Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

ATY 2025 PLAN - COMPLETED BOOKS

Round 1 - 52/52 completed !!!!
Round 2 - 52/52 completed !!!!
Anniversary -10/10 completed
Unassigned -
Rejected prompt challenge - 20+ (w overlaps)
2016 - 33 /36 (w overlaps)

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THE 52 TOPICS OF THE 2025 ATY READING CHALLENGE

✅1. A book with a cover that has an image of something that starts with A, T, or Y
1️⃣Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
2️⃣City of the Lost trees

✅2. A prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list -
1️⃣Revolution- Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
2️⃣ A book that involves migration - A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

✅3. A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song -
1️⃣ The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen, reindeer
2️⃣A Drop in the Ocean -by Jenni Ogden drop of golden sun
Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds (multiweek)

✅4. A book set underground, under sea or in an underworld
1️⃣Pod by Laline Paull
2️⃣The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

✅5. A book with a weird or intriguing title
1️⃣ Drunk on All Your Strange New Words, by Eddie Robson
2️⃣The Unbearable Lightness of Being

✅6. A book with a serpentine element on the cover -
1️⃣Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley.
2️⃣The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich


✅7. A book by an author that uses 3 names
1️⃣The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
2️⃣Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel

✅8. A collection of short stories or novellas, essays, poetry , or a mix of various brief writings
2️⃣The Berlin Stories byChristopher Isherwood
1️⃣The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Olive, Again byElizabeth Strout
Vesper Flights
The History of Sound - also 9, 25

✅9. A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year
1️⃣Playground by Richard Powers
2️⃣Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay
Olive, Again byElizabeth Strout
A Tale for the Time Being
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Dept. of Speculation
The Wedding People
Margo's Got Money Troubles #36

✅10. A book about witches, goddesses or nuns
1️⃣The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
2️⃣Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

✅11. A book set in a fictional location -
1️⃣Exit Strategy
2️⃣Fugitive Telemetry

✅12. A book by an Irish author
1️⃣Long Island by Colm Toibin
2️⃣Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

✅13. A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family
1️⃣Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station by Dorothy Gilman
2️⃣Orbital by Samantha Harvey
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn 2025
My Friends by Fredrick Backman
Good Morning, Midnight

✅14. A science fiction or fantasy novel written by a woman
1️⃣Network Effect by Martha Wells
2️⃣The Night Masquerade
The Book Censor's Library
Good Morning, Midnight

✅15. A book of secrets, lies, or deception
1️⃣The Mechanics of Memory
2️⃣Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht
Real Americans by Rachel Chong
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

✅16. A book that fits a prompt from the 2016 ATY list —- see message 9
1️⃣ The Book Censor's Library -books about books
2️⃣The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It by Corey Brettschneider - nonfiction

✅17. A history or historical fiction book set prior to 1925
2️⃣The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1️⃣James
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon 17,1,
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

✅ 18. A book set primarily in nature
1️⃣The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica byNaira de Gracia
2️⃣The Puma Years
Wild Dark Shore (51)
Girl in Ice

✅19. A book with a cover that has a building or cityscape
1️⃣From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L,Konigsburg
2️⃣A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

✅20. A book with an animal, vegetable (plant), or mineral in the title.
1️⃣ Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
2️⃣Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

✅21. A book connected in some way to any collective noun for animals
1️⃣Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton
2️⃣Mozart's Starling, by :Lyanda Lynn Haupt,

✅22. A translated novel from Asia
1️⃣The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
2️⃣Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

✅23. A book that involves art, music, dancing or acting
1️⃣Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
2️⃣Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston
My Friends by Fredrick Backman
Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay
The Original by Nell Steven’s

✅24. A book with a main character who is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, or a criminal
1️⃣The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
2️⃣Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson, athlete, basket case, criminal

✅25. A book with waves on the cover
1️⃣ The Wedding People by Alison Espach
2️⃣The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
Wild dark shore
Summer of '69


✅26. A book by an author with a common noun in their name
1️⃣Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha by Dorothy Gilman “man”
2️⃣ Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists by Tracy Walder “alder”

✅27. A book set in the winter
1️⃣Girl in Ice by Erika Ferencik
2️⃣Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Last Night in Montreal - Quebec anniversary

✅28. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles: Book 1
✅29. Two books with a pair of opposites in their titles: Book 2
Round1: dark v light
1️⃣Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
1️⃣ The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Round 2: life/ death
2️⃣The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists by Tracy Walder
2️⃣ Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorofor

✅30. A monster book -
1️⃣Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline (Rougarou)
2️⃣Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Aty 2025 plan completed books
31-52

✅31. A book with a coastal setting 🌸 10+
1️⃣On the Beach by Nevil Shute
2️⃣Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un cuento de Puerto Rico
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming
Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand
Playground
Girl in Ice
The Light Pirate
The Wedding People
Long Island by Colm Toibin
A Drop in the Ocean
Wild Dark Shore

✅32. A mystery or true crime book
1️⃣The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
2️⃣Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle by Dorothy Gilman
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
The Mechanics of Memory
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
Wild Dark Shore
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

✅33. A book by an author you enjoyed but haven't gotten around to reading again for some time
1️⃣Women Talking by Miriam Toews
2️⃣Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

✅34. A book title that could be a country song
1️⃣I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green
2️⃣Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

✅35. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists - 🌸 - read 22+
1️⃣The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
2️⃣Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich -
The End of Drum-Time -
Dept. of Speculation -
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Women Talking -
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn -
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rumi Thorpe
The History of Sound
Playground
James
Long Island -
The Water Knife
A Town Called Solace
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Starter Villain

✅36. A book with a common household object on the cover
1️⃣Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
2️⃣Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour

✅37. A book featuring adult friendships -
1️⃣ The Briar Club
2️⃣My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina
A Drop in the Ocean

✅38 +39. Two books with a connection from different genres:
1️⃣A Moveable Feast byErnest Hemingway NF
1️⃣Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons (98) by Fitzgerald, F Scott Paperback (2008) - fiction
✅38+ 39. Two books with a connection from different genres:
Both discuss the importance and history of light. Both discuss light bulbs and Thomas Edison
2️⃣The Last Days of Night - historical fiction
2️⃣Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds - Nonfiction

Both focus on events in 1969:
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul nf
Summer of '69 - fiction

All involve wildlife research in arctic/antarctic locations:
The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica - NF
Girl in Ice - thriller
Wild Dark Shore - futuristic fiction, research on islsnd near Antarctica

✅40. A book you'd consider a comfort read
2️⃣Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
1️⃣Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald (bedtime listening)
Olive, Again

✅41. A book that involves digging up the past
1️⃣Family Secrets: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 1 by Beth Farrah
2️⃣Swallow the Air by June Winch

✅42. A book set in a manor, mansion, or estate -
1️⃣Weyward by Emilia Hart
2️⃣A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

✅43. A book whose title has ten or fewer letters
1️⃣Head On by John Scalzi
2️⃣Conclave by Robert Harris
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout My Friends by Fredrick Backman
Beautyland

✅44. A haunting book -
1️⃣A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
2️⃣Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Good Morning, Midnight 2016

✅45. A book by an author whose publishing career spans at least ten years -
1️⃣The Simple Wild by KA Tucker
2️⃣Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

✅46. A book related to one of the traditional full moon names
1️⃣Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand
Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay
2️⃣The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

✅47. A book relating to fire. - 🌸 read 13
1️⃣ Cloud Cuckoo Land
2️⃣ Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America - kkk actions
The Last Days of Night pair
The Light Pirate -pair
The Puma Years
Empire of Wild - monster
The Book Censor's Library - book burning
Wild Dark Shore
James
Dept. of Speculation
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them - kkk actions

✅48. A book with a character dealing with death
1️⃣The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
2️⃣Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
My Friends by Fredrick Backman

✅49. A book that deals with time travel, alternate universes, or alternate timelines
1️⃣The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fford
2️⃣My Real Children by Jo Walton
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

✅50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2024 or 2025. 🌸 Read 20 books
1️⃣ The Frozen River by Ariel Lawton
2️⃣The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

Read from the 2024 list
James
Playground
History of Sound
Margo’s got money Troubles
Network effect
Women Talking
Last days of night
Frozen River
The Kaiju Preservation Society

Read from the 2025 list
Wild Dark Shore
Light Pirate
Wedding People
A Tale for the Time Being
Orbital
The End of Drum Time
Long Island
Anthropocene Reviewed
Empire of Pain
Death of the Author


✅51. A book published in 2025
1️⃣The Original by Nell Stevens
My Friends by Fredrick Backman
2️⃣The River Has Roots
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston
(Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales)
Death of the Author

✅52. A book with a sunset vibe on the cover
1️⃣Geekerella
2️⃣A Town Called Solace

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Sharks in the Time of Saviors - haunting
Wrong place - country
The Light Pirate pair
Middlesex

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✴️ books on the 2024 bom list list -wrong place wrong time, Frozen River, Kaiju, network, James, sound, women talking.rain, wellness,monstrilio, eve, my friends tob, rivers, last days, grey wolf apples, elsewhere

Jan 2025 - my friends Backman, martyr,

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✳️✳️2025 Anniversary List ✳️✳️

Completed books

✅2016: A book originally written in a language other than English
🔸My Friends by Fredrik Backman
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

✅2017: A book whose title doesn't contain the letter "E"-
🔸Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

✅2018: An author's debut book
🔸The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

✅2019: A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements -
🔸 The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance by Dan Eagan

✅2020: A book with an emotion in the title
🔸The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

✅2021: A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
🔸Last Night in Montreal - Quebec

✅2022: A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
🔸An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

✅2023: A book whose author has published more than 7 books -
🔸Starter Villain by John Scalzi

✅2024: A book that has been on your TBR for over a year. (4+ years)
🔸The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 2021
Conclave 2020

✅2025: A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family
🔸Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
My Friends

PLANNING - IDEAS - EXTRAS - plus ideas for 2026


✴️ A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year . See priority list
Wellness
The Nix
The Imperfectionists
Many more
Monstrilio Tob 24

✴️ A book from the NPR “Books We Love” - use list for other prompts
Wellness by Nathan Hill


A book by an Irish author
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
History of the Rain by Niall Williams
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle



20. A book with an animal, vegetable (plant), or mineral in the title
The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny (audible preorder)
The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (audible)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (second chance)

22. A translated novel from Asia
My Brilliant Life by Kim Ae-ran

Performance
23. A book that involves art, music, dancing or acting
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto - music
The Covenant of Water - art
2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
Tipping the Velvet
Enter Ghost
The Family Fang Tob?

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2025 Rejects Challenge - Suggestions that didn’t make the list

✴️✅A book set during a revolution, revolt, or rebellion - Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul by Clara Bingham
Purple Hibiscus

✴️✅ A book that involves migration - A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

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✅A book with a main character that has a pet -(pet sheep)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip Dick The Bear

✴️✅A book related to "civil rights" or human rights -
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul

✅A book about a historical figure -Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

✅A book that was a finalist, runner-up, or winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize -
Cloud Cuckoo Land,
The Light Pirate
Devil in the grove

✅A book involving a train, plane or automobile - The Simple Wild

✅A book related to fungi - - Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

✅A book involving an island -
Playground,
The Summer Book,
Wild Dark Shore

✅A book set in an isolated, unpopulated, or very rural locale - City of the Lost, The End of Drum-Time, The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica

✅A book involving money – or a lack of money
Margo's Got Money Troubles
- Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

✅A book involving love - The Simple Wild, The Collected Regrets of Clover,

✅A book about faith, hope, or charity -
The End of Drum-Time

✅A book about a rivalry - The Last Days of Night

✅A book with an animal on the cover -Playground, Feral Creatures, The Puma Years, The Wee Free Men, Track of the Cat, The Book Censor's Library, Vesper Flights, The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica

✅A book set in a different hemisphere than where you live - 5The Devotion of Suspect X, The End of Drum-Time, The Last Cold Place, The Puma Years, Wild Dark Shore,

✅A book told from multiple character POVs - Wild Dark Shore, Cloud Cuckoo Land
Olive, Again
Good Morning, Midnight

✅A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title - Olive, Again

✅A book involving a train, plane or automobile -
Train- My Friends,
Plane- The Simple Wild,
Automobile- Run for the Hills

✅A book about a historical figure - The Last Days of Night

✅A book related to fungi - - Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

✅A book involving mountains
The Mountain in the Sea

✅A book title or author’s first or last name starting with J
Starter Villain by John Scalzi

✅A book published in a quarter-century year (e.g. 1925, 1950,
2025 - Run for the Hills, my friends, The Original

✅🔅A book with an East-West connection
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Orbital
Real Americans

✅A book with a negation in the title - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

✅A book where science or technology has gone wrong - Pod

✅A book set before 1900-
The Frozen River
The Last Days of Night

✅A book involving the pursuit of happiness
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

POLL 3
✅A book with a title that is only a name or nickname
Geekerella

✅A book involving a fork in the road or a life changing decision
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life

✅A book related to something you loved, learned, or longed for early in your life - Mozart's Starling

✅A book with an ensemble cast -
Starter Villain

✅A book shelved as literary fiction
A Town Called Solace

POLL 4 - MULTIWEEK
✅3 weeks: Three books by authors from three different continents
✅Africa - Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✔️Antarctica - The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica
✅Asia - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
✅Australia - Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch
✅Europe - Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
✅North America - Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
✅South America - The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha

✅3 Weeks: Three books by authors from 3 different European countries
✅Rome- Conclave
✅Ireland - Prophet Song
✅France - Bruno, Chief of Police

2 weeks: Lost and found: One book featuring themes of loss and another "found"

POLL 5
A book related to motels

✅book that contains another book Death of the Author

A book whose cover looks like a collage
A party book
A book with “yesterday,” “today” or “tomorrow” in the title

✴️✅A book by any author who was a winner, runner-up, or finalist of any of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards - Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Light Pirate
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

A book with skull or bone imagery (or in the title)
A book that takes place during a holiday
✅A book involving one or more animals [book:Three Days in JuneThe Puma Years|56930703]

✅A book club recommendation - A Town Called Solace, The Wedding People

✅A book about books - Death of the Author
The Book Censor's Library

POLL 6
✅A book about or involving modern media - Margo's Got Money Troubles

✅A book related to National DNA Day
Real Americans

✅A book with a lock or keyhole on the cover - The Briar Club Kate Quinn

✅A book with a tv or film adaptation - Conclave
last days, sound of history, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

A book related to blood, sweat, or tears.
✅A book with an occupation in the title- Death of the Author
A book about breaking up or breaking down (repeated poll11)

✅A book set in a country bordering the Caribbean Sea
Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un cuento de Puerto Rico

✅A book involving an island - Playground

POLL 7
✅A book with a character who wears a mask KKK-
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

A book related to fashion or the fashion industry

✅A book with a character who is not heterosexual or cisgender
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs

A book with a friend or loved one's name on the cover
A book involving serendipity
✅A book related in some way to parenting a child of any age
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

A book connected to a place you’ve lived in
✅A vacation book -SUMMER book
✅A book from a non-human point of view - Pod

A book with ‘all’ or ‘nothing’ in the title
A book where part of or all of the story is set in an Olympic host city

POLL 8
✅A book from an animal or child's point of view - Rabbit Cake, The Bear

✅A book that relates to things the bunny says goodnight to in "Goodnight Moon" - Good Morning, Midnight
✴️A book about a strong woman - several, see monthly tag

✅A satire, comedy, or humorous book
Beautiful Ruins,
Starter Villain

✅A book connected to a wood species or tree - Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

✅A book with a well-crafted villain -Starter Villain

✅A book where at least part of the story is set in an country that starts with a letter in the word ANNIVERSARY
Australia - 3,
Nigeria - 3
Argentina 1

POLL 9
A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of "Come Away with Me" by Norah Jones
✅A book about faith, hope, or charity - The End of Drum-Time
A retelling of a favorite story
✅A book by an author with a short last name (4 letters or fewer)
Nevada Barr
A book with royalty
✴️A historical fiction novel - many
A book related to a mirror
✅A book with a major character who doesn't have a job
Olive, Again
Rabbit cake
Wild Dark Shore
The Bear
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

POLL 10
A book related to a Stephen King book
A book involving twins
🔅A microhistory
A book with an "Alice" connection
✅A book containing a trial - The Original
A book inspired by mythology, legend, folklore, or fairytale
✔️A book featuring a protagonist who is in mid-life - many

✅A book set in an isolated, unpopulated, or very rural locale - The End of Drum-Time, The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica

Suggestions that didn’t make the list - page 2
Poll 11
✅A book involving a politician or an election - The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It,
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

A play, screenplay, or poetry book
A book that is an Audie award winner or nominee (read in any format)
✅A book related to space travel, the goddess Artemis, or one of her spheres of influence - Orbital, Good Morning, Midnight, Network Effect

✅A book that plays with perceptions of reality -
✔️My Real Children
✔️Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

✅A book involving the pursuit of happiness- The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

POLL 12

✅A book with an antivillian- Starter Villain
✅A book connected to the quote, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It, James
🔅A book by a Nobel Prize winner

✅A book with a main character who is an outsider
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
Beautyland

✅A book where something has disappeared or is disappearing
The Water Knife
✅A book with a road trip or long journey
Run for the Hills
🔅A book where the character has a job or career you find intriguing or would love to have -
✅A book that is the last in its series - The Night Masquerade
✅A book by an *author* from a predominantly Spanish-speaking nation, territory, or commonwealth - The Maniac

POLL 13

✴️A children's book that is somehow related to a book you are reading this year
✅A book that includes a challenge to the health of the planet The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
The Water Knife
✅A book considered children's literature - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un cuento de Puerto Rico

✅A book with food as a major theme or plot device
Yerba Buena
✅A book with a character in disguise - A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

✅A book with a theme of starting over.
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
A Drop in the Ocean
The Wedding People

POLL 14
A book related to LIVE, LAUGH, or LOVE
✅A book with a character who struggles with fame or notoriety
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
A book on a Modern Mrs Darcy Book List
A book or author that has been controversial
A book relating to the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, or the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

A book by a "local" author
✅A book considered a classic - Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
✅A book related to time - A Tale for the Time Being

POLL 15
✴️A book that features a moral dilemma - The Water Knife, Wild Dark Shore
A book related to theft or stealing
✅A biography or memoir - Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
✅A book involving science - The Mountain in the Sea

POLL 16 - CLOSE CALLS POLL - all repeats

✅A book related to blood, sweat, or tears. The Water Knife, My Friends, A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
✅A book set in a country bordering the Caribbean Sea -
Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un cuento de Puerto Rico
Washington Black
🔅A microhistory
A book that is an Audie award winner or nominee (read in any format)

POLL 17

✅A book set during a revolution, revolt, or rebellion - Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul by Clara Bingham,
A book that has won an Alex Award

✅A book with a curmudgeon or grumpy character - My Friends
🔅A book that fits three other prompts on this list- many many
✴️🏆🔅A candidate for an award - many


POLL 18 -voting order
🔅3. A book with any connection to a song
🔆5. A book connected in some way to a game show Q&A

13. A book involving science- repeat

Science and nature
(view spoiler)[

81 New Nature Books to Get You in the Mood for Spring

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2...

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
by Thomas Halliday
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
by Lee Berger
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species by Sean B. Carroll
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by David Graeber
The Galápagos: A Natural History
by Henry nichols
Enchanted Islandsby Allison Amend
Galápagos: The Islands That Changed the World
by Paul D. Stewart
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by Jonathan Wein
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert

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The 2016 List. Read 33 prompts

✅2. A book set in a different continent - The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station, The Devotion of Suspect X, Playground
Girl in Ice
✅5. A book with a title beginning with the 1st letter of your name
The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
✅7. A book about books
The Book Censor's Library
✅8. A classic book with less than 200 pages
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
✅9. A book that was mentioned in another book - Women Talking
✅10. A book by an author you feel you should have read by now
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
11. A book from the Rory Gilmore challenge
✅12. A childhood classic - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
13. Reader’s Choice
✅14. A book with one of the five W’s -or H in the title
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
✅15. A book set in the past (more than 100 years ago)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 1714
The Last Days of Night
James
The End of Drum-Time
The frozen river

16. A book from the top 100 mystery novels
✅17. A book with a beautiful cover The Frozen River, The Puma Years
✅18. A book on a summer/beach reading list
The Summer Book
✅19. A non-fiction book -
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It by Corey Brettschneider

✅20. A book with a first name in the title
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
Who Is Vera Kelly?
The book of Essie

✅22. The first book in a new to you series
Track of the Cat
✅23. The next book in a series you are reading - Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station, Network Effect
The Well of Lost Plots
24. A "between the numbers" book of a series (0.5, 1,5, 2.5, etc.)
✅25. A book whose main character is in a profession that interests you -A Lesson in Secrets
The Frozen River
✅26. A book everyone is talking about
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
James, The Wedding People, Margo's Got Money Troubles
✅27. A book with a beautiful title (in your own opinion)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
✅28. A biography, autobiography, or memoir
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
The Puma Years by Laura Coleman

29. A book by an author who writes under more than one name
30. A fairytale from a culture other than your own
31. A work of young adult fiction
✅32. A historical fiction book-
The History of Sound
✅34. A book about mental illness - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, The Mechanics of Memory
✅35. An award winning book - Orbital, James
✅36. An identity book - a book about a different culture, religion or sexual orientation - Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
✅38. A book about an anti hero The Devotion of Suspect X, Starter Villain
✅40. A novella from your favorite genre
Dept. of Speculation
✅41. A book about a major world event (fiction or non-fiction)
The Maniac
42. A top 100 fantasy novel
43. A book about a thing that goes bump in the night
44. A book you're embarrassed to read in public
✅45. A book related to a hobby or passion you have
Wild Dark Shore
✅46. A crime story
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
✅47. A book with a type of food/drink in the title
Yerba Buena
✅48. A dystopia
The Light Pirate
The Book Censor's Library
49. A book with a great opening line
✅50. A book originally written in a language other than English -
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
The Summer Book
The Devotion of Suspect X
✅51. A short story from a well-known author
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
✅52. A book published in 2016
City of the Lost
A Drop in the Ocean
Good Morning, Midnight
The Last Days of Night

NancyJ’s 2025 Summer Reading Challenge
7500 points

Chips and Dip - 100 points *5 = 500 points
✅1a. A book in a series A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
✅1b. A book with water on the cover- My Friends by Fredrik Backman

✅1c. A book released in 2024 or 2025 -
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
✅1d. A book by a new to you author- Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
✅1e. A humorous book - Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Drinks Station - 200 points * 5 = 1000 points
Author's initials are in:
✅2a. FRESH-SQUEEZED LEMONADE =A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
✅2b. UNSWEETENED ICED TEA. = The River Has Roots by Amal El- Mohtar
✅2c. ROOT BEER SODA - Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
✅2d. FRUIT PUNCH - The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
✅2e. SPARKLING WATER. - Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

Burger and Hotdog Toppings - 300 points *5 = 1500 points
✅3a. Ketchup: A book with red on the cover - Long Island by Colm Tóibín

✅3b. Relish: A book by a favorite author - Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
✅3c. Mustard: A book with a military character (serving, retired, or adjacent) - Summer of '69
✅3d. Pickles: A book title that includes a word starting with the letter P - A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
✅3e. Cheese: A sentimental book - The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

Desserts - 400 points * 5 = 2000 points
✅4a. A book with a child main character - Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
✅4b. A book with a wedding - The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha
✅4c. A book that has been nominated for an award - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - Pulitzer Prize
✅4d. A book with a cafe, bakery, or restaurant as an important setting - Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
✅4e. A book originally written in a language other than English -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Sides - 500 points * 5 = 2500 points
✅5a. Potato salad - A book with more than one point of view -
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
✅5b. Mac n' cheese - A book by an author with 10 or more books - The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
✅5c. Corn bread - A book originally published before 1900 -
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
✅5d. Deviled eggs - A book with challenging subject matter
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
✅5e. Watermelon - A book over 500 pages - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides


500+1000+1500+2000+2500=7,500 points


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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival CHAIN
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera-#5- CHAIN ——the bear time being
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs JENNIFER -CHAIN
A Drop in the Ocean JENNI - Chsin
🌈🌈
Lessins Secret ,life
:The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's MOST
Leaving Everything MOST LOVEDJacqueline Winspear
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of LOVE Loss, and Survival CHAIN🌈
🌈+++
Secrets 3 vpchoices. Lesson in secrets , surgeons secrets, spy life
The Very Secret *Society of Irregular Witches by
The Kaiju Preservation *Society by *John Scalzi
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The *History X john green
The *History of *Sound Ben Shattuck
*Sounds like *love 🌈🌈

3 choices history, everything
Everything most loved


✔️Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah, 9/7/25 - LIFE
Leaving everything MOSTmost LOVED
Everything is tuberculosis John green



The Kaiju Preservation Society by [john Scalzi
Everything is tunbercukosis. Jion green
Leaving *everything *most *loved
🌈Leaving the witness finding a LIFE
[book:The Invisible LIFE of Euridice Gusmao|33376816] by MARTHA Batalha
fugitive Telemetry MARTHA WELLS
WELL of the lost plots - Jasper Fford
City of the LOST 🌈

Drunk on your strange word
[book:The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton - Chain
Beautiful ruins - Kess Walter


🌈Summer of 69
Summer book
Days at the bookshop
Three Days in June
Swallow June 🌈

Rachel Joyce
Racgel Kuang
🌈
My real children
Real Americans - Rachel
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
good BOY : My LIFE in Seven Dogs JENNIFER -
:The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret LIFE Taking Down Some of the World's MOST Most Notorious Terrorists
Leaving Everything MOST LOVEDJacqueline Winspear
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of LOVE Loss, and Survival CHAIN🌈

Everythingmost lvdd
Everything is tunpberculosis John green
John scaz or Hank green

A Drop in the Ocean JENNI -
GOOD Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-
Good boy

These are all ok
Love == Loved
Book = = bookshop
Heart == heartland
Bear == unbearable


Drop in the ocean - Jenni
Good boy my life in 7 dogs - Jennifer
Good morning midnight
Night masquerade

[book:The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera-
A Tale for the TIME Being by Ruth Ozeki
Sharks in the TIME of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn -
The forgetting TIME
======================

Real Americans Rachel Kuang
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them - Tim Egan
Any Human Heart William Boyd
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Master list - All books read in 2025 - well maybe not all, some get lost along the way.

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley -
Playground by Richard Powers
Women Talking by Miriam Toews 45
The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica by Naira de Gracia -2, 18
Family Secrets: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 1 by Beth Farrar - 41
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green - 34,24
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino - 22
The Collected Regrets of Clover byMikki Brammer - 🔅48
The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker 45
Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station by Dorothy Gilman 13, 45
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel 7, 26,27,45

February
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr🔅
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard -
Pod by Laline Paull - 4🔅
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - 🔅7
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul by Clara Bingham - revolution
Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik
The Mechanics of Memory by Audrey Lee
Orbital by Samantha Harvey🔅
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
*Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay🔅
The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut🔅
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance by Dan Egan
Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds by Linda Geddes

March
📝* The Book Censor's Library byBothayna Al-Essa 🔅
James by Percival Everett 🔅
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy🔅
Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn🔅
Head On by John Scalzi
The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
📝*Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Track of the Cat by Nevada BarrCorey Brettschneider
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Wedding People by Alison Espach🔅
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It by Corey Brettschneider
📝*The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
♦️Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You by Rebecca Schwarzlose
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

April
Network Effect
The Puma Years
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
The Summer Book
The Wee Free Men
The Music of Bees
Feral Creatures
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
Geekerela
City of the Lost
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Beautiful Ruins
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

May
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words #5
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Weyward
*A Tale for the Time Being
📝*Force of Nature
The Book of Essie
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Equal Rites
The Frozen River
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
Fugitive Telemetry
Swallow the Air
The Well of Lost Plots

June
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - Pulitzer Prize
Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Summer of '69
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
My Favorite Half-Night Stand
*The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
♦️A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera-#5
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
A Drop in the Ocean #3

July
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
Who Is Vera Kelly?
♦️Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
♦️ Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
On the Beach

August
Beautyland
📝 The River Has Roots by Amal El- Mohtar
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
📝*The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Sounds Like Love
Real Americans
Three Days in June

September
My Real Children by My Real Children
Conclave
♦️Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle by Dorothy Gilman
Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un cuento de Puerto Rico by Lesléa Newman
The Original by Nell Stevens
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green 🔅
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

October

📝Neurofitness: A Brain Surgeon's Secrets to Boost Performance and Unleash Creativity By Rahul Jandial by Nnedi Okorafor
♦️Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

] =
🍁COMPLETED September - November 2025🍁
✔️My Real Children by Jo Walton 9/3/2
✔️Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah, 9/7/25 - Midlife crisis or LIFE tile
✔️Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 9/9/25 - wealthy character
✔️Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha by Dorothy Gilman-9/10/25 - borrowed
✔️Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - 9/12/25 - new to me author
✔️Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle by Dorothy Gilman
✔️Wrong Place Wrong Timeby Gillian McAllister.
✔️The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
✔️The Original by Nell Stevens
✔️A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
Neurofitness: A Brain Surgeon's Secrets to Boost Performance and Unleash Creativity Rahul Jandial -
N, RJ
Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un cuento de Puerto Rico by leslea newman
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick —-
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
The Bear by Andrew Krivak
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
The Mountain in the Seaby Ray Nayler.
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
The Forgetting Time. By Sharon Guskin. - SG
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick - A ,S
Monday Starts on Saturday Arkady Strugatsky - AS - or bonfire night cover

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna. T OR V
Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
Leaving Everything Most Loved Jacqueline Winspear
Any Human Heart by William Boyd

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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley - S

*The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck 🔅

=bookworm challenge+

Bingo
Minichain

April
Network Effect
The Puma Years. COVER LOVE
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - FATHER
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing BY Hank Green +CHAIN
The Summer Book SEASONS, CHAIN

City of the Lost
Beautiful Ruins — CHAIN, HF
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop CHAIN

May
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson - CHAIN(Eddie), sci-fi,
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them NF, CHAIN
*A Tale for the Time Being CHAIN
*Force of Nature BINGI 2nd, MYST,
The Book of Essie - CHSIN
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. CHAIN, AWARDS, NF
Equal Rites CREATURE
The Frozen River SEASONS
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists - NF CHSIN
Fugitive Telemetry WELLS - CHAINM SCI-FI, MYSTT
Swallow the Air
The Well of Lost Plots

June
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - Pulitzer Prize - BINGO CLASSI, AWARDS, HF
Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour BINGO
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
Long Island by Colm Tóibín. HF
Summer of '69 CHAJN SEASIBS
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway BINGO TBR,
My Favorite Half-Night Stand BINGO 2 authors
*The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland - Chsin Andrew, NF, father
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear Myst, hf, Chsin
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival CHAIN
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera-#5- CHAIN
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs JENNIFER -CHAIN
A Drop in the Ocean JENNI - Chsin

July
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn - 3 NAMES
Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett ANN
Who Is Vera Kelly? MYST
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout REREAD
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi. SCIfi
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. FATHER
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee. AWARDS HF
Starter Villain by John Scalzi. CHAIN
On the Beach

August
Beautyland. SCI-FI OR WC
📝 The River Has Roots by Amal El- Mohtar-
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper - SHARON
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton - Chain
✔️Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides NEW YORK TIMES
Sounds Like Love CHAIN
Three Days in June by Jo Walton -CHAIN
Conclave
♦️Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle by Dorothy Gilman
Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un cuento de Puerto Rico by Lesléa Newman
The Original by Nell Stevens
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green 🔅
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

October

📝Neurofitness: A Brain Surgeon's Secrets to Boost Performance and Unleash Creativity By Rahul Jandial by Nnedi Okorafor
♦️Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

] =
🍁COMPLETED September - November 2025🍁
✔️My Real Children by Jo Walton 9/3/2
✔️Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah, 9/7/25 -
✔️Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 9/9/25 -
✔️Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha by Dorothy Gilman-9/10/25 -
✔️Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - 9/12/25 -
✔️Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle by Dorothy Gilman
✔️Wrong Place Wrong Timeby Gillian McAllister.
✔️The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
✔️The Original by Nell Stevens
✔️A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li
Neurofitness: A Brain Surgeon's Secrets to Boost Performance and Unleash Creativity Rahul Jandial -
N, RJ
Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un cuento de Puerto Rico by leslea newman
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick —-
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
The Bear by Andrew Krivak
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
The Mountain in the Seaby Ray Nayler.
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
The Forgetting Time. By Sharon Guskin. - SG
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick - A ,S
Monday Starts on Saturday Arkady Strugatsky - AS - or bonfire night cover

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna. T OR V
Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
Leaving Everything Most Loved Jacqueline Winspear
Any Human Heart by William Boyd

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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley - S

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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival CHAIN
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera-#5- CHAIN ——the bear time being
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs JENNIFER -CHAIN
A Drop in the Ocean JENNI - Chsin
🌈🌈
Lessins Secret ,life
:The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's MOST
Leaving Everything MOST LOVEDJacqueline Winspear
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of LOVE Loss, and Survival CHAIN🌈
🌈+++
Secrets 3 vpchoices. Lesson in secrets , surgeons secrets, spy life
The Very Secret *Society of Irregular Witches by
The Kaiju Preservation *Society by *John Scalzi
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The *History X john green
The *History of *Sound Ben Shattuck
*Sounds like *love 🌈🌈


Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah, 9/7/25 - LIFE
Leaving everything MOSTmost LOVED
Everything is tuberculosis John green
The Kaiju Preservation Society by [john Scalzi
Secret society of witches
Secrets

[book:The Kaiju Preservation Society|57693406] by [john Scalzi
Everything is tuberculosis John green
Leaving *everything *most *loved
🌈Leaving the witness finding a LIFE
[book:The Invisible LIFE of Euridice Gusmao|33376816] by MARTHA Batalha
fugitive Telemetry MARTHA WELLS
WELL of the lost plots - Jasper Fford
City of the LOST 🌈


Rachel Joyce
Racgel Kuang
🌈
My real children
Real Americans - Rachel
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
[book:good BOY : My LIFE in Seven Dogs JENNIFER -
:The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret LIFE Taking Down Some of the World's MOST Most Notorious Terrorists
Leaving Everything MOST LOVEDJacqueline Winspear
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of LOVE Loss, and Survival CHAIN🌈

✳️✳️2025 Anniversary List ✳️✳️

Completed books

✅2016: A book originally written in a language other than English
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

✅2017: A book whose title doesn't contain the letter "E"-
🔸Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

✅2018: An author's debut book
🔸The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

✅2019: A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements -
🔸 The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance by Dan Eagan

✅2020: A book with an emotion in the title
🔸The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

✅2021: A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
🔸Last Night in Montreal - Quebec

✅2022: A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
🔸An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

✅2023: A book whose author has published more than 7 books -
🔸Starter Villain by John Scalzi

✅2024: A book that has been on your TBR for over a year. (4+ years)
🔸The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 2021

✅2025: A book involving a "group" with at least 4 members that's not a family
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
My Friends

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2025- Completed Books

Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley -
Playground by Richard Powers
Women Talking by Miriam Toews 45
The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica by Naira de Gracia -2, 18
Family Secrets: Ellie McLellan Genealogy Mystery - Book 1 by Beth Farrar - 41
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green - 34,24
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino - 22
The Collected Regrets of Clover byMikki Brammer - 🔅48
The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker 45
Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station by Dorothy Gilman 13, 45
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel 7, 26,27,45

February
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr🔅
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard -
Pod by Laline Paull - 4🔅
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - 🔅7
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul by Clara Bingham - revolution
Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik
The Mechanics of Memory by Audrey Lee
Orbital by Samantha Harvey🔅
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
*Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay🔅
The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut🔅
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance by Dan Egan
Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds by Linda Geddes

March
*The Book Censor's Library byBothayna Al-Essa 🔅
James by Percival Everett 🔅
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy🔅
Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn🔅
Head On by John Scalzi
The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
*Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Track of the Cat by Nevada BarrCorey Brettschneider
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Wedding People by Alison Espach🔅
The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It by Corey Brettschneider
*The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You by Rebecca Schwarzlose
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

April
Network Effect
The Puma Years
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
The Summer Book
The Wee Free Men
The Music of Bees
Feral Creatures
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
Geekerela
City of the Lost
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Beautiful Ruins
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

May
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words #5
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Weyward
*A Tale for the Time Being
*Force of Nature
The Book of Essie
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Equal Rites
The Frozen River
♦️The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
Fugitive Telemetry
Swallow the Air
The Well of Lost Plots

June
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - Pulitzer Prize
Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Summer of '69
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
My Favorite Half-Night Stand
*The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
♦️My Friends by Fredrik Backman
♦️A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera-#5
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
A Drop in the Ocean #3

July
♦️Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
Who Is Vera Kelly?
♦️Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
♦️ Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
On the Beach

August
Beautyland
♦️ The River Has Roots by Amal El- Mohtar
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
♦️ The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
♦️Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Sounds Like Love
Real Americans
Three Days in June

September
My Real Children by My Real Children
Conclave
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle by Dorothy GilmanAlicia and the Hurricane /
[book:The Original by Nell Stevens
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green 🔅
Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un cuento de Puerto Rico|58066294] by Leslea Newman

October
Neurofitness: A Brain Surgeon's Secrets to Boost Performance and Unleash Creativity By Rahul Jandial
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

The Bear by Andrew Krivak

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler


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Started

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley
Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

*The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck 🔅


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2026 Awards and Lists

✴️A book nominated for an award that values peace, cultural understanding, and related social issues - Dayton, Pulitzer, …
✴️A book shortlisted for a Dublin Literary Award
✴️A book that won an international literary award -Booker, Dublin,
✴️A book that was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in any year

✴️A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2025 or 2026
✴️A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
✴️A book on one of Obama’s reading lists
✴️A book listed in any ‘Best Books’ list of 2024 or 2025
✴️A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year
✴️ A book from any widely recognised list of your choice

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✴️A biography or memoir
✴️A biography, memoir, or autofiction
✴️A medical memoir
✴️A book related to medical science or health
✴️A book related to psychology, mental health or neuroscience
✴️ A book tagged by Goodreads readers as Literary Fiction
✴️A book about science
✴️A book suggested by one of the song titles from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
✴️A book involving a fork in the road or a life changing decision
✴️A book that includes the "fish out of water" trope
✴️A book about women crossing borders and boundaries
✴️A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2025 or 2026
✴️A book about wildlife or nature conservation
✴️A book exploring personal or cultural identity

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Science resources
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A book that includes a science topic

Fiction/nonfiction
The science topic does not need to be a huge part of the plot.
Any field of science, including nature, biology, psychology, environmental, archeology, physics, oceanography, genetics, medical science, neuroscience, space, etc.

Here is a sampling of lists I found. There are likely similar lists for any
Field.

Science -
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/science
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Biology, nature, environment

A book featuring nature, climate or the environment (Kp)
*https://www.goodreads.com/genres/nature
*https://www.goodreads.com/genres/envi...
Climate

https://www.goodreads.com/genres/clim...
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/clim...
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/natu...
*https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Dixie - environmental fiction

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2025/04/15/...

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/th...

https://modernmrsdarcy.com/climate-fi...

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booke...

https://marinet.bibliocommons.com/v2/...


https://www.goodreads.com/genres/biology
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/physics

Medical
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Genetics
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Neuroscience, psychology
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/neur...
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/psyc...
Environmental fiction

Thrillers
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Lab lit
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/scie...
Female scientists
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Next week
If parks or conservation don’t get in
Books involving nature, wildlife or the environment
national and other parks, wildlife preserves, climate, evolution, extinction, ecosystems

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