Sue S's 2021 TBR Crackdown - Reading in Order

[Sue]

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✔︎1. A book related to “In the Beginning...” - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
✔︎2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y - The Yellow Joss and Other Tales by Ion L Idriess
✔︎3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music - The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau
✔︎4. A book with a monochromatic cover - The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd

✔︎5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
✔︎6. A love story - The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim
✔︎7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list - The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (1st word has 2 syllables, 2nd has one - works for title & author)
✔︎8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited - The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba by Dervla Murphy

✔︎9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year - Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
✔︎10. A book with a female villain or criminal - Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
✔︎11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum - Ramses: The Son of Light by Christian Jacq
✔︎12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation - The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
✔︎13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020 - Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel

✔︎14. A book set in a made-up place - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
✔︎15. A book that features siblings as the main characters - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
✔︎16. A book with a building in the title - The Bungalow Mystery by Carolyn Keene
✔︎17. A book with a Muslim character or author - A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif

✔︎18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1 - What Is Left Over, After by Natasha Lester
✔︎19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2 - Driving into the Sun by Marcella Pollain
✔︎20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3 - A Woman Of The Future by David Ireland
✔︎21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u" - Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
✔︎22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
✔︎23. A cross genre novel - The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson by Leah Purcell
✔︎24. A book about racism or race relations - Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
✔︎25. A book set on an island - Bruny by Heather Rose

✔︎26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author - The Vegetarian by Han Kang

✔︎27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards - Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
✔︎28. A book connected to ice - Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
✔︎29. A book that you consider comfort reading - The Colours of all the Cattle by Alexander McCall Smith
✔︎30. A long book - The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald

✔︎31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years - Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
✔︎32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people - Father of the Lost Boys by Yuot A Alaak
✔︎33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry - Lines to the Horizon - edited by Sam Carmody
✔︎34. A book with a travel theme - A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy
✔︎35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer - Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

✔︎36. A book with six or more words in the title - The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
✔︎37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list - Waiting by Ha Jin
✔︎38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator (fish) - Little Hut Of Leaping Fishes by Chiew-Siah Tei
✔︎39. A book involving an immigrant - The Immigrant by Manju Kapur

✔︎40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover - The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
✔︎41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author - The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed
✔︎42. A mystery or thriller - Hades by Candice Fox
✔︎43. A book with elements of magic - The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

✔︎44. A book whose title contains a negative - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
✔︎45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet - Notre-Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo
✔︎46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards - A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
✔︎47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir - The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
✔︎48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?” - The Art of War by Sun Tzu
✔︎49. A book with an ensemble cast - The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
✔︎50. A book published in 2021 - The Paris Affair by Pip Drysdale
✔︎51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name - The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester
✔︎52. A book related to "the end" - The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty