Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

When we discussed comfort reads, I decided to reread all the Lord Peter Wimsey detective books by Dorothy L. Sayers. Others may love Mr. Darcy or Jamie from Outlander, but Lord Peter is my literary crush. I have read them more than once but I think it has been over 30 years since I did. I'm sure they will fit various prompts.

X1. A book related to “In the Beginning...” - The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Jan 6 - 3*
X2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y - The Gown by Jennifer Robson - Feb 10 - 3*
X3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music - Don't Forget to Smile (roses on cover) - Feb 13 - 4*
X4. A book with a monochromatic cover - Between the World and Me - Feb 14 - 4*

X5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read - The Girl with the Louding Voice - Mar 20 - 5*
X6. A love story - I Always Loved You - Jan 23 - 3*
X7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list - Remember the Ladies - prompt was "a book with a theme of women overcoming systemic obstacles" - Jan 28 - 2*
X8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited - The Tattooist of Auschwitz - mostly set in Poland, also Slovakia and Australia, none of which I've been to - Feb 26 3*

X9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year - The Summer Before the War - Mar 29 - 4*
X10. A book with a female villain or criminal - Ask Again, Yes - Feb 19 - 3*
X11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum - Hieroglyphics - Feb 26 - 3*
X12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Apr 17 - 4*
X13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020 - Iron Lake - Mar 12 - 4*

X14. A book set in a made-up place - A Brightness Long Ago - Feb 10 - 4*
X15. A book that features siblings as the main characters - The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine - Feb 14 - 4*
X16. A book with a building in the title - The Hourglass Factory - Apr 23 - 3*
X17. A book with a Muslim character or author - Homeland Elegies - Apr 8 - 4*

X18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1 - Watery Grave - Feb 5 - 4* Historical mystery
X19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2- Death of a Busybody - Contemporary mystery to date written - 3*
X20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3 - The Big Sheep - Jan 30 - 3* Futuristic mystery
X21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u" - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro - Mar 5 - 5*
X22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads - Anxious People - Jan 9 - 4*

X23. A cross genre novel - The Book of Scandal - historical romance - Apr 7 - 3*
X24. A book about racism or race relations - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Jan 9 - 4*
X25. A book set on an island - Bain de lune - Mar 4 - 4*
X26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author - Breathe: A Letter to My Sons - Mar 9 - 4*

X27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards - Queen of Hearts - Mar 7 - 4*
X28. A book connected to ice - The Year of the Hare - 3*
X29. A book that you consider comfort reading - Whose Body? - Feb 25 - 4*
X30. A long book - Miss Marjoribanks - Mar 5 - 4*

X31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years - Helen with the High Hand - An Idyllic Diversion - Jan 2 - 4*
X32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people - - Apr 14 - 5*
X33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry - Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories - Jan 3 - 4*
X34. A book with a travel theme - True Grit - Feb 14 4*
X35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer - His Only Wife - Mar 12 - 4*

X36. A book with six or more words in the title - The Case of the Canterfell Codicil - Mar 16 - 4*
X37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list - The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Jan 12 - 4*
X38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator - word is "witness" - Clouds of Witness - Mar 21 - 5*
X 39. A book involving an immigrant - How to Pronounce Knife - Feb 19 - 3*

X40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover - A Friend of the Earth - Mar 10 - 2*
X 41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author - So You Want to Talk About Race - Feb 4 - 4*
X42. A mystery or thriller - Bryant & May: Oranges and Lemons - Mar 3 - 4*
X43. A book with elements of magic - The House in the Cerulean Sea - Apr 26 - 3*

X44. A book whose title contains a negative - Nothing to See Here - Jan 15 - 4*
X45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet - Sylvia's Lovers - a main character is named Charley - Feb 6 - 4*
X46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards - Hamnet - 3*
X47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir - Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women - Apr 10 - 3*
X48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?” -
The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World - Jan 30 - 4*

X49. A book with an ensemble cast - Driftless - Jan 17 - 5*
X50. A book published in 2021 - The Kindest Lie - Mar 19 - 3*
X51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name - The Housekeeper and the Professor - Jan 28 - 4*
X52. A book related to "the end" - All About Us - takes place in December, relates to 1st book being January - Apr 25 - 3*

**Finished April 26**

NATO challenge

[X ] Alpha - Whose Body? - first book of series
[X ] Bravo - Miss Marjoribanks - singing of solos & duets is a major plot point
[ X] Charlie - Sylvia's Lovers - a main character is named Charley
[ X] Delta - The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - some of the diverted flights were Delta
[ X] Echo - The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World - author talks about how feelings of others are mirrored or echoed in our own brain
[X ] Foxtrot - The Gown- main character dances this
[X ] Golf - HieroglyphicsMain characters are a couple who retired to a home on a golf course
[ ] Hotel
[ X] India - Homeland Elegies - author's parents are originally from India
[X ] Juliett - True Grit - heroine is a teenage girl
[ X] Kilo - The Big Sheep - the animal is over 300 lbs
[ ] Lima
[ X] Mike - character in How the Penguins Saved Veronica
[X] November - The Bromance Book Club - story starts in November
[X ] Oscar - Queen of Hearts - about people making a movie
[ X] Papa - The Ten Thousand Doors of January relationship of main character to her father is central to book
[ X] Quebec - Still Life - takes place there
[ X] Romeo - Hamnet - a Shakespeare character
[ X] Sierra - A Friend of the Earth - a major character is named Sierra because her parents are ecology activists
[ ] Tango:
[X ] Uniform - Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories - hero is a sheriff who (mostly) wears a uniform
[X ] Victor - character in Murder Must Advertise
[ X] Whiskey - Ask Again, Yes- alcoholism is an element
[ X] X-Ray - The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
[X ] Yankee - Iola Leroy - set in Civil War
[X ] Zulu - His Only Wife - takes place in Africa

Adding this space to list possible books for categories

Round 2

X1. A book related to “In the Beginning...” - Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin - Mar 27 - 4*
X2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y - Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen - Apr 19 - 4*
X3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music - Tender Is the Bite - Jul 16 - 4*
X4. A book with a monochromatic cover - The Sculthorpe Murder - May 25 - 4*

X5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read - Transcendent Kingdom - Apr 25 - 4*
X6. A love story - The Bromance Book Club - Feb 7 - 4*
X7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list - A book with a major life-altering event in the plot - The Survivors - Jun 6 - 4*
X8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited - Number 9 Dream - May 19 - 3*

X9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year - The Cruelest Month - Oct 13 - 4*
X10. A book with a female villain or criminal - Basil - Apr 14 0 3*
X11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum - The Heroine with 1001 Faces - Nov 1 - 4*
X12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation - Desorientale - Aug 25 - 3*
X13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020 - Moriarty - May 12 - 3*

X14. A book set in a made-up place - Local Custom- Jun 28 - 3*
X15. A book that features siblings as the main characters - The Lager Queen of Minnesota - 4* - Jun 26
X16. A book with a building in the title - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall- Jul 4 - 4*
X17. A book with a Muslim character or author - American Dervish- Oct 30 - 3*

X18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1 - Oona Out of Order - Mar 7 - 4*
X19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2 - Another Time, Another Place - Jun 18 - 4*
X20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3 - One Last Stop - Aug 28 - 2*
X21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u" - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc - Jun 25 - 4*
X 22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads - There There - May 25 - 4*

X23. A cross genre novel - The Devil and the Dark Water - May 29 - 4*
X24. A book about racism or race relations -Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All - Apr 22 - 4*
X25. A book set on an island - The Last Moriarty - May 26 - 4*
X26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author - Binti - Mar 13 - 4*

X27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards - Jack, Knave and Fool - May 9 - 4*
X28. A book connected to ice - How the Penguins Saved Veronica - May 11 - 4*
X29. A book that you consider comfort reading - French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris - Apr 14 - 4*
X30. A long book - The Bostonians - May 17 - 2*

X31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years - Grey Mask - 3*
X32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people - Midwinter Magic - 4*
X33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry - Lord Peter Views the Body - May 11 - 4*
X34. A book with a travel theme - Kidnapped - Feb 28 -4*
X35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer - Force of Nature - Mar 21 - 3*

X36. A book with six or more words in the title - The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - Apr 10 - 4*
X37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list - Oblomov - Mar 15 - 4*
X38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator - Un chemin de tables - word is "formation" and book is about the training of a chef - Apr 25 - 3*
X39. A book involving an immigrant - Beartown - Jun 16 - 4*

X40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover - The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection - Jun 20 - 4*
X41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author - Libertie - Kaitlyn Greenidge - Jun 8 - 3&
X42. A mystery or thriller - Person or Persons Unknown - Apr 13 - 4*
X43. A book with elements of magic - The Serpent's Shadow - May 5 - 3*

X44. A book whose title contains a negative - Unnatural Death - Apr 1 - 4*
X45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - May 30 - 4* - takes place in November
X 46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards - Writers & Lovers - Sep 7 - 4*
X47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir - Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy - Apr 19 - 4*
X48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?” - Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff - Apr 26 - 4*

X49. A book with an ensemble cast - Raft of Stars - Apr 2 - 4*
X50. A book published in 2021 - What the Devil Knows - May 5 - 4*
X51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name - The Goblin Emperor - Apr 3 - 3*
X52. A book related to "the end" - Project Hail Mary - hero must save Earth from end of existence! - May 17 - 5*