Tsipi's 2021 ATY Challenge

[Tsipi]

THE 2021 LIST
✔️1. A book related to “In the Beginning...” -- The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
TBR debuts:
* We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
* Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
* All The Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
✔️2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y -- When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
✔️3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music -- The Girl with Ghost Eyes.
✔️4. A book with a monochromatic cover -- מחר ניסע ללונה פארק by Ilana Bernstein
✔️5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read -- Passing by Nella Larsen
✔️6. A love story -- Slippery Creatures by K.J. Charles
✔️7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list -- A book with a title that contains an alliteration -- We Were Witches by Ariel Gore
✔️8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited -- A Blessing of Unicorns by Elizabeth Bear (Bangalore, Karnataka)

✔️9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year -- Winter: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
✔️10. A book with a female villain or criminal -- A Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
✔️11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum -- The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
✔️12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
✔️13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020 -- A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

✔️14. A book set in a made-up place -- A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
✔️15. A book that features siblings as the main characters -- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
✔️16. A book with a building in the title -- Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
✔️17. A book with a Muslim character or author - The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

✔️18. "Past, Present, Future" - The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
✔️19. "Past, Present, Future" - Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield
✔️20. "Past, Present, Future" -- The Outside by Ada Hoffmann
✔️21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u" -- The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
✔️22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads -- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

✔️23. A cross genre novel -- Mem by Bethany C. Morrow
✔️24. A book about racism or race relations -- Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
✔️25. A book set on an island -- The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
✔️26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author -- All Systems Red by Martha Wells

✔️27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards -- Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott (Empress, Sun)
✔️28. A book connected to ice -- Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia A. McKillip
✔️29. A book that you consider comfort reading -- The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles
✔️30. A long book -- The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty

✔️31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years -- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
✔️32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people -- Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip
✔️33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry -- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
✔️34. A book with a travel theme -- הנוסעת האחרונה by Tal Nitzan
✔️35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer -- The Babylon Eye by Masha du Toit

✔️36. A book with six or more words in the title -- The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
✔️37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list -- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
✔️38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator -- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (intelligence)
✔️39. A book involving an immigrant -- Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange

✔️40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover -- The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
✔️41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author -- Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
✔️42. A mystery or thriller -- Windy City Blues by Sara Paretsky
✔️43. A book with elements of magic -- Circe by Madeline Miller

✔️44. A book whose title contains a negative -- A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
✔️45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet -- In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns by Elizabeth Bear (India)
✔️46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards -- Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
✔️47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir -- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
✔️48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?” (no one would ever say this to me) -- Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

✔️49. A book with an ensemble cast -- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
✔️50. A book published in 2021 -- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
✔️51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name -- Sister of Mine by Sabra Waldfogel
✔️52. A book related to "the end" -- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

[Tsipi]

37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list
(LOL it's looking like I should take ALL my 2021 books from this list!)

Already read this year:
* Convenience Store Woman
* The Perfect Nanny (Lullaby)
* My Sister, the Serial Killer/Oyinkan Braithwaite
* The Housekeeper and the Professor/Yoko Ogawa


Possibilities TBR:
* We Need New Names
* July's People/Nadine Gordimer
* So Long a Letter/Mariama Ba
* The Ghost Bride/Yangsze Choo
* Empress Orchid/Anchee Min
* Fever Dream/Samanta Schweblin
* Clear Light of Day/Anita Desai
* Love in a Fallen City/Eileen Chang
* The Summer Book/Tove Jansson
* Of Love and Shadows/Isabel Allende
* Breath, Eyes, Memory/Edwidge Danticat
* Dust/Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
* The Door/Magda Szabó
* The Joys of Motherhood/Buchi Emecheta
* Things We Lost In The Fire/Maiana Enriquez
* A Question of Power/Bessie Head
* Purge/Sofi Oksanen
* The Story of My Teeth/Valeria Luiselli
* The Hunger Angel/Herta Müller
* In the Shadow of the BanyanVaddey Ratner
* Gösta Berling's Saga/Selma Lagerlöf
* Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows/Balli Kaur Jaswal
* Nada/Carmen Laforet
* The Bone People/Keri Hulme
* I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
* Unbowed/Wangari Maathai
* The Tiger's Wife/Téa Obreht
* The Museum of Unconditional Surrender/Dubravka Ugrešić
* The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly/Sun-mi Hwang (children's illustrated, Korea)
* The Island of a Thousand Mirrors/Nayomi Munaweera
* Life Is a Caravanserai/Emine Sevgi Özdamar
* Here's to You, Jesusa!/Elena Poniatowska
* Kintu/Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
* Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto/Ezekiel Mphahlele (memoir, man, apartheid, nobel nominee)
* The Garden of Evening Mists/Tan Twan Eng (man, Malayan)
* Lyrics Alley/Leila Aboulela
* Aya/Marguerite Abouet (graphic novel)
* The Hour of the Star/Clarice Lispector
* Grand Hotel/Vicki Baum
* The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives/Lola Shoneyin
* When I Was Puerto Rican/Esmeralda Santiago (memoir)
* Ancestor Stones/Aminatta Forna
* The Bitter GlassEilís Dillon
* Visitation/Jenny Erpenbeck (also good for short book)
* Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade/Assia Djebar
* Hygiene and the Assassin/Amélie Nothomb (short novella)
* The Little Virtues/Natalia Ginzburg (essays)
* Three Daughters of Eve/Elif Shafak
* Fair Play/Tove Jansson
* Kartography/Kamila Shamsie
* The Boy Next Door/Irene Sabatini
* The Unquiet Dead/Ausma Zehanat Khan
* Split Tooth/Tanya Tagaq
* The House at Sugar Beach/Helene Cooper
* The Slynx/Tatyana Tolstaya
* Unless/Carol Shields
* Astrid and Veronika/Linda Olsson
* Faces in the Water/Janet Frame
* Krik? Krak!/Edwidge Danticat
* The Big Green Tent/Lyudmila Ulitskaya
* Troll: A Love Story/Johanna Sinisalo
* Black Mamba Boy/Nadifa Mohamed
* Bliss & Other Stories/Katherine Mansfield
* The Ventriloquist's Tale/Pauline Melville
* Beka Lamb/Zee Edgell
* Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time/Doris Pilkington
* As If I'm Not There/Slavenka Drakulić
* Sweet Days of Discipline/Fleur Jaeggy (short novella)
* Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree/Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
* Eve out of Her Ruins/Ananda Devi
* Katalin Street/Magda Szabó
* The House on the Lagoon/Rosario Ferré
* The Invisible Guardian/Dolores Redondo
* The Nakano Thrift Shop/Hiromi Kawakami
* Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran/Shahrnush Parsipur
* And the Birds Rained Down/Jocelyne Saucier (short novella)
* Everything Good Will Come/Sefi Atta
* Maru/Bessie Head
* Alberta and Jacob/Cora Sandel
* Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood/Fatema Mernissi (memoir)
* Now and at the Hour of Our Death/Susana Moreira Marques (non-fiction/essay/memoir)
* पिंजर Pinjar /Amrita Pritam (short novella)
* People in the Room/Norah Lange
* Sworn Virgin/Elvira Dones
* The Artificial Silk Girl/Irmgard Keun
* The Crow Eaters/Bapsi Sidhwa
* The Iguana/Anna Marie Ortese
* The Orchard of Lost Souls/Nadifa Mohamed
* The Question of Red/Laksmi Pamuntjak
* The Rice Mother/Rani Manicka
* An Unrestored Woman/Shobha Rao
* Beyond the Rice Fields/Naivo (first book (only?) from Madagascar translated to English (male author))
* The Bite of the Mango/Mariatu Kamara (memoir)
* Buxton Spice/Oonya Kempadu
* Changes/Ama Ata Aidoo
* Crossing the Mangrove/Maryse Condé
* Esperanza Street/Niyati Keni
* Ladivine/Marie Ndiaye
* Neighbours:The Story of a Murder/Lília Momplé
* Seeing Red/Lina Meruane
* The Purple Violet of Oshaantu/Neshani Andreas
* The Rape of Sita/Lindsey Collen
* The Septembers of Shiraz/Dalia Sofer
* Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe/Doreen Baingana
* When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge/Chanrithy Him (memoir)
* Abeng/Michelle Cliff
* Arturo's Island/Elsa Morante
* Belladona/Daša Drndić (Warwick Prize winner)
* Coconut/Kopano Matlwa
* Dumba Nengue, Run for Your Life: Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique/Lina Magaia (memoir)
* Frangipani/Célestine Hitiura Vaite
* High Tide/Inga Ābele
* Hollow Heart/Viola di Grado
* Karate Chop/Dorthe Nors (short stories)
* Lovers in the Age of Indifference/Xiaolu Guo
* Ms Ice Sandwich/Mieko Kawakami
* Tentacle by Rita Indiana
* The Epic of Askia Mohammed by Nouhou Malio
* The Hidden Light of Objects by Mai Al-Nakib
* The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah
* The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza
* The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
* The Tuner of Silences by Mia Couto
* Trysting by Emmanuelle Pagano
* The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
* A Greater Music by Bae Suah
* An Elegy for Easterly: Stories by Petina Gappah
* Astradeni by Eugenia Fakinou
* Betty Boo by Claudia Pinero
* Bye Bye Blondie by Virginie Despentes

[Tsipi]

37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list - Continued

* Don't Be Afraid Gringo by Elvia Alvarado (oral history)
* Poso Wells by Daniela Aleman
* Samko Tále's Cemetery Book by Daniela Kapitáňová
* Shape Shifter by Pauline Melville (short stories)
* Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman by Mpho M'Atsepo Nthunya
* The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy by Paulina Chiziane
* The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun
* The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
* Things We Left Unsaid by Zoya Pirzad
* Toddler Hunting Other Stories by Taeko Kono
* War, So Much War by Mercè Rodoreda
* What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra
* Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
* A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939–1940 by Iris Origo (memoir)
* A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benítez
* All My Goodbyes by Mariana Dimópulos
* Anna In-Between by Elizabeth Nunez
* Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez
* Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City by Alicia Yánez Cossío
* Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
* Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga (autobiography)
* Days in the Caucasus by Banine (autobiography)
* Everything Happens As It Does by Albena Stambolova
* La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono
* Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen
* Leaden Wings by Zhang Jie (also "Love Must Not Be Forgotten", short story collection)
* Life Begins on Friday by Ioana Pârvulescu
* Lost Birds by Birute Putrius
* Mosquito by Roma Tearne
* Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo
* All the Rivers by Dorit Rabinyan (גדר חיה)
* One Night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (לילה אחד, מרקוביץ)
* The Piano: A Novel by Jane Campion
* Reading the Ceiling by Dayo Forster
* The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart
* The Dark Bride by Laura Restrepo
* Granada by Radwa Ashour
* The Man Who Snapped His Fingers by Fariba Hachtroudi
* The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo
* The Stone Virgins by Yvonne Vera
* The Winterlings by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
* There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
* Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo (short stories)
* Women Who Blow on Knots by Ece Temelkuran
* Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
* Bessarabian Nights by Stela Brinzeanu
* soft magic. by Upile Chisala
* Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
* The Fury and Cries of Women by Angele Rawiri
* When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn (YA)


The full very long list:
https://www.listchallenges.com/are-yo...

[Tsipi]

I am shamelessly copying from another reader a method of summarizing my year. Lists excite me!

My Stats:

Books read in 2021: 153
✅ ATY Prompts: 52/52
📚 Library books: 20
💻 Ebooks: 12
📖 Print books: 10
🎧 Audio Books: 92 (aug)
🛸 Sci-Fi: 17
🦠 Post apocalyptic/dystopian: 6
🧚🏿 Fantasy: 40
🗼Contemporary fiction: 13
🕰️ Historical fiction: 15
🏛️ Classic: 1
✍️ Bio/Memoir: 1
📝 Non-fiction: 1
🎤 Poetry: 1
👩🏽‍🦱 POC author:
🌈 Queer:
👩🏽‍🦽Disabled: 7
🐞 Under 200 pages: 28
🐘 Over 600 pages: 3
💀 DNFs: ~12
🌱 Short stories: 30

5 ⭐️ - 28 (Nov9)
4 ⭐️ - 37
3 ⭐️ - 17
2 ⭐️ - 10
1 ⭐️ - 5
Unrated - Everything else

