MissLemon : 2023

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Books can be read for other challenges as well. Not reading in order.

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

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NOTES
Listopia main page : https://www.goodreads.com/list

All books read here can be used for any of my other (multiple) challenges.I will list all books , this year they do not HAVE to fit this challenge as it is not the main priority (which is to reduce ONR print pile and complete ATW80 books)
Have some prompts left over from 2022 challange - will initially double up but if I read enough books will read a seperate book for each prompt.
Not reading in order.
Key:
✔️ Done
🤔 Probably done

✅ Read intend to use here
❓ Read, fits , consider
♻️ Read, fits but will use for a different prompt
🚫 Read but probably won't use for any prompts

🔶 Read during 2023 but used for a 2022 left over prompt
🔴 Preferred or place holder

Notes on format or location of planned books
📖 Print copy
📱 Digital copy
🗣 Audio copy
🏠 Already owned
® Borrow(ed) -usually from library

🔎 Need to find a copy

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ALL BOOKS READ IN 2023
with notes on preferred prompt (may change)

For 2022 challenge

Violeta
🔶South American author
Death at the Bar
🔶 Character name begins with ATY
The Maid
🔶Published 2022

For 2023 challenge ( and free reads)
The Fire Next Time
✅Author has published 8+
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol
✅Deception
A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
✅ School subject
Murder After Christmas
✅murder
The Moving Finger
✅author read in '22
Amsterdam
✅Place beginning with A,T or Y
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
✅Dark
The Metamorphosis
✅Novella
Death Comes to Marlow
✅name popular in 1923
Killing the Shadows
✅books are important
The Fifth Elephant
✅ large animal
Ten Things I Hate About Me
✅disability
Towards Zero
✅Home
Surfeit of Lampreys
✅Dupicate prompt(murder)
A Room Full of Bones
✅chess (bishop)
The Flatshare
✅light
Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles
✅arts
The Road Home
✅Route of travel
Taste: My Life Through Food
✅NPR
Nutshell
✅Spice girl (Baby)
White Teeth
✅interracial
Dead Beat
✅Cooking term
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
✅unusual title
The Truth
✅colours
Death Comes as the End
✅sun etc on the cover
The Man Who Died Twice
✅who? Etc
Theatre of Cruelty
🚫 not using
The Kite Runner
✅shape
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
✅ award beginning with W
Burial of Ghosts
✅ Ghost etc
One of Them
✅Pride
The Dogs of Riga
✅ Author Europe
Sparkling Cyanide
✅ 3 different centuries : #1- 20th
Remarkably Bright Creatures
✅best book of the month
The Nine Tailors
✅Tinker Tailor etc
The Adventures of China Iron
✅Western
The Rabbit Factor
✅Birds Bees Bunnys
Death and the Dancing Footman
✅literature map
The House in the Cerulean Sea
✅body of water
A Meditation on Murder
✅ Tropical
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
✅Asian despora
End of Summer
✅ translated
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
✅2023
One Good Turn
✅city of culture
Maisie Dobbs
✅Full name in title
Flowers for Algernon
✅ science
The Satsuma Complex
✅ 3 different centuries : #2 -set in 21st century
Nemesis
✅ Faceless
A Dying Fall
✅wonky title
The Boy in the Suitcase
✅ Wild ( prompt that didn't makes it )
The Appeal
✅ Debut
The Miniaturist
✅ 3 different centuries : #3 - 17th Centuary
Thief of Time
✅ object repeated
Worst Fears
🚫 Not using
The Hollow
🚫 Not using
The Reading List
🚫Not using
A Nice Class of Corpse
🚫Not using
To Know Her
🚫 not using
Gallows View
🚫Not using
Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper
🚫Not using
The Labours of Hercules
🚫Not using
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
🚫Not using
The Zig Zag Girl
🚫Not using
The Echo of Old Books
🚫Not using
The Killing of Polly Carter
🚫Not using
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
🚫Not using
In Re: Sherlock Holmes
🚫Not using
The Last Hero
🚫Not using
The Christmas Murder Game
🚫Not using
Ruth's First Christmas Tree
🚫Not using

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🤔1 Set in a location that starts with A T or Y
Possibly :
Amsterdam(is it set there?)

Read that fit:
The Maid( America - ♻️)
The Fire Next Time (America ♻️)
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol (Austria♻️)
✅Amsterdam (only partly set in Amsterdam but it's central to the plot)
The Truth (Ankh Morpork Discworld )
The Kite Runner Afghanistan and America ♻️
The Adventures of China Iron Argentina ♻️
The Miniaturist ( completely set in Amsterdam) ♻️
To Know Her America
The Echo of Old Books America

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🤔2 Author read in 2022

Easily use AC, TP or NM here

Read
Ngaio Marsh:
Death at the Bar Death and the Dancing Footman

Agatha Christie
✅The Moving Finger Towards ZeroDeath Comes as the End Sparkling CyanideThe Hollow The Labours of Hercules

Terry Pratchett
The TruthThe Fifth ElephantTheatre of CrueltyThief of TimeThe Last Hero

Elly Griffiths
Dying Fall A Room Full of Bones The Zig Zag Girl Ruth's First Christmas Tree

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3 Suggestion that didn't make 2023 list
List : https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

(Updated December '23: As I've read more than 52 books this year I'm going to list all the extra books here and list which suggestion that didn't make it that they fit. Only allowed to use these extra prompts once , and I'm excluding those which later made the list, obviously. And there are some that are very broad so many books would fit them)

🚫Theatre of Cruelty - a book not set on (our) earth
✅The Boy in the Suitcase - by two or more authors (Agnete Friis Lene Kaaberbol)
🚫Worst Fears - featuring The Widow, The Wronged Woman, The Woman Scorned (all three are one person )
🚫The Hollow- two word title 'The ...'
🚫The Reading List shifts perspective in different chapters
🚫A Nice Class of Corpse told from the villains perspective (partially)
🚫To Know Her author uses three names Mary Ann Noe
🚫Gallows View person is taken hostage
🚫Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper a shoe on the cover
🚫The Labours of Hercules animal on the cover ( some have dog, some bull,etc)
🚫The Last List of Mabel Beaumont loneliness
🚫The Zig Zag Girl nomadic lifestyle/ travels for work ( stage magician)
🚫The Echo of Old Books - character has career or hobby that inetersting you ( owns a book shop and repairs old books )
🚫 The Killing of Polly Carter secret passage
🚫As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride - character begins with 'W'
🚫In Re: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons Inspired by another story
🚫The Last Hero an adventure book
🚫The Christmas Murder Game about heredity/heritage ( who inherits the house)
🚫Ruth's First Christmas Tree Christmas

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🤔4 Interracial relationship

Listopia https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Possibles :
Such a Fun Age®
White Teeth📖
The God of Small Things📖

Read
The Fifth Elephant & The Truth( ware wolf and human who identifies as a dwarf)
The Road Home ( Eastern European meets several Western European inhabitants of UK)
❓White Teeth (Bangladesh /English best friends )
♻️Memoirs of a Polar Bear (Polar bears with their human keepers /trainers and with other animals )
Remarkably Bright Creatures ( several people make friends with an octopus )
The Adventures of China Iron British/Scotish/Spanish/Idigenious South American etc
The House in the Cerulean Sea ( characters are all kinds of magical creatures and some humans )
A Meditation on Murder ( British detective in Caribean )
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers ( Indonesian/South Asian/Chinese/White group of friends )
Flowers for Algernon (man and mouse)
The Miniaturist ( Lady and slave from unspecified colony)

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5🤔 Four or more colours on the cover
Most books read will have four or more colours on the cover so I'm not listing them all. Will read a Discworld book and list them here

A Note on Discworld cover Art: All titles have editions with colourful covers . namely the covers of Josh Kirby up to Thief of Time , and Paul Kidby from The Last Hero onwards. A set of new editions from 2022 are designed by Leo Nicholls and tend to have fewer colours, but still at least four. There are some editions that aren't colourful (eg the mostly black Corgi editions from the early 2000's)

Discworld editions read :
♻️The Fifth Elephant ( various /dominant colours are orange/blue/white/greige) (Josh Kirby edition)


✅The Truth ( the Leo Nicholls edition listened to this time mainly black/white with purple green blue pink.)


Theatre of Cruelty ( this is an ebook only)

Thief of Time

Special mention of non Discworld book
♻️The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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🤔6 A book where books are important

Listopia https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Read :
Murder After Christmas ( Book being read with same title as the actual book has important clue so is taken back to library to hide it/evidence)
The Moving Finger( a book is used to cut the letters out for poison pen letters)
❓Killing the Shadows ( murders are of thriller writers)
♻️The Flatshare (protagonist works for a publisher )
Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles ( essays on Shakespeare )
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead( poetry of William Blake)
One Good Turn ( one of characters is a crime writer)
Flowers for Algernon ( protagonist learns to read briefly)
The Satsuma Complex ( the story is named after a book one of the main characters is reading ,which also becomes very important as an object later)
The Reading List ( clue in the title )
The Echo of Old Books (a/a)
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride - Princess Bride was originally a book

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🤔7 One of the W questions in title
Who What When Where Why

Listopia https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Possible
♻️The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
✅The Man Who Died Twice
When I Lived in Modern Times
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
The Man Who Saw Everything

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🤔8 Authors debut

Read that fit
🔶The Maid
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Ten Things I Hate About Me
The Flatshare
White Teeth
The Kite Runner
One of Them
Remarkably Bright Creatures
A Meditation on Murder
Maisie Dobbs
Flowers for Algernon
✅The Appeal
The Miniaturist
The Reading List
To Know Her ( not clear)
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

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🤔9 Nominated for a award beginning with W
Womens prize for fiction , Warwick women in translation, Waterstones etc
Listopia https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
My womens prize shelf https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Possible:
Small Island
Fits :
♻️The Road Home (winner of Women's Prize)
♻️White Teeth. (Whitbread First Novel)
✅ Memoirs of a Polar Bear (Warwick Prize for translation )

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🤔10 A book related to a Spice Girls personality

Baby, Scary, Sporty, Posh, Ginger

Listopia https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Possible :
Nutshell


Read

Baby:
✅Nutshell
The Miniaturist

Scary:

Sporty :
Towards Zero (a suspect is sporty)

Posh:
Death at the Bar (several char could be described as posh)
The Maid (posh hotel)
Murder After Christmas (more posh people )
The Moving Finger ( posh people)
Death Comes to Marlow (some posh people)
Surfeit of Lampreys ( the Lampreys and Alleyn are posh)
A Room Full of Bones (a Lord and his family)

Ginger:
The Fifth Elephant ( A character has 'ginger' hair)

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🤔11 Character/ Person with a disability

Listopia :
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Read
❓Ten Things I Hate About Me ( Author diagnosed with BPD)
Towards Zero ( character cannot have committed crime due to his permanently injured arm)
White Teeth ( injured hand)
The Truth ( Mr Tulip has a speech inpediment which causes him to say" _ing "a lot )
Burial of Ghosts ( narrator/protagonist refers to herself as 'bipolar)
Death and the Dancing Footman ( character has a 'club foot')
The House in the Cerulean Sea ( could be argued the magical creatures have a 'disability' in that they are 'differently abled' )
Maisie Dobbs characters injured in WWI
Flowers for Algernon theme of the book is disability of protagonist
The Killing of Polly Carter a main character is a wheelchair user
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride (giant)

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✔️12 Birds Bees or Bunnies
✅
The Rabbit Factor

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🤔13 An object is repeated on the cover
Read :

✅
(This copy has a repetition of the Procrastonators ( which control time) other copies have repeated clocks etc)
Also:
🔶 ♻️ ♻️
♻️
♻️
♻️
🚫
🚫
🚫
🚫
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🤔14 A con, deception, or fake

Most murder mysteries fit ( because the murder pretends they didn't do it) but others fit too:

Read
Death at the Bar (view spoiler)[ Murder but also involves an embezzlement (hide spoiler)]
The Maid (view spoiler)[ the actual murderer gets away, a character who has deceived protagonist is convicted instead although they are guilty of drugs offences (hide spoiler)]
✅The Third Man and the Fallen Idol (view spoiler)[ Faked death in Third Man, also Fallen Idol husband deceived wife and tried to deceive police (hide spoiler)]
Murder After Christmas (view spoiler)[Murder is covered up for several days until after Christmas (hide spoiler)]
The Moving Finger (view spoiler)[ Murder but the poison pen letters are only written to cover up the original murder and make it look like a suicide (hide spoiler)]
Amsterdam (view spoiler)[ Oh dear! Two main protagonists each kill the other in an attempt to fake an assisted suicide At the same time obviously (hide spoiler)]
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared(view spoiler)[ The story that the group of friends invent to fit the facts and to prove they didn't kill the two thugs (but they did) (hide spoiler)]
Death Comes to Marlow (view spoiler)[ Murder by fiancé and whole relationship has been with a goal of murder to get their money. Tried to make it look like accident - c/f Poirots Christmas (hide spoiler)]
The Fifth Elephant (view spoiler)[ The Scone of Stone is aparently stolen but is actually destroyed and is a fake anyway - or is it? C/f Triggers Broom etc (hide spoiler)]
Towards Zero (view spoiler)[ Motive for murder is to frame someone so that they are hanged (hide spoiler)]
Surfeit of Lampreys (view spoiler)[ involves usual lies about alibi but also suspects speak in French to deceive police - not knowing that they also speak French (hide spoiler)]
A Room Full of Bones (view spoiler)[ turns out bones of a mediaeval bishop/Saint are female (hide spoiler)]
Nutshell (view spoiler)[ affair and murder (hide spoiler)]
Dead Beat (view spoiler)[murder plus someone is selling fake watches etc (hide spoiler)]
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (view spoiler)[ hunters (who lay hidden traps) are being killed by Unknown person(s) or possibly animals (hide spoiler)]
The Truth (view spoiler)[ Double for Vetinari to frame him ,plus Gaspode ( a talking dog) pretends to 1)be a human, 2) be a poodle rather than a terrier3) NOT be able to talk (hide spoiler)]
Death Comes as the End (view spoiler)[ several murders plus the murderer fakes an attempt on their life to avert suspicion and someone else lies about seeing a someone acting suspiciously( implying that there are supernatural causes) (hide spoiler)]
The Man Who Died Twice (view spoiler)[ murders plus theft of diamonds etc (hide spoiler)]
The Kite Runner (view spoiler)[ servant is really half brother (hide spoiler)]
Burial of Ghosts (view spoiler)[ a murder but also deceptions involving parenthood and financial fraud (hide spoiler)]
Sparkling Cyanide (view spoiler)[ Murder , adulterous goings on, plus MI5 agent undercover and someone paid to pretend to be first victim (hide spoiler)]
The Nine Tailors (view spoiler)[ a character pretends to be a soldier who has lost his memory , lots of instances where people pretend to be someone they aren't (hide spoiler)]
Death and the Dancing Footman (view spoiler)[ Murder but the murdrer stages aparent attempts on his own life to divert attention and lead people to believe he was intended target and therefore frame someone else (hide spoiler)]
A Meditation on Murder (view spoiler)[ Murder of a con man (hide spoiler)]
End of Summer (view spoiler)[ disappearance of a child is faked to cover up his murder by mother , also con by person later claiming to be adult version of the child (hide spoiler)]
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (view spoiler)[ Murdered man is con artist who cons artists ! (hide spoiler)]
One Good Turn (view spoiler)[ Very complicated but fraud squad is part of the plot which involves money laundering and hit men , amongst other things , including murder (hide spoiler)]
Maisie Dobbs (view spoiler)[ characters said to have died naturally or accidentally actually executed for desertion (hide spoiler)]
Nemesis (view spoiler)[ murder disguised as a robbery , suicide as a murder, murder as a suicide, also a corrupt police officer and lots of lies (hide spoiler)]
Dying Fall (view spoiler)[ murder by arson - not much attempt to make it look otherwise , but obviously then doesn't own up. Main fake/con is the swapping of an important skeleton for some much lesser bones. (hide spoiler)]
The Boy in the Suitcase (view spoiler)[ Complcated abduction of child ( child is deceived) then money is missing etc (hide spoiler)]
The Appeal (view spoiler)[ The actaual Appeal is for money to pay for treatment for a child , but the child is not really ill (hide spoiler)]
The Miniaturist (view spoiler)[ Brief sham marriage , plus a couple of secret affairs (hide spoiler)]
Worst Fears (view spoiler)[ Protagonists husband is serial adulterer but she has no idea until he dies and she finds her life with him was all fake - they weren't even legally married (hide spoiler)]
The Hollow (view spoiler)[ A murderer frames themselves for a murder by faking evidence in an obvious way (hide spoiler)]
A Nice Class of Corpse (view spoiler)[murders but also some fake jewels (hide spoiler)]
Gallows View (view spoiler)[ Several crimes which, as is the norm, the criminals do not own up to. (hide spoiler)]
Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper(view spoiler)[ The murders, but also the hoax letters and tape that sent police on a wild goose chase (hide spoiler)]
The Labours of Hercules (view spoiler)[ There are a couple of murders but mostly other crimes and their cover ups (hide spoiler)]
The Zig Zag Girl (view spoiler)[ murders, a spy, a stage magician (hide spoiler)]
The Killing of Polly Carter (view spoiler)[ the murder starts out as a faked suicide. Also characters cover up aspects of their relationship with the victim. Other characters are manipulated in attempt to repair their relationship (hide spoiler)]
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride(view spoiler)[ Arranged kidnapping , Dread Pirate Roberts character , plus they are all fake because this is about making a film (hide spoiler)]
In Re: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons (view spoiler)[ Short stories that homage Sherlock Holmes stories, involving fraud theft and murder etc (hide spoiler)]
The Christmas Murder Game (view spoiler)[ lots of murders and the murderer pretends to be the good guy. Also another person pretends to leave but is hidden, and it's pretending to be a good book 🙄 (hide spoiler)]

