Sharla's 2018 AtY Plan

[Sharla]

I love to make plans. I am just not so good at following them. At the start of the new year, when reading possibilities seem endless, I can post this plan and think I might make a dent in it. Come May, when it's time to start reading middle grade literature (titles not yet identified) in preparation for next school year's battle of the books, I may not be so optimistic. So, here goes:

1. Letters A, T & Y in the title: The Hate U Give I know...it doesn't have a Y. I thought the title was "You", not "U." Reading it anyhow.
The Empathy Exams: Essays
2. From first 10 in TBR list: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
3. From 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards: Little Fires Everywhere or The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
4. 4 Elements/Earth: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
5. About or inspired by real events: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
6. Originally written in language other than English: The Baghdad Eucharist
7. Gothic Novel: The Shadow of the Wind
8. "Own Voices": Esperanza Rising
9. Body part in title: In the Skin of a Lion or White Teeth
10. Author's Debut book: Special Topics in Calamity Physics or Lincoln in the Bardo
11. Literary fiction: Things Fall Apart
12. Set in Africa or South America: A Change in Altitude
13. Plot centered around a secret: The Eight
14. 4 Elements/Fire: The Fire (sequel to #13)
15. Unique format/writing structure: Brown Girl Dreaming
16. Narrative nonfiction: The Camping Trip That Changed America
17. Book you expect to make you laugh: Dog Man and Cat Kid
18. Location in the title: The Little Paris Bookshop
19. Edgar Award nominee or Grand master author: Greenglass House
20. Rated 5 stars by a friend: The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
21. First person: The Remains of the Day
22. High expectations: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (if she finishes it in time for publication in 2018) otherwise The Wild Robot Escapes
23. Medical or legal thriller: ?
24. Book with a map: A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
25. Antagonist/villain point of view: The Book Thief
26. Text only cover: George and Lizzie
27. Surviving a hardship: The War that Saved My Life
28. 4 Elements/Water: Water for Elephants
29. Clue Weapon: ?
30. Short book: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
31. Book set in country I'd like to visit: The Shadow of the Wind
32. Alternate history: 11/22/63
33. Book connected to a word "born" the same year as me: They Changed the World: Crick & Watson - The Discovery of DNA this one tickles me because two of my words were Crick-Watson and graphic novel. This is a GN about Crick & Watson and their work with DNA.
34. Close or polarizing: Five Quarters of the Orange
35. Book featuring a murder: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
36. Book publish in last 3 years by author I haven't read: The Dollmaker of Krakow or Challenger Deep
37. Women's Prize for Fiction: Where'd You Go, Bernadette
38. Science or Science Fiction: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
39. Book with a form of punctuation in the title: Sing, Unburied, Sing
40. Amazon's 100 books to read in a lifetime: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
41. Author with same first and last initials: The Iron Trial (first listed author is H.B., but co-author is Cassandra Clare) or The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
42. On, in or underwater: ?
43. Title is a whole sentence: The Sun Is Also a Star
44. Ghost story: Dark Matter or Thin Air
45. Book that intimidates/scares you: ?
46. 4 Elements/Air: The Aviator's Wife
47. Main character not same ethnic origin, race, etc as me: Love and Other Consolation Prizes
48. 7 deadly sins: ?
49. Goodreads best books of the month list: Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
50. Warm atmosphere: Alex and Eliza
51. Award-winning short story or collection: Interpreter of Maladies
52. Book published in 2018: Love