Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

THE ATY 2023 LIST
✅1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
The Dry - Australia
Also Rejected prompt: Australian literary awards- The Dry
✅2. A book by an author you read in 2022
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
✅3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list
Rejected prompt: Journalism/Journalist
Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back
✅4. A book with an interracial relationship
The Secret Life of Bees5
✅5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
Red at the Bone
✅6. A book where books are important -The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
✅7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
✅8. An author's debut book
Love Medicine
✅9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
Walter Scott Prize for HIstorical Fiction
Fortune by Amanda Smyth
✅10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
Rules of Civility posh
✅11. A book about a person/character with a disability
Swimming in the Dark
✅12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
✅13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
Other Birds
✅14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
✅15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1
The History of Bees
✅16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2
Greenwood
✅17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3
How High We Go in the Dark
✅18. A book related to science
The Martian
✅19. A book related to the arts
Mercury Pictures Presents
✅20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
This Wild, Wild Country by Inga Vesper
✅21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
✅22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
Elena Knows
✅23. A book with a body of water in the title
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
✅24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
An Officer and a Spy
✅25. A book with a tropical setting
The Lost City of the Monkey God
✅26. A book related to pride
Cleanness
✅27. A book by an author from continental Europe
Us Against You by Fredrick Backman
✅28. A book that is dark
Black Sun
✅29. A book that is light
Legends & Lattes
✅30. A book related to a chess piece
Botchan
✅31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
✅32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
Veronika Decides to Die
✅33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
✅34. A novella
Small Things Like These
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
✅35. A book with a school subject in the title
The History of Bees
✅36. A book that has been translated from another language
The Door
Botchan
✅37. A book with the theme of returning home
A Master of Djinn wildcard
✅38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
✅39. A western
Days Without End
✅40. A book with a full name in the title
Washington Black
✅41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Trees
✅42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
The Graveyard Book
✅43. A book that involves a murder
Open Season
The Trees
✅44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
✅45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
In Farleigh Field
✅46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
The Onion Field
✅47. A book related to a geometric shape
The Diamond Eye
✅48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
✅49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
Six of Crows
✅50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt - tropical setting
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
✅51. A book published in 2023
The Direction of the Wind
✅52. A book with an unusual or surprising title
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

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