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Board to Death (other topics)What I'd Rather Not Think About (other topics)
Legends & Lattes (other topics)
Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America (other topics)
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JANUARY
✔️1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y
Eliot: Daniel Deronda
✔️2. A book connected to something you read in 2023
Pratchett: Monstrous Regiment - next book in series to one I read last year
✔️3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list
A book with at least 247 pages
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (368 pages)
✔️4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
Aristophanes: The Clouds of Aristophanes
(I see skies of blue
And clouds of white")
✔️5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world
Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Set in Edinburgh, Scotland
FEBRUARY
✔️6. A book with wings on the cover
Wodehouse: Very Good, Jeeves!
✔️7. A book with a pronoun in the title
Posthuma: What I'd Rather Not Think About
✔️8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand
Lindsay: Picnic at Hanging Rock
(Australia)
✔️9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads
Wodehouse: Summer Moonshine
(1622 ratings, including mine)
MARCH
✔️10. A history or historical fiction book
Hamilton: The Greek Way
✔️11. A book with an X connection
Cervantes: Don Quixote
✔️12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year
Leiber: Swords and Deviltry
✔️13. A book that is on a Five Books List; reader’s choice of which list
Swift: Gulliver's Travels
APRIL
✔️14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color
Morrison: Recitatif: A Story
✔️15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQZX)
Sextus Empiricus: How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic
✔️16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs"
Scalzi:
Starter Villain
cats in plot and on cover
✔️17. A book involving intelligence
Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry
MAY
✔️18. A book with a botanical cover
Riggs: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
✔️19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
Shakespeare: Hamlet (Lights! Caramel! Action!)
✔️20. A book with a single word title
Gaiman: Neverwhere
✔️21. A book with a title containing 6+ words
Kant: An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
✔️22. A book by an author from an African country
Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country - South Africa
JUNE
✔️23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett
Melville: Billy Budd, Sailor
✔️24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple)
Athanassakis, tr.: The Homeric Hymns
✔️25. A book involving a crime other than a murder
Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days - theft: Prometheus steals fire from the gods to give to humans.
✔️26. A book by an author known by their initials
G.K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
JULY
✔️27. A book related to land
McMillan: Pity
✔️28. A book related to sea
Tennyson: Enoch Arden
✔️29. A book related to air
Lawrence/Lee: Inherit the Wind
✔️30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea
Anonymous, tr. Sayers: The Song of Roland
(Set mostly in Spain, partly in France)
✔️31. A book related to “Going for the Gold”
Waidner: Sterling Karat Gold
AUGUST
✔️32. A book with a number in the title
Neruda: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
✔️33. A book involving travel
Homer: The Odyssey
✔️34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs
Novik: A Deadly Education (Grumpy main character)
✔️35. A science or science fiction book
Saadawi: Frankenstein in Baghdad
SEPTEMBER
✔️36. A book featuring a character in education
Alcott: Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power - main character is a governess
✔️37. A book that is part of a series
Arakawa: Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Vol. 1
✔️38. Two books with similar covers: Book 1
Crudden, tr.: The Homeric Hymns
✔️39. Two books with similar covers: Book 2
Plutarch, tr. Waterfield: Greek Lives
OCTOBER
✔️40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover
Darwin: On the Origin of Species
✔️41. A book with a chilling atmosphere
Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
✔️42. A book with a sound-related word in the title
Yumeno: The Spirit Drum
✔️43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author
King: Joyland
✔️44. A book with a touch of magic
Pratchett: Hogfather
NOVEMBER
✔️45. A book that is not a novel
Richardson: Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America - history/politics
✔️46. A book related to night
Williams: The Night of the Iguana
✔️47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE
Duras: The Lover
✔️48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
Harding: This Other Eden (Boats, Beaches, Bars, ...)
DECEMBER
✔️49. A book with a senior citizen character
Plato: The Last Days Of Socrates: Phaedo
✔️50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024
Baldree: Legends & Lattes
✔️51. A book published in 2024
McQuade: Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
✔️52. A cozy mystery
Connor: Board to Death