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Nancy J's ATY 2022 Reading ✨ Round 2
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REJECTED PROMPTS - Completed🎆REM song: It's the End of the World as We Know it.
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood,
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K leGuin
🌹A book related to a movie or TV project being released in 2022 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
🌹A parallel novel or spin-off of a well-known story - Death Comes to Pemberley, The Jane Austen Project
Real and Fake:
🌹A fiction book with a character who is a real person (historical or current day)- Author Jane Austen is a character in The Jane Austen Project. Einstein is a character in When We Cease to Understand the World and The Three-Body Problem. Artist Camille Pissaro is a character in The Marriage of Opposites.
Characters
🌹A book with a child protagonist - Before the Ever After
🌹A book with a character with a disability -True Biz
🌹A book with a quirky or endearing character -What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr
🌹A book about a character on a journey - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
🌹A book that has a character in government, royal family or governing body -Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin.
🌹A book featuring a character with paranormal or supernatural abilities - The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
🌹A main character that fits at least one of “mad, bad and dangerous to know” -The Master and Margarita
🌹A book with a morally grey main character - American Spy by Lauren Wilkenson
🌹A book with a protagonist who is a military veteran - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
🌹A fiction book with a character who is a real person (historical or current day)- When We Cease to Understand the World
Lists
✅A book from the ATY-curated List of Great Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
✅ A book from one of Obama's reading lists -The Three-Body Problem, When We Cease to Understand the World, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
✅A book (or any book in a series) mentioned on NPR’s list of 50 Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade -
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
✅A winner or nominee from the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Themes, Attributes
🌹A book with a theme of courage or heroism -Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
🌹A book with a strong sense of place-Greenwood, Plainsong
🌹An atmospheric, emotional, moody or evocative book - The Many Daughters of Afong Moy: A Novel by Jamie Ford
🌹A book related to “soul” Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
🌹A book related to the phrase “Birds Eye View” - If I Stay by Gayle Forman
🌹A book related to the World Cup - Britt-Marie Was Here
🌹A book with a competition as a main plot element - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
🌹A book with a missing person - The Night Watchman
🌹A book about doing something forbidden -The Marriage of Opposites
🌹A book about or involving ritual or ceremony - The World That We Knew
🌹A book that features an act of kindness -Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
🌹A book featuring an important extended family relationship - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
🌹A book with a full name in the title - Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption:Hope Springs Eternal, The Jane Austen Project
🌹A book that honors Betty White (born in 1922) - What Rose Forgot
🌹A book related to (episode "Twenty Two") The Twilight Zone -
When We Cease to Understand the World
🌹 A book related to the dystopian film classic "Soylent Green," which is set in 2022 -The Year of the Flood
🌹A book related to Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock -Cantoras
🌹A book whose author is younger than you - No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
🌹A book by an author you might like to meet - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
🌹A book related to firsts -The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
🌹A book in translation - The Notebook by Agota Kristoff
Genres:
🎆A book shelved as literary fiction -The Remains of the Day, Commonwealth,
🎆 A book from your favorite genre - Sea of Tranquility
🎆A fantasy novel - The Hobbit
🎆An autobiography, biography, or memoir - These Precious Days: Essays,
🎆A book from a fun sub-genre: hope-punk - A Psalm for the Wild-Built
🎆A book characterized as up lit - How the Penguins Saved Veronica], The Music Shop
🎆A book from a genre you don't often read- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
🎆A classic - Emma
🌹A book related to the proverb "blood is thicker than water"- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
🌹A book whose title includes the word "Around" or "Year" - The Year of the Flood, My Year of Meats
🌹A book related to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing -The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
🌹A book with a return or repeat as a major plot element -Maybe in Another Life
🌹A book about a minority group in a country that is not your own - The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
🌹A book with an unusual narrator or narration style - The Book of Form and Emptiness
🌹A book set in Eastern Europe - The Notebook by Agota Kristof
🌹A book set in the Arab world - The Haunting of Tram Car 015
Musical prompts - I'm still thinking about these. A few are on the spreadsheet
2022 READING PROGRESS Books read December 1 2021 to December 31, 2021
December 2021 (9) (PBT tag = Books about Books)
✔1.The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes, 11-historical fiction, 20-Depression era, library, 43-rural area, Rejected list: booklovers, community plays a role
✔2.Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen- fiction, 35flora, 43-smalltown, Tarot- Wheel of Fortune. Community
(1)✔3.The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, , 1-MC=Tookie, rac-ism, native american, less than 5000 ratings when I read it. Rejected list: Literary Fiction, Book Lovers
✔4.Writers & Lovers by Lily King, 48-ATYbomList, 15cover, 40-Tarot Rejected list: Literary Fiction, book lovers
✔5. A Northern Light byJennifer Donnelly, 2003, 11,20,43-historical fiction early 1900's rural, Set near water (lake), 10 years ago, 5-Double letters in author's name
✔6. Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova, - Psychology. Neuroscience, Mind, 22 letters, npr?
✔7. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, 2011, Translated, series, 34teacher plays a role, >10 years ago, Italy/Europe, HisFIc. Rejected prompts - Literary fiction, community plays a role, child Protagonist
✔8. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, 2005, aeiou(37), booklovers(rej), old character, non-linear. MC=Alma, 22Jewish characters, 10+ years ago, Child protagonist
✔9. The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel by Ruth Ozeki, 7-psychology, 5-22 letters, Non-human char, rej- mental health, booklovers,unusual/non-human narrator
JANUARY 1 - APRIL 30 2022 - Completed Books
January 2022 (PBT tag = Science)
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Science, 8-Europe,Chile- South America, 5-22 letters, 37-aeiou, overcoming barriers, racism, immoral/ambiguous chars, science, 34academic setting, 19-alt.reality-quantum physics, Real people in fiction, latin american.
🌹(41) We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at BreakfastJonathan Safran Foer 41-food, 16earthday, 24weather , immoral/ambi, science
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, 22 letters, aeiou, earthday, floral, fauna, w-stem, rej journalist, REM, Obama, barriers, science
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer, Double letters, *Less than 5000 ratings, 22 letters. 🎆Rejected list: X4. A book connected to health or medical science
I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short. aeiou, Tarot (fool), 22 letters, Autobiography/memoir.
Greenwood by Michael Christie - Earthday, hist fiction, flora, >440 pages, tarot- The Tower
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren, 2020, 25-210 p, Norway, 8-Europe,
16Earthday, 35F/F, 3-22, 25, 14-4494 ratings on jan10. 13-WomaninStem, 34Academic. Npr?