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15 Three books set in different centuries
I would like to choose books from the 'best of the century' lists which are also written in the century listed , but it's making my brain hurt so as long as there are 3 different centuries that will do. I will try and read one from 19th, 20th and 21st century ' best of' lists later once I've read 52 books.


Books Read :

Century of the Fruitbat(Discworld) :
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth
Thief of Time
The Last Hero

2000BC
Death Comes as the End

17th Century
✅The Miniaturist

19th Century
The Adventures of China Iron

20th Century
Violeta( mostly)
Death at the Bar
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol
Murder After Christmas
The Moving Finger
Amsterdam
The Metamorphosis ( very early/not specified)
Killing the Shadows
Towards Zero
Surfeit of Lampreys
White Teeth( on best of 21st century list*)
Dead Beat
The Dogs of Riga
✅Sparkling Cyanide
The Nine Tailors
Death and the Dancing Footman
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Maisie Dobbs
Flowers for Algernon
Worst Fears
The Hollow
A Nice Class of Corpse
Gallows View
Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper
The Labours of Hercules
The Zig Zag Girl
The Echo of Old Books
In Re: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons

21st Centrury
The Maid
Death Comes to Marlow
A Room Full of Bones
The Flatshare
The Road Home
Nutshell
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Man Who Died Twice
Burial of Ghosts
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Rabbit Factor
A Meditation on Murder
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
One Good Turn
✅The Satsuma Complex
Nemesis
Dying Fall
The Boy in the Suitcase
The Appeal
The Reading List
To Know Her
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
The Killing of Polly Carter
The Christmas Murder Game

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16 - see 15

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17- see 15

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18 Related to Science
Possibly
The Science of Discworld
Flowers for Algernon
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World


Possibles read
Killing the Shadows (psychology ?)
A Room Full of Bones ( forensic archeologist)
White Teeth ' Future Mouse' project
✅Flowers for Algernon protagonist and titular mouse are subjects of a science experiment
Dying Fall ( forensic archeologist)
The Appeal a child is in need of a miracle cure

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🤔19Related to the Arts

Possibles:

Read :
Amsterdam - one of characters is very famous composer
The Flatshare protagonist works for publisher of craft/hobby books
✅Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles( essays on Shakespeare )
Nutshell character is a poet and publisher
One of Them biography of actor
The Appeal - amature dramatics
Worst Fears main character is an actress
The Reading List , books are very important
The Zig Zag Girl several characters are performers mostly stage magic
The Echo of Old Books books are important Character is a writer
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride - the making of a film

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🤔20 Cover or title which includes a route of travel

Possibles :

Read :

A Room Full of Bones ( most popular edition has a gravel path on cover , the audio edition I read has a stream )
✅
The Road Home ( most editions have a road on cover , obviously it's in the title anyway )

Death Comes as the End
There is a path on this (gorgeous) cover but this isn't my copy

The House in the Cerulean Sea
There is a road but I just wanted an excuse to put this cover up again

One Good Turn
Some covers have a road , as here, some an alley etc. Mine had a bird!

Flowers for Algernon
Many editions have mazes which are important plot pointThis is best example but not the one I read

The Boy in the Suitcase
Some edition have rail tracks /stations
To Know Her (path)
Gallows View road/path
The Killing of Polly Carter path

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🤔21 Author from Asian despora
This means of Asian descent but not based in their county of 'origin'

Listopia https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Possibles :
The God of Small Things🏠
The Memory Police
Interpreter of Maladies🏠
Read:
♻️The Kite Runner
♻️Memoirs of a Polar Bear
✅The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
♻️Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
🚫The Reading List

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22 Faceless person on the cover
I prefer to use a person shown without a face, rather than the face being not visible due to back being turned etc

Will use :

✅Nemesis( not my cover)

Read ( haven't necessarily read the edition pictured that has the faceless person)

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🤔23 Body of water in the title

Possible
The Lady of the Rivers

Read :
✅The House in the Cerulean Sea

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🤔24 Character is either a Tinker, Taylor, Soldier or Spy
Listopia : https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

This states 'character' and I have stretched that a bit(lot) to fit the book I wanted to read which turned out to have no actual character that was a Taylor ( though it does have ex soldiers) I will try to fit in another book with a Taylor.
Additional read 🚫 ( not used anywhere else) fits for 'Spy'
Another additional read fits even better for 'Taylor'

Possibles
♻️The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared(spy for a while)
♻️The Fifth Elephant Waldo Sleeps and Inigo Skimmer are sort of spy's
♻️Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles( several characters in the plays discussed are soldiers , possible other job titles too)
♻️White Teeth ( character job is to sew clothes )
♻️The Man Who Died Twice (spies/agents )
♻️Burial of Ghosts (ex soldier)
✅The Nine Tailors ( the title doesn't refer to a person , but there is a person who calls themselves 'Taylor' and, set in the -1930s most of the male characters have been soldiers in WWI, including one where it is plot point. )
♻️Death and the Dancing Footman two characters are soldiers ( set early WW2)
♻️One Good Turn Jackson Brodie is ex Militarty as is a hit man ( if he's being truthful )
♻️Maisie Dobbs soldiers
🚫Gallows View spy (peeper)
🚫The Zig Zag Girl Spy ( 'real ' one during war time and major plot point)
🚫The Christmas Murder Game main character is a dressmaker ( actually the best for for this prompt of any of the books )

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🤔25 Tropical setting


♻️The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
✅A Meditation on Murder
🚫The Killing of Polly Carter

[MissLemon]

✔️26 Related to Pride


✅One of Them: From Albert Square to Parliament Square

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✔️27 Author from continental Europe

I'm going to include Scandinavia as it is connected by land and I probably want to use a book by a Sweedish author here. But I hope to read several books by authors form 'true' continental Europe too.that I will use for other prompts

Probably :
✅The Dogs of Riga Author Henning Mankell from Sweeden

Read that fit
♻️The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson (Sweeden)
♻️The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka (Czech Republic/Bohemia)
♻️Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead ( Poland)
♻️The Rabbit Factor Antti Tuomainen (Finland )
♻️End of Summer Anders de la Motte (Sweden)

♻️Nemesis Jo Nesbø Norway
♻️The Boy in the Suitcase Agnete Friis Lene Kaaberbol DenmRk

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28 A book that is dark
This is subjective and I can't be bothered to decide if later books rad are 'dark' , these are some earlier ones that possibly are

✅The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared ( dark humour - eg an elephant accidentally kills someone by sitting on them)
♻️The Metamorphosis ( does a man turning into an insect count as dark ? )
Killing the Shadows tartan noir ?
♻️The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida narrated by a corpse amongst other things
Nemesis Nordic noir

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✔️29 A book that is light


Read :
♻️Murder After Christmas (Murder is treated very lightly by most characters )
✅The Flat Share ( romance )

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🤔30 Related to a chess piece

King, Queen, Knight, Bishop, Rook, Pawn

Read
Murder After Christmas minor character /suspect is a Bishop
The Fifth Elephant relates to coronation of the Low King
❓A Room Full of Bones (bishop )
♻️The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ( actually a plot involving cards but that includes King and queen )
♻️Dying Fall ( Raven King aka Kkng Arthur)

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🤔31 A book found by putting favourite author into Literature Map
https://www.literature-map.com/

Possible (see list in notes )
Ngaio Marsh
Ann Cleeves
Dorothy L. Sayers

Read
Dorothy L. Sayers : The Nine Tailors
❓Ngaio Marsh : Death and the Dancing Footman

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✔️32 Set in a UNESCO city of literature

List of countries and links here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Prague Czech
♻️Metamorphosis

Manchester UK
♻️Dead Beat

✅Edinburgh
One Good Turn

Wroclaw Poland
♻️Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Baghdad, Iraq
They Came to Baghdad

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🤔33 An author with a first name popular in 1923

Male: John Robert William James Charles Geoprge Joseph Edward Frank Richard
Female Mary Dorothy Helen Margaret Betty Ruth Mildred Virginia France's Elizabeth

Read
James Baldwin The Fire Next Time
✅Robert Thorogood Death Comes to Marlow & A Meditation on Murder & The Killing of Polly Carter
Joe Tracini Ten Things I Hate About Me
John Sutherland Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles
Richard Osman The Man Who Died Twice
Dorothy L. Sayers The Nine Tailors
Bob Mortimer : The Satsuma Complex
Mary Ann Noe To Know Her

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✔️34 A novella

Between 20,000 and 40,000 words ?
Find out word count at https://word counters.com

Read
The Fire Next Time ( ♻️ This is 2 essays/non fiction) 22,765
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol (♻️ Third Man is a Novella -12,089 words - but this book includes a short story too so *may* fit - Fallen idol unknown word count -approx 7,000?)
Amsterdam - just over at approx 44,000
✅The Metamorphosis estimate is around 20,800 so only just , but wiki says it's a Novella anyway
🚫The Last Hero about 25, 000

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🤔35 School subject in the title

Possible :
The English Patient
A Brief History of Seven Killings
The Reading List

Read
✅A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

🚫The Reading List

SEE END OF LIST FOR PROMPT 36
Woops!

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🤔37 Theme of returning home

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Read:
The Fifth Elephant (Angua is returning to Uberwald / her estranged family)
A Room Full of Bones ( Bones of indigenous Australians are repatriatedfrom UK)
The Road Home
❓Towards Zero
♻️End of Summer ( MC returns home to investigate disappearance of her brother when they were children)
🚫The Christmas Murder Game( returning to childhood home to solve mystery /murder)

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🤔38 Sun Moon or Stars on the cover

Possibles
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Klara and the Sun

Read
♻️The Fifth Elephant ( setting sun)
♻️Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead ( some editions have sun/moon and some have stars)


❓Death Comes as the End
Setting sun ( not my edition)

♻️
The House in the Cerulean Sea ( setting sun)
🚫 The Killing of Polly Carter setting sun

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✔️39 A western
Listopia https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Possibles
The Sisters Brothers
Death Comes for the Archbishop
The Blessing Way
True Grit
Read
✅The Adventures of China Iron

