Selva's 2018 ATY Challenge

[Selva]

Ambitious is an understatement... but let's see how far I get!

1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title - A Country Doctor's Notebook ★★★★★
2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list - You're An Animal, Viskovitz! ★★★★★
3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards (link) - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry ★★★★★
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...) - Journey to the Centre of the Earth ★★★★
5. A book about or inspired by real events - Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account ★★★★★
6. A book originally written in a language other than English - The Prose Edda ★★★★★
7. A gothic novel - Frankenstein ★★★★★
8. An "own voices" book* - Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things ★★★★★
9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc) - His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published) - To Kill a Mockingbird ★★★★★
11. A literary fiction - Life of Pi
12. A book set in Africa or South America - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc) - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore ★★★★
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire - Catching Fire
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure - The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time
16. A narrative nonfiction - Into The Wild
17. A book you expect to make you laugh - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
18. A book with a location in the title - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors) - I've gone with the grand master author in Stephen King with It
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends- The Fault in Our Stars
21. A book written in first person perspective - Mockingjay
22. A book you have high expectations or hope for - Flowers For Algernon
23. A medical or legal thriller - The Surgeon
24. A book with a map - Stardust
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view - A Clockwork Orange
26. A book with a text only cover - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc) - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water - The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench) - Norse Mythology
30. A short book - I Am Legend
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to - The Bridge On The River Kwai
32. An alternate history book - V for Vendetta
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link) - Born in year 1992 and the word is 'Taliban' and the book connected to the word is I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link) - I went for the category of 'A book from Goodreads Top 100 Children's books poll' and the book is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
35. A book featuring a murder - Murder on the Orient Express
36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before - Sleeping Giants
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee (link1, link2) - The Power
38. A science book or a science fiction book - The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list (link) - Slaughterhouse-Five
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials - Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater - The Little Mermaid
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
44. A ghost story - A Christmas Carol
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you - Misery
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air - When Breath Becomes Air
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own - A Monster Calls
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth) - I went with sloth and the book is A Confederacy of Dunces
49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists (link) - Dark Matter
50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer) - A Boy Made of Blocks
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection - Him, Me, Muhammad Ali
52. A book published in 2018 - The Hazel Wood