✩★ Beth's 2023 plan ★✩

[Beth]

2023 will be my 8th year of ATY. I'm looking forward to taking on the challenge again and hopefully completing it. As with 2022 I will be counting DNFs if I run out of time later on in the year (let's hope it doesn't get to that)!

I have a spreadsheet here with my options for each prompt:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

I prefer to keep them over there to stop this thread getting messy.

The books I have slotted in will be added to my progress posts below. Completed prompts are crossed out and current reads are in bold. I create a monthly TBR of 10 books I'm most interested in at the time (+ the applicable prompts) which is below my progress posts.

2023 STATS:
ATY - Read: 31 / 52
Non-Challenge - Read: 0

Total: 31

Format
Audio: 8
Ebook: 17
Print: 5
Serial reader app:

Fiction: 21
Non-Fiction: 8
Other (poetry):

Authors
New-to-me: 18
Read before: 11

Female: 19
Male: 9

Ratings
1 ⭐ : 1
2 ⭐ : 3
3 ⭐ : 8
4 ⭐ : 14
5 🌟 : 2

DNF (no rating): 2

[Beth]

📚 Print books:
The Essex Serpent
Lessons in Chemistry ✔️
Go Set a Watchman
Instructions for a Heatwave
+ any others I pick up from LFLs

🎧 Audible:
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family ✔️
In Order to Live
Why Did You Stay? ✔️
True Crime Addict ✔️
Between Two Kingdoms
Big Little Lies
Jane Eyre
The Dutch House ✔️
Still Life
Capote's Women
Dracula
Frankenstein
Twelve Years a Slave
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Brooklyn ✔️
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story

🏆 Women's Prize shortlist
Trespasses ✔️
The Marriage Portrait ✔️
Demon Copperhead
Black Butterflies
Pod
Fire Rush

👛 Library Purchased
Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design
The Butcher's Hook

📝 Library Reading List 2022: 17/52 (read this year: 0)
📝 Library Reading List 2023: 2/52
Duplicates:
A Visit from the Goon Squad
The Last Mrs. Parrish
The Great Alone ✔️
Malibu Rising
The Devil in the White City
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Life After Life

🔀 Random Generator
A History of the World in 100 Objects

⚠️ Must Reads! (aka appear every year but never get read)
The Great Alone ✔️
Pachinko
Half of a Yellow Sun

[Beth]

1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
(Tokyo)
Fault Lines - Emily Itami


2. A book by an author you read in 2022
Sometimes I Lie - Alice Feeney


3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list
[time shelter]

4. A book with an interracial relationship
[yellow wife]

5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
Memphis - Tara Stringfellow


6. A book where books are important
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill - Abbi Waxman


7. A book with one of the five "W" question words in the title
Why Did You Stay?: A memoir about self-worth - Rebecca Humphries


8. An author's debut book
The Push


9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
(Women's Prize 2023)
Trespasses - Louise Kennedy


10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
(scary)
All the Living and the Dead - Hayley Campbell


11. A book about a person/character with a disability
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker


12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
[still life]

13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
It Starts with Us - Colleen Hoover


14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
[my lovely wife]

15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1
[snow flower]
16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2
[light years]
17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3
[i'm a fan]

18. A book related to science
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus


19. A book related to the arts
The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell


20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
[between two kingdoms]

21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee


22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles


23. A book with a body of water in the title
(Pacific Ocean)
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed


24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
(soldier - veteran)
The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah


25. A book with a tropical setting
[unhoneymooners]

26. A book related to pride
(author name)
Attachments - Rainbow Rowell (DNF)

[Beth]

27. A book by an author from continental Europe
(Netherlands)
The Discomfort of Evening - Marie Lucas Rijneveld


28. A book that is dark
The Maidens - Alex Michaelides


29. A book that is light
[small things like these]

30. A book related to a chess piece
Spare - Prince Harry


31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on Literature Map
(Maggie O'Farrell -> Ann Patchett)
The Dutch House - Ann Patchett


32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
[way of all flesh]

33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923 *
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray - James Renner


34. A novella
Foster - Claire Keegan


35. A book with a school subject in the title *
(history)
A History of the World in 100 Objects - Neil MacGregor


36. A book that has been translated from another language
Greek Lessons - Han Kang (DNF)


37. A book with the theme of returning home
Home Stretch - Graham Norton


38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
[half of a yellow sun]

39. A western

40. A book with a full name in the title
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie


41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
Cleanness - Garth Greenwell


42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
[halloween party]

43. A book that involves a murder
[the club]

44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal
[doll factory]

45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
(~28)
It Ends with Us - Colleen Hoover


46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
[i'm a fan]

47. A book related to a geometric shape
[guest list]

48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
[essex serpent]

49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl


50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
(Spice Girls - 'baby')
Expecting Better - Emily Oster


51. A book published in 2023
Strange Sally Diamond - Liz Nugent


52. A book with an unusual or surprising title
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously - Jessica Pan


* = book does not fit any other prompt so cannot be moved later

[Beth]

DECEMBER

Started prior to December:
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Pachinko

Small Things Like These
The Christmas Appeal
The Essex Serpent
The Way of All Flesh
I'm a Fan

Audio:
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Stopping Places

Total: / 6

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Jan - completed: 4
Feb - completed: 3
Mar - completed: 2
Apr - completed: 1
May - completed: 4
Jun - completed: 3
Jul - completed: 1
Aug - completed: 3
Sept - completed: 2
Oct - completed: 3
Nov - completed: 4
Dec - completed: