Around the Year in 52 Books

message 1: by Ellie (last edited Dec 15, 2021 05:34AM) (new)

Oct 23, 2020 01:59AM

Index, Stats and Progress

Around the Year in 52 Books 52/52 - COMPLETED
NATO Phonetic Alphabet 11/26
Popsugar Reading Challenge 50/50 - COMPLETED
ATY Winter Challenge 14/14 - COMPLETED
Book Riot Read Harder 10/24
ATY Spring Challenge 12/12 - COMPLETED
ATY Summer Challenge 12/12 - COMPLETED
ATY Fall Challenge 12/12 - COMPLETED
2022 Planning
ATY Winter Challenge 4/17

Stats
Total: 115
BAME Authors: 35
LGBT+ Content: 37
From TBR: 26
2021 Releases: 70
Non-Fiction: 8
Books Acquired: 😱

Goals: 30% BAME authors, write more reviews and read everything I pre-order.

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message 2: by Ellie (last edited Dec 01, 2021 08:06AM) (new)

Oct 23, 2020 02:00AM

Around the Year in 52 Books

Just throwing the reading in order plan out the window...

✔ 1. A book related to “In the Beginning...”
🔎🌈 Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y:
👻🌈 Black Water Sister by Zen Cho ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music:
🦌 The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley ⭐⭐

✔ 4. A book with a monochromatic cover:
💀✊🏾 Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read:
❤✊🏾 Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 6. A love story:
🐶 Rescue Me by Sarra Manning ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list;
- A book related to the bingo call for 21 "key to the door":
🐎🚪 Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited:
- Not UK, USA, France, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Netherlands, Poland, Italy
🍇 Ariadne by Jennifer Saint ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year:
🧛🌈 Mina and the Undead by Amy McCaw ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 10. A book with a female villain or criminal:
🌲 A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum:
🚋✊🏾 The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation:
🗾🐺 Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020:
🕵️‍♀️ As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 14. A book set in a made-up place:
🍃 For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 15. A book that features siblings as the main characters:
👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏻 The Project by Courtney Summers ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 16. A book with a building in the title:
🌈 House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 17. A book with a Muslim character or author:
🧞✊🏾 A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1:
PAST 🌈 Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Melinda Lo ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2:
PRESENT 🌆 Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3:
FUTURE Future Perfect by Felicia Yap ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u":
🐺🌈 Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads:
🕊 Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 23. A cross genre novel:
🗡🌈 Blackheart Knights by Laure Eve ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 24. A book about racism or race relations:
✊🏾 Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 25. A book set on an island:
🏝 The Castaways by Lucy Clarke ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author:
🐋 The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards:
The Red Monarch by Bella Ellis ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 28. A book connected to ice:
The Winter Garden by Alexandra Bell ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 29. A book that you consider comfort reading:
🚀 The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 30. A long book:
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years:
☀ Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people:
🚀 The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry:
❤✊🏾 Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 34. A book with a travel theme:
✊🏾 Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer:
The Dark by Emma Haughton ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 36. A book with six or more words in the title:
Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list:
🚪 Exit West by Mohsin Hamid ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator:
witch, stable, player, stem, mask
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 39. A book involving an immigrant:
The Test by Sylvain Neuvel ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover:
🌿🌈 This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author:
⚔️✊🏾 The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 42. A mystery or thriller:
🏕 The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 43. A book with elements of magic:
👻✊🏾 The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 44. A book whose title contains a negative:
🔮🌈 This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling ⭐⭐

✔ 45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet:
🌈 Heartstopper Volume Four by Alice Oseman ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards:
👿✊🏾 The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir:
The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses by Meredith Wadman ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?”:
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 49. A book with an ensemble cast:
The Bronzed Beasts by Roshani Chokshi ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 50. A book published in 2021:
📖 Maxwell's Demon by Steven Hall ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name:
🐴 The Women of Troy by Pat Barker ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 52. A book related to "the end":
🔎🌈 The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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message 3: by Ellie (last edited Sep 01, 2021 03:52AM) (new)

Oct 23, 2020 02:01AM

NATO Phonetic Alphabet Side Challenge
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Alfa: a book with a werewolf

✔ Bravo: a book that includes a performance:
🌆 Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson ⭐⭐⭐

✔ Charlie: a book with a character or author called Charlie:
🌈 Heartstopper Volume Four by Alice Oseman ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ Delta: a book involving flight:
✈✊🏾 Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo ⭐⭐⭐

✔ Echo: a book related to sound:
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune ⭐⭐

Foxtrot: a book related to horses

✔ Golf: a book with a vehicle on the cover:
🚘 The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hotel: a book involving a hotel

✔ India: a book by an author of Indian ethnicity:
👶🏽 Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home by Nikesh Shukla ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ Juliett: a book with a tragedy:
Afterlove by Tanya Byrne ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Kilo: a book over 500 pages
Lima: a book related to the goddess of doorways
Mike: a book with a character or author called Mike (or Michael)
November: a book published in November
✔ Oscar: a Green Book:
📽 The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara ⭐⭐⭐

