Roxana’s 2023 ATY Challenge

[Roxana]

📚Roxana's 2023 ATY Challenge📚

52/52

✅ done
🟩 in progress/planned

✅1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y: The Summer Party (Australia)
✅2. A book by an author you read in 2022: All the Missing Girls
✅3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list: Hell Bent (crossing to another world)
✅4. A book with an interracial relationship: Not the Plan
✅5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover: Friday I'm in Love

✅6. A book where books are important: Bookworm
✅7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title: What a Match
✅8. An author's debut book: Beasts of Prey
✅9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W: Me: Moth

✅10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities": Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story (scary)
✅11. A book about a person/character with a disability: The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
✅12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies: Bunny
✅13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover: Divine Rivals

✅14. A book with a con, deception, or fake: Happy Place
✅15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1: The Last Drop of Hemlock (20th)
✅16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2: Who Cries for the Lost (19th)
✅17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3: Brother Cadfael's Penance (12th)

✅18. A book related to science: A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality
✅19. A book related to the arts: The True Love Experiment
✅20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel: Emma of 83rd Street
✅21. A book by an Asian diaspora author: He Who Drowned the World
✅22. A book with a faceless person on the cover: You Can Trust Me

✅23. A book with a body of water in the title: Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
✅24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy: Hotel of Secrets
✅25. A book with a tropical setting: People to Follow
✅26. A book related to pride: A Guide to the Dark

✅27. A book by an author from continental Europe: Exposed
✅28. A book that is dark: What Never Happened
✅29. A book that is light: Seven Rules for Breaking Hearts
✅30. A book related to a chess piece: A Discovery of Witches
✅31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com: Starling House

✅32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature: Broken Harbor
✅33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923: The Hike
✅34. A novella: The Salt Grows Heavy
✅35. A book with a school subject in the title: Greek Lessons

✅36. A book that has been translated from another language: The Mill House Murders
✅37. A book with the theme of returning home: Mammoths at the Gates
✅38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover: Curious Tides
✅39. A western: Vampires of El Norte

✅40. A book with a full name in the title: The Haunting of Leigh Harker
✅41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists: Riot Baby
✅42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter: The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
✅43. A book that involves a murder: This Is How We End Things
✅44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal: The Tainted Cup

✅45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books: Dead of Winter
✅46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe: The Pumpkin Spice Café
✅47. A book related to a geometric shape: Such a Good Mother
✅48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story: The Crane Husband

✅49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023: Fourth Wing
✅50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt: A Darker Shade of Magic (related to a chess piece)
✅51. A book published in 2023: The Curse of Penryth Hall
✅52. A book with an unusual or surprising title: Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

[Roxana]

📚 ATY COVER COLLAGE 📚

[Roxana]

📚ATY Rejects Challenge📚

41/70

✅ done
🟩 in progress/planned

✅1. A book with yellow, red and white on the cover: Scattered Showers
✅2. A book with a shoe on the cover: When You Were Everything
✅3. A book related to the characters in The Wizard of Oz: We Are All So Good at Smiling
✅4. A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman: Deep in Providence
✅5. A book with a color in the title or author’s name: The Black Flamingo
6. A book with a cat in the story, title or cover
✅7. A book with an alliterative title: Always the Almost
✅8. A book whose the author goes by three names: The Keeper of Night
9. A book with a title beginning with W
✅10. A book related to dreams or dreaming: Violet Made of Thorns
✅11. A book related to a common phrase, saying, or idiom: A Million to One
12. A book with a character who has a career or hobby that interests you:
✅13. A book related to Hollywood: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
14. A book with a two word title, one of which is "The"
✅15. A book that is inspired by or pays homage to another story: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
16. Two books from two different genres, that are connected in some way (book 1)
17. Two books from two different genres, that are connected in some way (book 2)
18. A book set in the city, and a book set in the country (book 1)
19. A book set in the city, and a book set in the country (book 2)
20. Two books with words that are opposites in the titles (book 1)
21. Two books with words that are opposites in the titles (book 2)
22. Two books related to lost and found (book 1)
23. Two books related to lost and found (book 2)
✅24. A book that includes a ritual or ceremony: Never Name the Dead
25. A book with one of the four seasons in the title
✅26. A book with a character who is an orphan: To Green Angel Tower, Part 1
✅27. A book with a pronoun in the title: Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across
✅28. A book involving wolves or werewolves: For the Wolf
29. A book related to the Harlem Renaissance
✅30. A book with a character that travels as a part of their job: Post Captain
✅31. A book about crossing over to another world: And Put Away Childish Things
32. A book set in an apartment building or house
🟩33. A book from the point of view of a person with a physical, sensory, learning, mental, or medical disability: True Biz
✅34. A book with fruit or vegetables on the cover or in the title: The Villa
35. A book written by two or more authors
🟩36. A book with one of the 7 most used verbs in English in the title: be, have, do, say, get, make, go Can't Let Her Go
✅37. A book involving aspects of language, linguistics, or the spoken word: The Maker of Swans
✅38. A book in which someone is captured, taken hostage, trapped or imprisoned: Dead Man's Ransom
✅39. A book with a character who time travels: The Paradox Hotel
✅40. A book set in more than one country: The Ionian Mission
✅41. A book where an architectural element is central: Delicious Monsters
42. A book set in the Indian subcontinent
✅43. A book in which a main character or main subject is a member of a royal family or the nobility: Six Crimson Cranes
✅44. A book set during the Roaring Twenties: A Novel Arrangement
✅45. A book about a character with a supernatural ability: Ninth House
46. A book related to King Tut: The Daughters of Izdihar
47. A book by an author who uses punctuation in their name
✅48. An adventure book: Master & Commander
49. A book with rock, paper or scissors on the cover
✅50. A book that is the 2nd or 3rd in a series: Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
✅51. A book related to "On the Road": A Thousand Miles to Graceland
✅52. A book with a sign (literal or figurative) on the cover: Salt and Sugar
53. A book mainly set underground or underwater
54. A book with 500+ pages
55. A book with an unnamed narrator or protagonist
56. A book related to game, set, match
✅57. A dark academia book: The Things We Do to Our Friends
✅58. A book including a female athlete: Turtle Under Ice
✅59. A book where a battle takes place: The Mauritius Command
✅60. A book about colonialism or imperialism: The Bruising of Qilwa
✅61. A book with a "fitness" connection: Against the Currant
✅62. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel: Road to Perdition
✅63. A book with a secret passage: A Dreadful Splendor
64. A book featuring a blog or a podcast
✅65. A book not set on (our) earth: The Mimicking of Known Successes
✅66. A book with a door on the cover: Gaudy Night
✅67. A book set in the workplace of at least one character: Magic for Liars
✅68. A romance novel: Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
69. A book set on an island
70. A magical realism book

[Roxana]

📚 ATY REJECTS COVER COLLAGE 📚

[Roxana]

IDEAS/NOTES

10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
11. A book about a person/character with a disability
12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover

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10. so many optionnnnnssss but horror for scary works best for me.

11. Disability: True Biz or The Secrets of Hartwood Hall (both Deaf)

12. Birds, bees, or bunnies: Bunny, Alone With You in the Ether, Queen Bee

13. Divine Rivals

[Roxana]

IDEAS/NOTES

14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1
16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2
17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3

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14. The Opportunist, Moorewood Family Rules, The Fraud Squad

15-17
The next in an historical mystery series I've already been reading, each in a different century. So A Botanist's Guide or Nightingale Mysteries for 1920s, Cadfael for 1100s, and Sebastian St Cyr for 1810s.

[Roxana]

IDEAS/NOTES


18. A book related to science
19. A book related to the arts
20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
22. A book with a faceless person on the cover

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18. Vicious, I've heard?

19. Pas de Don't (ballet)

20. Salt and Sugar (unless I want to save it for the recipe prompt later)

21. many many options, but Lily Chu's The Comeback fits timing

22. Not Exactly What I Had In Mind fits perfectly.

[Roxana]

IDEAS/NOTES


23. A book with a body of water in the title
24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
25. A book with a tropical setting
26. A book related to pride

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23. Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea

24. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ... finally time to read it?

25.

26. gotta do something harder than just a queer character.

[Roxana]

IDEAS/NOTES

27. A book by an author from continental Europe
28. A book that is dark
29. A book that is light
30. A book related to a chess piece
31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com

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Continental Europe: Aliette de Bodard probably

Dark & Light: that Rachel Howzell Hall thriller and that contemp romcom, each set on Catalina Island.

Chess: The Rook; The Eight

Literature map: tbh my favorite authors just give me my other favorite authors whom I've already read all of...

[Roxana]

IDEAS/NOTES

32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
34. A novella
35. A book with a school subject in the title

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UNESCO City of Literature: Dublin murder squad

1923 popular first names: Virginia Woolf

Novella: depends on timing, but several options from Tor, or The Bruising of Qilwa is I think short enough

School subject: Lessons in Chemistry

[Roxana]

IDEAS/NOTES


36. A book that has been translated from another language
37. A book with the theme of returning home
38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
39. A western

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Western: Lone Women

[Roxana]

IDEAS/NOTES


40. A book with a full name in the title
41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
43. A book that involves a murder
44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal

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40. The Haunting of Leigh Harker

[Roxana]

IDEAS/NOTES


45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
47. A book related to a geometric shape
48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story

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Large animal: The Crane Husband

[Roxana]

IDEAS/NOTES


49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
51. A book published in 2023
52. A book with an unusual or surprising title

[Roxana]

📚ARCs📚
13/245

2022 (or earlier)
2/112

⬜Traitor: A Novel of World War II
⬜A Curse of Ash and Embers
⬜A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology
⬜The Betrayal
⬜The Loss of the Trades Increase: An Early Modern Maritime Catastrophe
⬜City of the Plague God
⬜Shanghai Secrets
⬜The Mitford Trial
⬜Wench
⬜Her Perfect Life
⬜Dangerous Women
⬜The Stolen Kingdom
⬜Burning Girls and Other Stories
⬜Rhapsody
⬜Every Last Fear
⬜Isoldesse
⬜Spellmaker
⬜Perfect on Paper
⬜The Ladies of the Secret Circus
⬜The Theft of Sunlight
⬜Honeycomb
⬜The Dictionary of Lost Words
⬜Witches Steeped in Gold
⬜Slingshot
⬜Folklorn
⬜The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar
⬜Unwritten
⬜Spells Trouble
⬜The Cave Dwellers
⬜For the Wolf
⬜The Jasmine Throne
⬜The Tangleroot Palace
⬜The Lucky Escape
⬜Outrageous
⬜Shoulder Season
⬜Six Crimson Cranes
⬜The Dying Day
⬜Well, This Is Exhausting
⬜The Second Season
⬜The Mismatch
⬜The Rookery
⬜Redemptor
⬜Wildwood Whispers
⬜Cazadora
⬜These Toxic Things
⬜A Bright Young Thing
⬜No Gods, No Monsters
⬜Among Thieves
⬜The Royal Correspondent
⬜The Dating Game
⬜Iron Widow
⬜Fan Fiction
⬜What Happens at Night
⬜The Grimrose Girls
⬜You've Reached Sam
⬜If This Gets Out
⬜At the End of Everything
⬜Icebreaker
⬜Edgewood
⬜The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
⬜Greenwich Park
⬜Base Notes
⬜Ophelia After All
⬜Meet Me in the Margins
⬜Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space
⬜This Might Hurt
☑️The Paradox Hotel
⬜By Any Other Name
⬜A Thousand Steps into Night
⬜The Suite Spot
⬜The Wedding Crasher
⬜Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things that Seem Impossible Today
⬜The Honeybee Emeralds
⬜Survive the Dome
⬜Reputation
⬜The Lifeguards
⬜The Candy House
⬜This May End Badly
⬜The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes
☑️The Maker of Swans
⬜Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
⬜Touchstones: A Collection
⬜Violet Made of Thorns
⬜The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
⬜The Oleander Sword
⬜Smart Girl Summer
⬜The House of Fortune
⬜Belladonna
⬜A Taste of Gold and Iron
⬜The Parlour Game
⬜Monsters Born and Made
⬜Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story
⬜The Gingerbread Witch
⬜Signal to Noise
⬜The Enigma of Room 622
⬜Sailor's Delight
⬜Spells for Forgetting
⬜A Gentlewoman's Guide to Murder
⬜The Empress of Time
⬜Nights of Plague
⬜Mistakes Were Made
⬜Shadow Sister
⬜The Night Ship
⬜Kiss Me, Catalina
⬜Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win
⬜Cruel Illusions
⬜Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
⬜Five Survive
⬜A Wilderness of Stars
⬜Alone With You in the Ether
⬜Never Ever Getting Back Together
⬜Twice in a Lifetime



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2023
11/133

☑️The Villa
⬜Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
☑️Nourishing Vegan Every Day: Simple, Plant-Based Recipes Filled with Color and Flavor
☑️The Summer Party
⬜Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
☑️The Things We Do to Our Friends
⬜Lunar Love
☑️Friday I'm in Love
⬜We Are All So Good at Smiling
⬜Repatriate
⬜The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays
⬜The Reunion
⬜Unnatural Ends
⬜Jumping Jenny
⬜Pandora
⬜Glitterland
⬜The Twyford Code
⬜Begin Again
☑️A Thousand Miles to Graceland
⬜Spice Road
☑️Against the Currant: A Spice Isle Bakery Mystery
☑️Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
☑️Behind the Scenes
⬜The Drift
☑️Not the Plan
⬜Such Pretty Flowers
⬜Wildblood
⬜Just My Type
⬜Seven Faceless Saints
⬜The Twisted Dead
⬜Of Manners and Murder: A Dear Miss Hermione Mystery
⬜Always the Almost
⬜Take the Lead
☑️Bookworm
⬜Threadneedle
⬜Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues
⬜Nocturne
⬜Where Darkness Blooms
⬜The Writing Retreat
⬜Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
⬜For Her Consideration
⬜Your Driver Is Waiting
⬜The Crane Husband
⬜Ana Takes Manhattan
⬜Immortality: A Love Story
⬜The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
⬜Delicious Monsters
⬜The Magician’s Daughter
⬜Missing Clarissa
⬜The Mimicking of Known Successes
⬜The Foxglove King
⬜Birnam Wood
⬜Off the Map
⬜The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway
⬜A Likely Story
⬜Lone Women
⬜The Only Game in Town
⬜Lucha of the Night Forest
⬜A House With Good Bones
⬜You Wouldn't Dare
⬜Into the Light
⬜Hotel of Secrets
⬜Divine Rivals
⬜One for My Enemy
⬜Queen Bee
⬜Not Here To Stay Friends
⬜Throwback
⬜Romantic Comedy
⬜The Haunting of Alejandra
⬜Sizzle Reel
⬜Games for Dead Girls
⬜The Double Life of Benson Yu
⬜The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
⬜The Fiancée Farce
⬜Vacation Wars
⬜Role Playing
⬜To Shape a Dragon's Breath
⬜A Crown of Ivy and Glass
⬜Only This Beautiful Moment
⬜Famous for a Living
⬜Emma of 83rd Street
⬜The Chateau
⬜That Self-Same Metal
⬜Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
⬜A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality
⬜The Grimoire of Grave Fates
⬜A Quitter's Paradise
⬜Where Echoes Die
⬜Scent of a Garden
⬜Can't Let Her Go
⬜A Most Agreeable Murder
⬜The Centre
⬜A Guide to the Dark
⬜Thornhedge
⬜The Only Survivors
⬜Venom & Vow
⬜The Saint of Bright Doors
⬜What Never Happened
⬜Wild Things
⬜Above Ground
⬜Spell Bound
⬜The Block Party
⬜The Comeback
⬜Silver Nitrate
⬜The Spare Room
⬜Clytemnestra
⬜Mortal Follies
⬜The Glow
⬜Starlings
⬜I'm Not Supposed to Be in the Dark
⬜Not Your Valentine
⬜Fake Dates and Mooncakes
⬜Secretly Yours
⬜And Put Away Childish Things
⬜The Last Drop of Hemlock
⬜The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
⬜The Book Proposal
⬜The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill
⬜Masters of Death
⬜Those We Drown
⬜The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
⬜Thief Liar Lady
⬜Something Spectacular
⬜Sun Damage
⬜The First Bright Thing
⬜The Boyfriend Candidate
⬜Pas de Don't
⬜Warrior Girl Unearthed
⬜Will They or Won't They
⬜Wings Once Cursed and Bound
⬜Twelve Hours in Manhattan
⬜Once More with Feeling
⬜Murder at Midnight