Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

MY 2023 CHALLENGE SELECTIONS
52/52 TASKS COMPLETED

******************************
✔= read SS= [BI]

✔1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y:
[Tigana]

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

✔ 2. A book by an author you read in 2022:
[In 2022, I read Chocolat by Joanne Harris; and in earlier years, I thoroughly enjoyed many of her other books, especially the Loki ones.]

A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris

✔ 3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list:
[A book that is inspired by or pays homage to another story]

Marple: Twelve New Stories by various authors

✔ 4. A book with an interracial relationship:
[Caucasian race of Britain and "Oriental" race of India]

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

✔ 5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover:

Big Tree by Brian Selznick

✔ 6. A book where books are important:
[Books strengthen the guardians with knowledge, solace, and income.]

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

✔ 7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title
[Who]

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

✔ 8. An author's debut book:

A Burning by Megha Majumdar

✔ 9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W:
[longlisted for 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction]

Actress by Anne Enright

✔ 10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities":
[Scary]

The Grip of It by Jac Jemc

✔ 11. A book about a person/character with a disability:
[Tony Loneman had FAS or what he referred to as "The Drome."]

There There by Tommy Orange

✔ 12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies:
[Bees]

Honeycomb by Joanne M. Harris

✔ 13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover:
[Keys]

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

✔ 14. A book with a con, deception, or fake:

Wool by Hugh Howey


✔ 15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century:
[Book 1-18th Century]

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

✔ 16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century:
[Book 2-19th Century]

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

✔ 17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century:
[Book 3-20th Century]

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

✔ 18. A book related to science:
[Botany/Biology]

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

✔ 19. A book related to the arts:

Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva

✔ 20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel:
[Trail]

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

✔ 21. A book by an Asian diaspora author:
[Chinese diaspora]

Little Gods by Meng Jin

✔ 22. A book with a faceless person on the cover:

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

✔ 23. A book with a body of water in the title:

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

✔ 24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy:

The Montevideo Brief: A Thomas Grey Novel by J.H. Gelernter

✔25. A book with a tropical setting:
[Trinidad]

A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

✔ 26. A book related to pride:
[Family pride]

The Luminaries by Susan Dennard

✔ 27. A book by an author from continental Europe:
[Mönchengladbach, Germany]

The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers

✔ 28. A book that is dark:
[This story vividly captures the deepest depths of darkness in which a human soul can exist. ]

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

✔ 29. A book that is light:
[This fantasy is a tale in which goodness and love shine brightly.]

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

✔ 30. A book related to a chess piece:
[pawn]

Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings

✔ 31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com :
[After inputting Vonnegut, I will read John Irving, Chuck Palahniuk, Milan Kundera, or Vladimir Nabokov.]

Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk

✔ 32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature:
[Manchester is an important setting.]

Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee

✔ 33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
[#10 Donald]

God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake

✔ 34. A novella:

Animal Farm by George Orwell

✔ 35. A book with a school subject in the title:
[History]

Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang

✔ 36. A book that has been translated from another language:
[translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein]

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

✔ 37. A book with the theme of returning home:

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

✔ 38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover:
[moon and stars]

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

✔ 39. A western:

Ragtime Cowboys by Loren D. Estleman

✔ 40. A book with a full name in the title:

The Last Adventure of Constance Verity by A. Lee Martinez

✔ 41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists:
[Listed under 2022 "Family Matters."]

Companion Piece by Ali Smith

✔ 42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter:

Prelude for Lost Souls by Helene Dunbar

✔ 43. A book that involves a murder:
[The main character is a professional hitman, so . . .]

The Intern's Handbook by Shane Kuhn

✔ 44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal:

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

✔45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books:

The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves

✔ 46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe:

The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

✔ 47. A book related to a geometric shape:

My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee

✔ 48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story:
[ A demon is disguised as an unusually large bear, and a great
stallion, one as for a god's child to ride, is gifted to Vasya]

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

✔ 49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023:
[ATY Best books of January 2023]

Lessons in Chemistryby Bonnie Garmus

✔ 50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt:
[Raksh is a spirit of discord, so this tale fulfills one of my favorite prompts, 42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter]

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

✔ 51. A book published in 2023:

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

✔ 52. A book with an unusual or surprising title:

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

******************************

My aim this year is to read books that are on my physical shelves, but I am sure that they will fulfill many of the prompts.

Happy 2023!

I finished the 2023 challenge 😃

🎆Happy 2024!🎆