Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

My 2023 plan is to do 6-8 challenges. I like listing them all in this ATY folder because it makes it easier to plan and update.

Right now I am for sure doing the following challenges: ATY, ATY reject, Popsugar, The 52 Book Club, HPOOTP, Read with the Book Girls

Books to find places for:

ATY 2023 (released 10/10/22)
52/52 (finished 8/7)

✔️A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y: How the Penguins Saved Veronica (52/BGG)
✔️ A book by an author you read in 2022: Happy Place (4/25) (52)
✔️ A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list (a book related to comedy): Secretly Yours
✔️A book with an interracial relationship: Get a Life, Chloe Brown (52)
✔️ A book with 4 or more colors on the cover: The Garden of Small Beginnings
✔️A book where books are important: People of the Book (HP/BGG)
✔️A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title: When You Get the Chance
✔️An author's debut book: Forever, Interrupted (PS)
✔️ A book nominated for an award beginning with W: The Marriage Portrait (HP)
✔️A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities": If We're Being Honest
✔️A book about a person/character with a disability: How Lucky
✔️A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies: Mad Honey (BGG)
✔️A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover: Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting (PS)
✔️ A book with a con, deception, or fake: Yellowface (5/25)
✔️ Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1: A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem
✔️ Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2: Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail
✔️Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3: Fever
✔️A book related to science: The Last Animal
✔️A book related to the arts: The Singing Trees (own)
✔️ A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel: Moonlight Road (#10)
✔️ A book by an Asian diaspora author: Banyan Moon
✔️ A book with a faceless person on the cover: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (PS)
✔️ A book with a body of water in the title: Wild Man Creek (#12) (own)
✔️A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy: Grant (PS/HP)
✔️ A book with a tropical setting: Float Plan (BGG)
✔️ A book related to pride: Autoboyography
✔️A book by an author from continental Europe: A Woman Like Her (own)
✔️ A book that is dark: The Soulmate
✔️ A book that is light: The Suite Spot
✔️ A book related to a chess piece: Girls and Their Horses (6/6)
✔️ A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com: Mad About You (PS)
✔️ A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature: Watermelon (52)
✔️ A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923: Lucy by the Sea
✔️A novella: Under One Roof (PS)
✔️ A book with a school subject in the title: The Chemistry of Love (own)
✔️ A book that has been translated from another language: Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café
✔️A book with the theme of returning home: Sunrise Point (#17)
✔️ A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover: Signal Fires
✔️ A western: Half Broke Horses
✔️ A book with a full name in the title: The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post (BGG)
✔️A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists: The Paris Apartment (own)
✔️A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter: The Dead Romantics (52)
✔️ A book that involves a murder: Encore in Death (2/9) (52)
✔️ A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal: The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett (HP/BGG)
✔️ A book whose author has published more than 7 books: Promise Canyon (#11)
✔️ A title that contains a word often found in a recipe: For Butter or Worse
✔️A book related to a geometric shape: Bet on It
✔️A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story: The Choice (52/HP)
✔️ A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023: Search
✔️ A second book that fits your favorite prompt: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water (52)
✔️A book published in 2023: All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir (2/21) (own)
✔️A book with an unusual or surprising title: Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun (BGG)

ATY Reject Challenge 2023 (released 10/10/22)
25/25 (finished 9/22)

✔️ A book connected to something you read in 2022: The Collected Regrets of Clover
✔️ A book with a two or three word title: Chaos Theory
✔️ A book involving an -ism: I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America (audio) (PS)
✔️A book with a character who has a career or hobby that interests you: Nora Goes Off Script (own)
✔️ A book that is inspired or pays homage to another story: When the Vibe Is Right (5/30)
✔️A book set in India or Pakistan: Best of Friends (BGG)
✔️A book with a main character who is an athlete: Out of His League (HP)
✔️ A work of fiction based on a real person or real event: Jacqueline in Paris (52/HP)
✔️ A book written by two or more authors: The True Love Experiment (5/16) (own)
✔️A book where faith is a major theme: Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself (own)
✔️A family saga: The Covenant of Water (HP)
✔️A book set in the 1920’s: The Second Life of Mirielle West (52/BGG)
✔️A book by an author who uses punctuation in their name: Congratulations, the Best is Over! by R. Eric Thomas
✔️A book by an author you feel you should have read by now: Our Souls at Night (audio) (52)
✔️A book by an author with a 2 syllable first name and a 3 syllable last name: Love, Theoretically
✔️ A book about healing: Return to Virgin River (#19) (own)
✔️A YA novel: Everything Sad Is Untrue (52)
✔️A romance novel: Would You Rather
✔️A book shelved as literary fiction: The Swimmers
✔️A magical realism book: This Time Tomorrow
✔️A book that could be used for at least 5 of the 2023 challenge prompts: Well Met
✔️ A book from your favorite sub-genre: Love & Other Disasters
✔️A book set during a holiday: Bring Me Home for Christmas (#14) (own)
✔️A book that is unlike what you usually read: Poverty, by America
✔️A book with a character who is an orphan: Any Other Family

