Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Around the Year in 52 Books Reading Challenge 2025 (52/52)
🥳challenge completed 30 May

✔️1. A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y [Trees]: Like Life*
✔️2. A prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list [A book containing a trial]: The Trial*
✔️3. A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song [Ray! - a drop of golden sun]: Klara and the Sun
✔️4. A book set underground, under sea or in an underworld: The Starless Sea*🌷
✔️5. A book with a weird or intriguing title: number9dream*

✔️6. A book with a serpentine element on the cover: Play It As It Lays*
✔️7. A book by an author that uses 3 names: Love in the Time of Cholera* by Gabriel García Márquez
✔️8. A collection of short stories or novellas, essays, poetry, or a mix of various brief writings: The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose*
✔️9. A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year [2018]: Autumn*

✔️10. A book about witches, goddesses or nuns: Weyward*🌷
✔️11. A book set in a fictional location: The Spellshop*
✔️12. A book by an Irish author: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* by James Joyce🌷
✔️13. A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family: Fourth Wing*
✔️14. A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman: Babel* by R.F. Kuang

✔️15. A book of secrets, lies, or deception: Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage*
✔️16. A book that fits a prompt from the 2016 ATY list [A book set in a different continent; A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name; A book with a great opening line]: The Cement Garden* (Europe; C; "I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way.)
✔️17. A history or historical fiction book set prior to 1925: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet* (The novel is set in 1799, 1800, 1811 & 1817.)
✔️18. A book set primarily in nature: Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist*

✔️19. A book with a cover that has a building or cityscape: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall*
✔️20. A book with an animal, vegetable (plant), or mineral in the title: Black Swan Green*
✔️21. A book connected in some way to any collective noun for animals: Mother-Daughter Murder Night (A group of crows is called a murder.)
✔️22. A translated novel from Asia: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library*

✔️23. A book that involves art, music, dancing or acting: The Woman in Me*
✔️24. A book with a main character who is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, or a criminal [An Athlete]: Cleat Cute*
✔️25. A book with waves on the cover: Clear
✔️26. A book by an author with a common noun in their name: The Girls of Slender Means* by Muriel Spark
✔️27. A book set in the winter: The Frozen River*🌷

✔️28. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles [Book 1]: Winter*
✔️29. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles [Book 2]: Summer*
✔️30. A monster book: Someone You Can Build a Nest In*
✔️31. A book with a coastal setting: Somewhere Beyond the Sea*

✔️32. A mystery or true crime book: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession*
✔️33. A book by an author you enjoyed but haven't gotten around to reading again for some time: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay by Octavia E. Butler
✔️34. A book title that could be a country song: Great Big Beautiful Life
✔️35. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists: The Stardust Grail*

✔️36. A book with a common household object on the cover: The Kamogawa Food Detectives*
✔️37. A book featuring adult friendships: Zorba the Greek*🌷
✔️38. Two books with a connection from different genres [Book 1, Horror]: Finders Keepers*
✔️39. Two books with a connection from different genres [Book 2, Romance]: Finders Keepers*
✔️40. A book you'd consider a comfort read: The Restaurant of Lost Recipes*🌷

✔️41. A book that involves digging up the past: The Lost Apothecary
✔️42. A book set in a manor, mansion, or estate: Brideshead Revisited*
✔️43. A book whose title has ten or fewer letters: Nowhere Man*
✔️44. A haunting book: In a Glass Darkly

✔️45. A book by an author whose publishing career spans at least ten years: 2001: A Space Odyssey* by Arthur C. Clarke (Clarke published his first novel in 1953. His last book was released in 2008. That is a span of 55 years.)
✔️46. A book related to one of the traditional full moon names [Cold Moon]: Love in a Cold Climate*🌷
✔️47. A book relating to fire: Iron Flame*
✔️48. A book with a character dealing with death: The Mysteries of Udolpho*

✔️49. A book that deals with time travel, alternate universes, or alternate timelines: This Is How You Lose the Time War*
✔️50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2024 or 2025: Villette*
✔️51. A book published in 2025: Onyx Storm*
✔️52. A book with a sunset vibes on the cover: This Summer Will Be Different*

📖: currently reading
📚: tbr
✔️: read
🌷: Spring Reading Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

🔟ATY Anniversary Challenge 2025 (10/10)🔟
🥳challenge completed 3 May

✔️2016. A book originally written in a language other than English [German, with some French]: The Magic Mountain*🌷
✔️2017. A book whose title doesn't contain the letter "E": Spring*
✔️2018. An author's debut book: Ghostwritten* by David Mitchell
✔️2019. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements [Silver, Ag]: Spinning Silver*
✔️2020. A book with an emotion in the title: The Pursuit of Love*🌷
✔️2021. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet [Victor]: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame* by Victor Hugo
✔️2022. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name: Utopia Avenue*
✔️2023. A book whose author has published more than 7 books: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler* by Italo Calvino
✔️2024. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year: Cloud Atlas* (This book has been on my GR's to-read list since 2016.)
✔️2025. A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family: The House in the Cerulean Sea*

✔️: read
🌷: Spring Reading Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 1 (1 January-5 January), 9 books completed

✔️1. A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y [Trees]: Like Life* , finished 1 January
✔️9. A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year [2018]: Autumn*, finished 2 January
✔️28. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles [Book 1]: Winter*, finished 2 January
✔️2017. A book whose title doesn't contain the letter "E": Spring*🔟, finished 3 January
✔️29. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles [Book 2]: Summer*, finished 3 January
✔️19. A book with a cover that has a building or cityscape: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall* , finished 4 January
✔️16. A book that fits a prompt from the 2016 ATY list [A book set in a different continent; A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name; A book with a great opening line]: The Cement Garden* (Europe; C; "I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way.), finished 5 January
✔️45. A book by an author whose publishing career spans at least ten years: 2001: A Space Odyssey* by Arthur C. Clarke (Clarke published his first novel in 1953. His last book was released in 2008. That is a span of 55 years.), finished 5 January
✔️26. A book by an author with a common noun in their name: The Girls of Slender Means* by Muriel Spark, finished 5 January

✔️: read
🔟: Anniversary Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges I’m completing this year

Week 2 (6 January-12 January), 7 books completed

✔️2. A prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list [A book containing a trial]: The Trial*, finished 6 January
✔️24. A book with a main character who is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, or a criminal [An Athlete]: Cleat Cute*, finished 6 January
✔️2023. A book whose author has published more than 7 books: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler* by Italo Calvino🔟, finished 7 January
✔️43. A book whose title has ten or fewer letters: Nowhere Man*, finished 8 January
✔️2018. An author's debut book: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell🔟, finished 9 January
✔️5. A book with a weird or intriguing title: number9dream, finished 10 January
✔️2024. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year: Cloud Atlas* (This book has been on my GR's to-read list since 2016.)🔟, finished 12 January

✔️: read
🔟: Anniversary Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges I’m completing this year

Week 3 (13 January-19 January), 2 books completed

✔️20. A book with an animal, vegetable (plant), or mineral in the title: Black Swan Green*, finished 15 January
✔️17. A history or historical fiction book set prior to 1925: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet* (The novel is set in 1799, 1800, 1811 & 1817.), finished 18 January

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

Week 4 (20 January-26 January), 4 books completed

✔️2022. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name: Utopia Avenue*🔟, finished 22 January
✔️13. A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family: Fourth Wing*, finished 24 January
✔️47. A book relating to fire: Iron Flame* , finished 25 January
✔️51. A book published in 2025: Onyx Storm*, finished 26 January

✔️: read
🔟: Anniversary Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges I’m completing this year

Week 5 (27 January-2 February), 5 books completed

✔️3. A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song [Ray! - a drop of golden sun]: Klara and the Sun , finished 28 January
✔️8. A collection of short stories or novellas, essays, poetry, or a mix of various brief writings: The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose*, finished 2 February
✔️32. A mystery or true crime book: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession*, finished 31 January
✔️15. A book of secrets, lies, or deception: Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage*, finished 1 February
✔️23. A book that involves art, music, dancing or acting: The Woman in Me*, finished 2 February

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

Week 6 (3 February-9 February), 5 books completed

✔️6. A book with a serpentine element on the cover: Play It As It Lays* , finished 3 February
✔️25. A book with waves on the cover: Clear , finished 3 February
✔️30. A monster book: Someone You Can Build a Nest In*, finished 6 February
✔️49. A book that deals with time travel, alternate universes, or alternate timelines: This Is How You Lose the Time War*, finished 6 February
✔️14. A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman: Babel* by R.F. Kuang, finished 9 February

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

Week 7 (10 February-16 February), 1 book completed

✔️2021. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet [Victor]: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame* by Victor Hugo 🔟, finished 10 February

✔️: read
🔟: Anniversary Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 8 (17 February-23 February), 4 books completed

✔️7. A book by an author that uses 3 names: Love in the Time of Cholera* by Gabriel García Márquez, finished 20 February
✔️18. A book set primarily in nature: Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist*, finished 17 February
✔️22. A translated novel from Asia: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library*, finished 22 February
✔️48. A book with a character dealing with death: The Mysteries of Udolpho*, finished 23 February

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

Week 9 (24 February-2 March), 3 books completed

✔️50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2024 or 2025: Villette*, finished 28 February
✔️36. A book with a common household object on the cover: The Kamogawa Food Detectives* , finished 1 March
✔️40. A book you'd consider a comfort read: The Restaurant of Lost Recipes*🌷, finished 1 March

✔️: read
🌷: Spring Challenge book
🔟: Anniversary Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

🌷 ATY SPRING CHALLENGE 2025 (15/15) 🌷
🥳challenge completed 26 March

THE PHRASES
✔️1. SpriNgtiMe: Don't Tell Alfred* by Nancy Mitford [Both letters of the author's name]
✔️2. BLoom: Love in a Cold Climate* [First letter of the title]
✔️3. Sun ShininG: Guarding Temptation* [First letter of the title]
✔️4. BAby AniMals: Olivetti* by Allie Millington [Both letters of the author's name]
✔️5. EggS: The Starless Sea* [First letter of the title]
✔️6. TuliPs: Prima Facie [First letter of the title]
✔️7. Jellybeans: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* by James Joyce [Both letters of the author's name]
✔️8. RainsTorM: The Magic Mountain* by Thomas Mann [Both letters of the author's name/First letter of the title]
✔️9. SProut: The Pursuit of Love* [First letter of the title]
✔️10. Warming: Wise Blood* [First letter of the title]
✔️11. SpriNg BreaK: Zorba the Greek* by Nikos Kazantzakis [Both letters of the author's name]
✔️12. RainCoat: Contact* [First letter of the title]
✔️13. GReen: The Restaurant of Lost Recipes* [First letter of the title]
✔️14. EartH Day: Weyward* by Emilia Hart [Both letters of the author's name]
✔️15. PAsteLs: The Frozen River* by Ariel Lawhon [Both letters of the author's name]

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

Week 10 (3 March-9 March), 2 books completed

✔️2016. A book originally written in a language other than English [German, with some French]: The Magic Mountain*🌷🔟, finished 6 March
✔️2020. A book with an emotion in the title: The Pursuit of Love*🌷🔟, finished 8 March

✔️: read
🌷: Spring Challenge book
🔟: Anniversary Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 11 (10 March-16 March), 7 books completed

✔️46. A book related to one of the traditional full moon names [Cold Moon]: Love in a Cold Climate*🌷, finished 10 March
✔️1. Springtime: Don't Tell Alfred* by Nancy Mitford [Both letters of the author's name]🌷, finished 11 March
✔️4. A book set underground, under sea or in an underworld: The Starless Sea*🌷, finished 15 March
✔️33. A book by an author you enjoyed but haven't gotten around to reading again for some time: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay by Octavia E. Butler, finished 15 March
✔️10. Warming: Wise Blood* [First letter of the title]🌷, finished 15 March
✔️12. A book by an Irish author: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* by James Joyce🌷, finished 16 March
✔️4. Baby Animals: Olivetti* by Allie Millington [Both letters of the author's name]🌷, finished 16 March

✔️: read
🌷: Spring Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 12 (17 March-23 March), 4 books completed

✔️27. A book set in the winter: The Frozen River*🌷, finished 19 March
✔️12. Raincoat: Contact* [First letter of the title]🌷, finished 22 March
✔️37. A book featuring adult friendships: Zorba the Greek*🌷, finished 22 March
✔️3. Sun Shining: Guarding Temptation* [First letter of the title]🌷, finished 23 March

✔️: read
🌷: Spring Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 13 (24 March-30 March), 1 book completed

✔️10. A book about witches, goddesses or nuns: Weyward*🌷, finished 26 March

✔️: read
🌷: Spring Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 14 (31 March-6 April), 3 books completed

✔️2025. A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family: The House in the Cerulean Sea*🔟, finished 31 March
✔️31. A book with a coastal setting: Somewhere Beyond the Sea*, finished 1 April
✔️44. A haunting book: In a Glass Darkly*, finished 5 April

✔️: read
🔟: Anniversary Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 15 (7 April-13 April), 1 book completed

✔️52. A book with a sunset vibes on the cover: This Summer Will Be Different* , finished 13 April

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

Week 16 (14 April-20 April), 3 books completed

✔️11. A book set in a fictional location: The Spellshop*, finished 15 April
✔️35. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists: The Stardust Grail*, finished 17 April
✔️41. A book that involves digging up the past: The Lost Apothecary, finished 20 April

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

Week 17 (21 April-27 April), 2 books completed

✔️42. A book set in a manor, mansion, or estate: Brideshead Revisited*, finished 23 April
✔️21. A book connected in some way to any collective noun for animals: Mother-Daughter Murder Night (A group of crows is called a murder.), finished 26 April

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

Week 18 (28 April-4 May), 1 book completed

✔️2019. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements [Silver, Ag]: Spinning Silver*🔟, finished 3 May

✔️: read
🔟: Anniversary Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 19 (5 May-11 May), 1 book completed

✔️34. A book title that could be a country song: Great Big Beautiful Life, finished 10 May

✔️: read

Week 20 (12 May-18 May)
😢0 books read for the challenge this week

Books I read this week:
The Library of Babel
The Girls (for the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2025)
Something in the Water (for the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2025)
The Girl in the Mirror (for the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2025)
Magpie Murders

Week 21 (19 May-25 May)
😢0 books read for the challenge this week

Books I read this week:
Moonflower Murders
Marble Hall Murders
Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined
Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined
Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined

Week 22 (26 May-1 June), 3 books completed

✔️39. Two books with a connection from different genres [Book 2, Romance]: Finders Keepers*, finished 27 May
✔️38. Two books with a connection from different genres [Book 1, Horror]: Finders Keepers*, finished 30 May
✔️4c. A book that has been nominated for an award: If It Bleeds* (Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Collection and the Goodreads Choice Award for Horror)☀️, finished 1 June

📖: currently reading
✔️: read
☀️: Summer Challenge book
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

🥳 Challenge completed on 30 May!

☀️ ATY SUMMER READING CHALLENGE 2025 (7,500 points) ☀️
🥳challenge completed 31 July

Chips and Dip, 100 points (500 points)
✔️1a. A book in a series: Daydream (Part of the Maple Hills Series)
✔️1b. A book with water on the cover: Wildfire
✔️1c. A book released in 2024 or 2025: Problematic Summer Romance*
✔️1d. A book by a new to you author: The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
✔️1e. A humorous book: You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain*

Drinks Station, 200 points (1,000 points)
Author's initials are in...
✔️2a. FRESH-SQUEEZED LEMONADE: Beautiful Ugly* by Alice Feeney
✔️2b. UNSWEETENED ICED TEA: Out of My Heart* by Sharon M. Draper
✔️2c. ROOT BEER SODA: Henderson the Rain King* by Saul Bellow
✔️2d. FRUIT PUNCH: The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert
✔️2e. SPARKLING WATER: Fatelessness* by Imre Kertész

Burger and Hotdog Toppings, 300 points (1,500 points)
✔️3a. Ketchup - A book with red on the cover: Never Flinch*
✔️3b. Relish - A book by a favorite author: Pride and Prejudice* by Jane Austen
✔️3c. Mustard - A book with a military character (serving, retired, or adjacent): Persuasion* (Multiple characters were/are in the navy.)
✔️3d. Pickles - A book title that includes a word starting with the letter P: The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers*
✔️3e. Cheese - A sentimental book: Anne of Green Gables* (One of my favorite books as a child.)

Desserts, 400 points (2,000 points)
✔️4a. A book with a child main character: Out of My Mind*
✔️4b. A book with a wedding: Emma*
✔️4c. A book that has been nominated for an award: If It Bleeds* (Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Collection and the Goodreads Choice Award for Horror)
✔️4d. A book with a cafe, bakery, or restaurant as an important setting: A Pho Love Story
✔️4e. A book originally written in a language other than English [Turkish]: Snow*

The Sides, 500 points (2,500 points)
✔️5a. Potato salad - A book with more than one point of view: Not in Love
✔️5b. Mac n' cheese - A book by an author with 10 or more books: Holly* by Stephen King (According to Wikipedia, King has published 65 novels/novellas.)
✔️5c. Corn bread - A book originally published before 1900: Sense and Sensibility*
✔️5d. Deviled eggs - A book with challenging subject matter [The Holocaust & Holocaust denial]: Denial: Holocaust History on Trial
✔️5e. Watermelon - A book over 500 pages: The Wings of the Dove* (My edition is 554 pages long.)

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

Week 23 (2 June-8 June), 4 books completed

✔️5b. Mac n' cheese - A book by an author with 10 or more books: Holly* by Stephen King (According to Wikipedia, King has published 65 novels/novellas.)☀️, finished 3 June
✔️3a. Ketchup - A book with red on the cover: Never Flinch* ☀️, finished 5 June
✔️5e. Watermelon - A book over 500 pages: The Wings of the Dove* (My edition is 554 pages long.)☀️, finished 7 June
✔️3d. Pickles - A book title that includes a word starting with the letter P: The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers*☀️, finished 7 June

✔️: read
☀️: Summer Reading Challenge
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 24 (9 June-15 June), 6 books completed

✔️2c. ROOT BEER SODA: Henderson the Rain King* by Saul Bellow☀️, finished 9 June
✔️4e. A book originally written in a language other than English [Turkish]: Snow*☀️, finished 12 June
✔️5a. Potato salad - A book with more than one point of view: Not in Love☀️, finished 14 June
✔️1c. A book released in 2024 or 2025: Problematic Summer Romance*☀️, finished 14 June
✔️4d. A book with a cafe, bakery, or restaurant as an important setting: A Pho Love Story☀️, finished 15 June
✔️2e. SPARKLING WATER: Fatelessness* by Imre Kertész☀️, finished 15 June

✔️: read
☀️: Summer Reading Challenge
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 25 (16 June-22 June), 3 books completed

✔️5d. Deviled eggs - A book with challenging subject matter [The Holocaust & Holocaust denial]: Denial: Holocaust History on Trial☀️, finished 17 June
✔️5c. Corn bread - A book originally published before 1900: Sense and Sensibility*☀️, finished 20 June
✔️3b. Relish - A book by a favorite author: Pride and Prejudice* by Jane Austen☀️, finished 21 June

✔️: read
☀️: Summer Reading Challenge
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 26 (23 June-29 June), 5 books completed

✔️4b. A book with a wedding: Emma*☀️, finished 26 June
✔️3c. Mustard - A book with a military character (serving, retired, or adjacent): Persuasion* (Multiple characters were/are in the navy.)☀️, finished 26 June
✔️1b. A book with water on the cover: Wildfire ☀️, finished 28 June
✔️1a. A book in a series: Daydream (Part of the Maple Hills Series)☀️, finished 29 June
✔️2d. FRUIT PUNCH: The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert☀️, finished 29 June

✔️: read
☀️: Summer Reading Challenge
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 27 (30 June-6 July), 1 book completed

✔️1d. A book by a new to you author: The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean☀️, finished 2 July

✔️: read
☀️: Summer Reading Challenge
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 28 (7 July-13 July), 1 book completed

✔️2a. FRESH-SQUEEZED LEMONADE: Beautiful Ugly* by Alice Feeney☀️, finished 13 July

✔️: read
☀️: Summer Reading Challenge
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 29 (14 July-20 July), 3 books completed

✔️4a. A book with a child main character: Out of My Mind*☀️, finished 16 July
✔️2b. UNSWEETENED ICED TEA: Out of My Heart* by Sharon M. Draper☀️, finished 16 July
✔️3e. Cheese - A sentimental book: Anne of Green Gables* (One of my favorite books as a child.)☀️, finished 18 July

✔️: read
☀️: Summer Reading Challenge
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

Week 30 (21 July-27 July)
😢0 books completed for the summer challenge this week

Books I read this week:
Anne of the Island
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne of Ingleside
Rainbow Valley

Week 31 (28 July-3 August), 1 book completed

✔️1e. A humorous book: You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain*☀️, finished 31 July

✔️: read
☀️: Summer Reading Challenge
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year

🍁 ATY FALL READING CHALLENGE (4/18) 🍁

THE PHRASES
1. Autumn or Fall:
2. Corn Maze:
3. Harvest:
4. Red and Orange:
5. Foliage:
6. Cooler Weather:
✔️7. PuMpkin SpiCe: The Pairing* by Casey McQuiston (Author's Name & Title)
✔️8. SweateR: Recursion* (Title)
9. Hot Chocolate:
✔️10. OktoBerfest: Patternmaster* by Octavia E. Butler (Author's Name)
11. Spooky Season:
✔️12. HalloWeen: When the Tides Held the Moon* (Title)
13. Jack-o-Lantern:
14. Trick or Treat:
15. Ghost Stories:
📖16. BOnfire NigHt: Out on a Limb* by Hannah Bonam-Young (Author's Name & Title)
17. Thanksgiving:
18. Fireworks:

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

Week 36 (1 September-7 September), 4 books completed

✔️10. OktoBerfest: Patternmaster* by Octavia E. Butler (Author's Name)🍁, finished 1 September
✔️12. HalloWeen: When the Tides Held the Moon (Title)🍁, finished 3 September
✔️8. SweateR: Recursion (Title)🍁, finished 5 September
✔️7. PuMpkin SpiCe: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston (Author's Name & Title)🍁, finished 6 September
📖16. BOnfire NigHt: Out on a Limb* by Hannah Bonam-Young (Author's Name & Title)🍁

📖: currently reading
✔️: read
🍁: Fall Reading Challenge
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year