Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Jackie G's 2020 ATY Plan





My 2019 Completed Prompts

My 2020 Completed Prompts

ATY Spreadsheet - Completed

ATY Spreadsheet - Rejects Completed

Other Books Finished

2021 Plan

Goals:

• Complete 52 prompts
• Make it through as many books on my bookshelf as possible
• Have Fun!


Legend:
📚 Finished (52/52)
🔵 Library (50/52)
🟢 Own (2/52)
🟡 Online Resource (e.g. Project Gutenburg, Librivox, ect.) (0/52)
🟣 Borrowed from Friend/Family Member (0/52)
🎧 Audiobook (40/52)
💻 E-Book (8/52)
📕 Physical Book (4/52)
🎨Graphic Novel (3/52)
🐉Fiction (33/52)
💡Non-Fiction (19/52)
↪️ Re-reading (3/52)

Finished Book Covers

2020 Prompts


2020 Reject Prompts



2020 Other Books

Wow, this is inspiringly detailed! Happy reading!

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
📚Circe by Madeline Miller🔵🎧🐉5⭐

2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
📚Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King🔵🎧💡 5⭐

3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
📚The Stranger by Albert Camus, translated by Matthew Ward (By the same author as A Happy Death which was mentioned in Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic)🔵🎧🐉 4⭐

4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
📚Beowulf by Anonymous, translated by Seamus Heaney🔵🎧🐉↪️5⭐

5. The first book in a series that you have not started
📚Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice(The Vampire Chronicles Series)🔵🎧🐉5⭐

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
📚 Main Street by Sinclair Lewis(Automobile) 🔵🎧🐉3⭐

7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
📚The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera (Set in New Zealand)🔵💻🐉4⭐

8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
📚The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith🔵🎧🐉↪️5⭐

9. A book that can be read in a day
📚The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark(112 pages long)🔵🎧🐉5⭐

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
📚No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie(499 pages) 🔵📕💡

11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
📚Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis (2017) 🔵🎧💡

12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
📚Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry by Jeffrey A. Lieberman & Ogi Ogas 🔵🎧💡

13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
📚Locke & Key, Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill(2019 38. A book not written in traditional novel format (poetry, essay, epistolary, graphic novel, etc), a graphic novel)🔵💻🎨🐉

14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
📚The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri🔵🎧🐉

15. A book set in a global city
📚The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle(New York City)🔵🎧🐉

16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
📚Educated by Tara Westover(Rural Idaho) 🔵🎧💡

17. A book with a neurodiverse character
📚The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang🔵🎧💡

18. A book by an author you've only read once before
📚All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (From the same author as The City in the Middle of the Night)🔵🎧🐉

19. A fantasy book
📚Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman🔵🎧 🐉

20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
📚Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe(20th on Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels)🔵🎧🐉

21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
📚The Catholic Church: A Short Historyby Hans Küng, translated by John Bowden (Catholism)🔵🎧 💡

22. A book with the major theme of survival
📚Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George(Child in the Arctic Tundra) 🔵🎧🐉

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
📚How to Be a Normal Person (Both the author and the main character) 🔵 💻 🐉

24. A book with an emotion in the title
📚Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by 🔵🎧💡

25. A book related to the arts
📚My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (Manuscript Illustration)🟢 🎧🐉

26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards
📚Pumpkinheads (Winner, Best Graphic Novels & Comic Books)🔵💻🎨🐉

27. A history or historical fiction
📚The Cold War: A New History🔵🎧💡

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
📚Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese (Author is Canadian) 🔵🎧🐉

29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
📚Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom🔵🎧🐉↪️

30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
📚The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation (2019)🔵🎧💡

31. A book inspired by a leading news story
📚Human Acts by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith (Gwangju Uprising)🔵🎧🐉

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
📚After Dark by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin (Set in Tokyo)🔵🎧🐉3⭐

