My 2020 Plan - Let's Put a Dent in the Want to Read List!

[Megan]

My goal in completing this year's AYB is to take books solely from my multiple Want to Read lists -- either from here on Goodreads or on my physical shelves at home, and from my book club's list we're reading this year. Of course I may have to branch out a little to fill some of the prompts but I will do my best to complete as many as possible this way :)

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

2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
The Whisper Man
Girls with Sharp Sticks
The Night Tiger
The Huntress
The Turn of the Key
In a Dark, Dark Wood
How It Feels to Float
The First Mistake

3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
Magic Bites - Jan 2020

4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
We Set the Dark on Fire
The Grace Year
The Memory Police
After the Flood
Wilder Girls

5. The first book in a series that you have not started
Shadow and Bone - Jan 2020

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Trail of Lightning
The River

7. A book set in the southern hemisphere

8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
The Gala - Jan 2020

9. A book that can be read in a day

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
Uprooted
After the End
Children of Blood and Bone
Ninth House
After the Flood
The Witch Elm
Our House

11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
The Princess Bride
Before I Go to Sleep
This is How It Always Is

12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
The Memory Police
The Last Time I Saw You

13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge (Link)
House of Salt and Sorrows
The Princess Bride
The Huntress
Still Alice
The Paris Wife
The Night Tiger
The Graveyard Book
Uprooted

14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link)
Homegoing
The Goldfinch

15. A book set in a global city
The Paris Wife
The Miniaturist
The Goldfinch
Queenie
City of Girls
The Lost Girls of Paris

16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
The Graveyard Book
The River
Trail of Lightning
The Turn of the Key

17. A book with a neurodiverse character
Still Alice
Miracle Creek

18. A book by an author you've only read once before
Uprooted
Pieces of Her
The Huntress
The Sun Down Motel

19. A fantasy book
A Game of Thrones - Jan 2020

20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]

21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720

22. A book with the major theme of survival
Magic Triumphs - Jan 2020

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
Juliet Takes a Breath
This is How It Always Is
Wilder Girls

24. A book with an emotion in the title
House of Salt and Sorrows
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

25. A book related to the arts
Daisy Jones & The Six
The Goldfinch
On the Come Up
The Miniaturist
The Clockmaker's Daughter
The Binding

26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
The Fountains of Silence
The Whisper Man
Miracle Creek
Three Women
The Night Tiger
Queenie
The Lost Girls of Paris
City of Girls
The Huntress
Where the Forest Meets the Stars

27. A history or historical fiction
City of Girls
The Fountains of Silence
The Night Tiger
The Lost Girls of Paris
The Huntress

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
The Clockmaker's Daughter

29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
Homegoing
Disappearing Earth

31. A book inspired by a leading news story

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
Never Let Me Go
The Memory Police

33. A book about a non-traditional family
The Graveyard Book
This is How It Always Is
The Night Tiger

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
Probably mystery or memoir - TBD

35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
Homegoing
The Incendiaries

36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
The Girl in the Letter
The Binding
After the End
Big Lies in a Small Town
Wilder Girls
Our House

37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2

39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
Never Let Me Go
We Set the Dark on Fire
The Night Tiger

40. A book with a place name in the title
Miracle Creek
The Paris Wife
The Lost Girls of Paris
The Sun Down Motel

41. A mystery
In a Dark, Dark Wood
Miracle Creek
In the Woods
The Whisper Man

42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ (link)
Homegoing

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
The Graveyard Book
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
Warm Bodies
A Monster Calls

44. A book related to witches
The Witch of the Hills
Uprooted
The Familiars
The Bone Witch

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

46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Daisy Jones & The Six
The Paris Wife

47. A classic book you've always meant to read
Death on the Nile

48. A book published in 2020
The Illness Lesson

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
This is How It Always Is
The Huntress
Big Lies in a Small Town
Those People
The Chain

51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
The Binding
Homegoing
Disappearing Earth
Trail of Lightning
Watching You
Rules for Vanishing
Keeping Lucy

52. A book related to time
The Clockmaker's Daughter
The Psychology of Time Travel
Here and Now and Then