Nancy J's 2023 ATY Plan ✳️ Rounds one ❄️Round 2 done

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Nancy J's 2023 Around The Year Reading Plan 🌎🗺️

THE 2023 LIST - - ROUND ONE is COMPLETE

✅ 1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
1️⃣All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami - Tokyo

✅2. A book by an author you read in 2022
1️⃣Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

✅3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list
1️⃣The Flame by Leonard Cohen - Authors honored by the queen. Poetry.
2️⃣The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell- literary fiction
✔️Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe - environment

✅4. A book with an interracial relationship (xrace =cross racial relationship)
1️⃣The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns

✅5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
1️⃣With the Fire on High

✅6. A book where books are important
1️⃣The Reading List by Sarah Nisha Adams

✅7. A book with one of the five "W" question words in the title
1️⃣Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman

✅8. An author's debut book
1️⃣Before I Go to Sleep

✅9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
1️⃣Abigail by Magda Szabo - Warwick Women in Translation

✅10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
1️⃣Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

✅11. A book about a person/character with a disability
1️⃣To Live by Yu Hua, Deaf character

✅12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
1️⃣Watership Down by Richard Adams

✅13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
1️⃣Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

✅14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
1️⃣Nothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer

✅15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1:
1️⃣The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart - 5th century

✅16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2:
1️⃣Adam Bede by George Eliot - 1799- 18th century

✅17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3:
1️⃣The Whale at the End of the World by John Ironmomger- 21st century
Others (new goal = 9 centuries)
Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke, set 1483 - 15th century
The Hound of the Baskervilles set 1889 - 19th Century

✅18. A book related to science
1️⃣Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Guilia Enders- European author, science
-Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O’Brien

✅19. A book related to the arts
1️⃣Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

✅20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
1️⃣The Road by Cormac McCarthy

✅21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
1️⃣Home Fire by Kamala Shamsie

✅22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
1️⃣The Rose Code by Kate Quinn


✅23. A book with a body of water in the title
1️⃣The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson

✅24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
1️⃣Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

✅25. A book with a tropical setting
1️⃣Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah Nobel Prize winner. Equatorial Africa - Tropics

✅26. A book related to pride
1️⃣Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

✅27. A book by an author from continental Europe
1️⃣Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny

✅28. A book that is dark
1️⃣Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

✅29. A book that is light
1️⃣A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
✔️Marigold and Rose: A Fiction by Louise Gluck - Short

✅30. A book related to a chess piece
1️⃣Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke

✅31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on ...
1️⃣Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde

✅32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
1️⃣Touch by Olaf Olafsson
Too Loud a Solitude - Prague (planned)

✅33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
1️⃣ Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

✅34. A novella
1️⃣On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

✅35. A book with a school subject in the title
1️⃣Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

✅36. A book that has been translated from another language
1️⃣Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

✅37. A book with the theme of returning home
1️⃣A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierly


✅38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
1️⃣Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro


✅39. A western
1️⃣Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner

✅40. A book with a full name in the title
1️⃣The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

✅41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
1️⃣ Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan (local)

✅42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
1️⃣The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick

✅43. A book that involves a murder
1️⃣A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

✅44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal.
1️⃣Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor


✅45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
1️⃣The Water Keeper by Charles Martin

✅46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe.
1️⃣Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home by Jessica Fechtor

✅47. A book related to a geometric shape -
1️⃣Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home - National Book Critic’s Circle Award

✅48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story.
1️⃣The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

✅49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 -
1️⃣Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

✅50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt - Science (also reject list - environment, water title)
1️⃣Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

✅51. A book published in 2023 -
1️⃣Maureen by Rachel Joyce

✅52. A book with an unusual or surprising title -
1️⃣The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery

[NancyJ]

Nancy J's 2023 Around The Year Reading Plan 🌎🗺️
THE 2023 LIST - ROUND 2 -

✅1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
2️⃣✔️A Million Things by Emily Spurr, Australia
✅2. A book by an author you read in 2022
2️⃣✔️Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
✅3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list
2️⃣✔️The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell- literary fiction
✅4. A book with an interracial relationship (xrace =cross racial relationship)
2️⃣✔️Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✅5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
2️⃣✔️The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
✅6. A book where books are important
2️⃣✔️Trust by Hernan Diaz
✅7. A book with one of the five "W" question words in the title
2️⃣✔️I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
✅8. An author's debut book
2️⃣✔️Love Medicine
✔️Calling for a Blanket Dance (western)
✅9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
2️⃣✔️Wide Sargasso Sea
WH Smith Literary Award (1967), W.H. Heinemann Award (1966)
✅10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
1️⃣✔️ Anne of Green Gables
2️⃣✔️Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
✔️Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
✅11. A book about a person/character with a disability
2️⃣✔️ The Housekeeper and the Professor
✅12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
2️⃣✔️Everything Here Is Beautiful
✅13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
2️⃣Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card
✔️Even As We Breathe
✔️Tom Lake
The Marriage Portrait
✅14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
2️⃣Warrior Girl Unearthed
✔️Hench
✔️Six of Crows
✅✅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:
New Goal = 9 centuries
1️⃣5th The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart - 5th century
1️⃣18th Adam Bede by George Eliot - 1799- 18th century
1️⃣21st The Whale at the End of the World by John Ironmomger- 21st century
2️⃣13 th - The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
2️⃣14th century -World Without End
✔️15th century - Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke, 1483, 15th century
✔️15th, 18th, Briefly, A Delicious Life
2️⃣✔️16th century - The Marriage Portrait 1550
3️⃣✔️17th The Girl in Hyacinth Blue
✔️Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke, set 1483 - 15th century
✔️The Hound of the Baskervilles set 1889 - 19th Century
✔️Abigail by Magda Szabo - mid 20th century
2️⃣✔️World Without End by Ken Follett 14th century
3️⃣after 2100 - In the Lives of Puppets

✅18. A book related to science
2️⃣✔️An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
✔️Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
✅19. A book related to the arts🏵️
2️⃣✔️All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
✔️The Violin Conspiracy
✔️Briefly, A Delicious Life
✔️Tom Lake
✅20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
2️⃣Housekeeping

✅21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
2️⃣✔️How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
✅22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
✔️Solito

✅23. A book with a body of water in the title
2️⃣✔️The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu
✅24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
2️⃣✔️Winter of the World by Ken Follett
✅25. A book with a tropical setting
2️⃣✔️The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
✅26. A book related to pride
2️⃣✔️You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
✅27. A book by an author from continental Europe
2️⃣✔️Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius
✅28. A book that is dark
✔️Babel
2️⃣✔️A Tale of Two Cities
✅29. A book that is light
2️⃣✔️The Princess Bride
✅30. A book related to a chess piece
2️⃣✔️ Horse
✅31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on ...
2️⃣✔️The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
✅32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
2️⃣✔️Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Dublin
✔️Veronika Decides to Die, Ljubljana, Slovenia
✅33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
2️⃣✔️The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
✔️Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
✔️A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
✅34. A novella
2️⃣✔️Too Loud a Solitude
✅35. A book with a school subject in the title
2️⃣✔️Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
2️⃣✔️Humankind: A Hopeful History
✅36. A book that has been translated from another language
✔️ The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
✔️2️⃣The Memory Police
✅37. A book with the theme of returning home
2️⃣✔️Honor by Thrity Umrigar
✅38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
2️⃣✔️Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Exit Strategy
✅39. A western
2️⃣✔️Calling for a Blanket Dance byOscar Hokeah
2️⃣✔️O Pioneers!
✅40. A book with a full name in the title
2️⃣Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
✅41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
2️⃣✔️Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
✔️Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
✅42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
2️⃣✔️Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Briefly, A Delicious Life
✅43. A book that involves a murder
2️⃣✔️The Thursday Murder Club
✅44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal.
2️⃣✔️Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González

✅45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
2️⃣✔️The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
✅46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe.
2️⃣✔️Fruit of the Drunken Tree
✅47. A book related to a geometric shape -
2️⃣✔️A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2013
✅48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story.
2️⃣✔️Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
✅49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 -
2️⃣Hello Beautiful
Fourth Wing
Tom Lake
✅50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt -
#31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on ...
3️⃣This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
4️⃣Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
✅51. A book published in 2023 -
✔️Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
2️⃣✔️The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
✅52. A book with an unusual or surprising title -
2️⃣✔️The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K leGuin

[NancyJ]

Books that need a spot

[NancyJ]

THE 2023 LIST - POSSIBILITIES

1-10
1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
1️⃣All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami - Tokyo
✔️Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet - Arizona
✔️Afterlives- Tanzania, Africa, colonialism, return home, Nobel prize
✔️Light Changes Everything Arizona
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2️⃣✔️A Million Things by Emily Spurr - Australia
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✔️Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak - Turkey 🎧
✔️The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak -Turkey

2. A book by an author you read in 2022
1️⃣Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
✔️With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (#5)
✔️The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
✔️Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
✔️A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
✔️Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
✔️The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
✔️Shanghai GirlsA Tale of Two Cities
✔️The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
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✔️Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown
✔️A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
✔️The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
✔️Fall of Giants
✔️World Without End
✔️Winter of the WorldKen Follett
✔️ Demon Copperhead byBarbara Kingsolver
✔️Foster
✔️Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
✔️The Word for World Is Forest
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 🎧
✔️Three Daughters of Eve,✔️ The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
✔️Now Is Not the Time to Panic, The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson

3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list
✔️Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future - genetics, environment, future
✔️Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe - environment
✔️Afterlives, Nobel prize winner
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars - transgender, sci-fi female author
✔️Parable of the Sower -sci fi female author
1️⃣The Flame by Leonard Cohen, Authors honored by the queen.
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Some assembly Required - Genetics
✔️Annihilation environmental
✔️All My Puny Sorrows Tookie 🎧
Middlesex

4. A book with an interracial relationship (xrace =cross racial relationship)
1️⃣The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns
✔️Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde
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2️⃣✔️Horse by Geraldine Brooks
✔️Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✔️Honor
✔️⭐️The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by Gabrielle Zevin 🎧

5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
1️⃣With the Fire on High #5
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 🎧
✔️Home Fire
✔️A World of Curiosities

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✔️Remarkably Bright Creatures
2️⃣
✔️The Bandit Queens
✔️Olga Dies Dreaming
✔️American Street

6. A book where books are important
✔️1️⃣The Reading List
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✔️Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
✔️Trust

The Name of the Rose
The Uncommon Reader


7. A book with one of the five "W" question words in the title
1️⃣✔️Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman
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Where the Lost Wander 🎧
✔️I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

✅8. An author's debut book
1️⃣✔️Before I Go to Sleep

✔️Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan HydeBefore I Go to Sleep
✔️Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
✔️Behold the Dreamers
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✔️Love Medicine
✔️Fruit of the Drunken Tree
✔️Housekeeping
✔️A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
The Sweetness of Water

✅9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
Women's Prize, World Fantasy Award or other
1️⃣✔️Abigail - Warwick Women in Translation
✔️Home Fire Women's Prize
✔️The Garden of Evening Mists
✔️Afterlives - W
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✔️Half of a Yellow Sun
✔️Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde
✔️All My Puny Sorrows
✔️Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
✔️Wide Sargasso Sea

✅10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
1️⃣Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - ginger
✔️Carrie Soto Is Back -sporty

[NancyJ]

