oshizu's 2020 ATY Challenge

[oshizu]

Having just joined this group last week after being shown your 2021 challenge prompts, I thought today that I'd see how the books I've read so far this year might fill the 2020 prompts.

The discussion threads on some of the harder prompts was extremely helpful. I'm looking forward to joining this challenge from January next year. :D

2020 ATY Challenge

Progress: 52/52

✔️1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y: 77
✔️2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable: Aunty Lee's Delights (Ovidian Yu)
✔️3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019: Tigana
✔️4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live:
The Sea Road (Greenland)
✔️5. The first book in a series that you have not started: Wolf Hall

✔️6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover:
(ships)
✔️7. A book set in the southern hemisphere: Cantoras (Ecuador)
✔️8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The":
The Godmother
✔️9. A book that can be read in a day: The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

✔️10. A book that is between 400-600 pages: Fingersmith (592 pages)
✔️11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number: Artemis (2017)
✔️12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people: Silent Thunder
✔️13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge(2018, #12)
*A book set in Africa or South America: The Old Drift
✔️14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers: And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)

✔️15. A book set in a global city: The Architect's Apprentice (Istanbul)
✔️16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area: The Bridge of Beyond
✔️17. A book with a neurodiverse character: Raven Stratagem
✔️18. A book by an author you've only read once before: Artificial Condition

✔️19. A fantasy book: The Way of Kings
✔️20. The 20th book on the A 100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime listopia. The Alienist
✔️21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720. The Door (set in Hungary)
✔️22. A book with the major theme of survival: Battle Royale

✔️23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author: A Memory Called Empire
✔️24. A book with an emotion in the title: Stage Fright
✔️25. A book related to the arts: Big Lies in a Small Town
✔️26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards: The Night Tiger
✔️27. A history or historical fiction: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

✔️28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author: Overkill (NZ)
✔️29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book: Strange Practice
✔️30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year: The Overstory (2018)
✔️31. A book inspired by a leading news story: The Nickel Boys

✔️32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan: The Housekeeper and the Professor
✔️33. A book about a non-traditional family:
Dreadful Company
✔️34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name:
Wow, No Thank You. (Humor)
✔️35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover:


✔️36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim: Closure
✔️37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1, The Tale of Genji (1,156 pages)
✔️38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2, The Call of the Wild (96 pages)
✔️39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce: The Exiled (Kati Hiekkapelto)

✔️40. A book with a place name in the title:
The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
✔️41. A mystery: All Yours
✔️42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ : The Three-Body Problem (2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel)
✔️43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: The Grace of Kings (War)
✔️44. A book related to witches: Magic and Macaroons

✔️45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018: Ship of Magic
✔️46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire":
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
✔️47. A classic book you've always meant to read: White Fang
✔️48. A book published in 2020: The Mirror & the Light

✔️49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
*Book by an Irish author: The Likeness
✔️50. A book with a silhouette on the cover: The Midnight Witness
✔️51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title: Mating
✔️52. A book related to time: The Gone World