Jen's "Can I Get a Three-Peat?" Plan

[Jen]

THE 52 TOPICS OF THE 2026 ATY READING CHALLENGE

1. A book from a genre that starts with A, T, or Y: Making It So
2. A book with a primarily red, green or blue cover: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
3. A book that fits a prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list
4. A book by a new-to-you author:
5. A book you want to read because of something you read in 2025

6. A book related to blood, sweat, or tears: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
7. A book with a character who appears in more than one book: The Personal Librarian
8. A book set in Africa, Asia, or Australia: The God of Small Things
9. A book with a number, ordinal, or iterative numeral in the title: Three Women

10. An award winning book: The Saint of Bright Doors
11. A history or historical fiction book: River Sing Me Home
12. A book with cover text that is NOT black or white ; Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
13. An author's second/sophomore book: The Poppy Fields
14. A book related to a painting by Vincent Van Gogh: We Deserve Monuments

15. A book you've wanted to read for a long time: The Arrangement
16. A book featuring a character with a similar occupation to one of the Clue/Cluedo characters: Katabasis
17. A book set in the wellness or beauty industries: Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
18. A book with a location in the title: Lost in La La Land

19. A book related to yesterday: Elektra
20. A book related to today: Solito
21. A book related to tomorrow: The Ministry for the Future
22. A book by a Korean or Korean-diaspora author: Flashlight

23. A book with a road trip or long journey: My Friends
24. A book that is either frothy or gothy: Our Share of Night
25. A book from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list: Petals of Blood
26. A book with a Z in the title and/or author name: Sanctuary
27. A nonfiction book: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

28. A book related to a resistance, rebellion, or revolution: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
29. A vacation book: Sandwich
30. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Frontlist Book: Atmosphere
31. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Backlist Book: Carrie Soto Is Back

32. A novella of 100-250 pages: Three Days in June
33. A book with an Indigenous character or author: This Tender Land
34. A book with a window on the cover: Good Material
35. A book where all or part of the action takes place in a library, a museum, a school, or another public building: The Echo of Old Books
36. A book with a primary character who is a woman over 40: The Women of Wild Hill

37. A book that includes a science topic: The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
38. A book that's part of a series: Kills Well with Others
39. A book connected in some way to the "Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie: The Christie Affair
40. A book that has a punctuation mark in the title: Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

41. A mystery or true crime book: Big Bad Wool
42. A book set in an isolated location: The Vaster Wilds
43. A book involving survival: Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
44. A book with a symbol of death on the cover: The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand

45. A book connected to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen: Tilt
46. A book that is not a novel: Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
47. A book with "this", "that", "these", or "those" in the title: Those Who Knew
48. A book with something edible in the title: The Ice House
49. A second book for your favorite prompt: The Astral Library

50. A book with a bird on its cover: Serafina and the Twisted Staff
51. A book published in 2026
52. A book related to the name of one of Santa's reindeer: The Girls Who Grew Big