Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Nancy's Extended Rejected Prompt Challenge 2022.

I participated in my first prompt selection season last year, and I got excited about nearly every prompt! So when I was looking for books, I focused on the ones that fit multiple prompts, including rejected prompts. I wanted to complete them all! I didn't get them all, but I think I came close. I didn't worry about duplicates or overlaps.

REJECTED PROMPTS - Completed books. Many are overlaps with Round 2 of the regular 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, American Spy
✅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, plus murderbot books by Martha Wells.
✅A winner or nominee from the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout. Plus many more. This prompt was repeated several times on the spread sheet, and I gave a different answer each time.

Themes, Attributes
🌹A book with a theme of courage or heroism -Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (moral courage), Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (physical courage)
🌹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 😍 This was a hard one, and I was excited when it clicked, plus I loved this book.
🌹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 is 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, more
🎆 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 by Jane Austen

🌹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

Musical prompts - I'm still thinking about these. A few are on the spreadsheet