Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

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Around the Year in 52 Books ~ 2025
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✔️1. Image that starts with A T or Y (timer) ~ Harlem Shuffle
✔️2. 2025 prompt suggestion ~ The Lincoln Highway
✔️3. Do Re Mi song (Fa=Far=Pharr) ~ The Pursuit of Endurance
✔️4. Underground, sea or world ~ Small Boat
✔️5. Intriguing Title ~ West With Giraffes
✔️6. Serpentine element ~ You Are Here
✔️7. Author with 3 names ~ The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
✔️8. Short stories or brief writings ~ Brown Girl Dreaming
✔️9. Tournament of Books ~ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
✔️10. Witches, goddesses or nuns ~ A Parchment of Leaves
✔️11. Fictional location ~ Wild Dark Shore
✔️12. Irish author ~ The Searcher
✔️13. 4 members; not family ~ Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 RVs On Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure
✔️14. A sci-fi or fantasy written by a woman The Testaments
✔️15. Secrets, lies, or deception Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
✔️16. Prompt from ATY 2016 list ~ The God of the Woods
✔️17. Set prior to 1925 ~ Mrs. Dalloway
✔️18. Set primarily in nature ~ The Golden Spruce
✔️19. Building or cityscape ~ Trust
✔️20. Animal, vegetable or mineral in the title ~ The Yellow House
✔️21. Collective noun for animals ~ Magpie Murders
✔️22. Translated from Asia ~ The Housekeeper and the Professor
✔️23. Art, music, dancing or acting ~ Horse
⬜24. Athlete ~ Where There's a Will: Cycle Race Across a Continent
⬜25. Waves on the cover ~ Amazon Extreme
✔️26. Author with a common noun name ~ Killing Floor by Lee Child
✔️27. Set in the winter ~ February
✔️28. Opposites in titles: Book 1 (beasts) The Restraint of Beasts
✔️29. Opposites in titles: Book 2 (people) ~ Normal People
✔️30. A monster book ~ I Know This Much Is True (900 pages!)
⬜31. Coastal setting ~ The Prince of Tides
✔️32. Mystery or true crime ~ Twenty-Seven Minutes
✔️33. Forgotten author ~ Danny the Champion of the World
✔️34. Title like a country song ~ So Much for That
✔️35. NPR "Books We Love" ~ Hello Beautiful
✔️36. Household object ~ The Borrower
✔️37. Adult friendships ~ Women Talking
✔️38. Connection (Australian) btn different genres (biography): Book 1 ~ After
✔️39. Connection (Australian) btn different genres (chick-lit): Book 2 ~ Big Little Lies
✔️40. Comfort read ~ Writers & Lovers
✔️41. Digging up the past ~ Crying in H Mart
✔️42. Manor, mansion, or estate ~ The Christmas Guest
✔️43. Ten or fewer letters ~ The Orenda
✔️44. A haunting book ~ The Enchanted
✔️45. Author career spans at ten+ years ~ Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
✔️46. Full moon names (Hunter Moon) ~ Wordhunter
✔️47. Relating to fire ~ Fight Night
✔️48. Dealing with death ~ Skippy Dies
⬜49. Time travel, alternate universes or timelines ~ The Bone Clocks
✔️51. Published in 2025 ~ The Heart of Winter
✔️52. Sunset on the cover ~ We Begin at the End

Unfilled Prompts:

50. ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2024 or 2025

JANUARY READS

6 04 January You Are Here
4⭐ My Review

41 08 January Crying in H Mart
3 ⭐ My Review

29 09 January Normal People
3⭐ My Review

46 11 January Wordhunter
1⭐ My Review

42 14 January The Christmas Guest
4⭐ My Review

12 17 January The Searcher
4⭐ My Review

47 21 January Fight Night
5⭐ My Review

33 25 January Danny, the Champion of the World
4⭐ My Review

9 26 January Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
2⭐ My Review

43 28 January The Orenda
5⭐ My Review

⬜ 31 January Signal Fires
3.5⭐ My Review

February Reads

23 06 February Horse
5⭐ My Review

52 11 February We Begin at the End
3.5⭐ My Review

3 12 February The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
4⭐ My Review

34 16 February So Much for That
4⭐ My Review

28 20 February The Restraint of Beasts
5⭐ My Review

14 21 February The Testaments
4⭐ My Review

19 25 February Trust
4⭐ My Review

March Reads


18 01 March The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
3⭐ My Review
Tags: Canadian, Indigenous, non-fiction, historical, cultural

19 04 March Trust
3⭐ re-read (see above review)

10 04 March A Parchment of Leaves
3⭐ My Review
Tags: historical

⬜ 07 March Papillon
4⭐ My Review
Tags: historical, non-fiction

51 07 March The Heart of Winter
5⭐ My Review
Tags: general, aging

45 13 March Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
4⭐ My Review
Tags: non-fiction, political, biography, current events

⬜ 16 March The Book of George
4⭐ My Review
Tags: general

16 19 March The God of the Woods
5⭐ My Review
Tags: mystery, 5 star

39 26 March Big Little Lies
3⭐ My Review
Tags: general,

⬜ 30 March Day
3⭐ My Review
Tags: general

April Reads

1 05 April Harlem Shuffle
3⭐ My Review
Tags: historical, heist,

48 10 April Skippy Dies
4+⭐ My Review
Tags: year-of-the-tome, general

⬜07 April Earth
5⭐ My Review
Tags: 5 stars, general, series

15 08 April Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
⭐ My Review
Tags: non-fiction, Facebook, whistleblower

22 14 April The Housekeeper and the Professor
3⭐ My Review
Tags: translation,

37 21 April Women Talking
4⭐ My Review
Tags: Canadian, audio,

36 24 April The Borrower
1⭐ My Review
Tags: crap, lgbtq+

38 28 April After
2⭐ My Review
Tags: biography, death, assisted suicide

May Reads

7 01 May The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
3⭐ My Review
Tags: athletes, historical, non-fiction

⬜ 02 May What Does It Feel Like?
5⭐ My Review
Tags: biography, audio

⬜ 14 May City of Thieves
5⭐ My Review
Tags: historical, war,

4 16 May Small Boat
4.5⭐ My Review
Tags: current events, translated, travel

5 20 May West With Giraffes
4⭐ My Review
Tags: historical, travel

11 24 May Wild Dark Shore
3.5⭐ My Review
Tags: dystopian, mystery

⬜ 27 May The Unseen World
2.5⭐ My Review
Tags: audio, general, boring

8 28 May Brown Girl Dreaming
5⭐ My Review
Tags: biography, language-writing, cultural, poetry

June Reads

2 03 June The Lincoln Highway
5⭐ My Review
Tags: audio, year of the tome

44 14 June The Enchanted
5⭐ My Review
Tags: 5 star, general

40 14 June Writers & Lovers
5⭐ My Review
Tags: 5 star, general

35 15 June Hello Beautiful
2⭐ My Review
Tags: crap

⬜ 22 June What Comes After
3⭐ My Review
Tags: coming of age

⬜ 23 June The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
5⭐ My Review
Tags: 5 stars, historical

August Reads

⬜ 06 August Through Black Spruce
4⭐ My Review
Tags: indigenous, audio, series

⬜ 10 August Once There Were Wolves
2⭐ My Review
Tags: dystopian, environment, audio, chick lit

30 11 August I Know This Much Is True
3⭐ My Review
Tags: general,

21 18 August Magpie Murders
5⭐ My Review
Tags: mystery, 5 stars

⬜21 August Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
4⭐ My Review
Tags: self-help, financial, audio

⬜22 August Fresh Eggs
2⭐ My Review
Tags: farming, food, crap

⬜24 August 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
2⭐ My Review
Tags: theatre, never-again

⬜24 August February
2⭐ My Review
Tags: Canadian, Canada Reads,

⬜29 August All the Colors of the Dark
3.5⭐ My Review
Tags: thriller, audio,

September Reads

20 02 September Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 RVs On Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure
4⭐ My Review
Tags: humour, pets, rescue

⬜ 02 September The Yellow House
5⭐ My Review
Tags: coming-of-age, thriller

⬜ 03 September We All Want Impossible Things
3⭐ My Review
Tags: biography, grief

⬜ 03 September Mrs. Dalloway
4⭐ My Review
Tags: classic

⬜ 07 September You Have Arrived at Your Destination
4⭐ My Review
Tags: dystopian, short story

⬜ 08 September The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
3⭐ My Review
Tags: science, non-fiction