Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

2021 Cover Collage

2021 ATY

1. A book related to “In the Beginning...”
Serpent & Dove
The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night
2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Long Bright River
The Book of Longings
3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music
The Girl Who Chased the Moon
The Rose Garden
4. A book with a monochromatic cover
The Refugees
Darling Rose Gold
5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read
The Death of Vivek Oji
6. A love story
Love Story
7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list (GR 2020)
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited
The Girl with the Louding Voice
9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year
The Shadows
The Haunting of Brynn Wilder
10. A book with a female villain or criminal
The Last Mrs. Parrish
The Corset
11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum
The Book of Two Ways
12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Convenience Store Woman
13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
14. A book set in a made-up place
Sawkill Girls
Black Rabbit Hall
15. A book that features siblings as the main characters
The Vanishing Half
16. A book with a building in the title
The Sun Down Motel
The House in the Cerulean Sea
17. A book with a Muslim character or author
Ayesha at Last
Amina's Voice
The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
18. 3 books related to "Past"- Book 1
This Tender Land
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
19. 3 books related to "Present" - Book 2
How to Stop Time
20. 3 books related to "Future" - Book 3
The Book of M
In Five Years
20A. 3 books related to "Many Timelines" -Book 3
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
The Future of Another Timeline
21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u"
The Mountains Sing
Columbine
22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads
Anxious People
The Great Believers
23. A cross genre novel
Mexican Gothic
24. A book about racism or race relations
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
How to Be an Antiracist
25. A book set on an island
The Glass Hotel

2021 ATY


26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author
Follow Me to Ground
27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards
The Queen of Hearts
Queenie
28. A book connected to ice
Disappearing Earth
The Hunting Party
29. A book that you consider comfort reading
Christy
30. A long book
Imaginary Friend
31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years
The Story of Arthur Truluv
32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people
The Nix
33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry
Thick: And Other Essays
home body
F*ckface: and Other Stories
34. A book with a travel theme
Gods of Jade and Shadow
35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer
Rosewater
Boy Swallows Universe
36. A book with six or more words in the title
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Salt Houses
In the Shadow of the Banyan
38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator
(orange, library, map, disease)
Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1
Out of Orange
The Midnight Library
A Map of Days
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
39. A book involving an immigrant
Transcendent Kingdom
American Dirt
Lost Children Archive
40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover
Heart Bones
41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author
Woven in Moonlight
An Unkindness of Ghosts
42. A mystery or thriller
Our House
The Guest List
Girls of Brackenhill
43. A book with elements of magic
A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Deadly Education
The Sugar Queen
44. A book whose title contains a negative
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
The Echo Wife
Some Choose Darkness
The Suicide House
46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards
TBD
47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?”
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
49. A book with an ensemble cast
The Ensemble
Chain of Gold
50. A book published in 2021
Concrete Rose
51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Cruel Prince
52. A book related to "the end"
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

2021 PopSugar

2021 Book Riot

2021 Reading Women