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January 20201. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Completed 1/4/2020
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms Completed 1/5/2020
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis Completed 1/6/2020
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
Murder by Misrule by Anna Castle Completed 1/10/20
5. The first book in a series that you have not started
A Magical Inheritance by Krista D. Ball Completed 1/15/20
February 20206. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty Completed 2/11/2020
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay Completed 2/18/2020
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
The Forgotten by Linda S. Prather Completed 2/23/2020
9. A book that can be read in a day
My Boyfriend Is a Bear by Pamela Ribon and Cat Ferris Completed 1/19/2020
March 202010. A book that is between 400-600 pages
My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows Completed 2/2/2020
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon (2017) completed 3/6/2020
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
Diary of a Witchcraft Shop by Liz Williams and Trevor Jones Completed 3/8/20
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
Lillian's Story: One Womans Journey through the 20th Century by Sally Patricia Gardner (ATY 2019 #34) Completed 3/10/20
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
My Ántonia by Willa Cather Completed 2/29/20
April 202015. A book set in a global city
One Small Sacrifice by Hilary Davidson Completed 4/1/2020
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
Girl Gone Missing by Marcie Rendon Completed 3/31/2020
17. A book with a neurodiverse character
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character by Kay Redfield Jamison Completed 4/4/2020
18. A book by an author you've only read once before
Proper English by KJ Charles Completed 4/12/2020
May 202019. A fantasy book
Eno and the Dragon by CB Pratt Completed 4/17/2020
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
The Leopard Tree by Tim Merriman (#20 TBR on Kindle) Completed 5/5/2020
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dana Sobel Completed 5/7/2020
22. A book with the major theme of survival
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa Completed 5/10/2020
June 202023. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian Completed 5/28/2020
24. A book with an emotion in the title
The Fear Hunter by Elise Sax Completed 6/2/2020
25. A book related to the arts
Artful Dodger by Nageeba Davis Completed 5/30/2020
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson Completed 5/10/2020
27. A history or historical fiction
Lethal Remedies by M. Louisa Locke Completed 5/24/2020
July 202028. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
The Case of Windy Lake by Michael Hutchinson (Canadian/Misipawistik Cree Nation) Completed 5/29/2020
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
The Two Mrs. Abbotts by DE Stevenson Completed 6/30/2020
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Completed 6/30/2020
31. A book inspired by a leading news story
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamera Completed 6/3/2020
August 202032. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan Downfall and Other Stories by Hayashi Fumiko Completed 6/24/2020
33. A book about a non-traditional family
On the Jellicoe Road by Melinda Marchetta Completed 7/6/2020
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
She Walks in Shadows (Lovecraftian Horror) Completed 4/7/2020
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Completed 6/12/2020
September 202036. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
Come Dancing by Leslie Wells Completed 7/8/2020
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
First Visions by Heather Topham Wood Completed 5/12/2020
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin Completed 5/21/2020
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
The Great Passage by Shion Miura, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter Completed 7/9/2020
October 202040. A book with a place name in the title
Love and Murder in Savannah by Harper Lin Completed 7/9/020
41. A mystery
A Regimental Murder by Ashley Gardner Completed 7/12/2020
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
Less by Andrew Sean Greer (won the Pulitzer Prize) Completed 8/9/2020
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
A Pilgrimage to Death by Alexa Padgett (Death) Completed 7/12/2020
44. A book related to witches
Bound by Kristen Weiss Completed 7/13/2020
November 202045. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston Completed 1/24/2020
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Peter Darling by Austin Chant Completed 8/28/2020
47. A classic book you've always meant to read
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte Completed 7/28/2020
48. A book published in 2020
A Song for Lonely Wolves by Lee Evie completed 6/25/2020
December 202049. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
The Guardians of Erum and the Calamitous Child of Socotra by A. Ali Hasan Ali (A book with more than 20 letters in the title) Completed 8/11/2020
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill Completed 8/4/2020
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Completed 8/22/2020
52. A book related to time
Three Weeks With Lady X Completed 8/6/2020
My January reading:January 2020
ATY:
My favorite was A Magical Inheritance, which was an excellent regency era + magic setting.
All female authors, two POC authors
Rereads:
One female author, one male author
February 2020ATY:
All female authors, one POC author
Other Reads:
3 books by 2 male authors; 1 female authors
Rereads:
Both by female authors
March 2020ATY:
2 written by women, 1 cowritten by man and woman; 1 author of color
Other Reads:
2 written by men, 2 by a woman; 1 graphic novel
Rereads
On a major reread of the Aunt Dimity series
April 2020:ATY:
All female authors, one anthology, one neurodiverse author
Other Reads:
1 compilation of male poets, the rest female authors. My favorite was Dandy's Discovery, a cute short story. I am really looking forward to Louisa Locke's new book in May
Rereads:
8 books by female authors - rereading C.B. Pratt after finishing Eno and the Dragon and Louisa Locke in anticipation of her upcoming book and 4 books by a male author I started rereading after doing some book sorting in my library
May 2020ATY Reads:
3 male authors, 7 female authors, 1 Korean author, 1 Turkish author, 1 Canadian-First Nation author
Other Reads:
2 female authors, 1 Asian-Canadian author
Rereads:
4 male authors, 2 female authors, lots of short stories
Best book of the month was Lethal Remedies by M. Louisa Locke
Following Johanna's & Kathy's inspiration, looking at reading the ABE 100 essential female authors as an additional challenge:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should All Be Feminists 2020
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women 2016
Isabel Allende
Kate Atkinson
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale 2015
Jane Austen - Persuasion 2007
Judy Blume
Cynthia Bond
Charlotte Brontë - Shirley 2020
Emily Brontë
Geraldine Brooks
NoViolet Bulawayo
Octavia Butler
A.S. Byatt
Angela Carter
Willa Cather - My Ántonia 2020
Eleanor Catton
Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Mr. Quin 2020
Edwidge Danticat
Kiran Desai
Joan Didion
Emma Donoghue
Daphne du Maurier
Jennifer Egan
George Eliot
Madeleine L'Engle
Louise Erdrich
Elena Ferrante
Penelope Fitzgerald
Anna Funder
Diana Gabaldon
Roxane Gay
Elizabeth Gilbert
Julia Glass
Nadine Gordimer
Lauren Groff
Yaa Gyasi
Georgette Heyer - A Blunt Instrument 2016
Keri Hulme
Zora Neale Hurston
P.D. James - Cover Her Face 2000
Tayari Jones
Miranda July
Sue Monk Kidd
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible 2005
Jhumpa Lahiri
Ursula K. Le Guin
Harper Lee
Doris Lessing
Penelope Lively
Alison Lurie
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Hilary Mantel
Alice McDermott
Ami McKay
Claire Messud
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Toni Morrison - Beloved 2008
Alice Munro
Iris Murdoch
Celeste Ng
Joyce Carol Oates
Edna O'Brien
Flannery O'Connor
Helen Oyeyemi
Ruth Ozeki
Ann Patchett
Sylvia Plath
Elizabeth Poliner
Annie Proulx
Marilynne Robinson
Arundhati Roy
Karen Russell
Maria Semple
Mary Shelley
Carol Shields
Jane Smiley - 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel 2007
Ali Smith
Zadie Smith
Susan Sontag
Emily St. Mandel
Emma Straub
Elizabeth Strout
Gertrude Stein
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Amy Tan
Donna Tartt
Miriam Toews
Anne Tyler
Alice Walker
Jesmyn Ward
Sarah Waters
Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the Moon 2020
Connie Willis - Bellwether 2000
Jeanette Winterson
Meg Wolitzer
Virginia Woolf
Evie Wyld
June 2020This was a good month for reading - I took 2 weeks off and reading was my main activity. Before that, I was knocking off a number of short stories from my TBR list. I ran through the Summer Challenge and am on my second pass with different prompts. 6! 5-star books
ATY Reads:
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6 female authors, 1 male author, 2 authors of color. Two titles I won in Goodreads Giveaways. 2 5-star
Summer Challenge Reads:
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11 female, 1 male author
Summer Challenge Round 2:
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4 female authors, 1 male author, 1 author of color
Other Reads:
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*3 male authors, the rest female authors, including a collection of essays by academic women of color
Rereads:
2 old favorites by female authors
*5-star books
July 2020ATY Reads:
7 female authors, 1 male author of color
Summer Challenge Round 2:
7 books all by female authors
Summer Read-A-Thon:
12 books by female authors, 5 by male authors
Other Reads:
9 books by female authors (2 authors of color)
Rereads:
4 books by Dorothy L. Sayers
August 2020ATY Reads:
2 female, 3 male authors
Other Reads:
15 female, 4 male authors
Rereads:
none this month
And I'm done! Have also read another 153 books so far (including 2 Read-A-Thons and the summer reading challenge).
Congrats, Laurel! That's a lot of books!
September 2020Fall Reading Challenge:
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Jane Austen (other topics)
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