Julia's 2022 Connect the Dots Challenge

[Julia]

Connect the Dots: a kind of word association challenge, except with books!!
January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 or whenever!

Choose at least 10 titles that you feel are connected any which way: by association, by color, by author (matching first or last names, or initials), by cover design, by being referenced in the previous book, or what-have-you. Feel free to share the association as your list grows ... or not!

Start with the first title, and choose the others as you go. For this challenge, feel free to use essays, poems, as well as full books.

Take the Long Way There: For an extra challenge, choose two very disconnected items as the first and last titles and somehow create a bridge of books between them.

As a example, here is how I came to this idea, via some of my entries for the 2021 December Advent Calendar Challenge:

I read "Capitalism is Out of this World" by Jill Lepore (in New York Times, 11/7/2021), an article that talked a great deal about science fiction,

which led to my reading "The Nameless City," a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, as well as these two essays:

"Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" by Virginia Woolf and "Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown" by Ursula K. Le Guin,

and suddenly I'm on a Virginia Woolf kick, especially because To the Lighthouse has been on my TBR list for ages, not to mention the numerous Ursula K. Le Guin essays I'm now using for the above mentioned challenge!:

Have fun with it!

[Julia]

Participants:

[Julia]

1. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
2. All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth
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[Kelly]

I will join!

[Nicole]

I'm in for 20!

[Navya]

Hi Julia! Thank for putting this up :)

I will love to join too, tentatively with 10 books first (let's see how far I go hahaha)

1. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

[Karianne]

This is totally how my brain works. In fact, I ended up doing an accidental movie marathon last weekend via this method. Looked up and suddenly realized I'd watched six movies in a row without meaning to!

I don't know that I'll do this as an official challenge, but I'll definitely report back if I go on any worthy book tangents.