Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

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✅1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title - The Family at Misrule by Ethel Turner
✅2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list - Letter to George Clooney; Debra Adelaide Letter to George Clooney
✅3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Leonardo da Vinci; Walter Isaacson Leonardo da Vinci
✅4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...) - The Old Ways; Robert McFarlane The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot
✅5. A book about or inspired by real events - The Passage of Love; Alex Miller The Passage of Love
✅6. A book originally written in a language other than English - The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
✅7. A gothic novel - Villette by Charlotte Bronte
✅8. An "own voices" book* - Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi
✅9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc) - Hand Me Down World byn Lloyd Jones
✅10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published) - The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
✅11. A literary fiction - The Ancestor Game by Alex Miller
✅12. A book set in Africa or South America - Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
✅13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc) - Mothering Sunday
✅14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire - The Burning Forest: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics by Simon Leys
✅15. A book with an unique format/writing structure - Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
✅16. A narrative nonfiction - Saga Land by Richard Fidler & Kari Gislason
✅17. A book you expect to make you laugh - Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
✅18. A book with a location in the title - Cycling Home From Siberia by Rob Lilwall
✅19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors) - 4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie
✅20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
✅21. A book written in first person perspective - The Missing Heir: The Autobiography of Kylie Tennant
✅22. A book you have high expectations or hope for - Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
✅23. A medical or legal thriller - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
✅24. A book with a map - In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple
✅25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view - The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
✅26. A book with a text only cover - Amnesia by Peter Carey
✅27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc) - On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
✅28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water - The Life And Adventures Of John Nicol, Mariner
✅29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench) Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
✅30. A short book - Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres
✅31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to - Saigon Tea by Graham Reilly
✅32. An alternate history book - The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
✅33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you - Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami
✅34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link) - Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
✅35. A book featuring a murder The Killing Room by Peter May

✅36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before - The Toymaker by Liam Pieper
✅37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee - Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
✅38. A science book or a science fiction book - Where Song Began by Tim Low
✅39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title - The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
✅40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
✅41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials - Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
✅42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater - Waterland by Graham Swift
✅43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence - He Went With Marco Polo by Louise Andrews Kent
✅44. A ghost story - The Signalman: A Ghost Story by Charles Dickens
✅45. A book that intimidates/ scares you - A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
✅46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air - Silver Clouds by Fleur McDonald
✅47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own - The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
✅48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth) - Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
✅49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists - Force of Nature by Jane Harper
✅50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer) - The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse by Alexander McCall Smith
✅51. An award-winning short story or short story collection - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
✅52. A book published in 2018 - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

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