THE 2023 LIST - POSSIBILITIES
11-20

11. A book about a person/character with a disability
1️⃣✔️To Live, deaf character
✔️#31Have you Seen Luis Velez - blind character
✔️#38Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro - family drama, food, Alzheimer’s, addiction
✔️#46Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home. Aneurism
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✔️A List of Cages
✔️The Housekeeper and the Professor
✔️Everything Here Is Beautiful
Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
*Just by Looking at Him- tv writer with cerebral palsy
*The Unseen World - on my tbr a long time
The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back
I’m looking for good books about TBIs and other brain injuries.
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness. Autoimmune
*Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Mockingbird - StS

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✅12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
✔️Watership Down
✔️Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet (birds)
✔️The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Subdue, full name,
✔️Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin-
✔️Other Birds
✔️I know why the caged bird sings
✔️The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe
✔️An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Murmur of Bees
Mockingbird - disability

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13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
✔️Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

House in the Sky
✔️Other Birds
Plague of Doves
One Two Three
A House in the Sky
✔️All my puny sorrows,
Ardent Swarm,
✔️Tom Lake
✔️The Marriage Portrait

14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
✔️Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
✔️Nothing Ventured
Provenance
Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Passing
✔️Violin Conspiracy
✔️Hench
✔️The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
✅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
1️⃣The Crystal Cave- 5th century
1️⃣Adam Bede by George Eliot - circa 1799 - 18th, 19th centuries
1️⃣The Whale at the End of the World - 21st century
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✔️The Book of Longings around 18 CE (AD) - first century.
✔️Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke, set 1483, 15th century
✔️The Hound of the Baskervilles set 1889, 19th century
✔️To Live by Yu Hua - 20th century China
✔️Briefly, A Delicious Life -15th, 18th, 1400s, 1700s
2️⃣Marriage Portrait - Renaissance set 1550s. 16th

✔️A Tale of Two Cities - 1789

BCE- The Red Tent 1800-1500 BCE (BC)
First century - The Dovekeepers 70 CE (AD) first century,
✔️The Book of Longings around 18 CE (AD)
1️⃣✅5th century - The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
✔️The Hollow Hills 5th century
7th century - Absolution by Murder (Sister Fidelma, female protag) 664 CE
7th or 8th? Beowulf
11th century - The Pillow Book
12th - A Morbid Taste for Bones
12th - The Good Knight
2️⃣✔️13 th - The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
2️⃣✔️14th century -World Without End
The Name of the Rose 1327 CE
✔️15th century - Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke, 1483, 15th century
✔️Briefly, A Delicious Life 15th, 18th
2️⃣✔️16th century - The Marriage Portrait 1550
✔️17th The Girl in Hyacinth Blue
17th (partial) The Last Painting of Sara de Vos 1637, and 1957
18th - Madame Tussaud - French Revolution 1780sA T
✔️18th - A Tale of Two Cities 1700s
✔️The Midwife's Revolt
19th -1800s -
✔️Anne of Green GablesThe Alice Network
✔️Hound of the Baskervilles
✔️Throne of Jade
✔️Wide Sargasso Sea
✔️O Pioneers!
✔️Captains Courageous
20th -early 1900s -
✔️My Ántonia 18th- 19th
✔️The Master Butchers Singing Club
✔️Trust
✔️West with Giraffes
✔️The Rose Code

✅21st -2000s - , ✔️Light from Uncommon Stars
22nd -2100s or later - ✔️aIn the Lives of Puppets

✅18. A book related to science
✔️Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Guilia Enders- European author, science, food, Subdue
✔️Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O’Brien - nonfiction, environmental, activism
✔️#2 Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert - Subdue, environmental, Elizabeth #2
✔️Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Environmental science, psychology, genetics
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Underland a Deep Time Journey
Maybe you should talk to someone
Parable of the Sower -StS?
Psychology/Neuroscience
The Brain the changes itself
A Million things to ask a neuroscience -StS
see added books

18 or 19 Neuroscience and Music - won giveaway

✅19. A book related to the arts
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
✔️The Hand That First Held Mine
✔️Nothing Ventured
✔️The Violin Conspiracy
✔️Briefly, A Delicious Life

✔️Tom Lake
✔️The Marriage Portrait
My name is red
The secret piano
The invention of morel
Vincent and Theo
Claude and Camille
Still Life
The judgment of Paris
.. Rilke and Rodin
✔️All my puny sorrows
Tomorrow x3
Gods of tango
✔️Horse
The Colony
Richard Powers book?

🛤️
20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
1️⃣✔️The Road
2️⃣✔️The Guise of Another - pathway

✔️Housekeeping

#31✔️Have you seen Luis Velez?
#37✔️A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierly

[NancyJ]

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena- circle award

THE 2023 LIST - POSSIBILITIES
ATY 21 -30

✅21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
✔️Home Fire by Kamala Shamsie
✔️How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
✔️The Garden of Evening Mists🎧
[✔️[book:Honor|56271394] by Thrity Umrigar
✔️Front Desk by KellyYang


22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
✔️To Live
1️⃣✔️Rose Code

✔️Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
✔️People of the Whale
✔️Solito by Javier Zamora
✔️Murder by Other Means
✔️Foster
✅23. A book with a body of water in the title
✔️Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by O'Brien
1️⃣✔️The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
2️⃣✔️The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
✔️Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
✔️Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sara Pinsker
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdock
Sea of Poppies - Tooki
Swimmer in the Secret Sea - Tookie

✅24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
✔️Fall of Giants
✔️ Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah, the latest Nobel Prize Winner
✔️To Live by Yu Hua
✔️The Rose Code
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✔️Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brownl
✔️City of Thieves by David Benioff
✔️The Alice Network
✔️Winter of the World
✔️The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

25. A book with a tropical setting
✔️Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, India, Bali
1️⃣✔️Afterlives
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2️⃣✔️The Garden of Evening Mists (Malaysia)
✔️Wide Sargasso Sea (Caribbean) fits multiple
✔️Half of a Yellow Sun (Nigeria Africa) fits multiple prompts
✔️Breath, Eyes, Memory (Haiti
✔️The Ghost Bride
✔️The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The Ten Thousand Things (Indonesia, SE Asia)
The Windup Girl (Thailand, SE Asia)
Amazon

✅26. A book related to pride
1️⃣✔️Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin- BL, chess priest, rabbit, lgbt, cover repeated items, fake
2️⃣✔️You Should See Me in a Crown
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki - transgender, queer
✔️Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke (Pride is a key topic)

✅27. A book by an author from continental Europe
1️⃣ ✔️Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny
2️⃣✔️Stolen byAnn-Helén Laestadius
✔️Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ Giulia Enders
✔️The Forty Rules of Love
✔️Three Daughters of EveElif Shafak
✔️Magda Szabó - ✔️The Door, ✔️Abigail

28. A book that is dark
1️⃣✔️Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
✔️Hench
✔️Babel
✔️The Left Hand of Darkness
✔️Half of a Yellow Sun
✔️A Court of Thorns and Roses

29. A book that is light
1️⃣✔️A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
✔️Light Changes Everything
Edward Tulane
✔️Marigold and Rose: A Fiction by Louise Gluck
✔️The Princess Bride
✔️Happy-Go-Lucky

✅30. A book related to a chess piece
1️⃣✔️Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke
Chess Story
The Uncommon Reader
✔️Horse

[NancyJ]

THE 2023 LIST - POSSIBILITIES
ATY 31-39

31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com
✔️Catherine Ryan Hyde
✔️Sue Monk Kidd - The Book of longings
✔️This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Elizabeth Berg - The story of Arthur Truluv
Liz Moore, ✔️Geraldine Brooks, Horse
✔️Anthony Marra- The Tsar of Love and Techno,
✔️A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
⭐️, ✔️Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett, Margaret Renkl

32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
Miss Iceland - Reykjavik
1️⃣✔️Touch by Olaf Olaffson - Reykjavik
2️⃣✔️Conversations with Friends
Angels of the Universe- Rey
Woman at 1,000 Degrees Rey
✔️Too Loud a Solitude - Prague
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Edinburgh
The Commitments or The Snapper -Dublin
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Home Pulang Jukarta
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Prague
✔️Veronika Decides to Die- Ljubljana
After You'd Gone- Edinburgh
The Home for Unwanted Girls - Quebec
On the Beach - Melbourne
Stars Across the Ocean - Melbourne
An Unnecessary Woman Beirut
Sense and Sensibility - Exeter

✅33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
✔️Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert - Subdue, environmental, Elizabeth
✔️Eat, Pray, Love. By Elizabeth Gilbert
The Story of Arthur Truluv
✔️ The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
✔️A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
✔️Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
✔️The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart

34. A novella - See Tookie's List short perfect books
1️⃣✔️
2️⃣✔️The Housekeeper and the Professor
✔️The Word for World Is Forest
✔️Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (Also fits body of water, tropics, and authors honored by the queen, and 2022 - set on the water)
✔️*Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabel
✔️The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Uncommon Reader about Queen Elizabeth
*Night by Elie Wiesel
*My Brilliant Life by Kim Ae-ran🎧
✔️**Annihilation
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
*The Lover

Short Perfect Novels from Tookie's List in The Sentence:
[Already read: Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson, Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, Sula, by Toni Morrison.]
✔️Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys - to read in 2022 or 2023
✔️Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabel - to read in 2023
The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad
The All of It, by Jeannette Haine
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
Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee
Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai

✅35. A book with a school subject in the title
1️⃣✔️Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
✔️Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang (Books)
2️⃣✔️Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
✔️Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy (NPR)
✔️Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
The Music Shop
Beach Music
Exile Music
History of the Rain4

36. A book that has been translated from another language
✔️Abigail by Magda Szabo
✔️To Live by Yu Hua
✔️Sweet Bean Paste
✔️The Travelling Cat Chronicles byHiro Arikawa
✔️.The Memory Police,
✔️The Professor and the Housekeeper
✔️The door
✔️ Veronika Decides to Die
✔️stolen
✔️The reader

The Gods of Tango South America 🎧
Small Country
The Name of the Rose
The Easy Life in Kamusari

37. A book with the theme of returning home
✔️A Long Way Home

✔️Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
✔️The Garden of Evening Mists 🎧
✔️Honor byThrity Umrigar
✔️Breath, Eyes, Memory byEdwidge Danticat
Life and Other Inconveniences
Sweet Promised Land
His Road Home
We Are the Brennans
✔️Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
The Family Fang,
Maine
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest by Aminatta Forna - author, return home, Africa

✅38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
✔️Signal Fires, by Dani Shapiro
✔️ A List of Cages
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
✔️Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
✔️Five Little Indians by Michelle Good




Children of Time
✔️A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
✔️Half of a Yellow Sun
✔️A List of Cages
The Calculating Stars
Seasons of the Moon
Plus
Book of longings

Possible rereads - one story at a time
Stories of Your Life and Others
Exhalation

39. A western
1️⃣✔️Light Changes Everything
2️⃣✔️Calling for a Blanket Dance
Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon 🎧
Days Without End 15 candles PBTmod
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
The Color of Lightning Hoopla
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
✔️Oh Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Or a Nancy Turner or Louise Erdrich book
Brokeback Mountain -short story by Annie Proulx
The Adventures of China Iron - Argentina Western - with Gauchos (cowboys) on the pampas (plains)
Angle of Repose
The Orchardist
Outlawed
The Ox-bow incident - great film
In the Distance - Herman Diaz - on my Authors-to-read list* (mixed reviews)
Wounded - Percival Everett - on my Authors-to-read list*
Willa Literary Award winner: (Named for Willa Cather)
The Glovemaker
The Flicker of Old Dreams

[NancyJ]

ATY 40 - 52
✅40. A book with a full name in the title
✔️1️⃣The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane -
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✔️2️⃣Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons

41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
✔️Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan - Order
✔️Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
✔️Lessons in Chemistry
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✔️Trust by Hernan Diaz
✔️An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
✔️Maybe You Should Talk to Someone 🎧

✔️Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami
✔️Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
✔️Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
#44✔️Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
✔️Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown

42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
✔️The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
✔️The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - ghosts, large animal. Murder
✔️Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
✔️Other Birds
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✔️ The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo.
✔️Elatsoe
✔️How High We Go in the Dark
✔️Moon of the Crusted Snow
✔️Briefly, A Delicious Life
The Haunting of Maddy Clare
Himself or other Jess Kidd book
The House of the Spirits
The Dead Romantics - ghostwriter
Also see ghost books on Tookie's List: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

✅43. A book that involves a murder
✔️The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
✔️Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
✔️A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
✔️Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
✔️The Guise of Another
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2️⃣✔️The Thursday Murder Club
A Morbid Taste for Bones
The Name of the Rose
Razorblade Tears xracial relationship

✅44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal.
1️⃣✔️Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
✔️The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness
Betty
2️⃣✔️Olga Dies Dreaming
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Thank You for Listening



✅45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
✔️Ursula K le Guin,✔️ Louise Erdrich, ✔️Octavia Butler,
Alice Hoffman, Barbara Kingsolver
✔️The Hand That First Held Mine Maggie O'Farrell
✔️The Water Keeper by Charles Martin
✔️Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
✔️The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
✔️The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
✔️Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
✔️Parable of the Sower
✔️Adam Bede by George Eliot
✔️On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
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The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
✔️Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
✔️Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
✔️The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich


✅46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe.
✔️Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
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A Stir of Echoes
Mad Honey
Salt, sugar
✔️Fruit of the Drunken Tree

47. A book related to a geometric shape - concept or award - wait
✔️Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home - National Book Critics Circle Award
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✔️Constellations - circle award
Smaller and Smaller Circles
The Diamond Eye
National Book critic’s circle award: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Middlesex, , Everything inside. Know my name.

✅48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story.
Children of Time
✔️2️⃣Remarkably Bright Creatures
✔️1️⃣ The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 -
✔️The Rose Code, ✔️Other Birds, ✔️Lessons in Chemistry, ✔️parable of the sower, ✔️the reading list, Shrines, ✔️Babel, notes, six, mad honey, ✔️how high we go in the dark

50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt -

51. A book published in 2023
✔️Maureen by Rachel Joyce
✔️The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
✔️Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
✔️Fourth Wing
✔️Iron Flame

52. A book with an unusual or surprising title.
✔️Just One Damned Thing After Another, ✔️The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness
Memorable titles - ✔️I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
✔️The Word for World Is Forest

[NancyJ]

2023 Goals:

Choose well, stay within 120-150
ATY 52 week challenge
ATY Side Challenges, 6 packs
PBT monthly and annual challenges TBD
World - 6 continents + 6 cities
Target lists - 12 lists, read at least one from each list

Potential 2023 themes:
Tropical cultures, regional flavor, art/music/dance, *fish-out-of-water stories, *indigenous peoples, vibrant cities around the world

Potential 6 pack targets:
✅*Tookie's list (literary novellas and/or indigenous),
Tropical regions (South America, Africa, India, SE Asia, Caribbean, + SFF),
✅✅*Cultural (fish out of water, *immigration, *indigenous, etc.)
Artistic culture
SFF

[2022 themes: Environment/trees, revolutions (Chinese, Russian, French), Chinese history, historical fiction early 1900's, small towns, environment/trees, aging, and psychology, WPF authors, 7 continents. Still missing: water settings, neuroscience, 1920s-1930s, Science-Fiction, Louise Erdrich. ]

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Reminders:

Reading Challenge Listopias:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Fish out of water
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Tookie's List from The Sentence
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

BIO or KIS List: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Suggestions That Didn't Make It In:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Fish out of water
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Tookie's List from The Sentence
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Immigrant experience
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

Literary fiction 21st century
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

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AWARDS

Disability Awards - Pen award, Barbara Kingsolver
Nobel Prize in Literature - AfterlivesAbdulrazak Gurnah
Pulitzer Prize (literature, non-fiction, other)
Women's Prize in Literature
Women in Translation
International Awards (Dublin Prize, Booker, other)

[NancyJ]

The Washington Post’s Best Books of 2022:

✅Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
✅Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Mecca by Susan Straight
✅Trust by Hernan Diaz
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
G-Man: J Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki
Stay True by Hua Hsu
Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind by Robert Draper - Maybe

[NancyJ]

PBT 15 candles

[NancyJ]

Nancy J's 2023 Priority List

SEPT 2023 Update - Books remaining from priority list
*Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak -ATY Setting Turkey, European author, read last year
*The Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis - Argentina, South America, arts, author read last year
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman - 1st century, 15 candles, BBBbird, author read last year, 7+ books
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest by Aminatta Forna - author, return home, Africa, author read last year.
*Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - dec. Arts, author, Tob, bookclub
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - W awards, tropics, x race
*The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - India, 15candles, tropics,x race
*The Gift of Rain 15 candles, tropics, Asian

OTHERS
*Maybe you should talk to someone NPR
*Betty
*One good turn -
*My brilliant life
*Lock in
*Children of time - sf, large animal, stars on cover
*Peace like a river
*Life and other inconveniences
*Where the lost wander W?, Western
Red tent - BC centuries, his fic, 15 candles
Mercury Pictures - Tob, arts, rejected list
Uncommon reader - books, queen, novella
Midnight’s children, tropic, chess, queen, banned
Constellation of vital phenomenon - covers stars, 15 candles
Later in year
Miss Iceland books, Unesco
Story of Arthur Truluv - Author map, Elizabeth, full name

[NancyJ]

Suggestions That Didn't Make It

Pre-Poll
A winner or nominee from the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards
A book you wanted to read in 2022
A book connected to something you read in 2022

POLL 1
A book by an author no more than two degrees of separation away from you
A book of poetry or free verse
✔️The Flame by Leonard Cohen
✔️Marigold and Rose: A Fiction by Louise Gluck
A work of biographical fiction
✅A book that can be found on Project Gutenberg
✔️Adam Bede by George Eliot
🌏A book connected to Ireland
A book involving genetics, genealogy, traits, heredity, or heritage
✅Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
A book related to the characters in The Wizard of Oz
✔️A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
A book that involves art, music, dancing or acting
A book with an animal on the cover - An Immense World.

POLL 2
🎯✅A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman
✔️Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
✔️ Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

A book with a color in the title or author’s name
A nonfiction nature book
✅A book with a two or three word title
✔️Signal Fires
✅A book with a cat in the story, title or cover
✔️The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
A book that’s mentioned in the Rory Gilmore Book Challenge
A book with an alliterative title
A book involving an "ism"
A book whose the author goes by three names
A book with a title beginning with W.

A book related to dreams or dreaming

POLL 3
A book with a character who has a career or hobby that interests you
🎯✅A book by a Nobel Prize winner for literature
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
✅A book related to a common phrase, saying, or idiom
✔️Just One Damned Thing After Another
A book to which you didn't have instant access
A book related to Hollywood - Mercury Pictures Presents. The Chaperone
A book with a two word title, one of which is "The"
🎯A book involving power or politics
A book with at least 500,000 ratings on Goodreads
✅A book with a female or nonbinary main character who is an explorer/traveller - ✔️Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
✅A book with a child protagonist - A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley, Marigold and Rose: A Fiction
✅A book that is inspired by or pays homage to another story
✔️Home Fire

POLL 4 - MULTI-WEEK
2 Weeks: Two books from two different genres, that are connected in some way
4 Weeks: Four books, with each one related to one of the seasons
2 Weeks: A book set in the city, and a book set in the country
3 Weeks: Three books about Hope, Faith, and Love/Charity
2 Weeks: Two books with words that are opposites in the titles
3 Weeks: A book written in first person POV, second person POV, and third person POV
3 Weeks: Three books related to Eros, Filios, Agape
2 Weeks: Two books related to lost and found

POLL 5
CLOSE CALL
🌏✅A book set in India or Pakistan
✅A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierly
✅The Bandit Queens
A book related to one of the 12 Western astrological signs
A book involving hope or hopepunk -
A book that is eye-opening or thought provoking - See NPR LIST
A book that includes a ritual or ceremony
A book with one of the four seasons in the title
A book with a character who is an orphan
A book with a pronoun in the title
A book with orange on the cover
A book with a main character who is an athlete - ✅Indian Horse, ✅Carrie Soto

POLL 6
A book related to a recipient of Time Magazine's Person of the Year award
A book related to the Harlem Renaissance
A Christmas book
A book involving wolves or werewolves
NO DESIGNATION
A book with a character that travels as a part of their job
.A book from the first 5 books added to your TBR
A book about a farm, a farmer, or a farming family
A book about crossing over to another world
A book that involves a moral dilemma or question
A book written by an author that is a different race and gender than you are
A book with a purple cover
A book set in an apartment building or house

POLL 7
A book that has won a Bookbrowse award
A book with a female or nonbinary main character who is an explorer/traveller -✅ Light from Uncommon Stars, ✅Eat, Pray, Love
A book featuring a character with paranormal or supernatural abilities
A book from the point of view of a person with a physical, sensory, learning, mental, or medical disability
A work of fiction based on a real person or real event
A book with fruit or vegetables on the cover or in the title
✅A nominee or winner of an Australian book award
A "wild" book
A book written by two or more authors
A children's classic - ✅Anne of Green Gables
A book with a cover you consider to be beautiful

POLL 8
CLOSE CALL
🎯A book involving aspects of language, linguistics, or the spoken word -✅ Babel: An Arcane History
BOTTOM
🎯A book where faith is a major theme
✅Eat, Pray, Love
✅Parable of the Sower
A book related to "soul"- ✅ The Soul of an Octopus
NO DESIGNATION
A book celebrating the entertainment industry
A book in which someone is captured, taken hostage, trapped or imprisoned
A book with a character who time travels
A book from the “100 Years of Popular Books on Goodreads” list
🌏A book set in more than one country
A book with a person who travels
A book where an architectural element is central

POLL 9
🌏A book set in the Indian subcontinent
A book related to something lucky
A family saga
A book in which a main character or main subject is a member of a royal family or the nobility
✅A book related to loneliness or isolation
✔️All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
✔️The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A book that answers the question "What if"
A book set during the Roaring Twenties (1920's)
A book about a character with a supernatural ability
🎯A memoir - several

POLL 10
BOTTOM
🎯A book by an author who has been threatened, imprisoned or otherwise persecuted because of their work
A book related to King Tut
A book that's unlike what you usually read
NO DESIGNATION
🎯A book featuring a character who is engaged in a typically compassionate profession or career
✅An adventure book - See PBT list

A book that is the 2nd or 3rd in a series
✅A book related to "On the Road"
✔️The Road by Cormac McCarthy
✅A book by an author you feel you should have read by now
✅A well-known classic book

POLL 11
✅🎯A book off the Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books found in Louise Endrich's The Sentence
✔️Too Loud a Solitude
✔️Heart Berries
MORE

A wacky book [title]
NO DESIGNATION
A book from one of the Millions Most Anticipated lists
A winner or nominee of the Goodreads Choice Awards
A book featuring The Widow, the Wallflower, or the Woman Scorned
A book mainly set underground or underwater -Underland: A Deep Time Journey

A book connected to (100 years of) Hollywood, Disney or the land of Oz
A book with 500+ pages
A book about healing

POLL 12
BOTTOM
A book with a character based on the literary archetypes
NO DESIGNATION
✅A book involving genetics or DNA - Upgrade
A book inspired by Sherlock Holmes
A book related to game, set, match
A dark academia book
A young adult novel
A book related to comedy

POLL 13
CLOSE CALL
✅A book by a writer honored by Queen Elizabeth II -See listopia
✔️The Flame by Leonard Cohen
MORE
A book where the chapters are named
BOTTOM
✅A book including a female athlete ✔️Carri
e Soto Is Back
A book related to "The Five Love Languages"
NO DESIGNATION
A book involving journalism or journalists
A book set during the Roaring Twenties

A book that could be used for at least five of the 2023 challenge prompts - Abigail
A book that involves a nomadic lifestyle - ✅Stolen
A book about someone who has been “banished”
✅A book where one of the senses plays an important part - An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
A book set during a holiday
✅A book where a battle takes place - Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
A book using the word "wife" or "daughter" in the title

[NancyJ]

READ HARDER 2023

✅ Read a book about activism.
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith OBrien, Love Canal, Lois Gibbs
✅Listen to an audiobook performed by a person of color of a book written by an author of color.
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah, narrated by Damian Lynch
✅Read a novel about a trans character written by a trans author. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
✅Read a historical fiction book set in an Eastern country.
To Live by Yu Hua - China
Abigail by Magda Szabo - Hungary, Eastern Europe
Read an independently published book by a BIPOC author.
Read a cookbook cover to cover.
✅Read a nonfiction book about BIPOC and/or queer history.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Read an author local to you.
Read a book with under 500 Goodreads ratings.
Read a romance with bisexual representation.
✅Read a YA book by an Indigenous author.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Read a comic or graphic novel that features disability representation.
Read a nonfiction book about intersectional feminism.
✅Read a book of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author.
✅Read a book of short stories
✅Read any book from the Ignyte awards shortlist/longlist/winner list.
✅Read a social horror, mystery, or thriller novel.
Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!
Read one of your favorite author’s favorite books.
✅Read a book that’s been challenged recently in your school district/library OR read one of the most-challenged/banned books of the year by a queer and/or BIPOC author.
✔️I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Finish a book you’ve DNFed (did not finish).

[NancyJ]

Welcome to Winter
Read for the Winter Challenge December 2022, January 2023
✔️The Winners by FB -- Dec 1a, 4c
✔️Search by Michelle Huneven - MH - 2a
✔️One Hundred Years of Solitude by GGM -2a
✔️The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh - AG
✔️The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka-JO
✔️The Hangman by Louise Penny-LP
✔️A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens-CD
✔️When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich - WB
✔️Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman - BB
✔️Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro - DS
✔️A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher - TK
✔️Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting - GS
✔️Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor - JT
✔️Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet LM
✔️Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe Keith OBrien - KO
✔️The Water Keeper by Charles Martin - CM
✔️Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
✔️Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ Guilia Enders GE
✔️Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery LM
✔️Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah - AG
✔️Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert - EK
✔️The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane be Kate DiCamillo - KD
✔️Abigail by Magda Szabo - MS
✔️Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie KS
✔️Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke
✔️The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

[NancyJ]

January reading (PBT tag= food)
✔️Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It by Benjamin Birman- science, food, health, NF, W?, Subdue the Shelf
✔️Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro - family drama, food, Alzheimer’s, addiction
✔️Just One Damned Thing After Another by ,Jodi Taylor - historical fiction, time travel, cover nonhorizontal, Subdue
✔️Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting by Gin Stephens - food
✔️A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T.Kingfisher - food, fantasy
✔️Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet, birds, literary fiction, Arizona, family drama, cross- generational
✔️Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Guilia Enders- European author, science, food, Subdue
✔️Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O’Brien - nonfiction, environmental, activism
✔️The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks
✔️The Water Keeper by Charles Martin, human trafficking
✔️Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery- redhead, Canada, classic, child protagonist, Subdue
✔️Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin- BL, chess priest, rabbit, lgbt, cover repeated items, fake
✔️Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah-Nobel prize, Tanzania, Africa, colonialism, return home, historical fiction, W awards
✔️Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert - Subdue, environmental, Elizabeth
✔️Abigail by Magda Szabo - European author, translated, Subdue, historical fiction,
✔️The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Subdue, full name,
✔️Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie.
✔️Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke
✔️The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
✔️The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
✔️With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo, food
✔️To Live by Yu Hua, China
✔️Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
✔️Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home - Jessica Fechtor, cooking term
✔️Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
✔️Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny by Isak Dinesen

Read in February 2023, PBT tag = England
✔️Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger - for Random Act of Kindness Day
✔️The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart - 5th Century England
✔️The Flame by Leonard Cohen - Book of Poetry, Author honored by the Queen
✔️Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson - Fake, thriller, memory
✔️The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick - Romance, Valentine's Day
✔️ Watership Down by Richard Adams
✔️Marigold and Rose: A Fiction by Louise Gluck
✔️The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks by Mike Dow
✔️Adam Bede by George Eliot
✔️On Chesil Beachby Ian McEwan
✔️The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
✔️Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde
✔️A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
✔️Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
✔️The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
✔️Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
✔️Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
✔️Nothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer
✔️Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner
✔️The Hand That First Held Mine

✔️Other Birds

Plus more to be added later

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
The Enduring Echo of Words Unsaid by Michael Bowe - MB
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

Winter of the World
People of the Whale
A Long Way Home
Even As We Breathe
Calling for a Blanket Dance
The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns –Japan, biracial rel
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

[NancyJ]

Round 1 is complete!

