Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Around the Year in 52 Books 2024 Reading Challenge (52/52)
🥳challenge completed 21 May

✅1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y: Three Act Tragedy*
✔️2. A book connected to something you read in 2023: Peril at End House* (I read multiple Agatha Christie novels last year as I am attempting to complete The 52 Book Club's Agatha Christie Mystery Reading Challenge.)
✔️3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list [A book connected to color by topic, title, or author name]: The Mystery of the Blue Train*
✔️4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong [“And clouds of white”']: Death in the Clouds*
✔️5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world [London, England]: Cards on the Table*

✔️6. A book with wings on the cover: Sad Cypress*
✔️7. A book with a pronoun in the title: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe*
✅8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand: Alias Grace* by Margaret Atwood
✅9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads: Wild Poppies* (168 ratings as of 28 February)

✅10. A history or historical fiction book: When the Emperor Was Divine*🌈
✔️11. A book with an X connection: Murder on the Orient Express*
✔️12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year: The Book of Disquiet* (This book has been on my TBR list since 2018.)
✔️13. A book that is on a Five Books List; reader’s choice of which list [The Best Locked-Room or Puzzle Mysteries recommended by Tom Mead]: Mrs. McGinty's Dead*

✔️14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color: Sula*
✔️15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQZX): The Summer Book* by Tove Jansson
✔️16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs": Cat Among the Pigeons*
✔️17. A book involving intelligence: Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy*

✔️18. A book with a botanical cover: Lab Girl*
✔️19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream [Coffee Coffee BuzzBuzzBuzz]: Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts*
✔️20. A book with a single word title: Quicksand*
✔️21. A book with a title containing 6+ words: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich*
✔️22. A book by an author from an African country [Zimbabwe]: Nervous Conditions*

✔️23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett: On Chesil Beach*
✔️24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple): Taken at the Flood*
✔️25. A book involving a crime other than a murder: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
✔️26. A book by an author known by their initials: Possession* by A.S. Byatt

✔️27. A book related to land: Into the Wild*
✔️28. A book related to sea: The Sea, the Sea*
✔️29. A book related to air: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
✔️30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea [France]: The Murder on the Links*
✔️31. A book related to “Going for the Gold”: Goldilocks & Three Bears: Bears Should Share!*🌈

✔️32. A book with a number in the title: The Big Four*
✔️33. A book involving travel: Death on the Nile*
✔️34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs [Doc]: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd* (The narrator is a doctor.)
✔️35. A science or science fiction book: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex*

✔️36. A book featuring a character in education: The Maidens*🌈
✔️37. A book that is part of a series: Lord Edgware Dies*
✔️38. Two books with similar covers, Book 1: Five Total Strangers
✔️39. Two books with similar covers, Book 2: Rock Paper Scissors

✔️40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover: Elephants Can Remember*
✔️41. A book with a chilling atmosphere: Smilla's Sense of Snow
✔️42. A book with a sound-related word in the title: The Sound and the Fury*
✔️43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author: The ABC Murders* by Agatha Christie
✔️44. A book with a touch of magic: The House of the Spirits*

✔️45. A book that is not a novel [short story collection]: Poirot Investigates*
✔️46. A book related to night: Nightwood*
✔️47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE: The Hollow*
✔️48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt [A cozy mystery]: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers*

✔️49. A book with a senior citizen character: Killers of a Certain Age*
✔️50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024 [January 2023]: The Mysterious Affair at Styles*
✔️51. A book published in 2024: Bride*
✔️52. A cozy mystery: A Most Agreeable Murder*

📖: currently reading
📚: tbr
✔️: read
✅: read during the week it was assigned
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year
🌈: fulfills the ATY Spring Rainbow Challenge 2024

Week 1 (1 January - 7 January), 15 books

✔️50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024 [January 2023]: The Mysterious Affair at Styles*, completed 1 January
✔️30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea [France]: The Murder on the Links*, completed 1 January
✔️45. A book that is not a novel [short story collection]: Poirot Investigates*, completed 1 January
✔️34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs [Doc]: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd* (The narrator is a doctor.), completed 2 January
✔️32. A book with a number in the title: The Big Four*, completed 2 January
✔️3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list [A book connected to color by topic, title, or author name]: The Mystery of the Blue Train*, completed 3 January
✔️19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream [Coffee Coffee BuzzBuzzBuzz]: Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts*, completed 4 January
✔️2. A book connected to something you read in 2023: Peril at End House* (I read multiple Agatha Christie novels last year as I am attempting to complete The 52 Book Club's Agatha Christie Mystery Reading Challenge.), completed 4 January
✔️37. A book that is part of a series: Lord Edgware Dies*, completed 5 January
✔️11. A book with an X connection: Murder on the Orient Express*, completed 5 January
✅1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y: Three Act Tragedy*, completed 5 January
✔️4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong [“And clouds of white”']: Death in the Clouds*, completed 5 January
✔️43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author: The ABC Murders* by Agatha Christie, completed 6 January
✔️5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world [London, England]: Cards on the Table*, completed 6 January
✔️33. A book involving travel: Death on the Nile*, completed 7 January

✔️: read
✅: read during the week it was assigned
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 2 (8 January - 14 January), 5 books

✔️6. A book with wings on the cover: Sad Cypress* , completed 9 January
✔️7. A book with a pronoun in the title: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe*, completed 9 January
✔️47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE: The Hollow*, completed 11 January
✔️24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple): Taken at the Flood* , completed 13 January
✔️13. A book that is on a Five Books List; reader’s choice of which list [The Best Locked-Room or Puzzle Mysteries recommended by Tom Mead]: Mrs. McGinty's Dead*, completed 14 January

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 3 (15 January - 21 January), 4 books

✔️16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs": Cat Among the Pigeons*, completed 16 January
✔️25. A book involving a crime other than a murder: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, completed 16 January
✔️40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover: Elephants Can Remember* , completed 19 January
✔️21. A book with a title containing 6+ words: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich*, completed 21 January

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 4 (22 January - 28 January), 3 books

✔️15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQZX): The Summer Book* by Tove Jansson, completed 22 January
✔️20. A book with a single word title: Quicksand*, completed 23 January
✔️14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color: Sula*, completed 28 January

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 5 (29 January - 4 February), 3 books

✔️12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year: The Book of Disquiet*, completed 31 January (This book has been on my TBR list since 2018.)
✔️44. A book with a touch of magic: The House of the Spirits*, completed 4 February
✔️52. A cozy mystery: A Most Agreeable Murder*, completed 4 February

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 6 (5 February - 11 February), 3 books

✔️46. A book related to night: Nightwood*, completed 8 February
✔️38. Two books with similar covers, Book 1: Five Total Strangers , completed 9 February
✔️39. Two books with similar covers, Book 2: Rock Paper Scissors , completed 10 February

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 7 (12 February - 18 February), 1 book

✔️22. A book by an author from an African country [Zimbabwe]: Nervous Conditions*, completed 15 February

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 8 (19 February - 25 February), 2 books

✅8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand: Alias Grace* by Margaret Atwood, completed 21 February
✔️18. A book with a botanical cover: Lab Girl* , completed 24 February

✔️: read
✅: read during the week it was assigned
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 9 (26 February - 3 March), 3 books

✔️17. A book involving intelligence: Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy*, completed 27 February
✅9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads: Wild Poppies*, completed 28 February (168 ratings as of 28 February)
✔️31. A book related to “Going for the Gold”: Goldilocks & Three Bears: Bears Should Share!*🌈, completed 3 March

✔️: read
✅: read during the week it was assigned
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year
🌈: fulfills the ATY Spring Rainbow Challenge 2024

🌈 ATY SPRING RAINBOW CHALLENGE 2024 (1 March-31 May) (17/17) 🌈
🥳challenge completed 25 March

✔️Red: Suite Française
✔️Orange: Furia
✔️Yellow: The Secret Life of Bees
✔️Green: When the Emperor Was Divine*
✔️Blue: The Last Time I Lied
✔️Purple: Delilah Green Doesn't Care
✔️White: Somewhere Only We Know
✔️Black: The Driver's Seat
✔️Brown: Stuart Little
✔️Gold: The Maidens*
✔️Gray: Jacob's Room
✔️5+ Colors: The Marriage Portrait

BONUS CHALLENGE (try to find titles that start with a letter in these words)
✔️Rainbow: Recitatif
✔️Shower: SLAY
✔️Spring: Sadie
✔️Colorful: Coffee Boy
✔️Growth: Goldilocks & Three Bears: Bears Should Share!*

✔️: read
*: read for my ATY Reading Challenge 2024

Week 10 (4 March - 10 March), 2 books

✅10. A history or historical fiction book: When the Emperor Was Divine*🌈, completed 4 March
✔️36. A book featuring a character in education: The Maidens*🌈, completed 7 March

✔️: read
✅: read during the week it was assigned
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year
🌈: fulfills the ATY Spring Rainbow Challenge 2024

Week 11 (11 March - 17 March), 1 book

✔️26. A book by an author known by their initials: Possession* by A.S. Byatt, completed 14 March

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 12 (18 March-24 March), 4 books

✔️28. A book related to sea: The Sea, the Sea*, completed 19 March
✔️49. A book with a senior citizen character: Killers of a Certain Age*, completed 20 March
✔️42. A book with a sound-related word in the title: The Sound and the Fury*, completed 20 March
✔️48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt [A cozy mystery]: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, completed 24 March

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 13 (25 March - 31 March), 2 books

✔️29. A book related to air: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, completed 27 March
✔️51. A book published in 2024: Bride*, completed 29 March

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 14 (1 April - 7 April)
😢0 books completed for this challenge this week

currently reading: A Dream of Red Mansions for the 1001 Books A to Z Challenge 2024

Week 15 (8 April - 14 April), 2 books

✔️23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett: On Chesil Beach*, completed 12 April
✔️41. A book with a chilling atmosphere: Smilla's Sense of Snow, completed 14 April

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 16 (15 April - 21 April), 1 book

✔️27. A book related to land: Into the Wild*, completed 20 April

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 17 (22 April - 28 April)
😢0 books completed for this challenge this week

Books Read This Week:
The Dreamers (for POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2024)
Noor (for Read Harder Challenge 2024)
Nineteen Steps (for The 52 Book Club 2024 Challenge)

Week 18 (29 April - 5 May)
😢0 books completed for this challenge this week

Books Read This Week:
The Astonishing Color of After (for POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2024)
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (for POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2024)
My Sister’s Keeper (for The 52 Book Club 2024 Challenge)

Week 19 (6 May - 12 May)
😢0 books completed for this challenge this week

Books Read This Week:
True Biz (for POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2024)
The Story of My Life (for POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2024)

Week 20 (13 May - 19 May)
😢0 books completed for this challenge this week

Books Read This Week:
The Night Watchman (for The 52 Book Club 2024 Challenge and Read Harder Challenge 2024)
XOXO (for POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2024)
Daisy Darker (for The 52 Book Club 2024 Challenge)
#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women (for POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2024 and Read Harder Challenge 2024)
The Virgin Suicides (for The 52 Book Club 2024 Challenge)

Week 21 (20 May - 26 May), 1 book

✔️35. A science or science fiction book: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex*, completed 21 May

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

🥳Challenge completed on 21 May!

ATY SUMMER READING CHALLENGE 2024 (3/3)
🥳all monthly challenges completed 12 August

✅June (4/4)
🥳completed 20 June
✔️1. National Ballpoint Pen Day [a. A book with a writing utensil on the cover/c. A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian]: The Sentence is Death
✔️2. National Prune Day [b. A book with more than 400 pages]: Sex, Lies and Sensibility (The Kindle edition I read is 428 pages long.)
✔️3. Let's Catch a Movie [b. A book that has been adapted into a movie or series]: Pride and Prejudice*
✔️4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin [a. A book with at least 4 colors on the cover]: Debating Darcy

✅July (4/4)
🥳completed 13 July
✔️1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige [b. A book featuring a sport/c. A book with a black main character]: Patina
✔️2. The Apollo Moon Landing [b. A book with the moon on the cover]: Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth*
✔️3. Let's Go on a Hike [a. A book with a cover of a nature scene without people/b. A book set in a rural area]: My First Summer in the Sierra*
✔️4. Dog Days of Summer [c. An author's first book]: Carrie* (Stephen King's debut came out in 1974. Happy 50th anniversary!)

✅August (4/4)
🥳completed 12 August
✔️1. The Destruction of Pompeii [a. A book featuring an ancient civilization/b. A book with red on the cover]: The Red Tent*
✔️2. Vacation Time [a. A book you've been meaning to read/b. A book by a favorite author]: The Penelopiad* by Margaret Atwood
✔️3. Let's Play a Game [a. A book with multiple points of view/c. A book in a series]: Children of Blood and Bone
✔️4. Back to School Sales [a. A book borrowed from the library/c. A book with a character in an educational setting]: Old School*

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year
✅: monthly challenge completed

🍁 ATY Fall Challenge (1 September 2024 to 30 November 2024) (17/17) 🍁
🥳challenge completed 22 September

✔️P: The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (Title)
✔️U: Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell (Title)
✔️M: How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (Author’s First Name)
✔️P: Just Kids by Patti Smith (Author’s First Name)
✔️K: The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (Author’s First Name)
✔️I: Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz (Title)
✔️N: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Title)

✔️S: The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (Author’s First Name)
✔️P: The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell (Title)
✔️I: Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls (Author’s Last Name)
✔️C: The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clarke (Author’s Last Name)
✔️E: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn (Title)

✔️L: Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell (Title)
✔️A: Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (Title)
✔️T: Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas (Author’s Last Name)
✔️T: The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler (Author’s Last Name)
✔️E: Burned by Ellen Hopkins (Author's First Name)

✔️: read

🍁 ATY Fall Challenge (1 September 2024 to 30 November 2024) (15/15) 🍁
🥳phrase completed 5 October

✔️F: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (Title)
✔️A: Anatomy by Dana Schwartz (Title)
✔️M: A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark (Author's First Name)
✔️I: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Title)
✔️L: Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark (Title)
✔️Y: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Title)

✔️G: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders (Author's First Name)
✔️A: Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause (Author's First Name)
✔️T: Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume (Title)
✔️H: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell (Author's First Name)
✔️E: Smoke by Ellen Hopkins (Author's First Name)
✔️R: Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers (Author's Last Name)
✔️I: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (Author's First Name)
✔️N: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Author's First Name)
✔️G: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (Title)

✔️: read

🍁 ATY FALL CHALLENGE (1 SEPTEMBER to 30 NOVEMBER 2024) (13/13) 🍁
🥳phrase completed 12 October

✔️H: What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller (Author's Last Name)
✔️O: Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje (Author's Last Name)
✔️T: Digging to America by Anne Tyler (Author's Last Name)

✔️A: The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler (Title & Author's First Name)
✔️P: The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Title)
✔️P: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (Title)
✔️L: Little Children by Tom Perrotta (Title)
✔️E: Crank by Ellen Hopkins (Author's First Name)

✔️C: Cut by Patricia McCormick (Title)
✔️I: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman (Title)
✔️D: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (Author's Last Name)
✔️E: Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman (Title)
✔️R: The Crocodile Bird by Ruth Rendell (Author's First & Last Name)

✔️: read

❄️ ATY WINTER CHALLENGE (1 DECEMBER 2024-28 FEBRUARY 2025) (15/15) ❄️
🥳challenge completed 29 December

✔️1. Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list [A book published in 2024]: Colored Television
✔️2. Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list [1. Cover Object Beginning with A, T, or Y–train; 2. A prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list–A book involving a train, plane or automobile; 4. A book set underground, under sea or in an underworld]: One Last Stop
✔️3. Has a mostly white cover: The Glass Castle
✔️4. Is on a Best of 2024 list: I Hope This Finds You Well
✔️5. Is set in the snow: One by One
✔️6. Is by an author you've read before: One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
✔️7. Features a winter holiday: The Matzah Ball
✔️8. Is nonfiction: The Devil's Highway: A True Story*
✔️9. Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER: Zero Days by Ruth Ware
✔️10. Has a mostly blue cover: Voyage of the Damned
✔️11. Is a speculative fiction novel: The Book of Doors
✔️12. Features family drama: Home Is Where the Bodies Are
✔️13. Has fire on the cover: A Slow Fire Burning
✔️14. Is written by a BIPOC author: Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland
✔️15. Is a love story: Beach Read

✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year