Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Happy 2019, everyone! Good luck with this year's challenge.

MY 2019 CHALLENGE SELECTIONS

52/52 TASKS COMPLETED

**UPDATE: FINISHED and looking forward to 2020's challenge!**

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2019 ATY Community Spreadsheet A-F, AJ
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✔= read

✔ 1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy:
I enjoy humor/satire, so I selected this 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner.

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

✔ 2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, What, Where, When, Why):

What I'd Say to the Martians and Other Veiled Threats by Jack Handey

✔ 3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y:
sTephen mccAuleY

My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley

✔ 4. A book with a criminal character (i.e. assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel etc):
Kaaro

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

✔ 5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare:

King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts by William Shakespeare

✔ 6. A book with a dual timeline:

The Curse of Misty Wayfair by Jaime Jo Wright

✔ 7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1:

The German Shepherd Dog: Everything about Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Disease, and Training by H. Antesberger

✔ 8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2:

German Shepherd Dog With DVD by Liz Palika

✔ 9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres (romance/erotica, crime/mystery, religious/inspirational, science fiction/fantasy or horror):
Science Fiction

The Postman by David Brin

✔ 10. A book featuring an historical figure:
The Baroque musician, Antonio Vivaldi, plays a prominent role in this tale.

The Four Seasons: A Novel of Vivaldi's Venice by Laurel Corona

✔ 11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals (title, cover, subject):

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

✔ 12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer:

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

✔ 13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list:

French Exit by Patrick deWitt

✔ 14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term:

Red Dwarf #1: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor

✔ 15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country:
This book mostly takes place in Florence, Italy.

Lent by Jo Walton

✔16. A book told from multiple perspectives:

The Whisper Man by Alex North

✔ 17. A speculative fiction (i.e. fantasy, scifi, horror, dystopia):
Science Fiction

The Municipalists: A Novel by Seth Fried

✔ 18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements:

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

✔19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR:

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

✔ 20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country:
India

A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev

✔ 21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes:
A book in which faith/religion plays an integral role in the plot or the life of a main character.

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

✔ 22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover:

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason

✔ 23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old:
This collection of tales was originally bound and published in 1880. I found my edition, published in 1965, at a library book sale!

Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

✔ 24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New:
This author and series are new to me.

Warcross by Marie Lu

✔ 25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed:

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

✔ 26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue:

Mr. Blue by Myles Connolly

✔ 27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list:

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

✔ 28. A book related to something cold (i.e. theme, title, author, cover, etc.):
[The villain's inscape leads to Christmasland, which is located fictionally in the snowy mountains of Colorado.]

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

✔ 29. A book published before 1950:
This book was published in 1884.

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

✔ 30. A book featuring an elderly character:

An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

✔ 31. A children’s classic you’ve never read:

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

✔ 32. A book with more than 500 pages:

The Overstory by Richard Powers

✔ 33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet:

The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht

✔ 34. A book with a person's name in the title:

Ellie and the Harpmaker by Hazel Prior

✔ 35. A psychological thriller:

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

✔ 36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list:
2015

H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

✔ 37. A book set in a school or university:

Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko

✔ 38. A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel, etc)
This story's format is epistolary.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

✔ 39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life:

The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

✔ 40. A book you stumbled upon:
This book arrived on my front porch unexpectedly!

The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer

✔ 41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards:

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

✔ 42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character:
This book features a dragon, a mogwai, and a psychopath.

Highfire by Eoin Colfer

✔ 43. A book related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) [fiction or nonfiction]:

The God Game by Danny Tobey

✔ 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 Passage by Justin Cronin

✔ 45. A multi-generational saga:
The Sorensons and their grandchildren face the evils that are threatening Fablehaven.

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

✔ 46. A book with a (mostly) black cover:

Back by Norah McClintock

✔ 47. A book related to food (i.e. title, cover, plot, etc.):
The title relates to food.

The Dinner by Herman Koch

✔ 48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year:
This book won the National Book Award for fiction in 1954.

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

✔ 49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country:
Un-su Kim is a South Korean writer. Plus, this story takes place in an alternate Seoul, South Korea.

The Plotters by Un-su Kim

✔ 50. A book that includes a journey (physical, health, or spiritual):
A shipwrecked sailor embarks upon a journey to find his beloved on the Isle of the Dead.

The Alehouse at the End of the World by Stevan Allred

✔ 51. A book published in 2019:

Recursion by Blake Crouch

✔ 52. A book with a weird or intriguing title:

The Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure by Shoba Narayan

Woo-hoo, I do believe that I have finished!