Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

I'm very much a mood reader so I'm not going to be doing this in order. I'm going for all 52 though. I'll decide as I go which books to choose.

50/52

✔1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 When Breath Becomes Air
✔2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view) The Revenge of Seven
✔3. A book you meant to read in 2016 Red Rising
✔4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" Armada
✔5. A historical fiction All the Light We Cannot See
✔6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 American Assassin
✔7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title Lily and the Octopus (both)
✔8. A book written by a person of color Homegoing
✔9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list Bad Dog: A Love Story
✔10. A dual-timeline novel Truly Madly Guilty
✔11. A category from another challenge (2016 Book Riot's Read Harder: Read a book with a main character that has a mental illness.) All the Bright Places
✔12. A book based on a myth American Gods
✔13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors Fahrenheit 451
✔14. A book with a strong female character Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
✔15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) A Man Called Ove
✔16. A mystery And Then There Were None
✔17. A book with illustrations Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
18. A really long book (600+ pages)
✔19. A New York Times best-seller Morning Star
✔20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
✔21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read The Fix
✔22. A book by an author you haven't read before We Are the Ants
✔23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list Animal Farm
✔24. A book written by at least two authors Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2
✔25. A book about a famous historical figure Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
✔26. An adventure book Ready Player One
✔27. A book by one of your favorite authors Agent to the Stars
✔28. A non-fiction Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
✔29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) Blind Descent: Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
✔30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
✔31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre (Sci-fi-->post-apocalyptic) The Last One
✔32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle) Journey to the Centre of the Earth
✔33. A magical realism novel The Alchemist
✔34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere The Light Between Oceans
✔35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
✔36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee The Graveyard Book
✔37. A book you choose randomly Food: A Love Story
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
✔39. An epistolary fiction Sleeping Giants
✔40. A book published in 2017 Carve the Mark
✔41. A book with an unreliable narrator Still Alice
✔42. A best book of the 21st century (so far) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
✔43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold) Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
✔44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" Lock In
✔45. A book with a one-word title Macbeth
✔46. A time travel novel Slaughterhouse-Five
✔47. A past suggestion that didn't win Golden Son (A book not set on Earth)
✔48. A banned book The Handmaid's Tale
✔49. A book from someone else's bookshelf The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
✔50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition Night
✔51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) Norse Mythology
✔52. A book set in a fictional location The Collapsing Empire

Mood reading is a familiar thing, so I'll be jumping around, too. I've also reserved quite a few options for some categories. :D

First quarter of the list done! 13/52. Overall I've read 21 books so far this year but not all of them fit into the list.

Wow!! You are all in!! ;) Great job!!!!

I am hoping to get ready player one from library this week!!

Kelly wrote: "Wow!! You are all in!! ;) Great job!!!!

I am hoping to get ready player one from library this week!!"

Thanks!

I loved Ready Player One. Lots of fun. Let me know what you think.

Books 14-26 done! I'm halfway through the list.

You definitely had a bit of a blue theme in your second half!

Congratulations on making it halfway. :)

Jody wrote: "You definitely had a bit of a blue theme in your second half!

Congratulations on making it halfway. :)"

Thanks! Yeah, I've noticed the predominance of the color blue in book covers. It certainly makes the Color Challenge more difficult, even with there being light blue and dark blue. If I ever write a book I'm going to insist the cover is a color other than blue even though it's one of my favorite colors.

Haha, I think blue is the color by default for many editors, I'm surprised when I've a yellow, red, green or purple book. For whatever reason, one french editor decided to put flashy yellow on the spines of its collection, I can't buy them, it's too ugly on a bookshelf.

Zaz wrote: "Haha, I think blue is the color by default for many editors, I'm surprised when I've a yellow, red, green or purple book. For whatever reason, one french editor decided to put flashy yellow on the ..."

Flashy yellow? Yeah, definitely wouldn't want that on my bookshelf. I could tolerate one, but a whole collection?

Three-quarters of the way through! Here are books 27-39:

I ended the year 2 books short of completing the list. Here are books 40-50:

Congratulations! 🎉