of a favorite author - Double Cross
✔4. A Book recommended by someone with great taste - Who Was William Shakespeare?
✔5. Three books by the same author - A Merciful Death
✔6. Three books by the same author - A Merciful Truth
✔7. Three books by the same author - A Merciful Secret
✔8. A Book you chose for the cover - Verona
✔9. A Book by an author who is new to you - Half Past
✔10. A Book in translation - A Nearly Normal Family
✔11. A Book outside your (genre) comfort zone - You Have Arrived at Your Destination
✔12. A Book published before you were born - Ethan Frome

2019 HSL
02/25

1 A retelling of a classic you’ve never actually gotten around to reading
2 A book set in a city you’ve always wanted to visit
3 A book that’s becoming a movie in 2019
4 A book by an author from your state 
5 A book set in an alternate reality
6 A book published in the 1970s
7 A book with a non-human narrator
✔8. A book published this year - Bred in the Bone
9 A book translated from another language
10 A book inspired by Asian mythology or folklore
11 A book inspired by Norse mythology or folklore
12 A book recommended by your best friend
13 A book you meant to read last year but never actually got around to reading
✔14. A book you think your favorite fictional character would read - Save Your Breath
15 A book that has been banned in your state
16 A play
17 A book with a character who has a hobby that you also practice
18 A book that takes place on two continents
19 A book nominated for an award in 2019
20 A book that takes place in two different timelines
21 A book set in space
22 A book set in (or near) the place you grew up
23 A book inspired by Native American mythology or folklore
24 A book whose title begins with the letter J, K, Q, X, or Z
25 A book with a homeschooled main character