Nancyj's 2021 ATY Round one, Round Two, Rejected prompts, Side-challenges

[NancyJ]

THE 2021 LIST - Completed prompts
All done!

Rejected Prompt challenge list is on page 3
Full book list (so far) is on the last page

✅ = Completed first round, 🔹=Second round

✅1. A book related to “In the Beginning...”
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
🔹 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
✅2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker
🔹Great Classic Science Fiction, by HG Wells
✅3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, by The Dalai Llama XIV, and Desmond Tutu, 4 stars
🔹The Duke and I by Julia Quinn (girls in white dresses)
✅4. A book with a monochromatic cover
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
🔹Whereabouts byJhumpa Lahiri

✅5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read:
Transcendent Kingdomby Yaa Gyasi
🔹Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
✅6. A love story
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
🔹In Five YearsRebecca Serle
✅7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list. Full list message 3
."A biography or biographical fiction:" -✅Lady Clementine, 🔹The Aviator's Wife, 🔹 Girl Waits with Gun
"An alternate history book" - 🔹His Majesty's Dragon
"A book about outer-space:" -🔹All Systems Red by Martha Wells
"A book written by or about a person with a physical disability:" - 🔹 The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
"A book about or involving a team or organization:" - 🔹Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend
"A book with a wild animal on the cover or in the title:"-
🔹Once There Were Wolves
"A book where the protagonist adheres to a religion that is not your own." - 🔹 Interior Chinatown
🔹 A book related to Colonialism - The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
🔹A book with a number in the title - Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
🔹 Dark Mother Earth by Kristian Novak
✅9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
🔹People We Meet on Vacation
✅10. A book with a female villain or criminal
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
🔹 The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels, by India Holton
✅11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum
Walking the Nile by Levison Wood
🔹Who Is Maud Dixon?
✅12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, 4.5 stars
🔹Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
✅13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness, by Delia Owens and Mark Owens, 3 stars
🔹The Songbook of Benny Lament by Amy Harmon, 5 stars
✅14. A book set in a made-up place -
How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper
🔹Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
✅15. A book that features siblings as the main characters
Home, by Marilynne Robinson
Nobel Prize, 5 stars
🔹When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal
✅16. A book with a building in the title
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
🔹And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrick Backman
✅17. A book with a Muslim character or author
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
🔹Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World by Leïla Slimani
✅18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (China Theme)
🔹 The Once and Future Witches (Man v nature theme)
✅19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
🔹Bewildermentby Richard Powers
✅20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3
Cinderby Marissa Meyer
🔹Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
✅21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u"
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
🔹The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
✅22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads
All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
🔹Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
✅23. A cross genre novel
A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
🔹Changeling by Molly Harper
✅24. A book about racism or race relations
Jack, by Marilynne Robinson, 4 stars
🔹The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
✅25. A book set on an island
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
🔹Into That Forest
✅26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
🔹 The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
✅27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards
Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine by Laurie Powers
🔹The King Is Always Above the People: Stories by Daniel Alarcón
✅28. A book connected to ice
Love of Life by Jack London, 4 stars
🔹Disappearing Earth by Julia Philips
✅29. A book that you consider comfort reading
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon, 5 stars
🔹The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
✅30. A long book
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, 5 stars.
🔹The President's Daughter by Bill Clinton
💖✅31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years {Favorite Prompt. List last page.]
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
🔹My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
✅32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people

Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, 5 stars
🔹Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, 4 stars
🔹Runaway by Alice Munro (short story collection)
✅34. A book with a travel theme
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy, 5 stars
🔹Less by Andrew Sean Greer
✅35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer
Euphoria by Lily King
🔹Bel Canto byAnn Patchett
✅36. A book with six or more words in the title
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
🔹Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
✅37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimeara
🔹Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, Ina Rilke"
✅38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator. Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science, by Richard Preston (Immune)
🔹 The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah (West)
✅39. A book involving an immigrant
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas, 3 stars
🔹Infinite Country: A Novel
✅40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover
Bark by Lorrie Moore
🔹The Scarlet Pimpernel
✅41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
🔹The Deep by Rivers Solomon
✅✔42. A mystery or thriller
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
🔹State of Terror by Hilary Clinton, Louise Penny
✅43. A book with elements of magic
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
🔹Midnight Riot
✅44. A book whose title contains a negative
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
🔹Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
✅45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
🔹The Madness of Crowds
✅46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards.
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
🔹Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
✅47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
🔹The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
✅48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
🔹 American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
✅49. A book with an ensemble cast
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator)
🔹 Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

