MaryAnn's 2020 Around the Year Challenge

[MaryAnn (EmilyD1037)]

Pre-planned books for prompts:

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Beloved by Toni Morrison (PB)

2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (PB)

3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019 Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo Zora Neale Hurston (EB)

4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
We Were the Lucky Ones Georgia Hunter (A)

5. The first book in a series that you have not started
Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown (HB)

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry (EB)

7. A book set in the southern hemisphere Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson (EB)

8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The" The Chosen by Chaim Potok (PB)

9. A book that can be read in a day
A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson Completed

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (464pg) (EB)

11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (PB) 2003

12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (HB)

13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge 11. A book from the Rory Gilmore challenge 2016
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (PB)

14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (PB)

15. A book set in a global city The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee (PB)

16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
Call the Nurse... Scottish Isle by Mary J. MacCleod (EB)

17. A book with a neurodiverse character
Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum by Jennifer Cook O'Toole (EB)

18. A book by an author you've only read once before My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass, John David Smith (EB)

19. A fantasy book The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (PB)

20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.] Christmas Caramel Murder Hannah Swensen Mystery Book 20 by Joanne Fluke (EB)

21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719 The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life by James Martin (HB)

22. A book with the major theme of survival Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Dr. Jerri Nielsen and Maryanne Vollers (HB)

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson Completed

24. A book with an emotion in the title The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day (EB)

25. A book related to the arts Girl With a Pearl Earring by Traci Chevalier (PB)

26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
by Dani Shapiro

27. A history or historical fiction The Range Detectives by William and JA Johnstone (PB) Completed

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (PB)

29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih (PB)

30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year 2011 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart (EB)

31. A book inspired by a leading news story Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart (EB)

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (PB)

33. A book about a non-traditional family Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption by Katie Davis (HB)

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name (Mystery/MaryAnn) In The Woods by Tana French (PB)

35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King (PB)

36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers HB

37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1 Night by Elie Wiesel (PB) Completed

38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2 Day by Elie Wiesel (PB)

39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce Midwives by Chris Bohjalian (PB)

40. A book with a place name in the title Shiloh by Shelby Foote (HB)

41. A mystery And Then There Were Crumbs: A Cookie House Mystery by Eve Calder (EB)

42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri won Pulitzer Prize 1999 (PB)

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby (PB)

44. A book related to witches The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (PB)

45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018 Careless Whiskers by Miranda James

46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire" Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang PB

47. A classic book you've always meant to read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway completed

48. A book published in 2020

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win r7 book set in Egypt The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters (PB)

50. A book with a silhouette on the cover A Perfect Block by Blake Pierce (EB)

51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
A Year of Living Kindly by Donna Cameron (EB)

52. A book related to time Confessions by St Augustine (PB)

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Thanks for introducing me to the Just the Facts Ma'am challenge! It looks really fun!

[MaryAnn (EmilyD1037)]

Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Books
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
The Murder on the Links (1923)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
The Big Four (1927)
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Peril at End House (1932)
Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
Three Act Tragedy (1935)
Death in the Clouds (1935)
The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
Cards on the Table (1936)
Dumb Witness (1937)
Death on the Nile (1937)
Appointment with Death (1938)
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
Sad Cypress (1940)
Evil Under the Sun (1941)
Five Little Pigs (1942)
The Hollow (1946)
Taken at the Flood (1948)
Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952)
After the Funeral (1953)
Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
Dead Man's Folly (1956)
Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
The Clocks (1963)
Third Girl (1966)
Hallowe'en Party (1969)
Elephants Can Remember (1972)
Curtain (1975)
The Monogram Murders (2014)

Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Collections
Poirot Investigates (1924)
Murder in the Mews (1937)
The Labours of Hercules (1947)
Poirot's Early Cases (1974)

Publication Order of Miss Marple Books
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
The Body in the Library (1942)
The Moving Finger (1942)
A Murder is Announced (1950)
They Do It with Mirrors (1952)
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
4:50 From Paddington (1957)
The Mirror Crack'd (1962)
A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
Nemesis (1971)
Sleeping Murder (1976)

Publication Order of Miss Marple Collections
The Thirteen Problems (1932)
Miss Marple's Final Cases (1979)

Publication Order of Tommy and Tuppence Books
The Secret Adversary (1922)
N or M? (1941)
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
Postern of Fate (1973)

Publication Order of Tommy and Tuppence Collections
Partners in Crime (1929)

Publication Order of Superintendent Battle Books
The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
Cards on the Table (1936)
Murder is Easy (1939)
Towards Zero (1944)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
Giant's Bread (1930)
The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
Unfinished Portrait (1934)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1934)
And Then There Were None (1939)
Absent in the Spring (1944)
Death Comes as the End (1944)
Sparkling Cyanide (1945)
The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)
Crooked House (1949)
They Came to Baghdad (1951)
A Daughter's a Daughter (1952)
Destination Unknown (1954)
The Burden (1956)
Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
The Pale Horse (1961)
Endless Night (1967)
13 at Dinner (1969)
Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
The Murder at Hazelmoor (1984)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930)
The Hound of Death (1933)
The Listerdale Mystery (1934)
Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)
The Regetta Mystery and Other Stories (1939)
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948)
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)
Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories (1965)
The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1974)
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
The Harlequin Tea Set (1997)
While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)