Michelle G's 2018 ATY List--Based on NPR's Best Books of 2017

[Michelle]

I'm trying to combine working my way through the 2017 Best Books of the Year List from NPR with this challenge. I was mostly successful and I'm open to suggestions on the books that don't have (NPR) listed.

The 2018 List

1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (NPR)
2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards (link): Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (NPR)
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...) Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers (NPR)
5. A book about or inspired by real events: Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Perry (NPR)
6. A book originally written in a language other than English: Frontier by Can Xue (NPR)
7. A gothic novel: Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (NPR)
8. An "own voices" book*: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (NPR)
9. A book with a body part in the title: River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey (NPR)
10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published): Lotus by Lijia Zhang (NPR)
11. A literary fiction: Human Acts by Han Kang (NPR)
12. A book set in Africa or South America: Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh (NPR)
13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc): Glass Houses by Louise Penny (NPR)
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire: American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse (NPR)
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure: My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris (NPR)
16. A narrative nonfiction: Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (NPR)
17. A book you expect to make you laugh: Sin Bravely: A Memoir of Spiritual Disobedience by Maggie Rowe (NPR)
18. A book with a location in the title: Iraq +100: The First Anthology of Science Fiction to Have Emerged from Iraq by Hassan Blasim (NPR)
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors): Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends: The Golden House by Salman Rushdie (NPR)
21. A book written in first person perspective: The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs (NPR)
22. A book you have high expectations or hope for: Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks (NPR)
23. A medical or legal thriller: The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris (NPR)
24. A book with a map: Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies by Andrew DeGraff (NPR)
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view: The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss (NPR)
26. A book with a text only cover: Literature Class, Berkley 1980 by Julio Cortazar (NPR)
27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc): What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons (NPR)
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water: ­Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys (NPR)
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench): The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan (NPR)
30. A short book: Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle (NPR)
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (NPR)
32. An alternate history book: The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link): An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became a Big Business and How You Can Take it Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal (word: PPO, preferred provider) (NPR)
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link): The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch (NPR)
35. A book featuring a murder: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an auth (NPR)or you haven't read before: From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty (NPR)
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee (link1, link2): The Power by Naomi Alderman (NPR)
38. A science book or a science fiction book: Sourdough by Robin Sloan (NPR)
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title: The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in WWII by Svetlana Alexievich (NPR)
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list (link): A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials: Tender: Stories by Sofia Samatar (NPR)
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater: Starfish by Peter Watts
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence: literally show me a healthy person by Darcie Wilder (NPR)
44. A ghost story: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (NPR)
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you: Walkaway by Cory Doctorow (NPR)
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air: Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia by Gerda Saunders (NPR)
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own: Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Ngozi Adichie (NPR)
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth): Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar (NPR)
49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists (link): 4 3 2 1 by Paul Aster (NPR)
50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer): The Wide Circumference of Love by Marita Golden (NPR)
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection: The Mountain: Stories by Paul Yoon (NPR)
52. A book published in 2018: ____________________________