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ATY - THE 2023 LIST
1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
2. A book by an author you read in 2022
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list
4. A book with an interracial relationship
5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
6. A book where books are important
7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title
8. An author's debut book
9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
personal Goals
❂ finish 250 books
❂ read all the Literally Dead Bookclub picks
❂ read all the 60 pre picked TBR Books
❂ finish Water Tribe in 4 Nations
❂ finish Earth Kingdom in 4 Nations
TBR Books
4 Nations - January
starting with Water Tribe:
Level 3
⦿ a book with ice on the cover
A deadly inside scoop - Abby Colette
⦿ a book that has assassins
The Pirates Wish - Cassandra Rose Clarke
Level 4
⦿ a guilty pleasure
Court of the Vampire Queen - Katee Robert
⦿ a mystery
⦿ a reread that made you cry
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
Level 5
⦿ a book with a disabled main character
Only when it's us - Chloe Liese
⦿ a book with a sea creature on the cover
Rolling in the deep - Mira Grant
⦿ a book where people have to escape a prison
Privilege - Kate Brian
Level 6
⦿ a book with a ship on the cover
Distress Signal - Cathryn Ryan Howard
⦿ a book that takes place near water, but on land
⦿ pick 5 books and have someone else pick for you
Level 7
⦿ a book with a trope you love
⦿ a book with a trope you usually dislike
⦿ a book set in winter
10 Blind Dates -
⦿ pick 5 books and have someone else pick for you
Level 8
⦿ First book in a duology
There are no Saints - Sophie Lark
⦿ a book recommended by a friend
⦿ a book where the MCs name starts with the same letter as your name
⦿ pick 5 books and have someone else pick for you
Level 9
⦿ second book in a duology
There is no devil - Sophie Lark
⦿ a book published before you were born
The Body in the Library - Agatha Christie
⦿ a book where music is an important part of the story
Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
⦿ pick 5 books and have someone else pick for you
Level 10
⦿ a book with the moon on the cover
Life as we knew it - Susan Beth Pfeffer
⦿ a book with the ocean on the cover
One of the Girls - Lucy Clarke
⦿ reread a favorite
⦿ pick 5 books and have someone else pick for you
⦿ free pick
Skill: Bloodbending
⦿ a book with blood on the cover/title
Blood for the Fisher King
⦿ a book with 650+ pages
⦿ pick 10 books and let someone with Bloodbending decide
Group: Master Pakku
⦿ a book where the MC has to learn to control their power
Omicron Six
⦿ a book where the MC doesn't follow the rules
4 Nations - Julyto follow
Flourish and Blotts Challenge
Quidditch: a book involving a sport
Quidditch World Cup: set in a country you've never been to
Quidditch Pitch: set in nature
Quidditch through the Ages: a historical fiction
Golden Snidget: includes a magical creature
Quaffel: a title including the letter q
Bludger: a book you think will knock your socks of
Snitch: a book with a golden aspect
catching the snitch: a book with ISBN# that includes 1, 5 and 0
Nimbus 2000: set or written before 2000
Nimbus 2001: set or written after 2001
Firebolt: Contains a special gift
Quidditch Gloves: set in Winter
Quidditch Goggles: includes a character that wears glasses
Chaser: a hard to catch book
Beater: includes a competition
Keeper: includes a character you fall in love with
Seeker: includes a found familiy
Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland: set on the british isles
Applebee Arrows: related to archery
Ballycastle Bats: a regency era book
Chudley Cannons: includes a battle
Holy Head Harpies: includes a group of strong females
Pride of Portree: related to the LGBTQIA+ community
Puddlemere United: with multiple points of view
Tutshill Tornados: includes a weather event
Wingtown Wanderers: includes travel or adventure
Hogwarts House Cup: includes a celebration
Gryffindor: related to gryffindor house/traits
Hufflepuff: related to hufflepuff house/traits
Ravenclaw: related to ravenclaw house/traits
Slytherin: related to slytherin house/traits
Harry Potter: includes a celebrity
Oliver Wood: includes a fantastical character
Angelina Johnson: written by a BIPOC author
Katie Bell: includes a character that gets cursed
Alicia Spinnett: written by a female author
Fred Weasley: read a duology (book 1)
George Weasley: read a duology (book 2)
Ginny Weasley: read a poetry book
Cho Chang: written by asian or AAPI author
Marcus Flint: involves a fire
Cedric Diggory: includes vampires
Viktor Krum: with a character who speaks a different language
Draco Malfoy: a book with a large fandom following
Weasley is our king: contains royalty
Starfisch Stick: related to the sea
Wronski Feint: includes misdirection
Slothgrip Roll: a book that's taken you a long time to read
Dionysus Dive: contains a character with a vice
Body Blow: with a body part on the cover
double eight loop: written by multiple authors
Bonus: A book that mentions Harry Potter
Popsugar Reading Challenge
⦾ a book you meant to read in 2022
⦾ a book you bought from an independent bookstore
⦾ a book about a vaccation
⦾ a book by a first time author
⦾ a book with mystical creatures
⦾ a book about forbidden romance
⦾ a book with "girl" in the title
⦾ a celebrity memoir
⦾ a book with a color in the title
⦾ a romance with a fat lead
⦾ a book about or set in Hollywood
⦾ a book published in spring 2023
⦾ a book published the year you were born
⦾ a modern retelling of a classic
⦾ a book with song lyrics as the title
⦾ a book where the main characters name is in the title
⦾ a book with a love triangle
⦾ a book that's been banned or challenged in any state in 2022
⦾ a book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge
⦾ a book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022
⦾ a book set in the decade you were born
⦾ a book with a queer lead
⦾ a book with a map
⦾ a book with a rabbit on the cover
⦾ a book with just text on the cover
⦾ the shortest book on your TBR
⦾ a #bookTok recommendation
⦾ a book you bought second hand
⦾ a book your friend recommended
⦾ a book that's on a celebrity book-club list
⦾ a book about a family
⦾ a book that comes out in the second half of 2023
⦾ a book about an athlete/sport
⦾ a historical fiction book
⦾ a book about divorce
⦾ a book you think your best friend would like
⦾ a book you should have read in high school
⦾ a book you read more than 10 years ago
⦾ a book you wish you could read for the first time again
⦾ a book by an author with the same initials as you
Advanced
⦾ a book written during NaNoWriMo
⦾ a book based on a popular movie
⦾ a book that takes place entirely in one day
⦾ a book that was self published
⦾ a book that started out as fan fiction
⦾ a book with a pet character
⦾ a book about a holiday that's not christmas
⦾ a book that features two languages
⦾ the longest book on your TBR
⦾ a book with alliteration in title
Authors/Series I mean to continue
Brandon Sanderson
☐ Elantris
☐ The final Empire
☐ The Well of Ascension
☐ The Hero of Ages
Miss Marple
☐ The Body in the Library
☐ The moving finger
☐ A murder is announced
☐ They do it with mirrors
☐ A pocket full of Rye
☐ 4:50 from Paddington
☐ The mirror crack'd from side to side
☐ A caribbean mystery
☐ At Bertrams Hotel
☐ Nemesis
☐ Sleeping Murder
City Watch
☐ Feet of Clay
☐ Jingo
☐ Fifth Elefant
☐ Night Watch
☐ Thud!
☐ Snuff
Sophie Lark
☐ There are no Saints
☐ There is no devil
☐ The Heir
☐ The Rebel
☐ The Bully
☐ The Spy
☐ The Savage
OwlCrate 3 Degrees of Difficulty Challenge
Easy
[ ] 2022 OwlCrate Box Book
[ ] 2023 Debut Release
[ ] Fairytale Retelling
[ ] Dark Academia Vibes
[ ] First Book on your TBR
[ ] Recommended by a friend
[ ] Book with Multiple Covers
[ ] LGBTQIA MC
[ ] Comedy or Parody
[ ] One Word Title
[ ] Childhood Favorite
[ ] A NYT Bestseller
[ ] Tropey Romance Title
[ ] Popular on BookTok
[ ] 2022 OwlCrate Jr. Box Book
[ ] BIPOC Author
[ ] Book with a Jump Scare
[ ] A Library Book
[ ] YA Historical Fiction
[ ] Sword on the cover
[ ] Sapphic Love Story
[ ] A celebrity Memoir
[ ] Banned in America
[ ] Classic High Fantasy
[ ] Book with a Robot
Medium
[ ] A Band of Misfits
[ ] Superhero POV
[ ] Celebrity Book Club Pick
[ ] Asian Historical Fiction
[ ] a genre you've not read
[ ] Latinx MC
[ ] set in the 1920s
[ ] Portal Fantasy
[ ] Book with a Heist
[ ] Super Serious Sci-Fi
[ ] Book you didn't finish
[ ] Author Recommendation
[ ] War-Time Plot
[ ] Political Non-Fiction
[ ] Fictional Religions
[ ] A Spicy Adult Book
[ ] Urban Fantasy Novel
[ ] A contemporary Duology
[ ] True Crime Novel
[ ] Trans MC
[ ] Animal on Cover
[ ] Book featuring Recipes
[ ] USA Today Bestseller
[ ] More than 500 pages
[ ] a comeback Story
Hard
[ ] Animal Narrator
[ ] Refugee PoV
[ ] Translated to english
[ ] Utopian Setting
[ ] Multiple Timelines
[ ] Unreliable Narrator
[ ] Asexual PoV
[ ] Asian Poetry
[ ] Alliterative Title
[ ] Cozy Fantasy Plot
[ ] Ancient World Setting
[ ] Dinner Party Mytery
[ ] Epistoriary Style Novel
[ ] A Book about a Cult
[ ] Classic American Lit
[ ] Healthcareworker PoV
[ ] 2022 Hugo Nominee
[ ] Indigenous Character
[ ] LGBTQ+ Space
[ ] Dystopian Romance
[ ] Set at a Circus
[ ] Sisterly Love Plot
[ ] African Magical Realism
[ ] Paranormal Investigation
[ ] Post Appocalyptic Vibe
Planning - ATY in 52 books1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
Location: Texas ➯ Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
2. A book by an author you read in 2022
Author: Cassandra Rose Clark ➯ The Pirate's Wish
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list
Suggestion that didn't make the list: A book recommended on Goodreads ➯ The Heir by Sophie Lark
4. A book with an interracial relationship
5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
6. A book where books are important
7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title
8. An author's debut book
Author: Cathryn Ryan Howard ➯ Debut: Distress Signal
9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
A book nominated (i. a.) for Goodreads Choice Award ➯ White Smoke
10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
11. A book about a person/character with a disability
MC is nearly deaf ➯ Only when it's us
12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1
Book set in the 20th century ➯ The Body in the Library
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
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
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
27. A book by an author from continental Europe
Author from UK ➯ One of the Girls
28. A book that is dark
➯ There are no saints
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
input author: Katee Robert; result: Sophie Lark ➯ There is no devil
32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
City: Seattle ➯ The Ex-Talk
33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
name: Mary ➯ Local Woman missing
34. A novella
35. A book with a school subject in the title
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
➯ Life as we know it
39. A western
40. A book with a full name in the title
41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
On 2022 list ➯ Killers of a certain Age
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
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
49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
➯ The invisible life of Addie LaRoux
50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
51. A book published in 2023
52. A book with an unusual or surprising title
LEGEND
💎 done
♻ re-read
💀DNF
⏳Currently reading
✨TBR Read!
📖 physical Copy
🎧 Audiobook
📱 Kindle/digital
🌍 ATY
🍃 4 Nations
📚 Flourish and Blotts
🌸 Popsugar
Links and useful Information
https://www.literature-map.com/
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/index...
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-...
https://www.julesbuono.com/reese-with...
https://www.julesbuono.com/netflix-bo...
Unesco Cities of Literature:
1. Edinburgh, Scotland (2004)
2. Melbourne, Australia (2008)
3. Iowa City, Iowa, United States (2008)
4. Dublin, Ireland (2010)
5. Reykjavik, Iceland (2011)
6. Norwich, England (2012)
7. Krakow, Poland (2013)
8. Heidelberg, Germany (2014)
9. Dunedin, New Zealand (2014)
10. Granada, Spain (2014)
11. Prague, Czech Republic (2014)
12. Baghdad, Iraq (2015)
13. Barcelona, Spain (2015)
14. Ljubljana, Slovenia (2015)
15. Lviv, Ukraine (2015)
16. Montevideo, Uruguay (2015)
17. Nottingham, England (2015)
18. Obidos, Portugal (2015)
19. Tartu, Estonia (2015)
20. Ulyanovsk, Russia (2015)
21. Bucheon, South Korea (2017)
22. Durban, South Africa (2017)
23. Lillehammer, Norway (2017)
24. Manchester, England (2017)
25. Milan, Italy (2017)
26. Quebec City, Canada (2017)
27. Utrecht, Netherlands (2017)
28. Angoulême, France (2019)
29. Beirut, Lebanon (2019)
30. Exeter, England (2019)
31. Kuhmo, Finland (2019)
32. Lahore, Pakistan (2019)
33. Leeuwarden, Netherlands (2019)
34. Nanjing, China (2019)
35. Odessa, Ukraine (2019)
36. Slemani, Iraq (2019)
37. Wonju, Korea (2019)
38. Wrocław, Poland (2019)
39. Gothenburg, Sweden (2021)
40. Jakarta, Indonesien (2021)
41. Seattle, USA (2017)
42. Vilnius, Litauen (2021)
Popular names in 1923
male: John, Robert, William, James, Charles, George, Joseph, Edward, Frank, Richard
female: Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret, Betty, Ruth, Mildred, Virginia, Frances, Elizabeth
Spice Girls personalities
Baby Spice: girlish, sweet, and innocent
Sporty Spice: athletic and energetic
Scary Spice: “wild” and “crazy” (which may have been synonymous for “black”), loud and always prepared for a good time
Posh Spice: more withdrawn and shy than the others, so frequently cast as “stuck up” or an “ice princess”.
Ginger Spice: fiery, sexually liberated, and outspoken
Harry Potter House Traits
Gryffindor: bravery, daring, nerve, and chivalry
Hufflepuff: hard work, dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play
Ravenclaw: intelligence, knowledge, curiosity, creativity and wit
Slytherin: ambition, leadership, self-preservation, cunning and resourcefulness
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Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
The Savage (other topics)The Spy (other topics)
The Bully (other topics)
White Smoke (other topics)
The Rebel (other topics)
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