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Where Does This Book Fit? the 2022 edition
Heather L wrote: "Jessica — It definitely fits social horror."Ok, cool! Thanks.
Haven't seen this one mentioned yet... 
Clean Sweep
I need to read it for another challenge and wanted to see if I can make it fit here too!
Ashley wrote: "Haven't seen this one mentioned yet... Clean Sweep
I need to read it for another challenge and wanted to see if I can make it fit here too!"
Clean Sweep is such a great book! It would work well for the "a book about a secret" prompt.
Ashley wrote: "Haven't seen this one mentioned yet... Clean Sweep
I need to read it for another challenge and wanted to see if I can make it fit here too!"
Well #40 is easiest because you pick a past prompt that works.
#25 a book about a secret seems the next best option because the inn's are hidden from humans. You could also say Dina lives a double life, #46, for the same reason.
Did you read Ilona Andrews last year?
Nicole wrote: "I am hoping that The Reading List fits in somewhere!"Depending on which edition you read there is one with a tiger on the cover, it would also work for found family, past prompt a book about books.
Ashley wrote: "Haven't seen this one mentioned yet... Clean Sweep
I need to read it for another challenge and wanted to see if I can make it fit here too!"
I used one from this series for A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society
K.L. wrote: "Yazmin wrote: "Does anyone know if All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven or Beartown (and the sequel, Us Against You) by Fredrik Backman fit in this year's challenge? Thanks in advance!"[book:A..."
Ah, I've already completed all those prompts. Thanks anyway!
Could I fit a COVID book under Man made disaster? or Social horror do you think?Looking for a slot for this one: Wish You Were Here
I think it would fit best under social horror. Man made disaster if there was something done by humans that made the disease spread faster. But a virus on its own, unless created in a lab, isn’t something I would consider man made.
Thanks Alicia.
Nadine in NY wrote: "Really want to read a certain book in 2022, but can't seem to figure out if it will fit into a Challenge category? Get help here!"I had a spreadsheet with my challenge prompts filled out. Short version is that my PC died. I can't remember what Stardust by Neil Gaiman was for.
Just finished reading The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake. Would this fall into "A Book Featuring A Parallel Reality?" Trying to have it fit in my challenge! Thank you!
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I had a spreadsheet with my challenge prompt..."
I have seen Stardust recommended for parallel reality, because when he goes over the wall he's in a different world.
Caitlin wrote: "Just finished reading The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake. Would this fall into "A Book Featuring A Parallel Reality?" Trying to have it fit in my challenge! Thank you!"I think this fits parallel reality because of the (view spoiler)
Planning to read The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman by Julietta Henderson. Does this fulfil any prompts?
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I did not think it was a good fit for any of this year's categories. It's probably recommended on TikTok, though.
Donna wrote: "I want to read Klara and the Sun. Might it fit anywhere?"Past prompt: 2020 book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
Erica wrote: "Caitlin wrote: "Just finished reading The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake. Would this fall into "A Book Featuring A Parallel Reality?" Trying to have it fit in my challenge! Thank you!"I think this fit..."
Thank you!
Hey Guys, I am currently reading Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert. I know this was the February group read of #18, but I didn't read it then. I read The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi for this prompt.
So my question it, does "Get a Life, Chloe Brown" fit in any other categories or maybe even "The Bennet Women"? I could switch either of them.
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I am currently reading Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert. I know this was the February group read of #18, but I didn't read it then. I read [boo..."
Name of a boardgame in the title (Life)
That is brilliant. I didn't even consider that. Thanks Nadine!
Hi, I'm trying to use my TBR books that are there for a long time but I have trouble finding prompts where the ones below fit:- The Book Thief
- The Terror
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- What Comes Next
- The Spectacular Now
- The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
- The Weight of the Stars
- Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- The Neverending Story
- The Hobbit
Any help would be great!
Cuckoo is an onomatopoeia, so The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart works for PS #7.
Teri wrote: "Cuckoo is an onomatopoeia, so The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart works for PS #7." Thank you!
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Hidden Figures won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Sara wrote: "Hi, I'm trying to use my TBR books that are there for a long time but I have trouble finding prompts where the ones below fit:- The Book Thief
- The Terror "
The Book Thief would fit social horror.
Sara wrote: "Hi, I'm trying to use my TBR books that are there for a long time but I have trouble finding prompts where the ones below fit:- The Book Thief
- The Terror"
The Hobbit would work for any of the following prompts: "a book set during a holiday" (Durin's Day and Yule), "a book featuring a party," and "a book that takes place during your favorite season" (any season would work).
Sara wrote: "Hi, I'm trying to use my TBR books that are there for a long time but I have trouble finding prompts where the ones below fit:Weight of the stars looks like it should fit prompt 18. Unless it’s not a romance. But it did say slow burn romance.
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Weight of the stars looks like it should fit prompt 18...."
and maybe it's sapphic, too?
Sara wrote: "Hi, I'm trying to use my TBR books that are there for a long time but I have trouble finding prompts where the ones below fit:- The Book Thief
- The Terror
- The T..."</i>
<i> The Terror </i> takes place in Victorian times [prompt 34
Hi everyone,This is my current TBR list. Can anyone think of some prompts any of these would fit into? Some very obviously fit into a prompt but I have already fulfilled certain prompts so was hoping for other ideas of where I could slot these in before spending money on new books.
Thanks so much ❤️
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Stationery Shop of Tehran
Dead Until Dark
The Storyteller of Casablanca
Rachel’s Holiday
The Family Upstairs
Ugly Love
Boy Swallows Universe
Only a Monster
Bridgerton - When he was Wicked
Bridgerton - To Sir Phillip with Love
The Island of Missing Trees
Medusa
Confess
The Nowhere Child
The lovely bones
All your perfects
The Inheritance Games
Without Merit
Dead Until Dark could work for “afterlife,” as it features vampires. I think The Lovely Bones would also fit that category. Both would also fit a previous prompt of a book turned into a movie or tv series.
Lovely Bones = afterlifeBridgerton books = did you read any last year? If so, different book by author you read last year. Both could count as secrets, Michael hides his love from Francesca starting in the first chapter and Eloise hides her letter writing from her family.
Inheritance Games = knife on the cover which could count as cutlery
Family Upstairs = some may disagree, but I think it’s perfect for “found family” since she literally finds family.
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Sara wrote: "Hi, I'm trying to use my TBR books that are there for a long time but I have trouble finding prompts where the ones below fit:- The Book Thief
- The Terror
- The T..."</i>
[book:The Time Traveler's Wife - TV show that will be released this year
Courtney wrote: "Hi everyone,This is my current TBR list. Can anyone think of some prompts any of these would fit into? Some very obviously fit into a prompt but I have already fulfilled certain prompts so was hop..."
Dead Until Dark
I see two obvious possibilities. Sookie, the shifters, and the vampires all have big secrets, as well as the women who are murdered (#25). Additionally, Sookie and the shifters are definitely leading double lives, since they pretend to be normal humans (#46).
The later books would be a better fit, but you could stretch it to a ‘non-patriarchal society" (#3), since the vampires don’t care about gender in leadership—it’s all about who created who, and who has gained the position. There are nearly as many vampire queens as kings in the US (and Sookie lives in a region ruled by a queen).
You could also stretch it to two points of view (#48), since you get the mental dialogue and point of view from another character at the end. Once you’ve read it, you’ll know what I mean, but I don’t want to spoil the ending.
Courtney wrote: "Hi everyone,This is my current TBR list. Can anyone think of some prompts any of these would fit into?"
The Tattooist of Auschwitz would fit social horror or man-made disaster. (The Holocaust).
Would Interview with the Vampire or Prince Lestat fit in any of the categories?I can't seem to find one that could work.
Ron wrote: "Would Interview with the Vampire or Prince Lestat fit in any of the categories?I can't seem to find one that could work."
They fit prompt #12, a book about the afterlife. If you read something by Anne Rice last year they would fit #29. New Orleans is also paired with more than a dozen sister cities (prompts 49 & 50):
Merida, Mexico; Pointe Noire, Congo; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina; Juan-les-Pins, France; Matsue, Japan; Innsbruck, Austria; Maracaibo, Venezuela; Durban, South Africa; Florence, Italy; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Batumi, Republic of Georgia; Klaipeda, Lithuania; Rosh Haayin, Israel; Orléans, France.
Would Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile fit into the Sapphic Book prompt?
If I Had Your FaceFive Little Indians
The Mountains Sing
Between the World and Me
Dominicana
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
Does anyone have any clue where any of these could go? I read some before I started the challenge and really really want to read the others this year.
Would Confessions by Kanae Minato fit for a social horror book?
Sara wrote: "Hi, I'm trying to use my TBR books that are there for a long time but I have trouble finding prompts where the ones below fit:- The Book Thief
- The Terror
- [book:The T..."
The Book Thief could work as social horror, man-made disaster, book about a secret or book about afterlife.
If you stretched the prompt, The Time Traveler's Wife could fit someone living a double life (both in the past and present).
Hidden Figures is set in Hampton, VA, which has four sister cities: Southampton, UK, Vendome, France, Anyang, South Korea and Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. I'm not sure if it will help, but there might be something set in Southampton that helps.
Courtney wrote: "Hi everyone,This is my current TBR list. Can anyone think of some prompts any of these would fit into? Some very obviously fit into a prompt but I have already fulfilled certain prompts so was hop..."
I used The Tattooist of Auschwitz for man-made disaster. It may also fit a double life.
The most obvious for the Bridgerton books is "made into a movie or series in 2022". It's been a while since I read them, but I think they all have two POVs. They're set in London, which has a few sister cities that are popular as novel settings, including Berlin, Moscow and Beijing. In When He Was Wicked, the hero has a secret. Most Bridgerton books also feature a party at some point, and if i remember correctly, a party at the beginning of the book is pretty important in Sir Phillip With Love (though, again, it's been a while).
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Five Little Indians
The Mountains Sing
Between the World and Me
Dominicana
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Dominicana could be a book by a Latinx author.
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Well it definitely sounds horrifying! And since it is about a large group/community of people, or society at large it just might count. Someone (Nadine I think) posted a good definition about what a social-horror is on that thread, you might want to go there to check it out.