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Lexi’s 2021 ATY Challenge (first time participating!)
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January:✔️That you consider a comfort read: Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire 5🌟
I will be doing the prompts out of order for a bit because of the TBR I have already planned for myself, which also means some of these might change based on some of those reads so I can feel more accomplished sooner haha! A lot of these will be newer/not owned books because of the lack of diversity I have and my excitement for this years releases; those will have ** on the side. Some I plan to buy, to support these authors, others I will be supporting my library.
1. Related to “In the Beginning”: Before the Fallout by Diana Preston**
2. By an author whose name doesn’t contain the letters A, T, or Y: Red Rising by Pierce Brown
3. Related to the lyrics for the song ‘My Favorite Things’ from The Sound of Music: Mystic Dragon by Jason Denzel (one of my fav things is dragons!)
4. With a monochromatic cover: Lore by Alexandra Bracken
5. By an author on USA Today’s list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read: One Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jamison or Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
6. This is a love story: A Pho Love Story by **
7. That fits a prompt suggestion that didn’t make the final list: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
8. Set in a state, province, or country you have never visited: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas**
9. You associate with a specific season or time of year: ((I’ll probably go for a summer romance closer to that time of year))
10. To celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum: When Women Ruled the World
11. With a female villain or criminal: The Reckless Oaths We Made by Bryan Greenwood
12. Eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation: this might be too far out of my comfort zone; I’ll keep looking though the lists.,
13. Written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020: I bought SEVERAL books from Matt Haig after reading The Midnight Library, so I’ll choose one; most likely The Humans or Notes from an Anxious Planet.
14. Set in a made-up place: An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
15. That features siblings as the main characters: The Thirteenth Tale by Diana Setterfield
16. With a building in the title: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
17. With a Muslim character or author: Saints & Misfits by SK Ali
18-20. Related to Past, Present and Future: How To Stop Time by Matt Haig (combining all three)
21. Whose title and author both contain the letter ‘u’: Persuasion by Jane Austen
22. Posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads: Circe by Madeline Miller
23. That is a cross genre novel: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
24. About racism or race relations: A Song Below Water by Bethany C Marrow
25. Set on an island: Sawkill Girls by Claire LeGrand or possible Lord of the Flies by William Golding
26. That is short by a new-to-you author: 84, Charring Cross Road by Helene Hanff**
27. With a character who can be found in a deck of cards: The Wicked King by Holly Black
28. Connected to ice: Winter Glass by Lexa Hillyer
29. That you consider comfort reading: Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
30. That is long: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
31. By an author whose career spanned more than 21 years: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
32. Whose cover shows more than two people: Opposite of Always by Justin A Reynolds
33. That is a collection of short stories, essays, or poetry: I have a few to choose from at home, but I might pick up something by Roxanne Gay
34. With a travel theme: A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
35. Set on or below the Tropic of Cancer: The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri**
36. With 6+ words in the title: We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon**
37. From the “Are You Well Read in Literature” List: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez**
38. Related to a word given by a random word generator: ((meaning)) The Spider and The Fly by Claudia Rowe (sub title has meaning in the title, and has terrible goodreads rating)
39. Involving an immigrant: American Street by Ibi Zoboi**
40. With flowers or greenery on the cover: Jane in Love by Rachel Givney
41. By a “new to you” BIPOC: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
42. That is a mystery or thriller: possible wild card; I don’t read these, ever.
43. With elements of magic: City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte
44. Whose title contains a negative: The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
45. Related to a code word from the NATO phonetic alphabet: Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado**
46. That is a winner/nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards: Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
47. That is nonfiction—other than biography, auto-biography, or memoir: Spineless by Juli Berwald
48. That might cause someone to react “You’re reading what?!”: In the Viscount’s Arms by Allyson Jeleyne (never touched an historical steamy romance)
49. With an ensemble cast: China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
50. Published in 2021: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo**
51. Whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name: Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss
52. Related to “The End”: Until the End of Time by Brian Greene