Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

The 2019 List

✔️1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life Won Audie award in 2014.

✔️2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, What, Where, When, Why)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

✔️3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

✔️4. A book with a criminal character (i.e. assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel etc)
Dirty Dancing

✔️5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

✔️6. A book with a dual timeline
Next Year in Havana

✔️7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1 - set in Africa, race
American Spy - Burkina Faso, Ghana

✔️8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2 - set in Africa, race
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood - South Africa

✔️9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres (romance/erotica, crime/mystery, religious/inspirational, science fiction/fantasy or horror)
Gone for Good

✔️10. A book featuring a historical figure
Prince of Fire - Yasser Arafat

✔️11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals (title, cover, subject)
Animal Farm - pig 🐽

✔️12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer
The Shadow of the Wind

✔️13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list
The Tattooist of Auschwitz

✔️14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term
Star of the North

✔️15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country
Adèle - set in France 🇫🇷
by Leïla Slimani - Moroccan

✔️16. A book told from multiple perspectives
Fingersmith

✔️17. A speculative fiction (i.e. fantasy, scifi, horror, dystopia)
The Princess and The Queen, or, The Blacks and The Greens

✔️18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements
Tin Men by Christopher Golden
Tin (Sn), Gold (Au)

✔️19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR
Silence of the Grave

✔️20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - ethnic tribe in China 🇨🇳 called Akha

✔️21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes
Newcomer - Book set in a national capital city - Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵

✔️22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover
The Woman in Cabin 10

✔️23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises - elderly character

✔️24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New
The Rosie Effect - having a baby

✔️25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed
House of Spies borrowed from Kevi

✔️26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue (blue cover)


✔️27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list
The 39 Steps

✔️28. A book related to something cold (i.e. theme, title, author, cover, etc.)
Holidays on Ice

✔️29. A book published before 1950
The Time Machine - 1895

✔️30. A book featuring an elderly character
Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist

✔️31. A children’s classic you’ve never read
The Hockey Sweater

✔️32. A book with more than 500 pages
The Alice Network

✔️33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

✔️34. A book with a person's name in the title
Eric

✔️35. A psychological thriller
Our Kind of Cruelty - obsessive love

✔️36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list
The Vegetarian

✔️37. A book set in a school or university
Ramona Quimby, Age 8

✔️38. A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel, etc)
Sappho: A New Translation - poetry

✔️39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive Botswana 🇧🇼, Africa

✔️40. A book you stumbled upon
Perfect Days

✔️41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards
Force of Nature

✔️42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character
Six Graves to Munich - Nazi interrogators

✔️43. A book related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) [fiction or nonfiction]
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

✔️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.)
Big Little Lies

✔️45. A multi-generational saga
Purge

✔️46. A book with a (mostly) black cover


✔️47. A book related to food (i.e. title, cover, plot, etc.) A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Death by Dumpling

✔️48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year


✔️49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country
Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø - Thailand 🇹🇭

✔️50. A book that includes a journey (physical, health, or spiritual)
The Pearl

✔️51. A book published in 2019
Blood Orange

✔️52. A book with a weird or intriguing title
My Sister, the Serial Killer