Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

THE 2020 LIST

Note: 41 books read in 2020, challange completed 12/2/2021

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
5. The first book in a series that you have not started

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
9. A book that can be read in a day

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers

15. A book set in a global city
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
17. A book with a neurodiverse character
18. A book by an author you've only read once before

19. A fantasy book
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719
22. A book with the major theme of survival

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
24. A book with an emotion in the title
25. A book related to the arts
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
27. A history or historical fiction

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
31. A book inspired by a leading news story

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
33. A book about a non-traditional family
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover

36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce

40. A book with a place name in the title
41. A mystery
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
44. A book related to witches

45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
47. A classic book you've always meant to read
48. A book published in 2020

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
52. A book related to time

Covers
Books read in 2020 (41)

Read 2021 to complete this challange :

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y

Possibles:
✅Vile Bodies📖
♻️Enduring Love
♻️Eric📖

2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
♻️The Lewis Man :Peter May®📖
♻️The Blackhouse] :Peter May 📱
♻️Trouble on the Heath📖®:Terry Jones
♻️Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh
♻️Enter a Murderer Ngaio Marsh
❓The Nursing Home Murder Ngaio Marsh
✅The Day of the LocustNathanael West
♻️King Leopold's Soliloquy Mark Twain

3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019

Books recommended in The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books or The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

The Innocence of Father Brown
Clouds of Witness
♻️The Nursing Home Murder
✅The A.B.C. Murders
The Franchise Affair
♻️Pietr the Latvian

4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live

This is about the discovery of Antartica read a book set there :
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✅The Birthday Boys📱

5. The first book in a series that you have not started

Possibles :
✅Pietr the Latvian
♻️The Shape of Water
♻️The Chalk Circle Man
♻️The Last Hours

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Listopia : https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

✅Sourcery (Magic Carpet)
♻️The Hours Before Dawn ( Baby's Pram)
♻️The Shape of Water (Car)
♻️Enduring Love (Baloon)
♻️Death in the Clouds (Bi Plane - incorrectly )
♻️Murder in Mesopotamia ( sailboat and horse)
♻️Every Man For Himself ( the Titanic)

7 Set in Southern Hemisphere
List of countries here
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/c...

Antarctica :
❓The Birthday Boys
Angola:
The Book of Chameleons

Australia:
❓Picnic at Hanging Rock
✅Our Country's Good

8 Two word title, first word 'The'

✅The Blackhouse

9. A book that can be read in a day

Will read a book designed to be quick read :

✅Trouble On The Heath📖®

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages

❓The Blackhouse ( 432)

Harmattan(576)
Cloud Atlas
♻️Guards! Guards! (412)
♻️The Wire In The Blood(496)
♻️The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
✅The Folklore of Discworld
♻️The Last Hours

11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
Post with all the numbers and listopia links : https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✅Sacred Country 1993
♻️Portrait of a Murderer 1933

12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people

A translation
Read/possibles :
♻️The Chalk Circle Man
♻️Pietr the Latvian
✅The Shape of Water
♻️The Devotion Of Suspect X

13 A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
From 2017: A collection
Possible collections I need to read/finish
✅Tall Tales and Wee Stories
Books to Die For

14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
Link :https://www.abebooks.com/books/best-f...
Agatha Christie :
♻️The Listerdale Mystery
❓Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
✅Parker Pyne Investigates

15. A book set in a global city
List and listopia :https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
London
✅Grey Mask📖
❓The Hours Before Dawn
❓Enter a Murderer

New York
♻️Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Tokyo
♻️The Devotion Of Suspect X

15. A book set in a rural location

✅The Lewis Man
♻️The Blackhouse
♻️Sacred Country

17. A book with a neurodiverse character
Listopia:https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Possibles:
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir🗣
Flowers for Algernon

I want to prioritise print books I already have so
✅Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close📖

18. A book by an author you've only read once before

♻️The Lewis Man

✅Enter a Murderer
♻️Enduring Love

19. A fantasy book

One of Terry Pratchetts

♻️Sourcery
♻️Wyrd Sisters
♻️Pyramids
♻️Guards! Guards!
♻️Eric
✅Moving Pictures

20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series,etc]

✅The Listerdale Mystery - 20th book by Agatha Christie by date published

21 A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719
Hell, Jesuits, Astronomy, Venus, Hungary, Language studies.

The First Men in the Moon🗣(Crater on the moon is named 'Hell' in his honour)
✅Eric ( part set in hell)

22. A book with the major theme of survival
Possibles :
♻️The Birthday Boys
Nation®📱
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World🗣
♻️Every Man For Himself
✅The Last Hours ( the Black Death)

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author

♻️The Shape of Water
✅The Wire in the Blood
♻️Sacred Country

24. A book with an emotion in the title

✅Enduring Love

25. A book related to the arts

Read a play that I've seen already, or will see this year
✅Blithe Spirit ( play : currently in performance/film out later in year, - will see one or both)
♻️Portrait of a Murderer ( clue is in the title !)

26 From the Goodreads Awards 2019

Possibles
✅The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper®
My Sister, the Serial Killer

27 A History or Historical Fiction

♻️The Birthday Boys
✅Picnic at Hanging Rock
♻️Every Man For Himself
♻️The Last Hours

28 An Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author

Ngaio Marsh
♻️Enter a Murderer
✅The Nursing Home Murder

Joan Lindsay
❓Picnic at Hanging Rock

29 An underrated, hidden gem or lesser known book

Try a lesser known book by an author particularly known for a different book :
Possibles:
♻️Vile Bodies( Evelyn Waugh known for Brideshead Revisited)

OR:

Try a book from The Book of Forgotten Authors
Possibles
✅The Old Man in the Corner

30 From a New York Times '100 Noteable Books' list
Lists on Goodreads : https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...
Link to suggestions https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Possibles
✅One Day
Half of a Yellow Sun
Cloud Atlas
Gilead
Etc

31 A book inspired by a leading news story
The books listed were not inspired by a major news story , because they were written before the events in the news happened. I couldn't find anything I wanted to read that was the correct way round, so this will have to do.

✅Measure for Measure ( c/f Brexit and/or Weinstein)
♻️Trouble on the Heath ( death of Terry Jones the author)
♻️The Last Hours(the Black Death pandemic)

32 Related to the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
✅The Devotion Of Suspect X(set in Japan)

33 About a non traditional family
Listopia https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

A Discworld
✅Guards! Guards! ( Carrot is a human adopted by dwarves)

34 Genre or sub genre that begins with a letter in my name

'C for Crime '
❓Grey Mask📖
❓The Lewis Man
❓The Blackhouse
✅Three Act Tragedy
Etc (there will be a lot!)

35 A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover

✅Pyramids
❓The Chalk Circle Man
♻️The Devotion Of Suspect X

36 A book from my TBR that I have no idea how it got there.

I know how all my books got on to my TBR so I will make this a book that is only on my TBR because someone else bought it for me thinking I'd like it.

✅Portrait of a Murderer

37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
Suggestions thread https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Possibles:✅: Remember Me This Way/✅The Book of Forgotten Authors

37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2

39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce

Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
❓The Nursing Home Murder Ngaio Marsh
So Long a Letter Mariama Bâ
Under the Frangipani Mia Couto
♻️Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh
❓Enter a Murderer Ngaio Marsh
✅Death in EcstasyNgaio Marsh
❓The Old Man in the CornerEmmuska Orczy
♻️The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Hallie Rubenhold
♻️Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer
♻️The Devotion Of Suspect X Keigo Higashino

40 Place name in the title

❓The Lewis Man
❓Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold
( whichever of the above two I can get from library - couldn't get either 😷)
✅Murder in Mesopotamia

41 A mystery
https://www.librarything.com/bookawar...
♻️Grey Mask📖
♻️The Lewis Man
♻️The Blackhouse
♻️The Listerdale Mystery
♻️The Hours Before Dawn
♻️Picnic at Hanging Rock
♻️Remember Me This Way
♻️Three Act Tragedy
✅Death in the Clouds

42 A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
All links in one place plus Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
(Will chose a book nominated but that didn't win)

✅Every Man For Himself (nominated for Booker Prize /won the Whitbread Prize now known as the Costa Book award )

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse

Obviously DEATH from Discworld



♻️Sourcery ( Has all four)
✅Reaper Man ( Death aka Bill Door)
♻️The Last Hours (pestilence - the Black Death)

44. A book related to witches

Obviously the witches from Discworld

✅Wyrd Sisters

45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018

Agatha Christie :
♻️The Listerdale Mystery
✅Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
♻️Parker Pyne Investigates
♻️Three Act Tragedy

46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Link to list and listopia : https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

The Poisonwood Bible📖 (Congo)
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart(Congo)🗣
✅King Leopold's Soliloquy (Congo) 📱

47. A classic book you've always meant to read

David Copperfield🗣
✅Frankenstein🗣

48. A book published in 2020

✅The Thursday Murder Club