Around the Year in 52 Books discussion
Books mentioned in this topic
Twenty Guys You Date in Your Twenties (other topics)The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (other topics)
Secret Crush Seduction (other topics)
Down Among the Sticks and Bones (other topics)
The Line Between: A Novel (other topics)
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2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable:Temporary Wife Temptation or Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For or The Heart Principle or Severance
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019: A Royal Affair or Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants or White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live: Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come or How Languages Saved Me: A Polish Story of Survival or Hidden Pearl or Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
5. The first book in a series that you have not started: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover: Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere: Gone by Midnight or Away with the Fairies or A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The": The Farm or The Wendy
9. A book that can be read in a day: Come Tumbling Down or Upright Women Wanted or We Should All Be Feminists
10. A book that is between 400-600 pages: Sorcery of Thorns or Tess of the Road or Skyward
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number: Down Among the Sticks and Bones or The City of Brass or The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist or Little Boy Lost or The Blue Zones of Happiness: A Blueprint for a Better Life
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people: For Your Consideration: Keanu Reeves or Best Women's Erotica of the Year Volume 4 or It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories or We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge (Link): (featuring indigenous people of a country) This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving or Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link): The Joy Luck Club
15. A book set in a global city: or The Library of Lost Things or Open House or Notting Hill in the Snow
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area: Upright Women Wanted or A Madness of Sunshine or Under a Painted Sky or Arctic Heat
17. A book with a neurodiverse character:
18. A book by an author you've only read once before: Secret Crush Seduction or Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good or Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God or Storm of Locusts or The Night Tiger or Fortress of Shadows or Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight
19. A fantasy book: The Unspoken Name orThe Orchid Throne
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]: A Madness of Sunshine(20th challenge from Pop Sugar) A Darker Shade of Magic (from GR What we've read so far in 2019 list) or Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death (from GR ATY 2020 Goodreads Awards for 2019 list)
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720: (astronomy) The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
22. A book with the major theme of survival: Whiteout
23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author: Something to Talk About or Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
24. A book with an emotion in the title:Tame Your Anxiety
25. A book related to the arts: A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards: How to Be an Antiracist
27. A history or historical fiction: The Jane Austen Society or Above the Bay of Angels
28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author: Alone in the Wild or A Madness of Sunshine or Frying Plantain or Valencia and Valentine
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book: Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom or A Princess in Theory or Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI or Severance
31. A book inspired by a leading news story: You Too? or Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan: My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 or The Nakano Thrift Shop
33. A book about a non-traditional family: Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name: (Christmas fiction) Notting Hill in the Snow
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover: Beyond the Black Door
36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim: Twenty Guys You Date in Your Twenties or Murder, Witchcraft and the Killing of Wildlife: Police Investigations at the Heart of Africa
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1: Rosanna's Gift
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2: Double Six
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce: If I Never Met You
40. A book with a place name in the title: The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State or Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
41. A mystery: Egg Drop Dead or Journaled to Death or Zen and the Art of Murder: A Black Forest Investigation
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ (link): Every Heart a Doorway or Girl, Woman, Other or Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom or The Overstory or The Calculating Stars or The Fifth Season or Ancillary Justice
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: The Line Between: A Novel or Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come or Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare or No Surrender: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today
44. A book related to witches: Witch Is When It All Began
45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018: The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here orInspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire": The Autobiography of Malcolm X
48. A book published in 2020: Girl Gone Viral The Heart Principleor How to Catch a Queen: Runaway Royals
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: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title: Chilling Effect
52. A book related to time: Beneath the Sugar Sky or Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era or 30 Dates in 30 Days