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40 A full name in the title

Possible
Maisie Dobbs
Jane Eyre
David Copperfield

Read
♻️The Adventures of China Iron
♻️The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
♻️Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
✅Maisie Dobbs
♻️The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
🚫The Killing of Polly Carter
🚫In Re: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons

[MissLemon]

🤔41 NPR 'Books we love' lists
(This is a very long list and I haven't bothered to check every book I've read to see if it's listed. I chose to read the book listed because I saw it on the list )

Read :
✅Taste: My Life through Food

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🤔42 Related to Ghost, Spirit, Phantom , Spectre

Listopia : https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Possible :
✅Burial of Ghosts ( the title , obviously. There are no actual ghosts in this, ironically, 'ghosts' refers to the past - I think)

Others Read
A Room Full of Bones( Charcter is possibly dieing and dreams/ hallucinates /sees a friend who has set out to save them in 'Dream Time')
Nutshell ( briefly a ghost appears/is imagined - see Hamlet)
Death Comes as the End later murders are thought by some to be the work of the ghost of the first victim as revenge
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida set in a version of the 'Afterlife'and narrated by a dead man
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont ( protagonist sees spirit of her husband occasionally )

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✔️43 Involves a murder
( Oh dear, this is more than half of this years books😳)
Read : Listing some of these as including a murder may be a Spoiler so hiding all , except
✅Murder After Christmas
and
🚫The Christmas Murder Game
( it's in the title ) ,
and
🚫Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper because obviously has murders
(view spoiler)[
Death at the Bar
The Maid
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol
The Moving Finger
Amsterdam
Death Comes to Marlow
Killing the Shadows
The Fifth Elephant
Towards Zero
Surfeit of Lampreys
Nutshell
Dead Beat
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Truth
Death Comes as the End
The Man Who Died Twice
Burial of Ghosts
The Dogs of Riga
Sparkling Cyanide
The Nine Tailors
The Rabbit Factor
Death and the Dancing Footman
A Meditation on Murder
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
End of Summer
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
One Good Turn
Maisie Dobbs
The Satsuma Complex
Nemesis
Dying Fall
The Boy in the Suitcase
The Appeal
The Hollow
The Labours of Hercules
The Zig Zag Girl
The Killing of Polly Carter
In Re: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons
(hide spoiler)]

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🤔44 Cover includes text that isn't horizontal
Read
✅
Also:
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✔️45 Author has published 8 or more books
Obviously AC , TP , NM

Read
Isabel Allende : Violeta
Ngaio Marsh Death at the Bar : Surfeit of Lampreys Death and the Dancing Footman
✅James Baldwin The Fire Next Time
Graham Greene The Third Man and the Fallen Idol
Jenni Murray A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
Agatha Christie The Moving Finger. Towards ZeroDeath Comes as the EndSparkling CyanideThe Hollow The Labours of Hercules
Ian McEwan Amsterdam Nutshell
Val McDermid Killing the ShadowsDead Beat
Terry Pratchett The Fifth ElephantThe TruthThief of Time The Last Hero
Elly Griffiths A Room Full of BonesDying Fall The Zig Zag Girl
Rose Tremain The Road Home
Zadie Smith White Teeth
Yōko Tawada Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Ann Cleeves Burial of Ghosts
Henning Mankell The Dogs of Riga
Dorothy L. Sayers The Nine Tailors
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara The Adventures of China Iron
Antti Tuomainen The Rabbit Factor
T.J. Klune The House in the Cerulean Sea
Anders de la Motte End of Summer
Kate Atkinson One Good Turn
Jacqueline Winspear : Maisie Dobbs
Daniel Keyes : Flowers for Algernon
Jo Nesbø Nemesis
Fay Weldon Worst Fears
Simon Brett A Nice Class of Corpse
Peter Robinson Gallows View
August Derleth In Re: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons

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✔️46 Title with a word found in recipes
Possibles
Dead Beat®

Read :
A Room Full of Bones
Taste: My Life Through Food
Nutshell
❓Dead Beat
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Satsuma Complex

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✔️47 Related to a geometric shape

Read
♻️Death at the Bar (sort of)
✅The Kite Runner

Possibles :
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Circle of Friends