Roxana's 2022 Reading Challenge

[Roxana]

Let's see if I can do the challenge in order this year!

52/52
Completed 12/13/22!

✅ done
🟩 in progress/planned


✅1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y: The Girl from Widow Hills
✅ 2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021: A Lot Like Adiós
✅ 3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title: Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead
✅4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list: A Special Place for Women (prompt: Related to a Taylor Swift song, The Man)
✅5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name: Cocaine Blues

✅6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover: Fire Becomes Her
✅7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind: Exhalation
✅8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (Europe)
✅9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2: The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (Asia)

✅10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3: The Bedlam Stacks (South America)
✅11. A book from historical fiction genre: A Decline in Prophets
✅12. A book related to glass: Girls Made of Snow and Glass
✅13. A book about a woman in STEM: A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons

✅14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads: Portrait of a Thief
✅15. A book without a person on the cover: The Half Life of Valery K
✅16. A book related to Earth Day: To Be Taught, If Fortunate
✅17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

✅18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author: Daughter of the Moon Goddess
✅19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history: Lakelore
✅20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951: Siren Queen
✅21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover: When Blood Lies
✅22. A book with a Jewish character or author: The Latecomer

✅23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship: Kiss & Tell
✅24. A book related to inclement weather: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
✅25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages: A River Enchanted
✅26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1: Sea of Tranquility

✅27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2: Skin of the Sea
✅28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards: Uprooted
✅29. A book set on or near a body of water: The House Across the Lake
✅30. A book related to mythology: Once & Future

✅31. A book published at least 10 years ago: The Tiger in the Smoke
✅32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
✅33. The next book in a series: Ship Wrecked
✅34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role: Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
✅35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1: Wake the Bones

✅36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2: Nettle & Bone
✅37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name: The Last Housewife
✅38. A book by a Latin American author: Olga Dies Dreaming
✅39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time: The Sun Is Also a Star

✅40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards: Book of Night
✅41. A book with a theme of food or drink: Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble
✅42. A book with a language or nationality in the title: Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village
✅43. A book set in a small town or rural area: The Year of the Witching
✅44. A book with gothic elements: Gallant

✅45. A book related to a game: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
✅46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters: Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
✅47. A book with handwriting on the cover: The Book Eaters
✅48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022: In Other Lands

✅49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons": Tooth and Claw
✅50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years: Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
✅51. A book published in 2022: The City Inside
✅52. A book with a time-related word in the title: The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

✅1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y:
The Girl from Widow Hills
MC's name is Arden.


✅2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021:
A Lot Like Adiós
Sequel to You Had Me at Hola, which I read last year.

✅3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title:
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead


✅4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list:
A Special Place for Women
Related to a Taylor Swift song: The Man


✅5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name:
Cocaine Blues
Author Kerry Greenwood (3 sets of doubles!)

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

✅6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover:
Fire Becomes Her
Fire, stars, city lights...

✅7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind:
Exhalation
Several stories involve neuroscience & the mind in various ways, including one where the MC literally performs brain surgery on themself. But I might retroactively put Weather Girl here, I read it at the right time, for its theme of mental health.

✅8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1:
Europe: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

✅9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2:
Asia: The Lost Future of Pepperharrow

✅10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3:
South America:The Bedlam Stacks

Connected these three prompts by using the same series.

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

✅11. A book from the historical fiction genre:
A Decline in Prophets
Historical mystery set in Depression-era Australia.

✅12. A book related to glass:
Girls Made of Snow and Glass


✅13. A book about a woman in STEM:
A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons
Protagonist is a botany student & research assistant.

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

✅14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads:
Portrait of a Thief
At the time I read it, it had about 400 ratings.

15. A book without a person on the cover:
The Half Life of Valery K

16. A book related to Earth Day:
The Ones We're Meant to Find

17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge:
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

I have this for my April book club, so I'm hoping the timing works for it to be in order.

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author:
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
(if I don't finish it before this...)

Seisho Yokomizo; My Uncle Napoleon; Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree; overlap with Popsugar's Pacific Islander author prompt.

19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history:
The Impossible Us or Lakelore

20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951:
Siren Queen

21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover:


22. A book with a Jewish character or author:
Juniper & Thorn, Home Field Advantage

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship:
too! many! options! to plan this far ahead. on the other hand, Husband Material!

24. A book related to inclement weather:
shipwreck books?


25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages:
Tor novellas for short, Tad Williams for long


26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1:
the two Ex Librises would be very fun for this

27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2:

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards:
The Graveyard Book; The Fifth Season; A Memory Called Empire; Strange the Dreamer; The Night Watchman; Uprooted; A Visit From the Goon Squad; Among Others; Everything Sad is Untrue;

29. A book set on or near a body of water:
Lakelore if I haven't read it by this point; Hornblower, Ramage, any of those maritime histories;

30. A book related to mythology:
Uprooted; Circe; This Woven Kingdom;


31. A book published at least 10 years ago:
tooooo many options

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer:
Dublin murder squad; next Lily Adler or Verity Kent;

33. The next book in a series:
Sebastian St. Cyr; Lily Adler; Verity Kent; Husband Material; Scholomance 3; Bakeoff 2; Heroine 3 or whatever number I'm on; Rivers of London;

34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role:
something from that dark academia list I haven't finished yet; Babel!; The Resemblance

35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1:



36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2:

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name:
Babel (Kuang); An Unkindness of Ghosts;

38. A book by a Latin American author:
Marquez, Borges, Bolano...

39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time:
A Very Large Expanse of Sea; Children of Blood and Bone; Daughter of Smoke and Bone; An Ember in Ashes; The Hate U Give;


40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards:

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

41. A book with a theme of food or drink:
Bakeoff 2! or one of the several foodie romances I have yet to get to on my list.

42. A book with a language or nationality in the title:
American Royals; Americanah; The Secret Life of the American Musical; Under the Light of the Italian Moon; Lectures on Russian Literature; English Passengers; Hot British Boyfriend;

43. A book set in a small town or rural area:


44. A book with gothic elements:
Gormenghast; one off that list ?

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

45. A book related to a game:
possibly Red Card.

46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters:


47. A book with handwriting on the cover:


48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022:
The Memory Police
The Vanishing Half
Unnatural Magic
Float Plan
An Ember in Ashes
If I Had Your Face
Fangirl
(check 2022 lists by this point)

[Roxana]

Plans/Ideas/Notes

49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons":
Tooth & Claw; anything with a map...

50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years:


51. A book published in 2022:
Husband Material; Violet Made of Thorns; Babel; A Magic Steeped in Poison; The Red Palace; The Ivory Key; Paris Daillencourt is About to Crumble; Kiss & Tell; Lakelore; A-MM's Gatsby retelling; Daughter of the Moon Goddess; eeeek too many options

52. A book with a time-related word in the title:
The Thursday Murder Club;
Last Night at the Telegraph Club;
How Long 'Til Black Future Month?;
The Year of the Witching;
The Night Watchman;