Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

After reading in order in 2019, I definitely want to add some spontaneity back into my reading. And so, stealing a page out of Jody's book, I'm going to be pulling prompts from my Jar of Reading Prompts and reading books that fulfill those prompts. My goal is to pull prompts no more than two weeks in advance (just to account for library reads), and I hope to complete the challenge for the fourth year in a row.

Also: My 40 Before 40 List
Spreadsheets: Tracking Spreadsheet and Spreadsheet of Lists

CURRENT COUNT
Total Books Read: 100
ATY Official: 52/52
Physical Books Read: 67/60
Audiobooks Listened To: 33

40 Before 40 Fiction: 3/4
40 Before 40 Nonfiction: 3/4

POC: 12/12
LGBTQIA+: 12/12
Nonfiction: 12/12

2020 READS
Feast Your Eyes

2020 BOOK RATINGS


FIVE STARS
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Followers by Megan Angelo
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm by Hilarie Burton Morgan
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson


4.5 STARS
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Still Lives by Maria Hummel
Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James


FOUR STARS
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer
Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
Riders by Veronica Rossi
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams
All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams, Karen White, and Lauren Willig


3.5 STARS
Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
The Grace Year: A Novel by Kim Liggett
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams


THREE STARS
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elevation by Stephen King
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong


2.5 STARS
Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
The Paris Hours by Alex George
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
East of Eden by John Steinbeck


TWO STARS
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim


DNF
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron
A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

2020 GOALS

GOAL ONE: Read all books purchased in 2019
- Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
- Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
- The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
- How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
- The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko
- China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
- Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
- The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
- Forever is the Worst Long Time by Camille Pagán
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
- Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
- More Than Words by Jill Santopolo
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls


GOAL TWO: Read four books from 40 Before 40 Fiction list
1. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
2. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
3. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
4.
Plan:
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears


GOAL THREE: Read four books from 40 Before 40 Nonfiction list
1. The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
3. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
4.


GOAL FOUR: Read at least one BIPOC book each month

January: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim; Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
February: The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee; The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray; The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae; Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi; Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro; Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi; Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
March: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
April: With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
May: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong; The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
June: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré; Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson; Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera; The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo; The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
July: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo; The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
August: The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater; Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
September: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
October: A Burning by Megha Majumdar
November: Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue; The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
December: The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim; A Promised Land by Barack Obama; These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card; The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar


GOAL FIVE: Read at least one LGBTQIA+ book each month

January: The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker; When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
February: The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
March: Untamed by Glennon Doyle
April: The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
May: Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
June: The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer; Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
July: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo; Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
August: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee; The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater; Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
September: Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust; The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
October: A Burning by Megha Majumdar
November: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
December:


GOAL SIX: Read at least one nonfiction book each month

January: Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller; The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
February: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown; Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
March: Untamed by Glennon Doyle
April: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
May: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
June: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
July: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
August: The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater; The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm by Hilarie Burton Morgan
September: A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost; Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
October: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
November: Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence
December: A Promised Land by Barack Obama

2020 BEST OF

BEST ADULT FICTION
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Honorable Mentions:
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
- The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd


BEST YA FICTION
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman

Honorable Mentions:
- The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo


BEST NONFICTION
- Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

Honorable Mention:
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson


BEST ON AUDIO
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Honorable Mentions:
- Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
- A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
- The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix


BREAKOUT READ
Book that was surprisingly good or exceeded expectations
- Still Lives by Maria Hummel
- The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan

Honorable Mentions:
- The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
- A Burning by Megha Majumdar


MOST RECOMMENDED
Book I would recommend to anyone and everyone
- Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
- The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

Honorable Mentions:
- Followers by Megan Angelo
- Recursion by Blake Crouch


BIGGEST PUSH
Book that got me most out of my comfort zone
- When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
- Recursion by Blake Crouch

Honorable Mentions:
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- A Burning by Megha Majumdar


BEST LGBTQIA+
Best book featuring LGBT+ characters and/or written by an LGBT+ author
- The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer

Honorable Mentions:
- The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
- Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
- The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater


TAUGHT A LESSON
Book that taught me something about myself
- The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm by Hilarie Burton Morgan
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Honorable Mention:
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman


BEST BOOK CLUB PICK
Book that sparked discussion and encourage debate
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

Honorable Mention:
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton


MOST TIMELY
Book that spoke to our current culture
- Followers by Megan Angelo
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

Honorable Mentions:
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater


BEST TIME MACHINE
Historical fiction book that set the scene
- The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
- Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley

Honorable Mentions:
- The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
- The Alienist by Caleb Carr


