Kristina’s Comments (group member since May 26, 2021)

Kristina’s comments from the Around the Year in 52 Books group.

Pearl wrote: "I like the leap year idea but I don’t want to search through all those years. Do we have a list of books with time leaps or calendrical shenanigans?

Maybe Quantum Leap was based on a book?"

Goodreads has some time travel lists - The Best Time Travel Books of All Time / The Best Time Travel Fiction

There's also some good time travel/time leap book lists floating around the internet:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/th...
https://bookriot.com/best-time-travel...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
https://shereads.com/11-books-with-un...

For time travel shenanigans, I personally liked Kindred, This is How You Lose the Time War, Outlander, and Sea of Tranquility. I would also argue that any book involving time leaps would be in line with the prompt theme, so The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle would count - as a bonus, it also involves "leaping" into different characters.

It would also be relatively easy to pick a leap year and find a book published that year - you can find a list of leap years here: https://www.calendar.best/leap-years....

Curious if we could stretch this prompt to include books that take place on a single day, as leap day is an one extra day in the year - in that case, books like Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk would also count. Or that may be stretching the prompt too far?

Judy wrote: "This is an edgier list than last week. I like it.

Does anyone have links or examples for Mad Bad Dangerous?

How about suggestions for Wild and Endangered Animals?"

I think you could twist Mad, Bad, Dangerous a few different ways, but my first thought was books where a villain or anti-hero is the protagonist. There's a few different lists like Villain Protagonist or The Best Anti-heroes / The Best Anti-heroes in Books.

Mad covers a wide definition, but a fun list I found is The Female Malaise: She's Sad, Mad, and Bad. A lot of gothic fiction or gothic horror would feed right into this prompt too - traditional books like The Turn of the Screw or The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories or more modern books like Mexican Gothic have elements of madness and badness (and danger!).

For wild/endangered species, you can find a list of currently endangered species here: https://www.worldwildlife.org/species...

There's also a few lists with nonfiction books specifically about endangered/extinct species - Before It's Too Late: Endangered Species seems pretty comprehensive and they have links to other lists featuring vulnerable and extinct species in their list description.

And for wild animals on covers, there's a decent amount of animal themed lists to be found, including:
1. Ravens/Crows
2. Elephants
3. Foxes
4. Bats (this one includes titles/subject matter, but has covers on the list, too!)
5. Tigers (also includes titles)

I know you just updated the list, but I thought of more! 😊

Poll 9 - 1. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream - BIO:
- Flavors involving place names (e.g. Dublin Mudslide) do not count
- The book must be connected to a current flavor of Ben & Jerry's ice cream (retired flavors do not count)
- A book connected to your favorite flavor of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
- One of the words in the Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor is in the book's title

Poll 9 - 2. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads - BIO:
1. A book with less than 100 ratings
2. A book with ratings in the double digits
3. A book with 10 ratings or less
4. A book with less than 2024 ratings that has been published for at least 10 years

Poll 9 - 3. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea - BIO
- A book that takes place in a city actually on the Mediterranean coast
- The characters in the book actually live in the Mediterranean country and are not visiting tourists

Poll 8 - 1. A book that is part of a series - BIO:
- A book from a series that has six books or more
- A book from a series that is published in 2024 (e.g. the first book of a brand new series, or the newest book in a pre-established series)

Poll 8 - 2. A science or science fiction book BIO:
- A science fiction book with a scientist as a main character
- A science fiction book published in the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" between 1938 to 1946.
- A science fiction book without aliens, space travel, or other planets
- A science fiction book written by an author who is also a scientist
- A science book without a subtitle
- A science book written by a scientist who is no longer alive
- A science book related to a branch of science you are unfamiliar with

Amanda wrote: "I like having the specific d&d classes for the prompt wording. I can work on finding non-fantasy examples tomorrow and this weekend. I'm thinking military/war novels for barbarian, musicians for ba..."

