Emily's Reading-In-Order Plans + Rejects

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This will be my third ATY challenge, and the second year that I participated in the list-making process. I plan to read the ATY list in order this year, with some side reads filling in my Rejects Challenge prompts. I also want to read every book that I own, because why own them if I don't like them? You can see below for my goals, progress, and plans for how I will tackle these challenges!

Also: My Wacky Challenges and My 40 Before 40 List
Spreadsheets: Tracking Spreadsheet and Spreadsheet of Lists

CURRENT COUNT
Total Books Read: 99/100
ATY Official: 50/52
ATY Rejects: 19/20

From My Shelf: 28/39
40 Before 40 Fiction: 4/4
40 Before 40 Nonfiction: 6/4

POC: 12/12
LGBTQIA+: 12/12
Nonfiction: 12/12

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2019 READS
Feast your eyes

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2019 GOALS

GOAL ONE: Read all books on my shelf

- The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles
- The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
- Still Lives by Maria Hummel

GOAL TWO: Read four books from 40 Before 40 Fiction list
1. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
2. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
3. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

GOAL THREE: Read four books from 40 Before 40 Nonfiction list
1. Educated by Tara Westover
2. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
3. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton
4. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
5. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
6. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer

GOAL FOUR: Read at least one POC book each month

January: When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Read 1/3/2019
February: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas Read 2/23/2019
March: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Read 3/4/2019
April: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan Read 4/26/2019
May: Severance by Ling Ma Read 5/10/2019
June: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams 6/5/2019
July: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
August: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
September: Chemistry by Weike Wang
October: A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
November: Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
December: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See


GOAL FIVE: Read at least one LGBTQIA+ book each month

January: This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel Read 1/11/2019
February: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee Read 2/2/2019
March: What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera Read 3/4/3019
April: The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner Read 4/20/2019
May: History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera Read 5/23/2019
June: The Editor by Steven Rowley Read 7/14/2019
July: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Read 7/21/2019
August: The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
September: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
October: The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
November: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
December:Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff


GOAL SIX: Read at least one nonfiction book each month

January: Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover Read 1/5/2018
February: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan Read 2/16/2019
March:Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton Read 4/4/2019
April: Yes Please by Amy Poehler Read 4/22/2019
May: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand Read 5/5/2019
June: Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani Read 6/27/2019
July: Becoming by Michelle Obama Read 7/24/2019
August: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
September: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
October: The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
November: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
December:Inside Out by Demi Moore

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BOOK RATINGS

5 Stars
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Sadie by Courtney Summers
Educated by Tara Westover

4. 5 Stars
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
Gold by Chris Cleave
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Inside Out by Demi Moore
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, et. al.
The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams

4 Stars
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet by Jennifer Armentrout et. al.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Genuine Fraud by e. lockhart
One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
One Day by David Nicholls
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

3.5 Stars
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Severance by Ling Ma
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce
How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
Frankly in Love by David Yoon

3 Stars
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls by Lauren Graham
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
Requiem by Lauren Oliver
The Editor by Steven Rowley
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas

2.5 Stars
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
Chemistry by Weike Wang

2 Stars
Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

DNF
Emma by Jane Austen
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
There There by Tommy Orange
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

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OFFICIAL ATY PROGRESS POST
ATY Goal: Read entire list in order

1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy
✔️ Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Carnegie Medal for YA

2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title
✔️When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y
✔️The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

4. A book with a criminal character
✔️Genuine Fraud by e. lockhart

5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare
✔️The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

6. A book with a dual timeline
✔️The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton

7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1
✔️Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Mental Illness

8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2
✔️Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Mental Illness

9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres
✔️ Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
Crime/Mystery

10. A book featuring an historical figure
✔️The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Dinah from the Bible

11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals
✔️The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer
✔️The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list
✔️My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie

14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term
✔️ The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country
✔️Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Palestine, France

16. A book told from multiple perspectives
✔️The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams

17. A speculative fiction
✔️Severance by Ling Ma
Post-Apocalyptic

18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements
✔️Gold by Chris Cleave

19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR
✔️One Day by David Nicholls

20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country
✔️Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Navajo Tribe

21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes
✔️History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
A book connected to a cultural appreciation month -- LGBT

22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover
✔️Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old
✔️Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Published 1937

24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New
✔️How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper
Published 2019

25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed
✔️Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Retelling of Rumplestiltskin

26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue
✔️Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Blue Cover

27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list
✔️The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

28. A book related to something cold
✔️The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

29. A book published before 1950
✔️A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

30. A book featuring an elderly character
✔️The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce

31. A children’s classic you’ve never read
✔️The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

32. A book with more than 500 pages
✔️The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet
✔️The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

34. A book with a person's name in the title
✔️Less by Andrew Sean Greer

35. A psychological thriller
✔️The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list
✔️I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

37. A book set in a school or university
✔️Chemistry by Weike Wang

38. A book not written in traditional novel format
✔️Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet by Jennifer Armentrout
Short Stories

39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life
✔️Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

40. A book you stumbled upon
✔️Frankly in Love by David Yoon

41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards
✔️The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas
YA Fiction

42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character
✔️The Huntress by Kate Quinn

43. A book related to STEM
✔️Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer

44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed
✔️Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls by Lauren Graham

45. A multi-generational saga
✔️Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

46. A book with a (mostly) black cover
✔️Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

47. A book related to food
✔️The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year
✔️Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country
✔️Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

50. A book that includes a journey

51. A book published in 2019
✔️Inside Out by Demi Moore

52. A book with a weird or intriguing title

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2019 REJECTS CHALLENGE
Rejects Goal: Of all of the prompts I voted for and all of the close call prompts, read 20 books.

1. A book in which faith/religion plays an integral role in the plot or the life of a main character
✔️Educated by Tara Westover

2. A book set in a small town or village
✔️The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

3. A diverse book
✔️This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
LGBTQIA+

4. An occupation in the title or a book in which a person's occupation is central to the plot
✔️The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

5. A book with at least one word in the title that can be found in our group name (scrambled)
✔️Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Eyre

6. A book with elements from at least two genres
✔️The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee
Historical Fiction and Fantasy

7. A book from the ATY list of "lesser known" books
✔️The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

8. A book in which a character uses a disguise or a false/fake identity
✔️The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

9. A book about a cult or a group of people
✔️Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton

10. A book with the theme of immortality
✔️Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

11. A book in the "up lit" genre
✔️Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

12. A book about a relationship other than romantic
✔️Sadie by Courtney Summers

13. A book that's sad, depressing, devastating, or dark
✔️ The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

14. A book related to or set in a national capital city
✔️Becoming by Michelle Obama

15. A book from the Texas Library Lariat List
✔️Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce

16. A book related to the arts
✔️Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

A book about a person who travels to another country as a vacationer, an expatriate, an immigrant, or a refugee
✔️A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

Options:
A Man Booker Prize Winner or Nominee
A book where the protagonist enters another world
A book with elements from at least two genres
A book from one of The Millions Most Anticipated lists
A book with a romantic element or featuring a romantic relationship
A 20th century classic
A Bildungsroman
A book with less than 200 pages
A book related to your zodiac sign
A "light" book (easy, fun, entertaining) and a "heavy" book (deep, thought provoking, or dark)
A book that has been made into a movie
The winner or nominee for a literary prize in a country other than your own
A book published in the 1960s
A book related to an "obscure or unusual" holiday
A book with a race in it
A book by an author from an island
A book related to a deck of playing cards
A book about or inspired by an ancient civilization
A book with less than 200 pages
The first book on your TBR, sorted by whichever criteria you choose

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OFFICIAL ATY PLANNING POST PI
Prompts 1-18

1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy
YA Award Winners
Read: Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title
BIO: Titles only, no subtitles
Read: When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 👵🏼
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
When Reason Breaks by Cindy L. Rodriguez
Eat Only When You're Hungry by Lindsey Hunter
Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern
What Light by Jay Asher
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Topper

3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y
Read: The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney 📚

My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley 📚
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty 📚
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 👵🏼
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor 👵🏼
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
The Deep End of the Sea by Heather Lyons
Eat Only When You're Hungry by Lindsay Hunter

4. A book with a criminal character
Read: Genuine Fraud by e. lockhart 📚

Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson 📚
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater 👵🏼
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich 👵🏼
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry 👵🏼
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara 👵🏼
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer 👵🏼
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton 👵🏼
White Cat by Holly Black
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare
Read: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams 📚
Brave New World by Adolus Huxley 👵🏼
Saving Hamlet by Molly Booth
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

