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Gośka A | 26 comments My first reading plan for this year is here :)

1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y ✘
The Island of Missing Trees
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021 ✘
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn

3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
BOOKER/WPF
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
A book you meant to read in 2021
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name
WPF/BOOKER

Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney

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6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
Cukry - Dorota Kotas

8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1
BOOKER/WPF?
I. Antarctica - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2
BOOKER/WPF?
II. Australia - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

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10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3
BOOKER/WPF?
III. Africa - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
OR
III. South America - Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis

11. A book from historical fiction genre ✘
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

12. A book related to glass
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

13. A book about a woman in STEM
In the Shadow of Man - Jade Goodall

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14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads ✘
WPF
Careless
Careless by Kirsty Capes

15. A book without a person on the cover
BOOKER/WPF


16. A book related to Earth Day
Sekretne życie drzew - Peter Wohlleben

17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

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18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
The Bone People by Keri Hulme

19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history ✘ by Matt Haig
The Midnight Library
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951
BOOKER/WPF
Pachinko - by Min Jin Lee

21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
CHACO - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed 

22. A book with a Jewish character or author
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

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23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship ✘
All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture by Daisy Jones
All The Things She Said Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture by Daisy Jones

24. A book related to inclement weather
The Guest List - Lucy Foley

25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
BOOKER/WPF

26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1 ✘
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

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27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2
I. BOOKER/WPF

28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards
BOOKER/WPF

29. A book set on or near a body of water ✘
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

30. A book related to mythology
Watership Down - Richard Adams

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31. A book published at least 10 years ago
ANY I have

32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer
Granice szaleństwa - Alex Kava


33. The next book in a series
Ali Smith? Galbraith? Mróz? Krajewski? Miłoszewski? G.R.R.Martin

34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1
Ostatni - Maja Lunde

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36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
II. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse - Dave Gulson

37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
BOOKER/WPF

38. A book by a Latin American author
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado Perez

39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
Not doing it
BOOKER/WPF

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40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi

41. A book with a theme of food or drink
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxanne Gay

42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - by Robert Kolker

43. A book set in a small town or rural area ✘
Billy Summers by Stephen King
Billy Summers by Stephen King

44. A book with gothic elements
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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45. A book related to a game
Beartown
Beartown (Beartown, #1) by Fredrik Backman

46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
Mort (Discworld 4) - Terry Pratchett

47. A book with handwriting on the cover
BOOKER/WPF
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman

48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons”
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World - by Stephen Brusatte

50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years ✘
Nomadland. W drodze za pracą
Nomadland. W drodze za pracą by Jessica Bruder

51. A book published in 2022 ✘
To Paradise
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

52. A book with a time-related word in the title ✘
A Long Walk to Freedom: 1918-1962: Early Years, 1918-1962 v. 1
A Long Walk to Freedom 1918-1962 Early Years, 1918-1962 v. 1 by Nelson Mandela



ALSO CONSIDERING FOR THIS YEAR

Anna Karenina
Stulecie chirurgów
Bieguni
On Beauty
The Argonauts
Prawiek i inne czasy
Knowing the Score
21 Lessons
Voices from Chernobyl
I’m Just a Person
Choroba jako metafora. AIDS.
Who They Was
The Invention of Wings
If It Bleeds (Outsider II)
Cow Girl
Duma Key - Stephen King
Moje córki krowy by Kinga Dębska
Women, Race & Class - Angela Davis
The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich


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