Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Challenge Topics Completed: 52/52
Challenge topics doubled: 19/52

➜ = Reading
✔ = Finished

✔ 1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y (Texas, Atlanta)
Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews ✮✮✮✮
Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews ✮✮✮✮

✔ 2. A book by an author you read in 2022
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells ✮✮✮✮✮
Only Bad Options by Jennifer Estep ✮✮✮

✔ 3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list (Goodreads Choice Awards 2022)
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree ✮✮✮✮✮
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik ✮✮✮✮✮

✔ 4. A book with an interracial relationship
Vanity and Vampyres by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮✮
Forrest for the Trees by Kilby Blades ✮✮✮

✔ 5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
Journey's Eve by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮

✔ 6. A book where books are important
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman ✮✮✮✮
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel ✮✮✮✮

✔ 7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple ✮✮✮✮

✔ 8. An author's debut book
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman ✮✮✮✮✮

✔ 9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W: Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2023)
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes ✮✮✮✮

✔ 10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"(sporty, scary)
Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs ✮✮✮
Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews ✮✮✮✮

✔ 11. A book about a person/character with a disability
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro ✮✮✮✮✮
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea ✮✮✮

✔ 12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher✮✮✮✮

✔ 13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
Gossip and Gorgons by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮✮

✔ 14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon ✮✮✮✮✮
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart ✮✮✮✮

✔ 15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1 (1816)
Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮✮

✔ 16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2 (circa 1960)
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven ✮✮✮✮

✔ 17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3 (2022)
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman ✮✮✮✮✮

✔ 18. A book related to science
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death by Michael Blastland ✮✮✮

✔ 19. A book related to the arts (actors)
Encore in Death by J.D. Robb ✮✮✮✮✮
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan ✮✮✮✮

✔ 20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells ✮✮✮✮✮
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis ✮✮✮✮

✔ 21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong ✮✮✮✮✮

✔ 22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
Sixpence and Selkies by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮

✔ 23. A book with a body of water in the title
River Marked by Patricia Briggs ✮✮✮✮
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett ✮✮✮✮✮

✔ 24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
Shadow on the Water by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮✮
Only Good Enemies Jennifer Estep ✮✮✮

✔ 25. A book with a tropical setting (Manaus, Brazil)
A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson ✮✮✮

✔ 26. A book related to pride
The Guncle by Steven Rowley ✮✮✮✮

✔ 27. A book by an author from continental Europe
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin ✮✮✮✮✮

✔ 28. A book that is dark
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley ✮✮✮✮

✔ 29. A book that is light
The Toy Sword by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮

✔ 30. A book related to a chess piece
Thud! by Terry Pratchett ✮✮✮✮✮
Witch King by Martha Wells ✮✮✮✮

✔ 31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com
Written in Red by Anne Bishop ✮✮✮✮✮
Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop ✮✮✮✮

✔ 32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature (Seattle)
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs ✮✮✮✮

✔ 33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
The Friendly Air by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮

✔ 34. A novella
One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky ✮✮✮✮✮
Magic Gifts by Ilona Andrews ✮✮✮✮

✔ 35. A book with a school subject in the title
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss✮✮✮✮

✔ 36. A book that has been translated from another language
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa ✮✮✮✮

✔ 37. A book with the theme of returning home
All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata ✮✮✮

✔ 38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
Hessians and Hellhounds by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮

✔ 39. A western
Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs ✮✮✮✮

✔ 40. A book with a full name in the title
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano ✮✮✮✮

✔ 41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley ✮✮✮✮

✔ 42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
Fair Game by Patricia Briggs ✮✮✮✮

✔ 43. A book that involves a murder
Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs ✮✮✮
Payback in Death by J.D. Robb ✮✮✮✮✮

✔ 44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal
The Corner Shop by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮
The Gentlemen Go By by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮

✔ 45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
Death Among Friends by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮

✔ 46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult ✮✮✮✮

✔ 47. A book related to a geometric shape
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy ✮✮✮✮✮

✔ 48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews ✮✮✮✮
Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews ✮✮✮✮

✔ 49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 (January 2022)
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells ✮✮✮✮✮

✔ 50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop ✮✮✮✮
Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop ✮✮✮✮

✔ 51. A book published in 2023
Magic Claims by Ilona Andrews ✮✮✮✮

✔ 52. A book with an unusual or surprising title
Galvanism and Ghouls by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮

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Options:

