Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

I am still finishing the 2017 list but will try to keep up with the 2018 one so that all is not lost.

MY 2018 CHALLENGE SELECTIONS

52/52 TASKS COMPLETED

✔ = read

✔1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title:

The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry

✔ 2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list:

Jack Glass by Adam Roberts

✔ 3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards:

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

✔ 4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...):

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

✔5. A book about or inspired by real events:

The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi

✔ 6. A book originally written in a language other than English:
The original publication language of this book is Swedish.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

✔ 7. A gothic novel:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

✔ 8. An "own voices" book:
An own voice novel is a book about marginalized protagonists (by ethnic group, religion, sexual orientation, mental illness, etc.) written by an author who shares that same identity.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

✔ 9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc):

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

✔ 10. An author's debut book:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

✔ 11. A literary fiction:

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

✔ 12. A book set in Africa or South America:

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

✔ 13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc.):

Gilded Cage by Vic James

✔ 14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire:

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

✔ 15. A book with an unique format/writing structure:

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

✔ 16. A narrative nonfiction:

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

✔ 17. A book you expect to make you laugh:

Noir by Christopher Moore

✔ 18. A book with a location in the title:

Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash

✔ 19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors):

Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

✔ 20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends:

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

✔21. A book written in first person perspective:

The Only Pirate at the Party by Lindsey Stirling and Brooke S. Passey

✔ 22. A book you have high expectations or hope for:

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

✔ 23. A medical or legal thriller:

The Anatomist's Apprentice by Tessa Harris

✔ 24. A book with a map:

Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps: Mapping The Modern World by Martin Vargic

✔ 25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view:

Circe by Madeline Miller

✔ 26. A book with a text only cover:

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

✔ 27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc.):

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński

✔ 28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements- Book #3 Water:

Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

✔ 29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench):
rope forming a noose

Into the Thinnest of Air by Simon R. Green

✔ 30. A short book:

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

✔ 31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to:
Austria

The Empty Mirror by J. Sydney Jones

✔ 32. An alternate history book:

Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness

✔ 33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you:
The term "Black Panther" and I share the same birth year!

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

✔ 34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call :
The close call suggestion that I selected was "A book that is an Audie Award winner or nominee." This audiobook won an Audie in 2015.

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories by Hilary Mantel

✔ 35. A book featuring a murder:

Projection: A Novel by Keith Ablow

✔ 36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before:

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

✔ 37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee:
2017 Nominee

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

✔ 38. A science book or a science fiction book:
This book falls into the category of the applied science of animal husbndry.

German Shepherd Training Guide German Shepherd Training Book Includes: German Shepherd Socializing, Housetraining, Obedience Training, Behavioral Training, Cues & Commands and More by Pearle Macek

✔ 39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title:
It contains a question mark in the subtitle.

Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? by Eleanor Updale

✔ 40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list:

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

✔ 41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials:

La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

✔ 42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater:

The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White

✔43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence:

I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

✔ 44. A ghost story:

The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

✔ 45. A book that intimidates/ scares you:

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

✔ 46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air:

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

✔ 47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own:

The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers

✔ 48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth):

Amber Brown is Green With Envy by Paula Danziger

✔ 49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists:
This book appeared on the September 2016 list.

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

✔ 50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer):

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir by Jennifer McGaha

✔ 51. An award-winning short story or short story collection:

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

✔ 52. A book published in 2018:

The Testament of Loki by Joanne M. Harris

I completed half of the challenges and look forward to the rest!

You are doing so well! Congratulations!

Thank you!

I managed to finish this year!

Congratulations Andrea!

Thank you! It was a true challenge. I still cannot believe that I finished Moby Dick!

Andrea wrote: "Thank you! It was a true challenge. I still cannot believe that I finished Moby Dick!"

Congratulations! How did you like it?

I did reach a point where it was fortunate that no stray harpoons were within my reach, but I admired the work upon completion.