The Overstory by Richard Powers, 16-Earthday, 35-Flora, 2-Bewilderment, 25->440 pages, Pulitzer, Powell, NPR, BOM? 6?,15
Project Hail Mary, 46 non-human, 49 dragons, Teacher in space, rejected - unlikely friendship, first contact, breaking barriers, heroism, journey, travel, REM song
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben - Flora, earthday, 22 letters
Artificial Condition - sci-fi, non human character, awards? next in series. related to a book read in 2021, NPR Sci-fi list
February 2022 (PBT tag = Thought-Provoking)
✔The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown. Set on water, Historical fiction, set in 1930's, 42-nationality in title Game (olympics games), rej olympics, 3 names
✔The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu - Set in China, Asia, Asian author, game, Rej NPR Sci-fi list, 34-teachers play a role, Obama's list, first-contact, rel to 2021 book (Balzac...)
🌹✔The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson, Women in STEM, rej medical science, women breaking boundaries, systemic barriers
✔The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce, 64 authors - Aging, Rej healthcare, religious character, psychology/mind
🌹✔My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki, 1998, thought provoking, 64 authors, Food, >10 years ago, Set partly in Japan, Japanese characters. Ethics.
✔The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman - Jewish author/characters, historical fiction 1800s, early 1900's, artist, community plays a role, Caribbean. Real life person in fiction.
✔A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - historical fiction, mostly set in 20's, some later. Count Alexander Rostov, Related to communism/revolution books from 2021. Sympathizer, Balzac...
✔The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, 1- Toby, 2-(Oryx and Crake), 33- next in a series, 52-time, more than 10 years ago, 16-earthday, 36-fauna, rejected list: REM song, Soylent green, community plays a role, Bees, Song lyrics, singing in audio
✔Have a Little Faith: a True Story by Mitch Albom - Jewish author/character, 22 letters
✔Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor - 22 letters, health related
✔Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf, Small town, aging, "soul"
✔The Library Book by Susan Orlean NPR
✔No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference byGreta Thunberg - Essays, child protagonist, earthday, connected to 2021 book (Bewilderment)
✔My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman, aging, Child protagonist, community plays a role, handwriting on the cover, 22 letters, quirky character
March 2022 (PBT tag = Classic)
✔The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie , 22 letters, aeiou
✔Sula Toni Morrison, Military veteran, bipoc, community plays a role,
✔Thea Stilton and the Dragon's Code, dragon,
✔Find You First by Linwood Barclay, inheritance, sperm donor
✔MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood - npr, next in series, the end of the world as we know it, Genetics, gene manipulation
✔Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold
✔The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by JRR Tolkien, non-human characters, Journey, water, high fantasy
✔A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute. Small town, Australia, community plays a role, Malaya, migrant (prisoners of war), journey, building a community, Sense of Place
🌹✔The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis. 6. Source of light (chandeliers), artists, or Glass, early 1900's, 2 time periods
✔The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, spirituality, psychology, soul, First contact, women in stem (Dr, AI creator)
✔The Notebook by Agota Kristof - Historical Fiction, REJ-Eastern European, multiple languages, moral ambiguity, antihero, child protagonists, brothers, orphans
✔The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin, lgbt, ATY Curated List,
✔The Remains of the Day - by Kazuo Ishiguro Powell, Nobel prize, aging, his fic, 2 time periods, psych., measure of time, moral ambiguity
✔The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, adoption, extended family, Taylor and Turtle
✔The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women by Rosalie Gilbert, less than 5000 ratings, 22 letters
✔To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, early 1900's, source of light, set
✔The Master and Margarita - cat on cover- monopoly piece, chess game, Gothic elements, nonhuman, early 1900's, antihero
✔Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, pub 100+ years ago
✔Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
✔Plainsong by Kent Haruf - small town, aging, sense of place, community plays a role
✔Lady Susan by Jane Austen - antihero, epistolary
April 2022 (PBT tag = Detective)
✔Cover Her Face by P.D.James
✔Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James - touch of gothic, handwriting on cover, fan fic by an established author
✔Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy -set on water (reread). multiple countries. psychology, mental health, grief, guilt
✔Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen his fic, early 1900s female detective
✔In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen- his fic
✔The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey - female detective, his fic, India, early 1900's, ASIA, next in series
✔The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - handwriting on cover, early 1900's
✔The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St James - gothic, spooky, mystery, blogger
✔The Dead Zone by Stephen King -touch of gothic, Mind, brain damage, psychic powers
✔What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr - aging, mind, multiple genres, humor, investigation, nursing home scam
✔Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty, AUSTRALIA
✔Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center, adventure camping
✔The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett, historical fiction, early 1900s, exactly 22 letters, double letters
✔The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Park, Egypt, Alternate History, early 1900s?
✔Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
✔Death of Riley by Rhys Bowen, female detective, next in series
✔The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly - Double letters, fauna, next in series
2022 READING PROGRESS Books completed from May 1 2022 to _________, 2022
May 2022 (PBT tag = Character Driven)
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel, multiple centuries, time travel, pandemic
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky, set on the water
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver, essays, earthday, flora
Eventide by Kent Haruf, small town, community plays a role, sense of place
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood racism, African continent
Maybe in Another Lifeby Taylor Jenkins Reid, alt reality/lives, sliding doors
Faithful by Alice Hoffman - Jewish Author/char, mental health, no person on cover, symmetrical cover
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - His fic CHINA, Asia, WPF, friendship, historical, 1800's
The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim MIchelle Richardson. His fic 50's, rural area, booklovers, boot on cover, monopoly piece.
The Island of Missing Trees - hisfic, Cyprus Greece Europe, literary fiction, 2 locations, 2 time periods, unusual narrator, loving gay relationship, Flora
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason - psychology, mental health, literary fiction, Women's Prize short list, marriage
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne - Ireland, hist.fiction, religion, psychology, catholic church scandal
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles - historical fiction, Rej - journey, mythology, train, car, cross country
The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated, Hungary Europe, futuristic, Workplace
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K leGuin - Sci-fi Awards, mind, dreams creating new reality
Emma by Jane Austen - classic, 1800's, more than 100 years ago
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, --- game (soccer/football), Aging, translated, Sweden, Europe
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood.
June 2022- PBT tag = LGBT
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, far future, non-binary, first contact (variation)
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin, homelessness, teen, local, "April" 4-4.5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells, next in series, 3 stars
Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis, Uruguay, South America, Latin American author, LGTBQ loving relationship, set 1970's, 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood, LGBT loving relationship, academic, professor. pub 1964, 4-4.5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Washington Square, pub 1880, 3 -3.5 stars
Calypso by David Sedaris - essays, memoir, lgbt, 3.5-4 stars
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar, Syria, NYC, LGBT, trans/nonbinary, Birds, 3.5 stars
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo, YA, Latin American author -- 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callendar , YA top 100 list - 3-3.5 stars
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett - 4-4.5⭐⭐⭐⭐
Beartown by Fredrik Backman, 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto -3-3.5 stars
Agatha of Little Neon 4 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne - 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
July 2022 PBT= Memoirs
How the Penguins Saved VeronicaHazel Prior 4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout, 4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett, 4.5-5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and MeditationsbyToni Morrison 3.5-4 stars
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett 4 stars
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison, 3 stars
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World 3.5 stars
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Turow
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Eat a Peach by David Change, 4 stars
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021 by Margaret Atwood, 4 stars
August 2022 PBT Tag= Women's History
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, 4.5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake, 3.5 stars
Book Lovers by Emily Henry 4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver, 4.5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
True Biz by Sara Novic, 5 stars
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
September 2022 PBT Tag = Favorites
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman - 5 Stars
Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
Nightbird by Alice Hoffman
If I Stay by Gayle Forman 5 Stars
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
October 2022 PBT Tag= Scary
🅰THE 2022 ATY LIST - Extended options and ideas 🅰 1-15
🌹1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
✔️The People We Keep by Allison Larkin (April)
✔The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (Taylor and Turtle)
✔️Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver, (Taylor and Turtle)
✔The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (Toby, Adam 1)
✔ A Gentleman in Moscow Count Alexander Rostov
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021
✔️No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference byGreta Thunberg (She is discussed in Bewilderment.) - child protagonist
✔A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (related to 2021 books on communism - Sympathizer), Historical fiction, 1920s-
✔ The Three-Body Problem (related to 2021 book on the cultural revolution - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.)
✔Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - (Related to 2021 book on the cultural revolution - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, and The Sympathizer on communism)
Other possibilities:
Because of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress:
Eugénie Grandet Honoré de Balzac
Père Goriot[[author:Honoré de Balzac|228089]
3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
✔The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett, historical fiction, early 1900s, double letters, exactly 22 letters
✔When We Cease to Understand the World
✔I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short. - Tarot (The Fool)
✔The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert. Earth day, Flora/Fauna, two words
✔The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahrens. Earthday
✔The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce. Psychology/mind
✔Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer, rej health/medical
How the Penguins Saved Veronica
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list.
Booklovers (books about books), literary fiction, child protagonist, lists, sff, awards, side challenges, songs, REM, Beatles, sub genres.
REM - It's the end of the world as we know it:
✔The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. leGuin
✔The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, ✔MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood,
✔The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert,
✔When We Cease to Understand the World,
✔Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir,
First Contact:
✔Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, non-human main character
✔ The Three-Body Problem
✔The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. leGuin
✔The Sparrow
See rejected prompt page
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name.
✔️The Last Coyote Michael Connelly - Double letters, fauna
✔️Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
✔Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer, also under 5000 ratings, rej prompt health
✔The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett, historical fiction, early 1900s, 22 letters, double letters
6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover -
✔️The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis (chandeliers)
✔The Three Body Problem
✔When we cease to understand the world
✔ To the Lighthouse
✔The Lathe of Heaven
🌹7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind -
✔️The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K leGuin
✔️Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, mental health, psychiatry
✔The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce.
✔The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, mental health, rep memory
✔What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr, memory
✔The Dead Zone by Stephen King, brain damage
✔Migrations mental health, rep memory
✔A Single Man - neurological terms
Still want to read:
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race,
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science,
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2
10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3
Seven Continent Challenge:
✔️Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - Book 1 - ASIA
✔️ Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah - Book 2 - AFRICA
✔️ - Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis - Uruguay - Book 3 - SOUTH AMERICA
✔️ -How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior - Book 4 - ANTARCTICA
✔️Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty - Book 5 - AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA
✔️Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (Canada)- Book 6-NORTH AMERICA
✔️The Notebook by Agota Kristof (Hungary) - Book 7 - EUROPE
11. A book from historical fiction genre
✔A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
✔The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
✔The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
✔The Three-Body Problem
✔My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki, 1998, thought provoking, 64 authors, Food, >10 years ago, Set partly in Japan, Japanese characters
✔ A town Like Alice
✔The Notebook by Agota Kristof
See also books from 1900-1950 list
12. A book related to glass
✔To the lighthouse
✔Masterpiece (chandeliers on cover)
✔The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
13. A book about a woman in STEM -
✔The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
✔The Girl in His Shadow
✔ The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahrens
✔The Sparrow
✔Migrations
✔️The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
✔️Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Still want to read:
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads
✔️The Employees by Olga Ravn - had <3894 when I read it in May.
✔Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive 1877 in February. (Read in January)
✔ The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, (4494 ratings when I read it in January)
✔Cantoras South America (4543 August)
✔The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women (345 ratings)
✔Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021 (848 ratings)
✔The Thirty Names of Night (2942 ratings)
Still want to read: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen - translated, autobiography/memoir, independence theme, mental health. Best-of lists.
Abigail - translated book, Eastern European country.
15. A book without a person on the cover-
✔Eventide by Kent Haruf
✔Faithful by Alice Hoffman
✔The People We Keep by Allison Larkin - friendship
✔Small Things Like These
✔Hidden life of trees
Many others
16-28🎯 Target
16. A book related to Earth Day -
✔The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
✔The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahrens
✔The Overstory by Richard Powers
✔The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
✔MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
✔Greenwood by Michael Christie
✔ The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
✔We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
✔Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
✔Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Still want to read more - see list
🎯 TARGET - Read 20+
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge -
✔️The Library Book by Susan Orlean
✔️A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Favorites completed this year.
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Sea of Tranquility - time travel, multiple centuries
True Biz by Sara Novic
The Overstory by Richard Powers
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
The Marriage of Opposites
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism -nf, fits psychology
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Eat a Peach by David Chang - Food, psychology
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Clap When You Land
Who Is Maud Dixon? - fun
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. I used it for mythology.
The Space Between Worlds - Alternate worlds
Before the Ever After
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.
The Library Book by Susan Orleans
See tag and listopia for 2023 NPR reading
Still want to read Cloud Cuckoo Land, Maybe you should talk to someone, The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tell the Machine Goodnight
18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
✔The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin translated by Ken Liu
✔Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang -
✔Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - His fic CHINA, Asia, WPF, friendship, historical, 1800's
✔The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
TO READ in 2023 (or sooner)
The Garden of Evening Mists
House of Sticks
To Live by Yu Hua
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng.
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history -
(mini-challenge, one of each)
✔️The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark (Alt history)
✔️Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Alt reality)
✔️The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Alt worlds)
Quantum Curators Faberge Egg, Temeraire, A Master of Djinn, The Calculating Stars, Doomsday Book, The Eyre Affair, My Lady Jane, Wolf by Wolf, Dread Nation,
✔When We Cease to Understand the World-Quantum Theory
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951. 🔹part 4, decade shelves
✔When We Cease to Understand the World byBenjamín Labatut Einstein - present
✔The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown.
✔A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles -
✔The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie , 22 letters, aeiou
✔A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute. Small town, Australia, community plays a role, Malaya, migrant (prisoners of war), journey, building a community, Sense of Place
✔The Remains of the Day - by Kazuo Ishiguro Powell, Nobel prize, aging, his fic, 2 time periods, psych., measure of time, moral ambiguity
✔To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, early 1900's, source of light, set
✔The Master and Margarita - cat on cover- monopoly piece, chess game, Gothic elements, nonhuman, early 1900's, antihero
✔Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen his fic, early 1900s female detective
✔Death of Riley by Rhys Bowen, female detective, next in series
✔In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen- his fic
✔The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey - female detective, his fic, India, early 1900's, ASIA, next in series
✔The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - handwriting on cover, early 1900's
✔The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett, historical fiction, early 1900s, exactly 22 letters, double letters
✔The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Park, Egypt, Alternate History, early 1900s?
✔️The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover - ✔The Master and Margarita- cat. Russia, Devil/tarot,
✔The Book Woman's Daughter - boots
22. A book with a Jewish character or author -
✔The Marriage of Opposites, by Alice Hoffman
✔Have a Little Faith: a True Story
✔Faithful
✔The Red Garden
✔Nightbird
✔Blackbird House
✔️The World That We Knew
Still want to read:
Night -also <220 pages
Naomi Novik - Temeraire. Uprooted, Silver
The Red Tent (read in 2023)
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal -
23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
✔️ The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
✔️ Calypso by David Sedaris
✔A Single Man
✔Cantoras - South America
✔ The People We Keep
✔️The Great Believers
Still want to read:
Tipping the Velvet or Fingersmith
The Gods of Tango
24. A book related to inclement weather -
✔️We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
✔️The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
To read someday: Salvage the Bones, History of the Rain, The Gift of Rain, Spinning Silver, The Mercies, Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security , Dune
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
✔️Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (488)
✔️Sula by Toni Morrison (174)
✔When We Cease to Understand the World,
✔The Story of More 210 pages
✔The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki 548 pages
✔The Overstory 502 pages
✔Project Hail Mary 476 pages
✔Greenwood 528 pages
✔The Lincoln Highway
26 & 27. 2 books with the same word in the title -
Pair 1: History
✔️A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
✔️The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Pair 2: Year
✔️ My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
✔️Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards -
✔️The Overstory by Richard Powers - Pulitzer
✔️The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro- Nobel Prize
✔️The Great Believers
✔The Night Watchman - Pulitzer
✔Three Body Problem
✔Sixth Extinction
29-4129. A book set on or near a body of water'
✔️Sweet Salt Air
✔️Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
✔️The Rain Heron
✔The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
✔To the Lighthouse
⭐Not Forgetting the Whale
The Waves Virginia Woolf
The Summer Book
Throne of Jade (His Majesty's Dragon) (Dragon, maybe Asia)
To Touch a Wild Dolphin: A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent Creatures
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
What Strange Paradise,
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
30. A book related to mythology
✔️The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (refs to the Odyssey)
Possibilities:
Uprooted
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Salvage the Bones
Home Fire
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
A Thousand Ships
Elatsoe
✔️ The Rain Heron
✔️The Red Garden
31. A book published at least 10 years ago
✔️Washington Square by Henry James 1880
✔️Emma by Jane Austen 1815
✔️book:Pride and Prejudice|1885] 1813
✔️Mansfield Park 1814
✔️Lady Susan 1871
✔️The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1920
✔️The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926
✔️To the Lighthouse 1927
✔️Death Comes to Pemberley nov 2011
✔️Presumed Innocent 1987
🌹32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer
✔️ Sujata Massey-The Bombay Prince
✔️Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen
✔️American Spy
33. The next book in a series -
✔️Death of Riley by Rhys Bowen
✔️*Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
✔MaddAddam
✔Sujata Massey-
✔️The Bombay Prince -
Maisie Dobbs Series
Max Gladstone - Craft series
Kopp Sisters series
Scarlet
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role -
✔*A Single Man - college professor
✔Project Hail Mary - teacher in space
✔When We Cease to Understand the World = physicists, college professors
✔The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here - college professor in norway
✔The Three-Body Problem
✔The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Possession,Three Daughters of Eve, The Secret History, Ninth House, The Secret of Clouds, If We Were Villains
35. 2 books related to flora and fauna -
✔Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen
✔Sixth Extinction,
✔Overstory,
Parable of the Sower,
✔Hidden life of Trees,
✔The Year of the Flood
Behavior of Animals
The Wild Trees. Beak of the Finch, Wolf by Wolf,History of Bees, See other lists/listopias/earth day
36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name =
✔When we cease to understand the world
✔ My Year of Meats by Louise Erdrich
✔The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
✔The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
How the Penguins Saved Veronica,
The Madness of Crowds
38. A book by a Latin American author -
✔️Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
✔ When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut?
✔️Carolina De Robertis Cantoras - ,5000 ratings
Frances de Pontes Peebles: The Seamstress . I recommend The Air You Breathe
Sofía Segovia- The Murmur of Bees
Elizabeth Acevedo With the Fire on High
Julia Alvarez Afterlife
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
✔️Felix Ever After by Kacen Callander
Anne of Green Gables, A Wizard of Earthsea, Six of Crows,
An Ember in the Ashes,
The Astonishing Color of After
40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards -
✔️I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova, The Fortune Teller-
41. A book with a theme of food or drink
✔️We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at BreakfastJonathan Safran Foer food, earthday, weather
✔️My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
✔️Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto,
✔️ Eat a Peach by David Chang,
Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan, with the fire on high
Butter Honey Pig Bread
42-5242. A book with a language or nationality in the title -
✔️The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
✔️Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
✔️American Spy
43. A book set in a small town or rural area -🎯Dozen ✅
✔️Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
✔ Eventide by Kent Haruf
✔Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
✔Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
✔Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
✔Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
✔A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
✔The Book Woman's Daughter
✔The Round House by Louise Erdrich
✔The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
✔Nightbird
✔Beartown by Fredrik Backman
✔Us Against You by Fredrick Backman
44. A book with gothic elements -
✔️The Book of Cold Cases
✔We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
✔The Master and Margarita
✔Cover Her Face by PD James
✔Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James
45. A book related to a game -
✔️Britt-Marie Was Here
✔ The Three-Body Problem (Also Obama's list),
✔ The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
✔️Bear town
✔️Us Against You
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters -
✔️Project Hail Mary - Rocky
✔Artificial Condition - Murderbot
✔The Master and Margarita - Cat
✔️The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman - Golem
✔Rogue Protocol - Murderbot
✔Psalm for the Wild Built Becky Chambers - Robot
Watership Down
Scarlet - Cinder series
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
🌹47. A book with handwriting on the cover.
✔️ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.
✔️Before the Ever After
🎯 Target Goal: Dozen ✅
48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022 -
✔️The Night Watchmanby Louise Erdrich
✔️ These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
✔Gentleman in Moscow
✔Our souls at night
✔Overstory
✔Apples never fall
✔The Story of more -
✔Island of missing trees
✔Artificial Condition
✔Lincoln Highway
✔Lathe of Heaven
✔Our souls at night
✔Space Between Worlds
Poet X. Olive Kitteridge, Deacon King Kong, Guncle, Lilian boxfish, cloud cuckoo land, Anthropocene, Humankind, Old Goriot, Beautiful World,
49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
*✔The Sparrow
✔Project Hail Mary
✔ Thea stilton and the Dragon's code
Dragonflight - OWN
🌹🎯50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years. Mini-challenge - Dozen
✔ The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
✔The History of Love
✔Our Souls at Night
✔Have a Little Faith: a True Story
✔The Remains of the Day
✔My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
✔What Rose Forgot
✔Plainsong
✔Eventide
✔Britt-Marie Was Here
✔The Sparrow
✔The Notebook
✔The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
✔The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
✔How the Penguins Saved Veronica
Lilian Boxfish takes a walk, Three things about Elsie,
Alaskan sisters, Arthur Truluv
🌹51. A book published in 2022
✔️Sea of Tranquility
✔️The Unknown Beloved
✔The Book Woman's Daughter
✔Book Lovers by Emily Henry
✔Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021 by Margaret Atwood
Listening Still by Anne Griffin,
The Winners by Fredrik Backman
The Social Lives of Animals
🌹🌹52. A book with a time-related word in the title
✔️ The Years by Annie Ernaux
✔️ Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
✔The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
✔The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
✔My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
✔The History of Love
✔When We Cease to Understand the World
✔The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
✔️The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Nature/Environment related Books 🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎24. A book related to inclement weather - Salvage the Bones, History of the Rain, Gift of Rain, We are the Weather..Breakfast, , The Mercies fieldnotes, storming the wall, Survivors by Jane Harper
🔹We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at BreakfastJonathan Safran Foer food, earthday, weather
29. A book set on or near a body of water -
✔A Northern Light - Lake
Throne of Jade - also Dragon, Asia
The Unnatural History of the Sea
Not Forgetting the Whale - fauna
The Waves Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
The Summer Book
To Touch a Wild Dolphin: A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent Creatures
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (#2 in series)
What Strange Paradise
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
2 books related to flora and fauna
A book related to Earth Day
✔We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at BreakfastJonathan Safran Foer food, earthday, weather
✔The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History + earth, flora/fauna, REM song - It's the End of the World as we know it.
✔Greenwood Earth, fauna, 441+
✔⭐The Overstory +Earth, fauna, 441+ pages, npr, awards, character with disability
⭐ABC The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
The History of Bees
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Oryx and Crake, ⭐The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Wolf by Wolf (Own)
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
The Hungry Tide
The Signature of All Things +440
Appleseed +440
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back - npr
Even As We Breathe -npr, double letters
Annihilation - double letters, women in stem
Overshoot - double letters
*The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis Christiana Figueres (Paris climate talks) - 22 letters, women in STEM
22 letters, Rej: Goodreads Choice,
*How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by BIll Gates
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert - STEM
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (maybe just partially related?)
Flora
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World -Michael Pollan
The Overstory
Greenwood
Peter Wohlleben
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World or
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation
Fauna
The History of Bees
The Murmur of Bees
Watership Down
TAROT EXTRA CHALLENGEThe Fool -
The Magician
The High Priestess
The Empress -
The Emperor -
The Hierophant -
The Lovers -
The Chariot-
Strength -
The Hermit
Wheel of Fortune - Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen-
Justice -
The Hanged Man
Death
Temperance
The Devil
The Tower - Greenwood by Michael Christie
The Star
The Moon
The Sun
Judgement
The World
Tarot cards matched to authors
https://bookriot.com/authors-as-tarot...
The Fool - JOHN GREEN -The Anthropocene Reviewed
The Magician N.K. JEMISIN -The City We Became
The High Priestess -LAUREN GROFF, Fates and Furies, Matrix
The Empress -LIANE MORIARTY
The Emperor -STEPHEN KING
The Hierophant -KAZUO ISHIGURO - Klara and the Sun
The Lovers -CHRISTINA LAUREN
The Chariot- CELESTE NG - Little Fires Everywhere
Strength -TA-NEHISI COATES - The Water Dancer
The Hermit -HARUKI MURAKAMI
Wheel of Fortune -REBECCA SERLE - In Five Years, One Italian Summer
Justice -ANGIE THOMAS - The Hate You Give
The Hanged Man -STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES
Death -SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA
Temperance -ANN PATCHETT -Dutch House
The Devil -CHUCK PALAHNIUK -
The Tower -AKWAEKI EMEZI - The Death of Vivek Oji
The Star -NICOLA YOON
The Moon -RIVERS SOLOMON - Sorrowland, The Deep
The Sun -TAYLOR JENKINS REID
Judgement -TANA FRENCH - The Searcher
The World - KATE ATKINSON - Life after Life
Greenwood - the Tower
Overstory - judgment, justice, the world
I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend - the fool
More Rejected Prompts ✅A book with a character who loves books - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
🌹A book with a theme of exploration - When We Cease to Understand the World
🌹A book with a journalist author, journalist character, or journalism topic - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
🌹A book connected to health or medical science -
The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake
✅A book about a woman who changed history - The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
✅A book about an unlikely friendship - Project Hail Mary
🌹A book that involves an "ism" - Communism: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
🌹A book that involves an "ism" - Colorism: The Book Woman's Daughter
🌹A book about breaking barriers: The Girl in His Shadow
🌹A book about First Contact: The Sparrow
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✅A book related to firsts -
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
✅A book in translation - The Notebook by Agota Kristoff
✅An atmospheric, emotional, moody or evocative book -
Our Souls at Night
The Book of Form and Emptiness
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
✅ A book from one of Obama's reading lists - ✔The Three-Body Problem, -✔ When We Cease to Understand the World, -✔ The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
✅A book (or any book in a series) mentioned on NPR’s list of 50 Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade -
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
✅A book from the ATY-curated List of Great Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
✅A winner or nominee from the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
GENRES:
✅A book shelved as literary fiction -The Remains of the Day, Commonwealth, Bel Canto, Sula, The Night Watchman, An Artist of the Floating World
✅A fantasy novel - The Hobbit
✅An autobiography, biography, or memoir - These Precious Days: Essays, Small Wonder
✅A book from a fun sub-genre: hope-punk - A Psalm for the Wild-Built
🌹A book characterized as up lit - How the Penguins Saved Veronica], The Music Shop
Classic Non-fiction
✅A book from a genre you don't often read ✔ The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
A book from your favorite genre
CHARACTERS:
🌹A book with a character who loves books - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry,
🌹A book with a child protagonist Before the Ever After
🌹A book with a character with a disability - True Biz
🌹A fiction book with a character who is a real person (historical or current day)- When We Cease to Understand the World, The Jane Austen Project
🌹A book with a quirky or endearing character - What Rose Forgot
A retelling with a BIPOC main character- Unmarriageable
🌹A book about a character on a journey - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
- ✔Greenwood, ✔Overstory, The World That We Knew, The Hobbit.