BEST CHARACTERS
Book whose characters stuck with me long after I finished the book
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Honorable Mentions:
- The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré


BEST DRESSED
Book with the most attractive cover (that shows the greatness within)



BEST PLACE
Book that was set in an interesting environment
- The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
- Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

Honorable Mentions:
- The Alienist by Caleb Carr
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff


MOST THOUGHT-PROVOKING
Book that made me think the most
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Honorable Mentions:
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
- Recursion by Blake Crouch


BEST SHOCK
Book that made my jaw drop in surprise
- The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Honorable Mentions:
- A Burning by Megha Majumdar
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue


MOST HUMOROUS
Book that kept me laughing
- The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
- A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost

Honorable Mentions:
- Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman


BEST FEELINGS
Book that made me really emotional
- The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
- Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Honorable Mentions:
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
- A Burning by Megha Majumdar


BEST FLUFF
Book that broke my routine of misery and heartbreak in books
- Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
- The Royal We by Heather Cocks

Honorable Mentions:
- The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan
- Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley


WORTH THE PAGES
Book that was long but worth it
- The Alienist by Caleb Carr
- The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

OFFICIAL ATY PROGRESS POST

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
✔️Followers by Megan Angelo

2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
✔️The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
✔️The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
✔️ The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams
WWII

5. The first book in a series that you have not started
✔️The Magicians by Lev Grossman

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
✔️Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips


7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
✔️The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth

8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
✔️The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker

9. A book that can be read in a day
✔️The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
✔️City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
466 Pages

11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
✔️My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Published 1951

12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
✔️A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson
Translated by Rachel Wilson-Broyles

13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
✔️Elevation by Stephen King
From 2016: A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name

14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
✔️The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

15. A book set in a global city
✔️The Alienist by Caleb Carr
New York City

16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
✔️The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm by Hilarie Burton Morgan

17. A book with a neurodiverse character
✔️When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

18. A book by an author you've only read once before
✔️The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

19. A fantasy book
✔️The Grace Year: A Novel by Kim Liggett

20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
✔️The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
20th book added to TBR when sorted by most recent

21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719
✔️The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

22. A book with the major theme of survival
✔️In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
✔️The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer

24. A book with an emotion in the title
✔️House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

25. A book related to the arts
✔️Still Lives by Maria Hummel

26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
✔️With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
YA Nominee

27. A history or historical fiction
✔️The Paris Hours by Alex George

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
✔️Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
✔️Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley

30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
✔️Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

31. A book inspired by a leading news story
✔️The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
College admissions scandal

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
✔️The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Set in Ancient Greece

33. A book about a non-traditional family
✔️The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
✔️ The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Literary Fiction

35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
✔️Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia


36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
✔️A Burning by Megha Majumdar

37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
✔️The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
Girls/Fiction

38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
✔️The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Boys/Nonfiction

39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
✔️Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

40. A book with a place name in the title
✔️Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

41. A mystery
✔️The Guest List by Lucy Foley

42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
✔️ Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Pulitzer Prize Winner in 2003

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
✔️ Riders by Veronica Rossi

44. A book related to witches
✔️Uprooted by Naomi Novik

45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
✔️The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
✔️The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Doctor Zhivago

47. A classic book you've always meant to read
✔️East of Eden by John Steinbeck

48. A book published in 2020
✔️All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams, Karen White, and Lauren Willig

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
✔️The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
A book recommended by a public figure
Oprah's Book Club

50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
✔️The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg


51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
✔️The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

52. A book related to time
✔️Recursion by Blake Crouch

2020 ATY PLANS PART I
Prompts 1-13

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
OFF PLAN Read: Followers by Megan Angelo

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 📚
Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan 📚
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
Read: The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee 📚

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne 📚
The Alienist by Caleb Carr 📚
The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle
Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Girls of July by Alex Flinn
How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
OFF PLAN Read: The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White (Retelling of Frankenstein)

Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse (#2 in Sixth World Series)
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi (#2 in Legacy of Orïsha Series)
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (#2 in The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels)
There's Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon (#2 in Dimple and Rishi Series)

4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live<
Read: The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams 📚

The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer 📚
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 📚
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 📚

5. The first book in a series that you have not started
OFF PLAN Read: The Magicians by Lev Grossman

The Alienist by Caleb Carr 📚
The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams 📚
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
Love, in English by Karina Halle
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke
In the Woods by Tana French
The Lost Queen by Signe Pike
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Read: Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips




7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
OFF PLAN Read: The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth Australia

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton South Africa
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Botswana
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela South Africa
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Zimbawe
The Bone People by Keri Hulme New Zealand
The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty Australia
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion Australia

8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
Read: The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker 📚

The Alienist by Caleb Carr 📚
The Leavers by Lisa Ko 📚
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue 📚
The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
The Futures by Anna Pitoniak
The Ramblers by Aidan Donnelley Rowley

9. A book that can be read in a day
OFF PLAN Read: The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Monroe
Night by Elie Wiesel
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
Read: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne 📚

11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
Read: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 1951

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Ian Pears 📚 1997
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 📚2003
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides 📚2011
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 1811
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck 1931
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews 1979
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 1997
Personal History by Katherine Graham 1997
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke 2003
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor 2011
Dear Life by Alice Munro 2011
The Firefly Dance by Sarah Addison Allen 2011
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett 2011
The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley 2011
Caraval by Stephanie Garber 2017
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan 2017
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor 2017
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman 2017

12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
OFF PLAN Read: A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson
Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles

All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
Audiobook with narrator

13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
From 2016: A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name
Read: Elevation by Stephen King

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave 📚
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Eat Only When You're Hungry by Lindsay Hunter
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
Every Ugly Word by Aimee L. Salter
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

2020 ATY PLANS PART II
Prompts 14-26

14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
Read: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett 📚
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue 📚
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
How to Be Both by Ali Smith

15. A book set in a global city
Read: The Alienist by Caleb Carr 📚 NYC

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney 📚NYC
China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan 📚 Singapore
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie 📚 NYC
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue 📚 NYC
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert 📚 NYC
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton NYC
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara NYC
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig London
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Tokyo
The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding by Jennifer Robson London
The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer Paris

16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
OFF PLAN Read: The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm by Hilarie Burton Morgan

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey
The House of Deep Water by Jeni McFarland

17. A book with a neurodiverse character
OFF PLAN Read: When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim 📚
The Leavers by Lisa Ko 📚
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

18. A book by an author you've only read once before
Read: The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys 📚

Middlesex by Jeffrey Euginedes 📚
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Euginedes 📚
The Starless Sea by Erin Morganstern 📚
More Than Words by Jill Santopolo 📚
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue 📚
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert 📚
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
Into the Night by Sarah Bailey
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
The Muse by Jessie Burton
When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

19. A fantasy book
OFF PLAN Read: The Grace Year: A Novel by Kim Liggett

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
Read: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

How to Be Both by Ali Smith 20th Women's Prize Winner
A Separate Peace by John Knowles 20th book purchased in 2019

21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719
OFF PLAN Read: The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman Space
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni Hell in Name

22. A book with the major theme of survival
OFF PLAN Read: In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano 📚
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
OFF PLAN Read: The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer

Infinity Son by Adam Silvera
Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich

24. A book with an emotion in the title
OFF PLAN Read: House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave 📚
The Myths of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
How to Love by Katie Cotugno
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness by Ingrid Fetell Lee

25. A book related to the arts
Read: Still Lives by Maria Hummel 📚

A Tender Thing by Emily Neuberger
Followers by Megan Angelo
The Astonishing Life of August March by Aaron Jackson

26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
Read: With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger 📚
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo 📚
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim 📚
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys 📚
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Clare Lombardo
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen McManus
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte
The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen

2020 ATY PLANS PART II
Prompts 27-35

27. A history or historical fiction
OFF PLAN Read: The Paris Hours by Alex George

The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer 📚
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate 📚
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee 📚
The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams 📚
When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
Read: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Australia

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mendel Canada
The Bone People by Keri Hulme New Zealand
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue Canada
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena Canada
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton Australia
The Lake House by Kate Morton Australia
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta Australia
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion Australia
Dear Life by Alice Munro Canada

29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
OFF PLAN Read: Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley

Peter Darling by Austin Chant
Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
The Time in Between by María Dueñas
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
Read: Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez 📚
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs 📚
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein

31. A book inspired by a leading news story
Read: The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger 📚

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee 📚
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue 📚
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Library Book by Susan Orlean

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
Read: The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton
The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
The World According to Garp by John Irving

33. A book about a non-traditional family
OFF PLAN Read: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne 📚
The Farm by Joanne Ramos

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
Essays, Mysteries, Magical Realism, Literary Fiction, or YA
Read: The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne 📚 Literary Fiction

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim 📚 Mystery
The Firefly Dance by Sarah Addison Allen Magical Realism
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Literary Fiction
The Bone People by Keri Hulme Magical Realism
So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder Essays
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit Essays
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown Essays

35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
Read: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia


36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
OFF PLAN Read: A Burning by Megha Majumdar

Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs 📚
The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
Love, in English by Karina Halle
History of the Rain by Niall Williams
Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
The Ramblers by Aidan Donnelley Rowley
So Big by Edna Ferber
The Myths of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
The Futures by Anna Pitoniak
The Deep End of the Sea by Heather Lyons
Every Ugly Word by Aimee L. Salter
And She Was by Jessica Verdi
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
Driving by Starlight by Anat Deracine

37 and 38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites
Read: The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray and The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Girls/Boys and Fiction/Nonfiction

Nonfiction/Women
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Pérez
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo 📚

Fiction/Men

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Nonfiction/Sun
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton

Fiction/Moon
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen

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Nonfiction/Small
Small Fry by Lisa Brennen-Jobs 📚

Fiction/Big
So Big by Edna Ferber

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Sci-Fi/Future
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman

Historical Fiction/Past
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee 📚
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys 📚

39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
OFF PLAN Read: Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue 📚
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez 📚
The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer 📚
Forever is the Worst Long Time by Camille Pagán 📚
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee 📚
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne 📚
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears 📚
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides 📚
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 📚
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 📚
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo 📚

2020 ATY PLANS PART II
Prompts 40-52

40. A book with a place name in the title
Read: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan 📚
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 📚
The Paris Hours by Alex George
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Manhattan Beachby Jennifer Egan
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey
When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers by Terri-Lynne DeFino
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

41. A mystery
OFF PLAN Read: The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim 📚

42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
Read: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 📚 Pulitzer

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie Women's
How to Be Both by Ali Smith Women's
Personal History by Katherine Graham Pulitzer

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Read: Riders by Veronica Rossi

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman

44. A book related to witches
Read: Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft by Tess Sharpe
The Familiars by Stacey Halls
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
Enchantée by Gita Trelease
Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
OFF PLAN Read: The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave 📚
The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams 📚
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese
Infinity Son by Adam Silvera
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Next in series by Philippa Gregory

46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Read: The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

Peter Darling by Austin Chant
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding by Jennifer Robson
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford

47. A classic book you've always meant to read
Read: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 📚
A Separate Peace by John Knowles 📚
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Women on the Porch by Caroline Gordon
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

48. A book published in 2020
Read: All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams, Karen White, and Lauren Willig

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Little Family by Ishmael Beah
Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey
The House of Deep Water by Jeni McFarland
A Tender Thing by Emily Neuberger
The Paris Hours by Alex George
Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride
The Book of V. by Anna Solomon
Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford
Followers by Megan Angelo
Little White Lies by Philippa East
The Sea of Lost Girls: A Novel by Carol Goodman
The Astonishing Life of August March by Aaron Jackson
The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen by Karen Harper

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
Prompt: A book recommended by a celebrity or public figure
Read: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton Oprah

Still Lives by Maria Hummel 📚 Reese
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue 📚 Oprah
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 📚 Oprah
The Cactus by Sarah Haywood Reese
The Library Book by Susan Orlean Reese
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Oprah
Beloved by Toni Morrison Emma Watson
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore Emma Watson
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Andrienne Brodeur Emma Roberts

50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
OFF PLAN Read: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg




51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
OFF PLAN Read: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 📚
Driving by Starlight by Anat Deracine
I'm Not Missing by Carrie Fountain
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
Tiny Little Thing by Beatriz Williams
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
Falling into Place by Amy Zhang
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

52. A book related to time
Read: Recursion by Blake Crouch

Forever is the Worst Long Time by Camille Pagán 📚
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride

DECEMBER

Books Read this Month: 7
Total Books in 2020: 99
Print Books Reading Challenge: 66/60
Around the Year Challenge: 52/52



The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim (2 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print

Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (5 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print

A Promised Land by Barack Obama (3.5 ⭐️)
Side Read on Audio

These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card (3 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print

Beach Read by Emily Henry (3.5 ⭐️)
Side Read on Audio

Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley (4.5 ⭐️)
Week 29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book

The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar (5 ⭐️)
Week 21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720

STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 1
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Goal: 1 from BIPOC Authors or Featuring BIPOC Characters | Completed: 4
- The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
- The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 0

Emily, I'm totally stealing some of your setup. You're always so thoughtful in the way you lay things out. :)

Liz wrote: "Emily, I'm totally stealing some of your setup. You're always so thoughtful in the way you lay things out. :)"

Thanks! :) I stole a lot of it from Jody when I was first starting out, then tweaked it last year to fill some gaps.

The Feast Your Eyes portion will be a cover collage, and I will track month-to-month in the part where January is now... at the end of each month, I'll copy it into it's own post then start fresh with a new month.

So I was like, oh, I'm going to focus on finishing my plan for the first part of my plan (the first third of prompts)... but then I ran out of characters wayyyy earlier than expected (so many options), so now I had to extend my planning posts to four comments instead of three. But now I'm halfway through my second set of prompts (instead of just finishing the one). And now I feel like I need to finish the second set as well.

And this is the story of how I spent an entire Sunday planning for 2020 reading and not getting any 2019 reading done.

Sounds like me, Emily! I love planning, even though I named by ATY challenge Kathy's "More Reading, Less Planning" Plan. lol

Wow...this is planning on steroids. Your exhaustive lists will be a reference when I get around to designating some books to fill prompts... sometime in late December.

Haha happy to help, Edie! I feel like my planning is really just me trying to prevent myself from forgetting a book I may want to read eventually... if I write it down here, I won't forget about it, right?? Plus, I'm a total mood reader, so it helps to have a variety to choose from when the prompt comes up.

Have fun Emily :-)

Wow Emily, I love how you’re planning this out :)

Tracy, you too! Glad to see you making a plan and I hope the year goes well for you!

Tanvi, I like having a ton of options for each prompt since I’m such a mood reader!

I've pulled my first prompt of the year (to make sure I had a book to fill it before the library closed) and I pulled #40: A book with a place name in the title.

I have a lot of options, but I've decided to go with Miracle Creek, as it seems like an easy jumping point for New Years Day and has great reviews (wouldn't want to start off the year on a bad foot...).

Miracle Creek is done! And it was such a great way to start the new year!

I've pulled Week #11: A book originally published in a year that is a prime number as my next prompt of the year.

I was debating between My Cousin Rachel (1951) and We Were the Lucky Ones (2017), but ended up picking the Daphne du Maurier book because I didn't want to go with a 2017 read. So we will see how this goes!

Emily wrote: "Miracle Creek is done! And it was such a great way to start the new year!

I've pulled Week #11: A book originally published in a year that is a prime number as my next prompt of th..."

I'm thinking of reading that one too, for my classic that I've always meant to read. I haven't really always meant to read it since I only heard of it in the past couple of years, but I really liked Rebecca so I might like this one too.

That's why I added it to my 40 Before 40 list.. Rebecca is one of my all time favorites, so I thought I'd pick My Cousin Rachel up and see if I liked it as much. It has good reviews and I read the first few pages and was hooked!

Update on My Cousin Rachel: I didn't hate it. It moved really quickly (even faster than Rebecca) and I thought the plot was unique and intriguing.

But. That. Narrator. I kind of hated Phillip, the way I hate all insufferable 25 year old boys lol. He was annoying and refused to see what was going on in front of him and just generally the worst.

That being said, I read and read and looked forward to reading, so it wasn't a bad read. You just have to be prepared to be annoyed at Phillip always lol.

What a list!

I finished Fierce Kingdom SO QUICKLY. Man, that book moved. It covered #6: Transportation on the cover. Probably a bit of a stretch, considering the horses are on a carousel and that can't really take you anywhere, but I'm counting it and moving on.



Up next from the Jar of Random is #32: Connected to the 2020 Olympics, and I nearly kissed my jar when I pulled this one. My book club picked The Silence of the Girls for January, and since it's set in ancient Greece, I'm going to count it towards this prompt.

After that prompt will be #8: Two word title starting with The, and I'm hoping to get to The Animators to cover my LGBTQIA+ book for the month. I also have The Alienist, The Wonder, and The Leavers on my bookshelves, so lots of options for that one!

Really just loving this random prompt thing. It feels intentional like reading in order but without the pressure!

Emily wrote: "I finished Fierce Kingdom SO QUICKLY. Man, that book moved. It covered #6: Transportation on the cover. Probably a bit of a stretch, considering the horses are on a carousel and tha..."

I’ve not read The Wonder yet so I’m not sure it would count as LGBTQIA+ for the subject matter, but it would for the author. It’s on my list to try to get to this year, so if you do choose to read it, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Oh, I didn’t even know that the author was LGBT+! That does help.. I loved Room so much, and I found a great copy of The Wonder at my local used bookstore so I want to get to it this year. I’m glad to have options since I’m such a mood reader!