💗 2021 Goal: Read 21 books published in 2021. ✅
✅50. A book published in 2021 (21 books total)
Firekeeper's Daughter
🔹 China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
✅51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
🔹The Girl in the Letter
✅52. A book related to "the end"
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
🔹The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
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[NancyJ]

Other Challenges Completed

✅ATY 2021 Round one
_✅_ ATY 2022 Round two - DONE!
✅Rejected Prompt Challenge - 38 prompts so far - now 75 with overlaps
✅ Read at least 21 books published in 2021
✅ Read books from all 7 continents
✅ Read books from at least 24 different countries
✔ Fly the PBT Skies - 11/12 completed - last trip will be completed mid December.
_✔ Target list challenge: Read at least one book from 12 major lists. (Completed 11 so far). # 12 will be completed in mid December.

[NancyJ]

REJECTED PROMPT CHALLENGE
Prompts that didn't make the 2021 list.
Bold - no overlaps with either round 1 or 2

1. A biography or biographical fiction: Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart The Aviator's Wife
2. An alternate history book: His Majesty's Dragon,
3. A book written by or about a person with a physical disability, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
4. A book about outer-space: All Systems Red
5. A book about or involving a team or organization: Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend,
6. A book with a wild animal on the cover or in the title:Once There Were Wolves
7. A book related to Colonialism - The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
8. A book with a number in the title - Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
9. A book written from a 1st person point of view: Lady Clementine
10. A book where the protagonist adheres to a religion that is not your own. Interior Chinatown, also China Room, She Who Became the Sun, A Very Large Expanse of Sea. A Long Petal of the Sea,
11. A book related to Shakespeare: Hamnet by Maggie O'Connell
12. A book with a non-binary or trans character or author: The Deep by Rivers Solomon.
13. A book written by a Nobel Prize Winning author: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
14. A book nominated for a lesser known literary prize: Dark Mother Earth, Things We Lost in the Fire
15. A book that won an award for a genre you don’t often read: All Systems Red (Hugo Award, Nebula Award)
16. A book nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, Euphoria by Lily King, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
17. A book from the "500 Great Books by Women" list - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
18. A book set in the 19th Century. The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrelsby India Holton, His Majesty's Dragon, The Duke and I, The Scarlet Pimpernel,
19. A book featuring a prominent role for a mineral (cover, title, author’s name, or story): All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny - Rare earth minerals, Neodymium.
20. A book about Dance or Music = The Songbook of Benny Lament
21. A book related to a book:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Book of Magic
22. A book related to mental health: A Madness So Discreet, Transcendent Kingdom, Dark Mother Earth,
23. A book originally written in a language you don't speak:
Dark Mother Earth, Drive your plow over the bodies of the Dead, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Island Beneath the Sea.
24. A book set in one of the 5 current communist countries (China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, Vietnam) –
The Sympathizer - Vietnam
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress -China
25. A book connected to a past or current communist country-Disappearing Earth
26.. A book related to one of the United Nations 2021 themes- "International Year of Elimination of Child Labor:"
The Night Tiger, Changeling
27. A book featuring a theme of women overcoming systemic obstacles: She Who Became the Sun
28. A book related to a technological advancement: Oryx and Crake,Bewilderment They Both Die at the End.
29. A book written by someone no more than two degrees of separation away from you: Kate's Courage
30. A coming-of-age story: China Room, The Once and Future Witches, She Who Became the Sun, Henna Artist, Runaway,
31. A book written from the point of view of a child: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer, She Who Became the Sun,
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
32. A book of fiction involving a real person or a non-fiction about a fictitious person or persona: Euphoria
33. A book featuring a ghost, vengeful spirit, or lost soul –
Midnight Riot, The Night Tiger, Home Before Dark
34. Read a Novella: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer, All Systems Red
35. A book you meant to read in 2020: Mrs. Dalloway, The Satapur Moonstone,
36. A book related to money - Anxious People
37. A book that fills a "hole" in your typical reading habits:
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
38. A book featuring a member of a religious organization - The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
39. A book with a focus on the natural world: Once There Were Wolves, Migrations, Bewilderment
40. A book with a major life altering event in the plot: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle, The Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, The Aviator's Wife
41. A book with the Theme of sibling Rivaly. China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
42. Pantone's Color of the year. The Island beneath the Sea, Queen of the Pulps
43. A book related to an Endangered Species. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy. Eye of the Elephant by Delia Moore
44. A Book with a Color in the Title - Women in White Coats
45. A book inspired by the lyrics to REM’s “It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
46. A book with a pronoun in the title. They Both Die at the End
47. A book that's Disturbing - American Dirt, State of Terror
48. A book with a non-human Character - Hidden Palace
49. A book with a heroic Character - Splendid and the Vile, She who Became the sun
50. A book from the NPR Concierge list. Interior Chinatown, Hamnet, AppleLovers cookbook
51. A memoir - Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas,
52. An Adventure Book - American Dirt
53. A book related to what you wanted to be as a kid. Silent Patient.
54. A book related to Don McLean's "American Pie" : Malibu Rising (era, music, fire)
55. A book that deals with second chances: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, The Midnight Library
56. A book that includes a recipe: A Long Petal of the Sea
57. A book you once started but didn't finish:Home
58. A book you find inspiring or uplifting - The Book of Joy by the Dalai Llama, Bewilderment
59. A book primarily set in a workplace or office - Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
60. A book related to Folklore - Once and Future Witches
61. A book you had to Wait for - The Songbook of Benny Lament, Once There were Wolves
62.A book involving getting ‘the band’ back together, either literal or figurative - The Songbook of Benny Lament by Amy Harmon
63. A book related to mental Illness: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
64. A Book with a Profession in the title: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
65. A bookwith an unusual or counterintuitive structure - Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
66, A book published before you were born: Mrs. Dalloway. Love of Life
67. A book related to a generation that you don’t belong to: A Very Large Expanse of Sea
68. A book that is older than your mom - The Scarlet Pimpernel
69. A book that was published in the decade of your birth - My Cousin Rachel by Daphne duMaurier
70. A book with a large scale tragedy - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larsen
71. A book involving non-European Royalty - The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
72. A book you picked up because of an adaptation of it. Atonement by Ian McEwan
73. A book on a "must read" list with a cover that you're not attracted to. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
74. A book with an animal on the cover - The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
75. A book that fits a category from another challenge: (Global)
Into That Forest - Tasmania

[NancyJ]

[NancyJ]

✅Goal = Read 21 books published in 2021 DONE!

Once There Were Wolves
The Songbook of Benny Lament
The Hidden Palace
Klara and the Sun
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

The Soulmate Equation
People We Meet on Vacation
Malibu Rising
The President's Daughter
China Room

Infinite Country: A Novel
The Last Thing He Told Me
She Who Became the Sun
Who Is Maud Dixon?
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

The Book of Magic
The Madness of Crowds
State of Terror
Bewilderment
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

Firekeeper's Daughter
The Four Winds

[NancyJ]

Around the World Goals 🌎✈

✅ Read books from All 7 continents
✅Read books set in 24 different countries


Antarctica 🌎
Migrations - Antarctica✔, Greenland, Ireland, Australia

Oceania 🌎
When We Believed in Mermaids - New Zealand
The Whale Rider - New Zealand
Euphoria - Papua New Guinea
Into that Forest - Tasmania

Asia🌎
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - China
Crazy Rich Asians - Singapore Malaysia, China
The Sympathizer - Vietnam
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats - Myanmar
Henna Artist - Jaipur India
Satapur Moonstone - India
The book of Joy - India
The Night Tiger - Malaysia
A Tale for the Time Being- Japan, BC
Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Japan

Africa 🌎
The Eye of the Elephant - Zambia
Transcendent Kingdom - Ghana (partial)
Walking the Nile - (Egypt, Sudan, S Sudan, Rwanda, others in Africa
Who is Maud Dixon - Morocco, US
Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World - Morocco

South America 🌎
Things we Lost in the Fire - Argentina -
The King is Always Above the People -Peru
Long petal on the sea - Spain, Chile
Bel Canto- Peru

Europe 🌎
Anxious People - Sweden -
Disappearing Earth - Kamchatka Russia
Drive your Plow over the bones of the dead- Poland
Tattooist of Auschwitz
Dark Mother Earth - Croatia
What the Wind Knows - Ireland
The Guest List - Ireland Once there were wolves - Scotland
One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot- Scotland
England - Hamnet, Mrs Dalloway, Changeling, Girl in the Letter, Wisteria Society, Duke and I, All about Passion,
France - Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, All the Devils are Here
My Cousin Rachel - England, Italy
England + France - Atonement, Scarlet Pimpernel

North America 🌎
Love of Life - NW Canada, Alaska
Runaway - Canada
Island Beneath the Sea - Haiti
Madness of Crowds - Canada
Less - US South America, Morocco, Germany, plus others

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[NancyJ]

THE 2021 LIST - 1 to 7
✅ = First round book 🔹 = Second round book

1. A book related to “In the Beginning...”
✅The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Debut book
🔹A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin - first in series
✔Tattooist of Auschwitz
✔All Systems Red
✔oryx and Crake
✔Girl waits with gun
✔Midnight riot

2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
🔸The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker
🔹Great Classic Science Fiction, The Door in the Wall by HG Wells

3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music
✅The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Llama and Desmond Tutu
🔹The Duke and I (girls in white dresses)

4. A book with a monochromatic cover
✅✔The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
🔹Whereabouts



5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read
✅Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
🔹Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
✔The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Jacqueline Woodson
Zora Neale Hurston
Toni Morrison

6. A love story
✅Atonement by Ian McEwan
🔹In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
✔What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
✔Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
✔The Soulmate equation
✔People we meet on Vacation
✔Tattooist of Auschwitz
✔Bel Canto
✔They Both Die at the End

7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list. Full list message 3. Books with no overlaps:
"A biography or biographical fiction:"
✅Lady Clementine,
🔹The Aviator's Wife,
🔹 Girl Waits with Gun
Others:
"An alternate history book" - 🔹His Majesty's Dragon
"A book about outer-space:" -🔹All Systems Red by Martha Wells
"A book written by or about a person with a physical disability:" - 🔹The Satapur Moonstone, 🔹 The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
"A book about or involving a team or organization:" - 🔹Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend
"A book with a wild animal on the cover or in the title:"-🔹Once There Were Wolves - check
"A book where the protagonist adheres to a religion that is not your own." - 🔹 Interior Chinatown

[NancyJ]

THE 2021 LIST - 8 to 20

8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited .
✅A Tale for the Time Being - Japan
🔹Dark Mother Earth - Croatia

9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year
✅In a Holidaze - Christmas
🔹 People we Meet on Vacation - summer

10. A book with a female villain or criminal
✅The Silent Patient
🔹 The Girl in the Letter

11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum
✅Walking the Nile - walks to Egypt
🔹Who Is Maud Dixon? - set in Africa

12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
✅Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
🔹Things We Lost in the Fire

13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020
✅ The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness by Delia Owens, and Mark Owens
🔹The Songbook of Benny Lament by Amy Harmon

14. A book set in a made-up place
✅How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper
🔹Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
✔ A Wizard of Earthsea
✔All Systems Red

15. A book that features siblings as the main characters
✅Home - read before or after Jack
🔹When We Believed in Mermaids
✔The Night Tiger
✔Atonement
✔Malibu Rising
✔Girl Waits with Gun
✔The Once and Future Witches

16. A book with a building in the title
✅The Midnight Library
🔹And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
The Hidden Palace

17. A book with a Muslim character or author -
✅A Very Large Expanse of Sea
🔹Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World by Leïla Slimani
Girl Woman Other

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

China Theme:
✅18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1
She Who Became the Sun Past
✅19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2
Crazy Rich Asians Present
✅20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3
Cinder Future

Man vs Nature Theme
🔹18. The Once and Future Witches
🔹19. Bewilderment
🔹20. Oryx and Crake

Short story collections theme:
Past: Love of Life by Jack London (published 1905)
Present: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Future: Great Classic Science Fiction by HG Wells

[NancyJ]

THE 2021 LIST - 21 to 30

21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u."
🔹Soulmate Equation, Christina Lauren
✅The Guest List by Lucy Foley- mystery,
✔My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
✔Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
✔Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead-warwick
22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads
✅All the Devils Are Here
🔹 Klara and the Sun
✔Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
✔Transcendent kingdom
✔Hamnet
✔Migrations
✔Girl woman other
✔Disappearing Earth

23. A cross genre novel
✅✔A Madness So Discreet
🔹 ✔Changeling by Molly Harper
✔ Satapur moonstone
✔Piranesi

24. A book about racism or race relations
✅Jack
✔Island Beneath the Sea
✔The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
✔Girl, Woman, Other
✔The Songbook of Benny Lament
✔Infinite Country: A Novel by Patricia Engle
✔Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
🔹✔The Tattooist of Auschwitz

25. A book set on an island -
✅✔The Night Tiger - Malaysia
🔹Into That Forest - Tasmania
✔Island Beneath the Sea - Haiti
✔A Tale for the Time Being - Japan, BC island
✔Euphoria - Papua New Guinea

26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author (see also #41 new to you bipoc author)
✅Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
🔹 The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
✔The Deep by Rivers Solomon
✔Mrs. Dalloway
✔The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
✔Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (1000 world books)

27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards
✅Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine
🔹The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
His Majesty's Dragon

28. A book connected to ice -
✅Love of Life
✔ Migrations -Antarctica, Australia, Greenland.
🔹✔Disappearing Earth

29. A book that you consider comfort reading
✅What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon -
🔹The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman

30. A long book
🔹The President's Daughter by Bill Clinton - 608 pages
✅The Golem and the Jinni

[NancyJ]

-THE 2021 LIST - 31 - 33

💗 31 is my Favorite Prompt. It encouraged me to read many great books I might not have read.

31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years -
✅My Cousin Rachel by Daphne duMaurier
🔹Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
🌹A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
🌹A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki - Japan, mental health, island
🌹A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
🌹All About Passion by Stephanie Laurens - regency tag
🌹All Systems Red by Martha Wells
🌹Atonement by Ian McEwan - love story
🌹Bewilderment by Richard Powers
🌹Euphoria by Lily King - island, south of Tropic of Cancer
🌹Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
🌹Home by Marilynne Robinson - Siblings
🌹Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 2021
🌹Midnight Riot aka Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovitch
🌹The Duke and I by Julia Quinn - regency tag
🌹The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
🌹Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
🌹Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk - Warwick prize
🌹Jack by Marilynne Robinson Feb 29 - Racism
🌹Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf -or 2+people on cover, new to me
🌹Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
🌹Runaway by Alice Munro - short stories collection
🌹The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
🌹The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt - short stories collection
🌹The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera new to me
🌹Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri -2021 book

Read 26 books, 20 by female authors, 6 by male authors.

32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people

✅Mrs. Dalloway
✅Malibu Rising - shows 4 surfers

33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry
✅✔Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
✔Runaway by Alice Munro (author with a long career)
✔Bark by Lorrie Moore (Favorite things)
✔Love of Life by Jack London (Past, 1905)
✔Great Classic Science Fiction by H.G. Wells (Future)
✔Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez (Present, Argentina, World lit quiz)
✔The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (New to me author)
✔Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science - used for "you read what?"
✔The King Is Always Above the People: Stories by Daniel Alarcon (King - playing card)
✔The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt (author with long career)
✔Bad Feminist Roxanne Gay

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THE 2021 LIST - 34 to 39

34. A book with a travel theme -
✅ Migrations
🔹Less
✔Walking the Nile
✔Before the Coffee Gets Cold
✔Midnight library

35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer
Most of Africa, South America, India, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, see map.
✅Euphoria - Papua New Guinea
🔹Bel Canto - Peru
✔Island Beneath the Sea - Haiti
✔When we believed in Mermaids - New Zealand
✔The Night Tiger - Malaysia
✔Things we lost in the fire - South America
✔the king is always above the people - South America
✔henna artist - India
✔Satapur moonstone - India
✔The Eye of the Elephant - Zambia

36. A book with six or more words in the title
✅✔And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longerby Fredrik Backman
🔹Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
✔The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
✔Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
✔Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
✔Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
✔A Very Large Expanse of Sea

37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list
✅Whale Rider The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera. New Zealand, Maori
🔹Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
✔Things We Lost in the Fire (Mariana Enriquez) - Warwick
✔Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)
✔ The Sympathizer
To read:
Chess story
Born a Crime
Akata Witch
Unbearable lightness of being
Garden of evening mist
Gift of rain
The kitchen
Master and margarita
A room of ones own

38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator.
My 10 words: Strikebreaker, Immune, West, Corner, Eternal, Appreciate, Fragrant, Preparation, Surgeon, Strong. (I didn't like the book I picked for strikebreaker.)
"Immune:" ✅Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science - Immunity is discussed in the book
"West:" 🔹The Four Winds - A family escapes the dust bowl in the 1930's and moves West to California.

