Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

I am going with the flow in 2019. I completed 35/52 prompts last year, but then I kind of lost interest in the last few months. I want to read what I want when I feel like it. If it fits for a prompt, great. If not, great.

48/52 completed

Completed Prompts

1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy - The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder completed 3/20
2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, What, Where, When, Why) - So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love completed 5/22
3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y - The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry completed 7/3
4. A book with a criminal character (i.e. assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel etc) - Camino Island completed 3/8
5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare - Macbeth completed 10/25
6. A book with a dual timeline - Where the Crawdads Sing completed 11/25
7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #1 - The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock completed 1/26
8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: Book #2 - The Moonstone completed 3/30
9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres (romance/erotica, crime/mystery, religious/inspirational, science fiction/fantasy or horror) - Spoken into Being: Divine Encounters through Story completed 1/11
10. A book featuring an historical figure - Jane and the Waterloo Map completed 2/25
11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals (title, cover, subject) - Pigs in Heaven completed 9/16
12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer - I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life completed 5/16
13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list - Possession completed 2/18
14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy completed 1/9
16. A book told from multiple perspectives - Children of Blood and Bone completed 9/26
17. A speculative fiction (i.e. fantasy, scifi, horror, dystopia) - Record of a Spaceborn Few completed 7/1
18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women completed 9/20
19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR - O Pioneers! completed 1/22
21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes - A book from the Texas Library Lariat List - Dear Mrs. Bird completed 6/16
22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover - One of Ours completed 5/30
23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old - The Song of the Lark completed 3/23
24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New - I'm the Vampire, That's Why completed 10/20
25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed - Parched completed 2/19
26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue - Holding completed 3/11
27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list -The Age of Innocence completed 10/1
28. A book related to something cold (i.e. theme, title, author, cover, etc.) - The Winter Crown completed 1/21
29. A book published before 1950 - Alexander's Bridge completed 1/14
30. A book featuring an elderly character - Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk completed 10/7
31. A children’s classic you’ve never read - Island of the Blue Dolphins completed 7/18
32. A book with more than 500 pages - Lethal White completed 3/6
33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet - Any Human Heart completed 2/6
34. A book with a person's name in the title - The Gift of Asher Lev completed 2/1
36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list - The Hate U Give completed 2/13
38. A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel, etc) - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging completed 1/10
39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life - My Ántonia completed 4/28
40. A book you stumbled upon - You Will Know Me completed 10/15
41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards - Leadership: In Turbulent Times completed 8/15
42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories completed 10/29
43. A book related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) [fiction or nonfiction] - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks completed 4/8
44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed (same topic, same era, book appeared in the show/movie, etc.) - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn completed 5/25
45. A multi-generational saga - City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan completed 4/25
46. A book with a (mostly) black cover - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell completed 1/5
47. A book related to food (i.e. title, cover, plot, etc.) - The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street completed 4/3
48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year - The Round House completed 8/1
49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country - Crazy Rich Asians completed 1/6
50. A book that includes a journey (physical, health, or spiritual) - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue completed 3/30
51. A book published in 2019 - Unmarriageable completed 9/6
52. A book with a weird or intriguing title - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler completed 3/10

Uncompleted Prompts

15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country
20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country
35. A psychological thriller
37. A book set in a school or university

Books I've read this year that don't count for a prompt:

Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart
My Name Is Asher Lev
The God We Can Know: Exploring the "I Am" Sayings of Jesus
Giant Days: Extra Credit
Giant Days, Vol. 9
Columbine
The Glass Castle
The Moral Teaching of Paul: Selected Issues
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Lab Girl (May use it for 37 at the end of the year if I don't read something that fits better.)
City of Glory: A Novel of War and Desire in Old Manhattan
City of God: A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York
Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading
Lincoln's Battle with God: A President's Struggle with Faith and What It Meant for America
A Lost Lady
Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Professor's House
The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
The Summer Before the War
Giant Days, Vol. 10
The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience
The Library Book
My Mortal Enemy
Walk in Ancient Paths: The Good Way of Wisdom
The Bean Trees
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
The Practice of the Presence of God
City of Promise: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
The Autumn Throne
Shadows on the Rock
H is for Hawk
The Public Library: A Photographic Essay
Of Bees and Mist
Lucy Gayheart
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
Cherry
The Alice Network
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
The Widows of Malabar Hill
Giant Days, Vol. 11
Faithful Place
Displacement: A Travelogue
A Literary Christmas: Great Contemporary Christmas Stories
Mr. Dickens and His Carol
Twelve Days of Christmas: Correspondence
Little Women
The Boston Girl

Making good progress!

Yes you are!

Well, I'm closing this out. I didn't meet my goal, but that's ok. Next year, I plan to just make books I'm already planning to read fit the prompts. You can see my 2020 plan HERE.