Around the Year in 52 Books discussion
Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding; and An Integrated Man (other topics)The Nightingale (other topics)
Burger's Daughter (other topics)
To Kill a Mockingbird (other topics)
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (other topics)
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Since Goodreads limits the length of these postings, I also track this on my blog.
24/52 prompts completed as of February 9
1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Hope on the Inside
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
* **A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
January 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race since I read The Fire Next Time in 2019!
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
The Florida swamp(s) would not be my idea of a good place to live! Ugh!
January 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. The first book in a series that you have not started
* **A Darker Shade of Magic
January 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Skeletons in Purple Sage
*Trail of Lightning
6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Trail of Lightning
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
Love in the Time of Cholera
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
The Son
January 12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
9. A book that can be read in a day
*Twisted Twenty-Six
January 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Recipe Club: A Novel About Food and Friendship
January 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
*The Son-561 pages
January 12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* **A Darker Shade of Magic-400 pages
January 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number:
18th Century: 1709, 1721, 1723, 1733, 1741, 1747, 1753, 1759, 1777, 1783, 1787, 1789
19th Century: 1801, 1811, 1823, 1831, 1847, 1861, 1867, 1871, 1873, 1877, 1879, 1889
20th Century: 1901, 1907, 1913, 1931, 1933, 1949, 1951, 1973, 1979, 1987, 1993, 1997, 1999
21st Century: 2003, 2011, 2017
Second Chance at the Sugar Shack-published in 2011
Us Against You-published in 2017
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
*The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
January 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Lionboy (Lionboy Trilogy #1) by Zizou Corder (a pseudonym for Louisa Young and Isabel Adomakoh Young
*An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge: 2019-#37 A book set in a school or university
Sorority Sisters
*The Secret History
*When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple & Rishi #1)
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
Louisa May Alcott--Little Women
Isabel Allende
NoViolet Bulawayo--We Need New Names
Octavia Butler
Angela Carter
Edwidge Danticat
Elena Ferrante
Roxane Gay--Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Nadine Gordimer--Burger's Daughter
Sue Monk Kidd
Harper Lee--To Kill a Mockingbird
Toni Morrison
Celeste Ng
Marilynne Robinson
JK Rowling
Carol Shields
Amy Tan
Anne Tyler
Alice Walker
Edith Wharton
15. A book set in a global city
The Sunday Lunch Club-London
January 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Great Believers-Paris, France
Amsterdam: A brief life of the city-Amsterdam, Netherlands
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
The Son
January 12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Nightingale
February 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
17. A book with a neurodiverse character
18. A book by an author you've only read once before
*Hope Rides Again (Obama Biden Mysteries #2) by Andrew Shaffer
19. A fantasy book
* **A Darker Shade of Magic
January 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Trail of Lightning
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
*Hope Rides Again (Obama Biden Mysteries #2) by Andrew Shaffer
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
The Transit of Venus
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
22. A book with the major theme of survival
The Son
January 12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Nightingale
February 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
The Sunday Lunch Club-London
January 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
All the Birds in the Sky
24. A book with an emotion in the title
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding; and An Integrated Man
Just Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
February 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Love in the Time of Cholera
25. A book related to the arts
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
*Daisy Jones & The Six
*The Huntress
*Lost Roses
*The Girl He Used to Know
*Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
*The Lost Man
*An Anonymous Girl
*Miracle Creek
*The Dutch House
*The Unhoneymooners
*The Bride Test
City of Girls
The Giver of Stars
The Water Dancer
The Lost Girls of Paris
27. A history or historical fiction
The Son-historical fiction
January 12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Nightingale -historical fiction
February 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
*Daisy Jones & The Six
28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
*The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
January 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
The Great Believers
31. A book inspired by a leading news story
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
33. A book about a non-traditional family
*The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
January 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Sunday Lunch Club
January 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
NONFICTION
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
January 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
ROMANCE
The Sunday Lunch Club
January 20 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
The Great Believers
36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
*The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
January 17 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
Me Before You
Half of a Yellow Sun
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
After You
Emily of New Moon
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
We Need New Names
40. A book with a place name in the title
Amsterdam: A brief life of the city
41. A mystery
Twisted Twenty-Six
January 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
Between the World and Me-won the National Book Award for Nonfiction 2015
*Five Quarters of the Orange-Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist 2002
Bottled Goods
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: Death, War, Famine, Plague
The Son-Death, War, Plague
January 12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
* **A Darker Shade of Magic-Death, War
January 26 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Nightingale -Death, War, Famine
February 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Great Believers (Death)
*The Night Watch (War)
The Secret Keeper (War)
44. A book related to witches
*The Witches: Salem, 1692
45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
*Twisted Twenty-Six
Read Look Alive Twenty-Five in 2018
January 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Daisy Jones & The Six
Read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in 2019
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
The Great Believers (AIDS)
*The Fire Next Time
*The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
*The Catcher in the Rye
*The Other Einstein (Einstein)
Peter Pan
*The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
City of Girls (Walter Winchell)
The Secrets We Kept (inspired by Pasternak's affair-Dr. Zhivago)
The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding (Queen Elizabeth)
47. A classic book you've always meant to read
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Good Earth
48. A book published in 2020
Fortune and Glory
A Long Petal of the Sea
49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
A book from a child's perspective:
Serafina and the Splintered Heart
Serafina and the Seven Stars
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
January 28 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
The Nightingale
February 9 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*The Cuckoo's Calling
*The Astonishing Color of After
*Trail of Lightning
52. A book related to time
Love in the Time of Cholera