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Nov 10, 2018 10:15AM

✅ 1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy:: Provenance by Ann Leckie (nominated for Hugo Award)
✅ 2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, What, Where, When, Why):: What We Lose
✅ 3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y:: We Need New Names
✅ 4. A book with a criminal character (i.e. assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel etc):: Queenpin

✅ 5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare:: Hag-Seed
✅ 6. A book with a dual timeline:: Pieces of Her
✅ 7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1:: We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam
✅ 8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2:: The Man from Saigon

✅ 9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres (romance/erotica, crime/mystery, religious/inspirational, science fiction/fantasy or horror):: Bring Me Back
✅ 10. A book featuring an historical figure:: American Spy (Thomas Sankara)
✅ 11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals (title, cover, subject):: The Night Tiger
✅ 12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer:: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

✅ 13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list:: My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Winter 2018 List)
✅ 14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term:: Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
✅ 15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country:: Athenian Blues
✅ 16. A book told from multiple perspectives:: Before She Knew Him
✅ 17. A speculative fiction (i.e. fantasy, scifi, horror, dystopia):: The Wall

✅ 18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements:: The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
✅ 19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR:: Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
✅ 20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country:: Green Snake Ceremony With Green Snake Bookmark
✅ 21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes:: Late in the Day (Close Call - from the Millions Most Anticipated list)

✅ 22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover:: Nine Perfect Strangers
✅ 23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old:: The Old Drift
✅ 24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New:: The New Wine Rules: A Genuinely Helpful Guide to Everything You Need to Know
✅ 25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed:: Ordinary Girls (borrowed from the library)

✅ 26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue:: Baltimore Blues
✅ 27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list:: The Grapes of Wrath
✅ 28. A book related to something cold (i.e. theme, title, author, cover, etc.):: Ways to Hide in Winter
✅ 29. A book published before 1950:: Of Mice and Men
✅ 30. A book featuring an elderly character:: The Memory Police

✅ 31. A children’s classic you’ve never read:: Harold and the Purple Crayon
✅ 32. A book with more than 500 pages:: Lethal White
✅ 33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet:: Station Eleven
✅ 34. A book with a person's name in the title:: The Confessions of Frannie Langton

✅ 35. A psychological thriller:: Her One Mistake
✅ 36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list:: America Is Not the Heart
✅ 37. A book set in a school or university:: Trust Exercise
✅ 38. A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel, etc) - Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

✅ 39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life:: Ohio
✅ 40. A book you stumbled upon:: Trinity
✅ 41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards:: Heavy: An American Memoir
✅ 42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character:: Thirteen
✅ 43. A book related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) [fiction or nonfiction]:: Lost and Wanted

✅ 44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed (same topic, same era, book appeared in the show/movie, etc.):: Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
✅ 45. A multi-generational saga:: Homegoing
✅ 46. A book with a (mostly) black cover:: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
✅ 47. A book related to food (i.e. title, cover, plot, etc.):: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

✅ 48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year:: Trust Exercise
✅ 49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country - How We Disappeared (Singapore)
✅ 50. A book that includes a journey (physical, health, or spiritual):: Lost Children Archive
✅ 51. A book published in 2019:: The Butterfly Girl
✅ 52. A book with a weird or intriguing title:: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

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message 2: by Aimee Dars (last edited Nov 11, 2018 07:15PM) (new)

Nov 10, 2018 10:33AM