✅A book that has a character in government, royal family or governing body -Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
✅A book featuring a character with paranormal or supernatural abilities -The World That We Knew
The Lathe of Heaven Red garden,
✅A book with an antihero- The Master and Margarita
✅A main character that fits at least one of “mad, bad and dangerous to know” -When We Cease to Understand the World
🌹A book with a morally grey main character - ✔The Year of the Flood Greenwood, The Overstory, The Notebook, American Spy, An Artist of the Floating World, A Ladder to the Sky
AUTHOR:
✅A book by an indigenous author - The Night Watchman
🌹A book by an author with 3 names - ✔️Taylor Jenkins Reid, William Kent Krueger -✔️ Boys in the boat author - Brown
A book written by or featuring a character who is a healthcare professional
A nonfiction book by a BIPOC author
SONGS:
A book connected to a song. (A book with a song title, song theme, songbook, playlist)
🌹A book related to the song "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M. -🎆 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. The Year of the FloodProject Hail Mary, Maddaddam, The Sparrow, Three Body Problem, Lathe of Heaven
✅A book related to the lyrics of "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Three Body Problem (Galileo)
A book relevant to the theme or lyrics of a Beatle's Song
- I get by with a little help from my friends - Beartown,
See Google doc
A book related to the title of a song from an animated Disney or Pixar movie
A book related to a famous pair
A book related to bees - The History of BeesThe Murmur of Bees
✅A book connected to liminality/transitions - Felix Ever After (trans), Thirty Names of Night The Overstory (the pictures of a tree taken every year for decades)
🌹A book involving travel: fiction or non-fiction, terrestrial or other
Project hail Mary, Three Body Problem, Migrations, The Sparrow, The World we Knew, American Spy
A book with a word or phrase in the title that describes you - Up all Night
A book about "First Contact - , Three Body Problem, The Sparrow, Hellspark, Project Hail Mary.
Rejected prompts and notes, duplicates🌹A book related to a movie or TV project being released in 2022 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
🌹A parallel novel or spin-off of a well-known story - Death Comes to Pemberley, The Jane Austen Project
🌹A book related to “soul” Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
🌹A book related to the phrase “Birds Eye View” - If I Stay by Gayle Forman
🌹A book related to the World Cup - Britt-Marie Was Here
🌹A book with a competition as a main plot element - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
🌹A book with a missing person - The Night Watchman
🌹A book about doing something forbidden -The Marriage of Opposites
🌹A book about or involving ritual or ceremony - The World That We Knew
🌹A book set in Eastern Europe - The Notebook by Agota Kristof
🌹A book set in the Arab world - Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
🌹A book that features an act of kindness -Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
🌹A book featuring an important extended family relationship - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
🌹A book with a full name in the title - Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption:Hope Springs Eternal, The Jane Austen Project
🌹A book that honors Betty White (born in 1922) - What Rose Forgot
🌹A book related to (episode "Twenty Two") The Twilight Zone -
When We Cease to Understand the World
🌹 A book related to the dystopian film classic "Soylent Green," which is set in 2022 -The Year of the Flood
🌹A book related to Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock -Cantoras
🌹A book related to the proverb "blood is thicker than water"- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
🌹A book whose title includes the word "Around" or "Year" - The Year of the Flood, My Year of Meats
🌹A book related to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing -The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
🌹A book whose author is younger than you - No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
🌹A book by an author you might like to meet - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
🌹A book with a return or repeat as a major plot element -Maybe in Another Life
🌹A book about a minority group in a country that is not your own - The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
🌹A book with an unusual narrator or narration style - The Book of Form and Emptiness
🌹A book with a protagonist who is a military veteran - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
🌹A classic - Emma
A book about independence
RELEVANT TO YOU:
A book from a genre you don't often read-
A book you discovered when searching for another book
🌹A book with a history Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
A book characterized as up lit - Backman books
🎈A book that was nominated for or won the Hugo award
🌹An epistolary novel - Thirty Names of Night?
A book with the theme of revenge and getting even
A book related to The Princess Bride movie
A book with a theme of redemption
A book mentioned on the Reading Women podcast
A book about the forbidden
A book about healing
A book set in more than one country
A banned book
✔️*A book (or any book in a series) mentioned on NPR’s list of 50 Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade
ADD?
🌹A book that includes a mental health topic - Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
🌹A book that involves a secret society or club - Three Body Problem
🌹A book where a community plays an important role - Us Against You by Frederik Backman
✔️*A book that has a comedic aspect - I Must Say
✔️A book with a non-linear timeline - Overstory, many others
✔️A book with nomads - NOMADLAND - homeless - The People We Keep
✔️A book with a theme of courage or heroism - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, Project Hail Mary, Beartown
✔️A book about women overcoming systemic obstacles - code breaker
A book involving an ancient artifact or structure -
✔️A book featuring a major life event - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
✅A book that describes drug or alcohol abuse - The Night Watchman
✔️A book that was adapted by the BBC - Jane Austen books
🌹✔️*A book from the ATY-curated List of Great Books - The Immortalists
A debut novel by an author who has written at least 10 books
A book related to Shelley's poem Ozymandias
A book about organized crime or families
A book with a character who speaks at least two languages
A book with a cover that features a view from above
A book with a child on the cover
✔️A book connected to health or medical science -
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race,
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive,
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
Breath
Sorrow and Bliss
Illness, hospitalization - Sweet Salt Air, Maybe in another life,?,
my year of meats, The sentence
Pandemics - Sea of tranquility
A book featuring a prophecy
A book between 300-400 pages
A book published by one of the 9 best independent publishers in the US
A book with pictures or illustrations
✔️A book set in a library or bookstore - The Library Book
✔A book related to the wonders of the world - Small Wonder by Kingsolver
A book with a pleasant word in the title - Small Wonder, love, Lovesong of Queenie Hennessey, Sorrow and Bliss
✔A book that takes place within a year
✔️A book by an author named Elizabeth - SIxth Extinction
An adventure book
A book related to a nursery rhyme
✔A book related to the phrase "a shot in the dark" - Master and Margarita? Death comes to pemberly
A book published by an independent publishe
A book that has a character in government, royal family or governing body - Three Body Problem, Louise Penny/Hilary Clinton book
A book with a theme of exploration
✔️A book about a woman who changed history - The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
🌹Locked room or closed circle mystery - Cover Her Face
*A book about a character on a journey - duplicate?
