Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Around the Year 2019
1/1/19-12/31/19

*****COMPLETED 11/5/19*****

Around the Year 2019
1/1/19-12/31/19

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✔1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy - Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan 3/26/19 - Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (2002),
✔2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, What, Where, When, Why)- Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver 1/9/19
✔3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y - Nancy E. Turner- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 3/3/19- also fits #38
✔4. A book with a criminal character (i.e. assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel etc)- Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi 2/11/19- the MC is on death row for murder.
✔5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare- Wise Children by Angela Carter 5/11/19
✔6. A book with a dual timeline - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3/6/19
✔7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1- Felicia's Journey by William Trevor 1/24/19- woman left adrift after an out-of-wedlock birth.
✔8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 2/5/19
✔9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres (romance/erotica, crime/mystery, religious/inspirational, science fiction/fantasy or horror) -Fantasy- Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
✔10. A book featuring an historical figure - Mark Twain is a historical figure and the MC in his travel account- A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain 2/13/19
✔11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals (title, cover, subject) White Rabbit is a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
✔12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer- Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry 5/9/19- autobiography of a writer
✔13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren- 6/26/19
✔14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term - The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana- Aurora 94 is the name of an asteroid.
✔15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country - Italy- The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde 5/18/19
✔16. A book told from multiple perspectives - Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson 4/4/19- the story is told through several people...some of whom may be the same person centuries later.
✔17. A speculative fiction (i.e. fantasy, scifi, horror, dystopia)- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
✔18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements - on Kindle- Atomic Number Sixty by Dave Johnston 11/5/19
✔19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3/19/19
✔20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country- In Morocco by Edith Wharton 1/27/19- Wharton extensively discusses the Berbers in Morocco.
✔21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes-From poll #2- A book by an author from an island- The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont- from Great Britain
✔22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover-The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas 1/23/19
✔23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old- very old maps stolen in The Map Thief by Michael Blanding 4/23/19
✔24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New- Ru by Kim Thúy 3/15/19- story about Vietnamese immigrants NEW to Canada.
✔25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed- in The Double by José Saramago 2/9/19 one of the MCs borrows the items of his "double" to impersonate him.

✔26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue- blue cover- by Donal Ryan 1/12/19
✔27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote 1/20/19
✔28. A book related to something cold (i.e. theme, title, author, cover, etc.) most of the action takes place in Lapland in The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 3/23/19
✔29. A book published before 1950- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 1/7/19
✔30. A book featuring an elderly character - The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo by Germano Almeida
✔31. A children’s classic you’ve never read - Tintin in the Land of the Soviets by Hergé 1/9/19
✔32. A book with more than 500 pages - Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 5/27/19
✔33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet- The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 4/14/19
✔34. A book with a person's name in the title - Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 1/19/19
✔35. A psychological thriller - Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan 4/20/19
✔36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list- Calypso by David Sedaris 1/10/19-
✔37. A book set in a school or university- Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 6/19/19- much of the book is set at Cambridge.
✔38. A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel, etc)- The Private Dining-room and Other Verses by Ogden Nash 4/9/19

✔39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life- Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt- most of the stories are set in Kentucky and the others feature Kentuckians out of state longing for home. 1/11/19
✔40. A book you stumbled upon - Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards- ordered I Am Enough by Grace Byers
✔42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character- Sergeant Getúlio by João Ubaldo Ribeiro 3/24/19
✔43. A book related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) [fiction or nonfiction]- A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll 3/17/19
✔44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed (same topic, same era, book appeared in the show/movie, etc.)- The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss 2/20/19- was inspiration for tv show Lost in Space
✔45. A multi-generational saga - ordered CD copy of There There by Tommy Orange
✔46. A book with a (mostly) black cover- Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence 6/10/19-
✔47. A book related to food (i.e. title, cover, plot, etc.) - How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays by Umberto Eco 2/19/19

✔48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year - The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/8/19
✔49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country - India- Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag 3/29/19
✔50. A book that includes a journey (physical, health, or spiritual) -Kim becomes a disciple to an aged Tibetan lama who seeks a river of spiritual healing in Kim by Rudyard Kipling 3/9/19
✔51. A book published in 2019- Toubab by Rob Coughlin 6/23/19
✔52. A book with a weird or intriguing title- Skinswaps by Andrej Blatnik 2/25/19