Around the Year in 52 Books discussion
Around the Year in 52 Books
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Conventionally Yours (other topics)River Sing Me Home (other topics)
The Wilderwomen (other topics)
The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done (other topics)
Book of Night (other topics)
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1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Ninth House
Midnight at the Blackbird Café
A Thousand Ships
Payback's a Witch
✅Tower of Dawn⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. A book by an author you read in 2022
Frostsight
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
Yours Truly
Happy Place
✅Crown of Midnight⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list
Author no more than 2 degrees separation:
Firesight
Frostsight
Book with yellow on the cover:
✅The Measure⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. A book with an interracial relationship
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
The Charm Offensive
You Should See Me in a Crown
Honey Girl
Firekeeper's Daughter
If I Never Met You
✅Twisted Hate⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
True Biz
Black Cake
The Startup Wife
Lessons in Chemistry
Happy Place
Room
The Sentence
The Last Cuentista
Before I Let Go
The Family Game
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
✅Empire of Storms⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
6. A book where books are important
The Book Thief
The Starless Sea
The Reading List
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Book of Lost Names
The Paris Library
The Last Chance Library
The Sentence
✅The Twyford Code⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title
✅The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done⭐️⭐️⭐️
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Clap When You Land
What If It's Us
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
8. An author's debut book
The Martian
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Build Your House Around My Body
Nightcrawling
Red Queen
✅Throne of Glass⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
✅The Sentence⭐️⭐️⭐️
10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
Carrie Soto Is Back
Nettle & Bone
Before I Let Go
✅Twisted Games⭐⭐⭐⭐
11. A book about a person/character with a disability
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
I Know This Much Is True
✅Icebreaker⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
The Knockout Queen
✅Rabbit Cake⭐️⭐️⭐️
13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
One Two Three
Firekeeper's Daughter
Upgrade
Beach Trip
The Last Chance Library
The Paid Bridesmaid
The Family Game
✅The Rewind⭐️⭐️
14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
Boyfriend Material
A Darker Shade of Magic
The Ex Talk
If I Never Met You
A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon
Code Name Hélène
The Family Game
✅Twisted Love⭐️⭐️⭐️
15-17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century
Pre-19th century:
The Book of Longings
20th century:
The Paris Bookseller
The Pull of the Stars
Sea of Tranquility
Code Name Hélène
The Nature of Fragile Things
✅Take My Hand⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
21st century:
Boyfriend Material
Husband Material
American Royals
The Soulmate Equation
The Sentence
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Before I Let Go
The Family Game
✅The Other Black Girl⭐️⭐️⭐️
Futuristic:
✅The Last Cuentista⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
18. A book related to science
Lessons in Chemistry
The Soulmate Equation
The Kiss Quotient
✅Upgrade⭐️⭐️⭐️
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
19. A book related to the arts
The Unsinkable Greta James
✅Again, but Better⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
A River Enchanted
Meant to Be Mine
✅Code Name Hélène⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Nature of Fragile Things
21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
Little Fires Everywhere
The Kite Runner
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
✅ Homicide and Halo-Halo⭐️⭐️⭐️
22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
(Literally any WW2 book ever)
Code Name Hélène
The Nature of Fragile Things
✅The Forest of Vanishing Stars⭐️⭐️⭐️
23. A book with a body of water in the title
✅Sea of Tranquility⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A River Enchanted
24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
(Literally any WW2 book ever)
Code Name Hélène
✅Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match⭐️⭐️⭐️
25. A book with a tropical setting
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Clap When You Land
Next Year in Havana
✅River Sing Me Home⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
26. A book related to pride
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
✅Conventionally Yours⭐️⭐️⭐️
27. A book by an author from continental Europe
Beartown
✅Britt-Marie Was Here⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
28. A book that is dark
The Book Thief
Shadow and Bone
A Darker Shade of Magic
The Family Game
✅The Awakening⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Nature of Fragile Things
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
29. A book that is light
✅A Not So Meet Cute⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
30. A book related to a chess piece
American Royals
Red Queen (or any of the series)
✅Queen of Shadows⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com
✅The Soulmate Equation⭐️⭐️⭐️
32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
✅The Ex Talk⭐️⭐️⭐️
Weather Girl
33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Kiss Quotient
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
The Family Game
✅Twisted Lies⭐️⭐️⭐️
34. A novella
✅The Assassin's Blade⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
35. A book with a school subject in the title
✅Lessons in Chemistry⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
36. A book that has been translated from another language
Beartown
Us Against You
The Winners
✅My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
37. A book with the theme of returning home
(Literally any WW2 book ever.)
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
✅Sharp Objects⭐️⭐️
38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
Cemetery Boys
The Book of Longings
How High We Go in the Dark
The Last Cuentista
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
✅The Book of Longings⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
39. A western
Outlawed
40. A book with a full name in the title
✅Carrie Soto Is Back⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Evvie Drake Starts Over
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
✅Black Cake⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spinning Silver
Nightcrawling
Before I Let You Go
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
The No-Show
Sea of Tranquility
True Biz
Lessons in Chemistry
The School for Good Mothers
An Arrow to the Moon
Thank You for Listening
Nettle & Bone
Thistlefoot
Carrie Soto Is Back
42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
Cemetery Boys
The Bear and the Nightingale
The Sentence
✅Book of Night⭐⭐⭐
43. A book that involves a murder
(Probably any thriller)
The Sentence
✅The Appeal⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal
Thank You for Listening
Evvie Drake Starts Over
The Family Game
✅The Wilderwomen⭐️⭐️
45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
Upgrade
Happy Place
11/22/63
The Nature of Fragile Things
✅Heir of Fire⭐⭐⭐⭐
46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
✅A Curse of Shadows and Ice⭐️⭐️⭐️
Honey Girl
The Bone Season
Homicide and Halo-Halo
47. A book related to a geometric shape
Red Clocks
How High We Go in the Dark
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
The Sentence
✅Fairy Tale⭐⭐
48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
✅Remarkably Bright Creatures⭐⭐⭐⭐
49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
Clap When You Land
The Witch's Heart
The Dictionary of Lost Words
✅The Family Game⭐️⭐️
50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
(A book by an author you read in 2022)
✅Kingdom of Ash⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
51. A book published in 2023
✅Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
52. A book with an unusual or surprising title
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
✅Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma