Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Last year I planned only one book for each prompt and really tried to stick to that book. Whilst I did make a couple of changes, I have mainly stuck to the books I originally chose. This has meant, however, that despite having read nearly 260 books this year, I still haven't completed any of my four reading challenges!

For 2020 I'm going to try planning in a slightly different way. I'm going to list a lot of options so I have lots of choice, but I am also going to include any side reads if they fit one of the prompts. I also want to read more diversely, so I'm going to set myself different goals to try to achieve this.

2020 so far...

Total books read: 209/150
Books read from TBR at 1st January 2020: 82/100
TBR at 1st January 2020: 680
Currently Reading: 5
Current TBR: 751

ATY: 48/52
Popsugar: 43/50

New-to-me Authors: 36/36
POC: 25/36
LGBTQIA+: 23/36
Non-fiction: 12/12

2020 Goals

Goal 1 - Read at least 100 books from my TBR as at 1st January 2020

1. Sharpe's Devil
2. The Silence of the Girls
3. Educated
4. The Confession
5. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
6. Beneath a Scarlet Sky
7. The Autograph Man
8. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
9. The Joy Luck Club
10. Call Me By Your Name
11. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
12. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
13. The Testaments
14. Where the Crawdads Sing
15. Swing Time
16. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
17. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
18. The Last Runaway
19. I'll Give You the Sun
20. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
21. America Is Not the Heart
22. Golden Child
23. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
24. Under the Udala Trees
25. The Woman in the White Kimono
26. Salt to the Sea
27. Tidelands
28. NW
29. The Invention of Wings
30. And the Mountains Echoed
31. The Huntress
32. Swan Song
33. The Widows of Malabar Hill
34. Pompeii
35. A Single Thread
36. Burial Rites
37. Freshwater
38. The Line of Beauty
39. Victoria
40. The German Girl
41. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
42. Dear Martin
43. What Happened
44. Everything Under
45. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
46. A Week in December
47. Remembering Babylon
48. The Mirror & the Light
49. The Secret History
50. Public Library and Other Stories
51. A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
52. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
53. Small Great Things
54. The Giver
55. The Hours
56. The War That Saved My Life
57. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
58. There There
59. The Leavers
60. The Road
61. The Heart's Invisible Furies
62. The Sellout
63. Sea Prayer
64. Those Who Save Us
65. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
66. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
67. Middlesex
68. Ask Again, Yes
69. Empire of the Sun
70. A Separate Peace
71. Carol
72. A Single Man
73. Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
74. Brown Girl Dreaming
75. Their Eyes Were Watching God
76. H is for Hawk
77. Flying Too High
78. Mischling
79. Murder on the Ballarat Train
80. The Woman in Cabin 10
81. The Atomic City Girls
82. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Goal 2 - Read 36 new-to-me authors

1. Pat Barker
2. Tara Westover
3. Mackenzi Lee
4. Mark T. Sullivan
5. Laura Hillenbrand
6. Amy Tan
7. André Aciman
8. Patrisse Khan-Cullors
9. Robin DiAngelo
10. Hallie Rubenhold
11. Delia Owens
12. Anissa Gray
13. Betty Smith
14. Jandy Nelson
15. Elaine Castillo
16. Claire Adam
17. Chinelo Okparanta
18. Ana Johns
19. Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
20. Sujata Massey
21. Hannah Kent
22. Akwaeke Emezi
23. Alan Hollinghurst
24. Daisy Goodwin
25. Armando Lucas Correa
26. Eimear McBride
27. Ronald Kessler
28. Andrew P. Napolitano
29. Hillary Rodham Clinton
30. Ann Rule
31. Nic Stone
32. Jojo Moyes
33. T. Christian Miller
34. Luke Harding
35. Daisy Johnson
36. Michael Wolff

Goal 3 - Read 36 POC books

1. The Autograph Man
2. The Joy Luck Club
3. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
4. Swing Time
5. NW
6. And the Mountains Echoed
7. The Widows of Malabar Hill
8. The Satapur Moonstone
9. Dear Martin
10. Everything Under
11. Free Food for Millionaires
12. The Leavers
13. Their Eyes Were Watching God
14. The Sellout
15. The Intuitionist
16. Sea Prayer
17. Brown Girl Dreaming
18. You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
19. The Last Black Unicorn
20. We're Going to Need More Wine
21. When Dimple Met Rishi
22. To All the Boys I've Loved Before
23. Why Not Me?
24. P.S. I Still Love You
25. Always and Forever, Lara Jean
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Goal 4 - Read 36 LGBTQIA+ books

