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Stephanie | 93 comments 1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y - Demon Copperhead
✅2. A book by an author you read in 2022 - The Silent Wife
✅3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
✅4. A book with an interracial relationship - Pineapple Street
5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover

6. A book where books are important - The Midnight Library
✅7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title - Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
8. An author's debut book - The Paper Palace
✅9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W - Hamnet

✅10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" - Carrie Soto Is Back
✅11. A book about a person/character with a disability - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies - The Thorn Birds
13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover - The Latecomer

✅14. A book with a con, deception, or fake - Counterfeit
✅15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1 - The Last Kingdom
16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2 - Bring Up the Bodies
17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3

18. A book related to science - Project Hail Mary
✅19. A book related to the arts - Groupies
✅20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel - We Begin at the End
✅21. A book by an Asian diaspora author - The Remains of the Day
22. A book with a faceless person on the cover

✅23. A book with a body of water in the title - Sea Wife
✅24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy - Descent
25. A book with a tropical setting
✅26. A book related to pride - Perfect on Paper

✅27. A book by an author from continental Europe - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
✅28. A book that is dark - Dark Matter
29. A book that is light - The Light We Lost
✅30. A book related to a chess piece - The Inheritance Games
✅31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com I Have Some Questions for You

✅32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature - Beautiful World, Where Are You
33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923 - The Signature of All Things
✅34. A novella - The List of Things That Will Not Change
✅35. A book with a school subject in the title - Lessons in Chemistry

✅36. A book that has been translated from another language - Beartown
✅37. A book with the theme of returning home - Home Before Dark
38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover - Sea of Tranquility
39. A western - Where the Lost Wander

✅40. A book with a full name in the title - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists - Black Cake
42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter - The Sun Down Motel
✅43. A book that involves a murder - The Maid
✅44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal - It Happened One Summer

✅45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books - Writers & Lovers
46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe - The Measure
✅47. A book related to a geometric shape - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
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 - The Woman in the Library
50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt - The Love Hypothesis
✅51. A book published in 2023 - The Golden Spoon
✅52. A book with an unusual or surprising title - The Guncle


message 2: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 93 comments January Books

The Silent Wife (Will Trent, #10) by Karin Slaughter ★★★★★
The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead (a young adult book, not a novella) ★★★★
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus ★★★★★
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★
It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters, #1) by Tessa Bailey ★★★★
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill ★★★


message 3: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 93 comments February Books

Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen ★★★
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1) by Bernard Cornwell ★★★★


message 4: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 93 comments March Books

The Maid by Nita Prose ★★★
Writers & Lovers by Lily King ★★★★
Descent by Tim Johnston ★★★★


message 5: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 93 comments April Books

Groupies by Sarah Priscus ★★
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker ★★★


message 6: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 93 comments May Books

The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell ★★★
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson ★★★
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai ★★★★★
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ★★★★★


message 7: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 93 comments June Books

I have hit the halfway point exactly. 26 books down, 26 to go. Catching up with summer reading before school starts back up in August!

Halfway point favorite books: The Remains of the Day, I Have Some Questions For You, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, The Silent Wife, Lessons in Chemistry

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney ★★★
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna ★★★★
Sea Wife by Amity Gaige ★★★★
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★
Talking to Strangers What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell ★★★★
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch ★★★
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes ★★★
Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales ★★★
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★★


message 8: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 93 comments July Books

The Guncle by Steven Rowley ★★★
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager ★★★
Empire of Pain The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe ★★★★★
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell ★★★★★


message 9: by Stephanie (new)

Stephanie | 93 comments August Books

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb ★★★★★
Beartown (Beartown, #1) by Fredrik Backman ★★★★


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