Steph's 2020 Around my Bookshelf in 52 Plan

[Stephanie]

Around my Bookshelf in 52 Week
My goal this year is to try to read as many books from my own bookshelf as can fill the weekly prompts! Those that I don't own, I plan to borrow from the library.

JANUARY
1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y

Housegirl by Michael Donkor
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable

Swing Time by Zadie Smith
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019

Perky by Julia Kent
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live

The World that We Knew by Alice Hoffman
5. The first book in a series that you have not started

The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh

FEBRUARY
6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover

By the Book by Julia Sonneborn
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere

Euphoria by Lily King
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"

The Remaking by Clay Mcleod Chapman
9. A book that can be read in a day

A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian

MARCH
10. A book that is between 400-600 pages

The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people

The is How you Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge (Link) - A book written by a person of color

Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link)

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

APRIL
15. A book set in a global city

M Train by Patti Smith
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
17. A book with a neurodiverse character

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
18. A book by an author you've only read once before

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

MAY
19. A fantasy book

The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]

Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping out of Line by Ryan Leigh Dostie
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
22. A book with the major theme of survival

The River by Peter Heller

JUNE
23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author

The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg
24. A book with an emotion in the title

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
25. A book related to the arts

Still Lives by Maria Hummel
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
27. A history or historical fiction

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

JULY
28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book

The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
31. A book inspired by a leading news story

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

AUGUST
32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
33. A book about a non-traditional family

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name

To be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

SEPTEMBER
36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim

The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1

Past
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2

Future
Want by Cindy Pon
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce

A Woman is no Man by Etaf Rum

OCTOBER
40. A book with a place name in the title

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
41. A mystery

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
44. A book related to witches

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

NOVEMBER
45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018

Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"

Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
47. A classic book you've always meant to read

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
48. A book published in 2020

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

DECEMBER
49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win (link)

A book by an Irish author
Normal People by Sally Rooney
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover

Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title

Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
52. A book related to time

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

[Stephanie]

January

Currently Reading:
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
This book has drawn me in since page one! The perfect choice for starting the challenge.

Up Next:
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
Perky by Julia Kent
I read the novella and first book in this series last year and it's a cute, fun series. I don't want to read too many intense books right away especially since the start of the year has been off to such a tumultuous start.

Books Read:
None yet for the challenge, but I did finish one that I was trying to finish for last year!