Popsugar 2023 (released 12/1/22)
50/50 (finished 10/2)

✔️A book you meant to read in 2022: It Starts with Us (audio) (52)
✔️A book you bought from an independent bookstore: Meet Me in Another Life
✔️A book about a vacation: When in Rome
✔️A book by a first-time author: Forever, Interrupted (ATY)
✔️A book with mythical creatures: The Becoming (audio) (HP)
✔️A book about a forbidden romance: Seven Days in June (HP)
✔️A book with "Girl" in the title: Weather Girl
✔️A celebrity memoir: Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned (audio) (52)
✔️A book with a color in the title: I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America (audio) (ATYR)
✔️A romance with a fat lead: Take a Hint, Dani Brown (HP) (own)
✔️A book about or set in Hollywood: The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series
✔️A book published in spring 2023: The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise (3/28)
✔️A book published the year you were born: Where the Wild Things Are
✔️A modern retelling of a classic: Demon Copperhead (52/HP)
✔️A book with a song lyric as its title: Mad About You (ATY)
✔️A book where the main character's name is in the title: Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (HP)
✔️A book with a love triangle: Adult Assembly Required
✔️A book that's been banned or challenged in any state in 2022: The Poet X (ATY/52/HP)
✔️A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge: Off the Map
✔️A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023: An Offer From a Gentleman (own)
✔️A book set in the decade you were born: Watch Us Shine (own)
✔️A book with a queer lead: I Kissed Shara Wheeler (BGG)
✔️A book with a map: Call of the Penguins
✔️A book with a rabbit on the cover: Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
✔️A book with just text on the cover: This Time Tomorrow (52/BGG)
✔️The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list: Under One Roof (ATY)
✔️A #BookTok recommendation: The American Roommate Experiment (own)
✔️A book you bought secondhand: Redwood Bend (#16)
✔️A book your friend recommended: Magic Season: A Son's Story
✔️A book that's on a celebrity book-club list: The Light We Lost (52)
✔️A book about a family: Tom Lake
✔️A book that comes out in the second half of 2023: Kiss the Girl
✔️A book about an athlete/sport: One Jump at a Time: My Story (audio)
✔️A historical-fiction book: The Quintland Sisters (BGG)
✔️A book about divorce: Count the Ways
✔️A book you think your best friend would like: Hello Stranger (own) (52)
✔️A book you should have read in high school: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (ATY)
✔️A book you read more than 10 years ago: The Witness (own)
✔️A book you wish you could read for the first time again: The Night Circus (own)
✔️A book by an author with the same initials as you: The Summer Place
✔️A book written during NaNoWriMo: Fangirl (BGG)
✔️A book based on a popular movie: Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard (HP)
✔️A book that takes place entirely in one day: The Woman from Uruguay (BGG)
✔️A book that was self-published: Tales from my Yellow Room
✔️A book that started out as fan fiction: Carry On (audio) (HP)
✔️A book with a pet character: Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting (ATY)
✔️A book about a holiday that's not Christmas: Midnight Confessions (own)
✔️A book that features two languages: Tokyo Dreaming (52/HP/BGG)
✔️The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list: Grant (audio) (ATY/HP)
✔️A book with alliteration in the title: Practice Makes Perfect

The 52 Book Club
52/52 (finished 10/11)

✔️A book with a subtitle: Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies
✔️Featuring an inheritance: The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post (ATY)
✔️Title starting with the letter “G”: Georgie, All Along (own)
✔️ Title starting with the letter “H”: How the Penguins Saved Veronica (ATY/BGG)
✔️Title starting with the letter “I”: I Have Something to Tell You
✔️Under 200 pages: Stuck with You
✔️A city or country name in the title: Tokyo Dreaming (PS/HP/BGG)
✔️ Dystopian fiction: Our Missing Hearts
✔️A book with a dedication: The Spanish Love Deception
✔️Takes place during the roaring twenties: The Second Life of Mirielle West (ATYR/BGG)
✔️A book about secrets: Marmee
✔️High fantasy: The Choice (ATY, HP)
✔️Published posthumously: Our Souls at Night (audio) (ATYR)
✔️A survival story: River Sing Me Home
✔️ Set in Australia: The Dry (HP/BGG)
✔️ Featuring one of the “seven deadly sins”: Demon Copperhead (ATY/HP)
✔️By a Caribbean author: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water (ATY)
✔️ Set during a war other than WWI or WWII: The Fountains of Silence (HP)
✔️Typographic cover: This Time Tomorrow (PS/BGG)
✔️A book about siblings: Hello Beautiful
✔️A second-hand book: One Day
✔️ A body-positive message: Get a Life, Chloe Brown (ATY)
✔️An alliterative title: Summer Stage (5/23)
✔️ Nordic Noir: The Chestnut Man (audio)
✔️A fashionable character: Jacqueline in Paris (ATYR/HP)
✔️Has an epilogue: Well Traveled
✔️A Newbery Medal Winner: The Bridge to Terabithia (BGG)
✔️Includes a funeral: The Dead Romantics (ATY)
✔️ Sends you down a rabbit hole: When We Had Wings (HP)
✔️An author with the same name as you: The Light We Lost (PS)
✔️ Set in a workplace: Romantic Comedy
✔️ Published by Macmillan: Hello Stranger (own) (PS)
✔️ A banned book: The Poet X (ATY/PS/HP)
✔️ Featuring mythology: Everything Sad Is Untrue (ATYR/BGG)
✔️ A book you meant to read last year: It Starts with Us (audio) (PS)
✔️Chapters have cliffhangers: Wrong Place Wrong Time
✔️ Written in the present tense: Unfortunately Yours (own)
✔️ An enemies-to-lovers plot: For Butter or Worse (ATY)
✔️ The final book in a series: Act Your Age, Eve Brown (HP)
✔️Written by a comedian: Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned (audio) (PS)
✔️A character who is a refugee: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
✔️Time in the title: How to Stop Time
✔️A book “everyone” has read: Happy Place (ATY)
✔️A contemporary setting: Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
✔️First word in the book is “The”: Girls and their Horses
✔️ Script font on the spine: Before I Do
✔️ Set in the city of Dublin: Watermelon (ATY)
✔️A book by Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the Sower (HP)
✔️With books on the cover: The Library
✔️ Related to the word “murder”: Encore in Death (2/9) (ATY)
✔️Doesn’t fit any of the other 51 prompts: The Seven Year Slip
✔️Published in 2023: Play to Win

HPOOTP - The Quidditch Cup (released 10/11/22)
53/53 (finished 10/2)

✔️Involving a sport: Out of His League (ATYR)
✔️Set in a country you’ve never been to: The Fountains of Silence (52)
✔️ Set in nature: Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
✔️A historical fiction: The Spectacular
✔️Includes a magical creature: The Choice (ATY/52)
✔️ With a title including the letter Q: Jacqueline in Paris (ATYR/52)
✔️A book you think will knock your socks off: Talking at Night
✔️ A book with a golden aspect: The Half Moon
✔️ A book with ISBN# that includes 1, 5, and 0: Symphony of Secrets (4/18)
✔️Set or written before 2000: The Marriage Portrait (ATY)
✔️Set or written after 2001: Payback in Death (9/25) (own)
✔️Contains a special gift: Yours Truly
✔️ Set in winter: My Kind of Christmas (#18) (own)
✔️ Includes a character that wears glasses: The Chemistry of Love (ATY)
✔️A hard to catch book: The Covenant of Water (ATYR)
✔️Includes a competition: Smells Like Tween Spirit
✔️Includes a character you fell in love with: You've Been Volunteered
✔️ Includes a found family: The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett (ATY/BGG)
✔️Set in the British Isles: The Lost Ticket (BGG)
✔️Related to archery: The Becoming (audio) (PS)
✔️ A regency era book: To Have and to Hoax
✔️Includes a battle: The Awakening
✔️Includes a group of strong females: Banyan Moon
✔️ Related to the LGBTQIA+ Community: For Her Consideration
✔️ With multiple points of view: No Two Persons
✔️Includes a weather event: The Dry (52/BGG)
✔️ Includes travel or adventure: Lost and Found in Paris
✔️ Includes a celebration: The Celebrants (5/16)
✔️Related to Gryffindor house/traits: Grant (ATY/PS)
✔️Related to Hufflepuff house/traits: Act Your Age, Eve Brown (52)
✔️ Related to Ravenclaw house/traits: Below Zero
✔️Related to Slytherin house/traits: Identity (own)
✔️Includes a celebrity: Greenlights
✔️Includes a fanatical character: Seven Days in June (PS)
✔️Written by a BIPOC author: Drunk on Love
✔️ Includes a character who gets cursed: Only the Beautiful
✔️ Written by a female author: Once More with Feeling
✔️Read a duology #1: Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (PS)
✔️Read a duology #2: Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble
✔️ A poetry book: The Poet X (ATY/PS/52)
✔️ Written by an Asian or AAPI author: Late Bloomers
✔️Involves a fire: Parable of the Sower (52)
✔️Includes vampires: Carry On (audio) (PS)
✔️ With a character who speaks a different language: Chef's Choice
✔️A book who has a large fandom following: Hidden Summit (#15)
✔️ Contains royalty: Tokyo Dreaming (PS/52/BGG)
✔️Related to the sea: Moti on the Water
✔️Includes misdirection: Take a Hint, Dani Brown (PS) (own)
✔️ A book that’s taken you a long time to read: People of the Book (BGG)
✔️ Contains a character with a vice: Demon Copperhead (52)
✔️With a body part on the cover: Waypoints: My Scottish Journey (audio)
✔️Written by multiple authors: When We Had Wings
✔️ A book that mentions Harry Potter: Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard (PS)

Reading with the Book Girls
Read Around the USA
12/12 (finished 7/14)

✔️ Set in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont: Mad Honey (ATY)
✔️Set in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming: Better Than Fiction
✔️Set in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee: I Kissed Shara Wheeler (PS)
✔️ Set in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Olga Dies Dreaming
✔️ Set in Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska: Fangirl (PS)
✔️ Set in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania: The Sweet Spot (1/31)
✔️Set in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas: All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
✔️ Set in California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington: Delilah Green Doesn't Care
✔️Books with characters traveling across state lines: Something Wild & Wonderful
✔️Set in Alaska, Idaho, North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota: Happy Place
✔️Set in North Carolina, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia: Well Matched
✔️Set in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin: Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club (4/18)

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Book Voyage: Read Around the World
12/12 (finished 6/24)

✔️ Arctic and Antarctica: How the Penguins Saved Veronica (ATY/52)
✔️Western Europe: The Lost Ticket (HP)
✔️Africa: Orange for the Sunsets
✔️ Set on an island: Float Plan (ATY)
✔️Eastern Europe and Russia: People of the Book (HP)
✔️Australia and New Zealand: The Dry (52/HP)
✔️Southern Asia: Best of Friends (ATYR)
✔️ Northern Asia: Tokyo Dreaming (PS/52/HP)
✔️ Traveling on transportation: The Circus Train
✔️Middle East: Everything Sad Is Untrue (ATYR/52)
✔️ North America: Harvest Moon (#13) (own)
✔️South America: The Woman from Uruguay (PS)

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Decades Reading Challenge
12/12 (finished 8/20)

✔️Set in the 1880’s-1890’s: The Engineer's Wife (own)
✔️ Set in the 1900’s-1910’s: The Porcelain Moon (2/21)
✔️ Set in the 1920’s: The Second Life of Mirielle West (ATYR/52)
✔️ Set in the 1930’s: The Quintland Sisters (PS)
✔️ Set in the 1940’s: When We Had Wings
✔️ Set in the 1950’s: Recipe for a Perfect Wife
✔️ Set in the 1960’s: The Secret Book of Flora Lea
✔️Set in the 1970’s: The Singing Trees
✔️ Set in the 1980’s: The Prettiest Star
✔️Set in the 1990’s: This Time Tomorrow (52)
✔️ Set in the 2000’s-2010’s: Well Played
✔️Spanning multiple decades: The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post (ATY)

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Lifetime of Reading Challenge
12/12 (finished 9/3)

✔️Child protagonists (under 12): The Bridge to Terabithia (52)
✔️ Teen years (13-19): I Must Betray You
✔️Characters in their 20’s: The Neighbor Favor
✔️ Characters in their 30’s: The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything
✔️Characters in their 40’s: Class Mom
✔️Characters in their 50’s: Yoga Pant Nation
✔️Characters in their 60’s: Julie and Romeo
✔️Characters in their 70’s: Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun (ATY)
✔️ Characters in their 80’s: The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett (ATY/HP)
✔️ Characters in their 90’s-100’s: The Book of Charlie
✔️Characters aging through the book: A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th-Century France
✔️ Books that connect generations: The Vibrant Years (own)

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