🌹A book involving travel: fiction or non-fiction, terrestrial or other - The Sparrow
June 26 = Almost Done with the 52 weeks challenge, working on round 2. Bonus challenges:
🌞 7 continents - 7/7 completed
Target goals - Extra books on favorite prompts
Tarot -
Rejected prompts-
SIDE CHALLENGE Started in late 2021Tookie's Lists from The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
List: Short Perfect Novels:
✔️Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (read in 2021)
✔️Sula by Toni Morrison - 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐,(read in 2022)
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabel
✔️Train Dreams by Denis Johnson ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (read in 2022)
The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad
The All of It by Jeanette Haien
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Swimmer in the Secret Sea by William Kotzwinkle
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (planned for 2023)
Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetsee
Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai
Other lists:
✔️Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Broulley 5 stars,
✔️The Overstory by Richard Powers
Faithful and Virtuous Night, by Louise Glück
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
OCT 14 update Round one and two of 52 week challenge - Message #1
Round 1 100% - Round 2 - 49/52
Rejected Prompt Challenge summary - Message #2
Expanded Lists, Target Challenge notes. potential 2023 books
Tarot challenge-next up
🌹🌹50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years. 🎯 Mini-challenge - Dozen✅✔️What Rose Forgot
✔️My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
✔An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
✔ The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
✔Our Souls at Night
✔Have a Little Faith: a True Story
✔The Remains of the Day
✔Plainsong
✔Eventide
✔Britt-Marie Was Here
✔The Sparrow
✔The Notebook
✔How the Penguins Saved Veronica
5 Stars Reads in 2022The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, 5⭐
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason 5⭐
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K leGuin 5⭐
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman 5⭐
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 5⭐
The Round House by Louise Erdrich 5⭐
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown 5⭐
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah - 5⭐
Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis 5⭐
Greenwood by Michael Christie 5⭐
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood 5⭐
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang 5⭐
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 5⭐
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 5⭐
Bear Town by Fredrik Backman (hockey) 5⭐
The Night Watchmanby Louise Erdrich 5⭐
This is the Story of a Happy Marriageby Ann Patchett 5 ⭐
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett 4.5⭐
The Overstory by Richard Powers Pulitzer 5⭐
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro- Nobel Prize 5⭐
If I Stay by Gayle Forman 5⭐
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver 5⭐
True Biz by Sarah Novic 5⭐
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford 4.5⭐
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki 4.5⭐
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - 4.5⭐
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman 4.5⭐
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott 4-5⭐
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (488) 4.5⭐
Sula by Toni Morrison (174) 4.5⭐
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf 4.5 ⭐
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce 4.5⭐
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert 5⭐
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption:Hope Springs Eternal 4.5 ⭐
4+
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (Taylor and Turtle)
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin (April)
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Alt worlds)
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Calypso by David Sedaris
Project Hail Mary
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
The Jane Austen Project
I'm making progress with this one. I needed the full descriptions to match the cards to characters or the theme of a book. ✅0- The Fool - vulnerable, naïve, adventurous, open, purity, innocence, risk. Upright: innocence, new beginnings, free spirit, Reversed: recklessness, taken advantage of, inconsideration.
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short, Fairy Tale by Stephen King
✅I. The Magician - beginning, creation. Upright: willpower, desire, creation, manifestation, Reversed: trickery, illusions, out of touch.
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman. Creation, magic, willpower, determination were important themes throughout the entire book.
✅II. The High Priestess - secret knowledge, immobility, trust, ability to see through deceit. Upright: intuitive, unconscious, inner voice, Reversed: lack of center, lost inner voice, repressed feelings.
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. The MC is a steady character, with strong values, knowledge, inner voice, and the ability to see through others.
✅III- The Empress - feminine power, fertility, abundance, nurture, love of home and family. Upright: motherhood, fertility, nature, Reversed: dependence, smothering, emptiness, nosiness.
The Red Garden- key characters, the garden itself. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One character (when she was in love) increased the fertility of all the plants and animals around her.
✅IV- The Emperor - patriarchy, material power, protection. Upright: authority, structure, control, fatherhood, Reversed: tyranny, rigidity, coldness.
Upright: One Hundred Years of Solitude -First leader of the family.
Reversed: Washington Square - The cold, manipulative father.
✅V- The Hierophant - the Pope, authority, convention, strict lifestyle. Upright: tradition, conformity, morality, ethics, Reversed: rebellion, subversiveness, new approaches.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - Mao exerted total control
✅VI- The Lovers - love, strong relationship, crossroads. Upright: partnerships, duality, union, Reversed: loss of balance, one-sidedness, disharmony. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak.
VII -The Chariot - victory, conquest and control. Upright: direction, control, willpower, Reversed: lack of control, lack of direction, aggression. One Hundred Years of Solitude - The wars, the banana company.
✅VIII. Strength (Adjustment) - courage, confidence, passion, good over evil. Upright: inner strength, bravery, compassion, focus, Reversed: self doubt, weakness, insecurity.
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Fairy Tale by Stephen King,
✅IX. The Hermit - intelligence, education, quest for knowledge, enlightenment, self-reflection. Upright: contemplation, search for truth, inner guidance, Reversed: loneliness, isolation, lost your way.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Several characters, overall theme, upright and reversed.
✅X. (Wheel of) Fortune - luck, chance, change. Upright: change, cycles, inevitable fate, Reversed: no control, clinging to control, bad luck. Harry's Trees, The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
✅XI. Justice (Lust) - hard work, sacrifices, balance, fairness, consequences. Upright: cause and effect, clarity, truth, Reversed: dishonesty, unaccountability, unfairness.
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
✅XII. The Hanged Man - letting go of the past, sacrifice. Upright: sacrifice, release, martyrdom, Reversed: stalling, needless sacrifice, fear of sacrifice. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
✅XIII. Death - spiritual transformation, new beginnings, death. Upright: end of cycle, beginnings, change, metamorphosis, Reversed: fear of change, holding on, stagnation, decay. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History- cycles, changes over millennia by Elizabeth Kolbert, The Hungry Tide -cycles of rebirth and decay. One Hundred Years of Solitude -Death wasn't always permanent
✅XIV. Temperance (Art) - time, patience, self-control. Upright: middle path, patience, finding meaning, Reversed: extremes, excess, lack of balance.
Upright - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich,
Reversed - An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
✅XV. The Devil - temptation, indulgence in sensual pleasures. Upright: addiction, materialism, playfulness, Reversed: freedom, release, restoring control.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhael Bulgakov (the devil, indulgence, violence).
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne (temptation, abuse by priests)
✅XVI. The (Falling) Tower - unforeseen and traumatic events. Upright: sudden upheaval, broken pride, disaster, Reversed: disaster avoided, delayed disaster, fear of suffering. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China- Chaos and trauma of frequent changes during the Cultural Revolution. Greenwood by Michael Christie
✅XVII. The Star - creativity, hope, optimism, art, keep faith. Upright: hope, faith, rejuvenation, Reversed: faithlessness, discouragement, insecurity. Where She Went by Gayle Forman (creativity, hope, rejuventation). Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin - ranged from insecurity and shock, to hope and faith.
✅XVIII. The Moon - present, future, changes. Upright: unconscious, illusions, intuition, Reversed: confusion, fear, misinterpretation.
Signal Moon by Kate Quinn, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel. Reversed: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. ,
XIX. The Sun - hope, energy, optimism, accomplishment. Upright: joy, success, celebration, positivity, Reversed: negativity, depression, sadness. Reversed - Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
✅XX. Judgment - trial, consequences, rebirth, self-reflection. Upright: reflection, reckoning, awakening, Reversed: lack of self awareness, doubt, self loathing.
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne. Reversed –Faithful by Alice Hoffman. (self blame)
XXI. The World - perfect, success, accomplishment. Upright: fulfillment, harmony, completion, Reversed: incompletion, no closure.
Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (other topics)This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (other topics)
The Book of Goose (other topics)
The World That We Knew (other topics)
Mansfield Park (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Liu Cixin (other topics)Micaiah Johnson (other topics)
Emily St. John Mandel (other topics)
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🅰 THE 2022 ATY LIST🅰
🌹🌹1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y -
✔️The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (Taylor and Turtle)
✔️The People We Keep by Allison Larkin (April)
🌹🌹2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021
✔️No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference byGreta Thunberg (She is discussed in Bewilderment.) (Non-fiction, essays)
✔️ The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (related to 2021 books on communism and the cultural revolution - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.) (fiction)
🌹🌹3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title -
✔️The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
✔️ Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
🌹🌹4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list - see rejected prompts list.
REM song: It's the End of the World as We Know it.
✔️The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, (also fits Soylent Green) 5⭐
✔️book:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War|8908] by Max Brooks
🌹🌹5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name.
✔️The Last Coyote Michael Connelly - Double letters, fauna
✔️Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
🌹🌹6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover-
✔️The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis (chandeliers)
✔️Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (reread)
🌹🌹7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind-
✔️Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason 5⭐
✔️The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K leGuin 5⭐
Seven Continent Challenge:
🌹🌹8. 3 books set on three different continents -
✔️Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - Book 1 - ASIA 4-5⭐
✔️ Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah - Book 2 - AFRICA 5⭐
🌹🌹9. 3 books set on three different continents
✔️ - Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis - Uruguay - Book 3 - SOUTH AMERICA 5⭐
✔️ -How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior - Book 4 - ANTARCTICA
🌹🌹🌹10. 3 books set on three different continents -
✔️Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty - Book 5 - AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA
✔️Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (Canada)- Book 6-NORTH AMERICA
✔️The Notebook by Agota Kristof (Hungary) - Book 7 - EUROPE
🌹🌹11. A book from historical fiction genre🎯Target Goal✅
✔️In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
✔️A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 5⭐
🌹🌹12. A book related to glass
✔️To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
✔️The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
🌹🌹13. A book about a woman in STEM -
✔️The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson
✔️ The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake
🌹🌹14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads - -
✔️The Employees by Olga Ravn (3778 ratings)
✔️ The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women (363 ratings)
🌹🌹15. A book without a person on the cover
✔️ Faithful by Alice Hoffman
✔️Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 5⭐
🌹🌹16. A book related to Earth Day (Mini-challenge pending)
✔️The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahrens
✔️Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
🌹🌹 17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge
✔️The Library Book by Susan Orlean
✔️A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
🌹🌹18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
✔️Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang 5⭐
✔️The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford 5⭐
🌹🌹🌹19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history. (mini-challenge, one of each)
✔️The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark (Alt history)
✔️Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Alt reality)
✔️The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Alt worlds)
🌹🌹20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951 - 🎯Mini-challenge - a Dozen✔️
✔️ Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
✔️ The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett
🌹🌹21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
✔️The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Cat)
✔️The Book Woman's Daughter (boots)
🌹🌹22. A book with a Jewish character or author
✔️The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman 5⭐
✔️Have a Little Faith: a True Story by Mitch Albom
🌹🌹23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
✔️The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
✔️Calypso by David Sedaris
🌹24. A book related to inclement weather -
✔️We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at BreakfastJonathan Safran Foer
✔️The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott 4-5⭐
🌹🌹25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
✔️Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (488) 4-5⭐
✔️Sula by Toni Morrison (174) 5⭐
🌹🌹26 & 27 2 books with the same word in the title - Pair 1: History
✔️A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
✔️The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert 4-5⭐
🌹🌹Pair 2: Year
✔️ My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki 5⭐
✔️Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver 5⭐
🌹🌹28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards (outside challenge - list of awards)
✔️The Overstory by Richard Powers Pulitzer 5⭐
✔️The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro- Nobel Prize 5⭐
✔️The Great Believers
🌹🌹29. A book set on or near a body of water
✔️Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky
✔️Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
🌹30. A book related to mythology
✔️The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (references to the Odyssey)
✔️Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
🌹🌹31. A book published at least 10 (100) years ago
✔️Emma by Jane Austen
✔️Washington Square by Henry James
🌹🌹32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer
✔️Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen
✔️The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey (also Asia, historical fiction)
🌹🌹33. The next book in a series
✔️Death of Riley by Rhys Bowen
✔️Artificial Condition by Margaret Wells
🌹🌹34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
✔️Project Hail Mary - a teacher goes to space
✔️ A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
🌹🌹35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1
✔️The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
✔️Greenwood by Michael Christie 5⭐
🌹🌹36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
✔️MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood 5⭐
✔️The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
🌹🌹37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
✔️Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Louchette
✔️The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce 4-5⭐
🌹🌹38. A book by a Latin American author
✔️Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
✔️ When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
🌹39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
✔️Felix Ever After by Kacen Callander
✔️The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (from the old YA list)
🌹🌹40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards 🎯
✔️I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend - the fool
✔️ An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro - The moon
🌹🌹41. A book with a theme of food or drink -
✔️Eat a Peach
✔️Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
🌹🌹42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
✔️The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown 5⭐
✔️Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin 4⭐
🌹🌹43. A book set in a small town or rural area
✔️Plainsong by Kent Haruf
✔️Eventide by Kent Haruf
🌹🌹44. A book with gothic elements
✔️ The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St James
✔️We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
🌹🌹45. A book related to a game
✔️ Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrick Backman (football/soccer)
✔️Bear Town by Fredrik Backman (hockey) 5⭐
🌹🌹46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
✔️The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (Golem) 5⭐
✔️Rogue Protocol (Murderbot) by Martha Wells
🌹🌹47. A book with handwriting on the cover.
✔️ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.
✔️book:Before the Ever After|51988656] by Jacqueline Woodson
🌹🌹48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022 - 🎯 - Target goal ✅
✔️The Night Watchmanby Louise Erdrich 4-5⭐
✔️ These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett 4-5⭐
🌹🌹49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
✔️The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
✔️Thea Stilton and the Dragon's Code
🌹🌹50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years. 🎯 Mini-challenge - Dozen✅
✔️What Rose Forgot
✔️My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
🌹🌹51. A book published in 2022
✔️Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 5⭐
✔️The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon
🌹🌹52. A book with a time-related word in the title
✔️ The Years by Annie Ernaux
✔️ Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf