✨Jenna's 2023 ATY 52 CHALLENGE ✨

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ATY 52 -- ✨💗It's Going to Be a Great Year!💗✨

Reading In Order Discussion Thread

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MY KEY/LEGEND (view spoiler)[
🥂 read/finished
⏲ currently reading
⭐ TBR Read!
🔥 steam factor (explicit content)
📚 hardcover
📖 paperback
🎧 audiobook/audible
📱 kindle/digital
💌 borrowed/library
🎉 multi-challenge
$ free or already owned
♻️ re-read
🌈 m-m
👯‍♀️ buddy-read
👀 chonker
☠️ DNF'd
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Ratings, where ☆ = 1/2 star:

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✨❄️ JANUARY ~ Prompts 1-5 🌧✨

1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
✅ The Station // AUSTRALIA
Read in JANUARY ★ ★ ★ ★
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2. A book by an author you read in 2022
✅ Dibs // Kimberly Knight&Rachel Lyn Adams
Read in JANUARY ★ ★ ★ ★
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3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 List
A book with a character who has a career or hobby that interests you
✅ Business Is Personal: The Truth about What It Takes to Be Successful While Staying True to Yourself
Read in FEBRUARY ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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4. A book with an interracial relationship
✅ The Indigo Girl ~ home library/paperback AND Audible
Read in FEBRUARY ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"Based on historical documents, including Eliza's letters, this is a historical fiction account of how a teenage girl produced indigo dye, which became one of the largest exports out of South Carolina, an export that laid the foundation for the incredible wealth of several Southern families who still live on today. Although largely overlooked by historians, the accomplishments of Eliza Lucas influenced the course of US history. When she passed away in 1793, President George Washington served as a pallbearer at her funeral."
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5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
✅ An Affair with a House
Read in MARCH ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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✨💝February ~ Prompts 6-9 💝✨

6. A book where books are important
✅ The Gardens of Bunny Mellon
~ Discussion of her INCREDIBLE rare books collection and personal library at Oak Spring Farm
Read in MARCH ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title
Who // What // Where // When // Why
Before We Were Yours ~audible
Women Who Run With the Wolves public library for physical copy
Where the Crawdads Sing ~ home library/hardcover
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II ~ public library
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8. An author's debut book
✅ Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting
Read in JANUARY ★ ★ ★ ★
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9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
The Golem and the Jinni ~ home library/hardcover
World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2014)

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✨🌬MARCH ~ Prompts 10-13 🌬✨

10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
Posh: Any books featuring rich people or families
Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon ~ re the Vanderbilts
Currently reading in March

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11. A book about a person/character with a disability
✅ My Darling Duke ~ MC badly injured in a Fire; details in spoiler (view spoiler)[ Very bad burn scars, broken back from incident w/resulting ambulatory and sexual dysfunction issues (hide spoiler)]
Read in JANUARY ★ ★ ★ ★

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12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
Watership Down
Group Read April

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13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
There's a Porcupine in My Outhouse: The Vermont Misadventures of a Mountain Man Wannabe ~ home library/paperback

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✨🌷🐣APRIL ~ Prompts 14-17🐣🌷✨

14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
✅ Meghan and Harry: The Real Story
Read in JANUARY ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1
Labyrinth ~ home library/paperback
- partly in 2004, partly in 1200s
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16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2
Outlander ~ home library/paperback
- partly 1743, partly 1945
*possible buddy read*
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17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3
The Clan of the Cave Bear ~ home library/paperback
- Stone Age

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✨🐝 MAY ~ Prompts 18-22 🐝✨

18. A book related to science
Book about Gut/Brain relationship
Remarkable Creatures ~ home library/paperback
From the blurb: "...When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip - and the scientific world alight with both admiration and controversy..."
Our Native Bees: North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them ~ home library/hardcover
Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting ~ home library/paperback
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19. A book related to the arts
House of Leaves
I just couldn't with this book the first time I attempted to read it... It irritated me so much I got rid of my copy lol. But I might be willing to give it another go... maybe. ~ public library
Wylding Hall
Angels & Demons or The Da Vinci Code ... I know I know, but they're fun, and it's been over 10 years since I read them. ~ public library
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20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting ~ home library/paperback
(a route of travel for whom, exactly? doesn't specify it has to be a route of travel for humans!)
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21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See ~ home library/paperback
"Lisa See is a Chinese-American author. Her books include Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), Dragon Bones, and On Gold Mountain. She was named the 2001 National Woman of the Year, by the Organization of Chinese American Women. She lives in Los Angeles."
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22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
Song of Oestend ~ home library/kindle
Forgotten Places

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✨🌹JUNE ~ Prompts 23-26 🌹✨

23. A book with a body of water in the title
The Starless Sea ~ home library/hardcover
The Lake House ~ home library/paperback
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24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
Tailor
The Seamstress
The Dressmaker
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker: The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln

Soldier
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
The Things They Carried
The Guns of August ~ home library/paperback
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25. A book with a tropical setting
Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
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26. A book related to pride
✅ The Real Diana ~ audible
Read in JANUARY ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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✨🍃☀️JULY ~ Prompts 27-31☀️🍃✨

27. A book by an author from continental Europe
Bon Courage! A French Renovation in Rural Limousin ~ home library/paperback
Man's Search for Meaning ~ home library/paperback
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28. A book that is dark
The theme was dark and twisted AF
✅ Be Mine, Twisted Valentine
Read in FEBRUARY ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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29. A book that is light
Dragonfly in Amber ~ home library/paperback

The Power of Imagination: The Neville Goddard Treasury
Feeling Is The Secret 1944
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30. A book related to a chess piece
The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home ~ home library/paperback
The Girl in the Tower ~ home library/hardcover
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31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com

Entered Kate Morton ---> got Philippa Gregory
✅ The Lady of the Rivers ~ Audible
Narrator: Bianca Amato
Read in FEBRUARY ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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✨🌻AUGUST ~ Prompts 32-35🌻✨

32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
Possibilities from my TBR:
Voyager ~ home library/paperback
The Shadow of the Wind
Firefly Lane
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33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
The Underworld Initiation: A Journey Towards Psychic Transformation by R J Stewart (Robert) ~ home library/paperback

https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names...
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34. A novella
A Christmas Carol ~ public library
Ash Believes the Impossible
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35. A book with a school subject in the title
A few from my TBR:

History:
A History of Kitchen Gardening ~ home library/paperback
The English Garden: A Social History
The Landscaping Ideas of Jays: A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration Garden
At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things
Hidden History of New Hampshire
A Natural History of North American Trees
[bookReading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England|136070]
The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Mary Magdalene: Her History and Myths Revealed
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
The Living Garden: The 400-Year History of an English Garden
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

English:
The Living Garden: The 400-Year History of an English Garden
The Book Of English Magic
English Cottage Gardening: For American Gardeners
Rosemary Verey's English Country Gardens
Roses for English Gardens
Old Roses and English Roses
Roses: Climbing, English, Shrub, Hybrid Teas and Old Roses
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
Anglo-Scandinavian England: Norse-English Relations in the Period Before Conquest Old English Colloquium Series, No. 4

Art
Grimoire of the Thorn-Blooded Witch: Mastering the Five Arts of Old World Witchery
The Civil War in Art
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution

Dance
Dance with the Devil
Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518

French
Bon Courage! A French Renovation in Rural Limousin
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France
The French Gardener
The Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Notes from the French Countryside
[book]:On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town|196153]

Pharma-
Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

Organic (like, Organic Chemistry)
Conscious Gardening: Practical and Metaphysical Expert Advice to Grow Your Garden Organically
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long

Science
Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting

Essay
Singing in the Morning: and other essays about Martha's Vineyard

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✨🍁SEPTEMBER ~ Prompts 36-39 🍁✨

36. A book that has been translated from another language
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good - översatt från svenska
The Little Book of Fika: The Uplifting Daily Ritual of the Swedish Coffee Break
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
The Emigrants
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37. A book with the theme of returning home
✅ Catch and Release
Read in MARCH ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness ~ home library/hardcover


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39. A western
Next book in the Texas Trilogy ~ public library
Texas Glory

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✨🍂🥅🏒OCTOBER ~ Prompts 40-44 🥅🏒🍂✨

40. A book with a full name in the title

Vita Sackville-West
Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden

Harry Potter:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ~ home library/hardcover
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ~ home library/hardcover

Laura Ingalls Wilder:
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Beatrix Potter:
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature ~ home library/hardcover

John Muir:
The Wilderness World of John Muir ~ public library
America's Wilderness: The Photographs Of Ansel Adams With The Writings Of John Muir
Rediscovering National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir ~ public library

Ansel Adams:
Ansel Adams in the National Parks: Photographs from America's Wild

Frederick Law Olmsted:
[book:A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century ~ home library/paperback

41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
Books on my TBR that fit this prompt:
The Starless Sea ~ home library/hardcover
Uprooted ~ home library/hardcover

42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
Haunted Rochester: A Supernatural History of the Lower Genesee~ home library/paperback
New Hampshire Book of the Dead:: Graveyard Legends and Lore~ home library/hardcover
A Haunted Atlas of Western New York ~ public library
Legends, Lore and Secrets of Western New York ~ public library

43. A book that involves a murder
The Family Upstairs ~ home library/hardcover

44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal
The Shadow of the Wind
The Essex Serpent

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✨🌧 NOVEMBER ~ Prompts 45-48 🌧✨

45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
World Made by Hand ~ home library
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46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
From my TBR:
House of Salt and Sorrows ~ home library
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World ~ home library
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Years of Rice and Salt
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47. A book related to a geometric shape
The Black Arts: A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages ~ home library/paperback

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48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
There are all kinds of cryptids and/or 'monsters' to consider for this prompt! I'll read something about Sasquatch // Yeti // Bigfoot // The Big Guy
My likely pick is Bigfoot Terror in the Woods: Sightings and Encounters since it is free on KU and I heard a sampling of it read aloud on a Sasquatch Chronicles episode (#473, Terror in the Woods) and it piqued my interest ~ KU
Side note: If you're looking for an entertaining, well produced podcast, check out Sasquatch Chronicles (www.Sasquatchchronicles.com) - you won't be disappointed!

A few other ideas:
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
Abair Road: The True Story
Next of Kin Next Door: How to Find Sasquatch a Stone's Throw Away
The Mothman Prophecies
Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs: The World's Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved
The Untold Story of Champ: A Social History of America's Loch Ness Monster


Cryptid Listopia

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✨🌲☃️ DECEMBER ~ Prompts 49-52 ☃️🌲✨

49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
2022:
The Night Circus ~ audible/owned
The Witch's Heart ~ home library
A Game of Thrones (need to restart series) ~ home library
The Great Alone ~ public library
2023:
(not yet released)
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50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
Favorite prompts:
💫 8. An author's debut book
💫 40. A book with a full name in the title
💫 48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
Monstrous #7: Lor ~ Release date Jan 27th '23

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51. A book published in 2023
☑️ The Rest of the Story ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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52. A book with an unusual or surprising title
Bellewether ~ home library
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England ~ home library

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✨ COVER COLLAGE ✨

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Chonkster List, idea borrowed from AnnaG with a some modification/adaptation 🐱

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Duology/Trilogy/Series I'm working through or plan to read

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Lifetime Challenge

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