Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

2021 was a good reading year overall, but marred by books I had high expectations for that we not as good as the previous books in the series. For the second half of the year I didn't add any new books to my favourites list which is a very long drought.

Hoping to get back into the groove with the top books from my TBR.

ATY Progress

THE 2022 LIST
✅1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y The Cage
✅2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021 The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.
✅ 3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art
✅4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list -BBB- House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed
✅5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name Heretics: Adventures With The Enemies Of Science

✅ 6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover The Open Sea: The World of Plankton
✅7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind Chatter: The Voice in Our Head and How to Harness It
✅8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1 Doing Time
✅ 9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2 Mastermind

✅10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3 Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
✅11. A book from historical fiction genre To Steal a Heart
✅12. A book related to glass The Assassin's Blade
✅13. A book about a woman in STEM The Love Hypothesis

✅14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads Kickin' It
✅15. A book without a person on the cover Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend
✅16. A book related to Earth Day A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
✅ 17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge Anxious People

✅18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author Sorrow and Bliss
✅19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history Why Is Nothing Ever Simple?
✅20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Churchill's Mavericks: Plotting Hitler's Defeat
✅21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
✅22. A book with a Jewish character or author The Trial

✅23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship The Heritage of Hastur
✅24. A book related to inclement weather Tornado: In the Eye of the Storm
✅25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages The Measure of a Man
✅26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1 The Raven Spell

✅27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2 A Raven's Heart
✅28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards We Begin at the End
✅29. A book set on or near a body of water Meet Me in Hawaii
✅30. A book related to mythology The Labours of Hercules

✅31. A book published at least 10 years ago Orthodoxy
✅32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer Hard Time
✅33. The next book in a series Exposed
✅34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role Plan for the Worst
✅ 35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1 The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle

✅36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2 Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog
✅37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name Butter: Comforting, Delicious, Versatile - Over 130 Recipes Celebrating Butter
✅38. A book by a Latin American author Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
✅39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time Dumplin'

✅40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards Glimmer of Death
✅41. A book with a theme of food or drink One: Pot, Pan, Planet
✅42. A book with a language or nationality in the title Lost City of the Incas
✅43. A book set in a small town or rural area Diddly Squat
✅44. A book with gothic elements The Ordeal of the Haunted Room

✅45. A book related to a game Hitting Against the Spin: How Cricket Really Works
✅46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters Dinosaur Therapy
✅47. A book with handwriting on the cover The Hollow
✅48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022 Red, White & Royal Blue

✅49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons" Knight Ascending
✅50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years The Switch
✅51. A book published in 2022 Knight Forsaken
✅52. A book with a time-related word in the title Midnight Moon

Other Challenges and links

Personal Challenge: 767/767

Challenge for 200 - 200/200 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Bookworms take a Shelfie 100/100 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Polar Bears & Penguins - 34/34 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hindsight is 2022 - 70/70 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
ATY 52/52
Zodiac 12/12
Touring England 52/52
Continents 35/35
Centuries 11/11
Extraordinary People 10/10
Frauds & Cads 10/10
Give us a Clue: 40/40 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Genre Bingo: 25/25 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
TBR Challenge: 50/50 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Colour Challenge: 18/18 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Magical Mystery: 48/48 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

ATY 2021: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Non Fiction

Fiction

TBR Update

31st Dec 2021 sit rep - Not that bad - had hit prior year KIM target and fairly close on WTR (220 aim), New Target 200 WTR, 150 KIM.

YEAR-----WTR------KIM----- Target WTR----- Target KIM
2016 ----- 0 ----- --8 ----- ----- 0✅ --- ---- 5
2017 ----- 6------- 55--- ----- 5 ----- ----- 45
2018 ----- 18 ----- 35----- --- 10 ----- ----- 30
2019 ----- 49----- 30----- ---- 25- ---- ----- 25
2020 ----- 79----- 35----- --- 40- ---- ----- 30
2021 ----- 92----- 1----- ----- 50 ----- ----- 10
2022 ------0 ----- 0----------- 70 ----- -- 5
Total ----- 245----- 165----- 200 ----- ----150

31 Dec 2022 - largely did it - got below the 350 and even a bit of a stretch
YEAR-----WTR------KIM----- Target WTR----- Target KIM
2016 ----- 0 ----- --2 ----- ----- 0 ✅--- ---- 5 ✅
2017 ----- 8------- 39--- ----- 10 ✅----- ----- 45 ✅
2018 ----- 14 ----- 23----- --- 15 -✅---- ----- 25✅
2019 ----- 31----- 29----- ---- 35-✅ ---- ----- 30 ✅
2020 ----- 39----- 33----- --- 40-✅ ---- ----- 35✅
2021 ----- 26----- 13----- ----- 30 ✅----- ----- 15 ✅
2022 ------55 -----16---------- 45 ✅-- ----- -- 20 ✅
Total ----- 173----- 155----- 175 ✅----- ----175 ✅

Zodiac------- ✅12/12

✅Capricorn Hard Time - name of pod
✅Aquarius Meet Me in Hawaii - female surfer
✅ Pisces The Open Sea: The World of Plankton - Pelagic fish
✅Aries Diddly Squat - sheep farming
✅Taurus House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed - Leather
✅ Gemini The Raven Spell - Twin witches
✅ Cancer Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog - die of cancer
✅ Leo The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle - big cats
✅Virgo Dumplin' - Teenage obsession over virginity
✅Libra The Trial - Working of justice
✅Scorpio They Both Die at the End- character called Scorpius
✅Sagittarius Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World

Through the Centuries

Try to read one per century

10__ _10_ _20_ _30_ _40_ _70_ _80_
11__ _00_ _10_ _30_ _40_ _60_ _70_ _80__90_
12__ _00_ _20_ _50_ _70_ _80__90_
13__ _00_ _30_ _40_ _50_ _60_ _70_ _80__90_
14__ _00_ _10_ _20_ _30_ _40_ _50_ _70_ _90_
15__ _00_ _10_ _30_ _50_ _60_ _70_ _80__90_
16__ _10_ _20_ _30_ _40_ _50_ _70_ _80__90_
17__ _00_ _10_ _20_ _30_ _40_ _50_ _70_ _80__90_
18__ _00_ _50_ _60_ _70_
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2021 - 37/103
2020 - 39/103

Touring England

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2021: 40/52

Visit the Continents & all the states

35/35







Americas
------BC----ALB---- --QUE
---------- -ND- -VT-
------------- OR- --SD--IA -- --CT--MA
------- ---WY- --DE-- ---RI-
--------------- --UT----CO---KS---MS -KY---WV -
--------------- ---AZ- -OK--LA---AR-- --NC
------------------------------ -----------MI---AL ---GA ---- SC
-------------------------------- -----------------------
-------------------------------- -MEX ------------CUB
-----------------------------------MEX- -----------
--------------------------------------- -------------------BAR
-----------------------------------------COS/PAN--------------T&T
---------------------------------------COL---------VEN---GUY--SUR
---------------------------------------EC --
----------------------------------------------PA-------UR
----------------------------------------------CH-----AR


Europe
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---- -- ---------NED-------- ----------
------------------------ --LAT---LIT
---------------------- - RUS
POR--- --AND---- --AUS---HUN---MOL-- - RUS
--- ----------MON--- ---SLO-----ROM----BUL
----------------MAL----- -------CRO---- ------------
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Frauds/Cads & Extraordinary People

Enjoy reading Memoir and True Crime in 2020 & 2021 - looking to read about the best and worst of humanity.

Extraordinary People 10/10
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Frauds & Cads 10/10
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Clean maps:
AK------BC----ALB----SAS----MAN---ONT---QUE
--------WA-----MT ---ND----MN ---MI --NY---VT----NH----ME
--------- OR---- ID------SD----IA ---WI-----OH--PA---CT----MA
HI-------CA3----WY------NB-------IL----IN--MD--- DE---NJ----RI-
----------CA ---NV ---UT----CO---KS---MS -----KY------WV ---VA
---------- CA2----AZ---NM----------OK---AR----TN -----NC
-------------------------------TX2------LA----MI---AL ---GA ---- SC
---------------------------------TX--------------------------FL
--------------------------------MEX--MEX ------------CUB
-----------------------------------MEX--GU------------JAM
---------------------------------------NIC/HON-------------------BAR
-----------------------------------------COS/PAN--------------T&T
---------------------------------------COL---------VEN---GUY--SUR
---------------------------------------EC ---PE----BO----BRA
----------------------------------------------PA-------UR
----------------------------------------------CH-----AR


--------SC----SC
---------SC----SC
---------CU---NO
----------WE----DU
NI-------LA---Y1---Y2
NI-------CH--DE--NT---LI1
-----WA1--SH--ST--LE--RUT--LI2----NOR
-----WA2--HE--WO--WK--NH--BD--CA--SU
------WA3--GL--OX--BU--HE--LON2--ES
----------- ST--WI--BK---SU--LON1
CO -DV- DT-HM-WS-ES-K

IC----------- ------------------------N-----SW-----FIN - RUS
------IR-- UK------NED----DEN-------EST - RUS
-----------------FR1-----BEL--GER1---POL---LAT---LIT - RUS
------SP1-------FR2----GER2 ----CZ--SLO----BEL - RUS
POR---SP2---AND----SWI---AUS---HUN---MOL---UKR - RUS
-----------------MON---ITA1---SLO-----ROM----BUL
----------------MAL-----ITA2--------CRO----SER--------------GEO
--------------------------------ITA3------ALB---GRE--------TUR

Remaining Tasks:
Total: 0/767
Challenge for 200 - 0/200
Touring England 0/52
TBR Challenge: 0/50
Magical Mystery: 0/48
Hindsight is 2022 - 0/70
Polar Bears & Penguins - 0/34
Frauds & Cads 0/10
Bookworms take a Shelfie 0/100
Continents 0/35
Extraordinary People 0/10
Centuries 0/11
ATY 0/52
Zodiac 0/12
Give us a Clue: 0/40
Genre Bingo: 0/25
Colour Challenge: 0/18