Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

This is my first reading challenge of any kind and I am super excited! I’m not sure how many books I’ll be able to get through next year, but hoping I can at least complete the ATY challenge.

I also recently heard about the A-Z Author challenge and the A-Z Title challenge. After looking through my “read” books, I realized that there are some letters that I’ve never read. So, this year I’m going to try and complete both those challenges. Before planning the books I will read for the ATY reading challenge, I made a list of books that would fit for the A-Z challenges and tried to incorporate those books into the ATY challenge (since I know I won’t have time to do completely separate challenges).

Progress
ATY challenge: 27/50
A-Z Author challenge: 15/26
A-Z Title challenge: 0/26

Reading Challenge Listopias: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2022 ATY Cover Collage

THE 2022 LIST

✅ 1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y The Borrowers
✅ 2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021 Final Girls (same topic as The Final Girl Support Group)
✅ 3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list The Secret Life of Bees
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name Annihilation

✅ 6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover A Study in Scarlet Women
7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind Her Last Breath
✅ 8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1 (Africa) My Sister, the Serial Killer
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2 (North America) A Streetcar Named Desire

10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3 (Australia) I Am the Messenger
11. A book from historical fiction genre The Yellow Birds
12. A book related to glass The Woman in Cabin 10
✅ 13. A book about a woman in STEM The Loneliest Girl in the Universe

✅ 14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
✅ 15. A book without a person on the cover The Guilt Trip
16. A book related to Earth Day Lab Girl OR The Loneliest Polar Bear
✅ 17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge Anxious People

✅ 18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author The Obsession
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history V for Vendetta
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900-1951 Water for Elephants
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover Before the Coffee Gets Cold
22. A book with a Jewish character or author The Diary of a Young Girl

23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship The Vanishing Half
24. A book related to inclement weather The Guest List
✅ 25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages Big Little Lies
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1 The Loneliest Girl in the Universe

27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2 The Girl on the Train
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards Normal People
✅ 29. A book set on or near a body of water Malibu Rising
30. A book related to mythology The Song of Achilles

✅ 31. A book published at least 10 years ago My Sister's Keeper
✅ 32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer 1st to Die
✅ 33. The next book in a series Crooked Kingdom
✅ 34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role The Housekeeper and the Professor
✅ 35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1 Jonathan Livingston Seagull

36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2 The Zookeeper's Wife
✅ 37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
38. A book by a Latin American author Mexican Gothic
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time The Sun Is Also a Star

40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards A Thousand Splendid Suns
✅ 41. A book with a theme of food or drink Before the Coffee Gets Cold
✅ 42. A book with a language or nationality in the title American Born Chinese
✅ 43. A book set in a small town or rural area We Are the Brennans
✅ 44. A book with gothic elements Anatomy: A Love Story

45. A book related to a game Ready Player One
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters Klara and the Sun
✅ 47. A book with handwriting on the cover Stolen
✅ 48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022 The Love Hypothesis

49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons" Circe
✅ 50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years Killers of a Certain Age
✅ 51. A book published in 2022 The Maid
✅ 52. A book with a time-related word in the title The Night Shift

A-Z Author Challenge

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B: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo; Anxious People by Fredrik Backman; My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite; Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
C: Stolen by Lucy Christopher
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F: The Night Shift by Alex Finlay; That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy
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H: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
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J: The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James; The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones
K: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
L: We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
M: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
N: The Borrowers by Mary Norton
O: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
P: The Maid by Nita Prose; 1st to Die by James Patterson; My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
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R: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid; Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
S: Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz; Final Girls by Riley Sager; The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab; The Obsession by Jesse Q. Sutanto
T: An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten; A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
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