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ATY PROGRESS:JANUARY-ISH:
1. Nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy – (high fantasy, sci-fi, thriller)
2. One of 5 Ws in title (who, what, where, when, why)
3. Author’s name contains A, T, Y –
4. Criminal character (assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel, etc.)
FEBRUARY-ISH:
5. By or inspired by Shakespeare
6. Dual timeline
7. 2 books: same topic, genre or theme (series?)
8. 2 books: same topic, genre or theme (series?)
MARCH-ISH
9. Top 5 money making genres (romance, crime/mystery, religious/inspirational, sci-fi/fantasy, or horror)
10. Featuring a historical figure
11. One of 12 Zodiac Chinese animals (title, cover, subject)
12. About reading, books or an author/writer
APRIL-ISH
13. New York Public Library Staff Picks
14. Title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term
15. Author from or setting in Mediterranean country
16. Multiple perspectives
17. Speculative fiction (fantasy, sci-fi, dystopia)
MAY-ISH
18. Related to an element on the periodic table –
19. By an author with more than one book on your TBR
20. Indigenous people
21. Polarizing or close call vote
JUNE-ISH
22. # in title or on cover
23. 4: wedding rhyme – “something old”
24. 4: wedding rhyme – “something new”
25. 4: wedding rhyme – “something borrowed”
JULY-ISH
26. 4: wedding rhyme – “something blue”
27. 1001 books to read before you die list
28. Related to something cold (theme, title, author, cover)
29. Published before 1950
30. Featuring an elderly character
AUGUST-ISH
31. Children’s classic you’ve never read
32. More than 500 pages
33. You have owned for at least a year
34. Person’s name in title
SEPTEMBER-ISH
35. Psychological thriller
36. Featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list
37. Set in a school or university
38. Not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, graphic novel . . .)
OCTOBER-ISH
39. Strong sense of place
40. Stumbled upon book (serendipitous, unplanned . . .)
41. 2018 GR Choice Awards
42. A monster or “monstrous” character
43. Related to STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)
NOVEMBER-ISH
44. Related in some way to a TV show/series or movie you enjoyed
45. Multi-generational saga
46. (Mostly) black cover
47. Related to food (title, cover, plot, etc.)
DECEMBER-ISH
48. Finalist or winner for the National Book Award
49. Written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country
50. A journey (physical, health, spiritual)
51. Published 2019
52. Weird or intriguing title
as Emily said, FEAST YOUR EYES:
PRIORITY BOOKS:The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
A Ladder to the Sky
Spinning Silver
An Anonymous Girl
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cold Comfort Farm
Once Upon a River
FAVORITE BOOK OF THE MONTH:January:
February:
March:
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
READING CALENDAR:JANUARY:
Book Voyage 1: Where the Crawdads Sing
Book Voyage 2: Blankets
NI Group Read: A Ladder to the Sky
#tribe12twelve: To Kill a Mockingbird
FEBRUARY:
NI Group Read: Cold Comfort Farm
MARCH:
NI Group Read: Once Upon a River
APRIL:
MAY:
JUNE:
JULY:
AUGUST:
SEPTEMBER:
OCTOBER:
NOVEMBER:
DECEMBER:
JANUARY:1. Nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy – (high fantasy, sci-fi, thriller)
HUGO: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1999)
American Gods (2002)
The Fifth Season (2016)
WORLD FANTASY: Kafka on the Shore (2006)
MYTHOPOEIC: The Crystal Cave (1971)
The Wood Wife (1997)
Uprooted (2016)
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (2018)
ANTHONY: Ordinary Grace (2014)
2. One of 5 Ws in title (who, what, where, when, why)
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
What the Scriptures Teach Us About Adversity
Little Fires Everywhere
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
When
The Nowhere Child
subtitle: The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
3. Author’s name contains A, T, Y
Laini Taylor - Strange the Dreamer
4. Criminal character (assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel, etc.)
A Ladder to the Sky
FEBRUARY:
5. By or inspired by Shakespeare
I, Iago
The Gap of Time
Hag-Seed
Brave New World
6. Dual timeline
The Secret Keeper
The Broken Girls
Before We Were Yours
Water for Elephants
The Historian
The Alice Network
Drums of Autumn
The Last Time I Lied
The Blind Assassin
The Last Mrs. Parrish
Sing, Unburied, Sing
The Remains of the Day
I See You
The Name of the Wind
S.
Secrets of a Charmed Life
7. 2 books: same topic, genre or theme (series?, adoption?, parenting?, religion? . . .)
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
A Curious Beginning
The Silkworm
Drums of Autumn
8. 2 books: same topic, genre or theme (series?)
Before We Were Yours
Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
A Red Herring Without Mustard
A Perilous Undertaking
Career of Evil
The Fiery Cross
MARCH:9. Top 5 money making genres (romance, crime/mystery, religious/inspirational, sci-fi/fantasy, or horror)
A Curious Beginning
(continue a series from prompt #8)
10. Featuring a historical figure
Washington's Crossing
Grant
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
11. One of 12 Zodiac Chinese animals (title, cover, subject)
Watership Down
Redwall
Animal Farm
Flowers for Algernon
12. About reading, books or an author/writer
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
The Library at Mount Char
APRIL:
13. New York Public Library Staff Picks
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
The Essex Serpent
Crazy Rich Asians
Artemis
The Last Mrs. Parrish
Red Rising
The Bees
Behind Closed Doors
Pachinko
The Bear and the Nightingale
Jane Steele
A Darker Shade of Magic
Across the Nightingale Floor
American Gods
The Fifth Season
The Gap of Time
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
14. Title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term
The Moonstone
Ginny Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Artemis
The Birth of Venus
The Little Prince
The Starless Sea
15. Author from or setting in Mediterranean country
Circe
The Iliad
The Name of the Rose
16. Multiple perspectives
S.
A Game of Thrones
The Beauty of Darkness
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
17. Speculative fiction (fantasy, sci-fi, dystopia)
Good Morning, Midnight
1984
MAY:18. Related to an element on the periodic table
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Spinning Silver
David Copperfield
Helium
19. By an author with more than one book on your TBR
Jayber Crow
Uprooted
This Savage Song
Jane Doe
20. Indigenous people
Three Day Road
21. Polarizing or close call vote
JUNE:
22. # in title or on cover
Catch-22
Nine Perfect Strangers
23. 4: wedding rhyme – “something old”
Middlemarch
The Scarlet Letter
The Robe
24. 4: wedding rhyme – “something new”
25. 4: wedding rhyme – “something borrowed”
East of Eden
The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
JULY:26. 4: wedding rhyme – “something blue”
So Big
Les Misérables
27. 1001 books to read before you die list
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
Les Misérables
Rebecca
The Name of the Rose
Cat's Cradle
The Remains of the Day
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Kafka on the Shore
Cold Comfort Farm
Native Son
A Suitable Boy
28. Related to something cold (theme, title, author, cover)
Cold Comfort Farm
Blankets
29. Published before 1950
So Big
The Robe
30. Featuring an elderly character
The One-in-a-Million Boy
AUGUST:
31. Children’s classic you’ve never read
The Secret Garden
The Wind in the Willows
32. More than 500 pages
33. You have owned for at least a year
Jayber Crow
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
Yellow Crocus
34. Person’s name in title
Rebecca
Jayber Crow
SEPTEMBER:35. Psychological thriller
Gone Girl
The Other Woman
Jane Doe
36. Featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list
Uprooted
37. Set in a school or university
Educated: A Memoir
38. Not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, graphic novel . . .)
Blankets
S.
Helium
OCTOBER:
39. Strong sense of place
Lonesome Dove
40. Stumbled upon book (serendipitous, unplanned . . .)
41. 2018 GR Choice Awards
42. A monster or “monstrous” character
A Monster Calls
The Passage
43. Related to STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)
NOVEMBER:44. Related in some way to a TV show/series or movie you enjoyed
45. Multi-generational saga
East of Eden
46. (Mostly) black cover
The Road
A Monster Calls
Three Dark Crowns
47. Related to food (title, cover, plot, etc.)
DECEMBER:
48. Finalist or winner for the National Book Award
49. Written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country
Shōgun
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Kafka on the Shore
50. A journey (physical, health, spiritual)
The Hike
51. Published 2019
The Familiars
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
52. Weird or intriguing title
ONGOING LIST OF REJECTS:(potential overlapping from books used on ATY Official List)
Title:
1. Alliteration in title
2. Title with an allusion to another literary work
Cover:
3. “judged by its cover”
Reading List/GR/Recommendations:
4. Hyped book w/ mixed reviews by friends
5. None of GR friends have read/rated
6. Mentioned on blog, podcast . . .
7. Lots of praise on GR from friends or groups
Inside (location, characters, time period):
8. “classic” monster
9. Inspired by a fairy tale
10. Faith/religion plays integral role
11. Involves another world, planet, or realm
12. About a hero of yours
13. A race in it
14. Set in a small town or village
Genre/Format/Theme:
15. A domestic thriller
16. Immortality
17. Short stories, essays, poems
18. Quest or treasure hunt
19. Revenge or vengeance
20. Victorian/neo-Victorian
21. Connected to health or medicine
22. Dark fairytale
23. “up lit”
Author/Publishing/Length:
24. Author known by initials
25. Fewer than 5,000 ratings
Awards/Challenges/Lists/Adaptations:
26. Texas Library Lariat List
Mix:
27. “good for you” – Connected Child
28. Think you should read
29. Related to an obscure or unusual holiday
30. Skeptical about
31. Connected to a cultural appreciation month
32. Connected to your ancestry/heredity
Multi-week Suggestions:
33. 1. Mind ("Mind, Body, and Soul")
34. 2. Body
35. 3. Soul
36. 1. High
37. 2. Low
38. 1. Series
39. 2. Series
40. 3. Series
ONGOING LIST OF REJECTS - POTENTIALS:(potential overlapping from books used on ATY Official List)
Title:
1. Alliteration in title
2. Title with an allusion to another literary work
Cover:
3. “judged by its cover”
Reading List/GR/Recommendations:
4. Hyped book w/ mixed reviews by friends
5. None of GR friends have read/rated
6. Mentioned on blog, podcast . . .
7. Lots of praise on GR from friends or groups
Inside (location, characters, time period):
8. “classic” monster - The Passage
9. Inspired by a fairy tale
10. Faith/religion plays integral role
11. Involves another world, planet, or realm
12. About a hero of yours
13. A race in it - Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
14. Set in a small town or village - Jayber Crow
Genre/Format/Theme:
15. A domestic thriller
16. Immortality
17. Short stories, essays, poems
18. Quest or treasure hunt
19. Revenge or vengeance - Jane Doe
20. Victorian/neo-Victorian - Jane Steele
21. Connected to health or medicine
22. Dark fairytale - Alice
23. “up lit”
Author/Publishing/Length:
24. Author known by initials
25. Fewer than 5,000 ratings
Awards/Challenges/Lists/Adaptations:
26. Texas Library Lariat List
Mix:
27. “good for you” – The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
28. Think you should read
29. Related to an obscure or unusual holiday
30. Skeptical about
31. Connected to a cultural appreciation month
32. Connected to your ancestry/heredity
Multi-week Suggestions:
33. 1. Mind
34. 2. Body
35. 3. Soul
36. 1. High
37. 2. Low
38. 1. Series
39. 2. Series
40. 3. Series
Yoooo this is such a great list. I've read some of the books on your list this year, and loads of others are on my GR / mental TBR. Good luck! Excited to see the rest of your list!!
Thanks! I’m really excited for all the options!
I have Les Mis and Lonesome Dove on my list too...A little daunting but gonna give it a go!! I have heard really good things about Lonesome Dove... and as far as Les Mis I love the musical and the movie so wanted to see what more they have to the story to 60 hours of Audio!!!
Damn, you are ORGANIZED! You've got a ton of great books to choose from too (shout out to Little Fires Everywhere!).
Wow, I did not know Brave New World had to do with Shakespeare. Which play is it related to? I remembering hating it in high school English, but may have to reread it to figure out the Shakespeare connection. :) I love Shakespeare.
I really enjoyed Hike and hope you do too.
Melanie wrote: "Damn, you are ORGANIZED! You've got a ton of great books to choose from too (shout out to Little Fires Everywhere!)."Haha! If it doesn't look aesthetically pleasing, I have a hard time dealing with the lists. One of my eccentricities.
Anastasia wrote: "Wow, I did not know Brave New World had to do with Shakespeare. Which play is it related to? I remembering hating it in high school English, but may have to reread it to figure out the Shakespeare..."
"brave new world" is a quote from one of his plays. I can't remember which one. Other than that, I'm not sure there is any other connection. :)
I was excited when the journey prompt won - The Hike sounds so interesting to me. I'm glad to hear that you liked it!
I have some potentially big things happening this next year, so I'm going to take some of the pressure off. I am still aiming to read 52 books, but I'm only going to commit to a minimum of 36 for the ATY challenge. If other books that I read happen to fit, or if I feel like things are going well, so I can do more, then great!
My plans have changed so drastically this year, & I’ve hardly even looked at the challenge! I haven’t had much time to read, but I need to plug in the books I HAVE gotten to & start knocking out some of the other prompts.
Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
Once Upon a River (other topics)This Savage Song (other topics)
Jayber Crow (other topics)
Uprooted (other topics)
Jane Doe (other topics)
More...
- 2 Novel Idea group reads
- 4 #tribe12twelve group reads
- 6 book voyage
- 6 nonfiction
- 5 Get Them Read Already! TBR
- 5 series continuations
- 9 Book of the Month picks
- 12 freebies
all slotted into the ATY challenge - complete at least 36 prompts
I considered reading in the ATY order, but after seeing how much I'm still rearranging things this year, I'm not going to stress the order I read in after all. Free for all!
I would LOVE to do a rejects plan, but I don't know how realistic it is for me. Reading 52 books is already a stretch, but I'm going to add a rejects list just in case.