33. A book about a non-traditional family
📚The House with Chicken Legs (Grandmother raising granddaughter) 🔵💻🐉

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
📚Dog Songs (Poetry) 🔵🎧💡

35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
📚We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir🔵🎧💡

36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
📚The Day We Found the Universe 🔵🎧💡

37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
📚The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Fiction set in the Eastern Hemisphere in BCE times)🔵📕🐉

38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
📚The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasenberger (Non-Fiction set in the Western Hemisphere in CE times)🔵📕 💡

39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
📚Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys🔵📕🐉

40. A book with a place name in the title
📚Singapore Sapphire🔵🎧🐉

41. A mystery
📚The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer🔵🎧🐉

42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’
📚Interpreter of Maladies (The 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction)🔵🎧🐉


43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
📚Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death 🔵🎧💡

44. A book related to witches
📚The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco🔵🎧🐉

45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
📚The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson (I read We Have Always Lived in the Castle in 2018)🔵🎧💡

46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
📚A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War by Monte Reel ("U-2") 🔵🎧💡

47. A classic book you've always meant to read
📚Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson🔵🎧🐉

48. A book published in 2020
📚The Daughters of Ys by M.T. Anderson (Published August 2020)🔵💻🐉

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
📚Off Base by Annabeth Albert (5th Mini-Poll General: A book with a theme of discrimination, persecution or prejudice (eg. race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity) 🔵💻🐉

50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
📚It's Always the Husband by Michele Campbell🔵🎧🐉

51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
📚Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett🟢🎧💡

52. A book related to time
📚The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, translated by Erica Segre & Simon Carnell🔵🎧💡

Rejects

1st Mini-Poll: A book with a heart on the cover or in the title
📚Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad🔵🎧🐉

1st Mini-Poll: A book originally written in a language other than English or your mother tongue
📚The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy (Russian) 🔵💻🐉

1st Mini-Poll: A book related to the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell)
📚Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh (touch) 🔵💻🐉

1st Mini-Poll: A book with horses in the story or a horse on the cover
📚Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren🔵💻🐉

1st Mini-Poll: A book by an Irish author
📚Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer🔵🎧🐉

1st Mini-Poll: A dystopian novel
📚Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury🔵🎧🐉

1st Mini-Poll: A book with more than 20 letters in the title
📚We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie🔵🎧💡


2nd Mini-Poll: A book by a transgender author or by a transgender main character
📚Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia🔵🎧💡

2nd Mini-Poll: A book whose audiobook is read by the author
📚The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy🔵🎧💡

2nd Mini-Poll: A book found on a friend's TBR list
📚Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie🔵🎧💡

3rd Mini-Poll: A book about something that seems like a bad idea
📚The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer🔵🎧🐉

4th Mini-Poll: A winner of a foreign literary prize
📚The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide, translated by Eric Selland (Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award)🔵🎧🐉

4th Mini-Poll: A book with a title of 5 or more words
📚A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle🔵🎧🐉

4th Mini-Poll: A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T and Y
📚Wheels Up by Annabeth Albert🔵💻🐉

4th Mini-Poll: A book with a character that is a caregiver
📚At Attention by Annabeth Albert (Main Character is a babysitter)🔵💻🐉

6th Mini-Poll: A xenofiction
📚Animal Farm by George Orwell🔵🎧🐉

7th Mini-Poll: A book you’ve been meaning to read but haven’t gotten around to
📚The Witches by Roald Dahl🔵🎧🐉


9th Mini-Poll: A Book by an Australian author
📚The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 🔵🎧🐉

11th Mini-Poll: An audiobook
📚The Arctic Incident🔵🎧🐉

17th Mini-Poll: A book set in Asia
📚The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa (Korea)🔵📕🐉🎨

Update 9/9/2020: I've read 29/52 books and 1 reject. Most of this was done in July and August. From December 2019 to July 2020 I took a break from reading at the pace I normally do and only read a few books.
Right now I'm reading The Palace of Illusions, The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, and The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs.
I had wanted to read in order but that did not happen. Maybe next year.