1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y ✔
Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews (Texas) ✔
Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs (Arizona) ✔
Thud! (Discworld #34) by Terry Pratchett (Ankh-Morpork) ✔
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult (Adams) ✔
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (Ankh-Morpork)
Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Angelfield, United Kingdom)
Circe by Madeline Miller (Aeaea)
The Switch by Beth O'Leary (Yorkshire)
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Tokyo)

2. A book by an author you read in 2022 ✔
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells ✔
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells ✔
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews ✔
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
Witch King by Martha Wells ✔
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs ✔
Fair Game by Patricia Briggs ✔
Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs ✔

3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list ✔
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Goodreads Choice Awards 2022) ✔
One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky (A character who time travels) ✔
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan (Goodreads Choice Awards 2022)
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (Goodreads Choice Awards 2022)

4. A book with an interracial relationship ✔
Vanity and Vampyres by Tilly Wallace ✔
Forrest for the Trees by Kilby Blades ✔
Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews ✔
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree ✔
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
Nation by Terry Pratchett

5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover ✔
Journey's Eve by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
The Toy Sword by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
The Guncle by Steven Rowley ✔
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree ✔
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano ✔
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan ✔
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult


6. A book where books are important ✔
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman ✔
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano ✔
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss ✔
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title ✔
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple ✔
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf
Where the Missing Go by Emma Rowley
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright

8. An author's debut book ✔
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman ✔
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree ✔
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Maid by Nita Prose
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Still Life by Louise Penny
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clar
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge

9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W ✔
Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2023):
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes ✔
World Fantasy Award:
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa ✔
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
City of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Shortlist (2022):
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" (Scary, Ginger, Posh, Sporty, and Baby) ✔
Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs ✔
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs ✔
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (posh)
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

11. A book about a person/character with a disability ✔
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro ✔
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
One Two Three by Laurie Frankel
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies ✔
Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher ✔
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong ✔
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult ✔
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover ✔
Gossip and Gorgons by Tilly Wallace ✔
Galvanism and Ghouls by Tilly Wallace ✔
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death by Michael Blastland ✔
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult ✔
Forrest for the Trees by Kilby Blades ✔
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
One Two Three by Laurie Frankel


14. A book with a con, deception, or fake ✔
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon ✔
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart ✔
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1 ✔
Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace (1816) ✔

16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2 ✔
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven (circa 1960) ✔

17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3 ✔
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (2022) ✔

18. A book related to science ✔
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death by Michael Blastland ✔
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong ✔
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams Matthew Walker

19. A book related to the arts ✔
Encore in Death by J.D. Robb ✔
Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs ✔
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan ✔
Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson


20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel ✔
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells ✔
Shadow on the Water by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
The Gentlemen Go By by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis ✔
Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
City of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf


21. A book by an Asian diaspora author ✔
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong ✔
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

22. A book with a faceless person on the cover ✔
Sixpence and Selkies by Tilly Wallace ✔
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells ✔
Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace ✔
Galvanism and Ghouls by Tilly Wallace ✔

23. A book with a body of water in the title ✔
River Marked by Patricia Briggs ✔
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy ✔
Shadow on the Water by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
Only Good Enemies Jennifer Estep ✔
City of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

25. A book with a tropical setting ✔
A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson ✔
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Nation by Terry Pratchett
A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint

26. A book related to pride ✔
The Guncle by Steven Rowley ✔
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree ✔
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult ✔
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

27. A book by an author from continental Europe ✔
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin ✔
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
Blindness by José Saramago

28. A book that is dark ✔
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley ✔
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes ✔
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Blindness by José Saramago
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

29. A book that is light ✔
The Toy Sword by Elizabeth Cadell ✔

30. A book related to a chess piece ✔
Thud! by Terry Pratchett ✔
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon ✔
Witch King by Martha Wells ✔
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach
Written in Red by Anne Bishop

31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com ✔
Ilona Andrews →
Written in Red by Anne Bishop ✔
Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh
Gabriel Garcia Marquez → Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature ✔
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs (Seattle) ✔
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (Seattle) ✔
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923 ✔
Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret, Betty, Ruth, Virginia, Mildred, Elisabeth, Frances
John, William, Robert, James, Charles, George, Joseph, Edward, Richard, Donald
The Friendly Air by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
The Toy Sword by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman ✔
The Gentlemen Go By by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart ✔
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

34. A novella ✔
One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky ✔

35. A book with a school subject in the title ✔
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss ✔
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright

36. A book that has been translated from another language ✔
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa ✔
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin ✔
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro ✔
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
Blindness by José Saramago

37. A book with the theme of returning home ✔
All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata ✔
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult ✔
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart ✔
Faithful Place by Tana French
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Circe by Madeline Miller

38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover ✔
Hessians and Hellhounds by Tilly Wallace ✔
Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs ✔
Fair Game by Patricia Briggs ✔
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven ✔
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart ✔
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse #4) by Charlaine Harris
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen #1) by Steven Erikson
Children of Time (Children of Time #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy #2) by Katherine Arden
The Killing Moon (Dreamblood #1) by N.K. Jemisin
Dragon Speaker (The Shadow War Saga #1) by Elana A. Mugdan


39. A western ✔
Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs ✔
Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Last Stand of Mary Good Crow by Rachel Aaron

40. A book with a full name in the title✔
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano ✔
The Last Stand of Mary Good Crow by Rachel Aaron
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists ✔
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley ✔
Network Effect by Martha Wells
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Circe by Madeline Miller
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter ✔
Fair Game by Patricia Briggs ✔
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

43. A book that involves a murder ✔
Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs ✔
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley ✔
Encore in Death by J.D. Robb ✔

44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal ✔
The Corner Shop by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon ✔
The Gentlemen Go By by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
Summer at the Lake by Erica James
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch


45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books ✔
Death Among Friends by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
The Friendly Air by Elizabeth Cadell ✔
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells ✔
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells ✔
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells ✔
Network Effect by Martha Wells
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult ✔
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis ✔

46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe ✔
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult ✔
Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs ✔
Fair Game by Patricia Briggs ✔
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley ✔
Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown
Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett

47. A book related to a geometric shape ✔
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy ✔
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story✔
Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews ✔
Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs ✔
Fair Game by Patricia Briggs ✔
Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews ✔
Children of Time (Children of Time #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs ✔

49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 ✔
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (January 2022) ✔

50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt ✔
Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop ✔

51. A book published in 2023 ✔
Magic Claims by Ilona Andrews ✔
Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews ✔
Witch King by Martha Wells ✔
Encore in Death by J.D. Robb ✔
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis ✔
Only Good Enemies by Jennifer Estep

52. A book with an unusual or surprising title ✔
Galvanism and Ghouls by Tilly Wallace ✔
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon ✔
Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace ✔
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven ✔
Night Shift Dragons by Rachel Aaron
Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron

Books I really want to read (or re-read*) in 2023:

Encore in Death by J.D. Robb ✔
Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews ✔
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro ✔
Witch King by Martha Wells ✔
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik ✔
Network Effect by Martha Wells*
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells*
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

1 non-fiction book/month:
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death by Michael Blastland ✔
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong ✔
➜ Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin

Read some books that aren't anglophone:
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin (France) ✔
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (Argentina) ✔
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa (Japan) ✔
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spain)
The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spain)
Beartown by Fredrik Backman (Sweden)
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Japan)
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (Japan)
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Chile-America)
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Italy)
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski (Poland)
Blindness by José Saramago (Portugal)

January update: 10 books

I am not mentioning the AtY prompts I allotted them to, because I tend to reshuffle the books as I go along.

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky ✮✮✮✮✮

The latest in the Innkeeper Chronicles:
Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews ✮✮✮✮

Alpha & Omega series:
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs ✮✮✮✮
Fair Game by Patricia Briggs ✮✮✮✮
Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs ✮✮✮✮
Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs✮✮✮
Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs ✮✮✮

Murderbot series (I read All Systems Red in December):
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells ✮✮✮✮✮
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells ✮✮✮✮✮
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells ✮✮✮✮✮

At 63% with my non-fiction book of the month:
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death by Michael Blastland

February update: 11 books

I finished the non-fiction book I had started in January:
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death by Michael Blastland ✮✮✮

A quaint tale of a 12 year old „wicked” witch, perfect for prompt 14. A book with a con, deception, or fake:
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon ✮✮✮✮✮

A tale of a coffee loving orc, who after leaving a life of being a mercenary, opens a coffee shop with a little help from her friends:
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree ✮✮✮✮✮

My first Zapata book, but I’m not in a hurry to read another. Perfect fit for prompt 37. A book with the theme of returning home:
All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata ✮✮✮

The 56th book in the „In Death” series, still going strong:
Encore in Death by J.D. Robb ✮✮✮✮✮

Another great novel featuring Kate Daniels:
Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews ✮✮✮✮

Manners and Monster series #1-4:
Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮✮
Galvanism and Ghouls by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮
Gossip and Gorgons by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮✮
Vanity and Vampyres by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮✮

The book club choice:
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven ✮✮✮✮

March update: 11 books

I finished the Manners and Monster series started last month, but I wasn't blown away with #5 and #6:
Sixpence and Selkies by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮
Hessians and Hellhounds by Tilly Wallace ✮✮✮

I have been binge-reading Elizabeth Cadell this month. Mostly 4 stars, I love her simple character driven stories. My favourite was Shadow on the Water, a perfect romantic mystery with great characters.

The Toy Sword by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮
The Corner Shop by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮
Journey's Eve by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮
The Friendly Air by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮
Death Among Friends by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮
Shadow on the Water by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮✮

Fun and perfect for prompt 26: A book related to pride:
The Guncle by Steven Rowley ✮✮✮✮

The Reading Quest book club choice, by a French author (27. A book by an author from continental Europe or 36. A book that has been translated from another language), suggested by Sallie. Wonderful, wonderful book!
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin ✮✮✮✮✮

A brilliant book by an Argentinian author. Perfect for prompt 11. A book about a person/character with a disability.
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro ✮✮✮✮✮

At 55% with my second non-fiction book of the year: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong, a buddy read with members of Chaos Oasis.

April update: 10 books

Flavia de Luce #5 and #6, great as ever.
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley ✮✮✮✮
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley ✮✮✮✮

A unique take on The Beauty and the Beast:
Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher✮✮✮✮

The Thursday Murder Club series: the first one I read because it is Richard Osman's debut book, the rest because I was hooked.
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman ✮✮✮✮✮
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman ✮✮✮✮✮
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman ✮✮✮✮

A funny mystery, perfect for prompt 40. A book with a full name in the title:
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano ✮✮✮✮

Finished the second non-fiction book of the year: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong ✮✮✮✮✮ a buddy read with members of Chaos Oasis.

Thud! by Terry Pratchett ✮✮✮✮✮ Buddy read with Nataliya

The book club choice, picked from my suggestions, which I am using for the prompt 9 A book nominated for an award beginning with W: Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2023): Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes ✮✮✮✮

May update: 4 books

✔ 47. A book related to a geometric shape
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy ✮✮✮✮✮

✔ 31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com: Ilona Andrews
Written in Red by Anne Bishop ✮✮✮✮✮
Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop ✮✮✮✮

2nd round AtY:
Forrest for the Trees by Kilby Blades ✮✮✮

Started The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa for prompt 36. A book that has been translated from another language

June update: 9 books

✔ 36. A book that has been translated from another language
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa ✮✮✮✮
✔ 46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult ✮✮✮✮
✔ 23. A book with a body of water in the title
River Marked by Patricia Briggs ✮✮✮✮
✔ 51. A book published in 2023
Magic Claims by Ilona Andrews ✮✮✮✮
✔ 25. A book with a tropical setting (Manaus, Brazil)
A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson ✮✮✮
✔ 35. A book with a school subject in the title
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss✮✮✮✮

2nd round AtY:
The Gentlemen Go By by Elizabeth Cadell ✮✮✮✮
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart ✮✮✮✮
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan✮✮✮✮


July 4th: finished the AtY challenge.
My last book was Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple ✮✮✮✮

Favourites in the first round:
One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky ✮✮✮✮✮
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells ✮✮✮✮✮
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells ✮✮✮✮✮
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells ✮✮✮✮✮
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon ✮✮✮✮✮
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree ✮✮✮✮✮
Encore in Death by J.D. Robb ✮✮✮✮✮
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin ✮✮✮✮✮
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro ✮✮✮✮✮
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman ✮✮✮✮✮
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman ✮✮✮✮✮
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong ✮✮✮✮✮
Thud! by Terry Pratchett ✮✮✮✮✮
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy ✮✮✮✮✮
Written in Red by Anne Bishop ✮✮✮✮✮

Favourite prompts:
14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com
36. A book that has been translated from another language

Least favourite prompts:
10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
39. A western

A book I might not have read if not for the ATY Challenge (but I’m so glad I did!)
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro

Authors: (* New to me authors)

Male authors: 8
Travis Baldree*
Michael Blastland*
Alan Bradley
Richard Osman*
Terry Pratchett
Adrian Tchaikovsky*
Steven Rowley*
Ed Yong

Female authors: 20
Ilona Andrews
Maeve Binchy*
Anne Bishop*
Patricia Briggs
Elizabeth Cadell
Elle Cosimano*
Margaret Craven*
Natalie Haynes*
Eva Ibbotson*
T. Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon
Nicole Krauss*
Yōko Ogawa
Valérie Perrin*
Jodi Picoult
Claudia Piñeiro*
J.D. Robb
Maria Semple*
Tilly Wallace*
Martha Wells
Mariana Zapata*

Ratio of books written by male/female authors: 10/42