13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge

[Angela]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Grand Union: Stories, by Zadie Smith


2. Which prompt did it fit? Which year?
2017’s ‘A Collection’

3. How did you decide which prompt to choose?
The book chose the prompt, in this case. I’m reading it for a book club and searched various categories before I came across this one.

[Andrea]

I read The Gathering by Anne Enright for this prompt. It satisfied #35: An award-winning book (2007 Man Booker Prize) listed in 2016's challenge. I selected this task because it appeared in the first year of the challenge, and I also wanted to read Enright's work before delving into her recently released and highly touted book Actress.

In 2016, I read The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen for this task! Is it any wonder why I love this challenge and keep returning?

[Marie]

I read Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher for 2019's A book with one of the five Ws in the title. Title prompts are one of my favourite types of prompt, and I really wanted to read this book, so it was an easy choice.

[Kellie Lyn]

1. What are you reading for this category?

Regular:I Let You Go Clare Mackintosh
ABC: The Silent PatientAlex Michaelides

2. Which prompt did it fit? Which year?

Regular: 2018 #31 A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
ABC: 2019 #51 book published in 2019

3. How did you decide which prompt to choose?
I had gotten bogged down in life and could not get myself to read anything (reader's block-I found out) so I found to books that I was really interested to help me get past the blockage. They were both very good and helped, then I found two prompts they would fit into. Hopefully I am back on track to finish up the rest of the prompts.

[Roxana]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read The Silence of Bones, by June Hur

2. Which prompt did it fit? Which year?
2018's "A book with a body part in the title"

3. How did you decide which prompt to choose?
I read the book because I was interested in it, realized it didn't fit anything I still had open on the list, and combed back through old prompts to find one that it fit interestingly.

[Kim]

1. What are you reading for this category? I read by Ann Napolitano
2. Which prompt did it fit? Which year? A book with a first name in the title (2016)
3. How did you decide which prompt to choose? Read the book, looked for a prompt that it would fit.

[Angela]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Grand Union: Stories, by Zadie Smith


2. Which prompt did it fit? Which year?
2017’s Week 51 - a collection (eg essays, short stories, poetry)

3. How did you decide which prompt to choose?
I was trying to find a prompt for the book and found this one.
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[Alesha]

1. What are you reading for this category?
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

2. Which prompt did it fit? Which year?
2019's #47: A book related to food (i.e. title, cover, plot, etc.)

3. How did you decide which prompt to choose?
I looked through all of the prompts and wrote down a list of all of the ones I thought were the most interesting. (I ended up with a list of 12.) Then, I went through my TBR to see if any of my books fit the prompts I chose. With the Fire on High was a natural fit and one that I had been looking forward to reading for a while.

LOVED this book. 5 stars. (Also one of my all-time favorite book covers!)

[Suzanne]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

2. Which prompt did it fit? Which year?
From 2016: An award-winning book. It won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2018.

3. How did you decide which prompt to choose?
I had this book on my to-be-read list for a while and was looking for a prompt that it would fit. It turns out that the story is a retelling of Antigone, but I did not discover this until after I finished it.

[Veronica]

I read Hunted by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. It fits a few prompts, but I chose 2016 - The next book in a series you are reading. This is the next book in the House of Night series so it fits well. It can also fit for the prompt A YA Book and a book about a myth (vampires) among others.

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

I read Nothing to See Here

Since it's a book about kids who spontaneously catch on fire.... I chose 2018's books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire

I didn't have a place for this book, so I looked for a prompt which would fit it and this week won!

[Emily]

1. What are you reading for this category?

Evvie Drake Starts Over

2. Which prompt did it fit? Which year?

It meets the 2016 ATY prompt 21. A book from the Goodreads Recommendations page (May 20-26).

3. How did you decide which prompt to choose?

I wanted to do a prompt that I had not gotten to in its original year, so I went back through my challenges and decided on this one. And the book I chose to read from the Recommendations page was one I had been meaning to add to my Want to Read shelf, but had not gotten around to doing so. So it felt serendipitous.

[Sarah]

My prompt was from 2017, #51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays).

I read 13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen edited by James Howe.

I am doing a lot of reading for the next school year and am just trying to slide things into categories.

Trying to find a class set of this book. Very well done.

[Emily]

13. A Prompt From a Previous Around the Year in 52 Books Challenge: A Book with One of the Five Ws in the Title (2019): Where She Left by Gayle Forman

I browsed through the 2019 list and this prompt just caught my eye and I knew of two books, this one and Thirteen Reasons Why that would fit right away!

Where She Went' picks up three years after 'If I Stay' finished off with Mia swiftly becoming Juilliard's cello star and Adam a rockstar with his band Shooting Stars, then fate has them cross paths again.

[Ashley]

I read Outlander for a book that takes place on a different continent. This was one of the book I wanted to read this year and it fit this prompt.

[Tracy]

I am going with a prompt from 2016, the next book in a series you are reading. I read As You Are by favorite author Sarah M. Eden. I'm almost always reading one series or another, so this seems like a good, and more importantly, easy, fit.

[star_fire13]

1. What are you reading for this category?
The Star-Touched Queen
2. Which prompt did it fit? Which year?
A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 (ATY 2017)
3. How did you decide which prompt to choose?
This has been on my to-read list since 2017, and I essentially was just forcing myself to finally read it.

[Karissa]

1. What are you reading for this category? Oona Out of Order
2. Which prompt did it fit? Which year? A book with a name in the title - 2019
3. How did you decide which prompt to choose? I just tried to fit the book I was reading into the previous year prompt

[Virginia]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read The Only Good Indians.


2. Which prompt did it fit? Which year?
It fit two prompts from 2019:
20. Featuring indigenous people of a country and
46. A (mostly) black cover

3. How did you decide which prompt to choose?
I was actually looking for a prompt that would match Desperation, but saw two that fit this book I haven't used for another category yet!