Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Here's to better bookkeeping in the New Year!

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)[unrequited, romantic, familial (hide 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

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