Lori’s 2025 ATY challenge

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THE 52 TOPICS OF THE 2025 ATY READING CHALLENGE
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✔️1. A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y - Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (toadstool)
✔️2. A prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list: A book related to "The Great Gatsby" - Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
✔️3. A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song - To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Fah)
✔️4. A book set underground, under sea or in an underworld - Wool Omnibus
✔️5. A book with a weird or intriguing title - The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society

✔️6. A book with a serpentine element on the cover -
✔️7. A book by an author that uses 3 names - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
✔️8. A collection of short stories or novellas, essays, poetry, or a mix of various brief writings - The Witness for the Prosecution: And Other Stories
✔️9. A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2... - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2024)

✔️10. A book about witches, goddesses or nuns - Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
✔️11. A book set in a fictional location - Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
✔️12. A book by an Irish author - A Keeper by Graham Norton
✔️13. A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family - The Hollow Boy (Lockwood & Co has 4 members)
✔️14. A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman - Sea of Tranquility

✔️15. A book of secrets, lies, or deception - The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury
✔️16. A book that fits a prompt from the 2016 ATY list: 37. A book that you've seen the movie of but haven't read: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
✔️17. A history or historical fiction book set prior to 1925 - Death Descends on Saturn Villa
✔️18. A book set primarily in nature - Greenteeth

✔️19. A book with a cover that has a building or cityscape: The Moonlight Market
✔️20. A book with an animal, vegetable (plant), or mineral in the title - Away with the Penguins
✔️21. A book connected in some way to any collective noun for animals - How to Solve Your Own Murder
✔️22. A translated novel from Asia - The Housekeeper and the Professor

✔️23. A book that involves art, music, dancing or acting - I Know Who You Are (acting)
✔️24. A book with a main character who is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, or a criminal - Brighton Rock (criminal)
✔️25. A book with waves on the cover - The Only One Left
✔️26. A book by an author with a common noun in their name - Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
✔️27. A book set in the winter - Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries

✔️28. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles: Book 1 - Better Than Life
✔️29. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles: Book 2 - Unnatural Death
30. A monster book
✔️31. A book with a coastal setting - The House of Lost Secrets

✔️32. A mystery or true crime book - Blackstone Fell
✔️33. A book by an author you enjoyed but haven't gotten around to reading again for some time - The Humans
✔️34. A book title that could be a country song - I Married A Dead Man
35. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists: https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view... - The Tainted Cup
A Tale for the Time Being
The House Girl
The Paying Guests
Station Eleven
The Buried Giant
In a Dark, Dark Wood
Slade House
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Fireman
The Alice Network
Circe
Little
Spinning Silver
Ask Again, Yes
The Bird King
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Gods of Jade and Shadow
The Nickel Boys
Recursion
The Starless Sea
Anxious People
Conjure Women
Hamnet
Mexican Gothic
The Once and Future Witches
The Only Good Indians
A Slow Fire Burning
Klara and the Sun
The Paper Palace

36. A book with a common household object on the cover
✔️37. A book featuring adult friendships - Miss Benson's Beetle
✔️38. Two books with a connection from different genres: Book 1 - Orbital
39. Two books with a connection from different genres: Book 2 - Space: The Human Story
✔️40. A book you'd consider a comfort read - Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons

41. A book that involves digging up the past
✔️42. A book set in a manor, mansion, or estate - The Quickening (Clewer Hall)
✔️43. A book whose title has ten or fewer letters - Joyland
✔️44. A haunting book - The Creeping Shadow

✔️45. A book by an author whose publishing career spans at least ten years - Carry On, Jeeves
✔️46. A book related to one of the traditional full moon names: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... - The Florist (Flower Moon)
✔️47. A book relating to fire - Relight My Fire
✔️48. A book with a character dealing with death - Over My Dead Body

✔️49. A book that deals with time travel, alternate universes, or alternate timelines - The Well of Lost Plots
✔️50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2024 or 2025 - Legends & Lattes
✔️51. A book published in 2025 - Somadina
✔️52. A book with a sunset vibes on the cover -

This list was suggested, voted on, and chosen by ATY group members.

THE ANNIVERSARY LIST
In honor of ATY's 10 year of reading challenges, we have put together an anniversary list made up of member-chosen prompts. Each prompt comes from that year's respective list and was chosen by the members of the group.

✔️2016: A book originally written in a language other than English - And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
✔️2017: A book whose title doesn't contain the letter "E" - Magic Burns
✔️2018: An author's debut book - A Fatal Crossing
✔️2019: A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements - The Silver Sword
✔️2020: A book with an emotion in the title - Love Will Tear Us Apart
✔️2021: A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet - Something Rotten
✔️2022: A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name - Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
✔️2023: A book whose author has published more than 7 books - The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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 - Toto