Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Really chuffed to have completed the 2020 challenge as the most I’ve ever read in a year before is 50... I normally average around 30 🙈 I’ve loved it and can’t wait to get cracking on next year’s. I’ve included my list below in the hope it might provide some options for anyone interested with prompts to go 👌



1. A Book With A Title That Doesn’t Contain The Letters A, T Or Y Queenie
2. A Book By An Author Whose Last Name Is One Syllable Such a Fun Age
3. A Book That You Are Prompted To Read Because Of Something You Read In 2019 False Value
4. A Book Set In A Place Or Time That You Wouldn’t Want To Live (Panem) The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
5. The First Book In A Series That You Have Not Started The Bear and the Nightingale
6. A Book With A Mode Of Transportation On The Cover A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
7. A Book Set In The Southern Hemisphere The Rosie Project
8. A Book With A Two-Word Title Where The First Word Is “The” The Shelf
9. A Book That Can Be Read In A Day The Guest Cat
10. A Book That Is Between 400-600 Pages All the Light We Cannot See
11. A Book Originally Published In A Year That Is A Prime Number (2017) The Gender Fall
12. A Book That Is A Collaboration Between 2 Or More People The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
13. A Prompt From A Previous ATY Challenge: 2019 “A Book Featuring Indigenous People Of A Country” Disappearing Earth
14. A Book By An Author On The ABE List Of 100 Essential Female Writers Little Fires Everywhere
15. A Book Set In A Global City (London) On the Line: Life – and Death – in the Metropolitan Police
16. A Book Set In A Rural Or Sparsely Populated Area Where the Crawdads Sing
17. A Book With A Neurodiverse Character The Kiss Quotient
18. A Book By An Author You’ve Only Read Once Before The Gender Secret
19. A Fantasy Book The Girl in The Tower
20. The 20th Book “You Read In 2020” A Thousand Splendid Suns
21. A Book Related To Maximilian Hell (Maximilian De Winter) Rebecca
22. A Book With The Major Theme Of Survival Night
23. A Book Featuring An LGBTQIA+ Character The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
24. A Book With An Emotion In The Title The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
25. A Book Related To The Arts Made In Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
26. A Book From The 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards (Best Fiction Nominee) Normal People
27. A History Or Historical Fiction The Nightingale
28. A Book By An Australian, Canadian Or New Zealand Author The Glass Hotel
29. An Underrated Book, A Hidden Gem Or A Lesser Known Book Hashim & Family
30. A Book From The New York Times '100 Notable Books' List For Any Year (2016) The Underground Railroad
31. A Book Inspired By A Leading News Story (Siege Of Sarajevo) Rose of Sarajevo
32. A Book Related To The 2020 Olympic Summer Games In Japan The Travelling Cat Chronicles
33. A Book About A Non-Traditional Family Case Histories
34. A Book From A Genre Or Sub-Genre That Starts With A Letter From Your Name “G” (Gothic) Northanger Abbey
35. A Book With A Geometric Pattern Or Element On The Cover American Dirt
36. A Book From Your TBR That You Don’t Recognise, Recall Putting There, Or Put There On A Whim The Rearranged Life of Oona Lockhart
37. Two Book That Are Related To Each Other As A Pair Of Binary Opposites #1 (First In Series) The Gender Game
38. Two Book That Are Related To Each Other As A Pair Of Binary Opposites #2 (Last In Series) The Gender End
39. A Book By An Author Whose Real Name(s) You’re Not Quite Sure How To Pronounce Celestial Bodies
40. A Book With A Place Name In The Title The Nickel Boys
41. A Mystery The Lovely Bones
42. A Book That Was Nominated For One Of The ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes In The World’ (1995 Whitbread Prize) Behind the Scenes at the Museum
43. A Book Related To One Of The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (War) The Gender War
44. A Book Related To Witches The Winter of the Witch
45. A Book By The Same Author Who Wrote One Of Your Best Reads In 2019 Or 2018 Us Three
46. A Book About An Event Or Era In History Taken From The Billy Joel Song "We Didn't Start the Fire" (Russians In Afghanistan) The Kite Runner
47. A Classic Book You’ve Always Meant To Read The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
48. A Book Published In 2020 The Thursday Murder Club
49. A Book That Fits A Prompt From The List Of Suggestions That Didn’t Win: A Book Set On An Island The Guest List
50. A Book With A Silhouette On The Cover The Places I've Cried in Public
51. A Book With An “-Ing” Word In The Title Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
52. A Book Related To Time Kindred

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