Cecily's cross-it-off reading plan

[Cecreyn]

The 2018 List
Finished 12/27/18

1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title An Extraordinary Union
2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list The Boy in the Suitcase
3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice AwardsWires and Nerve, Volume 1
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth Wild Beauty
5. A book about or inspired by real events The Lions of Al-Rassan
6. A book originally written in a language other than English Beartown
7. A gothic novel The Thirteenth Tale
8. An "own voices" book Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc) Wires and Nerve
10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published) An Enchantment of Ravens
11. A literary fiction Warlight
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) The Quantum Spy
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire Ashfall
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure Jane, Unlimited
16. A narrative nonfiction The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
17. A book you expect to make you laugh Two for the Dough
18. A book with a location in the title The Kremlin's Candidate
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors) Long Way Down
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends The Heart's Invisible Furies
21. A book written in first person perspective The Devil You Know
22. A book you have high expectations or hope for Tower of Dawn
23. A medical or legal thriller Mississippi Blood (legal thriller)
24. A book with a map Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view Circe
26. A book with a text only cover Ready Player One
27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc) Never Fall Down (war)
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water La Belle Sauvage
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench) Assassin's Apprentice (dagger)
30. A short book The Old Man and the Sea
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to The Girl in the Tower (Russia)
32. An alternate history book The Iron Duke
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you The Last Place You Look (1971: sexual assault)
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call The City of Brass (a book with a supernatural character)
35. A book featuring a murder A Necessary Evil: A Novel
36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before The Woman in the Water by Charles Finch
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (long list, 2016)
38. A science book or a science fiction book The Stone Sky
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials Save the Date by Morgan Matson
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater To Kill a Kingdom
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence Trouble Never Sleeps
44. A ghost story The Last to See Me: A Novel
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you The Game of Kings (intimidates)
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air Want
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own The Garden of Evening Mists
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth) IQ (pride, greed)
49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory (from 09/14)
50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer) Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection A Study in Emerald (Hugo award, 2004)
52. A book published in 2018 The Last Equation of Isaac Severy