Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

HANNAH'S 2020 READING CHALLENGES.
Another year passes and here we are again, making the lists for next year's reading challenge! Even though I fall short every year I try, I really enjoy putting together these goals and seeing what everyone else is reading. :) I hope that 2020 will be filled with good books and I get a little closer to completing the ATY challenge.

MY 2020 READING GOALS.
- Prioritize the books I already own—I have a whole TBR cart full of them.
- Don't be afraid to try audiobooks and ebooks. The library is my friend!
- Read more poetry and short story collections.
- Read more nonfiction.
- Read more translated works.
- Read more works by authors of color.

THE CHALLENGES I'LL BE DOING.
ATY 2020 Challenge
Popsugar 2020 Reading Challenge

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(look at all the pretty covers!)

aty 2020 reading challenge masterlist.
0/52 books read.

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 (link)
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link)

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 1720
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’ (link)
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 (link)
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

reserved for the popsugar 2020 reading challenge.
0/53 books read.

1. A book that's published in 2020
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author
3. A book with a great first line
4. A book about a book club
5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics

6. A bildungsroman
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover
9. A book with a map
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club

11. An anthology
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test
13. A book with the same title as a movie to TV show but is unrelated to it
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name
15. A book published the month of your birthday

16. A book about or by a woman in STEM
17. A book that won an award in 2019
18. A book on a subject you know nothing about
19. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics
20. A book with a pun in the title

21. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins
22. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
23. A book with a bird on the cover
24. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader
25. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title

26. A book by a WOC
27. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads
28. A book you meant to read in 2019
29. A book about or involving social media
30. A book that has a book on the cover

31. A medical thriller
32. A book with a made-up language
33. A book set in a country beginning with "C"
34. A book you picked because the title caught your attention
35. A book with a three-word title

36. A book with a pink cover
37. A Western
38. A book by or about a journalist
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

bonus prompts.
41. A book written by an author in their 20s
42. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title
43. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision)
44. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics
45. A book set in the 1920s

46. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books
47. A book with more than 20 letters in its title
48. A book published in the 20th century
49. A book from a series with more than 20 books
50. A book with a main character in their 20s

aty 2020 reading challenge planning part i.
(prompts 1-13), 📚 = a book i own

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Sunburn by Laura Lippman
Diving Belles by Lucy Wood
Becoming Belle by Nuala O'Connor
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
God's Children by Mabli Roberts


2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
On Beauty by Zadie Smith 📚
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
A Stranger City by Linda Grant
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys


3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 📚
Nightshade for Warning by Bailey Cattrell
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi 📚
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami


4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
1984 by George Orwell
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson 📚
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea by Bandi


5. The first book in a series that you have not started
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 📚
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo 📚
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han 📚
The Graces by Laure Eve 📚


6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel 📚
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig 📚
The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier 📚
Tin Man by Sarah Winman


7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent 📚 (Australia)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (New Zealand)
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Colombia)
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (Mexico)


8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Sisterhood by Helen Bryan
The Quick by Lauren Owen
The Muse by Jessie Burton


9. A book that can be read in a day
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire 📚
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Vegetarian by Han Kang 📚


10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Scwab 📚
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith 📚
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
American Gods by Neil Gaiman 📚
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb 📚


11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2017)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (2011)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (2003)
White Oleander by Janet Fitch (1999)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)


12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy edited by Amerie
Zenith by Sasha Alsberg & Lindsay Cummings
A Tyranny of Petticoats edited by Jessica Spotswood 📚
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows


13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
2019 | A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 📚
Emma by Jane Austen 📚
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles 📚
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevrin 📚
Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey 📚

aty 2020 reading challenge planning part i.
(prompts 14-26), 📚 = a book i own

14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 📚
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 📚
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett 📚


15. A book set in a global city
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Tokyo)
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (Hong Kong)
The Dinner by Herman Koch (Amsterdam)
Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook-Shin (Seoul)
The Ladies' Paradise by Émilie Zola (Paris)


16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell


17. A book with a neurodiverse character
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

18. A book by an author you've only read once before
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro 📚
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 📚


19. A fantasy book
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Sabriel by Garth Nix
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson 📚
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan


20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (20th book on my goodreads shelf)
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (his 20th play)
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (celebrating its 20th anniversary)
Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie (20th poirot novel)
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh (20th book on my goodreads shelf by author) 📚

21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro


22. A book with the major theme of survival
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank


23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi 📚
House of Names by Colm Tóibín 📚
Carol by Patricia Highsmith 📚
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer


24. A book with an emotion in the title
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 📚
All Happy Families by Jeanne Mcculloch
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Liang


25. A book related to the arts
The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World by Anthony M. Amore
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
The Star Machine by Jeanine Basinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Marie Rothschild


26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

aty 2020 reading challenge planning part i.
(prompts 27-39), 📚 = a book i own

27. A history or historical fiction
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 📚
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn 📚
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell 📚
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 📚
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott 📚


28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (Australian)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Canadian) 📚
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (Canadian)
Genesis by Bernard Beckett (New Zealander)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Cotton (New Zealander)


29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking by Leyna Krow
Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China by Leta Hong Fincher
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahara Hankir
Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone


30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
Educated by Tara Westover (2018) 📚
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent (2017) 📚
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (2016)
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (2015) 📚
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (2014)


31. A book inspired by a leading news story
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú


32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa 📚
The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki


33. A book about a non-traditional family
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 📚


34. A book from a genre or sub-genre that starts with a letter in your name
The Odyssey by Homer (Adventure) 📚
Stardust by Neil Gaiman (Adventure)
Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn (Autobiography)
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (History)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Historical Fiction)


35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Familiar Things by Hwang Sok-yong
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy


36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
You Were Here by Gian Sardar
Smiler's Fair by Rebecca Levene
Who’s That Girl? by Mhairi McFarlane
The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall by Paul Torday
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt


37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
a book under 250 pages
American Housewife by Helen Ellis 📚
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Vegetarian by Han Kang 📚
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard


38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
a book over 500 pages
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 📚
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
East of Eden by John Steinbeck


39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Nine Continents: A Memoir in and Out of China by Xiaolu Guo
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkowa
Always Another Country by Sisonke Msimang

aty 2020 reading challenge planning part i.
(prompts 40-52), 📚 = a book i own

40. A book with a place name in the title
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky by Lydia Netzer
Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton 📚


41. A mystery
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
The Trouble With Magic by Madelyn Alt 📚
Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins


42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
pulitzer prize for fiction
The Overstory by Richard Powers
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 📚
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Beloved by Toni Morrison


43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore (death)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (war)
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (war)
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (famine)
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert (pestilence)


44. A book related to witches
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton
The Silver Witch by Paula Brackston
Stardust by Neil Gaiman 📚


45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 📚
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
Renegades by Marissa Meyer
Beloved by Toni Morrison


46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding by Jennifer Robson
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver


47. A classic book you've always meant to read
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 📚
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë


48. A book published in 2020
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau: A Novel by Michael Zapata


49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
a book originally written in a language other than english or your mother tongue
The Vegetarian by Han Kang (korean)
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (italian)
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (russian)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (japanese)
The Dinner by Herman Koch (dutch)


50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
Star of the North by D.B. John
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg
Twenty-One Cardinals by Jocelyne Saucier


51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story by Michael Hainey
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust by Laura Smith


52. A book related to time
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
One Day in December by Josie Silver

popsugar reading challenge 2020 planning part i.
(prompts 1-13), 📚 = a book i own

popsugar reading challenge 2020 planning part i.
(prompts 14-26), 📚 = a book i own

popsugar reading challenge 2020 planning part i.
(prompts 27-39), 📚 = a book i own

popsugar reading challenge 2020 planning part i.
(prompts 40-53), 📚 = a book i own

2020 reading notes/recaps.