# Eujean's 2021 ATY Reading List - A Work In Progress #

[Eujean2]

Eujean's very early thoughts about the 2021 list

1. A book related to “In the Beginning...” - Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y - Zen Cho, N.K. Jemisin, or Louise Erdich
3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music - If Cats Disappeared from the World
4. A book with a monochromatic cover - Exhalation: Stories

5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read - Queenie; (Nicky Drayden); Invisible Man; Pet; Get a Life, Chloe Brown; (NK Jemisin); Passing; MEM; Riot Baby; (Helen Oyeyemi); Sun A Fun Age; (Rivers Solomon)
6. A love story - Shine
7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list -
8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited - Blanche on the Lam

9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year - The Picture of Dorian Gray
10. A book with a female villain or criminal - We Ride Upon Sticks
11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum - The Haunting of Tram Car 015, (plus the prequel A Dead Djinn in Cairo)
12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation - Winter in Sokcho
13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020 - something by Sarah Kuhn

14. A book set in a made-up place - A Dream So Dark
15. A book that features siblings as the main characters - The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
16. A book with a building in the title - We Have Always Lived in the Castle
17. A book with a Muslim character or author - Ayesha at Last

18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1
19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2
20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3
21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u" - Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads - The City We Became, Such a Fun Age, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, The Deep, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, or The Starless Sea

23. A cross genre novel - Upright Women Wanted, Mexican Gothic, Black Sun
24. A book about racism or race relations - Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
25. A book set on an island - Patron Saints of Nothing
26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author -Passing, You Have the Right to Remain Fat, Heart Berries, Riot Baby, or Mem

27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards - A Dream So Dark or Black Sun
28. A book connected to ice - The Left Hand of Darkness or The Left Hand of Darkness
29. A book that you consider comfort reading - October Daye, Prudence, Kate Daniels, Heroine Complex, Half-Resurection Blues
30. A long book - The City of Brass

31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people - The Relentless Moon
33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry - Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion or Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
34. A book with a travel theme - Upright Women Wanted
35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer - Mexican Gothic or Patron Saints of Nothing

36. A book with six or more words in the title - I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are
37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list - The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly or My Name Is Red
38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator
39. A book involving an immigrant - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover - Felix Ever After' Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, or Heart Berries
41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author - Felix Ever After, Cemetery Boys, or The Black Kids
42. A mystery or thriller -
43. A book with elements of magic - The Bone Witch, Cemetery Boys, or Black Sun

44. A book whose title contains a negative - Darius the Great Is Not Okay or I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet - Six Months, Three Days, Five Others or The Picture of Dorian Gray
46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards -
47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir - Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, or The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?” - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

49. A book with an ensemble cast - The City We Became or Black Sun
50. A book published in 2021 - Ten Steps to Nanette
51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name - The Black Kids or The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
52. A book related to "the end" - They Both Die at the End

(Note: I am hoping to keep this first list so I can compare it to what I actually end up reading. Some prompts will be filled as I read.)

[Eujean2]

I am really working on how I might use past, present, & future.
Things are likely to shift when I see the Pop Sugar & Book Riot lists.

Books I am pretty sure I will read in 2021:
- Black Sun
- Black Water Sister
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
- Cemetery Boys
- Darius the Great Is Not Okay
- Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century *
- Elatsoe
- Felix Ever After
- I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
- Mexican Gothic
- Not Your Hero *
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- Patron Saints of Nothing
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Remote Control
- Slay *
- Such a Fun Age
- Ten Steps to Nanette
- The Bone Witch
- The City of Brass
- The City We Became
- The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
- The Relentless Moon
- Upright Women Wanted
- Untitled Heroine Complex #5 (if it comes out in 2021)
- When Sorrows Come (new October Daye)
and, if it gets reprinted:
- Peter Darling (I wanted to read this in 2020, but it was frustratingly out of print.)

* not sure how or if it fits in to the ATY challenge

[Eujean2]

If I don't get to read Shadowshaper Legacy this year, I will definitely be reading it in 2021!

Here is my current thinking on "past - present - future":
1. an historical fantasy
2. a (contemporary) urban fantasy
3. a speculative fantasy
All by authors of color &/or authors from underrepresented groups.