Just finished The Silence of the Girls, which was a much quicker read than I was expecting and I enjoyed more than I was expecting, so great all around. That knocks off one of the prompts I was most dreading -- related to the summer Olympics. I was debating on whether to count this book for my LGBT+ requirement, since Achilles seemed to have a bit of a fling with his best friend, but I think it's too subtle and not enough of a center of the storyline for me to count it.

Now that I've finished my 4th ATY prompt, I may take a break from ATY for a minute because my Book of the Month club box just came in with The Sun Down Motel and Recursion. I've been looking forward to Sun Down Motel for ages... basically since I read and loved The Broken Girls! So I think I'll read that one next since I'm a little ahead on ATY.

In a mad dash that had me neglecting everything else in my life, I finished The Sun Down Motel. My heart is still racing, and I think I'm going to wait until tomorrow to rate it because right now it would be 5 perfect stars, but I know I'm not being rational.

It was just so, so good. The perfect amount of creepy and intriguing and heart-racing and character-driven and I just loved it.

Emily wrote: "In a mad dash that had me neglecting everything else in my life, I finished The Sun Down Motel. My heart is still racing, and I think I'm going to wait until tomorrow to rate it bec..."

That was my BotM selection in January! And the reason I picked it is because I also loved The Broken Girls. I haven't gotten to it yet (story of my reading life...sigh), but it is on the top of the stack.

I have a friend wanting to borrow it, which is pretty much the only reason I picked it up this month. I'm so bad about reading my BOTM picks in the month I get them lol. But this one was AMAZING and worth moving up the list if only to have people to gush about it with.

Just realized it's already February 4th and I forgot to post a January update (or add my last three reads to this plan). 2020 has not gotten off to a great start...

JANUARY

Books Read this Month: 10
Total Books in 2020: 10
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 7/60


Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (4 ⭐️)
Week 40. A book with a place name in the title


My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (3.5 ⭐️)
Week 11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number


Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips (4 ⭐️)
Week 6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover


Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller (5 ⭐️)
Side Read on Audio


The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (3.5 ⭐️)
Week 32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan


The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James (4.5 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print


The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan (4 ⭐️)
Side Read on Audio


The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker (3.5 ⭐️)
Week 8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"


The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates (2 ⭐️)
Side Read on Audio


When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore (3 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print

STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 2
- Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
- The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 2
- Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
- Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 2
- The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
- When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

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I read some good books this month, most notably Know My Name, which may be my favorite nonfiction of the year... I'm not sure how anything will beat it.

I also managed to double my diversity goals this month, so that's pretty cool. When the Moon Was Ours even had a transgender character, which is not my typical LGBTQ+ reads. I thought that was great, and I'm glad Monkiecat suggested it for me in the Winter Challenge thread.

All in all, a pretty good start to my reading year. Less than I managed last year, but I have a tougher work schedule and I'm taking an online graduate class, so my reading time is much diminished.

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February is Black History Month, so I plan on having half of my books read be written by black authors. I have quite a few on my agenda, but I'm really looking forward to The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives, which I've heard great things about.

My goal is to read at least 8 books, with 4 of them going towards ATY. I already have my books planned for #37/38 prompts (The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls and The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics), so we will see what the jar holds for me with the other two prompts.

I just finished The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray, which also served as my first African American author of the month (I'm hoping to get at least 4 in), as well as my LGBTQ+ author for the month.

And I'm pairing it with The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics for the two binary opposite books.

I thought the book was a great look at mental health and the way our relationships can make or break us. I generally don't like books centered on family relationships and drama, but this one was really well done.

I just finished Homegoing, which was a reread for me. For some reason, I only gave the book 4 stars my first time around, but this time I read it, I took notes and took my time with the story, letting it unfold and looking for patterns, and whew. It totally blew me away. I raised the rating to 5 stars.

Just so brilliant.

Emily wrote: "I just finished Homegoing, which was a reread for me. For some reason, I only gave the book 4 stars my first time around, but this time I read it, I took notes and took my time with..."

I’m adding Homegoing to my TBR for after the challenge. It looks like an interesting story.

I know that we are granted an extra day in February this year, but I'm going to go ahead and call my month early. I've been reading like a maniac for the Read-A-Thon, but I don't think I'll start and finish another book between today and tomorrow (not if I want to get any work done haha!), so I'll go ahead and post this now.

It was a pretty good reading month for me, with LOTS of books given 4 stars. I also had a goal of reading 50% authors of African descent (African, African American, etc.), and I met that goal on the nose. I'm glad I pushed myself, because I ended up reading books in a lot of different genres this month.

