Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

♦️= Round 1
🔹= Round 2 Completed January 20, 2023

Welcome to Winter
ATYWinter Reading Challenge
December 1, 2022 through February 28, 2023.

DECEMBER Prompts

✅1. Winter
a. Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in WINTER
♦️The Winners by Fredrik Backman
🔹A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher

✅2. December birthdays: Jane Austen
a. Read a book written by a female author.
♦️Search by Michelle Huneven
🔹Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

✅3. The Holidays
a. Read a book related to a holiday that happens in December.
♦️ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - Christmas
🔹 Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah -Nobel Prize day

✅4. Winter sports: yukigassen
a. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in YUKIGASSEN.
♦️Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert - EK
🔹Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Guilia Enders

JANUARY Prompts
✅1. Happy New Year!
a. Read a book by an author who is new to you.
♦️The Water Keeper by Charles Martin
🔹Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke

✅2. January birthdays: Haruki Murakami
c. Read a magical realism novel.
♦️One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
🔹The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

✅3. New Year Resolutions
b. Read a book that looks into the past or future
♦️ Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
🔹The Hound of the Baskervilles
c. New Year’s resolution (weight loss)
🔹Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting by Gin Stephens

✅4. Winter sports: bobsleigh
a. Read a book set mostly in a location that begins with a letter in SWITZERLAND.
♦️Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith OBrien – Niagara Falls, New York
🔹The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh – Sundarbans, India

FEBRUARY prompts

✅1. Valentine’s Day
b. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in VALENTINE’S DAY.
♦️Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
🔹-Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

✅2. February birthdays: Laura Ingalls Wilder
c. Read a coming of age story.
♦️Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
🔹Abigail by Magda Szabo

✅3. Winter sports: Ski jumping
a. Read a book that is at least 253 pages long.
♦️When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich
🔹Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It

✅4. The Shortest Month of the Year
a. Read a literary fiction novel.
♦️Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
🔹The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
🔹The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson


Welcome to Winter

DECEMBER 2022

Read in December:
✔️The Winners by FB -- Dec 1a, 4c
✔️Search by Michelle Huneven - MH - 2a
✔️One Hundred Years of Solitude by GGM -2a
✔️The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh - AG
✔️The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka-JO
✔️The Hangman by Louise Penny-LP
✔️A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens-CD
✔️When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich - WB

Read in January 2023
✔️Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman - BB
✔️Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro - DS
✔️A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher - TK
✔️Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting - GS
✔️Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor - JT
✔️Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet LM
✔️Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe Keith OBrien - KO
✔️The Water Keeper by Charles Martin - CM
✔️Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
✔️Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ Guilia Enders GE
✔️Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery LM
✔️Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah - AG
✔️Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert - EK
✔️The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane be Kate DiCamillo - KD
✔️Abigail by Magda Szabo - MS
✔️Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie KS
✔️Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke
✔️The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
✔️The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson

Read in December 2022:
✔️The Winners by FB -- Dec 1a, 4c
✔️Search by Michelle Huneven - MH - 2a
✔️One Hundred Years of Solitude by GGM -2a
✔️The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh - AG
✔️The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka-JO
✔️The Hangman by Louise Penny-LP
✔️A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens-CD
✔️When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich - WB

Read in January 2023
✔️Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman - BB
✔️Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro - DS
✔️A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher - TK
✔️Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting - GS
✔️Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor - JT
✔️Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet LM
✔️Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe Keith OBrien - KO
✔️The Water Keeper by Charles Martin - CM
✔️Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
✔️Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ Guilia Enders GE
✔️Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery LM
✔️Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah - AG
✔️Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert - EK
✔️The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane be Kate DiCamillo - KD
✔️Abigail by Magda Szabo - MS
✔️Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie KS
✔️Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke
✔️The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
✔️The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
✔️With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Alcevedo