Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

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DECEMBER

1. Winter
✅a. Read a book with a title beginning with a letter in WINTER (you can use or ignore a, an or the)
Well Traveled by Jen DeLuca - Dec. 14th
✅b. Read a book with snow, snowflakes or a snowman on the cover OR a book with a person wearing winter clothing (scarf, hat, warm coat etc) on the cover.
Head Over Heels by Jill Shalvis - Dec. 21st

✅c. Read a book that is between 89 and 128 pages long (you can ignore the 100 page requirement for this task).
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling - Dec. 29th
105 pages.

2. December birthdays: Jane Austen
✅a. Read a book written by a female author.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry - Dec. 12th
✅b. Read a novel set in the 19th century.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - Dec. 30th
✅c. Read a romance novel.
The Backup Plan by Jill Shalvis - Jan. 27th

3. The Holidays
✅a. Read a book related to a holiday that happens in December.
One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews - Jan. 9th
✅b. Read a book that has one of the gifts referred to in The Twelve Days of Christmas shown on its cover. (Bird on cover)
The Stolen Heir by Holly Black - Jan. 24th

✅c. Read a book that features a family gathering.
The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire - Dec. 31st

4. Winter sports: yukigassen
✅a. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in YUKIGASSEN.
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman - Dec. 5th
✅b. Read a book in a series that is at least 7 books long
The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire - Dec. 29th
✅c. Read a book set in a country where yukigassen is played (Japan, Armenia, Canada, China, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, or Slovakia).
Canadian Pie by Will Ferguson - Dec. 15th
Canada & Japan

JANUARY

1. Happy New Year!
✅a. Read a book by an author who is new to you.
The Stone Collection by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm - Dec. 16th
🃏b. Read a book from a genre that is new to you.
✅b. Read a book from a new to you series.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - Feb. 23rd
✅c. Read a book in which all the words in the title have the same number of letters
Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews - Jan. 3rd

2. January birthdays: Haruki Murakami
✅a. Read a book set in Japan.
Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Dec. 8th
✅b. Read a book that features a cat in some way.
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood - Dec. 9th
✅c. Read a magical realism novel.
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro & Cornelia Funke - Jan. 11th

3. New Year Resolutions
✅a. Read a book where the first letter of each word in the title can be found in NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS (three words minimum)
Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire - Dec. 30th
✅b. Read a book that looks into the past or a book that looks into the future.
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Dec. 12th
✅c. Read a book that will help you keep one of your New Year resolutions OR if you don’t make resolutions then read a book related to one of the top ten New Year's resolutions. Tell us what your resolution is when recording this task as completed.
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo - Dec. 18th
I finished the 2022 Popsugar challenge.

4. Winter sports: bobsleigh
✅a. Read a book set mostly in a location that begins with a letter in SWITZERLAND.
Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell - Dec. 2nd
Space
✅b. Read a book in which a conflict between characters is a major part of the plot. Tell us what the conflict was (using spoiler tags if necessary) when recording the task as completed.
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia by Natasha Lance Rogoff - Jan. 15th
✅c. Read a book that is fast-paced.
Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews - Jan. 8th

FEBRUARY

1. Valentine’s Day
✅a. Read a book with MPG of Romance.
The Summer Deal by Jill Shalvis - Dec. 7th
✅b. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in VALENTINE’S DAY.
Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews - Dec. 19th
c. Read a book written in or set in the Medieval period (usually defined as the 5th to 15th centuries).

2. February birthdays: Laura Ingalls Wilder
a. Read a book set in the American midwest.
✅b. Read a novel that features the wilderness.
Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell - Dec. 24th
✅c. Read a coming of age story.
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo - Feb. 5th

3. Winter sports: Ski jumping
✅a. Read a book that is at least 253 pages long.
Mad About You by Mhairi McFarlane - Jan. 2nd
416 pages
✅b. Read a book published in a year in which the Winter Olympics took place (1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022)
The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy by Paul Myers - Feb. 1st
✅c. Read a non-linear narrative.
The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie M. Liu - Dec. 11th

4. The Shortest Month of the Year
✅a. Read a literary fiction novel.
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich - Jan. 29th
✅b. Read a book that features a ghost.
God Isn't Here Today by Francine Cunningham - Dec. 3rd
✅c. Read a book that starts with a letter in the word SHORT
Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire - Dec. 4th

Books that don't fit

Sweep with Me by Ilona Andrews - Dec. 21st
The Heartstopper Yearbook by Alice Oseman - Dec. 27th
Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen - Jan. 3rd
The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl by Melanie Chisholm - Jan. 5th
In Mercy, Rain by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 6th
Is This A Cookbook?: Adventures in the Kitchen by Heston Blumenthal - Jan. 13th
Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews - Jan. 14th
Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz - Jan. 18th
A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 22nd
The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay - Jan. 22nd
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion by Louise Willder - Jan. 24th
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - Jan. 25th
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson - Jan. 25th
Shakespeare: Sonnets by William Shakespeare - Jan. 26th
About That Kiss by Jill Shalvis - Jan. 28th
When Sorrows Come by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 30th
Lucky in Love by Jill Shalvis - Feb. 5th
The Mother of All Degrassi: A Memoir by Linda Schuyler - Feb. 6th
Deadly Class, Volume 12: A Fond Farewell, Part Two by Rick Remender - Feb. 8th
And When She Opened the Closet, All The Clothes Were Polyester: A FoxTrot Collection by Bill Amend - Feb. 10th
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo - Feb. 11th
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon - Feb. 12th
Hospital Station by James White - Feb. 14th
Star Surgeon by James White - Feb. 16th
Bunnicula by James Howe & Deborah Howe - Feb. 16th
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington - Feb. 18th
Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews - Feb. 19th
Zero's Journey by D.J. Milky - Feb. 20th
Major Operation by James White - Feb. 21st
Norse Mythology, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman - Feb 22nd
Norse Mythology, Vol. 2 by Neil Gaiman - Feb 22nd
Is There Bacon in Heaven?: A Memoir by Ali Hassan - Feb. 24th
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe - Feb. 27th