[Kathy]

Wow! Congratulations, Nancy! I love all your lists of possibilities. Have fun with your second round.

[NancyJ]

Found Family 17782 – 25 pages
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Environment 28432 – 25 pages 5+
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Environmental 10000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Climate 4823 – 9 pages (including a lot of fiction too)
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Climate change 6044 – 13 pages 5+
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Climate fiction – NO. Not enough

Mental Health 64000 – 25+ pages
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Psychological 39000 – 25 pages
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Neuroscience 7800 - 22 pages – mostly NF
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
books about books 24000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Revolution 7000 7 pages
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Bildungsroman 15 pages
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Social issues, social justice, human rights
Migration
Sapphic, 25 pages, 14000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Artificial intelligence 10 pages, 5900
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
AI 11 pages, 6000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
emotional 25 pages, 40000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Iceland 6 pages, 1600
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Europe, 25 pages, 67000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Scandinavia 14 pages 5986
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Nordic 14 pages, 6622
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Ireland , 25 pages, 16000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Irish, 25 pages, 12000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Asia 25 pages, 39000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Asian, 25 pages, 22000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
South-america, 11 pages, 5971
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Feel-good, 25 pages, 24000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Speculative fiction 25 pages, 56000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
speculative 25 pages, 22000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
npr, 13 pages, 12000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
9000
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
biology
intelligence
aging - borderline
memoir

[NancyJ]

Translated books read in 2023

To Live by Yu Hua, Chinese
Abigail by Magda Szabo, Hungarian
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Japanese
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, Japanese
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, Japanese
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami, Japanese
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, Japanese
Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius
Translated books read in 2023 - August -
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

September
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
The Door by Magda Szabó
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

[NancyJ]

SUGGESTIONS that didn't make it (Continued)

POLL 14
✅ A book related to Animal Crossing
Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius

🎯A book about colonialism or imperialism
✅Babel: An Arcane History,✅ The Word for World Is Forest,✅ Demon Copperhead (She argues that the Appalachian mountains were treated like a colony, with mining, etc.)

NO DESIGNATION
✅A book written by an author/or with a character named Elizabeth, Alexandra or Mary - The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart, O Pioneers! - mc Alexandra

✅A book with a secret passage - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

✅A dystopian book -The Road, Parable of the Sower

✅A book including a justice-impacted character or person - Indian Horse, Five Little Indians

✅A book that can be found on Project Gutenberg
✔️Adam Bede by George Eliot
A Tale of Two Cities by dickens
✅A book that shifts point of view with each chapter or section ✔️Signal Fires

A book inspired by news from the 1950s

✅A book which includes addictive behaviour
Demon Copperhead
Signal Fires, Indian Horse,
Weather

POLL 15
A book not set on (our) earth

✅A book involving friends, family, or a found family -Five Little Indians

✅A book club read- Horse, The Book of Longings: A Novel, The Marriage Portrait, In the Lives of Puppets , Yellowface by R.F.Kuang

🎯A book that provides a view of the future
✅Parable of the Sower
✅How High We Go in the Dark
✅Trail of Lightning
Three Body Problem sequels, The Sparrow sequel, leGuin

A book from a genre that starts with any letter in your name
Nature, nonfiction, Nautical,
Adventure, Artificial intelligence,
Cultural, Classics, Coming-of-Age, Climate Change, Crime,

POLL 16
BOTTOM
✅A book related to a poem
Pearl by Siân Hughes
Heart Berries


NO DESIGNATION
A book with an echo
A book set in the workplace of at least one character
🎯A book that has won a diversity award in the 21st Century (2001-present)
✅A book told from the villain’s perspective - Hench
✅A romance novel [A Love Story] -Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor
✅🎯A book shelved as literary fiction - ✔️Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, ✔️Autumn by Ali Smith,✔️ Trespasses byLouise Kennedy,✔️ Housekeeping byMarilynne Robinson,✔️ Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee, ✔️Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, ✔️ Tom Lake by Ann Patchett ✔️Weather byJenny Offill, ✔️The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store byJames McBride,

✅A book from genre that inspired, or rekindled, your love of reading
✔️Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
✔️Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

✅🎯A book about "a fish out of water"
✔️Abigail
✔️Afterlives
✔️Light from Uncommon Stars
✔️Dinosaurs
✔️A Girl Called Samson

✅A book set on an island - The Garden of Evening Mists

A magical realism book

POLL 17
BOTTOM
🎯🎈A cultural book -
✅Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
✅People of the Whale by Linda Hogan
✅Love Medicine
✅The Bandit Queens
✅Honor by Thrity Unrigar
✅Shanghai Girls
✅Moon of the Crusted Snow

NO DESIGNATION
A book that could be used for at least five of the 2023 challenge prompts
A book from your favorite sub-genre [From a New-to-me subgenre]
A book related to first contact - Contact, Complete Three Body Problem trilogy

✅A book told from the villain’s perspective Hench

🎯🎈A book set during a revolution or uprising
https://bookriot.com/books-about-revo...
✅Fall of Giants
✅The Garden of Evening Mists
✅The Word for World Is Forest
A Tale of Two Cities, Midnight's Children

🎯🎈A book about the environment or nature
✅An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
✅The Word for World Is Forest
✅The Rain Heron
Annihilation
Broken Earth Trilogy. Theory of Bastards, Road out of winter, Oval, American War, Black Wave, Who fears death, The Bear, The Windup Girl, Water Knife,
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2...