39. A book involving an immigrant
✅✔Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
🔹Infinite Country: A Novel by Patricia Engel
.✔The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
✔Transcendent Kingdom
✔Girl Woman Other
✔Island Beneath the Sea
✔A Long Petal of the Sea
✔A Very Large Expanse of Sea

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THE 2021 LIST - 40 to 49

40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover
✅✔Bark by Lorrie Moore
🔹✔The Scarlet Pimpernel
✔Hamnet
✔The Girl who wrote on silk

41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author
✅ The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
🔹The Deep by Rivers Solomon
✔Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World by Leïla Slimani
✔ Girl woman Other
✔ The Deep by Rivers Solomon, POC, Non-binary

42. A mystery or thriller
✅Home Before Dark
🔹State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny
✔The Guest List
✔The Silent Patient
✔The Night Tiger
✔All the Devils are here
✔the Midnight library
✔Dark Mother earth
✔The President's Daughter
✔The Madness of Crowds

43. A book with elements of magic
✅✔ Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
🔹Midnight Riot aka Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovitch
✔Her body and other parties
✔Before the Coffee Gets Cold
✔Nothing to See Here
✔The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
✔The Night Tiger
✔Midnight library
✔Changeling
✔The Book of Magic
✔Once and future witches
✔Wizard of Earthsea

44. A book whose title contains a negative
✅✔Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
why we can't sleep
🔹Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
✅India The Henna Artist
🔹Quebec The Madness of Crowds
India The Satapur Moonstone

46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards
✅A Long Petal of the Sea
🔹Hamnet by Maggie OFarrell
The Guest List✔
Anxious People✔
The Midnight Library✔
Migrations ✔
Transcendent Kingdom✔
All the Devils are Here✔
The invisible life of addie larue✔
✔splendid and the vile
The future we choose
Breath
The story of more

47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir
✅✔Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
🔹The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
✔Panic in Level 4

48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?”
✅Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
🔹American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
✔Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science - The cannibal part is misleading but still weird. 3.5 stars
✔The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
✔Walking the Nile

49. A book with an ensemble cast
✅Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
🔹 Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
✔Spoonbenders
✔The Guest List
✔Girl Woman Other
✔Anxious People
✔Malibu Rising

[NancyJ]

THE 2021 LIST - 50 to 52

🌷50. A book published in 2021.
2021 Goal: Read 21 book published in 2021
✔Once There Were Wolves
✔The Songbook of Benny Lament
✔The Hidden Palace
✔ The[book:Klara and the Sun
✔ The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
✔ The Soulmate Equation
✔ People We Meet on Vacation
✔ Malibu Rising
✔ The President's Daughter
10✔ China Room

✔Infinite Country: A Novel
✔The Last Thing He Told Me
✔She Who Became the Sun
✔Who Is Maud Dixon?
✔The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
✔The Book of Magic
✔The Madness of Crowds
✔State of Terror
✔ Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
20✔Bewilderment

21✔ The Four Winds
22✔ Firekeeper's Daughter

✅51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
🔹The Girl in the Letter
✔girl, woman, other
✔silent patient
✔Balzac and the little chinese seamstress
✔President's Daughter
✔The last thing he told me
✔She who became the sun
✔The Aviator's Wife

✅52. A book related to "the end"
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
🔹The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

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🍁NancyJ's ATY Autumn Reading Challenge 2021🍁
Our Fall challenge starts on September 1, 2021 and finishes on November 30, 2021. For this challenge, you will be given a set of words and phrases, and you must match books to these phrases in one of four ways.

How to Fill the Prompts:
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial) = 2 books
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The) = 4 (5) books
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation) = 2 books
4. Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word) = 4 books

NancyJ ATY Autumn Reading Challenge 2021
Completed September 1-30, 2021

Completed Books:



The Phrases:
1. autumn - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson - (4 - 'autumn' in text)
2. fall - Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict - (2 first letter in title)
3. foliage - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - (3- foliage on cover, and 2- first letter in title)
4. cooler weather - The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (2- first letter in title T or L)
5. Halloween - When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal (4-'Halloween' is in the text)
6. scarf - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (4 - 'scarf' in text)
7. harvest - The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker (2 - A or T - first letter in title)
8. pumpkin spice - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2-S first letter in title)
9. orange She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan. (3 - Orange sun or harvest moon on the cover)
10. hot chocolate - They Both Die at the End -(4-they drink 'hot chocolate' in the text)
11. spooky season - Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (1-author initials)
12. schooltime - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (1-author initials)

[NancyJ]

Books I read in 2021 as of Nov 14, 2021

All Systems Red by Martha Wells
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende - #46
A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis -#23
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki -#8
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi - #17
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
All About Passion Stephanie Laurens
All the Devils are Here, by Louise Penny - #2
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrick Backman - #36
Anxious People by Frederik Backman - #22
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz -#48
Atonement, by Ian McEwan - #6
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie - #18
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
#2 Bark by Lorrie Moore - #40
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator) - #49
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Changeling by Molly Harper - #23a
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
Cinderby Marissa Meyer - #20
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan - #19
Dark Mother Earth by Kristian Novak
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Antonio Vargas- #39
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips -#27a
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, 4.5 stars - #12
Euphoria by Lily King - #35
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo - #41
#2Great Classic Science Fiction by H.G. Wells - #2a
Hamnet by Maggie OFarrell - #7
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, 4 stars - #33
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager - #42
Home, by Marilynne Robinson-#15
How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper -#14
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren - #9
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
Infinite Country: A Novel by Patricia Engle
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende - #31
Jack, by Marilynne Robinson, 4 stars - #24
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Love of Life by Jack London, 4 stars - #28
Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid -#32a
Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy, 5 stars - #34
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, 5 stars - #32
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
#2Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson - #44
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy -#50
Oryx and Crake byMargaret Atwood
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science, by Richard Preston - #38
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - #14a
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall - #47
Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine by Laurie Powers - #27
Runaway by Alice Munro
Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend by Molly Harper
Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World by Leïla Slimani
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory - #43
State of Terror by Hilary Clinton and Louise Penny
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, by The Dalai Llama XIV, and Desmond Tutu, 4 stars - #3
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
#2 The Deep by Rivers Solomon, 4 stars - #26
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn- #1a
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness, by Delia Owen and Mark Owen, 3 stars - #13
The Girl in the Letter by Emily Gunnis - #51a
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes - #51
2The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, 5 stars. -#30
The Guest List by Lucy Foley - #21
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi - #45
#2The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker - #16a
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab - #4
The King Is Always Above the People: Stories by Daniel Alarcón - #27a
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave -#52a
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig - #16
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo - #25
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
The President's Daughter by Bill Clinton and Bill Patterson - #30a
The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy - #40a
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw - #41a
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides - #10
The Songbook of Benny Lament by Amy Harmon - #13a
The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson-47a
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - 1
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera - #37
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton - 15a
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera -#52
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez - #12a
Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi - #5
Walking the Nile by Levison Wood - #11
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon, 5 stars -#29
When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal - #15a
Whereabouts byJhumpa Lahiri
Who Is Maud Dixon? byAlexandra Andrews



BOOKS READ IN 2021 - January through April
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February

March

April

Books Read in 2021 - May 2021

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💗Favorite Prompt: 31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - short book new-to-me author, 2+ people on cover
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende (it would also work for island, below tropic of cancer)
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Atonement by Ian McEwan - love story
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier - gothic tag
Home by Marilynne Robinson - siblings
Jack by Marilynne Robinson - racism/cards
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk - Warwick prize
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri -2021 book
A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki - Japan, mental health, island
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera - New Zealand - World Literature
The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt - short stories collection
Runaway by Alice Munro - short stories collection
Euphoria by Lily King - island, south of Tropic of Cancer
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 2021
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn - regency tag
All About Passion byStephanie Laurens - regency tag
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
Midnight Riot aka Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovitch

Read 26 books, 20 by female authors, 6 by male authors.