Laura Z's 2025 ATY Reading Challenge

[Laura Z]

Laura Z's 2025 ATY Challenge: 34/52
January 1, 2025-December 31, 2025

✅1. A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y (toothbrush): Games and Rituals ★★★
✅2. A prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list (a book involving money - or lack of money): Jackpot Summer ★★★★
✅3. A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song: Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV ★★★★
✅4. A book set underground, under sea, or in an underworld: Lore Olympus: Volume Seven ★★★★
✅5. A book with a weird or intriguing title: The Saint of Bright Doors ★★★
❌6. A book with a serpentine element on the cover:
✅7. A book by an author that uses 3 names: Mercury ★★★★
✅8. A collection of short stories or novellas, essays, poetry, or a mix of various brief writings: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver ★★★★
❌9. A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year:
✅10. A book about witches, goddesses, or nuns: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls ★★★★
✅11. A book set in a fictional location: A Novel Love Story ★★★★
❌12. A book by an Irish author:
❌13. A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family:
❌14. A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman:
❌15. A book of secrets, lies, or deception:
✅16. A book that fits a prompt from the 2016 ATY list (a biography, autobiography, or memoir): Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty ★★★★★
✅17. A history or historical fiction book set prior to 1925: The Bookbinder ★★★★
❌18. A book set primarily in nature:
✅19. A book with a cover that has a building or cityscape: Babel ★★★★
✅20. A book with an animal, vegetable (plant), or mineral in the title: City of Night Birds ★★★
✅21. A book connected in some way to any collective noun for animals: The Murder of Mr. Wickham ★★★★
❌22. A translated novel from Asia:
✅23. A book that involves art, music, dancing or acting: The Seventh Veil of Salome ★★★★
✅24. A book with a main character who is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, or a criminal: The Force of Such Beauty ★★★
✅25. A book with waves on the cover: Isola ★★★★
✅26. A book by an author with a common noun in their name: The Getaway ★★★
❌27. A book set in winter:
✅28. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles - Book 1: Last House ★★★
❌29. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles - Book 2:
❌30. A monster book:
✅31. A book with a coastal setting: Sandwich ★★★★★
✅32. A mystery or true crime book: Long Bright River ★★★★
✅33. A book by an author you enjoyed but haven't gotten around to reading again for some time: Fang Fiction ★★★
✅34. A book title that could be a country song: The Good Part ★★★★
✅35. A book from an NPR “Books We Love” list: Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood ★★★★
❌36. A book with a common household object on the cover:
❌37. A book featuring adult friendships:
✅38. Two books with a connection from different genres - Book 1: Lady in the Lake ★★★
✅39. Two books with a connection from different genres - Book 2: My Life as a Villainess ★★★★
✅40. A book you'd consider a comfort read: What I Ate in One Year ★★★★
❌41. A book that involves digging up the past
✅42. A book set in a manor, mansion, or estate: Heiress Takes All (A Reese’s Book Club Pick) ★★★
✅43. A book whose title has ten or fewer letters: Junie ★★★★
❌44. A haunting book
✅45. A book by an author whose publishing career spans at least ten years: Darkly ★★★
✅46. A book related to one of the traditional full moon names: The Moonflowers ★★★★
❌47. A book relating to fire
✅48. A book with a character dealing with death: Memorials ★★★★
❌49. A book that deals with time travel, alternate universes, or alternate timelines
❌50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2024 or 2025
✅51. A book published in 2025: Memorial Days ★★★★
✅52. A book with a sunset vibes on the cover: Just for the Summer ★★★★

[Laura Z]

Laura Z's 2025 Anniversary List: 7/10
January 1, 2025-December 31, 2025

✅2016: A book originally written in a language other than English: The Unworthy ★★★
✅2017: A book whose title doesn't contain the letter "E": A Good Happy Girl ★★
✅2018: An author's debut book: Hollow Kingdom ★★★
✅2019: A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women ★★★★
❌2020: A book with an emotion in the title
✅2021: A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet (H - Hotel): The Dream Hotel ★★★
✅2022: A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name: Like Mother, Like Daughter ★★★★
✅2023: A book whose author has published more than 7 books: Starter Villain ★★★★★
❌2024: A book that has been on your TBR for over a year
❌2025: A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family

[Laura Z]

Laura Z's Winter Challenge: 15/15 - COMPLETED
December 1, 2024-February 28, 2025

✅1. A book that fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list (published in 2024): Looking for Smoke ★★★★
✅2. A book that fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list (cover image starting with A, T, or Y - Tree): A December to Remember ★★★
✅3. A book that has a mostly white cover: The Altruists ★★★★
✅4. A book on a "Best of 2024" list (NPR 2024 Books We Love): The Truth According to Ember ★★★★★
✅5. A book set in snow: All I Want Is You ★★★★
✅6. A book by an author you've read before: Other People's Houses ★★★★
✅7. A book that features a winter holiday (Valentine's Day): The Second You're Single ★★★
✅8. A nonfiction book: The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever ★★★★
✅9. A book by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER: The Phoenix Bride ★★★★
✅10. A book that has a mostly blue cover: The Ghostkeeper: A Graphic Novel ★★★★
✅11. A speculative fiction novel: We Lived on the Horizon ★★★
✅12. A book that features family drama: Oye ★★★
✅13. A book that has fire on the cover: Rental House ★★★
✅14. A book by a BIPOC author: Good Dirt ★★★★
✅15. A love story: This Is a Love Story ★★★

[Laura Z]

Laura Z's Spring Challenge: 30/30 - COMPLETED
March 1, 2025-May 31, 2025

Author's Name: 15/15

✅ 1. SPRINGTIME: Memphis, Tara M. Stringfellow ★★★
✅ 2. BLOOM: A Natural History of Dragons, Marie Brennan ★★★
✅ 3. SUN SHINING: The Showman: Inside the Russian Invasion of Ukraine That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky―An Insider Account of the War and the Making of a Leader, Simon Shuster ★★★★
✅ 4. BABY ANIMALS: The Last Bookstore on Earth, Lily Braun-Arnold ★★★
✅ 5. EGGS: Funny You Should Ask, Elissa Sussman ★★★★
✅ 6. TULIPS: You Shouldn't Be Here, Lauren Thoman ★★★
✅ 7. JELLYBEANS: Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen ★★★★
✅ 8. RAINSTORM: Rainbow Black, Maggie Thrash ★★★
✅ 9. SPROUT: The Lauras, Sara Taylor ★★★
✅10. WARMING: The Boyfriend Candidate, Ashley Winstead ★★★★
✅11. SPRING BREAK: Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America, Paola Ramos ★★★★★
✅12. RAINCOAT: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride, Roshani Chokshi ★★★
✅13. GREEN: Most Ardently, Gabe Cole Novoa ★★★★
✅14. EARTH DAY: Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess, Evan Drellich ★★★★
✅15. PASTELS: A Man of Good Fortune: A Pride and Prejudice Variation, Ali Scott ★★★★



Book Title: 15/15

✅ 1. SPRINGTIME: A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher ★★★★
✅ 2. BLOOM: Black Woods Blue Sky, Eowyn Ivey ★★★★
✅ 3. SUN SHINING: The Sunlit Man, Brandon Sanderson ★★★★
✅ 4. BABY ANIMALS: The Backyard Bird Chronicles, Amy Tan ★★★★
✅ 5. EGGS: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson ★★★
✅ 6. TULIPS: The Tower, Flora Carr ★★★
✅ 7. JELLYBEANS: Julia, Sandra Newman ★★★★
✅ 8. RAINSTORM: Ready Player One, Ernest Cline ★★★★★
✅ 9. SPROUT: Show Don't Tell, Curtis Sittenfeld ★★★★
✅10. WARMING: The Women, Kristin Hannah ★★★★
✅11. SPRING BREAK: The Story She Left Behind, Patti Callahan Henry ★★★★
✅12. RAINCOAT: Roommates, Ola Tundun ★★★
✅13. GREEN: The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Dare ★★★★
✅14. EARTH DAY: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, John Green ★★★★★
✅15. PASTELS: Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir ★★★★★

[Laura Z]

Laura Z's Summer Challenge: 25/25 - 7500 points COMPLETED
June 1, 2025-August 31, 2025

1. Chips and Dip (100 points)
✅a. A book in a series: Puck and Prejudice (Regals Hockey, #1), Lia Riley ★★★
✅b. A book with water on the cover: The Last Love Note, Emma Grey ★★★
✅c. A book released in 2024 or 2025: 32 Days in May, Betty Corrello ★★★★
✅d. A book by a new-to-you author: Home of the American Circus, Allison Larkin ★★★★★
✅e. A humorous book: Because He's Jeff Goldblum: The Movies, Memes, and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor ★★★★



2. Drinks Station (200 points)
✅a. Author’s initials are in FRESH-SQUEEZED LEMONADE: The Spectacular, Fiona Davis ★★★★
✅b. Author's initials are in UNSWEETENED ICED TEA: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5), Suzanne Collins ★★★
✅c. Author’s initials are in ROOT BEER SODA: Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful, David Enrich ★★★★
✅d. Author's initials are in FRUIT PUNCH: Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir, Iliana Regan ★★★
✅e. Author's initials are in SPARKLING WATER: One Death at a Time, Abbi Waxman ★★★



3. Burger and Hotdog Toppings (300 points)
✅a. Ketchup – A book with red on the cover: Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal, Melissa B. Jacoby ★★★★
✅b. Relish – A book by a favorite author: Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily Henry ★★★
✅c. Mustard – A book with a military character: The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin ★★★★
✅d. Pickles – A book with a title word that starts with P: Pemberley: Mr. Darcy's Dragon, Maria Grace ★★★
✅e. Cheese – A sentimental book: One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune ★★★★



4. Desserts (400 points)
✅a. A book with a main character who is a child: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee ★★★★★
✅b. A book that features a wedding: The Last One at the Wedding, Jason Rekulak ★★★★
✅c. A book that has been nominated for an award: Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams ★★★★
✅d. A book with a café, bakery, or restaurant as an important setting: The Romance Recipe, Ruby Bartlett ★★★
✅e. A book originally written in a language other than English: Human Acts, Han Kang ★★★★



5. The Sides (500 points)
✅a. Potato Salad – A book with more than one point of view: Do Me a Favor, Cathy Yardley ★★★★
✅b. Mac and Cheese – A book by an author with 10+ books: The Life Impossible, Matt Haig ★★★
✅c. Corn Bread – A book originally published before 1900: King Lear, William Shakespeare ★★★★★
✅d. Deviled Eggs – A book with challenging subject matter: Death Interrupted: How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die, Blair Bigham ★★★★
✅e. Watermelon – A book with 500+ pages: The Stand, Stephen King ★★★★★