Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

The 2017 List
#1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 - It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

#2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) - Penance by Kanae Minato

#3. A book you meant to read in 2016 - The Red Queen by Isobelle Carmody

#4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" - The Child by Fiona Barton

#5. A historical fiction : The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

#6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

#7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title - The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais

#8. A book written by a person of color : And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

#9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list : California by Edan Lepucki

#10. A dual-timeline novel : Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

#11. A category from another challenge (Popsugar - Book published in 2017) : Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

#12. A book based on a myth : The Once and Future King by T.H. White

#13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors - Snobs by Julian Fellowes

#14. A book with a strong female character - The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz

#15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) : A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

#16. A mystery : The Black Book by James Patterson

#17. A book with illustrations - Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt

#18. A really long book (600+ pages) - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

#19. A New York Times best-seller - Origin by Dan Brown

#20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

#21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read - I Know a Secret by Tess Gerritsen

#22. A book by an author you haven't read before : Confess by Colleen Hoover

#23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

#24. A book written by at least two authors - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

#25. A book about a famous historical figure - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

#26. An adventure book - Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

#27. A book by one of your favorite authors - Camino Island by John Grisham

#28. A non-fiction : Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon

#29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

#30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books : Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

#31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre (crime fiction > espionage) : Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler

#32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) : The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

#33. A magical realism novel The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

#34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere - The Dry by Jane Harper

#35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty - Oroonoko by Aphra Behn

#36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee - Dune by Frank Herbert

#37. A book you choose randomly : Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

#38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

#39. An epistolary fiction - Dracula by Bram Stoker

#40. A book published in 2017 - Final Girls by Riley Sager

#41. A book with an unreliable narrator : One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

#43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) : Carrie by Stephen King

#44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" - The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

#45. A book with a one-word title : Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

#46. A time travel novel : A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

#47. A past suggestion that didn't win - The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

#48. A banned book : Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

#49. A book from someone else's bookshelf - The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

#50. A Penguin Modern Classic - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

#51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

#52. A book set in a fictional location - Akarnae by Lynette Noni