Kathy's 2nd round for ATY 2020

[Kathy]

Around the Year in 52 Books

ATY Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

52/52 - finished 7/26/20

SUBJECT TO CHANGE!

✅ - Read
➡️ - Currently reading
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

January
1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
✅Swimming Lessons - Claire Fuller ⭐⭐⭐⭐

2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
✅The Blue Fox - Sjon ⭐⭐⭐

3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
✅Girls in Their Married Bliss - Edna O'Brien (read the 2nd in The Country Girls Trilogy in 2019) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
As Bright as Heaven - Susan Meissner (1918 Spanish Flu)⭐⭐⭐⭐

5. The first book in a series that you have not started
✅A Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

February
6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
✅Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain (ship) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
✅Aunt Dimity Down Under - Nancy Atherson
⭐⭐⭐

8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
✅The Flatshare - Beth O'Leary ⭐⭐⭐⭐

9. A book that can be read in a day
✅Glaciers - Alexis M. Smith ⭐⭐⭐


March
10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
✅The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
✅The Keeper of Lost Things - Ruth Hogan (2017) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
✅Romola - George Eliot (author and narrator of audio) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge: A classic book with less than 200 pages (2016)
✅Pietr the Latvian - Georges Simenon (176p) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
✅Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson ⭐⭐⭐⭐

April
15. A book set in a global city
✅A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (Paris & London) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
✅Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montgomery ⭐⭐⭐⭐

17. A book with a neurodiverse character
✅Lab Girl - Hope Jahren ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

18. A book by an author you've only read once before
✅In the Woods - Tana French ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

May
19. A fantasy book
✅Witch World - Andre Norton ⭐⭐⭐

20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
✅Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon (20th on TBR) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719
✅They Were Found Wanting - Miklos Banffy (Hungarian novelist) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

22. A book with the major theme of survival
✅The Snow Gypsy - Lindsay Ashford ⭐⭐⭐⭐

June
23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
✅Maurice - E.M. Forster ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅24. A book with an emotion in the title
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

25. A book related to the arts
✅The Last Painting of Sara de Vos - Dominic Smith ⭐⭐⭐⭐

26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
✅The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

27. A history or historical fiction
✅The Secret Life of Violet Grant - Beatriz Williams ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐


July
28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
✅Cocaine Blues - Kerry Greenwood (Australia) ⭐⭐⭐

29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
✅Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee ⭐⭐⭐⭐

30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
✅White Egrets - Derek Walcott ⭐⭐⭐⭐

31. A book inspired by a leading news story
✅The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe ⭐⭐⭐⭐


August
32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
✅The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story - Marie Kondo ⭐⭐⭐

33. A book about a non-traditional family
✅With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Avecedo ⭐⭐⭐⭐

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
✅Before I Go to Sleep - S. J. Watson (thriller) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
✅The Lost Girls of Paris - Pam Jenoff ⭐⭐⭐⭐


September
36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
✅Iced in Paradise - Naomi Hirahara ⭐⭐⭐.5

37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
✅Everything Under - Daisy Johnson ⭐⭐⭐

38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
✅Evvie Drake Starts Over - Linda Holmes ⭐⭐⭐

39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
✅The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin ⭐⭐⭐


October
40. A book with a place name in the title
✅Death in Berlin - M.M. Kaye ⭐⭐⭐

41. A mystery
✅Payment in Blood - Elizabeth George ⭐⭐⭐⭐

42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
✅Home - Marilynne Robinson (Women's Prize 2009 - called the Orange Prize then) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
✅Death in a White Tie - Ngaio Marsh ⭐⭐⭐

44. A book related to witches
✅The Witches of New York - Ami McKay ⭐⭐⭐⭐


November
45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
✅The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot ⭐⭐⭐⭐

46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
✅Summer of '69 - Elin Hilderbrand ⭐⭐⭐⭐

47. A classic book you've always meant to read
✅A Glass of Blessings - Barbara Pym ⭐⭐⭐

48. A book published in 2020
✅In a Field of Blue - Gemma Liviero ⭐⭐⭐⭐


December
49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win: A debut novel by a person of color
✅My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite ⭐⭐⭐⭐

