Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

THE 2023 LIST
1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y The Handsome Monk and Other Stories (Tibet) by Tsering Döndrup
2. A book by an author you read in 2022 Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Olivia Laing
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list Persuasion by Jane Austen
4. A book with an interracial relationship Another Country by James Baldwin
5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk

6. A book where books are important How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title What Maisie Knew by Henry James
8. An author's debut book The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan (Walter Scott Prize)

10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
11. A book about a person/character with a disability Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover Mao II by Don DeLillo

14. A book with a con, deception, or fake Trust by Hernan Diaz
15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1 Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2 A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro
17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

18. A book related to science An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
19. A book related to the arts Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun
20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Philippe Sands
21. A book by an Asian diaspora author Insurrecto by Gina Apostol
22. A book with a faceless person on the cover The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

23. A book with a body of water in the title The Sea by John Banville
24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy The Odyssey by Homer
25. A book with a tropical setting Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
26. A book related to pride The Secret To Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

27. A book by an author from continental Europe The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
28. A book that is dark How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
29. A book that is light To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
30. A book related to a chess piece Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall
31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com / Matrix by Lauren Groff

32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (Beirut)
33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923 Human Wishes by Robert Hass
34. A novella Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
35. A book with a school subject in the title New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani

36. A book that has been translated from another language Valerie; or, The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg
37. A book with the theme of returning home The Meat and Spirit Plan by Selah Saterstrom
38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
39. A western Inland by Téa Obreht

40. A book with a full name in the title Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter The Changeling by Victor LaValle
43. A book that involves a murder In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal The Best American Short Stories 2021 edited by Jesmyn Ward

45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe Oil on Water by Helon Habila
47. A book related to a geometric shape Harvard Square: A Love Story by Catherine J Turco
48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
51. A book published in 2023 Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm
52. A book with an unusual or surprising title Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle

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