Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

THE 2023 LIST

Books finished: 32

✔ 1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
Force of Nature (Australia)

✔ 2. A book by an author you read in 2022
Shine

3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list

✔ 4. A book with an interracial relationship
Eleanor & Park

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

6. A book where books are important

✔ 7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title
What Alice Forgot

✔ 8. An author's debut book
Jane Eyre

9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W

✔ 10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
Atonement

✔ 11. A book about a person/character with a disability
The Story of My Life

✔ 12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
Mad Honey

✔ 13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
Small Steps

✔ 14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
The Count of Monte Cristo

✔15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1
Heidi

✔16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2 A Midsummer Night's Dream

17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3

18. A book related to science
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
19. A book related to the arts

✔ 20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

✔ 21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
Little Fires Everywhere

22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan
23. A book with a body of water in the title
The Beach

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

✔ 25. A book with a tropical setting
The Beach

26. A book related to pride

✔ 27. A book by an author from continental Europe
Out of Africa

28. A book that is dark
29. A book that is light
30. A book related to a chess piece
31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com

✔32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
Never Let Me Go

✔ 33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
Looking for Alaska

✔ 34. A novella
Recitatif: A Story

35. A book with a school subject in the title

✔ 36. A book that has been translated from another language
Never Grow Up

✔ 37. A book with the theme of returning home
The Dry

✔ 38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
The Lost Man

39. A western

✔ 40. A book with a full name in the title
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” list

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

✔ 43. A book that involves a murder
The Maid

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

✔ 45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
The Last Mile

46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
47. A book related to a geometric shape
✔48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
Dune

✔ 49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
Holes

✔ 50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
Weekends with Daisy (animals)

✔ 51. A book published in 2023
The Memory of Animals

✔ 52. A book with an unusual or surprising title
The Grapes of Wrath

Books I have finished but unsure where to put it
1. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
2. Black Beauty
3. The Elephant to Hollywood
4. The Radium Girls (either 18, 28, 41)
5. Farm Boy
6. Watchmen
7. Jane Eyre
8. The Plague
9. Vanishing Acts

1
Never Grow Up by Jackie Chan
Started: 14 January
Finished: 20 January
Rating: 4 stars.
Task completed: 36 - A book thats been translated from another language.

2
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Started: 21 January
Finished: 24 January
Rating: 3.5 stars
Task completed: 33 - A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923

3
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Started: 24 January
Finished: 27 January
Rating: 3.5 stars.
Task completed: 4 - A book with an interracial relationship.

4
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Started: 31 December, 2022
Finished: 14 January
Rating: 3 stars
Task completed: 10 - A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"

5
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Started: 1 February
Finished: 7 February
Rating: 3.5 stars
Task completed: 21 - A book by an Asian diaspora author

6
Dune by Frank Herbert
Started: 6 February
Finished: 1 March
Rating: 3 stars
Task completed: 48 - A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story (worms)

7
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Started: 1 March
Finished: 8 March
Rating: 3.5 stars
Task completed: 32: A book set in a UNESCO city of Literature.

8
The Maid by Nita Prose
Started: 1 March
Finished: 20 March
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 43 - A book that involves a murder

9
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
Started: 27 March
Finished: 8 April
Rating: 3.5 stars
Task completed: 12 - A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies

10
The Beach by Alex Garland
Started: 11 April
Finished: 22 April
Rating: 3 stars
Task completed: 25 - A book with a tropical setting

11.
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Started: 27 January
Finished: 1 February
Rating: 3 stars
Task completed: 15 - Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1

12.
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Started: 11 May
Finished: 14 May
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 7 - A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title

13.
The Last Mile by David Baldacci
Started: 14 May
Finished: 19 May
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 45 - A book whose author has published more than 7 books

14.
Room by Emma Donoghue
Started: 28 May
Finished: 31 May
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 5: A book with 4 or more colors on the cover

15.
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Started: 31 May
Finished: 3 June
Rating: 3 stars
Task completed: 24 - A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy (soldier)

16.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Started: 8 April
Finished: 14 June
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 14 - A book with a con, deception, or fake

17.
Small Steps by Louis Sachar (Holes #2)
Started: 20 June
Finished: 27 June
Rating: 3.5 stars
Task completed: 13 - A book with an object that is repeated on the cover

18.
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller
Date started: 22 June
Date finished: 28 June
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 51 - A book published in 2023

19.
Holes by Louis Sachar
Date started: 15 June
Date finished: 20 June
Rating: 3.5 stars
Task completed: 49 - A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023

20.
Out of Africa by Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
Date started: 4 July
Date finished: 19 July
Rating: 3.5 stars
Task completed: 27 - a book by an author from continental Europe

21.
Weekends with Daisy by Sharron Kahn Luttrell
Date started: 19 July
Date finished: 23 July
Rating: 5 stars
Task completed:  50 - A second book that fits your favorite prompt (animals)

22.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Date started: 23 July
Date finished: 7 August
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 20 - A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel (could go in task 1)

23.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Date started: 30 August
Date finished: 8 September
Rating: 3 stars
Task completed: 40 - A book with a full name in the title

24.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Date started: 26 August
Date finished: 13 September
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 8 - An author's debut book

25.
Shine by Jodi Picoult
Date started: 27 September
Date finished: 29 September
Rating: 3 stars
Task completed- 2: A book by an author you read in 2022

26.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Date started: 26 September
Date finished: 3 October
Rating: 3 stars
Task completed: Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2

 27.
Recitatif: A Story by Toni Morrison
Date started: 3 October
Date finished: 5 October
Rating: 3.5 stars
Task completed: 34 - A novella

28.
The Dry by Jane Harper
Date started: 5 October
Date finished: 15 October
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 37 - A book with the theme of returning home

29.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Date started: 15 October
Date finished: 9 November
Rating: 3 stars
Task completed: 52 - A book with an unusual or surprising title

30.
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Date started: 4 November
Date finished: 12 November
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y (Australia)

31.
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Date started: 12 November
Date finished: 1 December
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 38 - A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover (☀sun)

32.
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Date started: 8 December
Date finished: 19 December
Rating: 4 stars
Task completed: 11 - A book about a person with a disability