Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

List

1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
A House for Happy Mothers by Amulya Malladi read 1/15/18
2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver read 1/21/18
3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards (link)
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...) The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson
5. A book about or inspired by real events The Cruelest Night by Christopher Dobson 2/18/18
6. A book originally written in a language other than English
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa. Read 8 /17/18. (Japanese original language)
7. A gothic novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson read 8/24/18
8. An "own voices" book* Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Read 8/27/18
9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc) The Bone House by Brian Freeman read 8/20/18
10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
Those We Love Most by Lee Woodruff Read 2/1/18
11. A literary fiction Family Album by Penelope Lively Read 1/22/18
12. A book set in Africa or South America The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony read 2/25/18
13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc) The Children by Ann Leary Read 1/1/18. Secret is a rape as a child and hidden from family until an adult
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
The Winecoff Fire: The Untold Story of America's Deadliest Hotel Fire by Sam Heys read 1/8/18
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life by Annie Spence read 1/20/18
16. A narrative nonfiction Gone Forever by Diane Fanning Read 3/30/18
17. A book you expect to make you laugh The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn read 5/7/18
18. A book with a location in the title The Applause of Heaven by Max Lucado read 6/2/18
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors) Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger 6/1/18
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends Bring Her Home by David Bell read 8/7/18. Friend-Sherrie Thacker
21. A book written in first person perspective Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience by Allison Pataki read 6/6/18
22. A book you have high expectations or hope for The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 1/22/18
23. A medical or legal thriller
24. A book with a map
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
26. A book with a text only cover
27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc) Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan 2/24/18
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys Reas 2/8/18
Sea = water
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
by Susan Hill 3/12/18
30. A short book A Miracle a Day: Stories of Heavenly Encounters: A Book of Meditations by Ann Spangler read 8/18/18 Pages: 192
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to by Maggie O'Farrell Ireland 3/7/18
32. An alternate history book Farthing by Jo Walton read 9/23/18
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link) The Shortest Way Home by Juliette Fay read 9/23/18
“Kitten heels” term first used in 1956 found on page 251 bottom paragraph
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link) 7th Mimi poll-book dealing with loss or grief by W. Bruce Cameron 5/2/18
35. A book featuring a murder The Long Way Home by Louise Penny Read 1/11/18
36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before Only Child by Rhiannon Navin published 2018 read 8/18/18
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee (link1, link2)
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman read 3/25/18
38. A science book or a science fiction book Poison Princess by Kresley Cole read 4/15/18
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres read 5/2/18
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list (link) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling read 3/23/18
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials The Spy by Clive Cussler read 3/24/18
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand read 7/19/18
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman read 4/30/18
44. A ghost story Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva read 3/28/18
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian read 10/2/18
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky read 8/13/18
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 4/15/18
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth) The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders 4/5/18 greed, lust and sloth
49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists (link) Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal List-August 2015 Read 5/19/28
50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer) The Recipe Box by Viola Shipman read 9/21/18
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Won the Pulitzer Prize
52. A book published in 2018 The Forgotten Road by Richard Paul Evans read 5/2/18 published 5/1/18

List created by the group members, after suggestions and votes. Thanks to all!

*an own voice novel is a book about marginalised protagonists (by ethnic group, religion, sexual orientation, mental illness, etc) written by an author who shares that same identity.