Julia's First Attempt at ATY

[Julia]

READ [32/52]
TBR [23/40]

I probably won't read these in order because I'm planning on participating in other challenges as well...

[ ] 1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y - Origin by Dan Brown
[X] 2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
[ ] 3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019 - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead - because I read The Underground Railroad in 2019
[X] 4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live - Recursion by Blake Crouch
[X] 5. The first book in a series that you have not started - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden - this is also one of the books in the challenge from my local bookstore and fits one of the February prompts for the WRC (book set in medieval period)

[X] 6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
[X] 7. A book set in the southern hemisphere - In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
[X] 8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The" - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
[X] 9. A book that can be read in a day - The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
[X] 10. A book that is between 400-600 pages - The Woman in the Window by A.J Finn - 455 pages

[X] 11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number - Less by Andrew Sean Greer - published in 2017
[X] 12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
[X] 13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge - Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado -short stories, prompt from 2017
[ ] 14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
[X] 15. A book set in a global city - Hoffnung und Schicksal by Ulrike Schweikert - set in Berlin

[ ] 16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
[X] 17. A book with a neurodiverse character - The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards- daughter has Down Syndrome
[X] 18. A book by an author you've only read once before - Into the Water by Paula Hawkins - I've only read The Girl on the Train by the same author before
[ ] 19. A fantasy book - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
[X] 20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.] - Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

[X] 21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720 - Winter by Marissa Meyer
[ ] 22. A book with the major theme of survival - The Last One by Alexandra Olivia
[ ] 23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
[X] 24. A book with an emotion in the title - The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
[ ] 25. A book related to the arts - I'll Give You the Sun

[X] 26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards - The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
[X] 27. A history or historical fiction - Trinity by Louisa Hall - this is also part of the reading challenge from my local bookstore
[X] 28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
[X] 29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser-known book - Bonjour la France! by Stefan Ulrich - book in German, with 43 reviews at time of reading
[X] 30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year - I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

[X] 31. A book inspired by a leading news story - Room by Emma Donoghue
[X] 32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
[ ] 33. A book about a non-traditional family - The Farm by Joanne Ramos
[ ] 34. A book from a genre or sub-genre that starts with a letter in your name - My Life in France by Julia Child - autobiography
[X] 35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab - also for one of the WRC January prompts (author known by their initials)

[X] 36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim - Tin Man by Sarah Winman
[X] 37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
[ ] 38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2 - The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
[ ] 39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
[ ] 40. A book with a place name in the title - The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

[ ] 41. A mystery - A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
[ ] 42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
[ ] 43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse - Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
[X] 44. A book related to witches - The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace
[X] 45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018 - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

[ ] 46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire" - The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
[ ] 47. A classic book you've always meant to read - TBD
[X] 48. A book published in 2020 - Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life by Ozan Varol
[X] 49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win - Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper - book set on an island - this also fits WRC January prompt (book set in a place beginning with letters in SWITZERLAND - this is also a book for the winter reading challenge of my local bookstore
[X] 50. A book with a silhouette on the cover - The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
[ ] 51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title - Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
[ ] 52. A book related to time - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - also fits a WRC February prompt (books with jumping plot)

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Feel free to snoop around my spread sheet

See my plans for the ATY Winter Reading Challenge here

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Thank youuu :)