Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

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✔ 1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y :
Le ghetto intérieur(The Ghetto Within) by Santiago H. Amigorena - Argentina

✔ 2. A book by an author you read in 2022 :
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

✔ 3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list :
Babel by R.F. Kuang - Linguistics

✔ 4. A book with an interracial relationship :
Ne m'appelle pas capitaine by Lyonel Trouillot

✔ 5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover :
Literary Murder by Batya Gour

✔ 6. A book where books are important :
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

✔ 7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title :
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant

✔ 8. An author's debut book :
Assembly by Natasha Brown

✔ 9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W :
Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile) by Scholastique Mukasonga - Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" :
✔ Beartown by Fredrik Backman - sporty
✔ The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray - posh
✔ Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz - scary
✔ The Duke and I by Julia Quinn - baby
✔ Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - ginger

✔11. A book about a person/character with a disability :
The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton

✔ 12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies :
The Long Call by Ann Cleeves

✔ 13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover :
Reading the Ceiling by Dayo Forster

✔ 14. A book with a con, deception, or fake :
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

✔ 15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1 :
La guerre des paysans by Gérard Mordillat and Éric Liberge

✔ 16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2 :
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn

✔ 17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3 :
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

✔18. A book related to science :
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavitt

✔ 19. A book related to the arts :
Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants (Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants) by Mathias Énard

✔ 20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel :
L'Empereur à pied by Charif Majdalani

✔ 21. A book by an Asian diaspora author :
Ru by Kim Thúy

✔ 22. A book with a faceless person on the cover :
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

✔ 23. A book with a body of water in the title :
Indian Creek by Pete Fromm

✔ 24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy :
An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole

✔ 25. A book with a tropical setting :
Cocoaïans by Gauz

✔ 26. A book related to pride :
Le Tigre des Neiges 6 by Akiko Higashimura

✔ 27. A book by an author from continental Europe :
Le mage du Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli

✔ 28. A book that is dark :
Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit (I Remain in Darkness) by Annie Ernaux

✔ 29. A book that is light :
Assassination classroom, Tome 1 by Yūsei Matsui

✔ 30. A book related to a chess piece :
Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots by Nancy Goldstone

✔ 31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com :
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (Jane Austen)

✔ 32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature :
Die fremde Stadt: Breslau nach 1945 (Uprooted: How Breslau Became Wroclaw During the Century of Expulsions) by Gregor Thum

✔ 33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923 :
Les montagnards de la nuit by Roger Frison-Roche

✔ 34. A novella :
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
Roman d'un berger by Ernst Wiechert

✔ 35. A book with a school subject in the title :
Geschichte der deutschen Literatur by Manfred Mai

✔ 36. A book that has been translated from another language :
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

✔ 37. A book with the theme of returning home :
Alpine Ballad by Vasil Bykaŭ

✔ 38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover :
Bewilderment by Richard Powers

✔ 39. A western :
Open Season by C.J. Box

✔ 40. A book with a full name in the title :
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

✔ 41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists :
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

✔ 42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter :
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

✔ 43. A book that involves a murder :
A Better Man by Louise Penny

✔ 44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal :
Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman

✔ 45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books :
Le Fils du dieu de l'Orage by Arto Paasilinna

✔ 46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe :
Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

✔ 47. A book related to a geometric shape :
Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan

✔ 48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story :
L'amas ardent (The Ardent Swarm) by Yamen Manai

✔ 49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 :
Recitatif by Toni Morrison

✔ 50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt : A book by an author you read in 2022 :
All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny

✔ 51. A book published in 2023 :
Spirou dans la tourmente de la Shoah, ed. by Didier Pasamonik

✔ 52. A book with an unusual or surprising title :
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems by Warsan Shire

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