Around the Year in 52 Books discussion
Around the Year in 52 Books
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This is my second year participating in the challenge! In 2017, I completed a little over half of the challenges so I hope to do a bit better this year. I may change some books for some of the weeks throughout the year because I am very much a mood reader but I hope to keep to this list as much as possible.
16/52 Challenges Completed
The 2018 List
1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne
2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl by Sara Marcus
3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson
5. A book about or inspired by real events
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
6. A book originally written in a language other than English
Ring (Ring #1) by Koji Suzuki
7. A gothic novel
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
8. An "own voices" book*
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
Completed on February 5, 2018!
11. A literary fiction
We All Love the Beautiful Girls by Joanne Proulx
12. A book set in Africa or South America
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
The Rattled Bones by Shannon M. Parker
Completed on January 11, 2018!
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Completed on March 22, 2018!
16. A narrative nonfiction
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
17. A book you expect to make you laugh
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Larson
18. A book with a location in the title
The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
Completed on February 14, 2018!
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors)
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Completed on May 1, 2018!
21. A book written in first person perspective
We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchison
Completed on February 23, 2018!
22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
23. A medical or legal thriller
Bonfire by Krysten Ritter
24. A book with a map
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen
26. A book with a text only cover
First We Were IV by Alexandra Sirowy
27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
Night by Elie Wiesel
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
The River at Night by Erica Ferencik
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
30. A short book
Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
The Good People by Hannah Kent
Completed on January 31, 2018!
32. An alternate history book
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you: “virtual reality”
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Completed on June 19, 2018!
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call: “A book about mental illness”
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher
35. A book featuring a murder
Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
38. A science book or a science fiction book
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Completed on January 24, 2018!
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list
Little House on the Prairie (Little House #2) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
The Kiss Quotient
Completed July 25, 2018!
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
Completed on June 7, 2018!
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
44. A ghost story
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Completed on February 8, 2018!
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
Thin Air by Michelle Paver
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Indian Horse
Completed May 7, 2018!
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
The Followers by Rebecca Wait
Completed on February 17, 2018!
49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
Completed July 25, 2018!
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
52. A book published in 2018
Mister Tender’s Girl by Carter Wilson
Completed on March 13, 2018!