✔ Papa: a book with a father/child relationship:
📖 Maxwell's Demon by Steven Hall ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ Quebec: a book set in Canada:
🌲 A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Romeo: a book with a romance
Sierra: a book with a mountain (or hill) on the cover
Tango: a book with an orange cover
Uniform: a book involving the police
Victor: a book related to Frankenstein
Whiskey: a book set in Scotland
X-Ray: a medical memoir

✔ Yankee: a book set in New England:
🔎🌈 Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Zulu: a book set in South Africa

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message 4: by Ellie (last edited Oct 13, 2021 01:18AM) (new)

Oct 23, 2020 02:01AM

Popsugar Reading Challenge
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔ 1. A book that published in 2021:
🦎 Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 2. An Afrofuturist book:
✊🏾 Sorrowland by River Solomon ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover:
♠✊🏾 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign:
😈 How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 5. A dark academia book:
☠ The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title:
🐰 The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job:
📚 The Last Library by Freya Sampson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction:
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 9. A book with a family tree:
🏖 The Cousins by Karen M. McManus ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 10. A bestseller from the 1990s:
🦇 Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (re-read) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 11. A book about forgetting:
🧑‍🚀 The Edge by James Smythe ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf:
🔥 Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 13. A locked-room mystery:
🗝 Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 14. A book set in a restaurant:
🥘 Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 15. A book with a black-and-white cover:
🍃 Lanny by Max Porter ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 16. A book by an indigenous author:
🌑🌈 Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 17. A book that has the same title as a song:
👑✊🏾 You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 18. A book about a subject you are passionate about:
🦅 The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest by Neil Ansell ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 19. A book that discusses body positivity:
🌈 Pumpkin by Julie Murphy ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list:
✊🏾 Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 21. A genre hybrid:
🤣 Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutanto ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors:
🐺 The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 23. A book with something broken on the cover:
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 24. A book by a British or American Muslim author:
⚔️ A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 25. A book that was published anonymously:
👩‍⚖️ Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies by The Secret Barrister ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 26. A book with an oxymoron in the title:
🚀🌈 A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts:
🚘 The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 28. A magical realism book:
🧜‍♀️ The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 29. A book set in multiple countries:
🍃 Green Rising by Lauren James ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021:
😻🌈 Love Is for Losers by Wibke Brueggemann ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality:
📚🌈 Bookishly Ever After by Lucy Powrie ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”:
Q by Christina Dalcher ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 33. A book featuring three generations:
👶🏽 Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home by Nikesh Shukla ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 34. A book about a social justice issue:
🦋 Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 35. A book in a different format than what you normally read:
✈✊🏾 Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads:
🚀🌈 Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 37. A book you think your best friend would like:
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 38. A book about art or an artist:
📽 The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 39. A book everyone seems to have read but you:
🌈 The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge:
The next book in a series you started (2018)
🔎🌈 The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

ADVANCED
✔ 41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list:
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list:
🦭 🌈 In Sea-Salt Tears by Seanan McGuire ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover:
The Forevers by Chris Whitaker ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover:
🚪 Lock Every Door by Riley Sager ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time:
I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti ⭐⭐

✔ 46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t:
⛵ The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing:
Labrador: The Story of the World’s Favourite Dog by Ben Fogle ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random:
🔥 The Rules by Tracy Darnton ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 49. A DNF book from your TBR list:
The Black God's Drums by P. Djeli Clark ⭐⭐⭐

✔ 50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library):
🕊 The Rookery by Deborah Hewitt ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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message 5: by Ellie (last edited Sep 06, 2021 06:10AM) (new)

Oct 23, 2020 02:01AM

Book Riot Read Not Much Harder

✔ 1. a book you’ve been intimidated to read:
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 2. a nonfiction book about anti-racism:
✊🏾 Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 3. a non-European novel in translation:
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura ⭐⭐⭐⭐

4. an LGBTQ+ history book

✔ 5. a genre novel by an Indigenous, First Nations, or Native American author:
🌑🌈 Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

6. a fanfic

✔ 7. a fat-positive romance:
🐶 Rescue Me by Sarra Manning ⭐⭐⭐⭐

8. a romance by a trans or nonbinary author
9. a middle grade mystery
10. an SFF anthology edited by a person of color
11. a food memoir by an author of color
12. a work of investigative nonfiction by an author of color

✔ 13. a book with a cover you don’t like:
🚪 Lock Every Door by Riley Sager ⭐⭐⭐⭐

14. a realistic YA book not set in the U.S., UK, or Canada
15. a memoir by a Latinx author
16. an own voices book about disability

✔ 17. an own voices YA book with a Black main character that isn’t about Black pain:
👑✊🏾 You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

18. a book by/about a non-Western world leader

✔ 19. a historical fiction with a POC or LGBTQ+ protagonist:
🌈 Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Melinda Lo ⭐⭐⭐⭐

20. a book of nature poems
21. a children’s book that centers a disabled character but not their disability
22. a book set in the Midwest

✔ 23. a book that demystifies a common mental illness:
👻 The Sad Ghost Club by Lize Meddings ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ 24. a book featuring a beloved pet where the pet doesn’t die:
🌲 A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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message 6: by Ellie (last edited Aug 19, 2021 03:20AM) (new)

Oct 23, 2020 02:01AM

Rainbow Cover Collage