Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

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2020 plan, part 1 :

✔ 1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y :
Circe by Madeline Miller

✔ 2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable :
Heimat: Ein deutsches Familienalbum (Heimat: A German Family Album) by Nora Krug

✔ 3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019 :
Simone Veil, l'Immortelle by Pascal Bresson

✔ 4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live :
Marcher à Kerguelen by François Garde

✔ 5. The first book in a series that you have not started :
A Wicked Kind of Husband by Mia Vincy

✔ 6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover :
Der nasse Fisch (Babylon Berlin) by Volker Kutscher

✔ 7. A book set in the southern hemisphere :
Rouge Himba : Carnet d'amitié avec les éleveurs nomades de Namibie by Solenn Bardet and Simon Hureau

✔ 8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The" :
The Cove by Ron Rash

✔ 9. A book that can be read in a day :
Confidences à Allah by Marie Avril and Eddy Simon, after Saphia Azzeddine

✔ 10. A book that is between 400-600 pages :
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

✔ 11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number :
A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba - Originally published in 2017

✔ 12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people :
The Place of Broken Things by Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti

✔ 13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge --> A book with a strong sense of place (2019) :
Longbourn by Jo Baker

✔ 14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link) :
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

✔✔✔✔✔ 15. A book set in a global city :

Deux brûle-parfums by Eileen Chang (set in Hong Kong)
Ougarit by Camille Ammoun (set in Dubai)
Drawn To Berlin: Comic Workshops In Refugee Shelters And Other Stories From A New Europe by Ali Fitzgerald
Désorientale (Disoriental) by Négar Djavadi (set in Paris)
To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer (set in New York)
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (set in Tokyo)

✔ 16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area :
Gouverneurs de la rosée (Masters of the Dew) by Jacques Roumain

✔ 17. A book with a neurodiverse character :
Nietzsche au Paraguay by Christophe Prince and Nathalie Prince

✔ 18. A book by an author you've only read once before :
La soupe d'orge perlé et autres nouvelles by Lyudmila Ulitskaya

✔ 19. A fantasy book :
The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

✔ 20. The 20th book :
Louison Et Monsieur Molière by Marie-Christine Helgerson (book for the 20th prompt of the Read Harder Challenge : a middle grade book that doesn’t take place in the U.S. or the UK)

✔ 21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719 :
L'Univers expliqué à mes petits-enfants (Universe Explained to my Grandchildren, The) by Hubert Reeves

✔ 22. A book with the major theme of survival :
L'équation africaine by Yasmina Khadra

✔ 23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author :
Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice) by Thomas Mann

✔ 24. A book with an emotion in the title :
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

✔ 25. A book related to the arts :
Sous le Street Art, le Louvre. Quand l'art classique inspire l'art urbain by Cyrille Gouyette

✔ 26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards :
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

2020 plan, part 2 :

✔27. A history or historical fiction :
Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset

✔ 28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author :
The Lost Man by Jane Harper

✔ 29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book :
Des vies possibles by Charif Majdalani

✔ 30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year :
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

✔ 31. A book inspired by a leading news story :
Khalil by Yasmina Khadra

✔ 32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan :
Le tigre des neiges #2 by Akiko Higashimura

✔ 33. A book about a non-traditional family :
We Were The Future: A Memoir of the Kibbutz by Yael Neeman

✔ 34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name : historical fiction, essays, literary fiction, non-fiction
The Pope's Daughter by Dario Fo (historical fiction)

✔ 35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover :
Rosa Candida (The Greenhouse) by Audur Ava Olafsdottir

✔ 36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim :
Un château à Ipanema by Martha Batalha

✔ 37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1 :
Fathers and Forefathers by Slobodan Selenić

✔ 38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2 :
And Their Children After Them) by Nicolas Mathieu

✔ 39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce --> Wild card : Remember the Ladies by Gina L. Mulligan

✔ 40. A book with a place name in the title :
Cesaria Evora, la voix du Cap-Vert by Veronique Mortaigne

✔ 41. A mystery :
Long Way Home by Louise Penny

✔ 42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ :
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

✔ 43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse :
Tropique de la violence (Tropic of Violence) by Nathacha Appanah

✔ 44. A book related to witches :
Moi, Tituba, Sorcière: Noire De Salem: Roman (I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem) by Maryse Condé

✔ 45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018 :
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

✔ 46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire" :
Pyongyang (Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea) by Guy Delisle

✔ 47. A classic book you've always meant to read :
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz

✔ 48. A book published in 2020 :
Les cinq fantômes by Jérémy Behm

✔ 49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win :
Phoolan Devi : Reine des bandits (Phoolan Devi, Rebel Queen) by Claire Fauvel (a book with a main character's name in the title )

✔ 50. A book with a silhouette on the cover :
Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

✔ 51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title :
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

✔ 52. A book related to time :
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
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