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THE 2023 LIST
✅ 1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y - The Witch of Tin Mountain
✅ 2. A book by an author you read in 2022 - Sea Castle
✅ 3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list - Ninth House*
✅ 4. A book with an interracial relationship - If You Come Softly
✅ 5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover - The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

✅ 6. A book where books are important - The Future Library
✅ 7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title - Where the Crawdads Sing
✅ 8. An author's debut book - The Silent Patient
✅ 9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W - Jade City (World Fantasy Award)

✅ 10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" (Sporty Spice) - Beartown
✅ 11. A book about a person/character with a disability - Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up
✅ 12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies - Hell Bent
✅ 13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover - The Cartographers

✅ 14. A book with a con, deception, or fake - The Stolen Heir
✅ 15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1, 1900s - The Rose Code
✅ 16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2, 1800s - Heir of Uncertain Magic
✅ 17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3, 1500s - Hamnet

✅ 18. A book related to science - Lessons in Chemistry
✅ 19. A book related to the arts - Symphony for a Deadly Throne
✅ 20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel (road on cover) - The Last Rose of Shanghai
✅ 21. A book by an Asian diaspora author - Everything I Never Told You
✅ 22. A book with a faceless person on the cover - Tress of the Emerald Sea

✅ 23. A book with a body of water in the title - The House in the Cerulean Sea
✅ 24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy - Wool
✅ 25. A book with a tropical setting - Wish You Were Here
✅ 26. A book related to pride - Light from Uncommon Stars

✅ 27. A book by an author from continental Europe - The Winners
✅ 28. A book that is dark - Sorrowland
✅ 29. A book that is light - Remarkably Bright Creatures
✅ 30. A book related to a chess piece - Her Deadly Game
✅ 31. A book found by inputting a favorite author (Brandon Sanderson) on https://www.literature-map.com - Red Rising by Pierce Brown

✅ 32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature - One Last Kill
✅ 33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923 - The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
✅ 34. A novella - The Lathe of Heaven
✅ 35. A book with a school subject in the title - The Chemistry of Love

✅ 36. A book that has been translated from another language - Us Against You
✅ 37. A book with the theme of returning home - Gallant
✅ 38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on Spirits Abroadthe cover - A Closed and Common Orbit
✅ 39. A western - Lonesome Dove

✅ 40. A book with a full name in the title - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
✅ 41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists - Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
✅ 42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter - Spirits Abroad
✅ 43. A book that involves a murder - Lie To Her
✅ 44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal - The Bluest Eye

✅ 45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books - Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
✅ 46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe - Honey & Spice
✅ 47. A book related to a geometric shape - Sphere
✅ 48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story - Fairy Tale

✅ 49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
✅ 50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt - The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois**
✅ 51. A book published in 2023 - Chance
✅ 52. A book with an unusual or surprising title - The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

*Chose "A book that could be used for at least five of the 2023 challenge prompts" - Fits #1, 2, 3, 14, 28, 42
**Favorite Prompt - A book that could be used for at least five of the 2023 challenge prompts - Fits #4, 7, 37, 38, 40


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