Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

As always I'll be having some options for every prompt. Let's do this !!!

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THE 2020 LIST
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January
(✓) A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y:
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

(✓) A book by an author whose last name is one syllable:
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

(✓) A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019:
Continue a series The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

(✓) A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

() The first book in a series that you have not started:
1.- Red Rising
or
2.- Vampire Academy


February
() A book with a mode of transportation on the cover:
1.- Falling into Place
or
2.- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

() A book set in the southern hemisphere:
1.- Like Water for Chocolate
or
2.- Chronicle of a Death Foretold

() A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The":
1.- The Nightingale
or
2.- The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
or
3.-The Exorcist

() A book that can be read in a day:
1.- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
or
2.- The Ocean at the End of the Lane


March
() A book that is between 400-600 pages:
1.- A Game of Thrones
or
2.- The Hate U Give
or
3.- Warcross

() A book originally published in a year that is a prime number:
1.- Little Fires Everywhere
or
2.- Flowers in the Attic

() A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people:
1.- Let it Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle
or
2.- What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

() A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge (Link):
1.- 2017 challenge 35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty: Red Queen
or
2.- 2018 challenge A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link):
A book picked off your TBR by a family member or a friend: : Given to the Sea

() A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link):
1.- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
or
2.- Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


April
() A book set in a global city:
1.- Crazy Rich Asians
or
2.- Big Little Lies

() A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area:
1.- The Martian
or
2.- The Help

() A book with a neurodiverse character:
1.- History Is All You Left Me
or
2.- Challenger Deep
or
3.- Eliza and Her Monsters

() A book by an author you've only read once before:
1.- The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace
or
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May
(✓) A fantasy book:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

(✓) The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]:
on my TBR : En llamas by Suzanne Collins En llamas

() A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720:
1.- Cinder

() A book with the major theme of survival:
1.- The Maze Runner
or
2.- Emma in the Night


June
() A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author:
1.- The Song of Achilles
or
2.- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
or
3.- The Miseducation of Cameron Post

() A book with an emotion in the title:
1.- Pride and Prejudice
or
2.- More Happy Than Not

() A book related to the arts:
1.- The Goldfinch
or
2.- The Poet X

() A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards:
1.- The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
or
2.- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

() A history or historical fiction:
1.- The Book Thief
or
2.- The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue


July
() A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author:
1.- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
or
2.- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

() An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book:
1.- Dangerous Girls
or
2.- The Unseen World

() A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year:
1.- The Power
or
Before the Fall

() A book inspired by a leading news story:
1.- 11/22/63
or
2.- We Need to Talk About Kevin


August
() A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan:
1.- You Will Know Me
or
2.- Swimming Lessons

() A book about a non-traditional family:
1.- The Graveyard Book
or
2.- To Kill a Mockingbird

() A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name:
1.- New adult Easy
or
2.- Fallen Too Far by

() A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover:
1.- The Wrath and the Dawn
or
2.- The Woman in the Window


September
() A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim:
1.- Fake Boobs by Ryan Ringbloom (don't remember lol)
or
2.- Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden

() Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
short/long
1.- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

() Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
short/long
1.- Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

() A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce:
1.- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
or
2.- Sex Criminals: Volume One: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky


October
() A book with a place name in the title:
1.- The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
or
2.- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

() A mystery:
1.- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
or
2.- The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

() A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ (link):
1.- The Dinner by Herman Koch
or
2.- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

() A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse:
1.- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
or
2.- The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

() A book related to witches:
1.- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
or
2.- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
or
3.- The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert


November
() A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018:
1.- The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
or
2.- The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

() A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire":
1.- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
or
2.- Psycho by Robert Bloch

() A classic book you've always meant to read:
1.- 1984 by George Orwell
or
2.- Dracula by Bram Stoker

() A book published in 2020:
1.- If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
or
2.-

December
() A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win (link):
1.- A book set on an island Nil
or
2.- A duology Anna Dressed in Blood and Girl of Nightmares

() A book with a silhouette on the cover:
1.- Wolf by Wolf
or
2.- The Wedding Date

() A book with an "-ing" word in the title:
1.- The Shining by
or
2.- One of Us Is Lying

() A book related to time:
1.- A Wrinkle in Time
or
2.- The Last Time We Say Goodbye

This list is created by the group members, after suggestions and votes.