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. 3 Weeks: Three books related to the lines in a Roses Are Red poem
2. 3 Weeks: Three books whose titles create a sentence or short poem
3. 2 Weeks: A work of fiction and nonfiction that are related
4. 2 Weeks: Two books with similar covers
5. 3 Weeks: One book for each of the three forms of water - solid, liquid, gas
6. 2 Weeks: A book with "life" in the title, and a book with "death" in the title
7. 2 Weeks: Two books that are part of a series
8. 3 Weeks: Three books from a series
9. 2 Weeks: A book involving Lost family and a book involving Found family
10. 2 Weeks: Two books related to "truth or dare"
11. 3 Weeks: Three books related to music (Specifically: A book with a musical instrument on the cover, A book with a music genre in the title, and A book with a music theme)
12. 4 Weeks: Four books where each cover is related to a different season (fall, winter, spring, summer)
13. 2 Weeks: Two books by authors with names the rhyme
14. 3 Weeks: Three books where each one is related to land, sea, or air
15. 2 Weeks: A classic and its retelling

To Be Seconded:
- 2 Weeks: One book with the word 'guilty' in the title & One book with the word 'innocent' in the title

SPECIFICS FOR SUGGESTING IN THE MULTIWEEK POLL

Only multiweek prompts will be allowed in this round!

We will be limiting the amount of weeks that will make it to the top of the Multiweek Poll to 6 weeks maximum, so no suggestions longer than 6 weeks will be accepted.

The wording we vote on in the polls may not be the exact wording for the final list when it comes to MW prompts. For example, for the following suggestion, we would put it on the final list as:

A book related to XXX film
A book related to YYY film
A book related to ZZZ film

But for voting, in order to fit it in the survey without it being too confusing/long/disorderly, we may put:

3 Weeks: A book related to XXX film, related to YYY film, and related to ZZZ film.

I'll also make this clear on the voting form so that people who don't read the discussion will see that note as well.

If you have a preference about how your prompt will appear on the poll, feel free to include that in your suggestion. Otherwise, the mods will craft the wording when listing the suggestions.

Three books related to the lines in a Roses Are Red poem

Roses are red
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet
And so are you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roses_A...

eg. a red book, a blue book and a sweet book, but you could use the final line instead of sweet or make up your own second half for a freebie. Here's a list of some silly versions https://www.wikihow.com/Roses-Are-Red...


Red cover lists:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

Roses:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

Blue covers:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Books about depression, eg feeling blue:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Characters called Rose or Violet.

Confectionary based titles:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

Sweet things on covers:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

Sweet romances:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

You in title:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Related to something else that rhymes with Blue

3 books - one for each of the three forms of water - solid, liquid, gas

examples: books with ice or snow on the cover, books with water in the title, genres such as steampunk

Read a work of fiction and a work of nonfiction that are related.

It could be the same person, event, place, time period, etc.

Three books whose titles create a sentence or short poem

This is based on and idea from the book Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers
and a game played by ATY52 in 2022: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

E.g. (these are all from my GR TBR):

1)
The Heat Will Kill You First
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
John Dies at the End

2)
Out of Darkness, Shining Light
This Child Will Be Great
Evidence of Things Unseen

3)
Binocular Vision
Forever  The Country of the Blind

4)
Maggie & Me,
The Woman Next Door —
Never Meant to Meet You

5)
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
At the Wolf's Table
Delicious!

And thanks to Brittany, these short poems from titles:

1)
When We're Thirty
The Three of Us
Murder Your Employer

2)
This is Where I Leave You
Spare  Black Cake

3)
Fiona and Jane
Trust  My Sister, the Serial Killer

I second Three books related to the lines in a Roses Are Red poem

3 books: Read 3 books from a series

I second three books whose titles make a sentence or poem

Jennifer W wrote: "Read a work of fiction and a work of nonfiction that are related.

It could be the same person, event, place, time period, etc."

I would like to second this

Caught up through here

Brittany wrote: "I second three books whose titles make a sentence or poem"

Brittany - somehow I knew you'd be the one to second this. Thanks!

2 books: 1 book with the word 'guilty' in the title & 1 book with the word 'innocent' in the title.

Examples:
Guilty-
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
Not Nice: Stop People Pleasing, Staying Silent, & Feeling Guilty... And Start Speaking Up, Saying No, Asking Boldly, And Unapologetically Being Yourself by Aziz Gazipura

Innocent-
The Innocent by David Baldacci
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir

Two books with similar covers.