1. The Confession
2. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
3. Call Me By Your Name
4. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
5. I'll Give You the Sun
6. America Is Not the Heart
7. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
8. Under the Udala Trees
9. The Huntress
10. A Single Thread
11. Freshwater
12. The Line of Beauty
13. Girl, Woman, Other
14. Public Library and Other Stories
15. The Hours
16. The Heart's Invisible Furies
17. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
18. Middlesex
19. Carol
20. A Single Man
21. Seriously... I'm Kidding
22. The Funny Thing Is...
23. Autoboyography
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Goal 5 - Read 12 non-fiction books

1. Educated
2. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
3. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
4. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
5. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
6. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
7. The Secrets of the FBI
8. Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom
9. What Happened
10. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
11. A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
12. Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia

Reserved

ATY PROGRESS POST: 48/52

✔️ 1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Roomies by Christina Lauren

✔️ 2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable - Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith

✔️ 3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019 - Sword of Kings by Bernard Cornwell

✔️ 4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
Mischling by Affinity Konar

✔️ 5. The first book in a series that you have not started - Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

✔️ 6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover - The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

✔️ 7. A book set in the southern hemisphere - Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

✔️ 8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The" - The Confession by Jessie Burton

✔️ 9. A book that can be read in a day
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

✔️ 10. A book that is between 400-600 pages - And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

✔️ 11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

✔️ 12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people - A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier (audiobook)

✔️ 13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge - Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom by Andrew P. Napolitano

✔️ 14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers - NW by Zadie Smith

✔️ 15. A book set in a global city - The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith

✔️ 16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area - The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

17. A book with a neurodiverse character

✔️ 18. A book by an author you've only read once before - The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey

✔️ 19. A fantasy book - The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

✔️ 20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.] - A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks

✔️ 21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1719 - The Planets by Brian Cox

✔️ 22. A book with the major theme of survival
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

✔️ 23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author - Carol by Patricia Highsmith

✔️ 24. A book with an emotion in the title
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

✔️ 25. A book related to the arts - I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

✔️ 26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards - Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

✔️ 27. A history or historical fiction - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author

✔️ 29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book - Black Dove White Raven by Elizabeth Wein

✔️ 30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year - There There by Tommy Orange

✔️ 31. A book inspired by a leading news story - Dear Martin by Nic Stone

✔️ 32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan - Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard

✔️ 33. A book about a non-traditional family - America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

✔️ 34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name - Autobiography - Educated by Tara Westover

✔️ 35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover - Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

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

✔️ 37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1 - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

✔️ 38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2 - When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

✔️ 39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce - Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

✔️ 40. A book with a place name in the title - Pompeii by Robert Harris

✔️ 41. A mystery - The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

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

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse

✔️ 44. A book related to witches - Tidelands by Philippa Gregory

✔️ 45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini

✔️ 46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire" - The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (AIDS)

✔️ 47. A classic book you've always meant to read - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

✔️ 48. A book published in 2020 - Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain

✔️ 49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win - The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier

✔️ 50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale

✔️ 51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title - Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

✔️ 52. A book related to time - The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Popsugar PROGRESS POST: 43/50

2020 Challenge - Regular prompts

✔️ 1. A book that's published in 2020 - The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel

✔️ 2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author - Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

✔️ 3. A book with a great first line - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

4. A book about a book club

✔️ 5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

✔️ 6. A bildungsroman - The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

✔️ 7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed - The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa

✔️ 8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

✔️ 9. A book with a map - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

✔️ 10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club
Landline by Rainbow Rowell

11. An anthology

12. A book that passes the Bechdel test

✔️ 13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is
unrelated to it - The Huntress by Kate Quinn

14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name

✔️ 15. A book about or involving social media - Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich

✔️ 16. A book that has a book on the cover
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

✔️ 17. A medical thriller - Whiteout by Ken Follett

✔️ 18. A book with a made-up language - A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

✔️ 19. A book set in a country beginning with "C" - The Leavers by Lisa Ko

✔️ 20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention - Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

21. A book published the month of your birthday

✔️ 22. A book about or by a woman in STEM - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

✔️ 23. A book that won an award in 2019 - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

✔️ 24. A book on a subject you know nothing about - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

✔️ 25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics - Swing Time by Zadie Smith

✔️ 26. A book with a pun in the title - Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay

✔️ 27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

✔️ 28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character - Cinder by Marissa Meyer

✔️ 29. A book with a bird on the cover - H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

✔️ 30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader - Victoria by Daisy Goodwin

✔️ 31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title - Golden Child by Claire Adam

32. A book by a WOC

✔️ 33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

34. A book you meant to read in 2019

✔️ 35. A book with a three-word title - Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

✔️ 36. A book with a pink cover - Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

✔️ 37. A Western - News of the World by Paulette Jiles

✔️ 38. A book by or about a journalist - A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller

✔️ 39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
A Separate Peace by John Knowles by Ronald Kessler

2020 Challenge - Advanced prompts

✔️ 1. A book written by an author in their 20s - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

✔️ 2. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title - Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

✔️ 3. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision) - Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

✔️ 4. A book set in the 1920s - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

✔️ 5. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics - The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns

✔️ 6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books - Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan

✔️ 7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title - The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

✔️ 8. A book published in the 20th century - The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

✔️ 9. A book from a series with more than 20 books -
Sharpe's Devil by Bernard Cornwell

✔️ 10. A book with a main character in their 20s - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

ATY Plans - Options:

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y

Golden Child by Claire Adam
NW by Zadie Smith
Honor by Elif Shafak
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable

Zadie Smith
Lisa See
Kevin Kwan
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean

3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019

Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
Kartography by Kamila Shamsie
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
In the City by the Sea by Kamila Shamsie
Salt and Saffron by Kamila Shamsie
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Mischling by Affinity Konar
Internment by Samira Ahmed
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

5. The first book in a series that you have not started

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Life Class by Pat Barker
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Beartown by Fredrik Backman

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Life Class by Pat Barker
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

7. A book set in the southern hemisphere

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
A Question of Power by Bessie Head
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer

8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

9. A book that can be read in a day

Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages

The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Sophie's Choice by William Styron

11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
We Were the Lucky Ones by We Were the Lucky Ones
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people

An audiobook that doesn't fit elsewhere

13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge

A book I read that doesn't fit a prompt for this year

14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers

Sarah Waters
Roxane Gay
Toni Morrison
Zadie Smith
Ali Smith
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

15. A book set in a global city

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Carol by Patricia Highsmith
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area

Golden Child by Claire Adam
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

17. A book with a neurodiverse character

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
The Leavers by Lisa Ko

18. A book by an author you've only read once before

Tayari Jones
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Donna Tartt
Jessie Burton
Esi Edugyan
Kevin Kwan
Kamila Shamsie

19. A fantasy book

The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]

Sort TBR in different ways when I want to read for this prompt

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
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan
When the Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Internment by Samira Ahmed

22. A book with the major theme of survival

Mischling by Affinity Konar
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Any books by Sarah Waters

24. A book with an emotion in the title

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Love and Ruin by Paula McLain
Peony in Love by Lisa See
Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

25. A book related to the arts

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Internment by Samira Ahmed
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly

27. A history or historical fiction

11/22/63 by Stephen King
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Confession by Jessie Burton
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
City of Thieves by David Benioff
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje

29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book

Marilyn and Me by Ji-min Lee
The Algiers Motel Incident by John Hersey
The Things We Left Unsaid: An unforgettable story of love and family by Emma Kennedy
The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison
City of the Mind by Penelope Lively
Right at Last by Elizabeth Gaskell
Inside Enemy by Alan Judd
Butterfly's Shadow by Lee Langley

30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
There There by Tommy Orange
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

31. A book inspired by a leading news story

Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan

Beartown by Fredrik Backman
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard

33. A book about a non-traditional family

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
There There by Tommy Orange
Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson - Narrative Non-fiction
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn - History
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - History
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald - Autobiography
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand - Historical Nonfiction
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson - Historical Nonfiction
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore - Historical Nonfiction
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold - Historical Nonfiction
Educated by Tara Westover - Autobiography
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates - Autobiography
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson - Autobiography

35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover

Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write by Sabrina Mahfouz
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

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

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John O'Farrell

37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce

Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
We Must Be Brave by Frances Liardet
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

40. A book with a place name in the title

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

41. A mystery

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
The Observations by Jane Harris
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
How to Be Both by Ali Smith

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Angels in America by Tony Kushner

44. A book related to witches

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory

45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018

Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
Kamila Shamsie

46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"

The Green Road by Anne Enright
The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

47. A classic book you've always meant to read

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

48. A book published in 2020

All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams
The Bourne Nemesis by Eric Van Lustbader
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
The King's Justice by Susan Elia MacNeal

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win

Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

50. A book with a silhouette on the cover

Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title

Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
Finding Rebecca by Eoin Dempsey
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

52. A book related to time

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Those Who Save Us is probably one of my favorite WWII fiction books I've read. I hope you enjoy it :-)

A few others from your list that I really enjoyed : The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane ( I love Lisa See) Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption ( THIS is some incredibly written Non Fiction- I would recommend it to anyone!!), 11/22/63... half of this group recommends this to everyone. I even told my mother to read it, fantastic book! Also I had the best Oh My God moment while I was reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, never had any desire to read it, not sure why I picked it up but it was my favorite book I read that year.

Enjoy your challenge. We do have quite a few books in common.

Tracy wrote: "Those Who Save Us is probably one of my favorite WWII fiction books I've read. I hope you enjoy it :-)

A few others from your list that I really enjoyed : The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane ( I love Lisa See)..."

I've never read anything by Lisa See. I've had her books on my TBR for a long time, but I don't know why I've never got around to reading anything by her.

Popsugar Plans - Options

2020 Challenge - Regular prompts

1. A book that's published in 2020

All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams
The Bourne Nemesis by Eric Van Lustbader
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
The King's Justice by Susan Elia MacNeal

2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author

The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Little Fish by Casey Plett

3. A book with a great first line

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

4. A book about a book club

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics

The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

6. A bildungsroman

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Far from the Tree by Robin Benway

7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed

The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa

8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover

Staying On by Paul Scott
Falling by Elizabeth Jane Howard
A Girl in Exile by Ismail Kadare
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
The Boat People by Sharon Bala
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones

9. A book with a map

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Beartown by Fredrik Backman

11. An anthology

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write by Sabrina Mahfouz

12. A book that passes the Bechdel test

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Carol by Patricia Highsmith
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is
unrelated to it

The Huntress by Kate Quinn
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
Educated by Tara Westover
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
Tangerine by Christine Mangan
Pompeii by Robert Harris
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
The Sellout by Paul Beatty

14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name

Lark Rise by Flora Thompson
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
There There by Tommy Orange
Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
White Houses by Amy Bloom
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

15. A book about or involving social media

All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
Beartown by Fredrik Backman

16. A book that has a book on the cover

Girl Reading by Katie Ward
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

17. A medical thriller

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Whiteout by Ken Follett
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

18. A book with a made-up language

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

19. A book set in a country beginning with "C"

Lisa See
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
Mischling by Affinity Konar
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

21. A book published the month of your birthday

Dear Martin by Nic Stone
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

22. A book about or by a woman in STEM

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

23. A book that won an award in 2019

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Educated by Tara Westover
Internment by Samira Ahmed
Milkman by Anna Burns
There There by Tommy Orange
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
Little Fish by Casey Plett
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

24. A book on a subject you know nothing about

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
4321 by Paul Auster
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin

26. A book with a pun in the title

A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller
China Dolls by Lisa See
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins

The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Power by Naomi Alderman
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Sugar Money by Jane Harris

28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

29. A book with a bird on the cover

Born Survivors by Wendy Holden
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
A Tangled Mercy by Joy Jordan-Lake
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam

30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader

Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
White Houses by Amy Bloom
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren

31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title

Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Golden Child by Claire Adam
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

32. A book by a WOC

Zadie Smith
Kamila Shamsie
Toni Morrison
Lisa See
Amy Tan
Roxane Gay
Tayari Jones

33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Educated by Tara Westover
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
City of Thieves by David Benioff

34. A book you meant to read in 2019

The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
El mundo by Juan José Millás
Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann
Ich Fühl Mich So Fifty-fifty by Karin König
Las bicicletas son para el verano by Fernando Fernán Gómez
El otro árbol de Guernica by Luis de Castresana
So wie ich will - Mein Leben zwischen Moschee und Minirock by Melda Akbaş
Modelos de mujer by Almudena Grandes
Malena es un nombre de tango by Almudena Grandes

35. A book with a three-word title

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Boat People by Sharon Bala
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

36. A book with a pink cover

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Milkman by Anna Burns
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan

37. A Western

Inland by Téa Obreht

38. A book by or about a journalist

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Pompeii by Robert Harris
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller

39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
A Separate Peace by John Knowles

40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading
Challenge

A book I read that doesn't fit elsewhere

2020 Challenge - Advanced prompts

1. A book written by an author in their 20s

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

2. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title

11/22/63 by Stephen King

3. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision)

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Giver by Lois Lowry

4. A book set in the 1920s

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

5. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics

The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books

Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan
Bernard Cornwell
Philippa Gregory

7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

8. A book published in the 20th century

The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
A Question of Power by Bessie Head
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

9. A book from a series with more than 20 books

Sharpe's Devil by Bernard Cornwell

10. A book with a main character in their 20s

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Yes Yes and Yes to Middlesex!!!!!!!! Also again to Lisa See, Snow Flower is her best IMO.

Feel free to delete my comments if they broke up your thread, I wont take offense. I didnt realize you were still planning.

Tracy wrote: "Yes Yes and Yes to Middlesex!!!!!!!! Also again to Lisa See, Snow Flower is her best IMO.

Feel free to delete my comments if they broke up your thread, I wont take offense. I didnt realize you we..."

Thank you for all the recommendations Tracy!

Middlesex is definitely a book I want to read soon - I'm going to try and pick it up in a couple of weeks when I next go to the library!

I finished my first book for this challenge - The Silence of the Girls.

Whilst I enjoyed the book, I think I would have enjoyed it more if I knew more about Greek mythology and who all the people mentioned were. The book assumed I would know who some of the people were, and the history behind some of the events that were mentioned. Once I got past those bits, I enjoyed the story and seeing it through the eyes of one of the women who had been sold as a prize. I think I'll use this for the fantasy prompt, as that was one of the prompts I was least looking forward to, so I'm happy I found something I liked for it.

I finished my second book for the challenge - Educated. I used it for a book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name.

I loved this book, but because of the subject matter, I found it a very difficult read at times.

I finished my third book for ATY - The Confession for prompt 8, a two-word title with “The” as the first word.

I really enjoyed this book, although the plot was quite obvious from very early on in this book. This was the second book I have read from Jessie Burton, and she really pulls you in to the story and keeps you hooked on it, even if you knew what was going to happen. I’m definitely going to try to get around to reading The Miniaturist at some stage this year.

I've just finished my 4th book for ATY. I used The Autograph Man for prompt 15, set in a global city. This is the first book I've read this year that I didn't really enjoy. Whilst there were sections of the book I enjoyed towards the start, there was a lack of pace to the plot, and I didn't like and could't connect at all with the main character, the book felt forced at times, and the ending was anti-climatic. This was a shame because I loved On Beauty, and I'm planning on reading both Swing Time and NW this year.

I read White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism and When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir for my two books related to each other as a pair of binary opposites (black and white in the title).

I found When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir a brilliant book, and I would recommend it to everyone!

I read The Last Runaway for a book that fits from the list of suggestions that didn't win (MC is an immigrant.

Honor, an English Quaker, moves to Ohio where she is drawn in to the activities of the Underground Railroad. Honor has been brought up to be honest and follow her principles. However in her new community, and the family she has married into, she discovers that principles count for little, even in a community supposedly committed to equality. Honor faces the difficult decision to act on what she believes, or follow the wishes of her husband’s family.

This was an engaging read with lots of historical detail and well-written, albeit a bit naïve, characters. I couldn’t give this a higher rating, however, as the ending to the story was a it disappointing.

I read I'll Give You the Sun for the prompt related to the arts.

3 stars

Twins Jude and Noah are incredibly close growing up, although they are barely speaking to each other a few years later. This is the story of the events that led them to grow apart, and then how they found their way back to each other, despite being unbelievably mean to each other at various points in the book.

I finished America Is Not the Heart for 33, a book about a non-traditional family. I really enjoyed this one, and I learnt about I culture and historical period I knew very little about.

Hannah wrote: "2020 Goals

Goal 1 - Read at least 100 books from my TBR as at 1st January 2020

1. Sharpe's Devil
2. The Silence of the Girls
3. Educated
4. [book:The..."

I like your goals setup. I might copy this :D

Ana A wrote: "Hannah wrote: "2020 Goals

Goal 1 - Read at least 100 books from my TBR as at 1st January 2020

1. Sharpe's Devil
2. The Silence of the Girls
3. [book:Educated|3513392..."

Thanks, Ana! I can’t claim much credit though, as I copied most of it from Emily’s challenge post.

I saw your challenge highlighted in the February newsletter so I thought I'd pop in and check it out. Wow...you've done a lot of planning! Very impressive. Good luck with your challenge.