Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Completed: 34/52

JANUARY
✔ 1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y: Guards! Guards!
2. A book by an author you read in 2022: Harlem Shuffle
✔ 3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list: The Sting: The Undercover Operation That Caught Daniel Morcombe’s Killer (Book by an author no more than two degrees of separation from you)
✔ 4. A book with an interracial relationship: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
✔ 5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover: The Whispered Word

FEBRUARY
✔ 6. A book where books are important: The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams
7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title:
✔ 8. An author's debut book: The Thursday Murder Club
9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W: The Dictionary of Lost Words

MARCH
✔ 10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities": Not all Black and White. Scott Hodges' life in Football and how it almost ended
11. A book about a person/character with a disability: ADHD According to Zoë: The Real Deal on Relationships, Finding Your Focus, and Finding Your Keys or Lucky Man
12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies: Rabbits
13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover: Brave New World

APRIL
✔ 14. A book with a con, deception, or fake: Breaking the Spell by Jane Stork
✔ 15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1 The Fiancée Farce (21st Century)
✔ 16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2: Kisses for Jet (20th Century)
✔ 17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3: The Dark Age (6th Century)
✔ 18. A book related to science: Making Dogs Happy: The expert guide to being your dog's best friend

MAY
✔ 19. A book related to the arts: The White Album
✔ 20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel: Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins
✔ 21. A book by an Asian diaspora author: An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King
✔ 22. A book with a faceless person on the cover: The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

JUNE
23. A book with a body of water in the title:
✔ 24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy: Underground
25. A book with a tropical setting:
✔ 26. A book related to pride: Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner's Strike by Tim Tate

JULY
✔ 27. A book by an author from continental Europe: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
✔ 28. A book that is dark: Trail of Lightning
✔ 29. A book that is light: Life, the Universe and Everything
30. A book related to a chess piece
31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com: Small Gods

AUGUST
32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature: Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
✔ 33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
✔ 34. A novella: Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote
35. A book with a school subject in the title: Lessons in Chemistry

SEPTEMBER
36. A book that has been translated from another language: The Odyssey
✔ 37. A book with the theme of returning home: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
✔ 38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
✔ 39. A western: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

OCTOBER
✔ 40. A book with a full name in the title: The Liberation of Brigid Dunne
✔ 41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists: Daisy Jones & The Six
✔ 42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter: The Book of Candlelight
✔ 43. A book that involves a murder: It's a Wonderful Woof by Spencer Quinn
✔ 44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal: The Long Con by Dylan Meconis

NOVEMBER
✔ 45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
47. A book related to a geometric shape
✔ 48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

DECEMBER
49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
✔ 50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt: The Bullet That Missed (Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy)
51. A book published in 2023
✔ 52. A book with an unusual or surprising title: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone