Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

It's time for our first round of suggestions!

Just a reminder that you can find a full list of prompts already on the 2024 list in the third post on this thread.

How Suggestions Work:
- The topics for the 2024 reading challenge list will be determined by a series of mini-polls, the number of which depends on the number of prompts winning in each mini-polls
- Suggestions for each poll will be opened until 15 suggestions are received and “seconded”.
- The voting thread will open the day after suggestions go live. You can find the schedule here.

Rules:
- Each member can only suggest OR second one prompt
- Suggestions close after 15 total seconded prompts

When suggesting and seconding, feel free to provide examples and descriptions that may help other members understand the prompt better. These descriptions and examples will be copied over to the voting thread for further discussion.

As always, please express any and all feedback (respectfully, of course), either here or in The Wild Discussion.


Moving on to Voting:
1. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs"
2. A book with a horse on the cover
3. A book related to the year of the wood dragon
4. A book in honour of Wilkie Collins
5. A book related to night
6. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world
7. A book with girl, boy, man or woman in the title
8. A book related to the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Terracotta Army
9. A book with a number in the title
10. A book set in Paris
11. A book from the Canada Reads Book Lists
12. A book that takes place in 24 hours
13. A book that features a hobby
14. A biography, autobiography, or memoir
15. A book involving pirates, maps, or treasure

To Be Seconded:
- A book from a genre you don’t normally read
- A book where the chapters are named
- A biography

Read a book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs"

This could be a book involving cats, dogs, or torrential rain.
OR it could relate to the whole phrase - such as a book about idioms, a book with the concept in the title or cover, or a creative interpretation.

A book in honour of Wilkie Collins ( his bicentennial is in 2024:
Written by him
Mystery or detective
Has woman, white, moon or stone on the cover or in the title

I second raining cats and dogs.

A book with a horse on the cover

Here's a good listopia with options
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

I second horse on the cover.

Submitting for Mandy from the Wild Discussion:

A book related to the year of the wood dragon

The element of earth. the color is green for the masculine yang energy. the symbol is pine tree.

Books with dragons, wyrms, wyverns, etc
Books with dragon in name or title like Arthurian pendragon or the pendragon books.
Books that take place in the forest
Books with earth in title or on cover, gardening themed, or something else that deals with Earth or earth.
Books with green cover or with pine trees.

A book from a genre you don’t normally read

I’ll second wood dragon.

I expected suggestions to go much faster this morning. Baby is about to wake up so I'll be a bit more sporadic in checking the thread!

I'd like to suggest A book from the Canada Reads Book Lists. The link to the Listopias is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/ca...

The books for 2024 will be announced in mid-January.

A book related to night

Night in the title or depicted on the cover
Set mostly at night
Involving creatures of the night (vampires, hedgehogs, owls, moths, etc)
Character works in the nighttime economy
One Thousand and One Nights retelling

Some listopias:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

To follow up on my suggestion, a book from a genre you don’t normally read could be as broad or narrow as you choose.

Broad genres examples: romance, horror, cookbook
More narrow ideas: Historical fiction set in 1800s
A classic over 400 pages
Memoir of a musician

Because the 2024 Summer Olympics are in Paris, I would like to suggest:
A book set in Paris

I'll seond Wilkie Collins

How about a book that starts with either:

The Girl
The Boy
The Woman
The Man

Examples:

The Woman in the Window
The Man in the High Castle
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

I seem to have a lot of these on my list.

I second related to night

And maybe I should adjust it to say with girl, boy, woman or man somewhere in the title.

Joan, how would you like it worded?

Joan- I’d prefer that but from my memory of admin rules whoever seconds it has to agree to the change

As it hasn't been seconded yet, I can adjust the wording.

I would like to nominate: A book that features a hobby.

I am thinking it could be about a character who spends time on their hobby or a nonfiction about a hobby.

I want to put forth Aimee’s idea of a book related to the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Terracotta Army.

It could be a book based in China
A book with a Chinese diaspora author
A book with Chinese influence.
A Xianxia or Wuxia novel like Daughter of the Moon Goddess or similar novels
History of China.

A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world.

Based on a published list, such as this:
https://www.travelandleisure.com/most...

I suggest a book with a number in the title

A book where chapters are named

Pearl wrote: "A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world.

Based on a published list, such as this:
https://www.travelandleisure.com/most..."

I second set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world.

Emily wrote: "As it hasn't been seconded yet, I can adjust the wording."


A book with girl, boy, man or woman in the title.

Sorry I started on the dishes

Updated through here. No worries, Joan, I've updated the wording.

I second A book with girl, boy, man or woman in the title.

I think somewhere in the beginning of the Wild Discussion thread we mentioned the correlation of the number 24 to 24 hours in a day. I’d like to suggest a book that takes place in 24 hours (a single day.)

I seconded 50 th anniversary of the discovery of the Terracotta Army.

I will second a book with a number in the title.

6 spots remaining

I second a book set in Paris

2nd Canada Reads book

a biography

Seconding a book that takes place in 24 hours

3 spots remaining

I will suggest

Read a biography, autobiography or memoir

I'll second features a hobby

I'll second Biography autobiography or memoir

A book involving pirates, maps, or treasure.

Relating to “X marks the spot” since X is the 24rd letter

1 spot remaining

I'll second pirates, maps, treasure

CLOSED! Voting thread will be posted shortly (when the baby goes down for a nap lol)