Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

It's time for our next 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 on a banned books list
2. A book with a title containing 6+ words
3. A book with a divided, or split, cover
4. A book that is not a novel
5. A book set mostly in or around a building
6. A book with disembodied hand(s) on the cover
7. A science fiction fantasy novel
8. A book related to Friends
9. A book with a ranch or farm setting
10. A book related to an invention or a discovery
11. A book related to a sensory disability
12. A book set in a new-to-you location
13. A book involving a STEM topic
14. A book set in a different hemisphere than where you live
15. A book related to a mountain

To Be Seconded:
- A book with an intense descriptive word in the title
- A book that involves magic

A book on a banned books list.

A book with a ranch or farm setting.

I second banned book

A book with an intense descriptive word in the title

These may be words that express intense emotion (such as nemesis, nefarious, furor, ecstasy/ecstatic). My idea was words that are not so commonly used that when they are used, they are noticed.

A book with a divided, or split, cover.

I'm suggesting Mandy's prompt from the Wild Discussion.

A book with a title containing 6+ words

A nice offset to our single word title!

I second a book with a title containing 6+ words

I second a title containing 6+ words

Since 6+ words was already seconded, I’ll second a book with a split cover

I encourage everyone to post examples to go with your prompts!

A science fiction fantasy book.

Science Fiction Fantasy Genre page:
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/scie...
Science Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/scie...
Fantasy
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/fantasy

A book that is not a novel. This could be:
Non fiction
Play
Poetry
Short story collection

Pearl, I'm going to reword your prompt a bit to make it clear what you mean!

I second a book that is not a novel.

Suggestion: A book related to an invention or a discovery.

Ellie wrote: "Split covers have become common to indicate that two characters are from different backgrounds, or to show the book is about parallel worlds/alternate timelines."

Examples - Part of Your World, The Betrayal of Anne Frank, Open Water, The Secrets We Kept

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Two books with similar covers.

A KIS (or keep it simple) version of this prompt could be to choose two books in a series, or by the same author, or same genre.

A BIO (or bring it on) option would be to choose totally different kinds of books.

Examples:
and

More examples here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Emily wrote: "Pearl, I'm going to reword your prompt a bit to make it clear what you mean!"

Thanks, gr has a major genre category called science fiction fantasy, so I added a link to the genre page.

A book set mostly in or around a building, eg. apartment building, hotel or haunted house.

Hey Ana AZ, that would be a multi-week prompt. You can submit that one next poll!

Emily wrote: "Hey Ana AZ, that would be a multi-week prompt. You can submit that one next poll!"

Okay, thanks, I'll do that.

Pearl wrote: "Emily wrote: "Pearl, I'm going to reword your prompt a bit to make it clear what you mean!"

Thanks, gr has a major genre category called science fiction fantasy, so I added a link to the genre page."

Would you like me to reword the prompt to say science fiction fantasy, or would you like to keep it as is?

I will second a book set mostly in or around a building

I second a book with a ranch or farm setting.

10 spots remaining

A book set in a new-to-you location

A book related to a sensory disability

Vision: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Hearing:https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Deaf Culture: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Sensory Processing Disorder: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Apartment buildings https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

hotels
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

haunted houses
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

A book with disembodied hands on the cover.




 (this one is harder to see, the hand is in the art on the pot)

Also, this Listopia has many examples: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

A book related to Friends

2024 is the 30th anniversary of the TV show Friends.

This could be:
About friendship
Main characters are a group of friends
Set in a coffee shop or an apartment
Book by one of the Friends actors
Friends to lovers romance
Main character called Rachel, Phoebe, Monica, Joey, Ross or Chandler.
A story that shares a plotline with a Friends episode

Dubhease wrote: "Apartment buildings https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

hotels
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

haunted houses
https://www.goodreads...."

I love this one! I can think of several wonderful options :)

Ellie wrote: "A book related to Friends

2024 is the 30th anniversary of the TV show Friends.

This could be:
About friendship
Main characters are a group of friends
Set in a coffee shop or an apartment
Book by ..."

I can't second, but this sounds like fun with a lot of possibilities!

I'll second disembodied hands

Ellie wrote: "A book related to Friends

2024 is the 30th anniversary of the TV show Friends.

This could be:
About friendship
Main characters are a group of friends
Set in a coffee shop or an apartment
Book by ..."

Noooooooooooooooo! (In Rachel's voice) I can't second this and it's my favourite TV show. Also, it can't be 30 years old because I can't be admitting in public that my favourite TV show is 30 years old.

Ellie wrote: "A book related to Friends"

I'll second this one

Emily wrote: "Pearl wrote: "Emily wrote: "Pearl, I'm going to reword your prompt a bit to make it clear what you mean!"

Thanks, gr has a major genre category called science fiction fantasy, so I added a link to..."

Yes please, I’d like it to be consistent with the link and I think it’s common enough that people know what it means.

Pearl wrote: "A science fiction fantasy book.

Science Fiction Fantasy Genre page:
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/scie...
Science Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/scie...
Fanta..."


I will second an SFF book (if no one has seconded this yet?)

7 spots remaining

Nadine, I thought it was seconded already but I can't seem to find the message so your second will count!

Dubhease wrote: "Ellie wrote: "Also, it can't be 30 years old because I can't be admitting in public that my favourite TV show is 30 years old...."

I know that feeling! I keep seeing anniversary editions of books and going no, that can't be right it only came out two years ago...

I will second hands on cover.

T., that was seconded already. Feel free to suggest or second something else.

I"ll second farm or ranch.

I like all the ideas, but I'm concerned that voters won't understand what "intense descriptive word" or "sensory disability" includes

Oops, didn't see hands was seconded already. Can I second the ranch/farm book instead?

Tracy wrote: "A book with disembodied hands on the cover.


[bookcover:The Five Wounds|580852..."

@Emily: I know I put plural "hands", but I want to be sure that no one thinks a single hand is not acceptable (most of the examples have only a single hand). Can this be reworded to hand/hands? Or some other way of being clearer that one or more hands is acceptable?

With Jennifer W's approval of course (thanks for the second)!

Haha T., Robin got in right before you. Feel free to suggest or second something else!

T. wrote: "Oops, didn't see hands was seconded already. Can I second the ranch/farm book instead?"

That’s been seconded as well

Emily, did you see where I seconded a book related to a ranch or farm setting about 15 minutes ago?

Ack! I'm just too slow today. I'll try one more. I'll second a book about inventions. :)