Lynda's AYT 2018 Plan (Subject to Change on a Whim!)

[Lynda]

This is my first year to attempt this challenge. It looks ambitious, but since I'm retired, it should be doable, right?! We shall see.

Key:
Planned - Title only
In progress - Bookcover and Title
Completed - Checkmark, Bookcover, and Title

Herewith, my tentative plan:

1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
✔ To The Bridge: A Story of Motherhood and Murder

2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
✔ The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards (link)
Little Fires Everywhere

The Bear and the Nightingale

4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth

5. A book about or inspired by real events:
✔ 
 
 Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

6. A book originally written in a language other than English
✔ The Alchemist

7. A gothic novel
Bride Of Pendorric
The Yellow Wallpaper

Northanger Abbey

8. An "own voices" book*
The Hate U Give

9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
✔ Behind Her Eyes

10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
✔ Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

11. A literary fiction
✔ The Underground Railroad

12. A book set in Africa or South America
Homegoing
Love in the Time of Cholera

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)
✔ Silent Victim

14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
✔ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

16. A narrative nonfiction
The Boys in the Boat
Sin in the Second City
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

17. A book you expect to make you laugh
✔ American Housewife

18. A book with a location in the title
✔ The Widow of the South

19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors)
✔ Murder on the Orient Express

20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
Crooked Lines
The Time Between

21. A book written in first person perspective
The Bell Jar

22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
A Column of Fire

23. A medical or legal thriller
Half-Built Houses

Gone But Not Forgotten

24. A book with a map
✔ Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
✔ Jane Steele

26. A book with a text only cover
✔ Everything I Never Told You

27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
✔ A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea

28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
✔ Into the Water

29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
The Rope Walk

30. A short book
84, Charing Cross Road

31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
✔ The Nightingale

32. An alternate history book
11.22.63

33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link) - 1951
American Nerd: The Story of My People

34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link)
Where the Wild Things Are

35. A book featuring a murder
✔ Pretty Girls

36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
✔ Tips for Living

37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee (link1, link2)
May We Be Forgiven

Room

38. A science book or a science fiction book


39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
✔ This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list (link)
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
The Two-Family House

The Great Gatsby

42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
Breathing Under Water

43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
✔ We Have Always Lived in the Castle

44. A ghost story
✔ The Turn of the Screw

45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
The Shining
Bleak House

46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
✔ The Burning Air

47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
✔ The Practice House

49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists (link)
✔ Swimming Lessons

50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)


51. An award-winning short story or short story collection


52 A book published in 2018
✔ Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House