Around the Year in 52 Books discussion
Books mentioned in this topic
How Beautiful We Were (other topics)Law & Beard (other topics)
Evvie Drake Starts Over (other topics)
Carrie Soto Is Back (other topics)
The Friday Night Knitting Club (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Imbolo Mbue (other topics)Lani Lynn Vale (other topics)
Linda Holmes (other topics)
Taylor Jenkins Reid (other topics)
Kate Jacobs (other topics)
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1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y: How Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue 3/7/23 (Africa)
2. A book by an author you read in 2022: Law & Beard - Lani Lynn Vale 1/20/23
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list: Evvie Drake Starts Over - Linda Holmes 3/8/23
4. A book with an interracial relationship: Carrie Soto Is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid 1/15/23
5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover:
6. A book where books are important: The Book Woman's Daughter - Kim Michele Richardson 2/12/23
7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title: What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher 2/1/23
8. An author's debut book
9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W: The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak 1/3/23 (Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Shortlist 2022)
10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities": Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin 3/9/23 (scary)
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: Firestarter - Stephen King 2/5/23
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: Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton 1/8/23 (20th century)
17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3: Finding Me - Viola Davis 2/9/23 (21st century)
18. A book related to science: Love on the Brain - Ali Hazelwood 1/2/23
19. A book related to the arts: The Witch of Painted Sorrows - M.J. Rose 1/19/23
20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel: The Street - Ann Petry 2/21/23
21. A book by an Asian diaspora author: Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea - Sungju Lee 2/7/23
22. A book with a faceless person on the cover:
23. A book with a body of water in the title: Cottage by the Sea - Debbie Macomber 2/17/23
24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy: Nick - Michael Farris Smith 2/19/23 (soldier)
25. A book with a tropical setting: Hurricane Child - Kacen Callender 3/3/23
26. A book related to pride
27. A book by an author from continental Europe: Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 1/21/23
28. A book that is dark: A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle 1/13/23
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: Killers of a Certain Age - Deanna Raybourn 1/24/23
32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923: Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner 2/11/23
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: Stern Men - Elizabeth Gilbert 2/15/23
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: Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë 1/27/23
41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter: The Hotel Nantucket - Elin Hilderbrand 2/26/23
43. A book that involves a murder: Girl, Forgotten - Karin Slaughter 1/2/23
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: What the Hail - Lani Lynn Vale 2/24/23
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: Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler 1/16/23
50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt:
51. A book published in 2023: All the Dangerous Things - Stacy Willingham 3/2/23
52. A book with an unusual or surprising title: Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays - Phoebe Robinson 1/14/23