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Allegra | 158 comments Here's to better bookkeeping in the New Year!


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Allegra | 158 comments MY 2022 LIST

1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y--Z For Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien / main character is Ann Burden, ironic given the title
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021--Puddin' by Julie Murphy / read Dumplin' last year
3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title--The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George / 22 letters
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list--Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne / "A book that honors Betty White": Not only does it showcase animals and imagination, but I can almost hear how great she would have been reading the book aloud
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name--It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover / hOOver

6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover--Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir by Liana Finck / see below
7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind--Mrs. March by Virginia Feito / tktktjTKTK
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1--Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters / Africa
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2--The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie / Europe

10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3--Bob by Wendy Mass / Australia
11. A book from historical fiction genre--Trust by Hernan Diaz / second MPG
12. A book related to glass--Fairest of All by Sarah Mlynowski / the glass mirror is kinda key to the story
13. A book about a woman in STEM--Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz / MC [Hazel] is a surgeon

14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads--83 Baumstrasse by Nasrin Namdar / had 44 ratings when I finished reading on April 15
15. A book without a person on the cover--The Stranger by Albert Camus / see below
16. A book related to Earth Day--Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood / from the Listopia list, to avoid spoilers
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge--The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author--The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata by Gina Apostol / author was born in Manila, the Philippines
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history--Finna by Nino Cipri / there are several alternate worlds in this series
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951--Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott / contemporary novel published in 1944
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover--Invisible Differences: A Story of Asperger's, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color by Julie Dachez / see dog, below
22. A book with a Jewish character or author--Let it Snow by tktktktwhich / character; North by Alan Zweibel / author

23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship--Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein / (view spoiler)
24. A book related to inclement weather--The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley / characters get snowed in at a lodge
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages--If I Stay by Gayle Forman / 196 pages
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1--Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen / WATER for elephants

27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2--A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park / a long walk to WATER
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards--Piranesi by Susanna Clarke / tktk
29. A book set on or near a body of water--The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner / when you're on Cape Cod, you're near water; this book is set on the bay
30. A book related to mythology--The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

31. A book published at least 10 years ago--Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. / published in 1973, so almost 50 years ago
32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer--The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
33. The next book in a series--Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine / I read Ogre Enchanted before this
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role--The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake / a medical student who attends classes and has an "internship" and one who is self-taught, with her father as a teacher involved with all of the above
35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1--No Judgments by Meg Cabot / FAUNA: after a major natural disaster, there are a lot of pets in need of care

36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2--This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan / FLORA: coffee plants, poppies, cacti, even a few growing tips
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name--The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab / thE invIsible life Of Addie larUe
38. A book by a Latin American author--Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero / author is Mexican American
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time--Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson / they're not ranked, but it's on there; well deserved

40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards--Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza / there is an EMPRESS card
41. A book with a theme of food or drink--Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala / book takes place in a coffee-dessert shop and a restaurant; bad part is an as-yet unsated desire for halo halo
42. A book with a language or nationality in the title--Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste by Luke Barr / AMERICAN is a nationality
43. A book set in a small town or rural area--Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart / takes place Upstate New York at a grouping of cabins intended as a motel/retreat
44. A book with gothic elements--Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P.D. James / not sure what to say here, but it's gothic to me

45. A book related to a game--The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis / "related to" is an understatement of this book's description of all the details of chess
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters--Manfried the Man by Caitlin Major / does the character need to speak?
47. A book with handwriting on the cover--A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi / see below
48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022--The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood / #46 on the list

49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"--Ogre Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine / there be, though relations aren't too volatile
50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years--Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto / she's trying to keep them golden
51. A book published in 2022--Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson / published April 5, 2022
52. A book with a time-related word in the title--The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor / the NIGHT masquerade

1 Z For Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien 2 Puddin' (Dumplin', #2) by Julie Murphy 3 The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George 4 Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1) by A.A. Milne 5 It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1) by Colleen Hoover 6 Passing for Human A Graphic Memoir by Liana Finck 7 Mrs. March by Virginia Feito 8 Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1) by Elizabeth Peters 9 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #3) by Agatha Christie
10 Bob by Wendy Mass 11 Trust by Hernan Diaz 12 Fairest of All (Whatever After, #1) by Sarah Mlynowski 13 Anatomy A Love Story by Dana Schwartz 14 83 Baumstrasse by Nasrin Namdar 15 The Stranger by Albert Camus 16 Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) by Margaret Atwood 17 The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) by N.K. Jemisin
18 The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata by Gina Apostol 19 Finna (LitenVerse, #1) by Nino Cipri 20 Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott 21 Invisible Differences A Story of Asperger's, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color by Julie Dachez 22 Let it Snow by John Green North by Alan Zweibel 23 Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein 24 The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
25 If I Stay (If I Stay, #1) by Gayle Forman 26 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 27 A Long Walk to Water Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park 28 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 29 The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner 30 The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1) by Pat Barker 31 Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 32 The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1) by Richard Osman
33 Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1) by Gail Carson Levine 34 The Girl in His Shadow (Nora Beady #1) by Audrey Blake 35 No Judgments (Little Bridge Island, #1) by Meg Cabot 36 This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan 37 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 38 Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero 39 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson 40 Empress of a Thousand Skies (Empress of a Thousand Skies, #1) by Rhoda Belleza
41 Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2) by Mia P. Manansala 42 Provence, 1970 M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste by Luke Barr 43 Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart 44 Sleep No More Six Murderous Tales by P.D. James 45 The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis 46 Manfried the Man by Caitlin Major 47 A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi 48 The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
49 Ogre Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #0.5) by Gail Carson Levine 50 Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto 51 Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson 52 The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) by Nnedi Okorafor


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Allegra | 158 comments COMPLETE!!!
And I got it posted before January! Now back to the holiday prep.


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