Johanna'a 2020 Plan (Is this the year I finally complete a challenge?) Yes. Yes it is!!!!!

[Johanna]

THE 2020 LIST

52/52 Completed

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y:
Requiem
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable:
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee (1/23/2020)
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019:
Rich People Problems (7/8/2020)
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live:
Cinder (1/5/2020)
5. The first book in a series that you have not started:
Delirium (6/3/2020)


6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover:
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (7/21/2020)
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere:
The Hypnotist's Love Story (6/7/2020)
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The":
The Immortalists (1/6/2020)
9. A book that can be read in a day:
Belzhar (7/11/2020)


10. A book that is between 400-600 pages:
The Great Alone (3/19/2020)
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number:
Crimes Against a Book Club
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people:
The President Is Missing (1/31/2020)
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge:
Summer of '69 (2016: A book on a summer/beach reading list)
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers:
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple (2/20/2020)


15. A book set in a global city:
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai & LA) (1/6/2020)
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area:
The Secret Life of Bees (4/21/2020)
17. A book with a neurodiverse character:
Counting by 7s (1/10/2020)
18. A book by an author you've only read once before:
Big Little Lies (1/1/2020)


19. A fantasy book:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1/22/2020)
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]:
Cherry Ames at Hilton Hospital (8/26/2020)
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719:
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell (4/13/2020)
22. A book with the major theme of survival:
Station Eleven (8/6/2020)


23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author:
George (2/2/2020)
24. A book with an emotion in the title:
P.S. I Still Love You (2/27/2020)
25. A book related to the arts:
The Art Forger (6/20/2020)
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards: The Institute (3/13/2020)
27. A history or historical fiction: The Tattooist of Auschwitz (5/1/2020)


28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author:
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty (3/6/2020)
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book:
When the Emperor Was Divine (7/18/2020)
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year:
31. A book inspired by a leading news story:
The Gifted School (3/5/2020)


32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan:
Pachinko (5/3/2020)
33. A book about a non-traditional family:
Silver Sparrow (6/30/2020)
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name:
Salt to the Sea (Historical Fiction) (7/5/2020)
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover:
The Circle (4/28/2020)


36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim: Where the Forest Meets the Stars (1/14/2020)
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1:
An American Marriage (4/8/2020)
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2:
The Divorce Papers (1/21/2020)
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce:
This Is Where It Ends (1/13/2020)


40. A book with a place name in the title: Outer Banks
41. A mystery:
The Woman in the Window (4/12/2020)
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World:
Little Fires Everywhere (1/18/2020)
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse:
Night (4/9/2020) - War
44. A book related to witches:
Akata Witch (5/21/2020)


45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018:
The Hate U Give (6/24/2020)
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire":
Next Year in Havana (5/20/2020) - "Castro"
47. A classic book you've always meant to read: The Diary of a Young Girl (7/18/2020)
48. A book published in 2020:
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (6/16/2020)


49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win: A book where the audiobook is read by the author:
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover:
Wedding Night (4/26/2020)
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title:
Saving Meghan (1/29/2020)
52. A book related to time:
1929 (2/5/2020)

[Johanna]

2020 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

9/52 Completed

√ 1. A book that's published in 2020: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (6/17/2020)
√ 2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author: George (2/2/2020)
√ 3. A book with a great first line: Little Fires Everywhere (1/18/2020)
√ 4. A book about a book club: Crimes Against a Book Club (3/10/2020)
√ 5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics:
The Downstairs Girl (1/23/2020)
√ 6. A bildungsroman: The Only Girl in the World (6/17/2020)
√ 7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed: The Fur Person (7/24/2020)
√ 8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover: On Turpentine Lane (8/8/2020)
√ 9. A book with a map: Salt to the Sea (7/5/2020)
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club:
11. An anthology:
√ 12. A book that passes the Bechdel test: The Secret Life of Bees (4/21/2020)
√ 13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it: Delirium (6/4/2020)
√ 14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name: Counting by 7s (1/10/2020)
√ 15. A book published the month of your birthday: Nine Perfect Strangers (3/6/2020)
√ 16. A book about or by a woman in STEM: Where the Forest Meets the Stars (1/14/2020)
√ 17. A book that won an award in 2019:
An American Marriage (4/8/2020)
√ 18. A book on a subject you know nothing about:
Akata Witch (5/21/2020)
19. A book with only words on the cover, no graphics or images
√ 20. A book with a pun in the title :
A Study in Charlotte (6/21/2020)
√ 21. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins: The Gifted School (3/5/2020) - Greed
√ 22. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character:
Cinder (1/5/2020)
√ 23. A book with a bird on the cover: When Life Gives You Lululemons (3/22/2020)
√ 24. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader: The President Is Missing (1/31/2020)
√ 25. A book with the word "gold, "silver," or "bronze" in the title: Silver Sparrow (6/30/2020)
√ 26. A book by a WOC: Kindred
√ 27. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads: The Tattooist of Auschwitz (5/2/2020)
√ 28. A book you meant to read in 2019:
The Immortalists (1/6/2020)
√ 29. A book about or involving social media: The Circle (4/28/2020)
30. A book that has a book on the cover: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill (6/19/2020)
√ 31: A medical thriller: Saving Meghan (1/29/2020)
√ 32. A book with a made up language: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1/22/2020)
√ 33. A book set in a country beginning with "C"
Station Eleven
√ 34. A book you picked because the title caught your attention: American Royals (9/1/2020)
√ 35. A book with a three word title: (3/19/2020)
√ 36. A book with a pink cover: Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, & Baking Biscuits (2/23/2020)
37. A Western:
38. A book by or about a journalist:
√ 39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week: Thirteen Reasons Why
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge:

ADVANCED:
√ A book written by an author in their 20s: The Hate U Give (6/24/2020)
√ A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title: Twenties Girl (5/11/2020)
√ A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision): The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell (4/13/2020)
√ A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics: Pachinko (5/3/2020)
√ A book set in the 1920s: 1929 (2/5/2020)
√ A book by an author who has written more than 20 books: The Institute (3/13/2020)
A book with more than 20 letters in its title:
√ A book published in the 20th century: Night (4/9/2020)
√ A book from a series with more than 20 books:
Cherry Ames at Hilton Hospital (8/26/2020)
√ A book with a main character in their 20s: Big Little Lies (1/2/2020)

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[Johanna]

Books by Name:

1929 (5,10,27,52) (12, 42, 45,)
After the End (30)
Akata Witch (44)
The Alchemist (8)
All the Birds in the Sky (44, 2)
An American Marriage (2, 14,30,37,42) (5, 10,
American War (30,43)
As Bright as Heaven (36)
The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (40, 16)
Becoming (1,10,31,51, 15)
Belzhar (9)
Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica (4)
Big Little Lies (7, 28)
Bugs Bunny: Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare (52)
Burial Rites (42)
Cherry Ames at Hilton Hospital (2,20)
Cinder (1, 4, 19)
Circe (44)
Commonwealth (14,30)
Counting by 7s (2, 17, 33, 51))
The Couple Next Door (36)
Corelli's Mandolin (25)
Crimes Against a Book Club (11, 36)
Cry of the Kalahari (45)
The Divorce Papers (10, 38)
The Downstairs Girl (2)
Educated (30, 10)
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell (10, 21, 50)
Fever (1,18,45)
Flight Behavior (10,14)
George (1,23, 2)
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (43, 5, 9)
The Gifted School (10,31)
The Girl With All the Gifts (43)
The Goldfinch (1,2,8,14,42, 6)
The Great Alone (10,18, 10)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (5, 6, 11, 14, 19, 33, 44, 45)
The Hate U Give (18,24, 10)
The Hours (52)
The House on Mango Street (40)
The Hypnotist's Love Story (10,28)
The Identicals (8)
The Immortalists (8, 23)
The Institute (8,10,34)
Jack Glass (35)
The Kiss Quotient (17)
The Last One (22)
Less (1,2,11,30,42, 8)
The Library Book (30)
Life Of Pi (6)
Little Fires Everywhere (2, 14 ,39, 42)
Love in the Time of Cholera (24,52, 8)
The Martian (2,8,18,21,22)
Middlemarch (42)
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton (2,18,27,34,45)
Next Year in Havana (40)
Night (4, 5, 43)
Pachinko (30,42, 10)
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (21)
O Pioneers! (1,11,14,18))
The President Is Missing (10, 12,
One Hundred Years of Solitude (52)
One of Us Is Next (45)
The Orchardist's Daughter (7)
Our Endless Numbered Days (22)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (24)
P.S. I Still Love You (2,18,24)
Rich People Problems (1,15)
Robinson Crusoe (21)
The Rosie Effect (17)
The Rules of Magic (44)
Salt to the Sea (4, 18, 22, 27, 34, 39, 43)
Saving Meghan (51
The Secret Life of Bees (2, 11, 16, 27, 33)
Shanghai Girls (2, 5, 15, 27, 40, 45 )
The Silent Patient (41, 5)
Silver Sparrow (2, 11, 14, 15, 18, 33)
Something Missing (2,17,51)
Station Eleven (4)
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (32, 5)
Summer of '69 (38)
The Swan Thieves (10,25)
Swimming Lessons (41,51)
Swing Time (2, 52, 15)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (4)
This Is Where It Ends (16, 22, 23, 31, 39)
Three Men in a Boat (6)
Today Will Be Different (14,18)
The Unhoneymooners (12)
What Alice Forgot (7,10,28)
What Happened to Rose (36,41)
Where the Forest Meets the Stars (9, 16, 29, 33, 36, 39)
Winter Solstice (38)
The Woman in the Window (2,10)

[Johanna]

[Johanna]

Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge

A book published the decade you were born:
Kindred

A debut novel:
The Tattooist of Auschwitz

A book recommended by a source you trust:
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

A book by a local author:
Camino Winds by John Grisham

A book outside your genre (comfort) zone:
Cinder

A book in translation:
The Perfect Nanny

A book nominated for an award in 2020 - The Night Visitors

A re-read:
Number the Stars

A classic you didn't read in school:
The Little Prince

Three books by the same author:
Big Little Lies
Nine Perfect Strangers
The Hypnotist's Love Story

[Johanna]

ATY 2020 Planning:

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y:
1929
Becoming
Cinder
The Circle
Delirium
George
Rich People Problems
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable:
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
The Institute by Stephen King
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019:
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live:
Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Cinder
Delirium
The Great Alone
Next Year in Havana
Night
Station Eleven
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
5. The first book in a series that you have not started:
1929
Akata Witch
Cinder
Delirium
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Night
Shanghai Girls
6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Life Of Pi
**Three Men in a Boat
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere:
**What Alice Forgot - Australia
Big Little Lies - Australia
Nine Perfect Strangers- Australia
The Hypnotist's Love Story - Australia
The Orchardist's Daughter - Tasmania
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The:"
The Circle
The Immortalists
The Institute
9. A book that can be read in a day:
Akata Witch
Counting by 7s
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
10. A book that is between 400-600 pages:
1929
1930
Becoming
Big Little Lies
Cinder
The Circle
Delirium
The Divorce Papers
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Flight Behavior
The Gifted School
The Great Alone
The Hypnotist's Love Story
The Institute
Nine Perfect Strangers
Outer Banks
Pachinko
The President Is Missing
The Swan Thieves
Twenties Girl
Wedding Night
What If It's Us
What Alice Forgot
The Woman in the Window
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number:
Akata Witch (2017)
Crimes Against a Book Club
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997)
The Only Girl in the World
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people:
The President Is Missing
What If It's Us
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge:
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers:
Margaret Atwood
Judy Blume
Willa Cather - O Pioneers!
Agatha Christie
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Barbara Kingsolver - Flight Behavior
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Ann Patchett - Commonwealth
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
15. A book set in a global city:
An American Marriage - Atlanta
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill - LA
The Downstairs Girl - Atlanta
The Hypnotist's Love Story - Sydney
The Perfect Nanny - Paris
The President Is Missing - Washington, DC
Shanghai Girls - Shanghai & LA
Twenties Girl - London
What If It's Us - New York City
The Woman in the Window - New York City
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area:
1930
The Great Alone
The Secret Life of Bees
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
17. A book with a neurodiverse character:
Counting by 7s
18. A book by an author you've only read once before:
Anne Bashares
Willa Cather - O Pioneers!
Mary Higgins Clark
Stephanie Dray - My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
Fever by Mary Beth Keane
Kristin Hannah - The Great Alone
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
Angie Thomas - The Hate U Give
Andy Weir - The Martian
19. A fantasy book:
Akata Witch
Cinder
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]:
Cherry Ames at Hilton Hospital

21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719:
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
22. A book with the major theme of survival
The Great Alone
The Last One
The Martian
The Mountain Between Us
Night
**Our Endless Numbered Days
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
This Is Where It Ends
23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author:
George
The Immortalists
This Is Where It Ends
What If It's Us
24. A book with an emotion in the title:
The Hate U Give
The Hypnotist's Love Story
Love in the Time of Cholera
**The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
P.S. I Still Love You
Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, & Baking Biscuits
25. A book related to the arts:
Corelli's Mandolin
The Swan Thieves
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards:
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
The Institute
√ 27. A history or historical fiction:
1929
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
Next Year in Havana
Shanghai Girls
√ 28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty - Australian
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book:
Akata Witch
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year:
After the End
American War - 2017
An American Marriage - 2018
Commonwealth
Educated - 2018
Less - 2017
The Library Book - 2018
Pachinko - 2017
The Perfect Nanny - 2018

31. A book inspired by a leading news story:
Becoming
The Gifted School - school admissions
This Is Where It Ends - school shooting
32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan:
Pachinko
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
33. A book about a non-traditional family:
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Cinder
Counting by 7s
The Downstairs Girl
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Secret Life of Bees
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name:
1929 (Historical Fiction)
1930 (Historical Fiction)
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton (HISTORICAL FICTION)
The Institute (Horror)
Next Year in Havana (Historical Fiction)
Pachinko (Historical Fiction)
Shanghai Girls (Historical Fiction)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Historical Fiction)
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover:
The Circle
36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim:
As Bright as Heaven
The Couple Next Door
Crimes Against a Book Club
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1:
An American Marriage
Summer of '69
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2:
The Divorce Papers
Winter Solstice
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce:
Akata Witch
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
40. A book with a place name in the title:
Next Year in Havana
The House on Mango Street
The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers
Outer Banks
Shanghai Girls
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
41. A mystery
Saving Meghan
Swimming Lessons
The Woman in the Window
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’:
An American Marriage
**Burial Rites
The Goldfinch
Less - Pulitzer Prize (2018)
Little Fires Everywhere
**Pachinko
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse:
American War
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Girl With All the Gifts
Night - war
The Tattooist of Auschwitz - war
44. A book related to witches:
Akata Witch
Circe
45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
47. A classic book you've always meant to read:
Middlemarch
48. A book published in 2020
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win (link)
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
Wedding Night
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title:
Becoming
Counting by 7s
The President Is Missing
Saving Meghan
Something Missing
Swimming Lessons
Wedding Night
Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, & Baking Biscuits
52. A book related to time:
1929
1930: Aryl's Divide
The Hours
Love in the Time of Cholera
Next Year in Havana
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Swing Time

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[Johanna]

2021 Plan by Book Title

And Then There Were None (negative)
Becoming (new BIPOC)
The Book of Two Ways (Grand Egyptian museum)
Burial Rites (island)
Circe (island)
Concrete Rose (2021, racism)
Dumplin' (letter U)
The Dutch House (building, past)
The Echo Wife (2021, NATO, person)
Five Little Indians (racism)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Grand Egyptian Museum, letter U)
The Girl in the Tower (building)
The Glass Hotel (building)
Holy Cow!: Doggerel, Catnaps, Scapegoats, Foxtrots, and Horse Feathers—Splendid Animal Words and Phrases (NATO)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (building)
The Identicals (person)
Ink and Bone (future)
The Island of Sea Women (person)
Jurassic Park (island)
The Last Train to Key West (island, end)
The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life (NATO)
The Map of Salt and Stars (new BIPOC, Muslim)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (letter U)
Persuasion (letter U)
Scarlet (future)
My Sister, the Serial Killer (new BIPOC, person)
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously (negative)
The Stationery Shop (Muslim)
A Study in Scarlet (letter U)
The Unhoneymooners (island, letter U)
What Happens in Paradise (island)
Whiskey When We're Dry (NATO)
Winter in Paradise
You Have a Match (2021)

[Johanna]

A Book A Week with The Booklist Queen

√ 1. Book Becoming Movie in 2020:
Little Fires Everywhere (Being made into a TV show for Hulu, but everything is weird this year.)
√ 2. Goodreads Winner in 2019:
The Institute
√ 3. Less Than 200 Pages:
The Little Prince
4. Published in 1920s
√ 5. By an Author of Color:
The Hate U Give
√ 6. A Love Story:
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
√ 7. History Book:
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
√ 8. Title with Five or More Words:
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
√ 9. 2019 Bestseller:
The Institute
√ 10. Clever Title:
Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist
11. Short Story or Essay Collection
√ 12. More Than 400 Pages:
The Great Alone
13. Makes You Laugh:
√ 14. Famous Author You’ve Never Read:
The Secret Life of Bees
√ 15. Set in Asia:
Pachinko
16. Reread a Childhood Favorite
√ 17. Celebrity Memoir:
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
18. New York Times #1 Bestseller
√ 19. Based on a True Story:
The Diary of a Young Girl
20. Genre You Don’t Usually Read
√ 21. About a War:
Night
22. Bottom of Your To-Read List
23. A Beach Read:
Summer of '69
24. A Book Everyone Is Talking About:
Big Little Lies
25. Recommended by a Family Member
√ 26. From the 50 States Reading List:
An American Marriage
27. About a Controversial Topic
28. By an Indie Author
29. A Book About Sports
30. A Play
√ 31. An Audiobook:
The Guest List
√ 32. The Next Book in a Series:
Rich People Problems
33. Nonfiction Topic You Love
√ 34. Middle Grade Fiction:
The Benefits of Being an Octopus
35. Recommended by a Local Librarian
√ 36. Debut Novel:
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
37. A Book That Will Make You Smarter
38. A Modern Classic
√ 39. A Book You Haven’t Read by an Author You Love:
Shanghai Girls
√ 40. With a Color in the Title:
Silver Sparrow
√ 41. Translated from Another Language:
The Perfect Nanny
42. With a Hideous Cover
√ 43. A Mystery:
The Woman in the Window
√ 44. A Book About Politics:
The President Is Missing
45. By a Local Author
√ 46. With Two Authors:
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
47. You Own But Haven’t Read
48. Reread a Favorite Book
√ 49. 2020 New Release:
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
50. A Book You Saw Someone Reading
51. Borrowed From a Friend
√ 52. A Self-Improvement Book:
Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits