Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y

The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James
What You Say Is What You Get by Don Gossett
Muistojenlukija by Elina Rouhiainen
Enchantment: A Classic Fantasy with a Modern Twist by Orson Scott Card

2. A book connected to something you read in 2023

The Light of the Midnight Stars by Rena Rossner - I read another books written by her 2023

3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list

4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong

Les Arbres en parlent encore by Calixthe Beyala
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede

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

Apparently Reykjavik is one of them. I personally think the beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it's impossible to decide which cities are more beautiful than others. But - let's not make it difficult. I have not seen many cities in the world.

Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason
Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
The Darkness by Ragnar Jónasson

6. A book with wings on the cover



7. A book with a pronoun in the title

LOL There's so many of them :-D I, you, he, she, what, who, why, when, how, where, there, everywhere, this, that, somebody, anybody, nobody...

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton
Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories by Kelsi Morris
You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Don't Point that Thing at Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli

8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta (Australia)
Lirael by Garth Nix (Australia)
The Bone People by Keri Hulme (New Zealand)
Memory Craft by Lynne Kelly (Australia)

9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads

Mistress of Mistresses by E.R. Eddison (526 ratings)
Murder at the Grand Raj Palace by Vaseem Khan (1920 ratings)
The Leopard Mask by Kaoru Kurimoto (340 ratings)
Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack (406 ratings)

10. A history or historical fiction book

11. A book with an X connection

X Marks The Spot - A Nonbinary Anthology by Theo Hendrie
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
There and Back Again: By Max Merriwell by Pat Murphy
Queen Zixi of Ix by Frank L. Baum

12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year

LOL That's some 1000+ books, so, no... adding it when I read it

13. A book that is on a Five Books List

Count Belisarius by Robert Graves (Books by Robert Graves, recommended by Sophie Roell)
A Mortal Malice by Hilda Lewis (The Best Historical Novels, recommended by Alison Weir)
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (The Best Metaphysical Thrillers, recommended by Greg Jackson)
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (The Best Ergodic Fiction, recommended by Arianna Reiche)
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (The Best Ergodic Fiction, recommended by Arianna Reiche)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (The Best 20th-Century American Novels, recommended by David Hering)
No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms & SJ Simon (Comfort Reads, recommended by Neil Gaiman)

14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color

Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor

15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQZX)

Femme nue, femme noire by Calixthe Beyala
Radha Says by Reetika Vazirani
In the Time of the ButterfliesIn the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs"

17. A book involving intelligence

18. A book with a botanical cover



19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream

Dreaming in Chocolate by Susan Bishop Crispell
The Chocolate Maker's Wife by Karen Brooks
The Assassin Nuns of Pistachio by Manisha Anand

20. A book with a single word title

Homeland by R.A.Salvatore
Dodger by Terry Pratchett
Heartfire by Orson Scott Card
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Uncle by J. P. Martin by J.P.Martin
Greenmantle by Charles de Lint

21. A book with a title containing 6+ words

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen
The Pox Party by M.T.Anderson

22. A book by an author from an African country

The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett

The Body on the Beach by Simon Brett

24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple)



25. A book involving a crime other than a murder

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

26. A book by an author known by their initials

Homeland by R.A.Salvatore
Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H.White
The Worm OuroborosThe Worm Ouroboros by E.R.Eddison
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
RagtimeRagtime by E.L. Doctorow

27. A book related to land

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente
The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner
The Obelisk Gate by N.K.Jemisin

28. A book related to sea

Seas by Colleen Oakes
Sea Witch by Sarah Henning
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

29. A book related to air

Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne M. Valente
The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea

The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spain)
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Sicily)
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell (Italy)
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (Egypt)
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières (Greece)
The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart (Crete)
Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert (Tunisia)
Sqaq L-Infern by Simon Bartolo and Loranne Vella (Malta)
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak (Turkey)

31. A book related to “Going for the Gold”
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

32. A book with a number in the title

84K by Claire North
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott
Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede
The Return of the Twelves by Pauline Clarke
The List of Seven by Mark Frost
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

33. A book involving travel

34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

35. A science or science fiction book

36. A book featuring a character in education

37. A book that is part of a series

38. Two books with similar covers: Book 1

39. Two books with similar covers: Book 2



I thought these two were similar

but they aren't. Well... kind of...

40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover

41. A book with a chilling atmosphere

42. A book with a sound-related word in the title

Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives
Les Arbres en parlent encore by Calixthe Beyala
Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake Shange
Song for the Basilisk by Patricia A. McKillip
A Dark Horn Blowing by Dahlov Ipcar

43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton (Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile 1969)
Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton
The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud
Home by Nnedi Okorafor
The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
The Modigliani Scandal by Ken Follett
Fairytale by Stephen King

44. A book with a touch of magic

45. A book that is not a novel

46. A book related to night
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE

The Fire by Katherine Neville
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Reader by Traci Chee
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt

49. A book with a senior citizen character

50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

51. A book published in 2024

52. A cozy mystery

3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list

A book in honour of Wilkie Collins (who was born 1824)
The Queen of Hearts

A book related to the year of the wood dragon
- any dragon book, and I have plenty of those on my TBR :-D

A book related to or by an author we lost in 2023
Darcy's Utopia by Fay Weldon is on my TBR list

A classic and its retelling
Demon Copperhead and David Copperfield
or
The Hobbit and There and Back Again: By Max Merriwell
or
Moby-Dick or, The Whale and Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

Three books whose titles create a sentence or short poem
Good Night, Mr. Holmes Don't Point that Thing at Me In the Forest of Forgetting

A book set in BCE
Till We Have Faces
Salammbo
Death Comes as the End
The Silence of the Girls
Black Ships
The Song of Achilles

"A book set in one of the countries competing in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest"
Haha!
Reykjavik works for this, too.

A book that was the basis for an Academy Award (Oscar) winning movie (Yes, and watch the movie, too.)
The Shape of Water by Daniel Kraus and Guillermo del Toro
2018 Best Picture
I could also read Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum. (Grand Hotel won the Best Picture 1932)

A book that takes place in one of the world's 100 smallest countries. (1/3 of those are in Europe :-D)
Reykjavik works for this, too :-D

A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list
Oh, wow... I thought I was :-D
Les Misérables
1Q84