50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
✅Silhouette of a Sparrow - Molly Beth Griffin ⭐⭐⭐⭐

51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
✅The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett ⭐⭐⭐⭐

52. A book related to time
✅The Hours Before Dawn - Celia Fremlin ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kathy]

January Books - ATY and Classics Challenges

[Kathy]

Priority Books - NTLTRC Monthly Reads

They Were Found Wanting - Miklos Banffy (Jan)
Romola - George Eliot (Jan-Mar)
Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter (Feb)
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (Feb)
Witch World - Andre Norton (Feb)
Pietr the Latvian - Georges Simenon (Feb)
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton (March)
Lysistrata - Aristophanes (March)
Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (Mar-Apr)
Leave It to Psmith - P.G. Wodehouse (April)
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope (Apr-June)
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (May)
The Black Spider - Jeremias Gotthelf (May)
Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee (May-June)
One of Ours - Willa Cather (July)
The Lady's Maid's Bell - Edith Wharton (July)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Henry Fielding (July-Sept)
The Nine Tailors - Dorothy Sayers (Aug)
The Little Foxes - Lillian Hellman (Aug)
Freckles - Gene Stratton-Porter (Sept)
A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter (Sept)
Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy (Sept)
The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham
Tristana - Benito Pérez Galdós (Oct)
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing (Nov)

Priority Books - NTLTRC Challenges: Back to the Classics, Mountain or a Molehill, Rafael's Bookshelf Bingo, Dauntless Challenge
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
Girls in Their Married Bliss - Edna O'Brien
The Broken Wings - Kahlil Gibran
The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
The Moon and the Bonfire - Cesare Pavese
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas
Death in a White Tie - Ngaio Marsh
Maurice - E.M. Forster
The Pastor's Wife - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Hours Before Dawn - Celia Fremlin

[Kathy]

Maybe I can fit in some of these- NTLTRC Monthly Reads

The Pastures of Heaven - John Steinbeck (Jan)
A Collection of Essays - George Orwell (Jan)
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot (May)
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce (June)
The Red and the Black - Stendhal (June)
The Ambassadors - Henry James (Sept)
Villa des Roses - Willem Elsschot (Sept)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - Rebecca West (Sept-Oct)
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert (Oct)
Bunny Lake is Missing - Evelyn Piper (Oct)
Skylark - Dezső Kosztolányi (Nov)
West with the Night - Beryl Markham (Nov-Dec)
Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima (Dec)

[Kathy]

Priority Books - Non-Classic
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
So Long a Letter - Mariama Ba
My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan
Braithwaite
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky
Chambers
Cantoras - Carolina de Robertis
Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi DECIDED NOT TO READ
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena
Ferrante
The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn
This is How It Always Is - Laurie Frankel
In the Woods - Tana French
Swimming Lessons - Claire Fuller
Evvie Drake Starts Over - Linda Holmes
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lost Girls of Paris - Pam Jenoff
Everything Under - Daisy Johnson
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Home - Marilynne Robinson
The Rosie Project - Graeme SimsionDECIDED NOT TO READ
Girl Waits with Gun - Amy Stewart
The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Three Junes - Julia Glass

[Kathy]

January Update

I finished 15 books this month, which might be a record number for me. Eleven books were for ATY, the rest were for classics challenges or side reads.

ATY
1. ATY not in title
Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
Enjoyable mystery and story of a family with secrets. 3.5 stars

2. One syllable last name
The Blue Fox by Sjon
Takes place in Iceland, a short book of historical fiction combined with magical realism. 3 stars

3. Book read because of something read in 2019
Girls in Their Married Bliss by Edna O'Brien
This is the 3rd book in the Country Girls Trilogy, books that were written in the early 1960s about two girls/women growing up in Ireland. 4.5 stars

5. First book in a series I haven't read
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
The first book in the Inspector Lynley series, this is well-written and suspenseful. I liked the interaction of Inspector Lynley and Detective Barbara Havers. 4.75 stars

9. Book you can read in a day
Glaciers - Alexis M. Smith
I expected more of a chick lit book about a woman who loves vintage clothes, but it was a serious book about relationships. 3 stars