Some examples of matches:
(pick 2)





(pick 2)










(hard to see the first, but both covers feature someone bending backward with their arms down - found next to each other in the Denver Library!)

Here is a YouTube video discussing similar covers:
https://youtu.be/GKcTyXU-t5M

Here is the search for Cover Trend Listopias, where you will find some candidates for this, and a few examples of promising lists:

Animal Silhouettes
Profiles in Silhouette
Put a Birdcage on It
Helium Balloons

Tracy wrote: "Brittany wrote: "I second three books whose titles make a sentence or poem"

Brittany - somehow I knew you'd be the one to second this. Thanks!"

You know it. I was just sitting on my computer waiting hehe.

suggesting:

2 books related to "truth or dare"

I'll second 2 books with similar covers.

Caught up through here

2 weeks: A book with "life" in the title, and a book with "death" in the title.

Sue wrote: "3 books - one for each of the three forms of water - solid, liquid, gas

examples: books with ice or snow on the cover, books with water in the title, genres such as steampunk"


I'll second this one!

I second life and death

winter cover
spring cover
summer cover
autumn cover

Caught up through here

Tina, please let me know if the wording on your season cover prompt is sufficient!

Emily wrote: "Caught up through here

Tina, please let me know if the wording on your season cover prompt is sufficient!"

Ok!

Music, Music, Music

a. A book with a musical instrument on the cover
b. A book with a music genre in the title - for example: jazz, rock, pop, country, opera
c. A book with a music theme

I'm going to suggest 2 books in a series, and if the three books gets seconded first, I'll withdraw my suggestion.

For RachelG from the wild discussion:

2 weeks: A book involving Lost family and a book involving Found family.

Lost and Found families.
Read a book involving a Lost family, and
Read a book involving a Found family.

Read a book involving a lost family
This might involve a lost or missing person, a child separated from its parents or siblings, or a family separated due to death, divorce, estrangement, relocation, work, illness, a lie, kidnapping, war, disaster, immigration, or other reason. Some books might involve both a lost and found element in the plot.

Read a book involving a found family
This could be a biological or non-biological family. A family reunited after a separation, a missing person found or returned, a foster or adopted family, or a relative found with the help of a network or genetic testing. “Found family” often refers to a close group of friends who substitute for a biological family. (E.g. after being rejected by, or running away from a family). Some books might involve both lost and found elements in the plot

Emily wrote: "I'm going to suggest 2 books in a series, and if the three books gets seconded first, I'll withdraw my suggestion."

Second!

I'll second 3 books from a series.

Linda wrote: "For RachelG from the wild discussion:

2 weeks: A book involving Lost family and a book involving Found family.

Lost and Found families.
Read a book involving a Lost family, and
Read a book involv..."

I fully support this one, but can't second since I already suggested.

Updated through here.

Linda wrote: "For RachelG from the wild discussion:

2 weeks: A book involving Lost family and a book involving Found family.

Lost and Found families.
Read a book involving a Lost family, and
Read a book involv..."

I second Lost and Found families.

There are quite a few waiting for a second that I really love. This is shaping up to be a great poll!

Second truth or dare

I second 3 books related to music.

love Katherine's prompt of related to Land, Sea, and Air. a cover prompt would be great for this one.

Mandy, are you suggesting this as a prompt? Could you give me more information if you are?

I'll second the 4 covers related to seasons

I second lost and found

3 spots remaining

2 Weeks: Two books by authors with names the rhyme.

Examples

Oh, Bowe, Shapiro, Picoult, Mailhot, Vo, Chou, DiCamillo, Antonio

Deanna Raybourn and Joanna Bourne

Katharine McGee and Kazu Kibuishi

Jennifer McQuiston and Viet Thanh Nguyen

Charlotte McConaghy and Paul Tremblay

Katie Mack and Holly Black

Virginia Woolf and Gene Wolfe and Tom Wolfe

NancyJ, the lost and found family prompt was already seconded. Feel free to suggest or second something else.

Emily wrote: "NancyJ, the lost and found family prompt was already seconded. Feel free to suggest or second something else."

Ok

I will second author names that rhyme

A book related to land, sea or air.

That could be cover, topic, animal, nonfiction from each of the three categories.

2 spots remaining

I’ll second author’s that rhyme

I’ll second land, sea, air

Katherine, to confirm, you're intending this to be a 3 week prompt, each book fulfilling a different part (one land book, one sea book, one air book)?

Yes