Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

52/52 completed -- And that's a wrap!
✅ Week 1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y: A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute 1/1/23
✅ Week 2. A book by an author you read in 2022: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn 1/5/23
✅ Week 3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the list this year: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy 1/8/23
✅ Week 4. A book with an interracial relationship: The Songbook of Benny Lament by Amy Harmon 1/10/23
✅ Week 5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover: The Candy House by Jennifer Egan 1/14/23
✅ Week 6. A book where books are important: The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles 1/21/21
✅ Week 7. A book with one of the five "W" question words in the title : What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris 2/7/23
✅ Week 8. An author's debut book: Cover Her Face by P.D. James 2/13/23
✅ Week 9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W: Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith 3/14/23
✅ Week 10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities": Bases to Bleachers: A Collection of Personal Baseball Stories from the Stands and Beyond by Eric C. Gray 3/19/23
✅ Week 11. A book about a person/character with a disability: The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni 3/25/23
✅ Week 12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies: The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia 4/8/23
✅ Week 13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover: Apeirogon by Colum McCann 4/12/23
✅ Week 14. A book with a con, deception, or fake: Homecoming by Kate Morton 4/27/23
✅ Week 15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century #1 (19th century): The Gilded Age by Mark Twain 4/28/23
✅ Week 16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century #2 (18th century): A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon 4/29/23
✅ Week 17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century #3 (15th Century]: Joan by Katherine J. Chen 5/15/23
✅ Week 18. A book related to science: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 5/29/23
✅ Week 19. A book related to the arts: Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes 6/3/23
✅ Week 20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel: Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick 6/28/23
✅ Week 21. A book by an Asian diaspora author: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 7/8/23
✅ Week 22. A book with a faceless person on the cover: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo 7/15/23
✅ Week 23. A book with a body of water in the title: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 7/24/23
✅ Week 24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 7/26/23
✅ Week 25. A book with a tropical setting: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 7/31/23
✅ Week 26. A book related to pride: The Guncle by Steven Rowley 8/3/23
✅ Week 27. A book by an author from continental Europe: The Son and Heir: A Memoir by Alexander Münninghoff 8/5/23
✅ Week 28. A book that is dark: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 8/16/23
✅ Week 29. A book that is light: Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan 8/19/23
✅ Week 30. A book related to a chess piece: Rook by T.K. Eldridge 8/25/23
✅ Week 31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende 8/27/23
✅ Week 32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 8/29/23
✅ Week 33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923: The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict 8/31/23
✅ Week 34. A novella: Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid 9/2/23
✅ Week 35. A book with a school subject in the title: A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw 9/8/23
✅ Week 36. A book that has been translated from another language: The Bat by Jo Nesbø 9/10/23
✅ Week 37. A book with the theme of returning home: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng 9/16/23
✅ Week 38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover: Atalanta by Jennifer Saint 9/20/23
✅ Week 39. A western: Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt 9/24/23
✅ Week 40. A book with a full name in the title: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 10/2/23
✅ Week 41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 10/4/23
✅ Week 42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter: The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton 10/9/23
✅ Week 43. A book that involves a murder: Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie 10/14/23
✅ Week 44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal: The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange 10/22/23
✅ Week 45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books: The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones 10/22/23
✅ Week 46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe: Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile 10/26/23
✅ Week 47. A book related to a geometric shape: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead 10/31/23
✅ Week 48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 11/5/23
✅ Week 49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023: Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci 11/6/23
✅ Week 50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt: Watership Down by Richard Adams 11/16/23
✅ Week 51. A book published in 2023: Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See 11/18/23
✅ Week 52. A book with an unusual or surprising title: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko 11/20/23

The Guncle is such a good book.
Good Luck in the New Year

Thank you, Anastasia. Good luck to you as well!

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Updated through 8/21/23

Updated through 9/21/23

I’m impressed w anyone who can read this challenge in order! Looks like we have similar tastes in reading. You have 3 books coming up that I def recommend- Demon Copperhead, Metamorphosis (perfect book for that prompt) and Fairy Tale (I’ve only read the first half so far but it’s really good). Good luck w and enjoy the rest of the year’s reading!

Pam wrote: "I’m impressed w anyone who can read this challenge in order! Looks like we have similar tastes in reading. You have 3 books coming up that I def recommend- Demon Copperhead, Metamorphosis (perfect ..."

Thank you, Pam. Good luck with the rest of your reading this year as well.