Charlie's 2019 ATY Challenge

[charlie]

I was very excited for this challenge last year and then fell off the wagon immediately. I'm hoping to actually stick to it this year.

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[charlie]

IDEAS FOR EACH CATEGORY

1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy
Her Body and Other Parties

2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, What, Where, When, Why)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World
Dataclysm: Who We Are
When Breath Becomes Air

3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y
Mort
Night Watch
Children of Blood and Bone

4. A book with a criminal character (i.e. assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel etc)
Jade War
The Republic of Thieves

5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare
Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold
Titus Andronicus

6. A book with a dual timeline
Pulp

7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1
The Gang's All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members

8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2
Stone Butch Blues

9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres (romance/erotica, crime/mystery, religious/inspirational, science fiction/fantasy or horror)
Dragon Pearl
Neverwhere

10. A book featuring an historical figure
Empress
Becoming Madame Mao
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals (title, cover, subject)
Dragon Pearl

12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer
Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers
William Gibson

13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list
Annihilation
Circe

14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Little Prince

15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country
My Brilliant Friend
Circe

16. A book told from multiple perspectives
The Stand
A Tale for the Time Being

17. A speculative fiction (i.e. fantasy, scifi, horror, dystopia)
The Oversight
The Martian Chronicles
The War of the Worlds
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
Space Opera

18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements
19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR
20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country
21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes

22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover
A Thousand Splendid Suns

23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old
The Golden Ass

24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New
25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed

26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
This Is How You Lose the Time War

27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Accidental
Middlesex
White Teeth
Alias Grace

28. A book related to something cold (i.e. theme, title, author, cover, etc.)
29. A book published before 1950
30. A book featuring an elderly character

31. A children’s classic you’ve never read

32. A book with more than 500 pages
All the Light We Cannot See
Ulysses
A Little Life

33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet
The Blind Assassin
No Logo
The Illustrated Man

34. A book with a person's name in the title
Mort

35. A psychological thriller

36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
Little Fires Everywhere
The Hate U Give

37. A book set in a school or university
The Secret History
Vilette

38. A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel, etc)
Red Doc>
Glass, Irony and God

39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life

40. A book you stumbled upon

41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Circe
The Hate U Give
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character
43. A book related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) [fiction or nonfiction]

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.)
45. A multi-generational saga

46. A book with a (mostly) black cover
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Tempests and Slaughter
The Water Knife

47. A book related to food (i.e. title, cover, plot, etc.)

48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year
The Underground Railroad
Sing, Unburied, Sing
The Corrections

49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Dragon Republic
Hear the Wind Sing
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

50. A book that includes a journey (physical, health, or spiritual)
The Breast

51. A book published in 2019
Dragon Pearl
Jade War
This Is How You Lose the Time War

52. A book with a weird or intriguing title
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Are Those Your Underpants on the Conveyor?: Hilarious Tales of Travel on a Very Small Planet