Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

✔ 1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y: Roller Girl
✔ 2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable: Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch
✔ 3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019: Falling Free (I loved loved loved another book by this author last year)
✔ 4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live: Fever 1793
✔ 5. The first book in a series that you have not started: The Clockwork Scarab

✔ 6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
✔ 7. A book set in the southern hemisphere: The Storm Sister
✔ 8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The": The Witches
✔ 9. A book that can be read in a day: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

✔ 10. A book that is between 400-600 pages: Magician: Apprentice (I also read the rest of the series)
✔ 11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number: Sense and Sensibility
✔ 12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people: America's First Daughter
✔ 13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge (Link): Orthodoxy [2017's "A title that doesn't contain the letter 'E'"]
✔ 14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link): We Should All Be Feminists

✔ 15. A book set in a global city: The Spiritglass Charade [London]
✔ 16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area: Where the Crawdads Sing
✔ 17. A book with a neurodiverse character: A Man Called Ove
✔ 18. A book by an author you've only read once before: The Bronze Bow

✔ 19. A fantasy book: Alanna: The First Adventure (I also read the rest of the series)
✔ 20. The 20th book [by descending popularity on my TBR on the day I looked]: A Court of Thorns and Roses
✔ 21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720: The Sparrow
✔ 22. A book with the major theme of survival: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

✔ 23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
✔ 24. A book with an emotion in the title: For the Love
✔ 25. A book related to the arts: Ellie and the Harpmaker
✔ 26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards: Sorcery of Thorns
✔ 27. A history or historical fiction: My Dear Hamilton

✔ 28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author: The Creature in the Case
✔ 29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book: The Long Ships
✔ 30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year: Becoming
✔ 31. A book inspired by a leading news story: Inside Out and Back Again

✔ 32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan: The Boys in the Boat
✔ 33. A book about a non-traditional family: The Secret Garden
✔ 34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name: [Science Fiction, yo!] The Warrior's Apprentice
✔ 35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover: Recursion

✔ 36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim: Kindred
✔ 37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1: The Moon Sister
✔ 38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2: The Sun Sister
✔ 39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

✔ 40. A book with a place name in the title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
✔ 41. A mystery: Red Rover, Red Rover
✔ 42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ (link): All Systems Red
✔ 43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: On a Pale Horse
✔ 44. A book related to witches: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

✔ 45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018: Hannah Coulter
✔ 46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire": The Complete Persepolis [Ayatollah's In Iran]
✔ 47. A classic book you've always meant to read: To Kill a Mockingbird
✔ 48. A book published in 2020: Return of the Thief

✔ 49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win (link): Morning Star [a book with at least a 4.4 average rating]
✔ 50. A book with a silhouette on the cover: A Gentleman in Moscow
✔ 51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
✔ 52. A book related to time: This Is How You Lose the Time War

Accounting time! Basically five weeks until the end of the year and I have 10 books left to read from this list. I've averaged 3+ books per week this year, so it's definitely achievable, but I'll need to stick to the list and stop wandering into other tempting book-traps. 😂️

Getting serious…

Woohoo! I did it with a week to spare. 😁