Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Starting this a bit late as I forgot about this challenge until a few weeks ago. We'll see how much I can get through...

And I finished just in time!

2022 READING STATS:

Male Author = 33
Female Author = 19

Fiction = 45
Non Fiction = 7

Ratings
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ = 0
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ = 26
⭐️⭐️⭐️ = 21
⭐️⭐️ = 5
⭐️ = 0

📕 = 23
🎧 = 29

Total Read: 52/52


2022 ATY LIST:

✅ 1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y:
📕 Stardust - Neil Gaiman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021:
📕 The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemison (same author) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title:
🎧 The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list:
🎧 Hyperion - Dan Simmons (Hugo Award) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name:
📕 Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover:
🎧 Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

✅ 7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind:
📕 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1:
📕 Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (Africa) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2:
🎧 At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft (Antarctica) ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3:
🎧 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Europe) ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 11. A book from historical fiction genre:
🎧 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 12. A book related to glass:
📕 Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger ⭐️⭐️

✅ 13. A book about a woman in STEM:
🎧 To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads:
📕 Bloodchild - Octavia E. Butler ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 15. A book without a person on the cover:
📕 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 16. A book related to Earth Day:
📕 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Elizabeth Kolbert

✅ 17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge:
🎧 Piranesi - Susanna Clarke ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author:
🎧 The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin ⭐️⭐️

✅ 19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history:
🎧 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951:
🎧 The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover:
🎧 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 22. A book with a Jewish character or author:
🎧 Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 23. A book that features a loving LGBTQIA+ relationship:
🎧 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 24. A book related to inclement weather:
🎧 Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages:
📕 All Systems Red - Martha Wells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1:
📕 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2:
📕 The Girl with All the Gifts - M. R. Carey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards:
📕 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 29. A book set on or near a body of water:
🎧 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas ⭐️⭐️

✅ 30. A book related to mythology:
🎧 The Odyssey - Homer ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 31. A book published at least 10 years ago:
📕 Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer:
🎧 The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 33. The next book in a series:
🎧 The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role:
🎧 Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1:
📕 The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World - Peter Wohlleben ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2:
🎧 The Call of the Wild - Jack London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name:
🎧 A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 38. A book by a Latin American author:
📕 Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado Pérez ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time:
🎧 The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards:
📕 And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (Justice) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 41. A book with a theme of food or drink:
📕 How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease - Michael Greger ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 42. A book with a language or nationality in the title:
📕 The Quiet American - Graham Greene ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 43. A book set in a small town or rural area:
🎧 Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery ⭐️⭐️

✅ 44. A book with gothic elements:
📕 The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Angela Carter ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 45. A book related to a game:
📕 Ready Player One - Ernest Cline ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters:
🎧 The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 47. A book with handwriting on the cover:
🎧 Coraline - Neil Gaiman

✅ 48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022:
🎧 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons":
📕 Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years:
📕 The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 51. A book published in 2022:
🎧 The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi ⭐️⭐️

✅ 52. A book with a time-related word in the title:
🎧 The Midnight Library - Matt Haig ⭐️⭐️⭐️

ATY 2022 Book Collage (in order read)

BEST OF THE YEAR



1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
2. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
3. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
4. The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
5. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie



6. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
7. The Girl With All the Gifts - M. R. Carey
8. Bloodchild - Octavia E. Butler
9. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
10. Hyperion - Dan Simmons