Around the Year in 52 Books

message 1: by Sarah (last edited Dec 03, 2019 08:52AM) (new)

Oct 24, 2019 04:06PM

SARAHS AROUND THE YEAR 2020

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

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message 2: by Sarah (last edited Oct 27, 2019 06:06PM) (new)

Oct 24, 2019 04:06PM

Planning Weeks 1-13

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Cujo
Delicious Foods
Equus
Frog Music
Hidden Figures
Homegoing
In Cold Blood
Mr. Mercedes
Moonglow
Robin Hood
Sunburn

2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime by Ben Blum
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
The Girls by Emma Cline
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
In the Woods by Tana French
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
The Stand by Stephen King
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade by Walter Kirn
Severance by Ling Ma
Utopia by Thomas More
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Subtle Bodies by Norman Rush
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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
American War
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Great Alone
Gone with the Wind
The Master and Margarita
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Severance

5. The first book in a series that you have not started
The Fellowship of the Ring
All Systems Red
Oryx and Crake
Scythe
Mr. Mercedes
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Yiddish for Pirates [Boat]
Murder on the Orient Express [Train]
Middlesex [Boat]
Three Men in a Boat [Boat]
The High Mountains of Portugal [Tractor]
Behold the Dreamers [Car]
Little Fires Everywhere [Car]
Where the Crawdads Sing [Boat]
Inherent Vice [Car]
The Alice Network [Car]

7. A book set in the Southern Hemisphere
Nine Perfect Strangers
Heart of Darkness
Something in the Water

8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
The Alienist
The Girls
The Goldfinch
The Gunslinger
The Idiot
The Immortalists
The Interestings
The Magus
The Power
The Rehearsal
The Shining
The Snowman
The Stand
The Widow
The Zahir

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
Little Fires Everywhere [2017]
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia [2017]
Manhattan Beach [2017]
Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime [2017]
The Alice Network [2017]
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness [2017]
Into the Water [2017]
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry [2017]
All Systems Red [2017]
American War [2017]
The Song of Achilles [2011]
The Night Circus [2011]
Ready Player One [2011]
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion [2011]
The Wise Man's Fear [2011]
Along Came a Spider [1993]
The Shipping News [1993]
Equus [1973]
Three Men in a Boat [1889]
Anna Karenina [1877]
War and Peace [1867]
Wuthering Heights [1847]
Jane Eyre [1847]
Vanity Fair [1847]

12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
Flights
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
100 Bullets, Vol. 1: First Shot, Last Call
The Fade Out: Act One
The Chestnut Man

13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards
2018
Nine Perfect Strangers
Girls Burn Brighter
The Great Alone
The Immortalists
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Severance
Something in the Water

2017
Little Fires Everywhere
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Home Fire
Into the Water
The Alice Network
Moonglow
Manhattan Beach
Norse Mythology
American War
All Systems Red
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?
When Dimple Met Rishi

2016
The Girls
The Widow
A Gentleman in Moscow
Homegoing
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
I'm Just a Person
Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
Lab Girl
Hidden Figures
Behold the Dreamers

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message 3: by Sarah (last edited Oct 27, 2019 06:05PM) (new)

Oct 24, 2019 04:06PM

Planning Weeks 14-26

14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
Pride and Prejudice
Frankenstein
Murder on the Orient Express
Little Fires Everywhere
Jane Eyre
Life After Life
Wuthering Heights
The Goldfinch
The Joy Luck Club
The Heart Goes Last
Homegoing
Manhattan Beach
Swing Time
White Teeth
The Interestings
Slammerkin
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Shipping News
Oryx and Crake
Bel Canto
Gingerbread

15. A book set in a global city
London
Life After Life
Oliver Twist
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Vanity Fair
White Teeth
Saturday
David Copperfield
Jane Eyre
High Fidelity

New York City
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Beautiful and Damned
The Alienist
The Goldfinch
Brooklyn
Behold the Dreamers

Tokyo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Great Alone
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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.]
20th Prompt from a previous ATY Challenge
2019: A book featuring indigenous people of a country

2018: A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends

2017: A book that you’ve owned for a while but haven’t gotten around to reading

2016: A book with a first name in the title

21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719
Stardust

22. A book with the major theme of survival
Severance
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Stand
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Middlesex
The Song of Achilles
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Sugar Run
The Immortalists
The Fair Fight
Frog Music
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

24. A book with an emotion in the title
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The Joy Luck Club
The Wise Man's Fear
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

25. A book related to the arts
The Goldfinch
Bel Canto
Where the Crawdads Sing
Little Fires Everywhere
Swing Time
Fangirl

26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards

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message 4: by Sarah (last edited Oct 26, 2019 06:47PM) (new)

Oct 24, 2019 04:06PM

Planning Weeks 27-39

27. A history or historical fiction
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Washington Black
The Night Tiger
The Alienist

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
Oryx and Crake
The Heart Goes Last
Washington Black
Nine Perfect Strangers
Slammerkin

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
Home Fire
Behold the Dreamers
Washington Black
Homegoing
American War
Manhattan Beach
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Doctor Sleep
Severance
The Power
Delicious Foods

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
Homegoing
Home Fire
Behold the Dreamers
House of Leaves
Manhattan Beach
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
White Teeth
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write

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
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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

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message 5: by Sarah (last edited Oct 24, 2019 06:17PM) (new)

Oct 24, 2019 04:06PM