Oh, this is actually fun to try to puzzle out! For these classes, some thoughts -

Artificer - could be related to tech - they handle complex systems and objects, so a computer whiz/IT person, etc could work. Also feels like a type of architect figure or even a carpenter/mechanic to me. Hard agree with Mandy's suggestion of an inventor as well.

Fighter - what about a boxer or professional athlete? There's also books where characters are street fighters, trained in different types of professional fighting (e.g. karate). Hitmen and bodyguards could also fill this role.

Paladin - a cop or sheriff could fill this role. Maybe a judge or lawyer? Or someone outside of the system who pursues justice/is upright - detectives in murder mysteries feel like they could fill this role.

Sorcerer - sorcerer abilities are innate vs studied, so you could argue that anyone with inherited power could fill this role - a noble, a rich person, someone born into a powerful family. A genius character could work, too.

Warlock - warlock abilities are made via pacts with supernatural entities. Honestly, probably an academic role would fit this one best - maybe a professor. A librarian or archeologist also feels suitable - someone whose knowledge and "power" is based on books or ancient knowledge.

Oh, it's all upvotes for me again. Maybe I'm just too easy - I haven't downvoted yet. Personally, I find pop culture reference prompts a little more fun than "read a science fiction book" - obviously it's good to have a mix of both creative/straightforward prompts, but in a challenge setting I think prompts that ask you to be a little more active in searching for a book are more fun. (No shade on either side - straightforward prompts are great too. It's just my preference.)

I get how open-ended the B&J prompt is, but that's what I like about it - there's a decent list of options and it forces you to think creatively about how to match a prompt. It's a lot of fun to think of how each flavor could correspond to a book! You could take Chocolatey Love-a-Fair to mean a romance novel (or, to match it even more, a romance novel with a BIPOC protagonist!), Lights! Caramel! Action could be a book-to-screen adaption, Dublin Mudslide could be set in Ireland, Half Baked could be a YA novel (since the protagonists are "half baked" e.g. not fully grown up yet), Pumpkin Cheesecake could be set during October, etc, etc. There's a lot to offer and it's easy to tailor it to books you want to read or what you've already got on your TBR.

Honestly, I like all of these prompts. Here's to hoping more of them make it through this time around!

Thomas wrote: "Edie wrote: "Thomas wrote: "Kristina wrote: "Ellie wrote: "No one has to vote for things they don't know or like but can we please stop saying things aren't globally known just because they're not ..."

I'd vote for that - Anne is a beloved literary hero in my household! 😄

I personally usually like referential prompts (to pop culture, other books, etc) because they're usually fun to try to match (for me, anyway!). Like Edie, I usually am for even references I don't immediately know - I like the challenge and it can sometimes lead to me learning about something I'm not familiar with. Take this year's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy prompt - I was only vaguely aware that it was a reference to anything (no idea it was a book, just that I thought I saw a movie with the title years back) and had no idea of its plot/themes... but it was fun to find a match to the prompt anyway!

Ellie wrote: "No one has to vote for things they don't know or like but can we please stop saying things aren't globally known just because they're not in your personal realm of knowledge.

I have never watched ..."

Yes, thank you! I found it more surprising that people don't know Sailor Moon; I never watched it as a kid, but she's enough of a pop culture icon among my generation that you're hard pressed to find people who don't at least recognize the name, even if they don't know anything about the show/manga. Especially since they did a revival on Hulu fairly recently (I believe around 2015/2016?).

The same goes for Eurovision - it's incredibly popular in Europe (obvs) and a decent amount of Americans at least know what it is, even if they don't follow the nuances. I'm fairly familiar with it just from online European friends freaking out about it during Eurovision season! And tbf, the prompt itself doesn't actually require you to know exactly what Eurovision is - just to pick a country that participates in it. That's a huge chunk of Europe, which is why I liked it - I've got plenty of books in my TBR set in Europe if I want to keep it easy, but I can also make the challenge more difficult by choosing a lesser-known European country to try to match the prompt.

Robin wrote: "Kristina wrote: "Oh, it's all upvotes for me! Love, love, love the Academy Award winner prompt - that's such a fun cross-media idea and it's always a kick to read the book and then go watch the mov..."

I have read No Country for Old Men! McCarthy in general can read a lot easier if you have a visual to fall back on, I think - all of the books of his I've read, watching the movie of it has helped me contextualize what was happening in the novels. He's also got such great visuals and dialogue, it translates very well into screen, imho.

Oh, it's all upvotes for me! Love, love, love the Academy Award winner prompt - that's such a fun cross-media idea and it's always a kick to read the book and then go watch the movie. Plus there are some really great (and honestly unexpected!) movies that are based on books.

I'm a big fan of the independent bookseller one - it's very easy to go to an indie book website to find recs as well as into your local store. Curious if sites like bookshop.org (which is kind of a catch-all seller for independent bookstores) would count, as they usually have excellent tailored recommendation lists.

The Barbie & Going for the Gold ones are fun and flexible enough to include a lot of different book options. Also a big fan of the great first line, civil/human rights, reading-related title, and Sailor Moon prompts. I think my difficulty this time around will be narrowing it down to ones I don't want to vote for.

I think I'm kind of indifferent to the travel and science/SF options for the same reason - they feel a little too broad. Same with the series prompt. The technology one hits a better spot for me than science/science fiction, as it provides a narrower category to work in, which I prefer for prompted reading. But none of them are anything I'd downvote, just not really what I'm looking for.

Velvet wrote: "You could just do “A book chosen because you love the cover”?"

I think there's a couple of different ways to reword the prompt to be more flexible. A few that I'm thinking of:

- A book with an illustrated cover
- A book you chose because you love the cover
- A book that credits a cover artist

I think the main issue for (1) would be quibbling about what counts as "illustrated" but it's possible to keep the meaning fairly open to allow more choices. There's a pretty varied list here: Best Illustrated Book Covers.

I like (3) but am also aware that artist credit normally happens on the actual book, which may not be ideal when trying to find choices or if you don't have the copy on you.

Another option would be to try a different adjective while still keeping the book cover focus - for example:

- A book with an unexpected cover / A book with a terrifying cover / A book with a cover that catches the eye

I'll second a book with a great first line!

Ellie wrote: "I think "hand drawn style" is fine, but not if I actually need to decipher how the designer made the cover. Sometimes the only thing separating the "graphic design" look and the "hand drawn" look i..."

A lot of books credit the artist on the back of the book! (I've just noticed this for illustrated covers, though they probably also do it for graphic design covers?) And rewording the prompt to just be "illustrated" could include digital drawings as well - I don't think anyone assumes that cover art done today is completely drawn without tech in some capacity.

I love coming up with prompts tbh. There's a few that have been sitting in the back of my brain - thoughts?

- A book inspired by a tarot card - this one is relatively flexible. Could include books with tarot cards in their title (Empress, Star, World, etc), books with tarot imagery on the cover, or a book with a theme that evokes the feeling of a tarot card's meaning (a book about a courageous character for Strength, for example).

- A book you wish was required reading in school - kind of a freebie, but I always find it interesting to see what kind of books people think should be required for everyone to read.

- A book with a hand-drawn or illustrated cover - I'm kind of a cover freak - one of the things that will draw me to books I know nothing about is if they have gorgeous cover art. I don't mind the current trend of graphic design cover art, but I have a soft spot in my heart for hand-drawn covers.

It's actually a lot of fun thinking of these! I prefer to lean into the BIO options when I do the challenge myself, so that's what I focused on.

Poll 3: 2. A book that is not a novel - BIO
- Written by an author who has written in more than one form of literature (e.g. a playwright who also writes poetry, a novelist who also writes novellas, etc)

Poll 5: What a Wonderful World - BIO
- A book that incorporates the actual song by Louis Armstrong in some way (e.g. the lyrics show up, the song is used in the plot, etc)
- A book with a character with the first/last name Louis and/or Armstrong
- A book that has multiple elements of the song in the cover (e.g. trees AND roses, rainbows AND blue skies, etc)

Poll 5: A book with a secondary color on the cover - BIO
- Secondary color is in the title, not the cover image

Poll 5: A book with a chilling atmosphere - BIO
- A book with chill/chilling in the title
- A book that primarily takes place in the Arctic or Antarctica
- A horror/thriller that involves ice/cold in some way (e.g. as a murder weapon, a major plot point, a setting)

Poll 5: 4. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color - BIO
- A book with multiple main characters who are Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color
- A book with a nonwhite multiracial main character (e.g. a character who is Black and Indigenous).
- A book with a Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color main character written by an author who is also Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color.

Poll 6: A history or historical fiction book - BIO
- A historical fiction book written in a time period you know nothing about
- A microfiction book (e.g. Salt: A World History, A History of the World in 6 Glasses)
- A historical fiction book written by an author from a different time period (e.g. Ivanhoe)

Rejected ATY Prompt Challenge
January 01 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 17/52

For each weekly poll, I've chosen several prompts from the ideas that didn't make the final cut. Just as with the main ATY challenge, my goal is to only read books already owned before the challenge start date.

✅ 1. A winner or nominee from the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards: Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
✅ 2. A book of poetry or free verse: The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon
3. A book with yellow, red and white on the cover: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
4. A book that can be found on Project Gutenberg: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

5. A book involving genetics, genealogy, traits, heredity, or heritage: The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
6. A book with an animal on the cover: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
7. A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman: Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang
8. A book with a color in the title or author’s name: Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

✅ 9. A nonfiction nature book: The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
✅ 10. A book with a cat in the story, title, or cover: Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw
11. A book that’s mentioned in the Rory Gilmore Book Challenge: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
12. A book with an alliterative title: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

13. A book whose author goes by three names: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
14. A book by a Nobel Prize winner for literature: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats
15. A book with a pronoun in the title: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
16. A book with at least 500,000 ratings on Goodreads: The Martian by Andy Weir

17. A book with a child protagonist: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
18. A book with a title beginning with W: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
19. A book related to spring (book 1):
✅ 20. A book related to summer (book 2): A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

21. A book related to autumn (book 3): The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
✅ 22. A book related to winter (book 4): A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos
✅ 23. A book that includes a ritual or ceremony: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
✅ 24. A book with one of the four seasons in the title: A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos

25. A book set in an apartment building or house: Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
26. A book related to the Harlem Renaissance: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
27. A book involving wolves or werewolves: The Wolf at the Door by Charlie Adhara
✅ 28. A book about a farm, a farmer, or a farming family: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

✅ 29. A book with a purple cover: Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink
30. A book off the Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books found in Louise Endrich's The Sentence: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✅ 31. An author who lives greater than 2023 miles from you: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
✅ 32. A "wild" book: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

33. A book with fruit or vegetables on the cover or in the title: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
✅ 34. A book written by two or more authors: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
35. A children's classic: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
✅ 36. A book with a cover you consider to be beautiful: The World According to Color: A Cultural History by James Fox

37. A book with a main character who is an athlete: Check, Please!: Year One by Ngozi Ukazu
38. A book with one of the 7 most used verbs in English in the title (be, have, do, say, get, make, go): We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
39. A book in which someone is captured, taken hostage, trapped or imprisoned: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
40. A book with a character who time travels: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

41. A book from the “100 Years of Popular Books on Goodreads” list: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
42. A family saga: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
43. A book set during the Roaring Twenties (1920's): Away with the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood
44. A book by an author who uses punctuation in their name: A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

45. A book by an author who has been threatened, imprisoned, or otherwise persecuted because of their work: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
46. A book with a two or three word title: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
47. A book featuring The Widow, the Wallflower, or the Woman Scorned: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
✅ 48. A book related to dreams or dreaming: A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy

✅ 49. A book where the chapters are named: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
✅ 50. A book with a female or nonbinary main character who is an explorer/traveler: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
51. A book told from the villain’s perspective: Vengeful by V.E. Schwab
52. A book about "a fish out of water": Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

ATY Challenge 2023
January 01 - December 31, 2023
Progress: 9/52

My additional challenge this year is only reading books already owned by the challenge start date - including the 2023 prompt, since I have already pre-ordered several books coming out next year! I'm also adding 52 of the reject prompts to see if I can finish that as well. ✌️

1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y. (BIO: restrict it to town/city, or even a street name.): Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
2. A book by an author you read in 2022 Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
✅ 3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list. - A book featuring a blog or a podcast (BIO version: Read a suggestion that was in the bottom of that week's poll.): Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink
4. A book with an interracial relationship. (BIO version: a book with multiple interracial relationships.) Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover. (BIO version: Must contain the three primary colors and one secondary color.): The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

✅ 6. A book where books are important (BIO version: A named book plays a major role in the plot.): The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title. (BIO Version: The title must be in question form.) Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
8. An author's debut book. (BIO Version: read a debut that has won an award.): Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W. (BIO Version: read a book that WON a W award.): Jade City by Fonda Lee

10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities." My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
11. A book about a person/character with a disability. The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies Watership Down by Richard Adams
13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover. (BIO version: The object repeats multiple times.): The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

14. A book with a con, deception, or fake. (BIO version: A book that is itself a con, a deception, or a fake.): Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century - First Millennium (1 - 1000). (BIO version: 3 books, each of which is set in a different millennium.): The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century - Second Millennium (1000 - 2000). (BIO version: 3 books, each of which is set in a different millennium.): Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century - Third Millennium (2001 - present). (BIO version: 3 books, each of which is set in a different millennium.): Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

18. A book related to science Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
19. A book related to the arts The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
✅ 20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
21. A book by an Asian diaspora author The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
✅ 22. A book with a faceless person on the cover. (BIO version: The person's face must be missing from the cover art.): The Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson

23. A book with a body of water in the title. (BIO version: body of water must be specific like Nile or Mississippi.): River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy. (BIO version: Must include all four character types.): Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
✅ 25. A book with a tropical setting. (BIO version: read a book set in the tropics by an author from that region.) Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
✅ 26. A book related to pride A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy

27. A book by an author from continental Europe. (BIO version: A translated book from continental Europe.) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
✅ 28. A book that is dark. (BIO version: A book that contains a light element in an otherwise dark book.): The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
29. A book that is light The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
30. A book related to a chess piece. (BIO version: must be in the title, must actually involve chess.) The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com: Riddle-Master by Patricia A. McKillip

32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature: Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923. (BIO Version: use a name popular in another country that year, extra BIO - use an author born in that country.): The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
34. A novella (BIO Version: read a classic, literary or translated novella): In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
35. A book with a school subject in the title: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

36. A book that has been translated from another language (BIO version: A book translated from a language you've never read a translation from): Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
37. A book with the theme of returning home: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover:The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
39. A western: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

40. A book with a full name in the title (BIO version: There are no other words in the title, just the full name.): Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
43. A book that involves a murder (BIO version: Murder must be the main focus of the story): Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal: Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe: As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
47. A book related to a geometric shape. (BIO version: An award or publisher with a geometric shape in the name.): Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story: Eragon by Christopher Paolini
✅ 49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt ("faceless" prompt): Vicious by V.E. Schwab
51. A book published in 2023: Painted Devils by Margaret Owen
✅ 52. A book with an unusual or surprising title I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy