Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

The 2017 List Books 1-13

13/13 in the First Quarter


✔ 1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 (link)
✔ 2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
✔ 3. A book you meant to read in 2016 I actually pulled off the library shelf and was really confused that it seemed so different from the movie trailer I had seen....
✔ 4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
✔ 5. A historical fiction
✔ 6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
✔ 7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
✔ 8. A book written by a person of color
✔ 9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
✔ 10. A dual-timeline novel
✔ 11. A category from another challenge (A book about food)
✔ 12. A book based on a myth
✔ 13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors Recommended by Gretchen Rubin

The 2017 List Books 14-26

12/13 in the Second Quarter

✔ 14. A book with a strong female character
✔ 15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
✔ 16. A mystery
✔ 17. A book with illustrations
✔ 18. A really long book (600+ pages)
✔ 19. A New York Times best-seller
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
✔ 21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
✔ 22. A book by an author you haven't read before by Glennon Doyle Melton
✔ 23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)
✔ 24. A book written by at least two authors
✔ 25. A book about a famous historical figure
✔ 26. An adventure book

The 2017 List Books 27-39

12/13 in the Third Quarter

✔ 27. A book by one of your favorite authors by Louise Penny
✔ 28. A non-fiction
✔ 29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions
✔ 30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)
✔ 31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre I don't really have a favorite genre, but I like mysteries and this is considered to be from the sub genre Cozy Mysteries.
✔ 32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
✔ 33. A magical realism novel
✔ 34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
✔ 36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link)
✔ 37. A book you choose randomly
✔ 38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature feels very much inspired by . I'm not sure that was the author's actual inspiration, but I'm going with it for this challenge.
✔ 39. An epistolary fiction

The 2017 List Books 40-52

13/13 in the Fourth Quarter

✔ 40. A book published in 2017
✔ 41. A book with an unreliable narrator
✔ 42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)
✔ 43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
✔ 44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
✔ 45. A book with a one-word title
✔ 46. A time travel novel
✔ 47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link) (A book with a number in the title)
✔ 48. A banned book
✔ 49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
✔ 50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
✔ 51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
✔ 52. A book set in a fictional location

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