Joyce M’s 2026 ATY Challenge

[Joyce]

1. A book from a genre that starts with A, T, or Y - Portrait of Myself (autobiography)
2. A book with a primarily red, green or blue cover - Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
3. A book that fits a prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list - A book exploring personal or cultural identity - Let It Rain Coffee
4. A book by a new-to-you author - Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney
5. A book you want to read because of something you read in 2025 - The Morning Star

6. A book related to blood, sweat, or tears - Bad Blood : A Memoir
7. A book with a character who appears in more than one book - Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
8. A book set in Africa, Asia, or Australia - Theft
9. A book with a number, ordinal, or iterative numeral in the title - The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old

10. An award winning book -The Safekeep (Lambda Literary Award for Lasbian Fiction 2025)
11. A history or historical fiction book - England, Half English: A Polyphoto of the Fifties
12. A book with cover text that is NOT black or white - Voyage to Kazohinia
13. An author's second/sophomore book - A Fatal Grace: by Louise Penny
14. A book related to a painting by Vincent Van Gogh - The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch

15. A book you've wanted to read for a long time - The Hanging Garden
16. A book featuring a character with a similar occupation to one of the Clue/Cluedo characters - A Taste for Vengeance (Colonel Mustard)
17. A book set in the wellness or beauty industries - Miracle Creek
18. A book with a location in the title - In Patagonia

19. A book related to yesterday - I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
20. A book related to today - Mr Right Now
21. A book related to tomorrow - What We Can Know
22. A book by a Korean or Korean-diaspora author - Apartment Women

23. A book with a road trip or long journey - Trustee from the Toolroom
24. A book that is either frothy or gothy - Frankenstein
25. A book from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list - Notes from the Underground
26. A book with a Z in the title and/or author name - Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
27. A nonfiction book - Take a Girl Like Me: Life with George

28. A book related to a resistance, rebellion, or revolution - Hunchback
29. A vacation book - Happy Place
30. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Frontlist Book - The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
31. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Backlist Book - Brighton Rock

32. A novella of 100-250 pages - Water
33. A book with an Indigenous character or author - Life Among the Qallunaat
34. A book with a window on the cover - The Enormous Room
35. A book where all or part of the action takes place in a library, a museum, a school, or another public building - The Heart of Summer
36. A book with a primary character who is a woman over 40 - Mother Land

37. A book that includes a science topic - Entangled Life
38. A book that's part of a series - A Death in Time
39. A book connected in some way to the "Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie - The Rose and the Yew Tree
40. A book that has a punctuation mark in the title - Briefly, A Delicious Life

41. A mystery or true crime book - Lost and Never Found
42. A book set in an isolated location - Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland
43. A book involving survival - The Love of My Life
44. A book with a symbol of death on the cover - Madame Bovary of the Suburbs

45. A book connected to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen - The Emperor of Gladness
46. A book that is not a novel - Because They Wanted To
47. A book with "this", "that", "these", or "those" in the title - How Much of These Hills is Gold
48. A book with something edible in the title - Ella Minnow Pea
49. A second book for your favorite prompt - A book connected to Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen - The Damned

50. A book with a bird on its cover - The Lost Words
51. A book published in 2026
52. A book related to the name of one of Santa's reindeer - Dance or Die: From Stateless Refugee to International Ballet Star

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