6. A book with a dual timeline
Read: The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton 📚

One Day by David Nicholls 📚
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub 📚
The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams 📚
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 👵🏼Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1
Nonfiction from 40 Before 40 list
Read: MENTAL ILLNESS: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan 📚

FEMINISM: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
CULTS: Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton
SERIAL KILLERS: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
WWII: Night by Elie Wiesel
AFRICAN AMERICAN: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2
Fiction connected to nonfiction book
Read: MENTAL ILLNESS: Still Alice by Lisa Genova

1. MENTAL ILLNESS: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 👵🏼
1. MENTAL ILLNESS: Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
1. MENTAL ILLNESS: Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
2. FEMINISM: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 📚
2. FEMINISM: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 👵🏼
3. CULTS: The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
3. CULTS: Children of Paradise by Fred D'Aguiar
4. WWII: The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres
Romance/Erotica, Crime/Mystery, Religious/Inspirational, Science Fiction/Fantasy, or Horror
Read: Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
Crime/Mystery

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena 📚 Crime/Mystery
Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson 📚 Crime/Mystery
Still Lives by Maria Hummel 📚 Crime/Mystery
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Creeton 📚
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty 📚 Romance/Erotica
One Day by David Nicholls 📚 Romance/Erotica
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 📚 Horror

10. A book featuring an historical figure
Read: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 👵🏼

I, Claudius by Robert Graves 👵🏼
The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
The Alienist by Caleb Carr

11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals
Read: The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 👵🏼 Sheep/Goat
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 👵🏼 Snake
Lord of the Flies by William Golding 👵🏼 Pig
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman 👵🏼 Mice
Eragon by Christopher Paolini Dragon
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories by Emma Donoghue Rabbit
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Snake

12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer
Read: The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer 📚
The Starless Sea by Erin Morganstern
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list
OFF PLAN Read: My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie

Chemistry by Weike Wang 📚
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 📚
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah 📚
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak 📚
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 📚
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 📚
Educated by Tara Westover 📚👵🏼
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara 👵🏼
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 👵🏼
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
There There by Tommy Orange
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term
Read: The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 📚

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer 👵🏼
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
Artemis by Andy Weir
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy

15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country
OFF PLAN Read: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Brida by Paulo Coelho 📚 Italy
I, Claudius by Robert Graves 👵🏼 Italy
Catch-22 by Joesph Heller 👵🏼 Island on Mediterranean Sea
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 👵🏼 Isreal
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari Isreal
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie Croatia
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee Italy
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Italy
The Time in Between by María Dueñas Morocco

16. A book told from multiple perspectives
OFF PLAN Read: The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 📚
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton 📚
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer 📚
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 👵🏼
One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

17. A speculative fiction
Read: Severance by Ling Ma

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements
Read: Gold by Chris Cleave 📚 [Au]

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak 📚 [Ag]
Yes Please by Amy Poehler 📚 [Ne]
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick [Ag]
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys [NaCl]

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OFFICIAL ATY PLANNING POST PII
Prompts 19-35

19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR
Read: One Day by David Nicholls

Don't Look Back or Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Mosquitoland, Kids of Appetite, or The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik by David Arnold
Still Alice or Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
Home Front or The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Small Great Things or A Spark of Light by Jodi Piccoult
The Summer Wives 📚 or The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams

20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country
Read: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Euphoria by Lily King
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
There There by Tommy Orange
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes
A book connected to the cultural appreciation month that this prompt falls under
Read: History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera


22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover
Read: Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden 📚
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton 📚
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater 👵🏼
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old
Fiction from 40 before 40 list
Read: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1923)
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1927)
Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
I, Claudius by Robert Graves (1934)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)
The Women on the Porch by Caroline Gordon (1943)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)

24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New
Published in 2018 or 2019
OFF PLAN Read: How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper (2019)

The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles 📚
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 📚
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton 📚
Still Lives by Maria Hummel 📚
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney 📚
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 📚
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak 📚
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 📚
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah 📚
The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams 📚
Severance by Ling Ma 📚
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty 📚
Educated by Tara Westover 📚👵🏼
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
The Starless Sea by Erin Morganstern
Opposite of Always by Justin Reynolds
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte

25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed
Read: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak 📚

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue
Off Plan READ: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Genuine Fraud by e. lockhart 📚
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 📚
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton 📚
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Peter Darling by Austin Chant

27. A book off of the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list
Fiction from 40 Before 40 list
Read: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Catch-22 by Joesph Heller
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

28. A book related to something cold
Read: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak 👵🏼
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

29. A book published before 1950
Fiction from 40 Before 40 list
Read: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1923)
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1927)
Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
I, Claudius by Robert Graves (1934)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)
The Women on the Porch by Caroline Gordon (1943)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)

30. A book featuring an elderly character
OFF PLAN Read: The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

31. A children’s classic you’ve never read
Read: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

32. A book with more than 500 pages
Read: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton 📚

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 📚
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet
Read: The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Brida by Paulo Coelho
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Emma by Jane Austen
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Gold by Chris Cleave
Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
One Day by David Nicholls
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Yes Please by Amy Poehler

34. A book with a person's name in the title
OFF PLAN Read: Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Emma by Jane Austen 📚
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 📚
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews 📚
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 👵🏼
The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

35. A psychological thriller
OFF PLAN Read: The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena 📚
Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson 📚
Still Lives by Maria Hummel 📚
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney 📚
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 📚
Don't You Cry by Mary Kubica
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
I See You by Clare Mackintosh
Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
In the Woods by Tana French
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks

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OFFICIAL ATY PLANNING POST PIII
Prompts 36-52

36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list
OFF PLAN Read: I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson 📚
Chemistry by Weike Wang 📚
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 📚
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub 📚
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 📚
My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley 📚
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 👵🏼
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe 👵🏼
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
George by Alex Gino
Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny
Mosquitoland by David Arnold
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

37. A book set in a school or university
Read: Chemistry by Weike Wang 📚

A Separate Peace by John Knowles 👵🏼
The World According to Garp by John Irving 👵🏼
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher 👵🏼
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover 👵🏼
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl

38. A book not written in traditional novel format
Read: Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet by Jennifer Armentrout
Short Stories

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman 👵🏼 Graphic Novel Biography
The Color Purple by Alice Walker 👵🏼 Epistolary
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 👵🏼 Epistolary
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher 👵🏼 Nonfiction Epistolary
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman Documents/Articles

39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life
Read: Next Year in Havana by Chanel Creeton 📚

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novak 📚
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 📚
The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles 📚
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 📚
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton 📚
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 📚
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah 📚
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

40. A book you stumbled upon
OFF PLAN Read: Frankly in Love by David Yoon

The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles
Brida by Paulo Coelho
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley
One Day by David Nicholls
Yes Please by Amy Poehler

41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards
OFF PLAN Read: The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty 📚 Fiction
The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams 📚 Historical Fiction
The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton 📚 Historical Fiction
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 📚 Historical Fiction
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara 👵🏼 Nonfiction
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee Fiction
There There by Tommy Orange Fiction, Debut
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao Fiction
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova Fiction
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman Fiction
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Historical Fiction
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler Memoir/Autobio
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Debut, YA Fantasy

42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character
OFF PLAN Read: The Huntress by Kate Quinn

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 📚
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

43. A book related to STEM
Use 40 Before 40 Nonfiction
Read: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal by Alice Domurat Dreger
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe

44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed
From the Rory Gilmore Challenge
OFF PLAN Read: Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls by Lauren Graham

Emma by Jane Austen 📚
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 👵🏼
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 👵🏼
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kasey 👵🏼
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 👵🏼
A Separate Peace by John Knowles 👵🏼
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

45. A multi-generational saga
Read: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 📚
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 📚
East of Eden by John Steinbeck 👵🏼
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 👵🏼
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 👵🏼
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 👵🏼
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

46. A book with a (mostly) black cover
OFF PLAN Read: Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena 📚
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 📚
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney 📚
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 👵🏼
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 👵🏼
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

47. A book related to food
OFF PLAN Read: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
Kids of Appetite by David Arnold
Eat Only When You're Hungry by Lindsay Hunter
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg

48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year
Read: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 📚
East of Eden by John Steinbeck 👵🏼
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 👵🏼
A Separate Peace by John Knowles 👵🏼
Catch-22 by Joesph Heller 👵🏼
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Leavers by Lisa Ko

49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country
Read: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 📚 South Korea

Severance by Ling Ma 📚 China
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden 📚👵🏼 North Korea
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 👵🏼 Japan
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 👵🏼 China
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See China

50. A book that includes a journey

The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles 📚
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 📚
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce 📚
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 📚
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer 📚
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 👵🏼
History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
Still Alice by Lisa Genova

51. A book published in 2019
OFF PLAN Read: Inside Out by Demi Moore

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte
Opposite of Always by Justin Reynolds

52. A book with a weird or intriguing title

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews 📚
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 👵🏼
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 👵🏼
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer 👵🏼
The World According to Garp by John Irving 👵🏼
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

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RESERVED

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JANUARY

Books Read: 14
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 14/100 6 Ahead


ATY OFFICIAL LIST
Completed This Month: 4
Total Completed: 4/52

Week 1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (⭐️ 4.5)

Week 2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title
- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (⭐️ 3.5)

Week 3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y
- The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (⭐️3)

Week 4. A book with a criminal character
- Genuine Fraud by e. lockhart (⭐️4)


ATY REJECTS
Completed This Month: 5
Total Completed: 5/20

1. A book in which faith/religion plays an integral role in the plot or the life of a main character
- Educated by Tara Westover (⭐️ 5)

2. A book set in a small town or village
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (⭐️ 3)

3. A diverse book
- This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (⭐️ 4.5)

4. An occupation in the title or a book in which a person's occupation is central to the plot
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (⭐️4.5)

5. A book with at least one word in the title that can be found in our group name (scrambled)
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (⭐️ 4)


SIDE READS
Completed This Month: 5

- Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering (⭐️ 2.5)
- Delirium by Lauren Oliver (⭐️3.5)
- Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver (⭐️ 4)
- Requiem by Lauren Oliver (⭐️3)
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (⭐️ 4)


BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

Educated by Tara Westover (⭐️ 5)

STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 1
- Educated by Tara Westover

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 1
- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 2
- This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
- The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

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FEBRUARY

Books Read: 10
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 24/100 8 Books Ahead


ATY OFFICIAL LIST
Completed This Month: 5
Total Completed: 9/52

Week 5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare
- The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (⭐️ 4)

Week 6. A book with a dual timeline
- The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton (⭐️ 2.5)

Week 7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (⭐️ 5)

Week 8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova (⭐️ 4)

Week 9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres
- Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney (⭐️3.5)


ATY REJECTS
Completed This Month: 2
Total Completed: 7/20

6. A book with elements from at least two genres
- The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (⭐️ 4)

7. A book from the ATY list of "lesser known" books
- The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (⭐️ 4)


SIDE READS
Completed This Month: 2

- An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (⭐️3)
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (⭐️ 4)
- One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus (⭐️ 4)


BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (⭐️ 5)


STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 1
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 1
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 2
- The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
- The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

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MARCH

Books Read: 9
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 33/100 9 Ahead


ATY OFFICIAL LIST
Completed This Month: 2
Total Completed: 12/52

Week 10. A book featuring a historical figure
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (⭐️ 4)

Week 11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals
- The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo (⭐️ 4.5)

Week 12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer
- The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George (⭐️ 3.5)


ATY REJECTS
Completed This Month: 1
Total Completed: 8/20

8. A book in which a character uses a disguise or a false/fake identity
- The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (⭐️ 3.5)


SIDE READS
Completed This Month: 5

- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (⭐️3)
- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (⭐️ 4.5)
- What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera (⭐️ 4)
- The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Karen White, and Lauren Willag (⭐️ 4.5)
- Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott (⭐️ 4.5)


BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Karen White, and Lauren Willag

STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 0

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 2
- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 2
- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
- What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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APRIL

Books Read: 8
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 41/100 9 Ahead


ATY OFFICIAL LIST
Completed This Month: 2
Total Completed: 14/52

Week 13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list
- My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie (⭐️ 5)

Week 14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term
- The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (⭐️ 4.5)

Week 15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country
- Salt Houses by Hala Alyan (⭐️ 4)

ATY REJECTS
Completed This Month: 2
Total Completed: 10/20

9. A book about a cult or a group of people
- Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton (⭐️ 4)

10. A book with the theme of immortality
- Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (⭐️3.5)

SIDE READS
Completed This Month: 3

- Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (⭐️ 4)
- Yes Please by Amy Poehler (⭐️ 5)
- The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy (⭐️3)

BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie

STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 2
- Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton
- Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 1
- Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 1
- The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

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MAY

Books Read: 9
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 50/100 9 Ahead


ATY OFFICIAL LIST
Completed This Month: 5
Total Completed: 20/52

Week 16. A book told from multiple perspectives
- The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams (⭐️ 4.5)

Week 17. A speculative fiction
- Severance by Ling Ma (⭐️3.5)

Week 18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements
- Gold by Chris Cleave (⭐️4.5)

Week 19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR
- One Day by David Nicholls (⭐️ 4)

Week 20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country
- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (⭐️ 4.5)

Week 21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes
- History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera (⭐️ 3.5)

ATY REJECTS
Completed This Month: 0
Total Completed:10/20


SIDE READS
Completed This Month: 2

- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (⭐️ 5)
- The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (⭐️3)
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (⭐️ 4.5)

BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 1
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 3
- Severance by Ling Ma
- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 1
- History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

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JUNE

Books Read: 9
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 59/100 10 Ahead


ATY OFFICIAL LIST
Completed This Month: 5
Total Completed: 26/52

Week 22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover
- Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty (⭐️ 4)

Week 23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (⭐️2.5)

Week 24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New
- How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper (⭐️3.5)

Week 25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (⭐️ 4.5)

Week 26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (⭐️ 5)

ATY REJECTS
Completed This Month: 2
Total Completed: 12/20

11. A book in the "up lit" genre
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (⭐️4)

12. A book about a relationship other than romantic
- Sadie by Courtney Summers (⭐️ 5)

SIDE READS
Completed This Month: 2

- Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (⭐️ 4.5)
- Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani (⭐️3.5)


BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

Sadie by Courtney Summers

STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 1
- Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 2
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 0

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

JULY

Books Read: 8
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 67/100 9 Ahead


ATY OFFICIAL LIST
Completed This Month: 3
Total Completed: 29/52

Week 27. A book off of the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (⭐️ 4.5)

Week 28. A book related to something cold
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (⭐️ 5)

Week 29. A book published before 1950
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (⭐️3.5)

ATY REJECTS
Completed This Month: 2
Total Completed: 14/20

13. A book that's sad, depressing, devastating, or dark
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (⭐️ 5)

14. A book related to or set in a national capital city
- Becoming by Michelle Obama (⭐️ 5)

SIDE READS
Completed This Month: 3

- The Editor by Steven Rowley (⭐️3)
- The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory (⭐️ 4)
- Whisper Network by Chandler Baker (⭐️ 4.5)

BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

Becoming by Michelle Obama

STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 1
- Becoming by Michelle Obama

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 1
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 2
- The Editor by Steven Rowley
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

AUGUST

Books Read: 5
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 73/100 5 Ahead


ATY OFFICIAL LIST
Completed This Month: 4
Total Completed: 31/52

Week 30. A book featuring an elderly character
- The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce (⭐️ 4)

Week 31. A children's classic you've never read
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (⭐️ 4.5)

Week 32. A book that is more than 500 pages
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (⭐️ 4.5)

Week 33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (⭐️3.5)


SIDE READS
Completed This Month: 1

- Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (⭐️ 4)


BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (⭐️ 4.5)


STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 1
- Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 1
- Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 1
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

SEPTEMBER

Books Read: 9
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 81/100 7 Ahead


ATY OFFICIAL LIST
Completed This Month: 6
Total Completed: 39/52

Week 34. A book with a person's name in the title
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer (⭐️2.5)

Week 35. A psychological thriller
- The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (⭐️ 4.5)

Week 36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list
- I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (⭐️ 5)

Week 37. A book set in a school or university
- Chemistry by Weike Wang (⭐️2.5)

Week 38. A book not written in traditional novel format
- Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet by Jennifer Armentrout (⭐️ 4)

Week 39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life
- Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton (⭐️ 4.5)


ATY REJECTS
Completed This Month: 1
Total Completed: 15/20

15. A book from the Texas Lariat list
- Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce (⭐️3.5)


SIDE READS
Completed This Month: 2

- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear (⭐️ 5)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (⭐️3.5)


BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear


STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 1
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 1
- Chemistry by Weike Wang

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 3
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
- Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet by Jennifer Armentrout

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

OCTOBER

Books Read: 7
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 88/100 5 Ahead


ATY OFFICIAL LIST
Completed This Month: 3
Total Completed: 42/52

Week 40. A book you stumbled upon
- Frankly in Love by David Yoon (⭐️3.5)

Week 41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards
- The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas (⭐️3)

Week 42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character
- The Huntress by Kate Quinn (⭐️5)


ATY REJECTS
Completed This Month: 2
Total Completed: 18/20

17. A book related to the arts
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mendel (⭐️4.5)

18. A book about a person who travels to another country as a vacationer, an expatriate, an immigrant, or a refugee
- A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum (⭐️3.5)


SIDE READS
Completed This Month: 2

- The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe (⭐️3.5)
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (⭐️4.5)


BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mendel


STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 1
- The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 1
- A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 1
- The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

NOVEMBER

Books Read: 7
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 95/100 4 Ahead


ATY OFFICAL LIST
Completed This Month: 4
Total Completed: 46/52

Week 43. A book related to STEM
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer

Week 44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed
- Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls by Lauren Graham

Week 45. A multi-generational saga
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Week 46. A book with a (mostly) black cover
Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark


ATY REJECTS
Completed This Month: 1
Total Completed: 19/20

19. A book where the protagonist enters another world
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern


SIDE READS
Completed This Month: 2

- Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
- We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union


BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern


STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 4
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
- Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls by Lauren Graham
- We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
- Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 2
- Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
- We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 1
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

DECEMBER

Books Read: 4
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 99/100


ATY OFFICIAL LIST
Completed This Month: 4
Total Completed: 50/52

Week 47. A book related to food
- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

Week 48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year
- Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

Week 49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Week 51. A book published in 2019
- Inside Out by Demi Moore


ATY REJECTS
Completed This Month:
Total Completed:


SIDE READS
Completed This Month:


BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See


STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 1
- Inside Out by Demi Moore

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 2
- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 1
- Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

[Liz]

I need to make a list of all the books on my shelf & get.them.read! Thanks for the motivation!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Liz wrote: "I need to make a list of all the books on my shelf & get.them.read! Thanks for the motivation!"

Glad to inspire haha! I only have one bookshelf at the moment, so my books are overflowing everywhere... Husband is buying me three bookshelves for Christmas, so I'll finally be able to have an order to everything and I'm hoping it will help with finishing all of these books!

[Ann]

Geez, Emily, I don't need to go to the library for suggestions for each prompt, I only need to read your list and choose. No No No I need to read off my bookshelf first! Ignore Emily's list.

[Edie]

You have some great books to choose from. I loved seeing several Sarah Addison Allen books on your list. She is one of the authors that I scramble to get any new book she publishes. I highly recommend Middlesex which I had trouble putting down... all 529 pages of it. I agree with Ann, your planning will help my picking.

[Liz]

I love Sarah Addison Allen. Such fun, whimsical stories.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Sarah Addison Allen is one of the few authors that I call my favorite. I rarely pay attention to authors, but I just love every book she's written.

Glad I could help with your planning! I overplan at the beginning of the year then ignore my plan for the rest of it, so... it's good that other people are benefitting as well haha!

[Melanie]

The Red Tent is one of my favorite novels EVER. It's fantastic. I also enjoyed The Alienist, but I didn't realize until after the fact that I'd listened to an abridged audiobook. But it was still very entertaining (and the narrator was terrific at voices too). Their Eyes Were Watching God and Things Fall Apart are also fantastic. Things Fall Apart in particular was almost shockingly good.

I read Death Comes for the Archbishop in high school, so it's been a while, but I remember I really loved it. I've been meaning to read more of Willa Cather ever since. The Color Purple is another one of my all-time faves. It's one of those books that everyone says that they love so you get to thinking it can't possibly be THAT good... but it is. It's amazing. I really recommend it. It's a little difficult at first, because it's written in vernacular, but once you get the hang of it, it's worth it.

[Angie]

Another Sarah Addison Allen fan here. First Frost is wonderful.

I like a lot of your choices. I've read quite a few of them and have a few on my list, as well. I meant to read The Alienist this year but didn't get to it. So it'll probably be on my list for Book Featuring Historical Figure, too.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Ahhh I'm so glad to hear good things about all of these picks! Most of them are on my 40 Before 40 list, so if I don't get to them this year, I'll get there eventually.

[Tracy]

I love your 40 over 40 emoji Emily....makes me feel like a little old lady 😂

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Tracy wrote: "I love your 40 over 40 emoji Emily....makes me feel like a little old lady 😂"

Bahahaha I couldn't help myself!

[Tracy]

Emily wrote: "Tracy wrote: "I love your 40 over 40 emoji Emily....makes me feel like a little old lady 😂"

Bahahaha I couldn't help myself!"

I've only pulled out 3 grey's so far 😏

[Johanne]

haha I wondered what that emoji meant :)

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

👵🏼 is my 40 Before 40 list and 📚 means I own the book!

[Tracy]

Emily wrote: "👵🏼 is my 40 Before 40 list and 📚 means I own the book!"

haha Johanne because us 40 somethings are all old ladies 😂

[Joan]

I love your ideas for books. I stole one or two for options for me. I love your page!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Joan wrote: "I love your ideas for books. I stole one or two for options for me. I love your page!"

Ah thank you!! Steal away!

[Johanne]

@Tracy, we are ancient! I am also really short, so that must mean I'm a little old lady :)

[Rachelnyc]

Well, this old lady loves so many books on your list Emily.

Some of my faves are:
The Alienist (I think this qualifies for sense of place as well since the author did an incredible job of making you feel like you were in that time period of NYC)
The Red Tent
The Great Alone
The Poisonwood Bible
Brooklyn
The Bell Jar
A Gentleman in Moscow

You are going to have a great reading year.

[Kelly]

Nice long list!!! I snagged a few off your list to fill in some of my holes! :) I hope you enjoy Panchanko, The Poisonwood Bible and The Great Alone, Storyteller and Commonwealth as much as I did!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Kelly wrote: "Nice long list!!! I snagged a few off your list to fill in some of my holes! :) I hope you enjoy Panchanko, The Poisonwood Bible and The Great Alone, Storyteller and Commonwealth as much as I did!"

Thank you! I'm really looking forward to Pachinko... it keeps popping up everywhere.. like the universe wants me to read it!

Rachelnyc wrote: "Well, this old lady loves so many books on your list Emily.

Some of my faves are:
The Alienist (I think this qualifies for sense of place as well since the author did an incredible jo..."

Thanks for the heads up about The Alienist! I definitely want to get to it, but I don't own it and those are the books I'm prioritizing... the more prompts I assign it to, the more likely I am to actually read it haha!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Ok I think I'm done with my planning for next year! I have a ton of options for each prompt, and I'm sure I'll be disappointed when I can't get to every single book on my (rather extensive) list.

[Celeste]

So many options!!!!! So you're gonna be reading 150+ books???
Mind-boggling. O_O

Edit: Is Feast Your Eyes a book or just a saying? o.O

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

The Feast Your Eyes will be where I post all of the covers of the books that I've read this year.

I'm definitely NOT reading 150+ books, but since I'm reading in order, I tried to give myself lots of options. I'm a total mood reader, so I didn't want to tie myself down to one book per prompt.

[Kathy]

Love your list, Emily. I’ll be using it as a resource!

[Rachelnyc]

I am impressed as always by your organization skills! So many great books on your list and quite a few that are on my TBR for 2019 so I'll be following along to see what you end up reading.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Happy new year to everyone! My Goodreads reading goal is set to 100 and I am ready to... sleep because it’s 12:35. But then wake up refreshed and ready to read!

[Steve]

Emily wrote: "Happy new year to everyone! My Goodreads reading goal is set to 100 and I am ready to... sleep because it’s 12:35. But then wake up refreshed and ready to read!"

That 0 books completed feels like it’s already taunting me! Happy new year!