January - 10
February - 9
March - 12
April - 11
May - 17
June - 19
July - 21
August - 15
September -
October -
November -
December -

Reminder list of books I've decided should be read or finished this year
* Anna Karenina - prolly dnf
* The City We Became
* Transcendent Kingdom
* Spinning Silver ✅

[Tsipi]

JANUARY

✅ 🎧 🕰️ 👩🏽‍🦱 The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🗼🌈 Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club by Shakina Nayfack ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 📖 🧚🏿 The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip
✅ 🎧 🦠 🌈 Black Wave by Michelle Tea ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🛸 🐞 In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns by Elizabeth Bear
✅ 🎧 🛸 🐞 A Blessing of Unicorns by Elizabeth Bear
📖 🧚🏿 Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia A. McKillip
🎧🗼🐞 🌈 Massive by Charlie Josephine ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 Hell's Belle by Marie Castle ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🧚🏿 The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite January book: Black Wave
Least favorite: Hell's Belle

[Tsipi]

FEBRUARY

✅ 🎧 🧚🏿🐞🌈 👩🏽‍🦱 The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🗼🐞👩🏽‍🦱 👩🏽‍🦽Convenience Store WomanSayaka Murata ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 📖 🧚🏿 Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. McKillip
✅ 🎧 📚🗼👩🏽‍🦱 The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🐞👩🏽‍🦱 Passing by Nella Larsen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🦠 🧚🏿 🌈 👩🏽‍🦱 Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧📚🗼תיק איה by Nilly Assia ⭐️
✅ 🎧🗼🌈 We Were Witches by Ariel Gore ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧🗼Windy City Blues by Sara Paretsky ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite February book: Convenience Store Woman (though it's hard to pick one, it was a good month)
Least favorite: Aya Case (תיק איה)

[Tsipi]

MARCH

✅ 🎧 📚🦠 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 👩🏽‍🦱 The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🕰️ Sister of Mine by Sabra Waldfogel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🧚🏿♂The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold ⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold
✅ 🎧 🛸🐞Mem by Bethany C. Morrow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Chosen by K.F. Breene ⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 Black Sheep by Rachel Aukes ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Balanced on the Blade's Edge by Lindsay Buroker
🎧 🧚🏿 Deathmaker by Lindsay Buroker
🎧 🧚🏿 Blood Charged by Lindsay Buroker

Favorite March book: The Testaments
Least favorite: Chosen

How bad was this month after the wonder that was February?

[Tsipi]

APRIL

🎧🗼👩🏽‍🦱 How It Ends by Rachel Howzell Hall ⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🛸 🌈 A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🧚🏿 Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧📚🗼Normal People by Sally Rooney ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 📖 🧚🏿 🌈 The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🗼🌈 The Acquittal by Anne Laughlin
✅ 🎧 🛸 🌈 Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧🗼The Pecan Man by Cassie Dandridge Selleck ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🗼The Truth About Grace by Cassie Dandridge Selleck ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite April book: A Desolation Called Peace
Least favorite: How It Ends

[Tsipi]

MAY

🎧 🧚🏿 Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🧚🏿 🌈 👩🏽‍🦽Borderline by Mishell Baker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🦠 The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🗼The Cuckoo's Cry by Caroline Overington
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang ⭐️⭐️
🎧🗼👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧📚🗼👩🏽‍🦱 Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 📚🧚🏿 A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
🎧 🦠🐞🌈 Ardent Forest: A Novella by Nancy Jane Moore ⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Skinwalker by Faith Hunter ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 📖 🛸 🐞🌈 All Systems Red by Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
📖 🛸 🐞🌈 Artificial Condition by Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 🛸 🐞🌈 Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 🛸 🐞🌈 Exit Strategy by Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Priceless by Shannon Mayer ⭐️⭐️

Favorite May book: Soooo many 5-star books! But let's give it to the Murderbot series, collectively
Least favorite: I think it's a tie between Priceless (Rylee Adamson series) and Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock series). I originally rated Jane higher, but as time goes on I get more and more pissed off at the cultural appropriation, and also fuck all these uber-white, ultra-straight romances with alpha wolf tropes masquerading as urban fantasy.


What a stellar month! Can I have another, please?

[Tsipi]

JUNE

🎧 📚✍️Educated by Tara Westover ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 👩🏽‍🦽The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Immune by Shannon Mayer ⭐️⭐️
🎧 📚🧚🏿 Circe by Madeline Miller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧📚🗼👩🏽‍🦱 My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
🎧 🧚🏿 Raising Innocence by Shannon Mayer ⭐️
✅ 🎧 🧚🏿 The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Blood Cross by Faith Hunter
✅ 🎧🗼👩🏽‍🦱 A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 📖 🧚🏿🐞👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 The Deep by Rivers Solomon
🎧 🧚🏿 Silent Queen by Carrie Summers
✅ 🎧 ✍️ 👩🏽‍🦱 Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧📚🗼Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 📚🧚🏿 The Swallows by Lisa Lutz
🎧 🕰️ House of Rougeaux by Jenny Jaeckel ⭐️
✅ 🎧 🛸 🌈 The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
✅ 🎧🗼👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 📚🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 👩🏽‍🦽🐘The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin
🎧🗼Buried Deep by Margot Hunt ⭐️

Favorite June book: The Bear and the Nightingale
Least favorite: House of Rougeaux. More cultural appropriation.

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JULY

🎧 🛸 Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon
🎧 📚🏛️ 🐞Women's Short Stories, Volume 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 📚🦠 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 🐞👩🏽‍🦱 Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
🎧 🧚🏿 🐘The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty ⭐️⭐️
🎧 📚🕰️ 🌈 The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🐞👩🏽‍🦱 🌈 When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🐞The Firebird by Nerine Dorman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter
🎧🗼👩🏽‍🦱 The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🛸 Astray by Jenny Schwartz ⭐️⭐️
💻 📚🛸 Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold
💻 🧚🏿Soulless by Gail Carriger ⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield
💻 🧚🏿 Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield
🎧 🕰️ 👩🏽‍🦱 Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
🎧 🛸 🌈 👩🏽‍🦽The Outside by Ada Hoffmann ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🛸 🌈 The Babylon Eye by Masha du Toit ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Zydeco Queen and the Creole Fairy Courts by Leah R. Cutter ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧📚 🕰️🗼Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite July book: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Least favorite: Mercy Blade

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AUGUST

🎧 🛸 🦠 🌈 The Light Brigade by The Light Brigade ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 💻 🧚🏿 🕰️ The Lost Queen by Signe Pike ⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 🐞 Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold ⭐️
💻 🕰️ 🌈 Slippery Creatures by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🕰️ 🌈 Subtle Blood by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🕰️ 🌈 The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 🌈 A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 📚🗼🌈 Little Fish by Casey Plett ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼👩🏽‍🦱 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿 🌈 👩🏽‍🦽Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 🐞 Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🎤 👩🏽‍🦱 An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
🎧 🛸 StarBridge by A.C. Crispin
💻 🛸 🌈 👩🏽‍🦱 The Stars Change by Mary Anne Mohanraj
🎧 🛸 🌈 🐞 A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Favorite August book: Princess Floralinda and Light Brigade, too different to compare and contrast
Least favorite: The Stars Change

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SEPTEMBER

💻 🦠 Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming
🎧 📚🛸 The Power by Naomi Alderman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼🐞 Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto ⭐️⭐️
💻 🧚🏿🌈👩🏽‍🦽 Impostor Syndrome by Mishell Baker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿🌈 👩🏽‍🦱 She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 📚📝 👩🏽‍🦱♂Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼🌈 🐞 👩🏽‍🦱 Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
✅ 🎧 🗼👩🏽‍🦱 The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🕰️ 🌈 Proper English by K.J. Charles ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 📚🗼מחר ניסע ללונה פארק by Ilana Bernstein
✅ 📖🗼🐞 👩🏽‍🦱 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🛸 🦠 The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal ⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🎧 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 Black Stars by Nalo Hopkinson et al (collection)
💻 🧚🏿🌈 Poisoned Pearls by Leah R. Cutter
🎧 🐞 👩🏽‍🦱 Proof of Love by Chisa Hutchinson
🎧 🌈 🐞 Women by Chloe Caldwell ⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿Death's Rival by Faith Hunter
🎧 🧚🏿Raven Cursed by Faith Hunter
🎧 🧚🏿🌈 Holy Hell by Elizabeth Sims
🎧 🗼הנוסעת האחרונה by Tal Nitzan
🎧 📚📝 Twisted: The Story of Larry Nassar and the Women Who Took Him Down by Mary Pilon
🎧 🕰️ Blackberry & Wild Rose by Sonia Velton
🎧 🧚🏿👩🏽‍🦱 Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿👩🏽‍🦱 Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 🧚🏿🕰️ Farthing by Jo Walton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh ⭐️

Favorite September book: The Housekeeper and the Professor
Least favorite: Too easy, the misogynistic and antisemitic POS by Ngaio Marsh.

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October

✅ 🎧 🧚🏿 Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ 📚 👩🏽‍🦽A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
🎧 🧚🏿 The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
💻 🛸 🌈♂Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 👩🏽‍🦽Silent Dances by A.C. Crispin
🎧 🧚🏿👩🏽‍🦱 Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🗼👩🏽‍🦱 Limbo: A Novel about Jamaica by Esther Figueroa
🎧 🧚🏿 ♂♀️Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews ⭐️
🎧 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 Machinehood by S.B. Divya
📖🗼Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 🎧 🧚🏿🐘 🌈 The Actual Star by Monica Byrne ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 📚🗼🐞 We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


Favorite October book: Spinning Silver
Least favorite: Magic Bites. Enough of white "strong female" UF.

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November

🎧🗼👩🏽‍🦱 Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
🎧🗼Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
📖 🛸 🌈 Network Effect by Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🧚🏿👩🏽‍🦱 The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton ⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🕰️ 🌈 The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🧚🏿📚🌈 🐞Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 👩🏽‍🦱 The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🗼👩🏽‍🦱 Silk Tether by Minal Khan ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧🧚🏿🌈 The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻 🛸 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Favorite November book: Tossup between Network Effects and The Once and Future Witches
Least favorite: Silk Tether

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December

🎧 🦠 Vox by Christina Dalcher ⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
💻🗼🌈 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel by Julia Serano
💻🗼🌈 Nevada by Imogen Binnie ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 Middlegame by Seanan McGuire ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 🗼 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿🌈 🐞 👩🏽‍🦱 The Descent of Monsters
🎧 🧚🏿🌈 🐞 👩🏽‍🦱 The Red Threads of Fortune ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿🌈 🐞 👩🏽‍🦱 The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🗼 👩🏽‍🦱 The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🛸 Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🧚🏿 👩🏽‍🦱 The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🎧 🕰️ The Huntress by Kate Quinn
💻 🛸 🌈 Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
📖 🕰️ 👩🏽‍🦱 The Woman from Tantoura by Radwa Ashour
🎧🗼📚 אקווריום by Yaara Shehori

Favorite December book: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Least favorite: Vox

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Rejected prompts challenge

One prompt per poll:

✅ An alternate history book:
Farthing by Jo Walton

✅ A book with a focus on the natural world:
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

✅ House on cover/fictional biography:
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

✅ Authors with names beginning or ending with ATY:
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
The Black Tides of Heaven / The Red Threads of Fortune / The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

✅ A book written by an author who uses a nom de plume:
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

✅ “It's The End Of The World As We Know It":
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

✅ A book with a large-scale disaster or tragedy
Black Wave by Michelle Tea

✅ A book with a non-binary/trans/+ character or author
Little Fish by Casey Plett

✅ A book that deals with a postponement, redo, or second chance:
Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey

✅ A book involving non-European royalty:
The Actual Star by Monica Byrne

✅ A book with a two-word title, where the first word has two syllables and the second word has one syllable:
Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker

✅ A book with a profession in the title or subtitle:
The Huntress by Kate Quinn

✅ A book with a non-human narrator:
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

✅ A book related to folklore:
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

✅ A book set in the 19th century:
The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

✅ A book recommended via the Readers Also Enjoyed feature from a book you gave 5-stars in the past 3 years:
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

✅ A book with more than one primary setting:
The Power by Naomi Alderman

✅ A time travel novel:
Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield