Play Book Tag discussion

Overall this was a great Reading Year! I read 156 books so far, which exceeded my goal of 120 😀, but it also exceeded my max, which led to burn out and brain fog. 🔥🥱. I did well with my challenges, but I did not keep up my reviews (I had the same trouble with book reports in school).

✅Goal: Target 120. At least 100, and no more than 140 books for the year. I read 156

✅PBT - Monthly Tags - 4 books each month. I read 3-12 books for each tag, but didn’t post October reviews.

✅PBT Walk Down History Lane - Nonfiction/fiction connected books: Met goals with 2 fascinating books.

✅😀PBT Who's Our Favorite Author - Exceeded goals, discovered great authors and great books. (Goal was to read at least 2 per month, read winner in December, go crazy when the tags match.) I read all of authors that made it to the later rounds.

🌎 Global- ✅I read all 7 continents. I intended to set a goal for number of different countries, or number of NEW countries. Instead I focused on content goals and interests. Very little fluff.

✅✅Around The Year - 52 books. I Completed two rounds plus rejects list and side challenges. 52+52+ extra challenges. Page 24 -25

✅Around the World in 80 books - Magic Squares

✅✅Target lists - Pick 12 categories - awards, other lists - I read 40 + books from 13 categories, including major awards/lists. Plus target goals from ATY prompts.

✅✅Author list - Authors-to-read list, PLUS WPF authors.

✅🌳🌲🌴Non-fiction - I read a lot more non-fiction than usual, thanks to the science and memoir tags, and my goal to read about
environment topics.

✅Learning goals: Environment and Climate change, Psychology and Neuroscience, China, Russia, communism, change.

✅Bookclubs: Two local groups.

🎯2022 NANCY's TARGET LISTS- Read at least one book from each list. Overlaps are allowed. Keep adding possibilities for this year and next.

✅National Book Award - new challenge this year
✔️When We Cease to Understand the World - International award finalist
✔️Sula (1975) by Toni Morrison
✔️The Round House by Louise Erdrich
✔️Salvage the Bones
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Tree of Smoke
let the great world spin
Hell of a book
2021, 2022 Shortlist or Longlist:
✔️The Employees by Olga Ravn
✔️Shutter by Ramona Emerson
✔️Agatha of Little Neon
The Invisible Kingdom
The Sweetness of Water
Shuggie Bain

✅Boxall 1001 list new challenge this year
✔️The Remains of the Day
✔️Pride and Prejudice,
✔️Emma,
✔️Mansfield Park
✔️Master and margarita
✔️The Hobbit
✔️Murder of Roger Ackroyd
✔️To the Lighthouse
✔️The History of Love
The Hours
Love Medicine
Fingersmith
Pere Goriot
Wide Sargasso Sea
Sense & Sensibility
Passing
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Elegance of the hedgehog
Turn of the Screw
Beloved
Great Gatsby
Unbearable Lightness of being
Alias Grace
Secret History
Summer Book

✅Women's Prize for Fiction (ongoing challenge)
2022 Short list:
✔️The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
✔️The Sentenceby Louise Erdrich
✔️Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Moran
✔️The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
The Bread the Devil Knead
Great Circle
Longlist: Build your House around my body, Salt Lick, Final Revival of Opal and Nev,
Previous winners:
Homefire

✅Women in Translation - Warwick Prize or the Best books of women in translation list (Ongoing challenge)
✔The Notebook by Agota Kristof
✔The Employees by Olga Ravn
✔Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis, Uruguay, South America, lgbtq
✔️The Years by Annie Ernaux

✅Obama's List(s) (Ongoing challenge)
✔The Three-Body Problem
✔When We Cease to Understand the World
✔Project Hail Mary

✅Non-fiction awards - Pulitzer or others (new this year)
✔️The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Pulitzer nonfiction award 2015)

✅Pulitzer prize - fiction or nonfiction, winners or nominees (ongoing)
✔️The Overstory (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2019)
✔️The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

✅Abe list of Essential Female Authors (best of all time)
https://www.abebooks.com/books/best-f... (ongoing)
✔️Jane Austen, ✔️Margaret Atwood, ✔Virginia Woolf, ✔️Toni Morrison, ✔PD James, ✔Elena Ferrante, ✔Ruth Ozeki, ✔Agatha Christie, ✔Emily St John Mandel. ✔Ursula K. LeGuin, ✔️Barbara Kingsolver, ✔️Louise Erdrich, ✔Elizabeth Strout,
X Miriam Toews

✅USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read (Ongoing)
✔️Sula by Toni Morrison, plus NF books

✅Dublin Literary Awards, plus International nominees (Ongoing)
✔A Gentleman in Moscow
✔The Year of the Flood

✅NPR Lists (aty prompt)
Remember - Genova
✔️Sixth Extinction
✔️Breath
✔️Lincoln Highway
✔️A Psalm for the Wild-built
Under a white sky
Mary Jane
Copenhagen trilogy - started, dnf?
Chosen and Beautiful
Empire of pain
Thousand Ships
How the One Armed Sister
✔️These precious days
FIght Night
Elatso
Up all night

Time's best YA list (aty prompt)
✔️Felix Ever After

✅NPR favorite Sci-fi-fantasy (aty prompt) +/OR sci-fi award winners/nominees
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/102715...
✔️The Three-Body Problem- Hugo, Nebula,
✔️Artificial Condition - Murderbot
✔️The Space between worlds
Children of Time
The Calculating Stars
Spinning Silver
A Master of Djinn
✔️Read before 2022:
Binti -
Wayfarers
Piranesi
Station Eleven
This is how you lose the time war
Circe
Her body and other parties
Exhalation
Darker Shade of Magic
Every Heart a Doorway

ADDED:
✅Nobel Prize -
✔️One Hundred Years of Solitude,
✔️The Years by Annie Ernaux

PBT Monthly Tags

January - Science 11 books
February - Thought provoking - 10
March - Classic - 15
April - Detective - 13+
May - Character Driven 9+
June - LGBTQ - 12 +
July - Memoir - 12
August - Women’s history - 2
September - Favorites - 7+
October - Scary - 0 reviewed on time,+3: Fairy Taleby Stephen King, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, World War Z
November - Bookclub - 10 +
December - Leadership -

PBT Who's Our Favorite Author? - Tracking - messages 15,16

PBT History Lane

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

The 2022 ATY Prompts

1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021 - Balzac, or a book on Tookie's list from The Sentence.
3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name

6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover
*7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2

10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3
11. A book from historical fiction genre
12. A book related to glass
13. A book about a woman in STEM

14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads
15. A book without a person on the cover
*16. A book related to Earth Day
*17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge

18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
22. A book with a Jewish character or author

23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
24. A book related to inclement weather
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1

27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2
*28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards
*29. A book set on or near a body of water
30. A book related to mythology

31. A book published at least 10 years ago
32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer
33. The next book in a series
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
*35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1

36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
38. A book by a Latin American author
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time

40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
41. A book with a theme of food or drink
42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
43. A book set in a small town or rural area
44. A book with gothic elements

45. A book related to a game
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
47. A book with handwriting on the cover
48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022

49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years
51. A book published in 2022
52. A book with a time-related word in the title

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Rejected prompt list (Suggested prompts that didn't make the list)


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Side Challenges

MAGIC SQUARES 2022: Around the World in 80 Days
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

12/1/22 22/25 completed

✅A1 - Sci-Fi:
✔The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
✅A2 - Bio or Autobio:
✔I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
✅A3 - MC with disability:
✔️ True Biz
✅A4 - Caribbean author:
✔️Clap When You Land
✅A5 - Nonbinary or trans author:
✔️The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Zoukhadar
✔️Felix Ever After by Kacen Callandar

✅B1 - Food-themed:
✔My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
✅B2 - Publ in last 3 years:
✔[Sorrow and Bliss|49110165] by Meg Mason
✅B3 - Set in Africa:
✔ Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
✅B4 - Nobel Laureate:
✔Sula by Toni Morrison
✅B5 - Book by Local author:
✔The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

✅C1 - Set in Canada or Canadian author:
✔Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
✅C2 - Classic Horror:
✔The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
✅C3 - Sports and/or Recreation:
✔The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Or river)
✅C4 - Between 100 and 200 pgs:
✔A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
✅C5 - Translated woman author:
✔The Notebook by Agota Kristof

✅D1 - Debut novel:
✔The Sparrow
My Year of Meats
✅D2 - 19th century classic:
✔Emma by Jane Austen
✅D3 - Historical Fiction:
✔When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
D4 - Translated from Korean:
✅D5 - Epistolary:
✔Lady Susan by Jane Austen

✅E1 - Country not read in 2021:
✔The Notebook by Agota Kristof - Hungary
✅E2 - Book about a journey:
✔The Lincoln Highway
✅E3 - Rivers, lakes, or swamps: -
✔ The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
E4 - Medieval woman author:
✅E5 - Set in Southern Hemisphere:
✔A Town Like Alice

Individual goals

Focus topics: Environment, Revolutions, Science, Aging, Science Fiction, Psychology/health,
ATY mini challenges (Dozen) -
1) Aging/Golden years,
2) Earthday/Flora/Fauna/Water
3) Psychology/Neuroscience

Nancy's Author Watch Lists:

LIST 1: Plan to Read in 2022
✅Louise Erdrich - diversity group author of 2022
✅Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
✅Ursula K Le Guin - Lathe of Heaven
✅Margaret Atwood - The Year of the Flood, Maddaddam, Cat's Eye
✅Richard Powers - Overstory
Colum McCann

LIST 2 - Read Early in 2022
Overlap between my longlist and PBT author challenge
✅Alice Hoffman
✅Ruth Ozeki
✅Toni Morrison
✅Neil Shute (who could be knocked out early)

List 3:
✅Aminata Forna - Happiness
✅Elif Shafak - Island of Lost Trees
Maggie O'Farrell
✅Jesmyn Ward
Octavia Butler
A.S. Byatt
Liz Moore
Edwidge Danticat
Magda Szabo
Zora Neale Hurston
✅Carolina deRobertis - Cantoras
Sally Rooney
Daphne du Maurier
Tove Jansson
Jacqueline Woodson
✅Toni Morrison - Sula
Olga Tocarczuk
Amar El-Mohtar
Marilyn Robinson - Lila

Add in 2023:
Percival Everett
Hernan ...

Books read (from December 1 2021 to November 30, 2022

December 2021 (9) (PBT tag = Books about Books)
✔️1.The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes, 11-historical fiction, 20-Depression era, library, 43-rural area, Rejected list: booklovers, community plays a role
✔2.Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen- fiction, 35flora, 43-smalltown, Tarot- Wheel of Fortune. Community
🌹(1)✔3.The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, , 1-MC=Tookie, rac-ism, native american, less than 5000 ratings when I read it. Rejected list: Literary Fiction, Book Lovers
✔4.Writers & Lovers by Lily King, 48-ATYbomList, 15cover, 40-Tarot Rejected list: Literary Fiction, book lovers
🌹✔5. A Northern Light byJennifer Donnelly, 2003, 11,20,43-historical fiction early 1900's rural, Set near water (lake), 10 years ago, 5-Double letters in author's name
🌹✔6. Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova, - Psychology. Neuroscience, Mind, 22 letters, npr?
✔7. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, 2011, Translated, series, 34teacher plays a role, >10 years ago, Italy/Europe, HisFIc. Rejected prompts - Literary fiction, community plays a role, child Protagonist
✔8. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, 2005, aeiou(37), booklovers(rej), old character, non-linear. MC=Alma, 22Jewish characters, 10+ years ago, Child protagonist
🌹✔9. The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel by Ruth Ozeki, 7-psychology, 5-22 letters, Non-human char, rej- mental health, booklovers,unusual/non-human narrator

January 2022 (PBT tag = Science)
✔10. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Science, 8-Europe,Chile- South America, 5-22 letters, 37-aeiou, overcoming barriers, racism, immoral/ambiguous chars, science, 34academic setting, 19-alt.reality-quantum physics
(41)✔11. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at BreakfastJonathan Safran Foer 41-food, 16earthday, 24weather , immoral/ambi, science
✔12. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, 22 letters, aeiou, earthday, floral, fauna, w-stem, rej journalist, REM, Obama, barriers, science
✔13. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive. *Less than 5000 ratings, 22 letters. 🎆Rejected list: X4. A book connected to health or medical science
✔14. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short. aeiou, Tarot (fool), 22 letters
✔15. Greenwood by Michael Christie - Earthday, hist fiction, flora, >440 pages, tarot- The Tower
✔16. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren, 2020, 25-210 p, Norway, 8-Europe,
16Earthday, 35F/F, 3-22, 25, 14-4494 ratings on jan10. 13-WomaninStem, 34Academic. Npr?
✔The Overstory by Richard Powers, 16-Earthday, 35-Flora, 2-Bewilderment, 25->440 pages, Pulitzer, Powell, NPR, BOM? 6?,15
✔Project Hail Mary, 46 non-human, 49 dragons, rejected - unlikely friendship, first contact, breaking barriers, heroism, journey, travel, REM song
✔The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben - Flora, earthday 22 letters
✔Artificial Condition - sci-fi, non human character, awards? next in series. related to a book read in 2021

February 2022 (PBT tag = Thought-Provoking)
✔The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Set on water, Historical fiction, set in 1930's, 42-nationality Game (olympics games), rej olympics
✔The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu - Set in China, Asia, Asian author, game, pub >10 years ago Rej NPR Sci-fi list, 34-teachers play a role, Obama's list, first-contact
✔The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson, Women in STEM, rej medical
WPF✔The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce, 64 authors - Aging, Rej healthcare
WPF✔My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki, 1998, thought provoking, 64 authors, Food, >10 years ago, Set partly in Japan, Japanese characters
WPF✔The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman - Jewish author/characters, historical fiction 1800s, early 1900's, artist, community plays a role
WPF✔A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - historical fiction, mostly set in 20's, some later. Related to Revolution books from 2021.
WPF✔The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, 1- Toby, 2-(Oryx and Crake), 33- next in a series, 52-time, more than 10 years ago, 16-earthday, 36-fauna, rejected list: REM song, Soylent green, community plays a role, Bees, Song lyrics, singing in audio
WPF✔Have a Little Faith: a True Story by Mitch Albom - Jewish author/character
✔Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor - 22 letters
WPF✔Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf, Small town, soul
✔The Library Book by Susan Orlean NPR
✔No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference byGreta Thunberg - earthday
WPF✔My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman, Child protagonist, community plays a role, handwriting on the cover


March 2022 (PBT tag = Classic)
WPF✔The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
WPF✔Sula Toni Morrison, Military veteran, bipoc, community plays a role,
WPF✔Thea Stilton and the Dragon's Code
WPF✔Find You First by Linwood Barclay
WPF✔MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood - npr, next in series, the end of the world
WPF✔Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold
WPF✔The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by JRR Tolkien, non-human characters, Journey
WPF✔A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute. Small town, Australia, community plays a role, Malaya
WPF✔The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis. 6. Source of light (chandeliers), artists, or Glass

WPF✔The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, spirituality, soul, First contact, women in stem (Dr, AI creator)
WPF✔The Notebook by Agota Kristof - Historical Fiction, REJ-Eastern European, multiple languages, moral ambiguity, antihero
✔The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
WPF✔The Remains of the Day - by Kazuo Ishiguro Powell, Nobel prize, aging
WPF✔The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
✔The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women by Rosalie Gilbert
✔To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, source of light
✔The Master and Margarita - cat on cover- monopoly piece, chess game, Gothic elements, nonhuman, antihero
WPF✔Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
WPF✔Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
WPF✔Plainsong by Kent Haruf - small town
WPF✔Lady Susan by Jane Austen - antihero

April 2022 (PBT tag = Detective)
WPF✔Cover Her Face by P.D.James
WPF✔Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James - touch of gothic, handwriting on cover
✔Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
WPF✔Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen
WPF✔In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
✔The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
WPF✔The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
✔The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St James
WPF✔The Dead Zone by Stephen King
✔What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr
WPF✔Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
WPF✔Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
WPF✔The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett
✔The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Park
WPF✔Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
WPF✔Death of Riley by Rhys Bowen
WPF✔The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly

May 2022 (PBT tag = Character Driven)
✔Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
WPF✔One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
WPF✔Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky
WPF✔Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
WPF✔Eventide by Kent Haruf
✔ Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood racism
WPF✔Maybe in Another Lifeby Taylor Jenkins Reid
WPF✔Faithful by Alice Hoffman - Jewish Author/char

Round 2 - May 15 -
WPF✔Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - China, Asia
✔The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim MIchelle Richardson. His fic 50's
✔The Island of Missing Trees - hisfic, Cyprus Greece Europe
✔Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason - mental health, literary fiction, Women's Prize
WPF✔A History of Loneliness by John Boyne - Ireland hist.fiction
WPF✔The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles - his fiction, journey
✔The Employees by Olga Ravn, Women in Translation, Hungary Europe
✔The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K leGuin - Sci-fi Awards, mind
WPF✔Emma by Jane Austen - classic, 1800's
WPF✔Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, translated, Sweden, Europe
WPF✔Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

June 2022 - PBT Tag = LGTB
✔A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, non-binary
✔The People We Keep by Allison Larkin, local
✔ Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells


Started or Planned:
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood, "Neuronovel," lit fic
Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis, Uruguay, South America
The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

Books Read May 1 2022 -

May 2022 (PBT tag = Character Driven)
✔Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
WPF✔One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
WPF✔Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky
WPF✔Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
WPF✔Eventide by Kent Haruf
✔ Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood racism, AFRICA
WPF✔Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
WPF✔Faithful by Alice Hoffman

Round 2 May 15-
WPF✔Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - His fic China, Asia, WPF
✔The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim MIchelle Richardson. His fic 50's
✔The Island of Missing Trees - hisfic, Cyprus Greece Europe
✔Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason - mental health, literary fiction, Women's Prize
WPF✔A History of Loneliness by John Boyne - Ireland hist.fiction
WPF✔The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles - his fiction, journey
✔The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated, Hungary Europe
✔The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K leGuin - Sci-fi Awards, mind
WPF✔Emma by Jane Austen - WPF classic, 1800's
WPF✔Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, translated, Sweden, Europe
WPF✔Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

June 2022
✔A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, non-binary, lgbtq tags
✔The People We Keep by Allison Larkin, local, lgbtq tags
✔Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
✔A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood, "Neuronovel," lit fic, lgbtq
✔💖Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis, Uruguay, South America, lgbtq


Started

✔️The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar, two time periods, two countries, lgbtq

*** Got tired of typing them up

✅Women in Translation books
Warwick Women in Translation Prize
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/w... - see short lists/winners from 2017-2021, Longlist 2022

Read in 2022
✅Olga Ravn, The Employees, translated from Danish by Martin Aitken (Lolli Editions, 2020)- Longlist 2021
✅The Years by Annie Ernaux
(view spoiler)[
Eight titles have been shortlisted for the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation:
Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs, translated from Japanese by David Boyd and Sam Bett (Picador)
Scholastique Mukasonga, Our Lady of the Nile, translated from French by Melanie Mauthner (Daunt Books Publishing)
*Winner- Judith Schalansky, An Inventory of Losses, translated from German by Jackie Smith (MacLehose Press)
Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
Maria Stepanova, War of the Beasts and the Animals, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale (Bloodaxe Books)
Małgorzata Szejnert, Ellis Island: A People's History, translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye (Scribe UK)
Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China, translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang (Tilted Axis Press)
Alice Zeniter, The Art of Losing, translated from French by Frank Wynne (Picador
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Best Books written by Women in Translation (up to 2019)
https://biblibio.blogspot.com/2019/08...
✅My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante - 🎈READ 2022/21
✅The Years by Annie Ernaux - Read in 2022
✅-Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto - 🎈Read 2022
✅The Notebook, Ágota Kristóf 🎈READ 2022
-The Door by Magda Szabó -TBR 2023
-Flights by Olga Tokarczuk - TBR 2023
Started
🎈*The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman

(view spoiler)[
Eight titles have been shortlisted for the 2021 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation:
Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs, translated from Japanese by David Boyd and Sam Bett (Picador)
Scholastique Mukasonga, Our Lady of the Nile, translated from French by Melanie Mauthner (Daunt Books Publishing)
*Winner- Judith Schalansky, An Inventory of Losses, translated from German by Jackie Smith (MacLehose Press)
Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
Maria Stepanova, War of the Beasts and the Animals, translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale (Bloodaxe Books)
Małgorzata Szejnert, Ellis Island: A People's History, translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye (Scribe UK)
Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China, translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang (Tilted Axis Press)
Alice Zeniter, The Art of Losing, translated from French by Frank Wynne (Picador

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Best Books written by Women in Translation (up to 2019)
https://biblibio.blogspot.com/2019/08...

✅My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante - 🎈READ 2022
The Vegetarian by Han Kang TBR - maybe
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin not for me
Human Acts by Han Kang
-The Door by Magda Szabó -TBR 2023
-Flights by Olga Tokarczuk - TBR 2023
✅Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - TBR
✅The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
✅The Years by Annie Ernaux - Read in 2022
✅Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez
Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda
✅Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Sphinx by Anne Garréta
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz
✅-Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto - 🎈Read 2022
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi
The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke
✅The Notebook, Ágota Kristóf 🎈READ 2022
The Proof, Ágota Kristóf
The Third Lie: Three Novels by Ágota Kristóf - Author challenge
Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street by Heda Margolius Kovály
✅The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - 🎈PBT author challenge
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck tbr
A True Novel by Minae Mizumura
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
Eve out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi
Trieste by Daša Drndić
Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Love by Hanne Ørstavik
✅Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu - maybe
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - 🎈TBR 2023
Tentacle by Rita Indiana
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich🎈
Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima
-The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector - maybe TBR
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono
Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes
Revenge by Yōko Ogawa
Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yōko Tawada
Nada by Carmen Laforet
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
- Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami - maybe
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Seeing Red by Lina Meruane
Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo
The Lover by Marguerite Duras - TBR 2023
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
People in the Room by Norah Lange
- Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin dnf
Poems of Sappho by Sappho
The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg
Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wisława Szymborska
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz
Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić
- The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante - tbr
History by Elsa Morante
Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante
Confessions by Kanae Minato
The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût TBR
My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart
Purge by Sofi Oksanen
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg
Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yū
The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adélaïde Bon
Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik
The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
The Naked Woman by Armonía Somers
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina TBR
The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller
Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-sook
✅Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (This was my first translated book.)
La Femme de Gilles by Madeleine Bourdouxhe
-**The History of Bees by Maja Lunde - 🎈TBR 2023
The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel
- Out by Natsuo Kirino - TBR
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
Subtly Worded by Teffi
The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt

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I would also like to read:
🎈*The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman
* Abigél by Magda Szabo
🎈* Neopolitan novels by Elena Ferrante


✅ = read before 2022
🎈 = want to read (hide spoiler)]

Around the Year - 2022 Spring Reading Challenge!

March - May 2022 - Completed 3/21/22

The Phrases
🌹1. music - The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (title M) 3/2/22
🌹2. vocalist - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (title S) 3/14/22
🌹3. midnight blues - Sula by Toni Morrison (both author and title) 3/3/22
🌹4. rapper - The Remains of the Day - by Kazuo Ishiguro (title R) 3/21/22
🌹5. marching band - The Notebook by Agota Kristoff (title N) 3/12/22
🌹6. fox trot - Find You First by Linwood Barclay (title F) 3/4/22
🌹7. heavy metal - The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis (title M) 3/11/22
🌹8. arpeggio - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (title I) 3/16/22
🌹9. marimba - MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood (both author MA and title) 3/6/22
🌹10. chanting - The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by JRR Tolkien (title H or T) 3/9/22
🌹11. festival - Shards of Honor by Lois Bujold (title S) 3/7/22
🌹12. orchestra -A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (title - T or A) 3/10/22

How to Fill the Prompts:
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation)
4. Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word)

NancyJ's Vote Tracking

ROUND 1 (64 authors)
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2/7/22 - Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Thought-provoking, not enough tags) - 1 vote
My review

2/8/22 - Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats. Fits thought-provoking tag (6 people, page 2) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

2/13/22 - Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites - 1 vote
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
My review

2/17/22 - Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow. Fits thought-provoking tag (11 people, page 7) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

2/19/22 - Margaret Atwood - The Year of the Flood. Fits thought-provoking tag (7 people, page 5) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

2/20/22 - Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith: a True Story. Fits thought provoking tag (8 people, page 2) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

2/23/22 - Kent Haruf - Our Souls at Night. Fits thought provoking tag (11 people page 2) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

2/27/22 - Fredrik Backman - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry. Fits thought provoking tag (8 people page 5) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

3/2/22 - Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Fits Classics tag (2097 people, page 1) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

3/3/22 - Thea Stilton - Thea Stilton and the Dragon's Code - 1 vote
My review

3/3/22 - Toni Morrison -Sula. Fits classics tag (959 tags page 1) - 3 points
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

3/4/22 - Linwood Barclay - Find You First - 1 point
My review

3/6/2022 - Margaret Atwood - MaddAddam. Fits Classics Tag (12 people page 2) - 3 points
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

3/7/2022 - Lois McMaster Bujold -Shards of Honor. Fits Classics Tag (14 people page 2) - 3 points
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

3/9/22 - Tolkien - The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. Fits Classics Tag (19000 people, page 1) - 3 points
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

3/10/22 - Shute - A Town Like Alice - Fits Classics Tag (417 people, page 1) - 3 points
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review
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3/10 Votes earned to date = 40
3/10 Votes Spent = 15 votes
3/10 Balance = 25 votes
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3/11/2022 - Fiona Davis - The Masterpiece - 1 vote.
My review

3/14/22 - Mary Doria Russell - The Sparrow - Fits Classics tag (32 people, page 1) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

3/14 - Agota Kristof - The Notebook - Fits Classics tag (14 people, page 1) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
My review

3/14 Balance = 25+7 = 32

End of Round 1
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ROUND 2 (32 authors):
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ROUND 2 - READ:

3/21/22 - Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day.
Fits Classics tag (1754 people, page 1) - 3 points
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

3/24/22 - Kingsolver - The Bean Trees.
Fits Classics tag (135 people page 1) - 3 points
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

3/28/22- Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Fits classics tag (58616 people, page 1) - 3 points
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

3/29/22 - Austen - Mansfield Park
Fits Classics Tag (14000 people, page 1) - 3 points
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

3/30/22 - Haruf - Plainsong .
Fits classics tag (16 people. page 1) - 3 points
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

3/31/22 - Austen - Lady Susan
Fits Classics tag (2800 people, page 1) - 3 points
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

March 20-31 earned = 18 points
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April

4/2/22- P.D. James - Cover Her Face.
Fits Detective tag (91, p 1) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4/4/22 -P.D. James - Death Comes to Pemberley
Fits detective tag (31, 1) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4/7/22 - Rhys Bowen - Murphy's Law
Fits Detective tag (16, p1) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4/8/22- Rhys Bowen - In Farleigh Field
Fits detective tag (9, p 2) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4/13/22- Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Fits detective tag (502, p 1) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4/18/22 - Stephen King - The Dead Zone
Fits Detective tag (6, p 4) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4/24/22 - Liane Moriarty - Apples Never Fall
Fits detective tag (7, p 3) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4/25/22 - Katherine Center - Happiness for Beginners - 1 vote
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4/27/22- Ken Follett - The Man from St. Petersburg. Fits detective tag (17, p 1) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4/28/22 - Scott Turow - Presumed Innocent
Fits Detective tag (15, page 1) - 3 votes.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4/29/22 - Rhys Bowen - Death of Riley
Fits detective tag (12, p1 ) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

4/30/22 - Michael Connelly - The Last Coyote.
Fits Detective tag (154 tags, page 1) - 3 votes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

April earned : 34 points

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May 1-14 Character-Driven tag

5/2/22 Reid - One True Loves 1 vote
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

5/3/22 Delinksi -Sweet Salt Air 1 vote
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

5/5/22 Kingsolver - Small Wonder 1 vote
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

5/7/22 - Haruf - Eventide - 3 votes
Fits classic tag (6 tags page 1)
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

5/11/22 - Reid -Maybe in Another Life 1 vote
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

5/13/22 - Hoffman Faithful 3 votes
Fits character driven tag (11 people. page 1). https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

ROUND 2 Points - Corrected
March 14 balance = 32
March 20-31 earned = 18
April 1-30 earned = 34
May 1-14 earned = 10
subtotal = 94
Votes used in Round 2 vote: 45
May 14 balance: 49


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ROUND 3 - 16 authors
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ROUND 3 Read:

5/15/22 - See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - 3 votes
Fits Character Driven tag
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

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ROUND 3 VOTE TRACKING
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ROUND 3 - 16 authors
ROUND 3 Read:

5/15/22 - See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - 3 votes
Fits Character Driven tag
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

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Completed: Round 1, Rejected Prompts list, Target lists. Round 2 51/52

🅰 THE 2022 ATY LIST🅰

🌹🌹1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y -
✔️The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (Taylor and Turtle)
✔️The People We Keep by Allison Larkin (April)

🌹🌹2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021
✔️No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference byGreta Thunberg (She is discussed in Bewilderment.) (Non-fiction, essays)
✔️ The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (related to 2021 books on communism and the cultural revolution - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.) (fiction)

🌹🌹3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title -
✔️The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
✔️ Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer

🌹🌹4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list - see rejected prompts list.
REM song: It's the End of the World as We Know it.
✔️The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, (also fits Soylent Green) 5⭐
✔️book:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War|8908] by Max Brooks

🌹🌹5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name.
✔️The Last Coyote Michael Connelly - Double letters, fauna
✔️Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

🌹🌹6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover-
✔️The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis (chandeliers)
✔️Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (reread)


🌹🌹7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind-
✔️Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason 5⭐
✔️The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K leGuin 5⭐

Seven Continent Challenge:
🌹🌹8. 3 books set on three different continents -
✔️Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - Book 1 - ASIA 4-5⭐
✔️ Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah - Book 2 - AFRICA 5⭐
🌹🌹9. 3 books set on three different continents
✔️ - Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis - Uruguay - Book 3 - SOUTH AMERICA 5⭐
✔️ -How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior - Book 4 - ANTARCTICA
🌹🌹🌹10. 3 books set on three different continents -
✔️Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty - Book 5 - AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA
✔️Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (Canada)- Book 6-NORTH AMERICA
✔️The Notebook by Agota Kristof (Hungary) - Book 7 - EUROPE

🌹🌹11. A book from historical fiction genre🎯Target Goal✅
✔️In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
✔️A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 5⭐

🌹🌹12. A book related to glass
✔️To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
✔️The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

🌹🌹13. A book about a woman in STEM -
✔️The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson
✔️ The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake

🌹🌹14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads - -
✔️The Employees by Olga Ravn (3778 ratings)
✔️ The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women (363 ratings)

🌹🌹15. A book without a person on the cover
✔️ Faithful by Alice Hoffman
✔️Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 5⭐


🌹🌹16. A book related to Earth Day (Mini-challenge pending)
✔️The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahrens
✔️Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver

🌹🌹 17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge
✔️The Library Book by Susan Orlean
✔️A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

🌹🌹18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
✔️Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang 5⭐
✔️The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford 5⭐

🌹🌹🌹19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history. (mini-challenge, one of each)
✔️The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark (Alt history)
✔️Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Alt reality)
✔️The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Alt worlds)

🌹🌹20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951 - 🎯Mini-challenge - a Dozen✔️
✔️ Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
✔️ The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett

🌹🌹21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
✔️The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Cat)
✔️The Book Woman's Daughter (boots)

🌹🌹22. A book with a Jewish character or author
✔️The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman 5⭐
✔️Have a Little Faith: a True Story by Mitch Albom

🌹🌹23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
✔️The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
✔️Calypso by David Sedaris

🌹 🌹 24. A book related to inclement weather -
✔️We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at BreakfastJonathan Safran Foer
✔️The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott 4-5⭐

🌹🌹25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
✔️Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (488) 4-5⭐
✔️Sula by Toni Morrison (174) 5⭐

🌹🌹26 & 27 2 books with the same word in the title - Pair 1: History
✔️A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
✔️The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert 4-5⭐
🌹🌹Pair 2: Year
✔️ My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki 5⭐
✔️Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver 5⭐

🌹🌹28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards (outside challenge - list of awards)
✔️The Overstory by Richard Powers Pulitzer 5⭐
✔️The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro- Nobel Prize 5⭐
✔️The Great Believers

🌹🌹29. A book set on or near a body of water
✔️Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky
✔️Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman

🌹30. A book related to mythology
✔️The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (references to the Odyssey)
✔Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

🌹🌹31. A book published at least 10 (100) years ago
✔️Emma by Jane Austen
✔️Washington Square by Henry James

🌹🌹32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer
✔️Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen
✔️The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey (also Asia, historical fiction)

🌹🌹33. The next book in a series
✔️Death of Riley by Rhys Bowen
✔️Artificial Condition by Margaret Wells

🌹🌹34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
✔️Project Hail Mary - a teacher goes to space
✔️ A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

🌹🌹35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1
✔️The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
✔️Greenwood by Michael Christie 5⭐

🌹🌹36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
✔️MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood 5⭐
✔️The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

🌹🌹37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
✔️Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Louchette
✔️The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce 4-5⭐

🌹🌹38. A book by a Latin American author
✔️Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
✔️ When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

🌹39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
✔️Felix Ever After by Kacen Callander

🌹🌹40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards 🎯
✔️I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend - the fool
✔️ An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro - The moon

🌹🌹41. A book with a theme of food or drink -
✔️Eat a Peach
✔️Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

🌹🌹42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
✔️The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown 5⭐
✔️Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin 4⭐

🌹🌹43. A book set in a small town or rural area
✔️Plainsong by Kent Haruf
✔️Eventide by Kent Haruf

🌹🌹44. A book with gothic elements
✔️ The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St James
✔️We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

🌹🌹45. A book related to a game
✔️ Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrick Backman (football/soccer)
✔️Bear Town by Fredrik Backman (hockey) 5⭐

🌹🌹46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
✔️The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (Golem) 5⭐
✔️Rogue Protocol (Murderbot) by Martha Wells

🌹🌹47. A book with handwriting on the cover.
✔️ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.
✔️book:Before the Ever After|51988656] by Jacqueline Woodson


🌹🌹48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022 - 🎯 - Target goal ✅
✔️The Night Watchmanby Louise Erdrich 4-5⭐
✔️ These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett 4-5⭐

🌹🌹49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
✔️The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
✔️Thea Stilton and the Dragon's Code

🌹🌹50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years. 🎯 Mini-challenge - Dozen✅
✔️What Rose Forgot
✔️My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

🌹🌹51. A book published in 2022
✔️Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 5⭐
✔️The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon

🌹🌹52. A book with a time-related word in the title
✔️ The Years by Annie Ernaux
✔️ Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

REJECTED PROMPTS CHALLENGE

🎆A book related to the REM song: It's the End of the World as We Know it.
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood,
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K leGuin

🌹A book related to a movie or TV project being released in 2022 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
🌹A parallel novel or spin-off of a well-known story - Death Comes to Pemberley, The Jane Austen Project

Real and Fake:
🌹A fiction book with a character who is a real person (historical or current day)- Author Jane Austen is a character in The Jane Austen Project. Einstein is a character in When We Cease to Understand the World and The Three-Body Problem. Artist Camille Pissaro is a character in The Marriage of Opposites.

Characters
🌹A book with a child protagonist - Before the Ever After
🌹A book with a character with a disability -True Biz
🌹A book with a quirky or endearing character -What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr
🌹A book about a character on a journey - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
🌹A book that has a character in government, royal family or governing body -Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin.
🌹A book featuring a character with paranormal or supernatural abilities - The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
🌹A main character that fits at least one of “mad, bad and dangerous to know” -The Master and Margarita
🌹A book with a morally grey main character - American Spy by Lauren Wilkenson
🌹A book with a protagonist who is a military veteran - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
🌹A fiction book with a character who is a real person (historical or current day)- When We Cease to Understand the World

Lists
✅A book from the ATY-curated List of Great Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
✅ A book from one of Obama's reading lists -The Three-Body Problem, When We Cease to Understand the World, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
✅A book (or any book in a series) mentioned on NPR’s list of 50 Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade -
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
✅A winner or nominee from the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

Themes, Attributes
🌹A book with a theme of courage or heroism -Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
🌹A book with a strong sense of place-Greenwood, Plainsong
🌹An atmospheric, emotional, moody or evocative book - The Many Daughters of Afong Moy: A Novel by Jamie Ford
🌹A book related to “soul” Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
🌹A book related to the phrase “Birds Eye View” - If I Stay by Gayle Forman
🌹A book related to the World Cup - Britt-Marie Was Here
🌹A book with a competition as a main plot element - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
🌹A book with a missing person - The Night Watchman
🌹A book about doing something forbidden -The Marriage of Opposites
🌹A book about or involving ritual or ceremony - The World That We Knew
🌹A book that features an act of kindness -Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
🌹A book featuring an important extended family relationship - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
🌹A book with a full name in the title - Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption:Hope Springs Eternal, The Jane Austen Project
🌹A book that honors Betty White (born in 1922) - What Rose Forgot
🌹A book related to (episode "Twenty Two") The Twilight Zone -
When We Cease to Understand the World
🌹 A book related to the dystopian film classic "Soylent Green," (which was set in 2022) -The Year of the Flood
🌹A book related to Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock -Cantoras
🌹A book whose author is younger than you - No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
🌹A book by an author you might like to meet - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
🌹A book related to firsts -The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
🌹A book in translation - The Notebook by Agota Kristoff

Genres:
🎆A book shelved as literary fiction -The Remains of the Day, Commonwealth,
🎆 A book from your favorite genre - Sea of Tranquility
🎆A fantasy novel - The Hobbit
🎆An autobiography, biography, or memoir - These Precious Days: Essays,
🎆A book from a fun sub-genre: hope-punk - A Psalm for the Wild-Built
🎆A book characterized as up lit - How the Penguins Saved Veronica], The Music Shop
🎆A book from a genre you don't often read- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
🎆A classic - Emma

🌹A book related to the proverb "blood is thicker than water"- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
🌹A book whose title includes the word "Around" or "Year" - The Year of the Flood, My Year of Meats
🌹A book related to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing -The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
🌹A book with a return or repeat as a major plot element -Maybe in Another Life
🌹A book about a minority group in a country that is not your own - The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
🌹A book with an unusual narrator or narration style - The Book of Form and Emptiness
🌹A book set in Eastern Europe - The Notebook by Agota Kristof
🌹A book set in the Arab world - The Haunting of Tram Car 015

Favorite Books read in 2022
Here are some books that delighted, moved, informed, puzzled, or impressed me this year.

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walter Bogdanich
The Winners by Fredrik Backman
Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis
Search by Michelle Huneven
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
True Biz by Sarah Novic
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic
Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Greenwood by Michael Christie
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K leGuin
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
This is the Story of a Happy Marriageby Ann Patchett
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See -
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
The Night Watchmanby Louise Erdrich
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Calypso by David Sedaris
Project Hail Mary
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It. If you’re of a certain age, chances are very good that you or someone you know could benefit from this book. I had many “aha” moments while reading it. It’s a clear, highly readable, well organized review of a wide variety of serious and chronic conditions that have been linked to insulin resistance. It’s not about viruses, or contagious diseases. The author uses some humor and good analogies to help clarify the key points. He reviews all the disparate streams of medical research that eventually tied into insulin resistance, in relatively short chapters.

When most people (including many medical professionals) hear the word insulin, they think only of diabetes. Insulin is a hormone that is used by nearly every organ and system in the human body. It is now known to be a factor in heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, autoimmune, infertility, and disorders of the liver, kidneys, skin, and more. Insulin resistance can wreak havoc on the body for many years before it shows up on a glucose test. If you had any of these, you might have insulin resistance: high blood pressure, high cholesterol or triglycerides, belly fat or obesity, skin tags or dark patches, hormonal disorders, or a family history of heart disease, diabetes or insulin resistance. (He has a test in the book with more items.) If you often crave carbs, but feel lousy later, this book can probably help you.

The good news is that there are many lifestyle solutions that can help. He cautions not to ask for medication or surgery before trying other things. The bad news is that a lot of the conventional wisdom about insulin and nutrition is making people sicker and fatter. Low fat diets don’t help most people at all, and all calories are not the same. This isn’t just an American problem, it’s all over the world. Though the causes differ.

I’m getting copies for my siblings and a good friend.