12. Collaboration between 2 or more people
Romola - George Eliot
I listened to the audio so more than one person went into this book presentation. This was a long historical fiction book which had a lot of detail about 1400s Florence, Italy. 4 stars

13. Previous ATY prompt: Classic under 200 pages
Pietr the Latvian - Georges Simenon
The first in the Inspector Maigret series, I really liked this first book. Well-plotted and the character of Maigret is just wonderful. 4.5 stars

21. Related to Maximillian Hell
They Were Found Wanting by Miklos Banffy
Written by a Hungarian novelist, this is the second in The Writing on the Wall: The Transylvania Trilogy. It's about the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the set-up to World War I. Romance, politics, fox and rabbit hunts, the rich. 4 stars

37 & 38: Binary opposites
Evvie Drake Starts Over - Linda Holmes
Chick-lit romance set in Maine. Evvie has gone through hard times. So has Dean, a former pro baseball player. 3.25 stars
Everything Under - Daisy Johnson
Gretel grows up with her mother living on a houseboat on the canals of Oxford. Then her mother deserts her when Gretel is a teen. Now Gretel updates dictionary entries, but the past comes back. 3.75 stars

39. Author's name you can't pronounce
The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
Translated from Russian, this is a fun and clever mystery. 4 stars

Classics and Side Reads
The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck
Well-written but I find Steinbeck's books so depressing. So - I liked the writing but didn't "enjoy" the story. 3.75 stars

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I liked this poem mainly because I've been to many places mentioned. 4.75 stars

The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
This was a re-read for me for my IRL book club. I liked it more than I did the first time. I love Kate Morton's books which have different time lines, family stories, and relationships. 4.75 stars

The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie
A well-plotted mystery - a stand-alone, although some characters from The Secret of Chimneys are in this book. 3.5 stars

I really liked my mysteries this January.

Best Book of January
A Great Deliverance

[Kathy]

February Book Covers - ATY, Classic Challenges, and Side Reads

[Kathy]

February Wrap-Up

I read 17 books (lots of short books for the Readathon), 8 of them for ATY.

ATY
10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
The Woman in the Window - A.J. Finn⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

15. A book set in a global city
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (Paris & London)⭐⭐⭐⭐

19. A fantasy book
Witch World - Andre Norton⭐⭐⭐

26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides⭐⭐⭐⭐

41. A mystery
Payment in Blood - Elizabeth George ⭐⭐⭐⭐

44. A book related to witches
The Witches of New York - Ami McKay⭐⭐⭐⭐

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win: A debut novel by a person of color
My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite ⭐⭐⭐⭐

52. A book related to time
The Hours Before Dawn - Celia Fremlin⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Classics Challenges
The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Harold and the Purple Crayon - Crockett Johnson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas ⭐⭐⭐
Candide - Voltaire ⭐⭐
Behold, Here's Poison - Georgette Heyer⭐⭐⭐
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Side Reads
What the Wind Knows - Amy Harmon ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
French Leave - Anna Gavalda ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I had three 5-star reads which is better than January.

[Kathy]

March Update
I read 11 books in March, 6 for ATY.

ATY

6. a book with mode of transportation on the cover
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4.5 rounded down)
A classic memoir about a nurse in World War I.

8. a two word title starting with "The"
The Flatshare - Beth O'Leary ⭐⭐⭐⭐
A nice, funny story but with some heavier issues.

24. a book with an emotion in the title
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Lily Bart and New York high society in the 1890s.

43. a book about one of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse
Death in a White Tie - Ngaio Marsh ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (3.5 rounded up)
A mystery by an author of the "golden age" of mysteries.

46. a book about an event or era of history related to the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Summer of '69 - Elin Hilderbrand ⭐⭐⭐⭐

50. a book with a silhouette on the cover
Silhouette of a Sparrow - Molly Beth Griffin ⭐⭐⭐⭐(3.5 rounded up)

Classics Challenges
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll ⭐⭐⭐
Lysistrata - Aristophanes ⭐⭐⭐⭐
They Were Divided - Miklos Banffy ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Side Reads
Peril at End House - Agatha Christie ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Summer at the Garden Cafe - Felicity Hayes-McCoy ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kathy]

March Covers

[Kathy]

I'm going to track my daily reading like we do during Read-a-thons. Thanks, Emily for the idea!

APRIL 26 - MAY 2, 2020

CURRENTLY READING
The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie p178, p196, p240
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope p149, p163, p168, p186, p208, p228
A Suitable Vengeance - Elizabeth George p36, p86, p150
The Lost Girls of Paris - Pam Jenoff p40, p73, p109
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot p1, p46, p61

DAILY TRACKING
Sunday, 4/26: 210
Monday, 4/27: 87
Tuesday, 4/28: 162
Wednesday, 4/29: 177
Thursday, 4/30: 213
Friday, 5/1: 151
Saturday, 5/2: 179
TOTAL PAGES: 1179

BOOKS FINISHED


BOOKS TBR
Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

[Kathy]

April Update
I finished 17 books for 4,455 pages.

5-star books
As Bright as Heaven - Susan Meissner (1918 flu pandemic)
Maurice - E.M. Forster (lgbt written in 1913-1914)
Lab Girl - Hope Jahren

4-star books
Leave It to Psmith - P.G. Wodehouse (humor)
Summer Lightning - P.G. Wodehouse (humor)
Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (nonfiction)
Well-Schooled in Murder - Elizabeth George
4.50 from Paddington - Agatha Christie
In a Field of Blue - Gemma Liviero (WWI historical fiction)
A Long Fatal Love Chase - Louisa May Alcott (gothic)
Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson (thriller)
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos - Dominic Smith
Death in Berlin - M.M. Kaye (classic mystery)
The Keeper of Lost Things - Ruth Hogan (up-lit)

3-star books
A Shot in the Dark - Neil Richards
A Quiet Life In The Country - T.E. Kinsey
Aunt Dimity Down Under - Nancy Atherton

Covers

[Kathy]

MAY 3 - MAY 9, 2020

CURRENTLY READING
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope start: p228, p248, p274, p304, 328
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot start: p61, p91, p140, p174, p232 p267, p284, p334
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway p1, p24, p90
Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montgomery, p1, p42

DAILY TRACKING
Sunday, 5/3: 105
Monday, 5/4: 202
Tuesday, 5/5: 71
Wednesday, 5/6: 213
Thursday, 5/7: 190
Friday, 5/8: 159
Saturday, 5/9: 206
TOTAL PAGES: 1146
(Audio hours converted to pages)

BOOKS FINISHED



BOOKS TBR
Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee

[Kathy]

MAY 10 - MAY 16, 2020

CURRENTLY READING
The Way We Live Now - Trollope: p328, p342, p382
Anne of Avonlea - Montgomery: p42, p84, p95
The Secret Life of Violet Grant - Williams: p1, p61, p90, p135, p218, p317
Murder in Mesopotamia - Christie p1, p54, p88

DAILY TRACKING
Sunday, 5/10: 105
Monday, 5/11: 118
Tuesday, 5/12: 113
Wednesday, 5/13: 137
Thursday, 5/14: 174
Friday, 5/15: 144
Saturday, 5/16: 133
TOTAL PAGES: 924
(Audio hours converted to pages)

BOOKS FINISHED


BOOKS TBR
A Sicilian Romance - Ann Radcliffe
The Black Spider - Jeremias Goffhelf

[Kathy]

MAY 17 - MAY 23, 2020

CURRENTLY READING

The Way We Live Now - Trollope: p328, p342, p382, p456, p552 (audio converted to pages)
Anne of Avonlea - Montgomery: p42, p84, p95, p137
Murder in Mesopotamia - Christie p1, p54, p88, p122
The Other Mrs. - Mary Kubica p1, p14, p93, DNF at p116

DAILY TRACKING
Sunday, 5/17: 143
Monday, 5/18: 113
Tuesday, 5/19: 105
Wednesday, 5/20: 32
Thursday, 5/21: 97
Friday, 5/22: 152
Saturday, 5/23:
TOTAL PAGES: 642

BOOKS FINISHED


BOOKS TBR

A Sicilian Romance - Ann Radcliffe

[Kathy]

MAY 24 - MAY 30, 2020

I'm in a reading slump. I'm sick of listening to The Way We Live Now because it is so long! I DNF'd The Other Mrs. page 116 because a couple situations in the book seemed far-fetched and just silly. I'm not thrilled with Anne of Avonlea but it is a good clean uplifting story.

CURRENTLY READING

Murder in Mesopotamia - Christie p1, p54, p88, p122, p131, p160
Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee p1, p39, p62, p76, p124, p162
The Cafe by the Sea - Jenny Colgan p1, p56, p109, p174, p308
The Old Success - Martha Grimes p1, p29, p58, p74

DAILY TRACKING
Sunday, 5/24: 213
Monday, 5/25: 187
Tuesday, 5/26: 222
Wednesday, 5/27: 137
Thursday, 5/28: 179
Friday, 5/29: 129
Saturday, 5/30: 172
TOTAL PAGES: 1239

BOOKS FINISHED

Iced in Paradise - Naomi Hirahara p1, p64, p210
The Way We Live Now - Trollope: p328, p342, p382, p456, p552, p654, p837 (audio converted to pages)
Anne of Avonlea - Montgomery: p42, p84, p95, p137, p179, p221, p304

BOOKS TBR

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

[Kathy]

May 31-June 6

CURRENTLY READING

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce p1, p62
Murder in Mesopotamia - Christie p1, p54, p88, p122, p131, p160, p209, 252
White Egrets - Derek Walcott p1, p14, p26
What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge p1, p20, p27

DAILY TRACKING
Sunday, 5/31: 126
Monday, 6/1: 247
Tuesday, 6/2: 156
Wednesday, 6/3: 134
Thursday, 6/4: 154
Friday, 6/5: 195
Saturday, 6/6: 313
TOTAL PAGES: 1325

BOOKS FINISHED


BOOKS TBR

A Sicilian Romance
A Hundred Summers

[Kathy]

June 7 - June 13

CURRENTLY READING

A Sicilian Romance - Ann Radcliffe p1, p22, p70, p88
The Snow Gypsy p1, p15, p83, p141
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane p1, p22, p34, p90, p107, p148, p164

DAILY TRACKING
Sunday, 6/7: 78
Monday, 6/8: 38
Tuesday, 6/9: 159
Wednesday, 6/10: 73
Thursday, 6/11: 199
Friday, 6/12: 168
Saturday, 6/13: 120
TOTAL PAGES: 833

BOOKS FINISHED



BOOKS TBR

A Hundred Summers
The Travelling Cat Chronicles

[Kathy]

Finally getting around to my May Update - I read 12 books for a total of 4255 pages.

5-star books
The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams

4-star books
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
A Suitable Vengeance - Elizabeth George
The Lost Girls of Paris - Pam Jenoff
Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montgomery
Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee

3-star books
The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie
The Black Spider - Jeremias Gotthelf
Cocaine Blues - Kerry Greenwood
Iced in Paradise - Naomi Hirahara

Covers

[Kathy]

June 14 - June 20

CURRENTLY READING

Partners in Crime p1, p30, p107
In the Woods - Tana French p1, p30, p59, p84, p107, p137, p199

DAILY TRACKING
Sunday, 6/14: 165
Monday, 6/15: 75
Tuesday, 6/16: 114
Wednesday, 6/17: 125
Thursday, 6/18: 53
Friday, 6/19: 30
Saturday, 6/20: 136
TOTAL PAGES: 698

BOOKS FINISHED



BOOKS TBR

The Vanishing Half
A Glass of Blessings

[Kathy]

June 21 - June 27

CURRENTLY READING

A Passage to India p1, p22, p100
The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story p1
The Vanishing Half p1, p22, p58 p113
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? - Agatha Christie p1, p55, p104
A Glass of Blessings - Barbara Pym p1, p28, p88, p140


Sunday, 6/21: 212
Monday, 6/22: 165
Tuesday, 6/23: 148
Wednesday, 6/24: 72
Thursday, 6/25: 36
Friday, 6/26: 77
Saturday, 6/27: 126
TOTAL PAGES: 836

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I finished the challenge July 26. Books I read in June and July, some for ATY, some for the next round of ATY, some for other challenges or the Readathon

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Second Time Around the Year in 52 Books

ATY Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

52/52
✅ - Read
➡️ - Currently reading

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
✅Freckles - Gene Stratton Porter (Indiana) (NTLTRC Sept.)

2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
✅The Ambassadors - Henry James

3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
✅The Endless Beach - Jenny Colgan

4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
✅Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

5. The first book in a series that you have not started
✅The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun #1) - Colin Cotterill (Laos)

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
✅The Spook in the Stacks - Eva Gates

7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
✅The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie

8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
✅The Hollow - Agatha Christie

9. A book that can be read in a day
✅The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
✅A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter (496 pages)

11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
✅Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith - Anne Lamott

12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
✅The Nine Tailors- Dorothy Sayers (read by Ian Carmichael)

13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge: A book with a beautiful title (in your own opinion) (2015)
✅Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb

14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
✅Nemesis - Agatha Christie

15. A book set in a global city
✅Bunny Lake is Missing - Evelyn Piper (New York)

16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
✅Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy (NTLTRC Sept.)

17. A book with a neurodiverse character
✅Ginny Moon - Benjamin Ludwig

18. A book by an author you've only read once before
✅Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney

19. A fantasy book
✅Oona Out of Order - Margarita Montimore (fantasy elements)

20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
The 20th that I start for this challenge
✅Lady in the Lake - Laura Lippman

21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719
✅Skylark - Dezso Kosztolanyi (NTLTRC Nov.) (Hungarian author)

22. A book with the major theme of survival
✅When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
✅This Is How It Always Is - Laurie Frankel ebook (Summer ATY)

24. A book with an emotion in the title
✅How to Find Love in a Bookshop - Veronica Henry (ATY Sum)

25. A book related to the arts
✅The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather

26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
✅The Bookish Life of Nina Hill - Abbi Waxman

27. A history or historical fiction
✅The Jane Austen Society - Natalie Jenner

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
✅The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence (Bookshelf Bingo)

29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
✅Silence of the Chagos: A Novel - Chenaz Patel (Mauritius)

30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
✅Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeannette Winterson (2012 list)

31. A book inspired by a leading news story
✅This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger (Native American boarding schools/Great Depression)

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
✅Cool Japan Guide: Fun in the Land of Manga, Lucky Cats and Ramen - Abby Denson

33. A book about a non-traditional family
✅There There - Tommy Orange

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
✅The Sun Down Motel - Simone St. James

35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
✅ - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (230p)

36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
✅The Janus Stone (Dr. Ruth Galloway #2) - Elly Griffiths

37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
✅Maigret's First Case: Inspector Maigret #30 - Georges Simenon

38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
✅The Last Book Party - Karen Dukess

39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
✅The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy

40. A book with a place name in the title
✅The Shadow Over Innsmouth - H.P. Lovecraft

41. A mystery
✅Traitor's Purse (Albert Campion #1) - Margery Allingham

42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
✅ One of Ours- Willa Cather (Pulitzer 1923)

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
✅Lavender Blue Murder - Laura Childs (death)

44. A book related to witches WILD CARD
✅The Guest List - Lucy Foley

45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
✅The Bookshop on the Shore - Jenny Colgan

46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
✅The Green Road - Anne Enright (AIDS)

47. A classic book you've always meant to read
✅The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather

48. A book published in 2020
✅Eight Perfect Murders- Peter Swanson

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win: A book originally written in a language other than English or your mother tongue
✅Villa des RosesVilla des Roses - Willem Elsschot (Dutch)

50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
✅ - Dorothy Sayers

51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
✅The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths

52. A book related to time
✅The Clocks (Hercule Poirot #37) - Agatha Christie

[Kathy]

I'm at 21/52 for my second round of ATY. Books I've read:

[Kathy]

Second round 47/52

I've read these since late September:

[Kathy]

Finished 2 more, 3 left to go.

[Kathy]

Finished up my second round of ATY with these books: