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Book titles are completed books; book covers are possibilities.
1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Sourdough
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
Cabin Porn: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
The Hunting Party
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
Emma G. Wildford
5. The first book in a series that you have not started
Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 1: Lights, Camera, Snacktion
6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
The Man in the Brown Suit
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
Picnic at Hanging Rock
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
The Prophet
9. A book that can be read in a day
Skim
10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
My Sister, the Serial Killer
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
Poetry Magazine April 2019
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
#45: a book related to a hobby or passion of yours
Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler's Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
Death on the Nile
15. A book set in a global city
Enter a Murderer
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
The Witch Boy
17. A book with a neurodiverse character
Sadie
18. A book by an author you've only read once before
The Haunted Fort
19. A fantasy book
The Fellowship of the Ring
20. The 20th book
The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
based on sorting my tbr and choosing the 20th book
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
22. A book with the major theme of survival
Out of the Silence: After the Crash
23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 2: A Recipe for Disaster
24. A book with an emotion in the title
The Valley of Fear
25. A book related to the arts
The Fade Out: Act One
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 2: Fandemonium
technically, it was vol 9 that was in the 2019 GRCA, but this vol was nominated back in 2015, and I don't feel like rushing through the series just to get caught up
27. A history or historical fiction
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
28. A book by an Australian, Canadian, or New Zealander author
Vintage Murder
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem, or a lesser known book
Death in the Garden City
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
31. A book inspired by a leading news story
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport
33. A book about a non-traditional family
A Morbid Taste for Bones
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
Perséphone
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
How Should One Read a Book?
36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
A House at the Bottom of a Lake
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
Little House in the Big Woods
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
40. A book with a place name in the title
Wakulla Springs
41. A mystery
Murder in Mesopotamia
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
44. A book related to witches
The Hidden Witch
45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Psycho
47. A classic book you've always meant to read
In Cold Blood
48. A book published in 2020
The Avant-Guards, Vol. 2
49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
I'm going with a book related to a tarot card. I drew the Nine of Wands - Reversed and that is associated with fatigue and exhaustion, which I felt was fitting for a six-day long distance race
Wobble to Death
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
A Pocket Full of Rye
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
Are You Listening?
52. A book related to time
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (other topics)A Pocket Full of Rye (other topics)
Are You Listening? (other topics)
Wobble to Death (other topics)
The Avant-Guards, Vol. 2 (other topics)
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1. Thou shalt not spend more time planning than reading. I completely ignored this rule last year so I moved it up to the top. You know, so I can ignore it more completely.
2. No double dipping within a challenge, but it's ok to use a book for as many challenges as I want.
3. Start as many challenges as you want, but remember that just like books, if you're not enjoying it, you don't have to finish it.
4. I will be doing the ATY challenge in order this year! With one big change: if I read a book and it happens to work perfectly for a later prompt, I can choose to go ahead and stick it in that later prompt. It must fit perfectly and I have to make that decision immediately after reading the book. No retroactive laziness. I'm adding this in mainly because the last time I did the challenge in order, I got frustrated with later prompts that weren't up my alley and that I had already read a book for much earlier in the year on accident.
5. The Most Important Rule of All: enjoy reading!