FEBRUARY

Books Read this Month: 10
Total Books in 2020: 20
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 13/60
Around the Year Challenge: 10/52


The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee (3 ⭐️)
Week 2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable


The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray (4 ⭐️)
Week 37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1


The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (3.5 ⭐️)
Week 37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2


The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae (4 ⭐️)
Side Read in Audio


Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi (4 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print


Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro (4.5 ⭐️)
Side Read in Audio


Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (5 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print
Book Club Choice for February


All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams, Karen White, and Lauren Willig (4 ⭐️)
Week 48. A book published in 2020


Elevation by Stephen King (3 ⭐️)
Week 13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
From 2016: A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name


Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (3.5 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print


STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 2
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
- Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 6
- The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
- The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
- The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
- Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
- Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 1
- The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

Oh, March. You sucked.

I can't even fully blame the craziness of the world, because it took me ten (unquarantined) days to read my first book of the month... and I ended up DNF'ing two books because I just couldn't get into anything. Then, when it was announced that school was closing on March 13th, I went into a frenzy of planning and grading and planning and basically couldn't even think about reading. It was really hard to lose myself in a book with so much going on in the real world.

But I did have some books I really enjoyed this month, even if I didn't meet any of my goals. I read our book club book (Never Let Me Go) in two days, and that covered my POC goal, but I just couldn't pick up anything else that wasn't simple and easy. Hopefully April will be a bit better...

MARCH

Books Read this Month: 4
Total Books in 2020: 24
Print Books Reading Challenge: 17/60
Around the Year Challenge: 13/52


Followers by Megan Angelo (5 ⭐️)
Week 1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y


The Grace Year: A Novel by Kim Liggett (3.5 ⭐️)
Week 19. A fantasy book


Still Lives by Maria Hummel (4.5 ⭐️)
Week 25. A book related to the arts


Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (3.5 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print


STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 0


Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 1
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro


Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 0

This may just be a quarantine thing, but I found that when I'm in the middle of a Read-A-Thon, or just tracking my pages in general, I'm must more likely to read every day. So here goes?

APRIL 12-18, 2020

Currently Reading
- The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Sunday, April 12: Oona Out of Order - 179 Pages
Monday, April 13: Oona Out of Order - 86 Pages; Untamed - .75 hours
Tuesday, April 14: The Guest List - 44 Pages; Untamed - .5 hours
Wednesday, April 15: The Guest List - 43 Pages
Thursday, April 16: Untamed - 2.75 hours
Friday, April 17: The Guest List - 81 Pages; Untamed - 1 hour
Saturday, April 18: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 42 Pages; The Guest List - 24 Pages; Untamed - .5 hour
Total Pages: 499 Pages
Total Audio: 5.5 Hours

Books Finished


Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Thoughts
- Ok Oona is just REALLY GOOD. Like... I cannot put this book down. It is striking the perfect balance between sentimental and funny and surprising, but also pretty light. A great read for right now in life.
- I'm surprised at how into Untamed I am. I picked it up pretty randomly, I've never even heard of Glennon Doyle, but her book is a good mix of self-help without the preachiness.
- Was planning on reading With the Fire on High for the GR award prompt, but I needed to switch things up after Oona and I was craving a mystery. Luckily my BOTM box came in, so I skipped the GR prompt for now and will complete the mystery one, then come back to GR award after.
- Definitely had too much Glennon Doyle yesterday.
- The Guest List is picking up, but I still don't want to pick it up lol
- Seems a bit like cheating to include Harry Potter in this month's count, because I've read it over the course of the last year, but it has to count somewhere, right?

Emily wrote: "This may just be a quarantine thing, but I found that when I'm in the middle of a Read-A-Thon, or just tracking my pages in general, I'm must more likely to read every day. So here goes?

Currently..."

I love this idea, Emily! I think I’m going to incorporate it into my plan 😊

APRIL 19-25, 2020

Currently Reading


- The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Daily Tracking
Sunday, 4/19: The Guest List - 124 Pages
Monday, 4/20: The Sweeney Sisters - 72 Pages
Tuesday, 4/21: The Sweeney Sisters - 99 Pages
Wednesday, 4/22: The Sweeney Sisters - 121 Pages; The Mother-in-Law - .5 Hours
Thursday, 4/23: The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein - 138 Pages
Friday, 4/24: The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein - 149 Pages; The Mother-in-Law - 1 Hour
Saturday, 4/25: With the Fire on High - 67 Pages; The Mother-in-Law - .75 Hour
Total Pages: 770 Pages
Total Audio: 2.25 Hours

Books Finished


- The Guest List by Lucy Foley
- The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan
- The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

Thoughts
- I really wanted The Guest List to be less predictable but... alas.
- Really thankful for this Read-A-Thon.. 3 books in one week!

I love how you're using the tracking from the read a thons each month now!!!! I think I may have to start doing that. I'm afraid we have several more months of quarantine ahead, and while that seems like the perfect time to get A LOT of reading done.........just nope. I went from around 15 books a month this year to I think 2 so far in April.

I hope you enjoy With the Fire on High. I really liked that one this year. And how is the Glennon Doyle book? I was toying with reading it, but I feel like self help/inspirational stuff all sounds the same to me, so I always put it on the back burner. I have been watching her live feeds on Face book though. She has some really good ones, and its nice to listen to instead of all the politics and bad news.

I only read 4 books in March! So I feel your pain on that one... I'm doing better in April now that I've gotten into a quarantine routine lol.

I liked the Glennon Doyle book, but I also knew NOTHING about her going into the book. From other reviews I've read, it seems like it can be a bit repetitive from her interviews and stuff, so I don't know if I would have enjoyed it as much if I had read her other stuff. But it was definitely uplifting and not super preachy (except for a bit in the middle). I liked her story though.

APRIL 26 - MAY 2, 2020

CURRENTLY READING


- The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

DAILY TRACKING
Sunday, 4/26: With the Fire on High - 71 Pages; The Mother-in-Law - 1 Hour
Monday, 4/27: With the Fire on High - 123 Pages; The Mother-in-Law - 1.75 Hours
Tuesday, 4/28: With the Fire on High - 126 Pages; The Mother-in-Law - 1.5 Hours
Wednesday, 4/29: The Heart's Invisible Furies - 48 Pages
Thursday, 4/30: The Heart's Invisible Furies - 44 Pages; The Mother-in-Law - 1.75 Hours
Friday, 5/1: The Heart's Invisible Furies - 62 Pages
Saturday, 5/2: The Heart's Invisible Furies - 148 Pages; The Mother-in-Law - .75 Hours
TOTAL PAGES: 622 Pages
TOTAL HOURS: 6.75 Hours

BOOKS FINISHED


- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth

BOOKS TBR


- The Library of Legends by Janie Chang
- Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
- Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
- The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

THOUGHTS
- I ended the Read-A-Thon with a good number of pages read and books completed, which I'm happy about. With the Fire On High is reading really quickly and easily, which I wasn't expecting, so I'll definitely get it in before the end of April.
- Ugh I finished With the Fire on High and I'm upset because I truly wanted that book to go on forever.
- The Heart's Invisible Furies is taking forever. I think I've made good progress, and SURPRISE I've only read 40 pages. Going to have to kick it in high gear if I don't want to spend the whole month of May reading this one.

I like your Daily Tracking, Emily. I may steal it! I've liked tracking again during the Quaratine-a-thon.

That's why I did it, Kathy! I find that if I hold myself accountable to tracking my pages every day, I'm going to read at least a little bit so that I don't have to put zero lol. It will (hopefully) also keep me from going too long without finishing a book because I'd hate to have my Completed Books blank for the week.

It's funny the way we trick ourselves haha

I'm copying your daily tracking idea, too! It's brilliant.

Copy away, Ana!

Whew. Thank goodness for April.

It's always hit or miss with April... the spring weather, tax season ending, festivals and fun weekends. However, since this April had very few of those things, I took full advantage of the spring weather by sitting outside and reading every afternoon. I also decided to start running, which fed my audiobook appetite. All in all, I'm pretty happy with everything I read this month... lots of 5 star and 4.5 star books!

Books Read this Month: 11
Total Books in 2020: 35
Print Books Reading Challenge: 25/60
Around the Year Challenge: 19/52


The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (2.5 ⭐️)
Week 20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]


The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys (4.5 ⭐️)
Week 18. A book by an author you've only read once before


The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (3 ⭐️)
Side Read on Audio


The Alienist by Caleb Carr (5 ⭐️)
Week 15. A book set in a global city


Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore (4.5 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print


Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (5 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print


Untamed by Glennon Doyle (3.5 ⭐️)
Side Read on Audio


The Guest List by Lucy Foley (3 ⭐️)
Week 41. A mystery


The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan (4.5 ⭐️)
Side Read in Print


The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White (4.5 ⭐️)
Week 3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019


With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (5 ⭐️)
Week 26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards


STATS:

Goal: 1 Nonfiction | Completed: 1
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Goal: 1 from POC Authors or Featuring POC Characters | Completed: 1
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Goal: 1 from LGBTQ+ Authors or Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters | Completed: 1
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle